skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the company responds that they don't know how to vet the tool?

After all, we're still not 100% sure how LLMs make their decisions in what they string together as output, so the company's not _technically_ lying.
Gemini is the only one that does this.
> if we would have been much more morally advanced by now if it hadn't been for religion.

Kind of an unanswerable question, but I think my tentative answer is "not really." Mostly because the moral viewpoints that underly atheistic criticisms of (usually Christian) religion tend to themselves be derived from earlier Christian ideas. I don't think it's likely that we'd have a universalist sense of democracy/human life without the underlying Christian soul concept. The Romans, for example, had no qualms about human life being divided into "valuable" and "not valuable" groups.

You could use the criticisms of someone like Nietzsche against Christianity and say we'd be more advanced without it, but I don't think this is probably the type of "advanced" that most people today would have it mind.
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Because otherwise stuff like this happens, and you get (rightfully) upset customers:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/12/google-ra...
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58462511

Also people are using LLMs to learn (horrifying but reality), it would be unresponsible for them to let it to propagate negative stereotypes and biases.
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1760078920135872716

There are some great ones in the replies.

I really hope this is just the result of system prompts and they didn't permanently gimp the model with DEI-focused RLHF.
No I do not agree with you. Majority of people never read their message history, want their messages to self-detruct and don't want to get into a situation like when a new partner reads chat history with all previous partners.

Majority of people do not record their conversations and do not need this.

And most messaging applications are designed countrary to what people need - they preserve history specially for that curious new partner. Or maybe for a marketing department to analyze user's interests.
Seems hugged. Look forward to looking at it when the site is back up - I want this exact sort of thing.
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> We all know that Google thinks that saying that 1800s English kings were white is "harmful".

If you know how to make "1800s english kings" show up as white 100% of the time without also making "kings" show up as white 100% of the time, maybe you should apply to Google? Clearly you must have advanced knowledge on how to perfectly remove bias from training distributions if you casually throw stones like this.
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In 18 months we'll see articles about how these major companies are experiencing the second great resignation!
Does anyone else find the prominence of sports betting in this app…odd?

I know sports betting has become a bigger and bigger part of watching sports. But as an activity that can become harmful to certain people, I find it very un-Apple like to have prioritized this information in what is otherwise a fairly mediocre app when compared to, say, ESPN.
Drivers have not gotten more dangerous because of all those things though - they have stayed the same. (Larger cars are more dangerous - but this is about drivers)

We should be training drivers more, but I don't know how to get nearly every adult to agree to spend several weeks a year in a classroom.
Human rights (like privacy) are fundamental and not cultural, racial etc.

Obviously.
>"Starlark (formerly known as Skylark) is a language intended for use as a configuration language. It was designed for the Bazel build system, but may be useful for other projects as well."

[...]

>"Design Principles

Deterministic evaluation. Executing the same code twice will give the same results.

Hermetic execution. Execution cannot access the file system, network, system clock.

This sounds like Starlark has purposes, intent and capabilites very similar/analogous/comparable to the Nix Programming Language:

https://zero-to-nix.com/concepts/nix-language

>"Nix is a pure, functional, lazy, declarative, and reproducible [aka "deterministic"] programming language."

Starlark is used for Bazel, which is used for builds...

Nix is used for builds and to build the entirety of NixOS operating system itself...

Both are deterministic (and thus lead to reproducible builds).

So they seem to have the same purposes and intent...

It could be argued that Nix is functional whereas Starlark (apparently based on Python which is not a functional programming language) doesn't appear to be, but aside from this nuance, both would seem to implement the same general purpose and intent...

Related:

"A glimpse of the design of Skylark"

https://blog.bazel.build/2017/03/21/design-of-skylark.html

Now, I am not clear if the Nix programming language is paralellizable, or could be made paralellizable...

>"One special feature of Skylark is how it handles parallelism. In Bazel, a large build require the evaluation of hundreds of BUILD files, so we have to load them in parallel. Each BUILD file may use any number of extensions, and those extensions might need other files as well. This means that we end up with a graph of dependencies.

Bazel first evaluates the leaves of this graph (i.e. the files that have no dependencies) in parallel. It will load the other files as soon as their dependencies have been loaded, which means the evaluation of BUILD and .bzl files is interleaved."

I wonder if the Nix programming language does this (can parallelize builds, which requires special dependency graph walking) -- or could be made to do something like this in the future...
The problem with rule of law is that it's like a very sloppy program that relies heavily on global variables. Whether it's the constitution or any of the million codes they all have implicit assumptions or vague language that requires a certain cultural or ethical baseline to interpret properly. Just the 2nd amendment is already a plenty popular example.
Typst is likely in a place of needing to convince journals to adopt first. Most of the audience for TeX/LaTeX/etc. are academics. I've noticed a curious pattern in the corporate world of the end product dictating tool usage backwards, even if it isn't best.

For example, I've been in plenty of meetings where an individual will open Outlook or PowerPoint to take notes because deliveries tend to be presentations or emails. Nothing requires this, of course, but the fixed format tends to reach backwards and influence the choice other tools.

As a result, I imagine that note-takers in an academic setting will continue to use LaTeX for notes until the end product can be submitted in something else.
Now this is clean living right here
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By a full 2 years and 4 months.
Resolved in 7 minutes flat! Must have been an easy issue to identify and fix.
> just trading

When Americans understand stockbuybacks should be illegal, that the entire stock market is a game played by monsters, then maybe, maybe you'll fix your shit
It also led to things like easy small claims court, consumer protection agencies and DPOs which protect consumers against corporations here in Europe without them having to shell out thousands of euros for lawyers and court cases.
Yeah, the integration links currently send you into the product. We are planning on adding an integrations page to the website in the very near future though so you can see the info without needing to sign up first. Just haven't gotten to it yet.

We're also planning to continue adding more integrations over time so more of your work can be logged automatically- we talk about this a bit more in some other comments here. It does take time and effort to get (and keep) those functioning though and half the time we make an integration it gets less usage than you might expect. Still, we're always interested in learning about more tools that our users would find value in integrating.
> A username on Signal (unlike a profile name) must be unique and must have two or more numbers at the end of it; a choice intended to help keep usernames egalitarian and minimize spoofing.

Interesting choice. I’m guessing most people might just use the last two digits from their birth year, to make it easy to remember.
Nice work. You seem to have addressed some of the challenges that arise in teaching computers to speak.

This blog breaks it down well:

https://www.papercup.com/blog/realistic-synthetic-voices
Which is ridiculous
Three of those browsers are just Chromium reskins, how are they supporting Chrome but not them?
Do you know of any FOSS alternatives that handle that stuff better (specifically binary asset handling and permissions)?
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Just saw the recent launch HN post with an embedded video, I guess this is a new feature?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453402
Unambiguously, yes.

To elaborate a bit, that's effectively what happens in a natural-language-only LLM. Text tokens are immediately mapped to wide embeddings, which are processed by a transformer, producing another embedding, which is decoded back to a discrete token. To a first approximation, unified multimodal models substitute f: text -> [embedding] with g: image -> [embedding,] and act on a sequence like [*f(t), *g(i), ...]. So... the multimodal model maps text/image parts to wide embeddings, which are processed by a transformer producing another embedding, which is decoded back to a discrete text/image part. Which sounds somewhat similar to the former :).

Of course the function g is a bit more complicated, and decoding takes more work, but the underlying machinery is unchanged. The ability to handle multi-modal inputs/outputs uniformly is exactly what's so exciting about work like this!
Because you would choose someone else for things that really matter to you, probably the same person you would chose in that kind of scenario anyway.
Eg. for my initial llc where I was single employee, I didn't care about my accounting basically saying in the contract "we ll do our best but can't be liable for anything", whereas now that I have bigger llc with many employees I picked (what I perceived) the best option on the market, for a premium price. They take the liability for their work and have insurance.
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Most immigrants to Norway are white.
https://youtube.com/shorts/WLCxzvKJniQ?si=RVf9vuAmsA2NiGFZ
Try comparing that pwa to the native app and you'll soon find that most navigation ends up with quasi browser bars that obstruct the UI and slow the experience down.

Apple surely does this on purpose to prevent PWAs from being useful. Can't let any App store competition arise.
Amazing how many hateful people require others to suffer just as they did.
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When you see these failures, it becomes apparent that LLMs just are really good auto complete engines.

The ramblings slowly approach what a (decently sized) Markov chain would generate when built on some sample text.

It will be interesting debugging this crap in future apps.
Maybe in the UK or US, not in the parts of the EU where I have lived, in Sweden there would probably be some serious discomfort if an employer put up cameras to record office workers
I don't know if it's necessarily going to be the case, but I do think one can look at contemporary society and see that certain groups with "rigid" ethical systems are prevailing over those that don't. Economically, sometimes, but even moreso in a reproductive sense. I'm thinking of groups like the Mormons, Amish, Orthodox Jews, and so forth.
Dude. I was just listening to my taxi driver tell me about how the UN helped him escape from war at 14 and got him to this country (Norway) where he’s been able to have a decent life. I’m not sure you know what you’re talking about.
> Nowadays, I would rather look at Laravel with Livewire and Alpine.js if you want something Rails-esque. PHP is godawful though.

Why wouldn't you look at Phoenix LiveView, which inspired Laravel's Livewire, then? Elixir also gives you some other advantages you likely haven't encountered before if you haven't worked with Erlang or Akka.
Society largely finds marijuana use acceptable, and yet it remains a federal crime. When someone cuts me in line at the store, I don't see that as ethical or acceptable, but we don't have laws against it. So your argument that unacceptable == illegal isn't set in stone.

We may have laws for things that we don't bother to enforce as a society. It's easy to see the possibility that society just views car theft as a normal occurrence ("insurance will cover it"), or perhaps too burdensome to enforce, and therefore society just accepts some amount of it without blinking an eye.
law:

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Boy I just can't stop thinking about that weekend when Sam got booted from OpenAI, and Anthropic turned down the offer to acquire OpenAI. If I were CEO of Anthropic, I would have had one job that weekend.

I am very curious about Anthropic's strategy right now; they launched with "More progressive and careful about AI risks," which in my opinion is a good AI worker recruiting strategy, but not a good commercial strategy, or even a good quality strategy, based on Claude's current state.

They have done some outstanding research this year -- in particular, I loved their work on tracking conceptual bundles through different layers, and I'd say their paper on embedding adversarial behavior in LLMs was my favorite paper of the year -- But, I'd like to see that research turn into more capable models.

As I write this, I wonder what I'd do if I were in charge there. I think I'd probably try and one-up Mistral, and release larger more capable models more quickly. I'd try and buy Groq and build a custom vertically integrated stack that's 5x faster in tokens/s; worst case Amazon could help with the acquisition and deploy Grok into AWS. Basically the moat would be deployed tokens/s at or above certain levels of quality. I'd stop running anything but my own models on Groq hardware.

There are two next-gen directions for inference in the cloud, high quality multi-modal foundation models, which are definitely coming, but also clearly need some UI work to get into a compelling product format, and very long context length models, so I guess I'd possibly be trying to leapfrog there. It's highly competitive in the model space right now, so a model-only strategy isn't good.

Alternatively, I could sit back and relax and let AWS pimp Claude while we just scaled it up to 250k tokens and used MoE to get non-exponential scaling / possibly explore an SSM / Mamba architecture, and not worry too much since we have 4bn in the bank. I wouldn't be surprised if that latter path is the one they're on, sadly.
The problem isn't the million people with flippers, the problem is the million+ people profiting in an industry that produces defective products like cars that are trivial to steal.

People sign contracts to buy very expensive automobiles because they reasonably believe that they are safe and secure to own and operate.

If car manufacturers are selling a product that they know to be unsafe and they're not telling prospective buyers that and that's fraud.
Might be an interesting exercise to see why some people get 5477, and you're getting 5,620:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7466429/generate-a-list-...
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Yes, I agree there are problems with LLM (hallucinations, persona, etc), and that's exciting because that means room for improvement and opportunities. I know many people who are working hard in that field trying to make LLM converse better.

For example
- "hallucinations / LLMs confabulate": techniques like RAG can help
- "Language is so smooth that you often need the expertise to catch them in it", fine-tuning and prompt engineering can help
It was already working years ago and they deliberately broke it
Reading the dog food response is incredibly fascinating. It's like a second-order phoneticization of Chaucer's English but through a "Talk Like a Pirate" filter.

"Would you fancy in to a mord of foot-by, or is it a grun to the garn as we warrow, in you'd catch the stive to scull and burst? Maybe a couple or in a sew, nere of pleas and sup, but we've the mill for won, and it's as threwn as the blee, and roun to the yive, e'er idled"

I am really wondering what they are feeding this machine, or how they're tweaking it, to get this sort of poetry out of it. Listen to the rhythm of that language! It's pure music. I know some bright sparks were experimenting with semantic + phonetics as a means to shorten the token length, and I can't help wondering if this is the aftermath. Semantic technology wins again!
This isn't a new business idea. There are law firms that specialize in consumer class action suits, and part of their skillset is finding lots of wronged consumers to represent.

Signing up homeless people by the hundred isn't exactly the gold standard of what these firms do, but it's not a million miles removed.
If so, there may be a business opportunity here...
I was surprised when the bar wasn’t already full with my “Hi” opening. There’s probably little that makes me more anxious than the perspective of time-consuming handshake protocols with people you don’t really want to hear cause they needy or demanding. Most of the times you see my single-checkmark is because there’s `HELLO` with no subject.
SMRs feel like a much worse target from what I understand.

I'm no expert, but my understanding

1) SMRs are typically designed to be walk-away safe. Their smaller capacity means its harder for them to go critical in a spectacular way. [0]

2) Distributed targets are hard to respond to, but they're also hard to hit in an impactful way. Instead of having to hit one giant nuclear plant which supplies an entire regions energy, you have to hit many much smaller targets which supply much less energy.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2018/01/24/can-we-ma...
Eh if you live in Aus construction gives tech a run for its money. Work everywhere, you can walk on-site and get >35p/hr with little to no experience. If your ticketed it's more like 80 per hour. Get yourself a abn a shovel and a drill and your off to the races.

NDIS work also pays similar to construction.

You will struggle to find tech wages that match that for the majority of available work. Techs over saturated with employees and as software improves you need less workers to do more IT work erryday. Meanwhile it still takes the same amount of workers to lay a slab or stand a house frame as it did 20 years ago.
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Well if it doesn't have that one singular job, you're admitting it shouldn't exist. Monopolies are illegal, Google shouldn't exist. Neither should Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Having massive marketing apparatuses that are larger than your company shouldn't be legal. Leave it to Americans to fully profiteer lies, marketing, and propaganda.
“Support” means “actively testing and fixing bugs”

This news doesn’t mean that it just will stop working in Firefox, it’s just that they don’t test and they don’t care.
I suspect many Germans have varying personal interpretations (not being German). However, StackOverflow has a question/answer [1] where the most general answer is "right or freedom as in Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung being 'freedom of speech'".

Otherwise, tends to represent "the encompassing scope of all laws" vs "the interactions of a single law."

The "the spirit of the law" tends to be more like: "what did we believe the law was supposed to do vs what does it actually result in if you're a rules lawyer."

Games have a lot of that with little oversight, legal laws tend to get publicly challenged. We made a rule where all the miniatures have to stand in squares, except now all anybody does is abuse the facing and distance rules.

[1] https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/30384/what-s-the-...
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Just wanted to say, thanks for the link to pure... I've been thinking a lot recently about languages based on term rewriting and hadn't seen it somehow.
Should be up now (it's a static site behind Cloudflare)
I agree that people are bad at estimating risk, but I would also argue that the reason many people live long enough to become cancer victims is because of this freaking out.
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It's been a few years of this all over SV with the pivot from "classic web 2" B2C by default for...close to decade now?
Parsing computer languages is an entirely self-inflicted problem. You can easily design a language so it doesn't require any parsing techniques that were not known and practical in 1965, and it will greatly benefit the readability also.
Not all burnout is the fault of the employer but I'd be willing to bet a paycheck the majority of burnout is caused by your "reward" for hard work being more work and fewer resources as opposed to increased pay and/or advancement.

Hard not to see the pattern emerging here..."burnout the employee", "subject them to invasive monitoring", "fire them/force them out because they have mental health issues revealed by said invasive monitoring","hire a replacement at a lower salary".
The regular SMS/MMS feature was removed and for good reason. Many people cried about it but it was the right call. Messages would not be E2EE and people could easily think all messages sent through Signal are safe when they weren't.
And: “first recorded footage” might not be an accurate title either.
I am paying for premium and with each month yt experience is worse and worse
Obviously Deno have vested interest here (and so do I as the founder of Svix[1] which is mentioned in the post), but my take is that webhooks are great, though there are alternatives that could be better or complementary depending on the situation.

They bring up a few good points about the shortcomings of webhooks, many of these we are trying to improve for the whole ecosystem (e.g. with Standard Webhooks[2]), or solve in Svix directly including running JS instead of sending webhooks which we already support (using Deno, which is great!). It is very useful, but there are many limitations with this approach, and in general oftentimes people just want the data passed to their systems and deal with it there. Not write a bit of JS in the browser to do something ad-hoc. So running JS is nice, but it's not a silver bullet. This is also why we don't support WASM, because in most cases it's just not that useful.

So in short, like always with software engineering: "it depends" and there are tradeoffs to each approach.

1: https://www.svix.com

2: https://www.standardwebhooks.com/
Totally! Fun times.

A friend and I used the "www.example.com/~username" webspace that came w/ our dialup accounts to make our own "site" with "experiments" inspired by this one around the same time. (Nothing involving fire, sadly.) We borrowed heavily from the tone. We even tried to make use of gratuitous initialisms, too.