skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea the idea that the computers can truly think by mimicking our language really well doesn't make sense.

But the algorithms are black box to me, so maybe there is some kind of launch pad to AGI within it
> I'm just wondering, why hasn't a SBC-based alternative popped up yet?

I actually did that as a part of Google Summer of Code: https://github.com/LibraryBox-Dev/alexandria

The goal was to make LibraryBox, but with just a little more frontend and a little more flexibility. It had a lot of the earliest things: Simple wifi support, and was built to enable you to add services like Gopher, maybe Gemini, IRC, etc.

In the end, there was not quite enough interest. Jason moved up in the ranks of the then Berkman Kline center, 2018 became a very touchy time for things.

You can easily run Alexandria, which at its core is a very basic directory browser, the admin panel can be turned off. I wanted to add the ability to upload & expand archives of files, but couldn't find a good way to do that at the time.
That's exactly the old good european far-left. Lookup e.g. RAF.
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Here's what appears to be the group's own communique about the attack:

https://kontrapolis.info/12465/

Google Translate of the beginning:

We sabotaged Tesla today. Because Tesla in Grünau eats up earth, resources, people, labor and spits out 6,000 SUVs, killing machines and monster trucks per week. Our gift for March 8th is to shut down Tesla.
Because the complete destruction of the Gigafactory and with it the sawing off of “technofascists” like Elon Musk are a step on the path to liberation from patriarchy. ...

Tesla is a symbol of “green capitalism” and a totalitarian technological attack on society. The myth of green growth is just a dirty ideological magic trick to close ranks against criticism domestically. One suggests a way out of the climate catastrophe. But “green capitalism” stands for colonialism, land grabbing and an exacerbation of the climate crisis! The lithium batteries come from toxic mines in Chile and devour other rare metals, causing misery and destruction for the people in the mining areas. The battery factory in Grünheide near Berlin requires the rare raw material lithium, which is also mined in Bolivia, for example. To enforce lithium mining in Bolivia, Musk puts his cards on the table: “We will stage a coup if we want,” commenting on the indigenous resistance to mining. Mineral resources are being ripped from the earth under brutal conditions. The “green deal” is just the expansion of economic growth without limits. In Portugal, too, the rural population is resisting the forced mining of lithium.
> Here is the link of the group, claiming and explaining the attack

No, thanks!

They chose violence in a country where democracy is working: as such, they only deserve to be closed behind solid bars and NO DIFFUSION of their opinions.
Because the Americans weren’t the only country establishing stay behind network like Gladio, when the Berlin Wall fell, the unification of Germany had many people who continued to work with/for the former USSR, now Russia.

Russia, now fighting a war in Europe, is activating its underground networks to sow discord in Western societies and it uses far left (communist) activists.

There is a global war going on.

This isn’t a one axis thing, Russia complains about nazis in Azov.
Hey, we are having fun doing it :) It is already pretty nice for testing things and show us the results. It is not going to be forced on users at all and it will share parts of the code with all the third-party CI integrations that we are working on.
You forgot the initial use case for the internet: porn.
> sometimes mistakenly referred as "far left".

Not “mistakingly”, deceptively.
I actually half wrote a RFC of a spec and 2 implementations of a federated search last year. Rather than do the disturbed hash table that yacy does.

I wanted results to be re-rankable by the peers by sharing the scores that went into them. The idea being with a common protocol based on the ideas of ActivityPub you could get peers of searches working together to hopefully surface interesting things.

Something I should probably finish and publish at some point. It worked to the hundreds of peers I tested.

The reason I mention this is because I wanted to also add a front into yacy which tuned out to be harder than I expected. It’s a wonderful project and you can find great stuff through it but the way the peers return results sometimes it’s hard to find it again. It’s also not quite as hackable as I would have hoped at the time probably due to he project age.

I still think there is value in it though and I’d love to see yacy have its protocol explained as an apex so people could,build implementations in other languages more easily.
>How do they stay in business?
Oracle's main line of competency is not providing good software services. They are in fact, specialists of acquiring government contracts.
Its not that they are not bothered to charge its just that cc processing fees are higher than what you are being billed. It will accumulate and they will charge it when it reaches a certain amount
I don't think these are ethical either.
160 bits ought to be enough for anybody :-)
Ypu onoy have collegues like that? Sounds quite toxic.
Depends on the definition of common-ish.

In the UK there were about 2.5m Amstrad's (of various models) sold, similar for Spectrum, Comomodore 64 less. Amiga's and Atari's weren't for sale until the tail end of the 80s (and even then, Amiga had sold just ~ 400K between 1988-1990). All together around looks like in in 5 households had a computer, and the distribution favored higher income ones - in working class areas much fewer would. Before 1987 even less.
After that the issue becomes ranking. Should say became since LLM's could both rank pages and generate them on "demand" to fit the query.

YaCy has so many buttons I'm not even sure if it lacks it but playing around with it it is very cool to crawl large amounts of pages and serve requests until you want to do other things with the computer and the background process is to bloated. Something like a turtle mode like torrent clients have would be useful.

Long ago there was a Chinese p2p client with a rootkit that would seed at 1 kb. I haven't used it but was told it worked remarkably well.
I can't say it's the same when protesters occupy a building as a symbol or for logistics purposes, and when "protesters" are called upon by the outgoing president to take power by force. There were armed militiamen in the Jan 6 incidents, and the police and security forces were told to look the other way many days in advance.

A coup is not a building occupation.
Perhaps you would have preferred I said 'of equal value' (though probably someone else would have complained it was subjective) but that is what it means. https://www.acas.org.uk/equal-pay/equal-pay-law

I was only answering what 'equal pay means in this context', and I did so succinctly because I think they already knew just doubted themselves or would be familiar by another name with a hint, take it up with the employment tribunal if you don't like this particular equivalence.
Source: the 20th century and literally any history book
Governments WILL use this. There really isn't any real way to keep their hands off technology like this. Same with big corporations.

It's the regular people that will be left out.
All communities have some diversity in them. Maybe they should pay attention to their hypocrite peers too.
There was not discussion here on what the likely attack vectors where, the quality of the recorded call was pretty good after all.

Person in the call: likely
HTTPS MITM: Possible if no VPN was used or no two way certs used.

What else ?
Source: open a book on life in communism/USSR, or just look at Eastern Europe pre-1990 versus today.
Damage you can do:

- propaganda and fake news

- deep fakes

- slander

- porn (revenge and child)

- spam

- scams

- intelectual property theft

The list goes on.

And for quite a few of those use cases I'd want some guard rails even for a fully on-premise model.
> but it's totally OK to not share the science...

That passes for an explanation to you ? What exactly is the difference between openai and any company with a product then ? Hey, we made THIS and in order to make sure everyone can benefit we sell at a price of X.
The idea of using short names is interesting:

For example:

=head1 -> =h1
=item1 * -> =i1 *
=item1 [ ] -> =i1 [x]

Nice!
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The biggest reason there's protests in Portugal is because the project was adjudicated to a company that was started 3 days before the proposal application period and is clear corruption which Portugal has loads of issues with. We also have green people complaining, but most of the complaints and media shenanigans are about the corruption part.
You have colleagues that would continue to work if they no longer got paid?

Rats jump ship in an individualistic system, in a collectivist system you expect the rats to sacrifice themselves to save the whole. Managers often tries to sell you on the collective so you work harder and demand less pay, but that is just him as an individual trying to get more out of you that doesn't mean it actually works like a collective.
Not really, storm water can enter through drain-waste-vents, gully traps and manhole covers. It can also enter when stormwater is accidentally connected to sewage (it happens). You can seal off parts of a sewage system (eg. vacuum sewage between closed valves), but not all of it for practical and safety reasons.
Thanks!

I've been working on Paper for 9 years. I've had a lot of time to study how everything works. :D
Nice reading the steps you take to analyse the code.

I had scrolled past this article without clicking and had the same thoughts about how I'd approach this.
AI/AGI is a multiplier. There could have been a world where just Google builds that multipler and only uses it internally. Making that multiplier publicly available can be the "Open" part.

I understand that this particular audience is very sensitive about the term, but why are we being so childish about it? Yes, you can name your company whatever you want within reason. Yes, it does not have to mean anything in particular, asterisk. Companies being named in colourful ways is not particularly new, nor interesting.
> bureaucracy, politics and unions

Not a problem at these levels of geopolitics and funding, Germans are the same bribable as anyone else. The problem is you are becoming a competition at someone's own territory.
> the activities are not as fun with the exception of Scratch (but that's external).

Sugar has the TurtleArt activity, which is very much like Scratch but with the LOGO turtle: https://help.sugarlabs.org/en/turtleart.html

My 4+ year-old doesn't seem to mind the amount of fun in these activities; the rather boring-looking Maze activity is a current favorite. That said, I do think that many of the activities in the catalogue have a user interface that I find alienating or somewhat ugly.
Ok, I get how one might use a variety of other tools for informal communication, I don't really use e-mail for that any more either, but I'm curious, what else can you possibly use for work ? With the requirement that it must be easy to back up and transfer (for yourself as well as the organization), so any platforms are immediately out of question.
Adam Smith himself never claimed it was that simple. He also wrote on ethics (and regarded that book as more important IIRC). He also warned that those is the same trade would inevitably conspire against the public.
Some parts yes, some parts no. communication as we know it will effectively cease to exist, as we have to either require strong enough verification to kill off anonymity, or somehow provide very strong, very adaptive spam filters. Or manual moderation in terms of some anti-bot vetting. Depends on demand for such "no bot" content.

Search may be reduced to nigh uselessness, but the saavy will still be able to share quality information as needed. AI may even assist in that with people who have the domain knowledge to properly correct the prompts and rigorously proofread. How we find that quality information may, once again, be through closed off channels.
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Siblings and I were given Castle of Doctor Brain at too young an age to make much progress. It took a long time for us to figure out the puzzle on the door to get into the castle, but it must have had some strong appeal for us to keep coming back. We got stuck plenty of times after that too.!

Looked it up for nostalgia and found we must have been inadvertently been playing on a harder difficulty. Feel somewhat vindicated.
https://strategywiki.org/wiki/The_Castle_of_Dr._Brain/Outsid...
Interesting facts!
Thanks Meta for releasing llama. One of the most questionable releases in the past years. Yes, I know, its fun to play with LocalLLM, and maybe reason enought o downvote this to hell. But there is also the other side, that free models like this enabled text pollution, which we now have. Did I already say "Thanks Meta"?
The Lean 4 Focused Research Organization has ML interoperability in its roadmap. Since Lean 4 is shaping up to be a capable general purpose language as well, I can imagine a Lean project that retrieves and formats LMFDB data, uses it to train and test a NN, gets Lean 4 proof code from it, verifies or rejects it (possibly with more detailed feedback) and loops this like a "conversation".

However, Lean 4 still has a long way to go in terms of speed and library features, and I at least have given up on writing optimized code until we get the new compiler (whose timeline seems optimistic to me, but Leo de Moura knows much better).
Also the US following UK's FPTP system inevitably creates a 2-party system, you simply cannot have just 2 parties representing all of the political spectrum and needs of a nation of 340 million people, and very diverse people at it, across a vast swath of land.

Even though most Continental Europe elections end up being a race between 2 major coalitions at least there's fluidity in the composition of these coalitions, sometimes the right-wing coalition embraces the centrist parties, or the greens, sometimes it's the left-wing coalition, this fluidity creates a lot more of nuance and compromise in politics rather than choosing Team Blue vs Team Red. FPTP is a dumb election system.
It's not just that Elon wanted control, it's that Elon wanted it to become closed and for-profit. This exposes Elon as a bald-faced hypocrite with cynical intentions motivating the lawsuit.

Sam's reticence to publicly defend himself until now has backfired. Elon has fully controlled the public narrative and perception forming and it is hard to dislodge perceptions after they've settled.
It’s like paying for trouble.
> It is just, that their concepts of what comes next, are quite vague

Oh, many have at-hand solutions alright! It's just that these heart-warming intuitive solutions break down when faced with realities of scale.

> Wind turbines deface! Solar panels pollute to produce! Batteries are full of metals you have to dig for! Screw industrial-scale food/production/distribution! Proof: I buy from the local shop/market/producer!

Yay, getting your Thanksgiving turkey from the local farm sure is nice, except... how much local producers have to produce to provide continuous daily sustenance to, say, a ~1M town? How much surface is needed to produce that amount? How are the logistics handled to move such local goods around? How much energy is expended in the whole process?

I'm not saying the ideas don't have merit, it's just that the revolution as envisioned falls apart with a bit of system thinking and a couple minutes of napkin math. That, or decimate the global human population and have survivors live in extreme scarcity.
No ofc he's not. But it's taught that he introduced social reforms (together with von Metternich) for keeping the (at that time) aspiring social democrats out of power.
With everything going on in Germany surrounding Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Gaza, I have to wonder if this is sarcasm?
iA Writer (https://ia.net/writer) is on Android as well.
Just a word of advice regarding the effect of associating with Trump: don’t make the mistake of thinking everyone holds the same opinion as you
The reason why languages promote variable types based on control flow is because developers en masse actually expect that to happen, e.g. facing the code like

Dog? maybeDog;
if (maybeDog != null) {
maybeDog.bark();
}

If compiler says "sorry, maybeDog might be null", developer (rightfully so) usually responds "but I have just checked and I know it is not, why do you bother me?". So languages chose to accommodate this.

> What if I want to set the value back to nil if it is not-nil?

You can. The type of the variable does not actually change. You could say that the information about more precise type is simply propagated to the uses which are guarded by the control flow. The following will compile just fine:

Dog? maybeDog;
if (maybeDog != null) {
maybeDog.bark();
maybeDog = null;
}

> Why should I have to wrap things back in an optional if I want to pass it along as such?

You don't, with a few exceptions. There is a subtype relationship between T and T?: T <: T?, so the following is just fine:

void foo(Dog? maybeDog);

Dog? maybeDog;
if (maybeDog != null) {
maybeDog.bark();
foo(maybeDog); // Dog can be used where Dog? is expected
}

You might need to account for it in places where type inference infers type which is too precise, e.g.

Dog? maybeDog;
if (maybeDog != null) {
// This will be List<Dog> rather than List<Dog?>.
final listOfDogs = [maybeDog];
}

Though I don't think it is that bad of a problem in practice.
To "pivot" would merely be to change their mission to something related yet different. Their current stance seems to me to be in conflict with their original mission, so I think it's accurate to say that they betrayed it.
To be fair, it was violence against property, not people. That is quite a difference. (but I am not saying, that they would not also attack people)

And this is a hacker news forum, focusing on curiosity. I am curious about why people do weird things. Sometimes they have good reasons, often not so much. But I still like to judge myself at the source and not read what others concluded.
> from patriarchy

Female CEO, problem solved
I talk to people here in the EU, and most of my anecdotes support the EU, even the ones with reservations regarding it.

So anecdotes don't matter in this discussion.
Not without reason they are the only economy in Europe in recession.
Two thoughts after reading the article:

1. The post depicts properly the need of ownership from Elon Musk, but it misses the point of the Open Source Mission that OpenAI had when being created. And therfore, it misses the main point of the lawsuit.

2. It feels like the writing is assisted by OpenAI itself.

Am I the only one thinking that the strategy of the post (and maybe the contents) are completely guided by their algorithm?
Key quote from near the end of the article:

> Suppose that outrage addiction is, in fact, trauma addiction. That means the media ecosystem is a giant machine trying to traumatize as many people as possible in order to create repeat customers, i.e. trauma addicts. Combine that with the explicit, confessed desire on both sides to “trigger” the other as much as possible, and you have a lot of very clever people all trying to maximize one another’s trauma levels. On the external level, that looks like weaving as strong a narrative of threat and persecution as possible and trying to hit people in their psychological weak points. On the internal level, it means making sure they replace their normal ability to update with a series of triggers that make them replace reality with pre-packaged stories about how the other side is innately evil and everything they do is for specific threatening and evil reasons.
The case was against the European Commission who refused to disclose the standards.

I think it is clear in the article, but it is generally better not to say "European Court" but "European Court of justice" or "ECJ" to distinguish it (a purely EU institution) from the European Court of Human Rights.
If the company dictates that no, we aren't going to do code reviews; no, we are not going to do source control; no, we are not going to gather requirements; no, we are not going to have any testing at all, that's what they want. They are not hiring people to do things properly. They do not want that. That is not their definition of correct and that is not what they say your job is. It is completely immaterial that all of that is certifiably insane. I have worked in a shithole that said all those things. Yes, really. I did fight against it at first but it is futile. They're not hiring decent sparkies to do decent sparky work, they're hiring people who don't know what the company is like, or first year apprentices, who will do it the way the company dictates, without question, for a quarter of the pay cash in hand. When the house burns down because of that work, it doesn't matter; the company will never be found liable, and on the off chance they do, they have insurance and other protections. Good work is a setback to these companies.
You ban the on ramps/off ramps
Cloudflare have always had this. I wonder how this will affect them.
I don't know how to draft a law that deals with that, ... and it's probably a worse problem than the high price cars simply because fender benders are more common than serious accidents.
But yourr nephew likely also uses TikTok, right? Not everthing the young do is a trend others should follow.
> The glyphs are not a barrier to use or learning. Learning them is no more difficult than learning the keywords and syntax of any other language.

Of course they are! I can't type them in on my keyboard without doing a google search first.

It's a barrier according to all definitions of the word. It's unnecessary friction. It's slower to type in when learning. It's slower to read when learning.

Compare it to a language that isn't bragging about how smart you are if you know it - all those barriers are removed.
Maybe check out this recap on the M5 competition? It has links to notebooks and some of the top solutions.

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/m5-forecasting-accuracy/...
Not coming clean and using the cover they did is pretty slippery behaviour, unfortunately it fits right into the worst kind of behaviour people expect from local politics.

It also fits right into the agenda of certain right wing papers who were happy to publish the story, I bet they don't give the same prominence to the fact this is an Oracle problem.
I second this recommendation; it is serious material made very accessible. The channel is great, and this series is truly a marvel.

However, while it does not require more knowledge than high school math, it does require more maturity and certainly lots of patience.
Indeed, there are a handful of those dev-oriented editors that crunch through mega files with ease. No idea why I prefer Sublime. :D
I really dislike how extremist eco activist groups keep trying to link any sort of badness to capitalism. "Nothing good will come unless we have a violent revolution." That's how dangerous radicalization happens.

In reality a ton of work is being done to reduce carbon usage within the current framework, importantly while still maintaining a good quality of life and not sending us back to the dark ages. Not enough, sure, but things are changing.
Next thing you know, it’s solved the discrete log problem and the rest of the millennium problems.