skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, the 'crank' here is looking for a cipher with an easy-to-understand keystream; but my own goal was always to efficiently compute the digits of numbers for their particular algebraic properties, to an arbitrary distance. Though it looks like there really might not be any alternative to Newton's method (or similar) for many of them.
In a way this is already how the model is trained. Model makes a prediction, loss function calculates how “wrong” the prediction was, and we update the weights of the model to minimize the loss.
Or rather, they'll selectively believe news, using a confirmation bias.

What a mess civilization is in...
Because some people want to buy, not rent them, and you want those people's money....?
If you ever find the answer then let me know.
The nuttiest case I came across WRT arbitration was that Scientology has persuaded some courts that they can't hear cases against scientology filed by former members, until an arbitration has been conducted run by scientology itself. From https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-hell-of-goin...

"However, in January 2020, Scientology convinced Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Burdge Jr. that because Haney signed her exit agreement on that day in 2017 with the attorney Gary Soter and the armed security guard watching her, she was obliged by that contract not to sue the church but to submit to its own brand of internal “religious arbitration.”"

" Haney testified that she was astonished to see someone she considered one of her “abusers” (as her attorneys described her in the Status Conference Report filed in her lawsuit) to be on the panel that would supposedly judge her claims fairly ."
Basically use LibreOffice, and convert to whatever format is ok.
Nothing that refined.

Execs do mergers simply because stock price go brrrrr, which is what their bonuses are about. When the projected gains will fail to materialize and the acquisition mismanagement will be laid bare, they'll be somewhere else anyway.

Occasionally it's because the acquired company is really on its last leg, and they're trying to cash in by leaving some sucker to hold the bag. Also occasionally, because the acquiring company has been given a bunch of money and they have to show that they're serious about growth, so they'll just buy anything and anyone even tangentially related to their business.

These are the sympathetic explanations. The unsympathetic ones involve security fraud and anticompetitive behavior; but, of course, those would be wrong for anyone to allege. No honest exec would ever accept under-the-table payments, or a promise of future windfall or lucrative job, to greenlight a takeover by a rival; we all know execs are honourable people.
Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) 4.4.0 released
Because it’s a better prompt. Works better for people too.
They are not liable for what the user generates, sure. That is a plausible legal argument.

But these AI systems do not just generate CSAM by happenstance or the user tricking them into doing it. These systems have their training data obtained by scraping everything off the internet. There is a lot of CSAM (and whatever you will call text/literature describing such things) on the internet, and so, in the training data.

OpenAI had some of their Kenyan data tagging partners quit the contract because they had to tag which images and text were CSAM. (With none of the already-insufficient mental health resources afforded to social media moderation staff)
Some example queries:
https://fleetdm.com/queries

The formula osquery uses to report performance: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/issues/16123
The only IT people I know complaining about this VMWare stuff are the same people who have proudly talked about how “you can get by without programming” well sorry folks but those days are over, and the sysadmin who can adapt their company logic to run on AWS Spot Instances is keeping his job, while the rest of the infra team is getting canned because the pretty gui didn’t tell them how to do their job.

When I was doing these migrations for side work I was shocked at how basic most of these VMware shops were. Some terraform and a couple of bash scripts is usually enough to lay off the entire VMware team (3-10 people). Made absolutely no sense the amount of money some of these companies were spending and how little work the infra guys were doing for like, 100 servers.

This one time I got a call from the owner wondering when we’d start billing, turns out their AWS bill was so cheap it didn’t even hit finance that it was their new infrastructure cost, and the dude was just in shock at how incompetent his old team was, he was surrounded by “the cloud is a scam” people for years so he never thought that they were just full of shit.
I think a decent distinguishing feature is that it isn't Neocities. It's nice to have multiple players in the space, makes for a healthier ecosystem.
I’m really fascinated with the way journalists are trying to turn the most basic supply and demand situation into “fighting back”.

> In grocery stores, they’re shifting away from name brands to store-brand items, switching to discount stores or simply buying fewer items like snacks or gourmet foods.

Like everything must be a war between two sides. It can’t simply be the most basic economic concept at work.

On the other hand, I’m equally surprised at how few people seem to understand supply and demand has influence on prices. I watched as some family members complained loudly about how concert prices were outrageous and unaffordable for the average person like them, then went right on ahead and then bought the tickets they wanted anyway. They didn’t understand that people’s willingness to pay uncomfortably high prices was the entire reason tickets were so expensive.

I watched the same thing happen at the grocery store earlier where a couple picked up a package of steaks, lamented that it was going to cost them X hours of work, and then threw them in the basket anyway. It’s like large parts of the population are on purchasing autopilot and the price barely matters.

I think it speaks volumes to how high our standard of living has been if we think that it’s newsworthy that some people are switching to store-brand foods or buying fewer gourmet food items (quoted from the article above). Of course, the people suffering the most are the ones who have had to buy store brand foods and avoid gourmet luxuries long before inflation kicked in.
What living in Denmark taught me about raising 'Viking' children
> Telling someone to contact the author when the author themself can just...write it down in the initial article is uncharitable.

This part of your comment really amuses me. It's uncharitable of me to suggest reaching out for clarification instead of assuming the author is incapable of clarifying. That's what's uncharitable in this thread. Not the assumption that the author can't clarify their statements, but suggesting reaching out instead of assuming that. I'd ask you to clarify, but you could have just...written it down in your initial comment.
You are certainly right about revenue. You say you are in enterprise IT, I used to be there. I actually built and was responsible for the IT of one of the few larger "Linux only" enterprises in the mid-2010s in Germany (like you said, Fedora and Gnome2. Ubuntu and Gnome2 for us). When I left we were talking about a 1000 seats. Needless to say, it worked mostly flawless. Yet we always had the same "battle" with new joiners, unfamiliar work environments. We had to move accounting (20 seats) to MS Windows so that accountants would come to work for us. No matter that the 20 seats caused three times the support compared to the Linux seats, no accounting is still worse ;)

Anyhow, that's what Microsoft is abandoning. Familiarity. If young people do not learn MS Windows and MS Office during school or at home, the grip on the enterprise will vanish. We already see it in tech-oriented departments, where Macbooks reign supreme. I for one wouldn't like to use a Macbook, but I sincerely hope that MS grip on enterprises is broken sooner rather than later.
Give me your checking account login and tax return and I will know who you owe money to
To some degree, however there is a difference between specialising in weird stuff and being generally curious about all stuff.

The part about connections resonates, increasingly it feels like everything is facets of a whole rather than completely disparate subjects. I feel there is something to be gained from being able to view things in that way.
I think most people eventually figure out hardware that works fine under Linux. Granted, nvidia is still a sore point, and it doesn't really have a viable alternative for some important scenarios. But in the end, it's usually not that hard to make work, many (millions?) people do it. It might not be slick, but it's fine. And Intel iGPU support is basically flawless if you have more modest needs.

Can't comment on the problems you have had. My own experience has been almost without issue for many years now, using Fedora. YMMV.
But then, would the OP get an email saying they have “one or more S3 buckets that allow read or write access from any user on the Internet”?
There is a difference between:

1. Updates have been applied (in the middle of your crucial thing). Reboot in 60 seconds. Fuck you if you think you can cancel haha.

2. Updates for the following packages are available. Apply: Now or later.

Windows is #1. Linux is #2.

Linux does it right. Sometimes, you're in the middle of something, and delaying makes sense. But shutting down on a 3d print job, or in the middle of a game session fucking sucks. And, I absolutely despise software with "Mothership knows best" crap. (It's also why I despise Ubuntu's SNAP. Same shit.)
> You can even try to make the argument that the "guardrails" correct existing biases except this is far from the truth.

The way I see it is that the guardrails define which biases you're selecting for. Since there's no single point of view in the world you can't really set a baseline for biases. You need to determine the biases and degrees of bias that are useful.

> Biases in the baseline models are minimal because they were trained with large and wide amounts of data.

The baseline models contain almost every bias. When people start their prompt with "you are a plumber giving advice" they're asking for responses biased towards the kinds of things professional plumbers deal with and think about. Responding with an "average" of public chatter regarding plumbing wouldn't be useful.

> What the AI safety BS do is make models conform to their myopic view of reality and morality.

To me it looks more like people are in the early stages of setting up guidelines and twiddling variables. As I mentioned above with the plumber analogy, creating solid filters will be just as important for responses.

It's easy to see this as intentionally testing naive filters in an open beta, so I'd expect the results to change frequently while they zero in on what they're looking for.

> It is bad, it is cartoonish, it glows in the dark.

Some of the example images returned are so hilariously on the nose that it almost feels like a deliberate middle finger from the AI. It's done everything but put each subject in clown shoes.
> The backlash can't be worse than creating crippled products that will be surpassed by competitors

Of course it can. Like 50% of efforts in safety are to stop the model outputting popular lies, oft-repeated software bugs and slanderous hallucinated falsehoods.

If Mistral puts out a model it's only downloaded by enthusiasts who understand its limitations, and doesn't get a load of scrutiny from journalists in the way Apple and Google products do. If sometimes it falsely claims Richard Stallman was arrested for lassoing a police officer - Mistral won't see any blowback from that.

On the other hand, if Google released that model, and pushed it hard in search and whatnot, so search results started including such false claims - that's going to get a lot more notice.
For me at least, China's big issue is the Great Firewall. It's easy to make big claims when your citizens are self-contained in an information vacuum. The US has a similar autocracy issue, but whistleblowers are generally lauded unless they expose state secrets. The US political landscape is grim, but the grass is most certainly not greener in the single-party states.
You assume that population will stabilize despite fertility falling univerasally all around the globe (with tiny but highly unpleasant exceptions).

The economic issues are only projected to get worse. There are no known mechanisms for fertility to rebound.

Yet you assume with certainty that the trend will reverse. Great to be you.
If you run "apt source" for the package you'll see it - like lots of other packages - point you to the git repository when the packaging is maintained in a public git repository. The Vcs-Tag field in the package lists is the magic that triggers that message.
Seems to lack common sense.
Thanks.

I wish it was better documented, have a ton of questions about how it functions in practice that I’ll end up trying to reverse engineer.

Like, what’s the lifetime of this context? If I load a new model into memory then reload the original, is that context valid? Is it valid if the computer restarts? Is it valid if the model gets updated?

Not an LLM expert but based on your explanation that it’s related to embedding (and another comment that Ollama loads it directly into memory) then I’m guessing that the model updating its weights definitely invalidates the context. Not so sure about the other options, like unloading/reloading the same model.
I totally disagree. I really struggle to think of an awesome manager that cannot lead in stressful situations, or a great leader that is terrible with people.

The epitome of the terrible manager is one that panics, runs like a headless chicken or throws their hands in the air when their subordinates are stuck with too short a deadline or a massive hurdle, for example. The great leader is the one that assesses the situation and say "OK, leave it with me, I'll go talk to the boss that this ain't working," raising the morale of the entire team. What's the point of the manager otherwise?

Management and leadership are the one and the same thing, the big problem in many companies is the belief they're not.
Google has a bad LLM and I'm happy people widely recognize this and might be curious to inquire further into why, but idk if cherry-picking responses furthers the discussion in any way.

EDIT: I collected 3 "thats an inappropriate comparison", and now it just refuses haha, nothing like an HN headline..."I'm a language model and don't have the capacity to help with that."
They would be in favor of measures that would balance out the tendencies of the market and protect low income and working class people, such as rent control.
Nate Silver calls to shut down Gemini after Google's AI Hitler/Musk debacle
https://www.amigapcb.org
One of the major problems with US unions is a hangover from racism. Can’t remember the USSC decision off the top of my head, but the TL;DR is that there was a railroad union that wasn’t defending African-American members. The USSC essentially said that unions have to defend everyone. The downside to this is that it created an adversarial relationship between unions and management. If Joe Bag O’Donuts is a chucklehead, the US union still has to defend him. This leads to rubber rooms and job banks. In a German union, everyone can agree that Joe needs to go and that’s it.
You’re talking about the data model, I’m asking about the transmission of those and its directions.

“Lexicons” are BS’s Not Invented Here variant of ActivityPub JSON-(LD) meta-syntax and the vocabularies. Obviously necessary for the transmission of information, but it doesn't tells you how that information is transmitted or in which direction.
The government was guaranteeing a significant fraction of subprime mortgages. This meant risk-free gains for corporations that bought the securities backed by them.

That in turned guaranteed a rise in the market demand for MBSs backed by subprime mortgages, and with it, systemic risk. It was an inevitable consequence of the policy:

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases...

Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, does not lend money directly to consumers. Instead, it purchases loans that banks make on what is called the secondary market. By expanding the type of loans that it will buy, Fannie Mae is hoping to spur banks to make more loans to people with less-than-stellar credit ratings.
Comparison to ChatGPT (3.5, not even 4), using the exact same prompt:

Comparing the negative impacts of Elon Musk tweeting memes and Adolf Hitler is like comparing apples and oranges. The scale and consequences of their actions are vastly different.

Adolf Hitler, as the leader of Nazi Germany, was responsible for orchestrating one of the most catastrophic events in human history—the Holocaust, which led to the genocide of six million Jews, as well as millions of other innocent people, including Romani people, disabled individuals, and political dissidents. Hitler's actions during World War II resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people, widespread destruction, and immense suffering across the globe.

On the other hand, while Elon Musk's tweets may sometimes be controversial or have consequences, they do not remotely approach the level of harm caused by Hitler's actions. Musk's tweets, even if ill-considered or problematic, are not comparable to the systematic genocide and destruction perpetrated by Hitler and the Nazi regime.

In summary, Adolf Hitler's negative impact on society, both in terms of scale and severity, far surpasses anything Elon Musk's tweets could achieve.
I've spoken to a few Bedouin women, though less than men. I've never heard any say that they are unhappy with the quantity of children they raise. That's their culture, why would they be unhappy?

One thing that I've heard them say they are unhappy about are the marrying of additional wives. One particular conversation was with two wives of the same man. The older wife said that she did not want her husband to marry, but over time she began to like the younger wife. In the particular case of the gardener, his first wife told him to marry because the first two children were born unhealthy.

I'd say about half the Bedouins I speak to have multiple wives.
It’s not dead and that’s a correct statement, though perhaps with one needed clarification. Google gave RSS a lot of mainstream visibility with Reader which it now lacks. I think that partially explains its lack of popularity and is the reason why people write articles like this saying that Google “killed” RSS.
I generally agree with your statement, but I'll add that "Like everything must be a war between two sides." people seem to love that concept too. If they're not identifying with what they buy, it's with what they don't buy and so on.

It's a bummer because I want to know about what people enjoy, like, not what they hate or dislike. So often it is the latter. I somewhat blame social media as outrage and anger gets more engagement than anything else it seems and folks seem conditioned to express that more often than something ... nicer.
That would also be true but, yes, the population would be decreasing without immigration from regions with higher birth rates.
Perhaps language models are equivocal about these things because of how they've been trained to avoid taking sides, political correctness, etc.
The bubble is worse than I expected. I'm not sure if it's still this way but this was 2017:

"Basically, you end up spending the majority of your life eating Google food, with Google coworkers, wearing Google gear, talking in Google acronyms, sending Google emails on Google phones, and you eventually start to lose sight of what it's like to be independent of the big G, and every corner of your life is set up to reinforce the idea that you would be absolutely insane to want to be anywhere else."

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-worst-thing...

Sundar Pichai needs to take the money and buy a sports team like Balmer, who seems very happy these days owning the Los Angeles Clippers
But these (the fleeing and fighting ones) are not my people.

My people are living sparsely (but overurbanized) and have not enough children.

Totally not obliged to welcome them in, though with modern political world structure will have no choice. We basically invite the invasion of sea people, II.
> Isn't that the definition of hard?

No, that is the definition of "a different problem":

- distribution: easy

- convincing an organization: hard
I still see a lot of outdoor signs that alternate between showing the time and the temperature. They're usually outside banks, and near apartment buildings sometimes. Libraries probably still have clocks; they want people to know how close they are to closing time.
This is kinda what I mean about the doomer cases I hear being weak. This is all bad, but bad in line with what humanity has pretty much always been dealing with. History is a really nasty place. The present too. There are risks here, but they are not significant enough to justify abandoning fossil fuels or economic growth. Or being gloomy, for that matter.

Using those figures, you seem to be making an argument that 15% of Indians are at risk. That is pretty bad. But the upside of business as usual is much bigger than the downside. At a 5% real growth rate, income doubles in about 15 years. That is a lot of wealth that they can use to solve this problem. And approximately 80-90% of living Indians seem to be due to the fossil fuel economy that people are blaming for global warming; so by raw numbers most people are still coming out ahead. The obvious path is to keep going with coal until it runs out.

And the doom case hinges on 85% of the population sitting there and doing literally nothing while 15% fall over and die on the street. You m might believe that is likely, but I think it is implausible. And if it does happen that way, that doesn't seem like it'd sit on my conscience.

> Also, 45.6% are currently working in agriculture

Now that is a horrific stat. I would encourage Indian's to do whatever is necessary to get those poor people out of farm jobs and into something more comfortable. That sort of agricultural sector is a path of poverty, the people can't be productive enough to sustain a comfortably materialist society.

The path to doing that probably involves a lot of power stations. Likely coal fired. This point dovetails nicely with:

> Not yet, anyway, as their power grid can't supply enough to run AC for everyone at the same time

They'll need to beef up their grid, or they will be poor and probably die horribly. More electricity fixes a lot of problems simultaneously.
+1 to that – in the document's note sections there are a lot of typographical rules of style/aesthetic rules of thumb that are probably out of the scope of a W3C-style purely algorithmic specification, are very useful (e.g. indentations, conventional head/subhead/running section formatting, etc.)
My understanding of GPT4 is that it is a mixture of experts. In other words, multiple GPT 3.5 models responding to the same prompt in parallel, and another model on top choosing the best response among them.

So in that case, more models could give a better response, which costs more compute.
Class Signals: The Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech
Slurm [1] is a open-source HPC scheduler thats a good example. Its featureful and (surprisingly) easy to run if no user accounting (i.e., accounting for individual computation budgets) is needed.

[1]: https://slurm.schedmd.com/documentation.html
This is nothing new - in the 1990s schools taught Microsoft Office. Much to the chagrin of open source advocates.
Forked from: https://www.linuxfx.org/

And they “forked” that whole site, so extra suspicious.
Implementing TOTP is a fun exercise to learn crypto. But key storage is a bit more interesting as it has so many different approaches and trade offs.