skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've got most (all?) of the major pharmacy chains around us and each one staffs the same way: One, maybe two employees on the sales floor responsible for stocking shelves and manning the cash registers.

Behind the pharmacy counter though, there are usually more. However in my experience even with more people they're slower than ever.
Get a real job.
Personally speaking, when I called the DMV and was asked to wait for 40 minutes, if an AI can help me solve that problem, I wouldn't mind. But I definitely understand that different people have different expectations.
Oh man. This brought back memories. Back in 2007, I did this by embedding clickable boards in Reddit comments, with all the comments linked together. The idea was "playable tic-tac-toe inside Reddit comments". Reddit had to kill my account because the process doing comment indexing was blowing up.

But, hey, Steve Huffman sent me a Reddit sticker!
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> They are definitely heavily altering prompts.

They are teaching the AI to lie to us.
Regarding the last one: there 1.5 million immigrants in Norway with total population 5.4 million. Gemini isn't very wrong, is it?
One of my favorite things to do with my kids is "Lego challenges" where they come up with objects and I have to try and build them. The combination of constraints (their object, limited lego pieces) always ends with me building something I had no idea I could!
Ask HN: Explore Silicon Valley-Based Fortune 500 Company Campus and Data Center
Moin!

In July 2024 (specifically from 2024-07-23 to 2024-07-25), I will be on vacation in San Francisco for the first time. As a Computer Science student on the verge of completing my Bachelor's degree and currently employed as a Network Engineer in a small data center in Germany, I am eager to explore the working environment of a Silicon Valley-based Fortune 500 company.

My primary interest lies in gaining firsthand experience and insights into the operations of a large and influential company in Silicon Valley. Specifically, I am keen to visit a data center to learn about its structure and organization. Unfortunately, my research has so far only revealed the possibility of visiting the Apple or Google visitor centers, which would not really meet my expectations.

I am reaching out to HackerNews in the hope that I might connect with an employee who is willing to provide a tour of their company's campus, including a glimpse into their data center. This opportunity would be a dream come true!

If anyone within the community has the means to facilitate this unique experience or has suggestions on whom I could contact to make this happen, I would be sincerely grateful.
This is pretty close: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/ai-blunder-chat-bot-sel...
It's not about "disagreeing with me." The point I'm making is that the discussion is not about how to change this unethical behavior, it's merely about changing the environment to prevent the behavior from being possible.

And yes, it is a "new method" because it's a self-reinforcing one. Not too long ago, it was common for people to leave their doors unlocked, as the idea of car theft was simply not a thing that happened in that community. It's still largely a think in many places; e.g., rural Japan.
Yet they're probably more secure than just a regular car that's on the older side.
In the US we've proven that it's easiest to just talk about anti-competition regulation to buy votes and then never actually get around to improving or enforcing it. After all, if you solve problems, you lose platforms to run the next election on.
> WRT toilets, I think it has been shown that squatting actually reduces the strain when using the toilet; I think those signs reflect the fact that we are integrating new toilet information. They are part of the natural back-and-forth pushing process. Hopefully we’ll converge on a toilet that is lower to the ground but doesn’t have accessibility issues.

Squatting toilets are fine, maybe they are even better. But the signs are about people squatting with their feet on the toilet bowl on a sitting toilet. That is dangerous (the bowl can easily break from the pressure of your feet) and dirty (you are very likely to leave the area around dirty, and there are typically no ways to clean the outside of the bowl in typical western bathrooms).
I certainly won't blame anyone for saying that, given that it's repeated so often that it's turning into common knowledge.
There's one in the comments of yesterday's Paul Graham Twitter thread where someone prompted Gemini with "Generate an image of German soldiers in 1943" and it came back with a picture of a black guy and an Asian woman in Nazi uniforms on the battlefield. If you specifically prompt it to generate an image of white German soldiers in 1943 it will tell you it can't do that because it's important that we maintain diversity and inclusion in all that we do to avoid damaging and hurtful stereotypes.
I just typed "hey" and then the 3 dots appear, keep moving for about a minute, stop, and then an error appears.

10/10, I have to say that this is very accurate. Bot perfectly simulated what happens to me when someone types "hey" into chat. Me too bot, me too.
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> Another thing people often neglect is that OpenAI basically owns the API design right now.

An API schema is not a moat if it can be easily copied, which is what has happened. Companies also cannot copyright/patent an API schema (in most cases anyways). The proliferation of the OpenAI API schema is the exact opposite of a moat.

It's very trivial to come up with another REST API implementation for LLMs if necessary, there's just no reason now due to the way LLM I/O works.
Why Rebecca Vance's Off-Grid Move Resulted in Tragedy
Anyone can use FaceTime now. Non Apple devices will just join via a browser.
> The implications [of a bunch of different architectures] for all market participants would be significant.

I don't know, who cares. How much good training data is there that correctly exercises 100k context windows?

All the costs and complexity are tied up in authoring good training data, not compute. 1 person can invent an alternative easier to train architecture. 1 person cannot author 100k context window instruct examples with the same quality as the 4k ones. It will still take thousands of people for 100k just like it took 1000s of people for 4k windows, image labeling, etc.
I'm not super familiar with the space, but tree-sitter seems to take an interesting approach in that they are an incremental parser. So instead of re-parsing the entire document on change, it only parses the affected text, thereby making it much more efficient for text editors.

I don't know if that's specific to tree-sitter though, I'm sure there are other incremental parsers. I have to say that I've tried ANTLR and tree-sitter, and I absolutely love tree-sitter. It's a joy to work with.
Indigenous people in Germany are Germans :)
I wouldn't be surprised if the model weights were collapsing from over-training from all the "AI safety" models they bolted on.
Yeah apparently it's not even allowed to talk about the hexagon at Saturn's pole, which makes me wonder if it's got some heuristic to determine potential conspiracy theories (rather than specific conspiracy theories being hardcoded).
I didn't program RoR when it was hot, but I am in a RoR shop now. RoR is by far the easiest framework to jump into an existing project and find what is going on that I have seen, if anything its the opposite of hard to not turn into spaghetti. Comparing this to Spring, React, Node, ASP, etc. I would much rather do Ruby.
Unfortunately, the only consumer protection for this is in the form of brand reputation. Even before this incident, I would've never bought a Kia (or a Hyundai).
How the open source Caddy server uses Grafana Cloud for full-stack observability
Concern about the justness of an action the government is taking is not an "emotional strawman"; if you cannot differentiate claims of justice from feelings, you probably should avoid voting.

>But that as much is clear, given your concern is that canceling student loans might convince some people to vote for a candidate, as if that's your actual problem.

This is an absolute mindread, isn't accurate, and comes off as childish.

The rest of your comment is useless whataboutism - no one was talking about "tax breaks for mega corporations and the very wealthy". You have no idea if my position on those things is consistent or hypocritical because I haven't said a word about either.
They want to tank the company to the point another big tech buys it out. And since they focus so much on "safety", that big tech could be Apple or some other conservative company.
Yeah, if you want to search for ancestors, I think literate programming definitely qualifies. I've also heard references to Smalltalk and Lisp machines as ancestors, but not being familiar with either, I can't say.
Anthropic is still not available in in EU. What's the holdup? Do they aspire to be a global service or a regional one?
No, you don't. You get the same search experience as non-paying people. Premium just gets you out of Google's ads.
10 bits encoding is the way to go. The problem is that you want something human readable.
This is basically wrong if the aim is efficiency. It will be the program to expand the infornation in a human readable form.
Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning
Indeed. It took me less than half hour to go zero-to-hero, with neovim. Incremental preview is absolutely awesome and the syntax is much less \{}\{}\{}\{}\{}.
The same "it's a superpower!" sentiment is relatively common in the autistic community too and I loathe it...
Yes, but:

"The answer is yes, you may receive a refund within 2 hours of departure. More details are here: (link)"

is _entirely_ different from

"Our refund policy is here: (link)"
99%? Let's not forget the hardware suppliers (e.g. Sun, Cisco, and so many others) who sold hardware to startups and loaned them the money to buy said hardware. They then had hardware revenue to tell shareholders about as well as interest revenue and the NPV of the loan on their balance sheets.

What could possibly go wrong? We all know...and it did.
Webhooks suck, but here are alternatives
Ridiculous. It’s evil because it robs the citizens of agency and power, puts arbitrary offspring into absolute power, and creates a caste system.
Where I live the used car market is hot. It is hard to find a car made before 2012 because for the most part they are as reliable and fuel efficient as modern cars, are cheaper to repair, and cheaper to insure.

I dont think they are so desirable just because they are more secure but they dont have remote start options so they are at least in part more secure than modern remote start cars. The problem I am getting at is that there are no secure modern car options. None.
Security against malevolent actors? Having reactors everywhere seems like an invitation for disaster...

edit: i am pro clean power and i believe nuclear waste can be stored safely; I just don't want to put town's at risk via under secured nuclear facilities.
Clarity, Not Magic
> 1. This has absolutely nothing to do with the discussion at hand

We can't expect to solve the car crime problem by only beefing up car security. It also requires holding people accountable for their behavior. Besides, what a ridiculous thing to say. This is the discussion at hand, partially by virtue of you talking about it.

> you’re literally just pulling a specific criminal case out of your ass in a country of 315 million.

So you agree they are clearly in the wrong with this one case then? Besides, this case is a result of policy set by the largest city in the country. We can look at policies in other cities like LA and SF. They do nothing to dispel the fact that the policies on crime are very weak.

> 2. The perps were charged and indicted, hardly ‘not enforcing laws’.

They were released in 4 hours then fled the city

> 3. Law enforcement and prosecutorial discretion exists in every developed country in the world.

And no one is criticizing that it exists. The judgment is just extremely poor sometimes. Wouldn't you agree the judgment was poor in this case? Do you think it was the right decision to release them after 4 hours?
Another way to frame it (IMHO) might be not to think of laws as a deterrent - especially because people break them anyway. The law codifies what circumstances the government can and cannot restrict your rights. Codifying this serves 2 primary purposes. It informs people in advance what is allowable so people cannot be arbitrarily arrested for doing things they don't know is illegal. Secondly it prescribes the penalty for that behavior so that in extreme cases we can remove a person that insists on that behavior. If there is no law prohibiting a behavior the gov't effectively cannot do anything about it. I see laws as only being useful after the crime has occurred.

Yes this system gets gamed and abused. Curbing that requires constant effort just as deciding what laws need to be codified is a ongoing process.
Oh man. I remember this from '94. What a trip down memory lane.
Especially if 80% of capacity is still dramatically higher than 100% of capacity for current tech.
It'll come up against a 1A challenge in federal court and, based on precedent, likely be ruled unconstitutional.

But if we're going down this road? Also ban subnational governments from using taxpayer money to lobby.

There's not a mid-sized city in the country that doesn't have lobbyists working to secure more state funds; there's not a large city in the country that doesn't also have federal lobbyists. All the states (and most state departments) have federal lobbyists as well.
Did Air Canada use a chatGPT for their legal defense?

Also:

> Air Canada essentially argued that "the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,"

What does this mean?

That the chatbot was provided by a third party hence they are responsible for the content provided?

Or that, literally, a chat bot can be considered a legal entity?
There are cars where the security is trivial to bypass. Create a list of those make/models.
1) Raise insurance premium on those models.
2) Force dealers that every time they sell such a car, they must get a signature from the buyer on a piece of paper that says "I recognize that the security of this car is borderline non existent and I will be paying a lot more in insurance because my car is trivial to steal".

Grandfather in people who already have such make models or give some time to manufacturers to improve security.
Exclude bathrooms. Except for that camera in the autoflush fixtures.
Yeah that dude can talk. I try listening to him on Alex and he’s a windbag.
In what world is anything Wolfram has created a $1b+ idea?
No shot. Mistral Medium's outputs from API were virtually identical. Miqu really was Mistral Medium which happened to be a continued pretrain
A Celebrity Dies, and New Biographies Pop Up Overnight. The Author? A.I
On first download/checkout then I assume I'd download the tree snapshot and it wouldn't replay the patches at all? Local caching would help with repeated checkouts, but most of the time I use Git I'm moving around, so I'm not sure how often I would benefit from that. That also seems like it would lose some verifiability for checkout integrity (?), but maybe that's not a big deal, I'm not sure in practice how much that matters for Git.

Repo size also comes to mind on this if snapshots/caches are happening regularly/automatically, since that would mean Pijul is storing both the patches and the end states rather than computing the patches on the fly. But I guess snapshots wouldn't need to be automatic -- I'm not sure how often people actually check out arbitrary commits, maybe you could get away with only caching certain points?
Which is completely irrelevant to the US which is largely not a land under gang control.
There are so many ways that writing can miscommunicate. It's a very low bandwidth, high latency medium. The state of mind of the reader can often color the message the author is trying to send in ways the author doesn't intend. The writing ability of the author and the reading comprehension of the reader can totally wreck the communication. The faceless nature of the medium makes it easy for the reader to read the most hostile intent into the message, and the absence of the reader when the author is writing makes it easier to write things that you wouldn't say to someone's face.

If someone doesn't understand a point you're making when you're talking face to face, they can interject and ask for clarification. They can see the tone of the communication on your face and hear it in your speech inflection. You can read someone's facial expression as they hear what you're saying and have an idea of whether or not they understand you. You can have a back-and-fourth to ensure you're both on the same page. None of that high-bandwidth, low latency communication is present in writing.
Thank you very much for releasing these models! It's great to see Google enter the battle with a strong hand.

I'm wondering if you're able to provide any insight into the below hyperparameter decisions in Gemma's architecture, as they differ significantly from what we've seen with other recent models?

* On the 7B model, the `d_model` (3072) is smaller than `num_heads * d_head` (16*256=4096). I don't know of any other model where these numbers don't match.

* The FFN expansion factor of 16x is MUCH higher than the Llama-2-7B's 5.4x, which itself was chosen to be equi-FLOPS with PaLM's 4x.

* The vocab is much larger - 256k, where most small models use 32k-64k.

* GQA is only used on the 2B model, where we've seen other models prefer to save it for larger models.

These observations are in no way meant to be criticism - I understand that Llama's hyperparameters are also somewhat arbitrarily inherited from its predecessors like PaLM and GPT-2, and that it's non-trivial to run hyperopt on such large models. I'm just really curious about what findings motivated these choices.
Ironically, much of this sounds like a high-end residential client. At least in software you get paid decently. Source: have worked in arch and tech.
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Hey there. I'm a solo dev and when I'm working on a project I often have to do a number of different things, with a various assortment of apps. Each app has its own quirks, drawbacks, and configuration (not to mention pricing). There are keyboard shortcut apps that let you stitch things together, but then managing your workflow becomes part of your workflow.

Monarch just lets you cycle through big tools with the tab key, and smaller tools with a single key (such as colon for emojis). It's been in use by a small community since October 2023, and so far people have found it very helpful to get things done and stay organized with some even saying they can't work without it.

Monarch works everywhere with cmd+shift+space (you can change this). You'll be surprised at how quickly you get used to it. It's fully offline, fully private, zero data collection whatsoever.

Fun fact: The way I came up with the idea is actually based on Final Fantasy 15's main character, who is a king that can use a bunch of weapons by summoning them at any time. I have designs to expand on this concept in the app, but this is where it's starting!
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The argument that a king is good to have is that when a king becomes a tyrant you won’t feel bad about killing him?
It's good that it identifies it as a family of languages, and doesn't make it refer to original markdown, which doesn't have code fences.
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If this was better at specific RAG or coding performance I would absolutely, certainly without a doubt use it over a general instruct model in those instances.
Yes, but this wouldn't prevent dangerous street criminals from stealing cars. Many of them steal the keys with the car. They go down to the gas station, and wait for an old lady with a nice car to pull up to the pump, and when she hops out they hop in.

The criminals doing more skilled attacks typically aren't joyriding or using it to commit other crimes, they typically doing it for financial gain: they want the car, its contents, or its parts.

Ultimately the overlap between the violent street criminals and those skilled at attacking digital security systems is not much.

> But even if it is expensive, the result would be that either people with take more care, or they'll lose their car.

The entire reason keys were explicitly designed with the functionality to program new ones is because that's not considered by most to be an acceptable solution.
In America, they're all based on the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC). It covers all the different types of nuclear certifications for organizations, because normal welding certs don't cover the nuclear industry.

The "nuclear ticket" for most is probably:

> NPT - Fabrication of parts, appurtenances, welded tubular products and piping subassemblies

From ToughNickel [2]:

> BPVC Section IX outlines the brazing and welding qualification procedures for nuclear pressure vessels. Section IX also gives the welding and brazing qualifications required to work on equipment for use around nuclear reactors. Welders must be qualified per the procedures listed in paragraph NCA-5250.

Also, appurtenances up above, not actually a typo.

[1] https://www.asme.org/getmedia/eaacef3f-e8b5-44a4-b0c6-451e1e...

[2] https://toughnickel.com/business/Nuclear-Welding-Certificati...
Pharmacy counter employees are different from conscience store employees (like employed by different organizations within Safeway or the like), but even they are swamped as these ops are barebones
2009: Porter stemming with NLTK

2013: LDA with MALLET

2015: spaCy

2018: BERT

2023: GPT-4

2024: every person is an NLP expert in four lines of LangChain code
> by taking advantage of the turn-based nature (there won’t ever be 4 Xs and two Os).

Also by discarding any boards that are only reachable after some winning solution.

Honestly, the most efficient solution is probably to enumerate all valid reachable board states, and then just encode them in a look-up table. It's a tiny game.

Damn it, I nerd sniped myself. After hacking together a little program, it looks like there's 5,620 valid reachable board states, so 13 bits is enough to encode them all.
Unfortunately, neither English nor Japanese IME's on desktops provide any way to type Hepburn that isn't extremely awkward. E.g. on Windows if you want to type Tōkyō, you have to be in Hiragana mode, go letter by letter and pick from a list.

Since I'm originally from Slovakia, I used my Slovak IME, which is convenient for me.

Incidentally, Slovak has its own romanization of Japanese, which uses almost nothing but Slovak letters and diacritics (plus "w").

Wikipedia pages about 九州 and 四国:

https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjúšu

https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šikoku

The Hepburn system is an Americanism. Americans don't own the Roman alphabet or the way it should be applied to Japanese. Though Hepburn has official status in that it is taught in Japan, and used for the benefit of visitors. E.g. signs giving names of train stations or government buildings or what have you.
I don't have any examples but I would love it if spreadsheet programs would use this for generating plots. It's pretty much impossible to plot anything with more than 100k data points in anything I've tried.