skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here:

- Estimate reading time is just me doing basic words-to-minute math at 250WPM
- Thanks
- The boilerplate started at $49 (now $199). I keep adding features (a blog structure most recently). It's not a shady marketing hack, the price is going up as the value of the product increases
Dijkstra was in fact talking about something very close to the original Darmouth BASIC. In 1975 all the other BASICs, like for example the CDC one I used, looked pretty similar to the original. And the differences back then were much smaller than what you see today or even in the 80s.
> without us they were more even and may have found better terms. Who knows

Historians. The Allies were vengeful at the end of the War, and growing more vengeful by the day. America pushed to lighten the terms where it could. Without its involvement, and at the end of a longer, more destructive war, Germany would have found itself with much worse terms.
It's because of the bundling / capture with SMS. If they drop SMS from iMessage and make it clear to end users they are using a separate messaging service not part of their phone plan then there is no case. As long as they combine iMessage with the open standard SMS then it can be argued from a variety of anti-competitive angles. They have used SMS to gain users for iMessage and that's similar to the bundling of IE back in the 90s.
So the people that made and operate the machines work, and the machines work, but no one else
In this case, a 64-bit little-endian unsigned integer Ought to be enough for anyone. [1]

Using variable-length "micro-compression" schemes like these merges concerns [2], add processing overhead, and lose out on the simplicity and efficiency of working on the data directly in memory, maybe even reusing the same memory/cache line after checking identifiers, etc.

The 7-bit VLQ scheme [3] makes sense for MIDI sequences (1980s), as they were stored on MIDI hardware with limited memory, and had basic processing needs.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_quantity
It's already how we fine-tune open source LLMs. All of them live off data exfiltrated from GPT-4. And it seems to help closing the gap fast. Microsoft had a whole family of papers on this idea: TinyStories, Phi-1, Phi-1.5, Phi-2...

Synthetic data has many advantages - it is free of copyright issues, the downstream models can't possibly violate copyright if they never saw the copyrighted works to begin with.

It is also more diverse and we can ensure higher average quality and less bias. It can also merge information across multiple sources. Sometimes we can filter using feedback from code execution, simulations, preference models or humans. If you can "execute" the LLM output and get a score, you're on to a self improving loop. LLMs can act as agents, collecting their own experiences and feedback.

I think GPTs are a ploy by OpenAI to collect synthetic data with human-in-the-loop and tools, to improve their datasets. This would also be in-domain for users and for LLM errors. They would contain LLM errors and the feedback. Very good data, on-policy. My estimations for 100M users at 10K tokens per month per user is 1T synthetic tokens per month. In a year they double the size of the GPT-4 training set. And we're paying and working for it.

But fortunately 12 months after they release GPT-5 we will recover 90% of its abilities in open source models.
Cargo plane flew with no pilot on board
Apple executives speak about Apple's growing chip business
It's a common programming error too. I often see automated test cases that only test the happy path, but you ought to test that errors error the way you expect and desire too. These tests fail the first time I run them as often as the happy path cases do.
Children have always been treated differently because they are fully and absolutely dependent on their care givers.

A puppy and a grown dog don’t actually apply here because we’re talking about humans and not dogs. It’s not even appropriate to make that comparison here.
Xojo is full of bugs. https://ifnotnil.com was set up after Xojo banned users for complaining...
Even the Pope called them terrorists. They were literally funded by two terrorists organizations (Irgun and Lehi). And over the past 70 years their main occupation has been the terrorizing of the few remaining Palestinians. How more plainly terroristic do you have to be?
And now they are here on HN funding posts like yours trying to justify the mass murder of children and women as a form of collective punishment.

Maybe we should call them torturers instead. Maybe that is more fitting.
That's how it works on U.S. Navy ships:

• Conning officer: "Right standard rudder, steady on course 090."

• Helm: "Right standard rudder, steady on course 090, aye, [sir|ma'am]."

This is especially important in background-noisy environments, such as engine rooms:

• Propulsion plant watch officer (over low-fidelity sound-powered phone): "Feed pumps, EOS: Light off number one main feed pump."

• Feed-pump watchstander: "EOS, feed pumps, light off number one main feed pump, aye."

I get a kick out of it when it's done this way in TV shows and movies (even Star Trek).
Copyright doesn't apply to ideas. It applies to works, which are specific, complete expressions of ideas.

The problem artists have with LLMs is not that they routinely output copyrighted works (it can happen, but isn't common), but that they copy human-expressed knowledge and art styles on an industrial scale, thus destroying revenue streams that supported or encouraged creative expression in the past. I doubt this is going to be solved via existing copyright laws. I suspect that the need for disclosure of copyright on the source material is to build a case for more novel legal protections for artists down the line.
It's because children are by definition blameless, innocent actors.

It's impossible for a 5 year old to do evil, so it's universally agreed that even 1 child dying in a war is too many.

At least that used to be the case before this conflict.
I really, really doubt it for one reason: I’m convinced Apple is still terrified of that “Amazon Alexa tells child to stick a penny in a socket” story, and will hamstring themselves in an attempt to have their agential cake and eat it too
I think there are two forms of interoperability that you aren't breaking out.

1. Client to Service

2. Service to Service

With email, service to service is generally free. However, Client to Service (eg. IMAP) hasn't been guaranteed to be free in the same way. Many services offer it today for free, but that's after a sharp decline in desktop mail clients. I remember how hard it was to get free IMAP back in the day. Now that most people use webmail or the company's app, they're offering it without being worried about the few people using it. If 90% of people started using IMAP and bypassing Google/Yahoo/Microsoft's ads, we might see IMAP return to being a paid service.

> AIM was free

AIM was constantly trying to break third party clients. Pidgin was often good at keeping on top of changes AOL was making to break them, but AIM certainly wasn't an open network for third parties.

MSN Messenger originally included access to AIM, but AOL blocked them. I don't think MSN Messenger (and later Windows Live Messenger) ever welcomed third party clients. Microsoft tried various strategies to get MSN Messenger to take off, but none were really open. It's more that the MSNP protocol was relatively easy to reverse engineer and Microsoft didn't go overboard trying to block third parties.

I agree with you that companies are trying to make the world a worse place via barriers to communication so they can make money. However, we didn't have great interoperability in the past. Email was interoperable, but instant messengers weren't. Pidgin was just good at staying on top of things back then and was facing off against less competent foes. If AOL were more competent, they would have been better at keeping Pidgin off their network.
Sorry yes, was still working through my morning coffee and I had exceeded my token window by the end.
Do you mean that the daytime running lights for all new cars include both front (white) and rear (red) lights?

If so, that's a good precedent for other jurisdictions. A longstanding gripe of mine has been that, in Canada at least, new cars are only required to have front lights illuminated in daytime, afaik. The practical effect is that it is a regular occurrence to have dangerous situations where cars with no rear lights illuminated are driving in dim / rainy conditions.
If it’s like a mirror of how you act that makes it for an interesting tool. Nonetheless, a tool!
In 1975 there was no QBasic which according to Wikipedia was delivered in 1991. And pretty much no microcomputers.
Meh I find hitting esc or ^c much easier than moving my hand to the arrow keys and back.

Also, many kind of typos can be fixed without entering insert mode! If there's an extra character, I delete it with dl. If a character should've been something else, I use 'r' followed by the letter it should have been.

I agree that command mode is more annoying than necessary since it relies on cursor keys to move the cursor.
BPD itself is known to be caused by childhood trauma, though both psychological and physiological mechanisms:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472954/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.7213...

Not to mention the well-established phenomenon of repressing memories of traumatic events, as well as the general memory impairment effects of chronic stress.
> them assuming that silence was unacceptable and therefore likely headed to Israel, or that they're taking random, unpredictable pot shots and their actual agenda isn't related to Israel at all

The point is their behaviour isn’t predictable. Which means you can’t make a deal. (To say nothing of there being nobody to negotiate with, nor enforce the terms of a deal ex post facto.)

Put another way, nobody has a monopoly on violence on the Yemeni coast. Before we start discussing legalistic concepts like a treaty, someone needs to seize that monopoly.
Why would they dogfood Apple Silicon for training models? Seems like a waste of developer time to me.
Boo.

But what do we expect from these giants? They're not going to create fertile ground for new competition. The only businesses they foster are those living under thumb and paying tax.

I guess I at least hoped for "commoditize the compliments" here. Make Google and OpenAI broadly less special.
They all are capable of doing so under some circumstances with limited efficiency, because as the air exits the house and cools down at some point water condenses out of the air onto the regenerator media. Then it evaps again when flow reverses.

However if you want maximal efficiency you want to add some zeolite 3A adsorbent, which you can sort of do yourself I am pretty sure. You just put some through a coffee grinder, put the regenerator in a garbage bag with it and shake it to get the powder inside the regenerator. It's not idea but it'll certainly help. I tried this with a thermal wheel of comparable size with silica gel and measured the result with AHT10 sensors and it worked pretty good actually.

Zeolite lasts longer but you need more. Obviously you gotta try not to get the powder everywhere by getting excess off etc.
The argument is that Sam Altman is a central player among the small group of extremely wealthy people whose personalities and decision-making decides how you and me will live our lives.

They buy and sell our politicians, set policy directly or by proxy, and make decisions that lead to prosperity for some and mass misery and death for others.

None of this is subtle or a conspiracy theory, it's how our society is structured, it's not particularly confusing unless you choose for it to be.
IANAL but I believe that AI-derived works are not currently copyrightable.
I’m not a new speaker. This is just a pretentious leftist invention because they don’t like wife or husband or boyfriend or girlfriend for some arrogant “I’m better than you because I use this.”
If you do bet on the phone, make sure you only bet on the first-party OEM. API depreciation, exclusive entitlements, user restrictions, payment-processing or flat-out Sherlocking are all realistic and credible threats to your business.

As they say, the house always wins.
Raster Master v2.8-Sprite/Map Editor for your legacy C/basic/Pascal compilers
By "A series" are you referring to the Nvidia A100 or the Apple A-series iPhone/iPad chips? If the latter, I don't think you can draw that conclusion. Training has memory and processor requirements that are very different from inference. You don't need iPhones and iPads to train models—you need them to run models. These are two very different things.
i like the repeat back but i would hate this. what if the person doesn't feel comfortable correcting them? just so many ways this could go wrong. not to mention it's dishonest and manipulative. management is already manipulative in a way, but this is crossing the line.
Gotta learn to eat vegetables in time, maybe?

I get mine weekly from my local farmer and I live in the inner city of Paris. There's zero waste because we only get what he harvests. Each basket covers a week.
I don't think anything can cause people to collect potato sacks from houses except poverty. The rag and bone man is a very low paid hard life and all of these medieval-scale recycling proposals overlook the details of the lives of the people who used to implement them.
Twitter violated employment contract, US judge rules
> Previously you always could install the newer Windows. It might be slow, but it'd work.

Windows has always had published minimum requirements and actual minimim requirements.

A 286 will run Windows 3, but not Windows 95 or NT.

A 486 will run Windows 2000 slowly, but I'm pretty sure you need a Pentium for XP (wikipedia says Pentium 233 Mhz).

There's plenty of examples of increased requirements over time. The TPM requirement may be different in character, as it's simple to bypass and Windows 11 then reportedly runs fine, but it's certainly prescendented that some equipment that ran the old version can't run the new version.
Why not? Self important much? No one knows not cares about your spouses gender. In fact, why not call them spouse? So Leftist pretentious of you.
I always thought it was planted as a distraction from the questions that really would make a difference. We think about the turtles that don’t have to get plastic straws in their noses while we drive our SUVs from the drive in with the rest of the meals wrapped in different types of plastics.
Keep going!
Any reason the blog was short? Or was it just that fewer words were enough to convey your thoughts?
My Trader Joe's has all sorts of loose (non-wrapped) fruits and veggies.
Of course Dijkstra didn't like BASIC. BASIC was the language that shook programming loose from his ivory tower and let common people try it. On actual computers. Bought at stores like Sears.
Yes it's widespread and frequent among the lower income classes for the reasons you mention. But it's a whole lot less money than tax evasion by the wealthy, for obvious reasons.
Why aren't they trained in the above, and who will ask large EHR vendors for those features, who would do the asking and is there a forms committee yet?
Hi. It would be interesting to read these military studies could you provide some citations or links?

Are they published in reputable journals?
Is every country in the world wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_g... doesn't have a single country that calls the IDF a terror organization.
It's not super hard in principle. I work with car manufacturers, we have to let the user login via their OEM account. In theory they say it's all compliant, but then many parts don't work and take ages for them to get fixed.

What you described should really not happen though, I thought Google forbid this already
Depends how you model it. I would say not taking into account the publication bias if you have ways to measure or at least estimate its distribution is a bigger mistake to make.
Yes, but it's not made of petrol. Petrol is the main bad thing, not the plastic. Yes, plastic itself also creates problems, but AFAIUI bioplastics are (can be?) more biodegradable than your standard petrol-derived polyethylene (of course that won't be the case if your bioplastic is PE made from ethanol, but that should be self-evident).
> Are they optimizing for cost or speed of development?

Historically I would agree. There are options now that are both easy to develop in and are blazingly fast (C#, Go, Rust, Kotlin to name a few).

The elephant in the room is that both Ruby and Python fell behind in relative ease of use and computational performance with respect to other ecosystems and instead of addressing pressing matters there is a lot of mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance at play such as presenting false dichotomies.
What are you talking about people do notice and care?! e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/7/23863258/bmw-cancel-heated...
Oh this is a great suggestion!

It's not immediately clear to me how we'd support this (just from some light searching) - I'm going to keep poking around but if anyone knows more about how to make this work I'd love to hear it :)
I think you're right, but wonder how many of those existing subscriptions OpenAI will be the backend for and charge some [smaller] fee for.
Ok our options

Multimodal large language model
Large multimodal language model
Large language multimodal model
Large language model (multimodal)

I prefer 1, because this is a multimodal type of an existing technique already referred to as LLM. If I was king, I’d do Omnimodal Linguistic Minds, but no one asks me such things, thank god
South Africa has the right to defend itself, and if that means killing the ANC and the people protecting them, so be it
Apple Silicon, sorry for the ambiguity. Apple sells Macs too. That’s where I’d hope they would train their models.
Sounds fragile, C++ compilers are permitted to do struct padding essentially as they please. A change in compiler could break the SSD<-->struct mapping (i.e. the member offsets).

C++ arrays, on the other hand, are guaranteed not to have padding. That's essentially what memory-mapped IO gives you out of the box.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5398498

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/#_structure_alignm...
The best way I can describe it is someone took an animated movie and applied AI guesses to make it look real. Which is sort of the opposite of what actually happens, but that's what the outcome looks like.
In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users
This post was flagged, but I don't think it should have been and I hope it stays up. I have been grateful that HN hasn't had the same level of animosity about the conflict in Gaza as other places on the internet. But this news article is about a core issue in tech, and should be discussed on HN. The whole world now uses social media to communicate, which means that when there's a war, partisans of both sides will be motivated to fight out the propaganda war on the platforms that tech built.

I wonder if there will ever be a way for a global-sized platform which uses algorithmic content feeds to convincingly show moderation neutrality on a topic like this. The HRW report has 1,000 examples of peaceful pro-Palestinian content that was removed by Meta. But only Meta themselves has the information to know whether there is systematic bias. So we get a situation where people sympathetic to both sides both come away feeling that the platform is biased. I think the U.S. culture war has similar dynamics.

My engineer brain wants to solve this by giving users more visibility into moderation decisions. Maybe statistics on deleted posts, more legible moderation rules, publicly posted justifications for moderation decisions. Another part of my brain thinks that maybe this is just an unsolvable problem for social reasons in a community that's global-scale. I'm not sure. I do feel like this is still Meta's job, part of their cost of doing business, and if they put something like 5% of their revenue into moderation the situation would be a lot better.

In the meantime I find myself personally trying to cut out as many algorithmic feeds as I can from my life. I prefer the curation of a news website or podcast, small group discussions, or 1:1 communication with people I trust. Algorithmic feeds are easy but so far have never done a good job covering issues where there is real conflict between two groups.
It seems you're both agreeing that voting with your wallet doesn't help much, but voting with your vote does.
Because he went to the Bilderberg conference?
It’s not so hypothetical. They’re already stealing copyrighted works and putting them in the AI’s. I put a list of them with their licenses in the “Proving Wrongdoing” section of my article:

http://gethisword.com/tech/exploringai/index.html

I also put a copyright proposal in there which should work for all the competing interests. I mean, people will still be greedy. Yet, I think it’s a win to allow all copyrighted works to be used for training while restricting only the outputs to only the degree we do for people.

Personally, I really hope the law allows GPT4-style AI’s to be built legally and affordable. If so, there’s so many benefits to be gained in businesses we can start, augmenting workers to improve work/life/productivity balance, and non-profit projects.

Plus, whichever countries don’t do it will be left behind in this area by the countries that make AI training easier. Japan is the only one I’ve heard made it legal to use copyrighted works for data-science models. I don’t know that you can distribute them like The Pile or Common Crawl, though. If you scraped or bought it yourself, Japan is the closest thing I know to being legal under copyright law.
Not sure I understand.

>Most ecologically conscious person I know had an old toyota pickup despite being able to afford whatever Tesla or such. He knew the car was a sunk cost

Depending on where you live, a Tesla can become more CO2 friendly in just 2 years. Especially compared to an old pickup. https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/comparative-l...
Library music costs about the same and is much, much higher quality.
Teenagers in the US are close to 90% Apple. While that doesn't mean they all must use iMessage but it comes bundled with their phone and is what the vast majority of fellow teens have access to so it naturally becomes what they use.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/10/iphone-teen-survey-2023...

Intentional or not, Apple gets to ride off of the natural inclination of teens to conform to their peer group.
Yes, it should affect anyone's conclusions unless they know exactly how much publication bias there is and then account for it
This is awesome. I love weird little projects like this!
I was curious what function was used for hashing (how do you write a generic hash function in go?) and it's pretty disgusting.

https://github.com/dolthub/maphash/blob/main/runtime.go
Clean, simple, and easy to use. Loved trying it out.
Viral media (videos, memes, etc) are largely propaganda, and they're being used by both sides to encourage and glorify conflict. Conflict, the result of which is dead citizens, many of them children, while those who beat the war drums do so from positions of security while they profit off of the war.
Oh... weird. I've never run into that, but I'm out in something closer to farm country than I expect a lot of people are (it's a short walk from my place to active farm fields).

I think the right answer, if you're in that sort of plastic hellscape, is to find your local community agriculture box sort of projects, and get fresh things in a recyclable cardboard box. Though I would also consider "not shopping at the place you mention and explaining to a manager why."