skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't you say that about any American news source, but maybe swap the three hyphenated last names for a brunette white man and a blonde white woman or something? That's just the state of our national conversation. Also this article isn't about any of those topics.
> "why do you care so much about privacy?"

Do you talk family problems with all your neighbours ? With strangers ?

How would you feel when your employer will know everything you did last night ?
may i ask how you landed your first contracting role
Or a rival country could create a virus that targets 80% of their enemies population and only 20% of their own
May it survive The Hug

/s, kinda. Peertube may help
How about every other site that does, more or less, the same thing?
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Tbh in both they are mostly alchemy with some more or less expert lingo put in to make it sound more scientific.

AI/ML resembles more alchemy than e.g. physics, putting stuff into a pot and seeing what comes out. A lot of the math in those papers doesn't provide anything but some truisms, most of it is throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Who leaves the toxic comments? Rando readers some of the time I'm sure, but most probably come from other editors. Other editors are the ones who are well accustomed and most inclined to track down other editors associated with some article and give them a piece of their mind.

Most of the public seems to be range-banned when not using an account anyway.
Excuse me? Step by step wasn't paper-worthy? Hard disagree.

LLM research is currently in its infancy, because they are no older than a few years old. And a research field in its infancy is bound to have a few noteworthy "no sh*t, Sherlock" papers that would be obvious from hindsight.

The fact is, LLMs are a higher-order construct in machine learning, much like a fish is higher-order than a simple cellular colony. Lower-order ML constructs do not demonstrate emergent capabilities like step by step, stream of consciousness thinking, and so on.

Academics should be less jaded and approach the field with beginner's eyes. Because we are all beginners here.
I don't know about Switzerland, but here in France, if you don't have electrical heating, it's quite uncommon to have more than a 6kW line to your home. And you can't easily get a fatter pipe. My parents' house has a 6kW line and could maybe get 9, but very likely not above.
This seems a bit to be a - water is wet article.

I think the more interesting question is what is the impact of these volunteers leaving. Are the toxic comments directed at people who tend to get in the middle of flamewars, or are they innocents? Do these people do good work? Or are they just annoying people until someone snaps at them in a fit of toxity?
Ironic that this website feels pretty janky on Firefox for Android. The Read link under "Internet by the people for the people" leads to a page that has lots of rendering artifacts as your scroll through it, like colors blinking in, and also it fills your browsing history with every swipe.

Below the financial statement and form 990 links there's just tons of blank space separated into different color segments. I have no clue if those are supposed to have content?

Update: Desktop browser mode shows that I am missing content. Also I was surprised at the amount that Privacy Badger and Ublock Origin were blocking. Disabling them didn't help the mobile rendering though.
You might have a point, but if the frameworks didn't exist, couldn't employers commoditize around knowledge of the base HTML?

In my view, frameworks are the result of someone realizing that an abstraction is easier to work with. Just like we don't write in machine code or assembly code much anymore. This seems like a simpler explanation than a conspiracy by "employers" to commoditize software development.
I get that, but an innocent bug is hardly the issue here. It's the job of the operating system vendor to provide a good experience by ensuring that common hardware works without having to install any additional bloatware. Instead, MS is forcing whatever crap hardware vendors made down the users' throat.
Is it just me or has Mozilla been taken over by grifters?
Being dismissive about this tweet or agreeing with the author is one thing. Not realizing that the absolute minimum of a scientific paper can be much lower than a new prompt for GPT-4 is what everyone should be aware of.
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I remember having to send the link to my mother in law. I suppose now that the event is all over, and it mostly affected my mother in law, I can say 'good times'.
This. It's insane to have to pay huge taxes when exercising stock options as a startup employee when many times the company goes bust. One should only pay taxes on real money received. There are many horror stories.
The biggest problem Twitter had was using MySQL for data storage.They moved to Scala, and while it was not quite a disaster, it did slow progress and also had to be largely simplified. Meanwhile places like GitHub and Shopify proved you could keep on scaling with Rails.
edit: Misunderstood TFA. Leaving the original comment.

~~On the other hand, the only toxic comments I experienced on Wikipedia were from an editor.~~
One of the most frustrating things about my industry (gamedev) is that sometimes it moves at a glacial pace.

The idea of using 32bit x86 in 2023 is almost hilarious, but once released: games rarely get any attention. That's also assuming that:

A) The Software Bill of Materials even supports 64 bit; it's not just your code it's all the code you depend on also

B) The build system hasn't been destroyed (this happens pretty soon after a game release, within a few years ultimately it becomes nearly impossible to build the game from source again)

C) It actually gives the game any actual benefits outside of "marginally wider" hardware support.

It's sort of a tragedy of the commons, nobody wants to put effort on anything that isn't the underlying core product. Nobody is making engines anymore (outside of Epic, Unity (heh) and Embark) and nobody will go back to old products anyway.

Installing Steam on Linux in 2014 was weird because I did not have a multi-lib system back then and it dragged in half an operating system userland to function, but I understand why: I would have had issues with the games themselves even if Steam itself hadn't pulled in all those dependencies.
I'm only suggesting password complexity as a compromise so that websites wouldn't need to implement OAuth. (Do you have a better comprise ?)

Password complexity encourages the use of password managers. They in turn remove the need to reuse passwords.
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It's funny you take issue with my example because it's apparently not as common amongst "mathematicians" as the other terminology is amongst air travel workers. Of course, the terminology "algebraic variety" _is_ common amongst the subgroup of mathematicians who work in abstract algebras (basically by definition). In fact, it's common amongst students studying abstract algebra as well. However you define it, it's certainly a group of people that spans the globe. So it _does_ fit your definition of "incredibly common". I find this funny because I wouldn't consider it common terminology. I guess you've shown me that it really is.

Anyway I think most people mean "common" to say "you have some reasonable expectation that it will be understood". That's what I certainly mean. So yeah I think I'll stick with my original point here:

> In other words, it's _not_ an incredibly common well established convention. Thanks for clarifying my confusion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530035

Anyway I'll have to log out after this comment since I feel myself getting dumber. Apparently I don't have enough self-control here to extract myself from this discussion in any other way.
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Any accountants in the room?

It'd be good to get an informed view on the financial statement. In particular, the oft-spoken view that Mozilla is so critically dependent on Google funding that it is, in practice, prevented from doing anything that would displease big G.
It's good that Mozilla is still there to provide an alternative to the proprietary browsers and is fighting for open Internet standards. But the management direction and the aggressive political stance it took in the last years is not really good for the project.

Also big kudos for Rust, been playing around with it and it really is a great improvement over archaic languages like C or C++.
IMO Mozilla has turned into a wrong way since the shitshow with Brendan Eich.
Optane was probably a memristor technology under the hood.
While I think the twitter post author is being a bit of an ass, they’re sort of right about the overvaluing we’ve put on simply better prompts. I wrote an opinionated GitHub gist about this exact issue:

https://gist.github.com/Hellisotherpeople/45c619ee22aac6865c...

I do the whole NLP publishing thing and I’ve hesitated to “write a paper” about applying techniques already known and used everywhere in the stable diffusion community to NLP models. That said, the AI community loves to pretend like they discovered something, such as a recent paper purporting to be the first to do “concept slider” Lora’s, despite these existing for months before that work was published on Civit.ai. The authors of course didn’t cite those already existing models.

Everyone chasing citations and clout hard right now because these professors and researchers realize that they only have 5-10 years before AI eats their jobs and most other white collar jobs. I don’t blame them. I want my mortgage paid off before I’m automated away!
Is there anything you feel people tend to miss or get wrong when telling the story of the CueCat? Or has the record already been set pretty much straight? It still comes up occasionally... heck, I found one in a cupboard at work last week! But I always wonder what gets missed about these things in hindsight.
I await the usual complaints about Mozilla's side projects as well as the dependence on the search box money from Google.

Firefox is never going to be a thing as long as humanity moves from desktops to mobiles where changing the built in browser is very uncommon.
This sort of elides the point that Steam is practically the only 32bit application I run on MacOS these days.
In what sense? logical / input-output monitoring, or cpu/mem/net/usage metrics?
I just use a bookmarklet that nukes any position:fixed elements on the page. Works on toolbars, cookie banners, full page interstitials — really shockingly useful on the hostile web.

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If schools want jammers the FCC will make an exception and guidelines.
I have heard some statements that Rust is bad because of its non-free components such as Cargo.
Play the game I suggested with other news sources. It won't work. NPR panders to a specific class of people obsessed with identity politics and activist causes. And the hyphenated last names are generally white people.
Came here just to say your first 2 sentences.
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Ceasar is basically a family name though. I don't think there were that many Julii left at this point? So it might not have been that confusing. However if you were Publius/Lucius Cornelius on the other hand there were probably a dozen other Roman aristocrats with the same name at any given time.
You DNA is shared with others, so any amateur geneaologist is likely to be able to find out who, approximately, you are.

The exact info though should be easy to protect. Just dont give it away.

But remember that other close family members to you are very likely to know who you are, and they may share that info by accident. Normally you can't share data of anyone living on these services, since that is illegal pretty much anywhere, but its enough if one user happen to mark you dead in their tree and has filled in your real data.
Leafpipe: Turning lots and lots of audio/visual into pretty stimuli
If taxes were done on a cash basis, I would then be able to defer taxes on investments for years until I liquidate the investment. Governments generally have an interest in receiving tax revenue much faster than that both to ensure that they actually receive the tax revenue as well as they want to fund operations ongoing.
If I book telescope time and capture a supernova then no one will ever be able to reproduce my raw results because it has already happened. I don't see why OpenAI pulling old model snapshots is any different.
I dont like Brave because of the Crypto stuff.

But they have way better communication around this with more simple tweets and posts of what they ACTUALLY do.

What is even going on, on this page? So much coroprate speak I feel like I am reading my for-profit company intranet page.
Device only needs to do inference which is much less resource intensive and chips designed for training. Macbook M-chips a great for inference and don't use much power. Big use cases here is around a device processing realtime vision, audio.
Sure but you know how you look at science from 100 years ago and you realise a lot of things were wrong? The scientific method ensures we approach the truth bit by bit, but doesn't prevent misteps or partial information. So one can be more sure about some things than others. A calorie is a calorie is more "fundamental" science than "is eating an orange the same as eating a pill", so I trust that more. Because the fact of the matter is that some % of the things we know of today as true science will be proven false later, since that has happen since the dawn of time, and it's hard to know which ones.
> like when they're picked up etc.

Wouldn’t just moving an object change its mass? Any change in potential energy would mean a change in mass from good old e=mc^2
Which includes all classic valve games like portal and half life, as they were never updated to 64 bit.

If you bought those for OSX this is the end of the line for being able to play those games on that platform.

Not posted to incite rage, just elaborating on the impact.
Although I am still "healthy enough to work," having no dependents allows me to an optimal loner healthcare strategy: just don't apply/carry health insurance (tyl: 50% of US healthcare is paid for by government funded sources — just single-payer it [for all!] already!).

Instead I am a cash-paying blue-collar degenerate. It works for me because I am too damn stubborn to give even cents to the disgrace we Americants call "public healthcare" — and with no children/wife to support, I can be as wreckless as society damnwell chooses for me to behave.

"Acting rationally in an irrational environment IS IRRATIONAL."
Someone in the future needs to compare Mozilla development and Ladybird development.
The problem is ideological.
You heard wrong? https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo
So the original "14000" leak is 0.1% of the customers, but now 6.9M is claimed. 14000/6900000 ~ 0.2%, so now half the customers are indirectly leaked?
I use FF on desktop and mobile (although FF on mobile crashes on me, sometimes does not refresh etc.- Android)
Even in the U.S., the performance drop is not universal. I live in an area which has some of the best performing public schools in the country.

These districts were established 40+ years ago, and middle class families of all races and backgrounds have access to purchase a home at a premium to enroll in them. In the district I'm currently moving into, the student body is disproportionately made up of a diverse body of Asian Americans that grow up in households that set high expectations and are very involved in their education.

However, in recent years, the school district has started shifting priority from measures of performance from standardized testing to the inclusion of specific racial groups in schools. In one of the board of education meetings, a board member mentioned that they're aiming to make the racial makeup of schools in the district reflect that of the area, which they described as "one third white, one third black, and one third hispanic".

Additionally, on teacher surveys given by the school system, all questions related to assessing academic performance of the students were phased out. Here are some of the questions that took their place:

9. How comfortable are you discussing race/ethnicity-related topics with your colleagues?

15. At your school, how valuable are the antiracist- and equity-focused professional development opportunities?

16. When a sensitive issue of diversity arises in class/at work, how easily can you think of strategies to address the situation?

8. How often are students given opportunities to learn about people from different races, ethnicities, or cultures?

10. At your school, how often are you encouraged to think more deeply about race-related topics?

14. When there are major news events related to race/ethnicity, how often do adults at your school talk about them with students?

In a boundary change in a nearby school district, the average bus route distance was increased overall, but diversity measures were improved. When parents protested the changes, they were depicted as a group of angry bigots in national news. That district is now experiencing what local news is calling "a bus crisis" where kids are not making it to school on time.

I'm hoping at some point we will snap back to reality and prioritize performance, but my expectation is that I'll need to set aside money for private school.
It's probable that the story had a basis in truth-otherwise, someone would have instantly used it against the young Caesar-but grew in the telling. Caesar, as his commentaries show, was no slouch at bolstering his own legend.
This is what I've seen others qualify as "quite cursed".
NLP/Computational Lingustics is NOT a new field. The ACL was founded in 1962

LM research is also old, papers using very shitty LMs (I.e Markov chains) and discussing them have existed since the early 2000s and likely before.

Check yourself before you try to check others.
I will concede that you are probably a very different kind of Emacs user than I, since I pretty much exclusively used Elisp to set up and tune my editor to my liking as a totally independent act from actually using my editor to write programs.
I dont know anyone with recruiting responsibilities. I potentially onow people who might be asked to recommend, but how to get to that point where you're shortlisted?
> If I book telescope time and capture a supernova then no one will ever be able to reproduce my raw results because it has already happened. I don't see why OpenAI pulling old model snapshots is any different.

That's why you capture multiple of them and verify your data statistically?
> if the parties can not solve the problem on their own, they can find mediators

Mediation is typically only possible where either both parties are willing (clearly not the case here) or where the mediator has some leverage with any unwilling parties (seemingly not to be found here either, at least sofar).

> the power issue can not be solved by the court of public opinion

Honestly you may well be right but this is precisely why I cited it as an unfortunate last resort. It's pretty clear here that even the very formation of the council was in itself an attempt at internal mediation after years of problems.

As unlikely as it is that going public will lead to a solution whereby the council members rejoin the existing project and have a long and fruitful collaborative relationship with Hans into the future, it does at least open the door for a larger number of potentially beneficial options.

Even the "nuclear" option (fork and rival), while wasteful in terms of human effort, has some potential to lead to a project that much better serves the open source community. Having such discussions in an open forum can help people better weigh up the pros & cons of joining vs forking indispensable community projects such as this.
I wonder how many on the Mozilla Board of Directors and Chief Whatever Officers getting paid millions regularly use Firefox vs Chrome or Safari.
>what exactly is the problem?

"Privatize profits

"Socialize losses"

—Reagan, probably.
I do the same thing. I wondered why I hadn't received any breach notifications for a long time, I don't remember seeing a notification of this change.
Then you should be able to derive a benefit from unearned income in the form of loans secured on it.
> The jobs are out there if you want to do honest work for a fair wage.

If a company is making hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue from your work, I think it's totally fair to want a bigger slice of that.

I do realise "fair" can also mean "considerable though not outstanding in size or amount" - in that case I agree, but I'm not sure about the word "honest" here.
so what is the state of mozilla?
I lost years of work to an IBM Deathstar[1], after which I learned the value of backups. Since then I've had two more disks fail on me, both early SSDs. The ability to be back up and running quickly has been essential both times.

Though I've upgraded disks multiple times by cloning to the new drive, very smooth so that's a nice bonus.

The main thing is that's so simple. There's one thing to remember, and I get back exactly what I had. Having to manually curate a list of things to back up is exactly what I want to avoid, since I might miss something important and only know when it's too late.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar
So do I, but I am here with you on hacker news and this site is not a representative sample at all.

I have never had mobile FF crash on me, largely been a good experience.
'Caesar' was not then a title. It became a title because of him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)
They could upgrade the hire to senior if the hire was competent.
Tired: Asking participants to sign an ethics pledge at the top of a tax return makes them more honest.

Wired: Asking an LLM to write out their steps first makes them more accurate.

They seem equally interesting to me, but one is a lot easier to replicate, and the other is easier to lie about.
Games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen (2022)