skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like articles like this. Because they taught me, a native Dutchman, that I should take similar articles about cultures I’m not familiar with, with a grain of salt as well.

Anyway, it’s a pity that today it wasn’t sunny while ice skating on my daily commute.
Brand fatigue and brand consistency (2021)
> I'm not sure how increasing CEO taxes helps Mozilla's position at all.

Who said it would? Though I may argue that it is not clear at all if you really get the best person for the job when you make them rich just by getting the job. Not saying that all the CEOs are here "just for the money", but... well if they are not here for the money, why do they get that kind of salaries?

> I feel like something has taken a left turn in this thread.

I feel like when people are talking about the salary of a CEO and whether they "earned it" or not, I am entitled to say that no human being can ever deserve that kind of salary. Just like a liberal could say "they don't deserve it because they did not please the shareholders that much".
Because previously, if a forum poster, website or chatbot refused to divulge information, you'd force them to?
Why would he? Is the US at war with Russia?
I expect memes not to be blatantly racist, particularly when they are attached to a technical article.
> Is there really no better way to do this than to have an entire second kernel
> ready to take over? Like a more specialized piece of code that only handles
> kernel coredumps?

So the requirements of this software are: It must be able to boot a system, write to the specific sections of memory, have some method of initializing hardware, some ability to write the other memory to disk or network connections. It sounds like you're talking about an OS.

I believe this is exactly what KDUMP does.
> Why doesn't Musk's Company just turn off the Starlink panels , you know operating in Russia, just like he did over Crimea?

I'm also sure they can distinguish between terminals used by ukrainians and russians on a front line that probably changes daily.
This is not a truck.

If your truck would have an extension cord going back to your factory so it can run and running the truck would be sanctioned, you could be blamed if you don't cut the cord.
They are also free to vote for a government that will protect their rights against egregious and plainly deceptive marketing practices, so they don't each have to do that stuff individually. Companies act as a collective enterprise, so can citizens.
It is nearly funny that when we got syntax code completion in the IDE, some people felt it was going to pervert the profession, with developer who don't know how to code and let the IDE complete the code for them. LLM are just tools and a lot of the code we write is far from being an expression of human brilliance, but far more often than not a redundant set instruction with some variations to get this or that API to work, and move data around. Honestly, to get some smart code generation that save us from soul crushing boilerplate is really useful. That's also why we have linters and other tools, to simply make our work more efficient.
> Let people fork and develop their own implementations

Then a fork gets made and if they improve it massively then half your users end up using it and the other half ends up bugging you to add the improvements into your version and it's no longer your project.

I mean I agree too it should be open source if the dev doesn't really update it anymore but I can also completely see why they wouldn't want to do that.
> like a cat command that can't concatenate files

Oh, that's a good counter-example to your own point: 99% of people who use cat don't care about this functionality.
Understanding Free Software
It would be very, very hard to come up with a lower effort comment than yours
It comes down to: What is the evaluation for? For a human using an engine to analyze, it is about getting to more win-likely positions. And for an engine, it really is the same; plus to guide the search. Having a perfect trinary win/draw/loss would certainly be the _truth_ about a position in some objective way, but it would almost certainly not be the optimal way to win chess games against a set opponent. 1. e4 and 1. h3 are almost certainly both draws with perfect play from both sides, but the former is much more likely to net a win, especially for a human using the engine.
It should use pointers, since normal index operations do bounds checking before memory access.
Do you even know what communism is? Or are you one of those people who calls everything that is on the left of the current US president "communism"?
Does it work with variable FPS videos now? Years ago i had issues geting audio and video to sync on videos made by smartphone which seemed to adaptively change FPS based on how much motion was in a scene. I needed to resample to constant FPS, which i was not happy about.
It isn't the usual way for an employee to depart a company. It is common in layoff situations, though.

Note: don't ever depart with public criticism, you have little to gain and potentially a lot to lose with the burned bridges.
Buffalo wings, white chocolate, spotted dick, monkey bread, impossible meat, and the worst: Kraft Parmesan (it’s actually saw dust, partly).
Just tried Gemini pro, the amount of ai alignment is astonishing. It sometimes skipped basic tasks because it found it to be unethical.

Also, it's response gets cut-off sometimes, giving me half the response. I guess asking it to continue solves it?

It's sad because I think the language model is actually way more powerful than this.
That's exactly what they have been doing since the start of the invasion, and that's how they explained the cut-off when Ukraine was using the Sea Babies for the first time. So either something changed, or the article's claims are bogus. Starlink definitely has the exact location and ID of every ground terminal and can easily refuse the connection.
Some plans have worldwide coverage.

I believe starlink is deliberately allowing the service to work in places without licensing [1], because they want to follow the precedent of other sat-phone and sat-TV operators who just have worldwide service without getting permission from every government first. (and in many cases don't have the ability to geoblock, because the signal beam covers entire continents)

[1]: https://www.itweb.co.za/article/icasa-takes-note-of-illegal-...
That's a crucial part of chess that can't simply be swept under the rug. If I had won all the winning positions I've had over the years I'd be hundreds of points higher rated.

What if a human only used Stockfish in winning positions? Is it cheating? Obviously it is.
All I want is Google glass without recording.
I don’t see how the US government investing in national security tech that seems likely to make the world a worse place is news, and more relevantly, I don’t understand the connection to the anti-woke criticism of the industry.

In this case Google’s bot won’t even answer “who won the 2020 US presidential election” so it’s at least a little centrist lol - I don't think the cultural marxists (supposedly) behind the green curtain would do that on purpose.

But also super likely I’m misunderstanding! I’m saying all this bc this is what I took away from that link, might be looking in the wrong spot:

Key areas of S&T’s AI research include computer vision for applications such as surveillance and screening systems and biometrics, and natural language processing for applications such as law enforcement and immigration services. Key use cases for AS include transportation (automotive, aerospace, maritime, and rail), utilities (water and wastewater, oil and gas, electric power, and telecommunications), and facility operations (security, energy management, environmental control, and safety).
Great. It would not create jokes about unsafe memory transfers. But after askign in Spanish I got this:

What does an attacker say to a developer after exploiting an insecure memory transfer?

"Thanks for the memory!"
And what’s that point of information control?

I’m not a law abiding citizen just because I don’t know how to commit crimes and I don’t believe anyone is.

It’s not lack of knowledge what’s stopping me from doing bad things and I don’t think people are all trying to do something bad but they can’t because they don’t know how.

This information control bs probably has nothing to do with the security.
The New Yorker

The Atlantic

Harper’s Bazaar

The Economist

Foreign Policy

Foreign Affairs

The New Republic

The Paris Review

The New Criterion
These need to stop being posted. These bots give different answers to the same questions constantly. There's not much definitive that can be gathered from these snippits.
Quite a privilege retirement is, enjoy it sir
Can’t this be fixed with “Advice is provided as is and we’re not responsible of your cat dies”?
Permutation City (1994)
If this is true, there can be sanctions.
Leaving guides? I imagine a pamphlet.

"We wish you well on your departure; as you embark on new adventures your about to open your eyes for the first time.

This may be a shock to some of you as you may discover that the world is more dystopian than you've may of seen from your altered reality mind-implants.

We would like to thank you for your service as a tool at the corporation."
Also the preference should actually describe it better

> Enable Sudo

> Enables the sudo command

If I were a scammer I could make up an acronym or something that sudo means and trick someone into turning this on because the toggle doesn't actually describe what it is so I can just weave my own narrative.
It's part of the master plan. Humans are not allowed to do fast memory copy shenanigans, only AI systems should be able to efficiently take control of hardware.
In the case of software I can still laugh and shrug my shoulders.

It scares me more that something like that will happen not only to software architecture questions.
How exactly do you use the LLM with multiple files? Do you copy them enterly into the prompt?
Crypto trading signals during last 24 hours with real-time updates.
Still, it's a tool made for another era. It would be sufficient to let it return one search result at a time, or complete specified group aliases, in order to work for groupware clients. Applications mostly needs to authenticate a specific user.

The ability to walk the tree is something else. Just like we don't allow zone transfers for dns anymore, there should have been similar best practice changes to ldap if people just gave it some love.
I think it is even easier right now for companies to self host an inference server with basic rag support:

- get a Mac Mini or Mac Studio
- just run ollama serve,
- run ollama web-ui in docker
- add some coding assitant model from ollamahub with the web-ui
- upload your documents in the web-ui

No code needed, you have your self hosted LLM with basic RAG giving you answers with your documents in context.
For us the deepseek coder 33b model is fast enough on a Mac Studio with 64gb ram and can give pretty good suggestions based on our internal coding documentation.
Ask HN: How to get presentation slots at vendor events?
Figured getting on stage at vendor events would help with upcoming eng hiring push and even funding perhaps. We are pre-seed but are pushing the limits with some vendor tech/using it in ways they might find creative... just not at massive scale.

- Is getting on the ticket at big vendor events possible as a pre-seed?

- Considering we're not big enough to have CS or Account Manager, should I just reach out to their marketing?

- Welcome any tips from those who have done this?

Thanks
They did the popular Xserve, and the AWS before. They did A/UX, AIX (by IBM, of course), MkLinux and even Xenix (on the Lisa) way before OS/X. There was even a version of Netware for Mac.
What they don't have anymore are the _enterprise_ sales and support channels.
Book: "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden
"The topic is about the past, present, and future of money, and why the current financial system is letting a lot of people down lately.

My goal for the book is for the reader to walk away with a deep understanding of money and monetary history, both in terms of theoretical foundations and practical implications."
To clarify - did you mean Mixtral (8x)7b, or Mistral 7b?
Agree. Given their license agreements, it should even specify something like "rent for at least x years", x being a number of years compatible with their own license agreement. If they have a 1 year agreement with the copyright holders, x can’t be greater than 1.

Transparency is the only way to make sure there’s no bullshit for the customer. Also maybe they would need to adjust prices, as they’re no way I’m gonna pay full price for a 1 year license (which is effectively what I’m paying for).

Maybe it’s hard to sell, but it’s the truth
how can we be sure that this is indeed a system prompt and not a some sort
of hallucination?

it looks believable, but most of the ChatGPT4 stuff looks believable, which doesn't make it true.
> cultural marxists

What is a cultural Marxist? I know what a Marxist is. I don’t know what a cultural Marxist is.
What provision does DCMA have, if any, for removing DRM when a copyright expires?
Applied Behavioural Science Series – Mere Exposure
Scarcity of attention is one thing. It is complemented by scarcity of
commitment. The digital world gives the illusion that everything is
possible and easy. In such a world, why bother to do anything?

Over the years I also noticed students getting ever more abstracted
into wishful thinking. They hugely underestimate research and
development. Proposals are filled with the word "just... ". On
realising that something is difficult, they recoil and abandon the
whole project.

Although the article talks about the hubris of planning over multiple
lifetimes, we have more serious and immediate problems of getting
people to plan over mere weeks or days. Everything seems to be making
that worse, "AI" in particular.
I guess this argument also makes mushrooms ok to eat. Perfect.

In fact, there is/was even a mushroom burial death suit. https://grist.org/living/mushroom-burial-suit-turns-dead-bod...
With reproducible builds you get to challenge the binaries provided by your distribution. See <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...> for an example.
The Strategic Use of Repeated Exposure and the Phenomenon of Familiarity
This is probably slightly irrational, but it pains me to see how many slide rules go unsold at auction sites, and probably end up being thrown away. Admittedly, most of these are school rules of which there are thirteen in a dozen, but I see a fair number of nice ones as well. The collector in me wants to buy them all, but the rational Pinus says that I already have a few, and unlike the gentleman in the article, I do not wish to fill my home with slide rules...

To put a programming angle on things: Using a slide rule feels a bit like assembly-language programming on something like the Z80. Since operations can only take their input from certain places, and only leave their output at certain places, you need to try to arrange things so that any intermediate results are in a place where they can be used as input for the next step.
C is a much simpler language, so it's far easier to reason about the semantics of "unsafe" code.

For example: Rust has destructors (Drop trait) that run automatically when a value goes out of scope or is overwritten. If memory for a struct with a Drop trait is manually allocated (and initialized with garbage) and it is assigned to, the `drop()` method will run for the previous value of it which will cause undefined behavior.

That's just one feature: Rust also has references, tagged unions, virtual method calls (&dyn Trait), move semantics, `Pin<T>`, closures, async/await, and many more, all of which make it harder to reason about safety without the guardrails provided by the language for regular, "safe" code—for which barring a compiler bug it is actually _impossible_ to shoot yourself in the foot like this.

This is actually why it's so incredibly hard to write C++ code that is provably correct: It has even more features that could cause problems than Rust, and is _always_ in "unsafe" mode, with no guardrails.
I was expecting the NASA link to be a somewhat usable experience but it's... perhaps not for someone who just wants a weather prediction. The map is blank unless you add some layers, and I just spent "too long" failing to find anything useful. There are layers with data from 1987. maybe I need to use this on a desktop browser.
Korean shipbuilder joins maritime Molten Chloride Fast Reactor project
Why would you need a coprocessor or hardware multiply? It's all tiles and sprites just like Super Mario Brothers. Ok, on the Spectrum software emulated, but still.

Tower rotation is achieved by scrolling (well, rolling really) 8x8 character bitmaps at varying rates. It gives a very convincing 3D-rotation illusion, while being nothing like it at all.
> and if progress isn't as fast as the planner expects, feed current progress info back to the planner (pages scanned, tuples matching), and replan with that new data.

That would require keeping track of those stats in every query execution. That has a price that may or may not be worth it.

And yes, you could make that behavior an option, but, for better or for worse, PostgreSQL tends to be opposed to having queries indicate how it should do its work.
Can't we just get a generic disclaimer on the login page that displays once and dispense with all this AI Safety nonsense on every single interaction with the model?

"As a condition of using this model, I accept that it may generate factually incorrect information and should not be relied upon for medical advice or anything else where there is a significant risk of harm or financial loss. I also understand that it may provide information on engaging in potentially dangerous activities or that some may find offensive. I agree to hold XYZ Corporation harmless for all outputs of this model."
it's not that simple

export and re-export laws, especially from the US, are extremely complicated
Here we are talking about regulations even if we agree or not. Answering your question: if your truck is specially considered under those regulations the answer is yes.

For example, we had a customer from Malaysia who was in jail in US because he sold normal hardware devices bought in USA to Iran and that is banned.
I believe it's a modern update of Cultural Bolshevism, an old Nazi term for Jewish influence on German culture, movies, etc. It was coined or popularised by Anders Breivik in his manifesto.
Don't forget -0.
Do Starlink not have to follow Ukrainian radio laws within 2014 or at least 2022 Ukrainian territories?

If they have to, wouldn’t they be required to reject authentications from terminals not tied to payment account for Ukraine or US DoD, if not by law at this point, like starting yesterday by Ukrainian Presidential order?
Top search result is from Gartner: alarm bells ringing. Data loss prevention seems to be enterprise speak for doing as much intrusive monitoring you can do, in as neutral speak as possible.

1984 is so appealing for so many people, it seems like it is just a book about the tendencies that power can take when it is not guided by sane principles. I have always been employed in a high trust capacity since I was a young adult, there is not a technically feasible system in the world that could prevent me from wrecking havoc in a company. Social ones though, they are extremely effective.
If made a law it would make such negligence illegal. You may try to launder the responsibility, but at the end of the day you would be on the hook as the copyright owner. You might have legal contracts that your servicing contractors might break, allowing you to pin the blame back to them, but this would all be making it a business problem rather than a person problem.
If you use TypeScript and Thunk, it’s no more work than writing your own state management code on plain JS/TS objects. But you get all the advantages of Redux (dev tools, introspection, replayability, easy persistence and tab sync, etc).
Florian Scheck's textbooks in the Springer Graduate Texts in Physics series could also serve as a bridge. Though very challenging for the non-mathematician I've grown quite fond of "Mechanics: From Newton's laws to Deterministic Chaos" and plan to read the other Scheck books in the series as well.
Capitalist does what Capitalists do, and...there's outrage???

Musk and his ilk have no loyality to X or Y or Z. Their loyalty is to capital. This is the foundation of globalization.

What part of this isn't understood?

Hate the game, not the players.
I think that’s ok from the perspective of the discussion at hand because we are still talking about an actual human’s terrible decision having their name attached to it. I think the system used to deny care being comically broken is a wholly different issue.
I tried that, but failed to get the GPU split working. Do you have a link on how to do that?
From the paper:

If Stockfish detects a mate-in-k (e.g., 3 or 5) it outputs k and not a centipawn score. We map all such outputs to the maximal value bin (i.e., a win percentage of 100%). Similarly, in a very strong position, several actions may end up in the maximum value bin. Thus, across time-steps this can lead to our agent playing somewhat randomly, rather than committing to one plan that finishes the game quickly (the agent has no knowledge of its past moves). This creates the paradoxical situation that our bot, despite being in a position of overwhelming win percentage, fails to take the (virtually) guaranteed win and might draw or even end up losing since small chances of a mistake accumulate with longer games (see Figure 4). To prevent some of these situations, we check whether the predicted scores for all top five moves lie above a win percentage of 99% and double-check this condition with Stockfish, and if so, use Stockfish’s top move (out of these) to have consistency in strategy across time-steps.

So they freely admit that their thing will draw or even lose in these positions. It's not merely making the win a little cleaner.
I disabled JIT after it became default for our installation (~1TB data). Nice try, useful sometimes, but as a default? No, thanks.
Turns out my failure to install last time was due to thinking that the instructions on the python library blog post were complete installation instructions for the whole thing.

> pip install ollama

- https://ollama.ai/blog/python-javascript-libraries

is just the python libraries, not ollama itself, which the libraries need, and without which they will just…

> httpx.ConnectError: [Errno 61] Connection refused

Install the main app from the big friendly download button, and this problem fixed itself: https://ollama.ai/download
I dunno when I run standup I am just as passive as when I'm part of it. I just prompt people to speak and then zone out if its not useful like every time.
> Their accounts would periodically go green when he logged in as them.

The new dystopia will be when an LLM steps in to reply like them.
"Freespira" looks very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Sure, but "The spice must flow" specifically as a slogan is an iconic phrase original to the movie.

It would be nice if it could be surreptitiously slipped into the new one somehow, as a tip of the hat to Lynch.
I think another way to think about it is to allow 'long planning' queries. I.e. where it is allowed to spend a second, or maybe a few seconds choosing the best plan. That may involve collecting more statistics or running a query for a little bit.
If it's not ready for everyone, probably it shouldn't have been made a default, don't you think?