skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this work? Are people just routinely evicted when the rate goes up and they can't afford the payment anymore, or is there some reason this doesn't happen?

From my US perspective, I would rather rent forever than risk such a loan, so I suppose there must be something else at play which makes your approach less awful than it would be if we did that here.
MTP implementation on Windows was clusterfsck as fsck. It was very slow and hangs frequently. Is it okay now?
The "curation is an great addition to value" argument is certainly a powerful one.

I agree with the position that it makes sense to pay for a selection of writing (or other content) that someone, who truly deeply understands their demographic, puts together.

This site ( HN ) is certainly proof of that. It is effectively a magazine curated by its readers (upvotes/downvotes) for 'my deomographic' which is the demographic of everyone on here I guess.

In the novel "Fall", Neal Stephenson developed a theme I found profoundly insightful - the internet becomes a morass of trash so to get anything out of it, you gotta be selective about what you read or consume.

Selectivity, for characters in the book, was effected by subscribing to 'edit streams' - content pushed to them by editors who figured out what they should see for news and what they should see elsewhere from the arts, science, anything.

The super wealthy have personal editors - bespoke curated balanced content that was super expensive since one essentially is paying for person to "pre-read" and "grade" everything.

The 'middle class’ subscribes to one or more cheaper good shared 'edit streams' that had balanced and nuanced selection made possible by amortizing the cost over a ton of subscribers - a magazine.

Everyone else consumes what FAANG equivalents and bottom of the barrel anybodies pushes out for free on the "Your Feed" streams. Since they are free, you are the product.

Anything on those is largely driven by agenda - think "the right vs the left", propaganda, 'just because I have a mic", anarchy, pick your poison.

Two thoughts pop to mind out of all this

- just occurred to me that Facebook's / TikTok's /YouTube's etc "For You" streams are just really bad, (very addictive) very poorly edited magazines. Can't really make money from them because they are the equivalent of a old-timey pulp magazine.

- (this is the biggie) these FAANGs should set up some way for folks to make money through curation of their content (patented, TM, etc). Just send me a cash "Thank You" to cover college bills and the mortgage for this idea.
Any day now, it's been five years away for half a century now.

Addendum: Seems many disagree with cold fact.
Interesting that they chose to bake this into their vision right at the beginning. Most VC firms that shutter simply had a terrible last fund and that stops their attraction power for the LPs that fund them.

Note: adblocker blocker active that generates a popup 'pay up or leave'.
> As a result, the model isn’t trained on understanding the useRalativeImagePath token, and so it outputs something that isn’t a valid token.

That isn't how LLMs generate tokens. Each step outputs a logit for each possible token in the tokenizer (100k in the case of GPT-3.5), then softmaxes the logits to covert them into probabilities, and samples from them depending on temperature to get the token to be used.

It's possible something in the tokenizer BPE merge process breaks due to the rare token, which can be verified offline using tiktoken. But if GPT-4 works, and since GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 use the same tokenizer, then that's likely not the issue.
> API keys were invented as a tracking device.

Yes, by definition.

Apparently, you did not review the "Disclaimer" link I provided. In it is the following:

Not all information or content on this website has been
created or is owned by the NPS. Some content is protected
by third party rights, such as copyright, trademark,
rights of publicity, privacy, and contractual restrictions.
The NPS endeavors to provide information that it possesses
about the copyright status of the content and to identify
any other terms and conditions that may apply to use of the
content (such as, trademark, rights of privacy or publicity,
donor restrictions, etc.); however, the NPS can offer no
guarantee or assurance that all pertinent information is
provided or that the information is correct in each
circumstance. It is your responsibility to determine what
permission(s) you need in order to use the content and, if
necessary, to obtain such permission.

Notice the first sentence; "Not all information or content on this website has been created or is owned by the NPS."

Perhaps there is a need for use to be "tracked" in order to ensure legal agreement to the Terms of Use?
Linus Torvalds enjoys an incredibly good negotiating position relative to these corporations. Simply put, he's got massive leverage in the form of Linux's staggering development speed: he gets like a zillion patches an hour. He maximizes that leverage by purposefully keeping the kernel APIs and ABIs unstable so they can't reliably target it without mainlining their drivers as GPL code in the kernel tree.

Corporations modifying Linux have the choice of playing ball and publishing source code or being forced to play catch up with the constantly changing kernel until the end of time which is obviously unsustainable and ends with them getting left behind and eating dust. This manifests as shitty products which run outdated tainted kernels and never get updated.

That's what leads Linus to be "lenient" towards these corporations and their violations. He thinks their products are mere toys that don't matter in the grand scheme of things. I remember reading an email on LWN where he used that exact word to describe them. Toys.

Obviously, as the users of these shitty products, we think differently. We'd very much enjoy it if some courts were to force these corporations to publish their source code under the GPL. Then we'd be able to have actual quality drivers instead of their proprietary nonsense, and we'd be able to run the latest mainline kernel on our devices.
I think what they mean is that the protein does not have a single conformation that it adopts and then remains in. It's fairly common when solving the x-ray crystal structure of a protein to find that some regions of the molecule are just disordered and don't have a clear shape. If you're asking what is going on at the atomic level, the answer would be that the protein is continuously changing shape as it flops around its solution environment. Of course, if you could freeze time at any one instant, you would find that every atom has defined coordinates and therefore the overall molecule has some shape. The point is just that it's dynamic.

That's how I interpreted the article, but I don't have any specific knowledge of this protein.
Well, no, a customer has choices for most of those, because the government isn't hosting the data exclusively with a private vendor that charges the customer for access, providing an exclusive franchise to that vendor.

That was what was suggested upthread.

Requiring the user to have certain capacities to access data, where those capacities are provided by a number of competing vendors (and some by free, gratis and/or libre sources) is a very different thing.
That's so short though that it isn't really useful. It would be like piecing together a book given syllables.
Does anyone know what will happen to the museum?
> maybe we should start with the Supreme Court...

sounds like that's going to be more of a textualist than living document LLM ;-)
That's a good fine. More such fines should be issued.
Palworld's budget is 1 billion yen (6M dollars). If you're willing to invest $6M out of your or your family's pocket yes you don't need VC.

For most people $6M budget means VC.
What you describe feels like the inevitable end-game of what the article is promoting, and why I can't subscribe to it.

I think there's a flipside to the argument too. If "good work" isn't enough, it means that those responsible for managing the employees doing "good work" aren't paying enough attention and that creates the need to self-advertise for promotion, as the article describes. But if there's an attention vacuum is it not also possible to hide, to some extent: as long as you continue to do good enough work to stay off the "bad" radar, then fit whatever you want into the spaces in between: Alternative productivity.

I have a current theory about the application of KPIs and OKRs for measuring performance: they're to take the responsibility of actually managing people off the managers who are meant to be managing people; Outsourcing the management, oddly, to the managed.

I'm currently three months through an experiment to see what happens when the vanilla "standard" OKRs I've been given aren't added to, ticked off or reached, or really measured against at all. I feel that I do good work, but I don't feel the need to prove it beyond the doing of it.

I understand the extensive overheads for things like backups and disaster recovery. I don't understand per-employee administrative overhead to measure contributions to "delighting the Customer" (actual example).

If I don't get a pay rise, or worse, as a result of this experiment, then it's been a success in helping to make an important decision.
Some catch up reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39062150

In a few lines, there is everything:

- Developers lying
- Managers lying
- Lawyers hiding and editing evidence
- Victims made bankrupt, at least 4 suicides
- Due to UK law the post office was also the prosecutor

If it sounds horrible, its because it's even worst.
> Of all these writers I subscribe to for free: would I be willing to pay a single price for all of them together? That might be worth $10 a month

Fair enough, but a magazine is largely filled with advertisements, which is where much/most of the revenue comes from. I like that Substack does not have ads like this.
Some parents choose not to provide a healthy and stable environment. It's not uncommon for LGBTQ kids to simply be disowned and kicked out.
I got tired of the these I like to use and the people I like to read disappearing. Now I just pay a few bucks a month for everything, and things just stopped disappearing. I don't have to worry about switching apps or finding new people read, which I would have pay with time instead of money.
This is a glitch token [1]! As the article hypothesizes, they seem to occur when a word or token is very common in the original, unfiltered dataset that was used to make the tokenizer, but then removed from there before GPT-XX was trained. This results in the LLM knowing nothing about the semantics of a token, and the results can be anywhere from buggy to disturbing.

A common example is usernames that participated on the r/counting subreddit, where some names appear hundreds of thousands of times. OpenAI has fixed most of them for the hosted models (not sure how, I could imagine by tokenizing them differently), but looks like you found a new one!

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldm...
Was kind of disappointed to see what was mostly a well-reasoned and supported article veer off into anecdotal "kids these days" rant mode at the end.
Hm... this has me thinking though and I'm already wondering if I shouldn't try my hands at a prototype, the key I think is that if you don't have to go fast that that's enough of a requirements change that you may be able to take another path.
I have only played Palworld for a couple hours, but so far it's completely different from Pokemon. The core gameplay loop involves building a base and capturing pals to help you gather food, stone, etc. It's more like Valheim or Ark with an anime-inspired aesthetic.

Those examples are quite a stretch as well. There are 900 Pokemon now, many inspired by preexisting animals, mythological creatures, etc. Nintendo does not own the concept of a sheep (Mareep) or pterodactyl (Aerodactyl). Or Ekans, which is literally just a snake with the name spelled backwards.
Breaking up with LiveView and going to Phoenix Channels and Svelte and daisyUI
There are many things I really love about LiveView, but today I finally realized I've been going down a rabit hole. I've been so caught up in the hype for so long that I forgot that there are many great solutions out there and quickly rediscovered svelte.dev and daisyUI

I seen there are some efforts out there to make svelte work with liveview but that's when I realized I just need Phoenix Channels and that the things that made me look to svelte in the first place is the fact I feel like liveview has grown in a way that is not super complementary of my own personal preferences. I want to still rely on Phoenix and Phoenix's Channels because its pub/sub is amazing. But all the design pattern choices of liveview I feel is making started to feel limiting and daunting and no longer enjoyable. Maybe my brain just does not work in the liveview world of coding. IDK.

Over all I really have enjoyed LiveView and think you would be foolish to not at least to give it your honest try. I have and have done so long enough now to know where I find myself spending to much time digressing from my own desired happy path that I've come to find this new journey of discovering new technologies which is really what this was all about in the first place. Get out of your rut and try something new especially if what you are doing now is not making you happy. Happy coding.
Keep in mind that the OP stated "HD CRT".

Large 1080i 16:9 CRT TVs existed for several years. Several had HDMI inputs. They were massive.

I once conducted a side-by-side with a Pioneer Kuro plasma, PRO-111fd. Both sets were ISF calibrated with a colorimeter. The HD CRT was visibly and measurably better in nearly every category, most noticeably in black level. I, unfortunately, don't remember the model number of the HD CRT in question, but I know it was produced by Sony. The KD-34XBR960 looks close to what I remember.
I too did not realize Waymo is operating in SF and looked for some videos on YT and found this.

It paints not so rosey picture about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rxvl3INKSg
As much as I hate to hop on the AI bandwagon, this is definitely where tools like Chat GPT shine.

Not to mention, non tech people will now be able to use what once could’ve only been done with cryptic regex.
I’m not sure I agree. Disney and Pixar lives and dies on being able to repeat success. And both have lived for quite a while now.

Rovio was extremely conscious about not building an empire on top of angry birds, as that dad would eventually fade and they needed a new thing. They were aiming to be the next Disney, but of games and smartphones, not cinema and tv.

I’m surprised they took $40 million in VC as that sounds like it must have been Pennie’s to Rovio during angry bird mania.
While everything past 1 is cut-throat garbage, I'm not convinced that communicating what you've been doing is actually useless to the rest of the company. If you don't bullshit and just present your work then it's a good way for management to learn why projects went well/poorly, and a good way for you to organise your own thoughts and your stream of work.

There's a basic level of self-promotion - demos, emails, talks to other engineers or users about how to use the new thing you made, retrospective write-ups of failed projects - below which you're not telling other people enough about what you did.
All I know is the medical superglue has “two phases” and gets hot for the first one a bit, and then there’s some sort of second curing a bit later.
Does anyone know any APIs to get BLM land?
It's disingenuous because there are multiple extremely plausible explanations for them wanting larger blocks, while you imply that your theory that their motivation is that want people to give up custody is the only one.

>>This isn't true though. It's very hard to measure these popularity contests.

It's not hard to determine where majority sentiment lay when:

* the largest Bitcoin forum in the world had to resort to censorship to prevent the rank and file from switching to BitcoinXT

* practically every major Bitcoin firm expressed support for a hard fork to raise the block size limit.

* the vast majority of mining power expressed support for larger blocks.

>And again, even if the majority (appears to) want something doesn't necessarily mean it's actually good.

Because you think Bitcoin becoming widely adopted would lead to the decline of USD dominance, and with it, geopolitical stability?

If you oppose Bitcoin mass-adoption, you should admit it instead engaging in attempts to manipulate public opinion with fearmongering about decentralization.
> I'm fascinated - does this hold under all conditions?

Maybe not.

> Can we depend on free markets to efficiently allocate resource during an all-out war vs government commandeering industry, war-bonds and rationing goods?

I don't think we should base our choice of economical system in the eventuality of an all-out war. Regardless of what I think in the event of an all-out war government will try to appropriate the resources it wants and gear the economy towards its needs because it can. A free market always efficiently allocate resources however I imagine the goals of the economical agents would be closer to preventing the destruction of wealth and human life than winning a war at all costs but this is context dependent.

Ukraine is an example where people from all over the world on their own volition contributed to the war effort in ways beyond what state violence could achieve. And Russia is the opposite example, top-down and dysfunctional.

> Do you think government should be in charge of setting a monetary policy? If not, should anyone have that role among private entities? Or should industry just duke it out with against occasionally adversarial nation-states.

People should have the freedom to use whatever they want as exchange medium. I don't know what is best but the current system with unsustainable growing debt do more harm than occasional adversarial nation-states could.
I don't really understand your complaints about API keys, but if you did want to make an issue of something perhaps it should be that you get your API key sent to you by email, in plaintext. Not amazing, but I guess for their threat model it's generally ok.
At what cost? Rest APIs are very expensive ways for the government to make CSV data available to the public.
Forging signed commits on GitHub
Yes, China having more slots would mean unclear factor of more gold medals for China. (Although China has only earned 6 gold medals in half of its years, and 5 or 6 gold medals in only 24/34 years, despite having 1/6 the world population so proportionally should claim ">8" of the ~50 gold medals each year, so China does appear to be under performing the average country (per capita) in half the years.)

But those 4 smaller countries having 1/7 slots wouldn't mean 1/7 gold medals, since they only send 5-10 gold medalists each year in those slots.

Romania averages over 1 gold medal per year. China, with 70x the population of Romania, should easily be getting 6 gold medals per year almost every year and about 70 theoretical golds of their deep bench got tested, if it has comparable per capita performance to Romania.

Of course all these stats are kind of silly because of sampling limitations.
> You cannot reduce them to a magic and infinitely-repeatable formula

The formula is:

> blockbuster movies every year, 20+ years of superhero movies just rehashing old IP, endless sequelss, annual Call of Duty releases, FIFA/Madden annual micro-transaction hell and so on

These are very successful businesses. You might not like them as a gamer, but I don't know why you said it like they're some failures. They're not OpenAI but clearly are printing money. From an investor's point of view that's what matters.
Brad Feld had one of the most insightful and helpful blogs, particularly before the golden era of tech/vc twitter and there wasn't much out there for folks not in the club. hope this gives him more time to post more.
Past 35 mph, most road noise is from the tires against the road.
Proteins have moving parts. Some function like turnstiles, others walk along microtubes. "Intrinsically disordered proteins" is a key word that might help. Biochemistry is like a stochastic soup sometimes.
That isn't a terms of use, it's a disclaimer. It's informing you that some of the information on the website might not be in the public domain, which is a simple factual statement that doesn't require you to agree to anything in order for it to be true or applicable.
Palworld may end up being the first "big" GenAI-based copyright infringement case if Nintendo/Gamefreak decide to pursue it.
Or hard working, at the right thing - ie marketing.

Most creatives, programmers included, believe "if you write it, they will come." The successful ones though are the ones who got good at selling it.
Nope, it’s not like A/B testing a button color on an ad; it’s medical history
Then you explicitly pass the transitions as a hash, or provide other methods for those specific options, but part of my point was that adding so many options in the first place is part of the problem of that API. It's trying to do way too much at the same time, and the result is you're ending up with really excessive code.

My example code was a quick and dirty example; instead of state= you could use "event" or whatever name you prefer. You're having the discussion about API whether you have it explicitly or have it by having the discussion about pulling in those gems.

And the point was the verbosity of it, not the details. If you need "a solution" for a state machine, odds are your state machine is too big and convoluted and ought to be decomposed, because to me at least their examples obfuscates the state machine they're defining in a way that is a huge red flag.

I definitely would not trust "the community's" experience on this -
it's by no means "the rest of the world" that has settled on this, but a tiny subset. Thankfully I've never had to deal with code using either of these gems "in the wild" in 19 years of Ruby development.

Having looked at the source of the state_machine gem, I'm now even less inclined to want it anywhere near my code. It's grossly over-engineered. A quick look at aasm makes it look slightly saner, but it's still grossly invasive and huge amounts of code.
It's safest to be a conformist coward, and never say anything politically incorrect.
NPS is hosting this data on AWS , a private vendor. And NPS (ultimately taxpayers) pay for every query.

So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend?
That sounds like a great party story you have there! (at least, having seen RMS live once, I can imagine how "great" it went)
> Are you new here?

Yes, I am new here. So why don't you tell me why you haven't answered this question I posited earlier:

Why are you arguing for a US government agency to
require its citizens to pay for access to data which
they have already paid for by funding said agency?
Correct me if I'm wrong—but we don't know if GPT-4 uses the same tokenizer as GPT-3.5, right?
Every request to EC2 costs money. TANSTAAFL
I can appreciate why companies would not want to be attached to politics in this way, or accused of influencing elections.

At the same time, as long as this person is consenting to this (which clearly seems to be the case), I don't think the developers did anything wrong (malum in se).

I suppose this is a use-case where people will turn to locally-run models.
To me that's just a function of industry maturity. I wouldn't be surprised if in the early days of the movie and recording industries people felt equally as bullish about their chances of making it. A century later things no longer feel as rosy.