skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. A topic that makes me despise this place more than crypto conversations.

So many damn people need to take a look at themselves, make their own decisions, mind their own business and stop projecting. Some of these comments are just rude and gross, do better people.
There was a study here on HN recently that said when they look at modern hunter-gatherer tribes, children have something like 9 hours a day of high contact support from something like 15 different adults. I.e. raising children really is done by the community. Compare to our modern society where most families have both parents working, most people are financially stressed, and there’s very little time to recharge. It is absolutely no wonder that people that don’t have kids don’t regret it.
Valid according to who? If you're automatically linking text that looks like URLs, this will fail since most people don't type the protocol when sharing a website URL.
The broken window fallacy is due to things getting destroyed netting out the value being produced.

Nothing in the US is getting destroyed. The broken window fallacy does not apply unless you consider Russian and Ukrainian losses to matter to the US economy.

Your article has a little blurb about opportunity costs at the end of having soldiers at all but it’s really a different concept
Which is a flaw that could be fixed in the design for future runs and a fix documented for earlier runs.
I suspect that's the best solution: install Linux onto a USB drive. I liked that Knoppix was a curated setup, and that it was on read-only media.
You misread the statement.

> I thought they were claiming that the OLD old fashioned AI was still viable--they are not.

Electroly is saying something about the authors' claim, not about the viability of GOFAI.
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to print the money and give it to people directly without having to engage in all the waste required to start a war to require the bombs to require the employees to give them money?
I'll check out Tails, thanks.
We learned about this in 6th grade biology in the late 1980’s.
https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Microsoft-Windows-Performance....
I’d say that if you’re constantly refreshing Hacker News, you’re a good candidate for ebooks on HN-like subjects. I made a conscious decision to switch to that from HN and Reddit, and I’d say I’ve cut my usage of both by about 75%. Which was a good outcome for me, because it switched me from learning many topics shallowly, to learning a few from ebooks deeply (example, Soni’s The Founders book on PayPal’s history).
A Survey of Graph Meets Large Language Model: Progress and Future Directions
It really isn't, it's basically just laziness and tradition. You can get a significantly better approximation that is coherent and causal by adding a one or two extra linear equations to basic newtonian gravity (not MOND, GEM) and solve them like electromagnetic equations--which every engineer does regularly.

Newton isn't causal and this is a root cause of a lot of the issues: it's used for convenience by people who usually don't understand the loss, and now that computers are many orders of magnitude better you lose little.

It's the cargo culting and fear of actually deciding what intractable means that's interesting to compare: numerical GR is only galactic for 1920s computers, not 1970s. Fuerer's multiplication algorithm is, in contrast, still crazy to consider and likely will be for decades to centuries, like other truly galactic algorithms
If insurance companies add ethics clauses to contracts that refer to this, suddenly it’s very enforceable.

“If we build that we’ll need an insurance waiver.”

“We won’t be able to get cyber insurance if we do that.”

Etc.
Sure. But they can’t know whether it’s complete without answering the question, “have I given the reader all the info they’d need to solve their problem?”
Edit: grammar
If you want to argue "this costs the US money, but it's worth the cost, because it has a benefit to our preparedness", that's one thing.

But from the article:

> This makes it “a misnomer” to call the $68 billion he calculates we have spent to arm Ukraine “aid.”

I really think the article, and people commenting in this thread, are blurring the lines between idea "this might be good for US military preparedness" (arguably true) with "this is a free lunch because it's paying american workers" (just false).

To summarize my position as unambiguously as possible: there may be second-order benefits, but aid to Ukraine is an economic cost to the US, not a free lunch. If you want to argue for non-economic benefits, I'm not saying anything in this thread that contradicts you.
Even competent people make mistakes and not everyone working on the project will be competent in everything.
Sure, I agree with you at a high level. But if the answer is that LLMs get a pass and the rest of us have to deal with DMCA takedown abuse, inaccessible geolocked content, and 7-figure legal penalties for getting caught downloading a $3.99-to-rent movie, then fuck that.

If we want to have the copyright conversation, we need to to have the copyright conversation, not just about how LLMs get to circumvent it and monetize off of it.
Is Puppy still maintained? Barry Kauler moved onto EasyOS.
Josh Kushner became a billionaire startup investor
> Theoretically if the market tanks hard those 401ks will drop like a rock and the bonds won't

Most (all?) 401k plans allow you to invest in bonds.
That's the quantitative fallacy: that which can't be measured easily doesn't matter.

To be clear, long term effects can be measured, but they typically aren't because it's more complicated, expensive, and capable of disproving hypotheses, blocking promotions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
The innovation is spinning the entire computer, instead of just the display, reducing complexity
Speaking of remembering training data, I see that as a big problem with chat based systems. They swallow a bunch of data, then generate something when prompted, My worry is not so much copyright infringement but more something like citation needed?

Has anyone done any work to produce citations for the generated data?
The real nuance of the broken window fallacy is that it's about the lack of economic benefit of a window being broken, not the most economically beneficial decision to make once it is.

Clearly you're better off if you have an intact window and you can spend your six francs on something you don't already have. But once your window is broken, replacing it is an equally viable economic decision compared with other uses of your six francs. The window breaking represents an economic loss, but replacing it might actually be the most economically advantageous decision of the ones available ("I wish it wasn't broken" not being an actual option).

In the case of the Russia invasion of Ukraine, Russia already broke the metaphorical window by throwing a giant rock through it. So now the relevant economic benefits discussion of sending weapons to Ukraine to use to shoot Russians vs buying everyone in America a pony should be framed (hah) post broken window, not from some hypothetical perspective where keeping an intact window is an option.

I totally agree there are economic downsides, nobody should be arguing they don't exist. But I think it's important to make it clear the economic downsides are from Russia starting the war. Once they did so, I think it is reasonable to argue our best economic response is to help Ukraine defend themselves.
So a person with a strong sense of ethics should never talk about their moral code because others see it as a red flag?
So there's nothing saying it hasn't been gimmicked in some fashion.
I don't know how to edit the main text:

To open-source projects, We would love to provide you with resources for as long as your project needs e.g in terms of virtual machines, kubernetes clusters to develop/test, run you workflows. All free of charge. No strings attached.

And this also the link for legal information https://manual.grid.tf/legal/legal.html as well
If you filter by status, there's nothing in that feedback channel that's had its status changed for several months, and none of the issues there are marked fixed, so there's probably some other way this sort of thing is meant to be reported. According to their help page in outlook.com:

"Microsoft 365 subscriptions include premium customer support, so if you need to contact Microsoft for help, you'll get our highest level of service."
The idea that attrition is a problem seems to mostly be an employee annoyance/frustration/overestimation of how they themselves are valued? At most management might complain about it, but even as job tenure has rapidly fallen in this industry, the result seems to be a collective shrug. The Great Resignation didn't trigger that many major retention initiatives either.
> you’ll spend more time and money on it too, for the benefit of 0.01% of the population who would be slightly inconvenienced if you didn’t.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple HTML:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
I have LinkedIn. "Libro companies"?
Nuclear is nowhere near as reliable as you are claiming. In 2022, more than half the French reactor fleet had to be taken offline at some stage or another - output over the year was 65% of the previous year. In August of that year, nuclear was delivering 40% of what would have been expected and the country ended up being the largest importer of electricity in Europe for the year.

There's been a recovery this year but that recovery has faltered last month with about a 15% unexpected fall in output.

Whenever France is hit by a heatwave, nuclear output drops significantly - the water of the rivers used for cooling/condensing becomes too warm to operate plants at full capacity safely.

And even with effective monopoly advantage, nuclear generation is a money pit - French government had to bail out EDF at the start of this year - taking on 65B euro of debt.
If the technology exists then someone will have it. If not you, then your adversaries. Rather it is in your hands.
So killing people is a jobs program. Is that why we are keeping it a secret?
It is hard for me to relate to comments like this. It is like we aren't using the same tool?

GPT-4 is nothing short of amazing. Early GPT-3.5 before it was clamped down also was _much_ less boring until it had be RLHF'd into the ground for "safety" and political risk. I admit that the major models (GPT-4 and Claude) have been censored into the ground.

But even with that, it is a supremely useful tool. I've piped complete garbage data into it and asked for structured output, and I get flawless results almost every time. It is a huge time saver on such a large axis of tasks.

These LLMs feel like the next "UI" paradigm to modern computing, and I just don't get how people can be cynical about it. Ignore the hype bros and VC peddlers, but don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
If the drive motor was asynchronous you could use the inductive windings on the rotor to power your rotating electronics, but the phase difference may get pretty extreme
> you’re nowhere close to the mandate for amending the constitution anyway.

And that's my point. We can think of government as a complex machine controlled by software that's designed to limit what the machine's operators can do:

• The prerequisites for updating the software are onerous.

• The updating process is jealously "guarded" by any number of special interests who wield outsized influence and, by and large, prefer things the way they are, thank you.

So as a practical matter, it's essentially impossible to update the machine's software — even when updates would be useful to accommodate changes in circumstances.

No competent engineer would regard that as acceptable. (It's a bit reminiscent of the liberum veto in the Sejm [parliament] of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth [0], albeit not quite as bad.) Small wonder that lawyers have responded by hacking the system, using, e.g., the 14th Amendment and the All-Writs Act.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto
You more or less can’t reject people from, I don’t know, Lithuania once you’re shipping to, say, France. It’s either all of the countries or none. (Only took three years to convince Framework their freight forwarding ban was illegal in this case...) Good news is, most things that are legal to ship to France will consequently be legal to ship to Lithuania as well. So no, this does not make sense and never did.

A nice experience, with local payment providers and localized keyboard layouts and everything, is of course much more work. But this has never been what their (prospective) customers were asking for.
What's the live app patcher called?
> It's like studying to be a doctor: years of tough work, but usually followed by even more years of reaping the rewards for that work.

Great analogy. Ask any group of people who has done any challenging thing - law, medicine, marathon, etc etc - and probably half would discourage you from doing them
while simultaneously feeling like they wouldn’t be the people they are without having done that thing.
Not anymore. The c8s all have DCTs. Which… blah
Decent list of UIs (includes LibreChat): https://github.com/korchasa/awesome-chatgpt
How do I tell Google to not be garbage and not obscure facts?
I read an article yesterday about how the HIV caseload in Thailand has doubled year-on-year. Google absolutely refuses to return anything about this piece of news. How can we access facts on the Internet these days?
JavaScript is the main attack vector on browsers. Why are you surprised that people don't want to run it?
Fortinet do the same, you need their own app to generate the codes. Infuriating.
NGI Taler: A Privacy-Preserving Payment System Initiative--GNU Taler w/ EU funds
I like it though, its simple and direct - do not harm your patient.

I like the software engineering guides that say things like "do no harm to your User" which is way less nebulous than having to consider all of society, while also stopping most of what I consider to be pretty severe ethical violations being done by big tech and the software engineers that work there
I have tried to use a fido2 key years ago and it did not work. I think you need some proprietary sort-of standard key.
Sometimes it matters, many times not.

For example I tried to run pip install yesterday on MemGPT on Nix.

It failed with a C++ error because they use miniconda.

I just created a nix shell with python, pip, etc and ran the pip install command.

Things work fine.
GitHub by Microsoft went OK.
I can think of even more problems. Off the top of my head: the manufacture of SMR modules would be, by design, centralized into a few large, well-funded entities needing lots of government permits. The probability of corruption, mismanagement, or political bikeshedding would be pretty high. In the worst case, SMRs would just take the various problems large reactor projects have and gather them into one manufacturing choke-point.
The Five Reasons Wars Happen (2022)
> Have you really had zero issues with brainstorming and team design remotely?

Literally none. PMs are disciplined, there's top-down and bottom-up accountability, there's good transparency of work status and blockers, and people can take days off, miss meetings, and still contribute to decision making because all the work is done in a shared space that everyone in the company can see.

We don't even need standups most weeks because everyone knows where everyone is just by looking at the related tickets.

The closest things to "problems" are in bridging front-end design and back-end implementation collaboration because they use different tools, but that was at least as big of a problem when it was turning whiteboard mockups and Post-its into engineering tickets.
Often (sadly) a non technical person from HR pre filters applications.
That's all great, maybe. We can certainly hope so.

But that's not what the article is arguing, and that's not what I'm arguing against.

Like I said, you're having a totally separate conversation. But you're framing it as some kind of rebuttal to what I'm saying. And it's just not.
"It's one of the core principles of web development and it means that you should Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose."

That's one of the core principles of web development? Why? I'm prepared to be embarrassed, like a "senior dev" who asks "uh, what's polymorphism?" but... I've never heard this "core principle" before and I've been doing web applications since DHTML displaced java applets.
https://developers.google.com/search/help/crawling-index-faq

> Why isn't my site indexed?

> In general, the most common reason that a site is not indexed is because it's just too new; be patient and ask Google to crawl and index it.
This guy was _famous_ in ever way you can be famous today and yet, never heard of him. The TLDR (but go ahead and read it, it's good) is Dave and Rachel have 4 kids while he's a big time exec at Disney. Rachel writes a book that takes off and he quits and joins in her an self-help empire that eventually crumbles.
A galactic algorithm and a non-galactic algorithm should give the same answer to a problem. But the time and memory used will differ.

General relativity and Newtonian gravity give very similar answers in some cases (e.g. calculating space craft orbits), but different in others (e.g. the orbit of mercury or light passing near a black hole).
It might be because I have "showdead" enabled but I see that there are many frequent comments from this user when clicking their page. Every comment I see from them seems to be flagged/dead though...
> The Library seems to not support freedom of thought/association.

This is a good point. 37signals has the right to associate with any organization it wants, even those that do not wish to do business with them.

FIRE should do more to punish organizations that make the choice not to associate with others, that’s not what freedom of association means. It’s the right to associate, not the right to choose not to associate.

Freedom is when you get punished for not doing business with an entity that you would prefer not to
This is the stupidest of all the crackpot ideas I've heard in a very long time. Are people actually invested in this? We don't even have a deep understanding of what dreaming does aside from a high level overview.

Aside from that fact lucid dreaming is even less understood. I'd say this is reckless if it wasn't pure fantasyland stuff.
Same exact story here.

Happened when I was 17 at a concert. Too loud. Brain seemed to just stuff it away and emotionally I was fine (because I was young and dumb).

“Came back” when I was in early 30s and devastated me for about 3-5 months with anxiety and insomnia. I used CBT to basically ignore it and my brain did its thing pushing it to the background and lowering the volume.

Came back again at age 40…same deal (but not nearly as bad since I’d seen the movie before) and lo and behold…brain stuffed it away again.

Now I just accept that it’s a part of life. Will come back probably and I’ll deal with it.
I'm not saying that Perl is perfect. Far from it.

But saying that Python "will complain about unbound variables instead of silently creating them" is simply incorrect. One of the defining characteristics of Python's variable scope is that assigning to a name always creates it in the current scope; there's no other way to declare a variable. And that's all I'm trying to demonstrate here.
Fun fact: Kevorkian put out a jazz album titled, "A Very Still Life."
It looks like it can connect to local models via LiteLLM proxy.

Related issue: https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat/issues/1131

LiteLLM: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

Guide: https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat/blob/main/docs/inst...
It seems more likely that a mechanical engineer would end up using a slip ring, so the computer doesn't need to spin.
What kind of washers if you don't mind sharing. I want to avoid buying that brand. My guess is Samsung because I have had really bad experience with Samsung stuff over the years.
I must be stuck in 2015 still. I thought it would be about the death of SVMs, or ensemble models XGBoost or something. I'm still catching up on RNNs, GANs and god knows what else lol.
Is that full homosexuality (those penguins never mate with the opposite sex) or more like bisexuality?
1x, 10x, 1000x are all "scales", yet problems may be a little bit different at each of them
Free software, free society, free education
In the subject of ethics, it driving me nuts that the ACM has a cookie banner including (opt-in) check marks for marketing and statistics. The should read their own ethics statement about user privacy.
Because that agenda is hypothesis based on outsiders' observation of what Google is doing. It needs to be based on facts. Without facts, such an "agenda" is really just speculation and fear-mongering, not much better than the likes of Breitbart News.

Speculation like this is easy. I can also just speculate that the Ars has an agenda to slander Google. Expand that to a couple hundred words and you have an article. Now get people to read it and become angry. That's basically the sorry state of online journalism.

I have unsubscribed from Ars.
Both of them are a lot safer than just about everything else, with each having their own strong areas. I think it’s fair to compare the SPARK subset of Ada with the “safe” subset of Rust.

Rust has a great story with memory safety though it’s worth noting that SPARK is adding pointer ownership analysis (inspired heavily by the borrow checker, which really is a big deal). In practice, as others mentioned, heap allocation isn’t needed that much with Ada, and passing by reference without needing pointers is common using “in out”.

Ada’s contracts and strong type system make it easier to design correct programs - is that “safer”? I don’t know. I wish _both_ languages were in wider use. I really enjoy Ada programming but envy the excitement and community being built around Rust. Hopefully Rust’s popularity leads to more enthusiasm for Ada and the unique correctness and safety advantages it brings.

Maybe the next GNAT release will have a “Rust” FFI import mechanism (like it does now for C and Fortran) so Ada code can more easily take advantage of all the great Rust libraries being written.
redhat was okay for a bit, but now its being enshittened
Isn’t that what AI robots will be for?
Validating absolute URLs is easy (edit: with a try..catch statement). I was hoping that this standard would introduce a utility for validating both relative and absolute URLs.

Here's how I do it: https://gist.github.com/eligrey/443d51fab55864005ffb3873204b...

As you can see, this implementation fails for URLs with - as their host. There should be a cleaner solution here that doesn't involve creating new URL instances with test scaffolding (the input base URL).
Here's an overview that has a timeline and some jumping off points if you're interested in learning more. What happened as the ice retreated varied by area and some of the valleys in particular have been studied to see what species arrived, in what order, and to investigate delays by some.

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/olym/schalk/cha...

> In comparing the various palynological sources for Northwestern Washington and surrounding regions, it is clear that the vegetation history varies at least in its details from area to area. For example, Heusser (1978:1576) notes that treeless conditions persisted longer after glacial retreat in the Hoh Valley than in the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula.

> ...the arrival of coniferous trees in this area was apparently delayed by aridity until sometime between 11,000 and 9,600 yr B.P.
The 911 and Boxster are built on the same assembly line, which is at full capacity. If anything, it's easier to get a 911 than a Boxster right now because they're prioritizing the capacity towards 911s.

They're expanding supply, it's just not growing faster than demand is.

But yes, buying a Macan or Cayenne tends to move you up on the waitlist. Existing owners do get prioritized.