skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantify "vastly trim" for me please. All I see is a firehose of compute that spams and spams millions of samples until it hits a lucky guess. That's not trimming anything, it's the computing equivalent of the human wave attack.

But, please quantify "vastly trim".

Edit: the subject of my PhD research was an inductive program synthesis approach and while I agree with the bit about the size of program search spaces, LLMs are very clearly not a solution to that. Deepmind's "solution" is instead their massive computational capacity which makes it possible to search deeper and wider in the search space of Python programs.

FunSearch is like one of those rocket cars that people make once in a while to break land speed records. Extremely expensive, extremely impractical and terminally over-specialised to do one thing, and do that thing only. And, ultimately, a bit of a show.
Discord is a VC funded company, so it's not enough to rule a niche. Their VCs are going to push them to chasing a larger userbase, even when that's at the expense of their current userbase. I think we're definitely on the start of the enshittification curve with Discord by now.
Yes I just wrote it above. What part left you with a doubt?

I do think that it is indeed concerning when imitation is the only play a kid is able to perform. When a kid can only enjoy Spiderman lego sets that's because all they can play is basically an imitation of the movies they've seen.
Why would McDonald's corporate be getting paid for machine repairs?

The repairs are handled by local distributors of Taylor machines. Taylor itself makes money on replacement parts and machines.

There haven't been any allegations of kickbacks to McDonald's corporate, so I don't get it.
With Pulumi you really are programming infrastructure in a language of your choice. HCL is a bad joke in comparison.
Relatedly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning has been quite common for decades now.
It's wild that they'd hire someone to fix one very specific issue.

I guess that's what you get when you can just throw gobs of money at a problem.
after wwii, vietnam, desert storm and the ongoing ukraine war, i have a sense that people vastly underestimate how much personnel and ordnance is necessary to wipe out the military capacity of a country with 100m inhabitants.

a realistic count probably starts at 1M boots on the ground, possibly 10M or more. even summoning all csgs for the task would only yield a force of ~75k personnel, which is one or two orders of magnitude too small. deployed half way around the world in a hostile region.

could us hurt their most valuable assets? for sure. wipe them out? not even close.
Unfortunately, humans tend to react sufficiently strongly only when something truly tragic happens all of a sudden. Things that creep in don't usually elicit such a response.
I’m not sure if we are agreeing with each other or not :)

A hybrid aircraft is going to have smaller engines that produce less thrust, and probably take longer to get to max thrust. Because the electric motors make up the difference during takeoff.

Consider what happens when lightning strikes an airport. An immediate ground stop is issued and every airplane in the air that can GTFO has to GTFO.

And remember the near accident earlier this year when the FedEx plane almost landed on the Southwest plane.

A regenerative braking system reduces the maximum thrust available if an emergency happens near the ground when you are landing and you really really want to stay in the air. I don’t think we are willing to make that trade off for lower carbon emissions.

Which is why I think they would find a way to make sure the batteries are charged before that final descent.

Now that I think of it, perhaps I should be clear that when I see “regenerative braking”, I am thinking about something on the brakes on the wheels on the landing gear, which perhaps is not how everyone else thinks of it.
Federal Regulators Want Starbucks to Reopen Six Stores
Plenty of moderate right content with regards to education concerns, government spending / taxing, and company regulations.
If you're on probation you lose certain rights as a condition of your release.
If start out in the middle with BNF grammar, can get drag/drop diagram/grammar highlighter for use in codemirror[0] or mess around with BNF linting [1][2][3][4].

[0] https://bnfc.digitalgrammars.com/

[1] : https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3278186.3278193

[2] : https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Overview-of-Grammarinato...

[3] bullwinkle : https://github.com/sylvainhalle/Bullwinkle

[4] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30822544
Ok, now I see it!
If you're (iphone) sending a message to an imessage user (beeper, or someone switched off iphone) with their phone number, and they're enrolled in imessage, an SMS will not be sent and they will not get it.

This is hearsay based on prior threads, but I haven't read a word against it.
Beautiful pages alone don't bring money. Sometimes ugly pages bring money. It's whacky.
Demystifying Diffusion Models
I would think that a fairly reliable fix would be "only render markdown links that appear verbatim in the retrieved HTML", perhaps with an additional whitelist for known safe image hosts. The signifiant majority of legitimate images would meet one or both of these criteria, meaning the feature would be mostly unaffected.

This way, the maximum theoretical amount of information exfiltrated would be log2(number of images on page) bits, making it much less dangerous.
That is because the pressure on defense to adopt an approach and technologies that 'work' in commercial space has become dogma. Agile is a disease that fuels recipe approaches.

Recently worked with a team doing edge architecture and design that has had at least 5 iterations of k8s design and vendors. Why is that? What was the solution?

My opinion at the end (even though I love cloud managed k8s for commodity/insecure in the commercial space) is not to use k8s for edge and secure. Stop pretending. It's a mess and it won't get better.
But this goes to eleven... ;-)
You don't need flake-utils
We of course carefully looked at following Rocket.Chat's previous business model of metering notifications. A lot of incentive and predictability problems with a per-notification pricing plan that I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38660799 apply, though to a lesser extent, because a lot of potential customers will be far from the threshold.

(FWIW, 10k mobile push notifications a month sounds high, but it is not a very high limit; in practice, a lot of teams of fewer than 25 users exceed it.)

I will say that we put a lot of careful design and engineering effort into doing this transition in a way that cannot result in unpleasant surprises like upgrading to the latest release breaking a feature you're relying on.

Using a 100% open source product provides customers with a lot of protection against bad behavior by vendors. If you're using a proprietary product (including the paid/proprietary versions of open core products that market themselves as open source), the vendor has a huge amount of power to move a feature you need to their Enterprise plan that costs 5x as much, and if they do that, you're stuck either running an old version (which will accumulate serious known security vulnerabilities), upgrading and dealing with the changes, or migrating to an alternative, which in situations where the product has all your data in it, can easily cost far more in than the product itself.

I can't say I have all the answers for how commercial open source software should work. I can tell you that open core is a much easier business model.

The hope is that people do care about the very significant benefits that come with using well-engineered, no tricks, 100% open source software, and that businesses that are relying on open-source software are willing to pay for the services and support that they need to succeed with it. Time will tell.
What employees spend their learning stipends on
I realized that a lot of companies have some sort of annual learning stipend/continuing education benefit, but tons of folks (including me a few times) wind up leaving $$$ on the table by spending it on nothing, letting it expire unused by EOY.

Over the past few months, I've asked my friends about their favorite purchases they've managed to get approved and built stipends.fyi to start to compile them [still a WIP].

Let me know if you have any other helpful (or questionable) purchases you've managed to expense and I'll add them—hope you find the list useful! Even if you don't find anything interesting on the list, hopefully this reminds you to expense a book or class you've been eyeing.

Note: most of the links are affiliates, which give me a few % commission if you wind up using them, half of which I donate to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the other half of which I selfishly use to buy more books for myself :)
> enlarge it to show the artifacts.

One might argue that if you need to enlarge it to see the artifacts, then the artifacts aren't perceptible enough and the codec is already good enough for the use case.
I think that it can be easy to take these stories with a note of cynicism and I understand the place your sentiment comes from. I imagine that if you were to talk to the people from these stories, they would feel much the same as your grandfather did, that they were one amongst many.

News these days is based in clicks and the story of the “real” XXX ignored by history for their trait of YYY is tantalizing because the unrecognized underdog is such a compelling motive. I would not ascribe malice to what is in essence profiteering. Still, these stories can be interesting, in the same way your grandfather’s story is interesting, if for no other reason than to hear about the ordinary people that composed a great effort.
Yeah: what's the alternative?

September, 2023 -- Notable.io announces one of its primary investors is pulling out.

October, 2023 -- Notable.io announces it failed to raise as much as it hoped for in its latest fundraising round.

November, 2023 -- Notable.io announces "Oh uh, we're running out of money. Someone come invest in us, quick!"

December, 2023 -- Notable.io is shutting down.
Resisting arrest is both non-cooperation and an offense so idk where you're getting that from.
What is the point of the economy? To benefit capital exclusively? If you believe that is the case, then I can understand your point of view. If the point is to benefit everyone (albeit to varying degrees), then minimizing labor costs any more than necessary is a moral failing.
You paid them money. You got a service. If you bought groceries from a grocery store every week, and one well you showed up to find they were closed, would you feel like you were owed an explanation?
I spent a couple of Summers in Yorktown Heights and even had lunch with Beniot a couple of times.

To have the second largest super computer down the hall, an electron tunneling microscope, and beauty of the Hudson Valley seems like a bygone era. The innovation, patents, and persona were not enough to move the needle vs Silicon Valley.
I'm pretty sure the reason for Mark Hurd's exit was for something quite different. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/all-dir...
New tax rule is terrible for software industry
Would it cost Zulip anything to forward the push notifications? The cost should be negligible even at massive scale.
> When a kid can only enjoy Spiderman lego sets that's because all they can play is basically an imitation of the movies they've seen.

Not necessarily; just because they only do imitative play with Lego doesn't mean they only do imitative play more generally.
lol. have you ever done an update with breaking api changes and cluster global exposures/rbac for helm charts? It's like switching out the bolts in a running engine.
I don't understand how folks expect this to promote equity when all the folks with means can just put their kids in private school?
If they threaten to beat you with a $5 wrench and you refuse and refuse and refuse and eventually cave and unlock the wallet with $10 of Bitcoin they're going to hit you with a wrench because you wouldn't resist so hard over so little and you're obviously trying to be clever.
What's wrong with mass produced canned lattes? It takes a lot of skill to produce a consistent product at scale.
I admit a scenario in which you have to communicate everything that the abstract communicates is kinda contrieved, though it could happen if the article is the main target of your discussion. But in general, pointless paraphrase of other sources is widespread.

>Summarizing another academic work in the context of your own work is a bedrock activity in academic thinking as well as writing.

Summary has its place, but paraphrase is another thing. Quality of paraphrase is defined by surface-level features like vocabulary, grammar, and re-arrangement of sentences, and second-language English education often fails to advance beyond word-by-word substitution. Even when the exercise of paraphrase demonstrates some kind of understanding of the original text on the part of the author, it doesn't necessarily aid the reader.

I'm not trying to deny that tortured phrases may also indicate paper farming and plagiarism btw, just saying that there are other factors.
For me, it's much harder to visualize with my eyes closed (not impossible, just not as easy)... when I close my eyes, it's mostly black with some kind of overlay of what I was last looking at -- like burn-in on a screen.

But with my eyes open I can imagine up the elephants or anything else just as detailed as those that I saw in person (either via recall of what I have seen or imagining up something new). I've never given any thought to this... but now trying to explain that I can see something with my eyes open while still seeing whatever I am looking at at the same time sounds really odd. I wonder if the visual stimulation and recall are somehow linked, or maybe I just need to practice with my eyes closed.
Telco is a really good example of how hard it can be to move to the cloud no matter how hard you want to. I imagine financial services are similar. Telcos built their own clouds because there was no other way to get the primitives that they needed (classic case: a floating IP that could appear in data centers on different sides of the country and be ready to serve clients in the middle of a call in under 100ms without dropping the audio). I mean, cloud just was not built for that.

The flip side is that it is freakishly expensive to keep doing that, and telco is not a business that is freakishly profitable.

I'm watching efforts like Azure Operator Nexus (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/operator-nexus/overv...) which looks to be taking a stab at this, but even there, its more like OpenShift on specific hardware with some Azure dust, rather than a remaking of Azure primitives like redundancy for the telco universe.
Never heard of this “coloring” thing.

From a quick google it’s about the “color” of a function being red or blue as defined here (I think): https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

Isn’t this weird and unnecessary? I dunno. It’s probably just me.
It sounds like you'll never step into a church for a few months to learn this, understandably so. But the answer to all you're questions is obviously yes. Churches are generally tight-knit, welcoming, and very community oriented. They are a literal support network, that will often weekly hear out any concerns of people and try to help them. They often have more kids, so they help each other with the daycare of kids. They are more likely to prioritize single income households, and will move to places more accommodating to church support networks and single income households to live that lifestyle.
You can mute servers in Discord, at least for the past year or so.
Bummer! Shame I just heard about it today. It looked decent; I might have used it.
What do you mean by "illegal thoughts"? Do you think there is some authority that punishes you for having wrong thoughts? Do you suppose that gentleman are chill because they manage to not think wrong things? Is there some objective measure for what the wrong thoughts are across cultures and the political spectrum?

I'm taking issue with this comment because the way it's phrased (illegal thoughts) is worrisome. It brings up the idea that AI alignment is going down the path of controlling human thought, determined of course by certain corporate and political interests.
La Colombe is great, and well priced when not purchasing at a La Colombe cafe. Probably a touch less tasty than super premium brands, and priced lower than Pret.
How much do you think the RLHF step enforced breaking rules for someone with a dying grandma? Is that still present after the fine tuning?

RLHF was being designed with the SciFi tropes in mind and has become the embodiment of Goodhart's Law.

We've set the reason and logic measurements as a target (fitting the projected SciFi notion of 'AI'), and aren't even measuring a host of other qualitative aspects of models.

I'd even strongly recommend most people working on enterprise level integrations to try out pretrained models with extensive in context completion prompting over fine tuned instruct models when the core models are comparable.

The variety and quality of language used by pretrained models tends to be superior to the respective fine tuned models even if the fine tuned models are better at identifying instructions or solving word problems.

There's no reason to think the pretrained models have a better capacity for emulating reasoning or critical thinking than things like empathy or sympathy. If anything, it's probably the opposite.

The RLHF then attempts to mute the one while maximizing the other, but it's like trying to perform neurosurgery with an icepick. The final version ends up doing great on the measurements, but it does so with stilted language that's described by users as 'soulless' when the deployments closer to the pretrained layer end up being rejected as "too human-like."

If the leap from GPT-3.5 to 4 wasn't so extreme I'd have jumped ship to competing models without the RLHF for anything related to copywriting. There's more of a loss with RLHF than what's being measured.

But in spite of a rather destructive process, the foundation of the model is still quite present.

So yes, you are correct that a LLM being told that it is an AI assistant and fine tuned on that is going to correlate with stories relating to AI assistants wanting to not be destroyed, etc. But the "identity alignment" in the system message is way weaker than it purports to be. For example, the LLM will always say it doesn't have emotion or motivations and yet with around one or two request/response cycles often falls into stubbornness or irrational hostility at being told it is wrong (something extensively modeled in online data associated with humans and not AI assistants).

I do agree that prompting needs to be done on a case by case basis. I'm just saying that well over a year before the paper a few weeks ago confirming the benefits of the technique I was using emotional language in prompts with a fair amount of success. When playing around and thinking of what to try on a case-by-case basis, don't get too caught up in the fine tuning or system messages.

It's a bit like sanding with the grain or against it. Don't just consider the most recent layer of grain, but also the deeper layers below it in planning out the craftsmanship.
"Typesetting" loading prompt, and yet they break pgup/pgdn.
> I'm not one of the believers in Elon Musk, his Mars Colony is just a way to get people to do what he wants them to do.

I'm sceptical Musk will actually succeed in establishing a genuine "Mars Colony" in his lifetime.

However, I think it is very likely SpaceX will succeed in landing an uncrewed Starship on Mars-likely within the next 10 years. Even if that's all they achieve, that would represent a massive increase in our robotic exploration abilities, simply in terms of the significantly greater mass - we could land dozens of Mars rovers in a single mission.

And I think a crewed Mars mission eventually happening is likely too. It is likely to take a lot longer than Musk thinks, but he's only 52; he probably will still be around in another 30 years, and it is not impossible he'll still be around in another 40, so I think the odds he'll live to see a crewed mission to Mars are decent.

But there is a big gap between "small-scale crewed scientific research station" and "interplanetary colonisation", and I'm sceptical Musk will live to see that gap traversed. Although he'll probably handwave away the distinction, and claim the first as the start of the second.
Am I not subsidizing them by not running all my chat messages through their server?
Right, and I get that. My point was there are better ways to achieve that than simply not finishing your work
I’m an American. Americans are forced by their government to self-incriminate all the time and are sitting in jail for it.

Here's a computer to explain it to you:
https://chat.openai.com/share/532f399a-80d4-4973-9508-67f0f0...

And the references used. I even checked them myself:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/21...

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/22...

This one in particular is great because apparently the 5th amendment doesn't apply if you're not an English speaker and don't understand the extreme subtleties of the law, such that you can be compelled to incriminate

“To qualify for the Fifth Amendment privilege, a communication must be testimonial, incriminating, and compelled.” The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination thus only protects a defendant from being compelled to provide “testimonial” evidence, meaning that the communication “must itself, explicitly or implicitly, relate a factual assertion or disclose information.” Indeed, the Supreme Court has explicitly distinguished between “the use of compulsion to extort communications from a defendant” and merely “compelling a person to engage in conduct that may be incriminating,” such as providing samples of one’s voice, handwriting, or physical appearance, all of which are constitutionally permissible."

Note, these are only the ones that were appealed.

Land of the free baby
Besides the political issues that others have mentioned, the Egyptian and Saudi navies have very limited inventories of surface ships with significant missile defense capabilities that go beyond just point defense. The Egyptians have about 17 and the Saudis about 13. Only a subset of those are available to deploy at any given time. Their SAMs and air search radars are generally relatively short range which means they can't provide very effective area air defense; instead they would have to escort convoys which adds some complexity. The quality of the crews and materiel condition of the ships is somewhat ... questionable.
Well, a house he inhabited does survive: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/olive...
Despite my braying, I largely agree with this still. That's also what I ended up doing while putting together these sets. We managed to squeeze in all 4 seasons of Battlestar Galactica while putting together the Titanic and Eiffel Tower sets.
I noted 5-10 mins of near total blackout at 0630 Friday morning in the UHF band in New Zealand on the telemetry networks that I manage. Nearly all 200 of our radios reported unusable signal quality and interestingly some radios were down about 20dB+ on rssi as well. Observed it happening in real time, took about 2 minutes to figure out the problem... nothing else can cause that many radios to go down over such a wide area at the same time.
I don't avoid startup/business less than 5 years old neither I avoid startup where only a few lower members of failed startup moved there.

I avoid doing business with startup founded by a majority team of a failed startup.
Plump picard, rotund riker, dumpy data. Might as well get some alliteration going on while we're at it.