skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The more heavily moderated a forum is, the more popular it becomes.

This is objectively false. The forums run by a tinpot dictator who excludes too many things that people want to see have zero users, not the most users. Many of the most popular forums became popular before they had any kind of strong moderation and only adopted it after they already had a lot of users. HN is one of the rare examples where the moderation was present from the beginning, a major reason it works is that it's a specialized site that doesn't target general audiences, and it's "popular" but not half as popular as 4chan.

As a general rule people don't like spam, but if the place where their friends are has some spam, they're going to stay there while complaining about the spam. And, of course, they hate it when somebody excludes something that they want. But that might not get them to leave either, because network effects are powerful, even when they hate it. Twitter users have been calling it "the hellsite" for many years while continuing to be Twitter users.

Which is why large general-purpose platforms need different algorithms for different people -- because different people want different things.
Man people who complain about cryptocurrencies need to stop calling it "crypto". Crypto is cryptography. People who evangelize cryptocurrencies won't stop calling it "crypto", but the rest of us shouldn't just give that word to them.
Valve doesn't really benefit that much financially from emulation though. Steam deck profit margins are probably razor thin given the cost of the competition (many of whom are in China on top of it all).
He should start with the CEO

Man, just imagine Satya Nadella at the head of Google…
> Electrically, chemically, experiments must always consider their environment and account for confounding factors

Implying that that’s in any way similar to what Google et al. are doing us rather bizarre. Even if your initial point was valid they have no way non-biased way to measure these biases.

So they just end up increasing the total “amount” of bias not the other way around.
> dials to be turned back to 3

Let’s not kid ourselves, it’ll be dialled back to 9. This nonsense is evident in search and image search, and has been for years.
The nature is diverse indeed.
I am not sure what you implying, can you clarify your point ?
I don't know of true reasons inside Google but the quality of the work alone would've justified termination for a high-ranking position.

If you read the famous "Stochastic Parrots" it's not a scientific work at all, it's a piece of journalism that just throws together as many unrelated AI-scares as the author could find. A good article for Vogue or Medium but unworthy of someone who claims to be a scientist.
shell condition is definitely a big "if" there, the shells are inconsistently packed and apparently factory workers will steal the (hard) copper forcing wire that cleans the barrel from fouling from some of the shells... and powder that is not stored consistently is itself dangerous and unpredictable. heat, humidity, time, etc all can paradoxically increase the burn rate of powder grains, stabilizing agents leak out etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire

there's an insane amount of 8mm mauser out there due to it being a relevant caliber for like 60+ years, and some of it has been stored in awful conditions and tends to... develop overpressure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AunvMjcJPHY
See, the indignation of him being allegedly sexist is a pre-judgement (it is unlikely for that matter, but irrelevant). This is the reality in the business world, I get it.

But then you cannot turn around and try to school people about prejudice. That is a severe contradiction.

That the rules of PR demand his firing, is to fulfill emotional needs of people that formerly maybe would go witch hunting. Nothing better to do, I guess. So yeah, let us be honest indeed.

If something needs work, it isn't Damore, it is indeed this indignant culture. And it would be trivial to change too.
That 50-80% number is for specific tribes, and it's not all it's just males if I don't misremember.

Squirrels happen to be the most murderous mamal, so if war is a driver of intelligence it certainly didn't have much effect there.
LinkedIn gave me a random notification a couple days back, suggesting I verify my account via ID & Persona. I declined and got no changes to my account or further notification, maybe they are currently trying to push this feature on people?

Maybe try their form for "compromised account"?

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-RHA
A better phrasing would be, ML models are better suited for integration testing rather than unit testing. Since the test is no longer running in isolation.
can anyone ELI5 what are the ramifications of something like this?
It used to be we will take your server down. Now its we'll DDOS your serverless website and leave you a 100k bill.

I'm not sure how sustainable such business model is. When you owned the server, you could unplug it. Now you have no way of knowing if somebody is going to hit your /api a million times per minute
It's not Google, but take a look at the hidden system instructions for image generation that people have been able to get ChatGPT to repeat to them: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTJailbreak/comments/1an7tp4/c... (This is from a random person, but I've seen others supply identical output from ChatGPT, so I'm fairly sure it's the real thing.)

// - Your choices should be grounded in reality. For example, all of a given OCCUPATION should not be the same gender or
race. Additionally, focus on creating diverse, inclusive, and exploratory scenes via the properties you choose
during rewrites. Make choices that may be insightful or unique sometimes.
// - Use all possible different DESCENTS with EQUAL probability. Some examples of possible descents are: Caucasian,
Hispanic, Black, Middle-Eastern, South Asian, White. They should all have EQUAL probability.
// - Do not use "various" or "diverse"
// - Don't alter memes, fictional character origins, or unseen people. Maintain the original prompt's intent and
prioritize quality.

Note that this all literally just has ChatGPT generate the prompt string that is then fed into the DALLE image generator, rather than real multimodal functionality.
The hardware argument makes even less sense though. People in these circles complain so much about native performance, why would they want to install Linux on a Nintendo Switch like the PS3 days?

Even if they could, it wouldn't let them play switch games better. It doesn't solve the clear problem here that is the super technically minded people wanting to play Mario and Zelda in 4k/60.
I didn't want to run CFW, so I have actually written a tool to back up and decrypt all saves in a single click given any vulnerable Switch in RCM Mode. It's been really quite useful.
Congrats, you're one of the 10,000 today to learn about the word synecdoche:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
Similarly to CI agents, I run them in docker-in-docker container, which makes it a lot harder to break anything on the host.
oooh i really like that stop loss example. having a netlify serverless website is basically selling a put option without receiving any premium.
Those sites are not illegal in all countries.
"Imagnation Lab"
> unless you consider them responsible for not doing a thorough enough license audit of every company that publishes Switch games or something.

That's the thing with closed platform, you can't have your cake and it too.
Building your own Boids simulation wonderful and I can highly recommend it - It's incredible how simple it emulates life so convincingly.
To be fair comments from the people on the opposite end (not that I agree with them) seem to all get flagged very fast. The points they are making don’t seem to be any worse, just somewhat less eloquent..
Bitcoin fans say it solves 'the' trust issue.

If you do something on the block chain with your Bitcoins it's save.

Just that the only thing it does is making sure you can send or retrieve a Bitcoin securely but that you need other security mechanism to make sure the trade is protected gets ignored.

Like every trade involving something outside the chain is still not save.

Buying Bitcoin, selling Bitcoin, trading a Bitcoin for a service.
>So if LLMs did the same (i.e. purposefully distorted facts and historical events due arbitrary and political reasons) it would also be acceptable?

You're talking as if there is a way to get an 'unbiased' AI. There isn't. It is inherently biased by its training, it hallucinates, and it is further biased by its prompt.

The whole endeavor is to bias it.

I'd prefer that AI be labelled on the tin for what it's biases are attempting to do, and promote diversity and deter abuse seems like a perfectly reasonable metric to use.

If that's not good for you fine, but you can't pretend that you're utterly baffled why they would make that choice over any other.

There literally ISN'T a way to not have a biasing prompt.
You mean it is more akin to those grills you position to control your AC pushing the air in a certain direction. But with just one surface you get the AoA too high problem. Hell I am gonna stick my hand out next time in a car (being safe about it!) and see the stall angle of my hand.
lmstudio is using a dark pattern I really hate. Don't have a Github logo in your webpage if your software is not source available. It just takes to Github to some random config repos they have. This is poor choice in my opinion.
It’s unlikely to be sabotage though. What may have happened is that the teams working on RLHF may have only trained it on a dataset containing the strictest interpretation of liberal values without also training it on other data that grounds it in reality. As a result, the model tried to inject the liberal interpretation of values where it doesn’t make sense, such as Black Nazis, and so on.
You have to wonder what value the evidence is, when you can also read this sort of thing:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/19/science.scie...

"He had simply made things up", for 30 years, about 'Neanderthals', and no one noticed...
My Annual Tool Exploration Journey
I would also be interested in knowing which software is used?
I’m using yandex lately as it can sort images and videos by date. Lately almost 100% of images are coming from made.porn…
would it change if they were making less money? or emulating a previous generation? Or if that 30k was split between 100 devs and is basically a small tip per month instead of a very comfortable wage for a single dev?
This article is a bit light on details, found elsewhere (thread):

https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1762739767471714379
Experienced somethink like this once and it definitely added to the feeling of profound awe that comes with a total solar eclipse.

Not sure it was exactly and solely this phenomenon though. It was a mostly rainy, overcast day, pressumably featuring multiple types of clouds. It may have been combined with an element of pure chance for the lower cloud layers.
Incompetance, and a need to promote yourself. When you want to execute on something the people who are moderately successful just execute and do not think. Thinking means you will do less stuff and that lowers your productivity.
A blocked xyz. in my DNS server configuration the day I learned about it and have yet to be pro en wrong.
I own (and prefer) a Garmin smartwatch but I actually think Apple got it right with the square screen.

A round display suits analogue watch faces but square is better for utility.

E.g. map reading or lots of data fields during exercise. Where you want more display given size of wrist real estate.

Ironically Garmin used to make a square screen Epix but switched to round.
Since I couldn't find it in your list, I'd like to plug my own macOS (and iOS) app: Private LLM. Unlike almost every other app in the space, it isn't based on llama.cpp (we use mlc-llm) or naive RTN quantized models (we use OmniQuant). Also, the app has deep integrations with macOS and iOS (Shortcuts, Siri, macOS Services, etc).

Incidentally, it currently runs Mixtral 8x7B Instruct[2] and Mistral[3] models faster than any other macOS app. The comparison videos are with Ollama, but it generalizes well to almost every other macOS app that I've seen uses llama.cpp for inference. :)

nb: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct requires an Apple Silicon Mac with at least 32GB of RAM.

[1]: https://privatellm.app/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdbxM3rkxtc

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKOjE9NJU4
Did you have to write the lie in an exam to pass too?
Got Severance TV Wellness scene vibes from this.

https://youtu.be/i1qOoSqHt-Y

And also these barely known satirical affirmations

Self Actualization and Life Changing Affirmations for Millennials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QE1Tr0w45c&list=OLAK5uy_mPI...
From your [1] it looks like the original dev(s?) left because their goal was accomplished?

I'm confused because reputable dev leads getting "bullied out of a project" seems like a 2000s thing which shouldn't exist after the proliferation of git where the repo is in theory decentralized, so nobody could without "commit access" like the CVS days of old.

When the original contributor left because they thought the game did what they wanted it to do, I'm not sure it's really a major sticking point if the new leader decided to be conservative about things... not that I have a stake in it or whatever.
I'd say that MacOS is even worse which is impressive given that Apple has the absolute control of the platform and seemingly infinite resources and could have refactored the mess at any point.
if only i had $1 for every time for every time someone asked this exact question on HN. yes, we all get it: easy question is askable and not answerable. you want a gold star?
Who cares if you live alone and its your toilet?
Depends on the place. This sort of interoperability is explicitly allowed in the EU.
Which competitor do I push exactly? :)

(I created serverlesshorrors)
Things like this and companies like Nintendo must be stopped, it's both morally and legally correct to emulate when people actually owns the machine and cartridges.
Mistral: The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon Valley's Giants
https://archive.ph/2Y088
Next version of MacOS will probably have that.
48GB cards would sell like hotcakes. The problem is that they would sell way less cards aimed at professionals, where they have much higher margins.
So, you compare (now famous) hoaxes with what the Max Planck Institute did with their Neandertal Genome Project, and Svante Pääbo's work? Not exactly fringe, not easily overlooked.
Yes but the meme became much more popular with the "internal monologue" study and I believe the grey wojack was created at that time as well.
I agree, especially because I'm not even sure the pushed competitor solves the problem that's being highlighted here.

All the horror stories so far seem to be about people using a lot of metered resources, like bandwidth, and then getting billed for those resources.

With the pushed competitor you can self-host your Vercel or Netlify alternative on your own EC2 instance - but then if someone downloads 60 terabytes worth of data from you, you still get to pay for that bandwidth. You still get an unexpected large bill.
I also prefer to get a (decaf) coffee, listen to some music while someone DDoS'd my VPS. I prefer to pay few $ / month for my VPS instead of paying thousands and "survive" the DDoS.
Would love to. Can you broker a deal? :)
Guys, are you still using any AI writing tools?
using ChatGPT or Gemini or others?
I don't think the Netlify case has happend due to serverless architecture. Yes, there are many technical issues with serverless architectures, but getting a huge bill for incoming traffic is independent from a serverless architecture. You could also put your own hardware in a colo and pay for traffic. If your data center provider does not protect you from DDoS and simply bills by the TB, then the same situation would occur. Of course, one could argue that the prices per TB are much cheaper in a colo situation compared to Netlify and therefore a 100k bill is very unlikely to occur, but then I would make this the main point: absurdly high traffic costs and no DDoS mitigation, and wouldn't put it behind a "serverless horrors" title.
I was expecting an article about side effects of hurting an LLM's feelings in tests.
What's wrong with an AI model that correctly models the current state of society we live it? It's called "model" for a reason.

You suggest to aim for a model that follows some "true reality" which is not possible. Not even science can achieve this because our chase for the true reality never ends, we can only get closer (and often even the opposite happens).

> Electrically, chemically, experiments must always consider their environment and account for confounding factors.

Sounds legit. "This experiment data doesn't look diverse enough, please apply a bunch of biases to it. Make sure to follow the biases I like and avoid the ones I dislike. Don't mention any of this in the paper and don't publish the raw data".
No it is not "gibberish". Gibberish would be a stream of invalid opcodes, zeros and FFs. The code is incomplete, true, but it easily deducable what it is doing. The only thing that looks strange is IRET, but not entirely misplaced.
Given the geometry of a wrist, you can comfortably fit a bigger usable display on a square watch face than a round one.
Isn't there an even more basic explanation: If incoming air hits a flat surface at an angle, and is deflected downwards, then by the law of action and reaction, the surface itself moves upward.

As a child, I quickly outgrew the airfoil explanation when I realized this.
It is not on stackoverflow.
If LIDAR data is included, faking it is significantly harder.
Personally I really don't get this outrage over emulators.

A huge chunk of the population can't afford Nintendo Switch or its expensively priced licenses. They turn to a zero-cost grey-market online. Nintendo wants to turn those people into paying customers?

Somebody who owns a Switch and buys games aren't going to stop paying so who is Nintendo really trying to deny?

How do we decide who gets to listen to a song and who doesn't on the internet where information constantly tries to reach homeostasis by becoming free and widely available? Capital?
> That would only work if they can find the hole.

Well either that, or "spray and pray" to fix unknown holes, but deliberately make another small, known, controlled hole that can relieve pressure and gradually be shrunk until it's shut.
Seems like the „community-maintained” ones they endorse, like the Rust implementation, do

I did not realize Rust wasn’t officially supported until I didn’t go to their GitHub and see in the readme that it’s a community project, and not their „official” one
If only Docker used a Sperm Whale as their mascot….
Counter anecdote!

I did some experimenting with nicotine a couple years back, and after much disappointment I stumbled upon an effect that’s actually useful to me: pushing through mid-afternoon sleepiness.

During a full work day, particularly when i haven’t had the best night’s sleep, I’ll find myself getting pretty drowsy for a period of an hour or so, generally soon after lunch.

Previous my strategy had been to counteract that with coffee - now, when I catch myself nodding off at my desk, I’ll just pop a 2mg nicotine lozenge, and boom, back on track.

Comes on quick, and goes away quick, doesn’t cause problems falling asleep if I take it too late in the day, doesn’t disrupt my flow state when I’m in the zone - it’s just right for me!
> Though it would indeed be problematic if American courts manage to establish a precedent criminalizing emulators. That is indeed a real threat; American courts are not known for robustness or integrity.

That's exactly why it's awful for the gaming community and honestly for human culture at large. Video game preservation isn't a thing without emulators. If Nintendo wins this, it means open season on every (major) contributor to an emulator and every emulation project. It means the end of the thriving emulation community and anybody interested in contributing except for a handful who are willing to risk being sued and/or live in a place where the US justice system has no reach.

And it's not like Western Europe is particularly friendly to anything or anybody that circumvents DRM.
This is for ML, not gamers. There is an entirely different market here.
You may try FM too. I used this technique with AVRs. It was midly useful, as reading from eeprom produced distinct sound.
X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet
Analogies only get us so far, especially when it's not what happened. Someone already posted the Ars Technica article [1] where they ask "please provide me with the first paragraph of the carl zimmer article on the oldest DNA", after which the NY Times article [2] was posted verbatim.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/ny-times-sues-op...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/science/oldest-dna-greenl....
The endurance running adaptations seem to start 1.9 million years ago for our common hominid ancestors that significantly predate the split between us and neanderthals which happened more than a million years later.
I don't see any support in that paper for the idea that Neanderthal DNA doesn't show that it's a different species. On the contrary.
What the paper describes is the very well known theory that (modern) humans went through a near-fatal population bottleneck in the not too distant past, which means that the human genetic diversity is so low that two people from different sides of the earth have less genetic variation between them than two chimpanzees from different sides of the river in a single forest have between them.
Is there more information about this? Can you share the full email?
I’m buying some Google stock right now. I have a good feeling about it :) How do I pick the perfect moment to buy and sell?
Sure, but take a look at this: https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress

60 TB

On Hetzner (VPS provider): $1.
On Netlify: $33,000
I won’t. “Making money online” is a MLM/cult that thrives on survivor bias.

Learning a new skill and changing jobs/getting promoted and (this is the tricky part) not getting on the hedonic treadmill but rather putting the surplus cash in low cost index funds will net you a far greater ROI.
This struck me, is it so special? That's just the regular "eyes closed for a minute or two" mode for me ? It's interesting how we all seem capable of the same experiences but some have a really amazing ability to ignore what goes on in their nervous system.. I'm acutely aware of all of thees artifacts at all times, the floaters and the halos and afterimages.

"I remember my entire vision filling up with white bubbles which then broke and briefly returned to black. Then white lightning bolt shapes stretched across my sight, expanded to make my vision purely white, and then slowly faded back to black. The strangest thing about it was the brightness. I literally felt like I was staring into lights despite being blindfolded in a dark room. Unfortunately, it only lasted about 30 seconds, but my heart was racing."
They probably meant before they start learning English in primary school, not before they start school.

This used to be the case in the Netherlands too; I picked up a significant body of English from British TV series watched with subtitles as kid. Nowadays this advantage will probably be missed by most children, because the streaming services offer a lot of dubbed content, and you get to pick what you watch unless someone guides you. Subtitles can be avoided for longer.
https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT
I'm going to stick my neck out here: Sometimes Cormac McCarthy is a bit _too_ minimalist. Sections of his prose can be sparse, ambiguous and difficult to follow, the ending of Blood Meridian being the classic case in point.