skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that this is a Chinese model, I’m genuinely curious if researchers have been evaluating risk that these models could be used for soft propaganda or similar purpose?

As others have reported, English and Chinese queries return different replies on topics that are not kosher in China.

What’s the risk that such models could be used for nefarious purposes by providing propaganda/biased/incorrect/… responses that on a cursory glance seem factual.
Has someone german-speaking looked over the name before it got selected?
Its perspective and focus is business, and is European. That can make it a good complement to leading US news sources such as the NYT.

FT is, IMHO, the most intellectually sophisticated daily newspaper in the world, ahead of the NYT. FT columnists are just about the only ones I see anywhere that have intellectual honesty and also sophistication that makes them worth reading. (In other publications, IMHO opinion columns of every political stripe are an exercise in spinning news to favor their 'constituency', and are transparently misleading to someone who is otherwise well-informed.)
Yeah, that's definitely true. Google sort of mapped an AWS concept onto its own cluster splits. However, there are enough regional-scale outages at all the major clouds that I don't personally place much stock in the idea of zones to begin with. The only way to get close to true 24/7 five-9's uptime with clouds is to be multi-region (and preferably multi-cloud).
If the dunes move, the sand remixes, and then, how can the strata be meaningfully explored?
In the Netflix series "Upload" (about minds living an after life in shared computer simulations; spoilers!) the real-World has fully autonomous vehicles, one feature is "passenger protect", whether you bias the vehicle to protect the passengers or people outside the vehicle. Within the show it's considered immoral for people to protect themselves over pedestrians, but people choose that option anyway.

A central character dies in a car crash, and another character says something like 'you were murdered, you died in a car crash', the implication being cars are so safe the only way to die in one is to have someone murder you.

It touches on some interesting points (though overall it's a little vapid and soapy, imo).
Not sure of this is the right comparison but I once saw a presentation about high performing teams which were compared to top league sports teams. In this regard of course you don't want a jerk that ruins the whole team but you definitely want someone who can actively help you winning and that's usually mostly done by technical skills. In my mind I still hope that the "game" is about programming and not politics.
What makes people so convinced the door plug problem is obviously something that should be blamed on the executives? At the risk of being accused of shilling for corporate executives, convincing yourself that low level people can't be responsible for an issue before responsibility is determined feels like the wrong approach.
Collecting entropy by human input in the browser using JavaScript
Automated Social Science with LLMs
Actually you can get a very good proxy by looking at the probability distrobution of the "answer" tokens. The key here is you have to be able to identify the "answer" tokens.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10200
Citation: particle physics
I mean I am sure I'm not the first person to have this insight - as I said I view it as baked into the definition of "externality" - but I'm also not pulling it from any specific source I can consciously recall
Thanks! Do you perhaps know of any records of Apple's insistence in this matter?
The Fashion Police in 16th-century Italy (2014)
What does the MAGA and associated crowd think of the WSJ, if you happen to know?
> Corporate lawyers are ultimately more clever and better-paid than the congressional staffers that are writing the laws.

In the US those are often the same people, right?
It's not a city in the conventional sense, more a collection of roundabouts without a soul. Never try to hitch-hike near Milton Keynes.
Lead Exposure Risk Map (2016)
I find your take partisan. During primaries her competition tried to use it as leverage against her which is a completely normal thing to do in politics. It basically went away when Bernie, in one of the debates, decided he was tired of hearing about her emails, establishing that this is something we're just not going to talk about anymore because it's too damaging to our top candidate.

Trump harped on it with the whole "lock her up" stuff, again because it's politically advantageous. He reneged on it once in office, admitting he wasn't going to pursue any charges against her. It was probably calculated that doing so would be bad optics as using the justice system to go after the top candidate of the competing party would be considered divisive. It was also potentially unproductive as she had already lost. There's also the element of personal connection, Trump was an NY Democrat for decades and had known the Clintons personally. Their daughters had a friendship in the past.

Also see George Santos as a counterpoint. Fellow NY Republican congressmen went after him knowing that their party would likely lose his seat. Again, I interpret their actions as self serving, they wanted to distance themselves from his shenanigans to their own constituents and appear to be acting objectively rather than in the interest of their party but the right result was achieved regardless.
Nand is constantly moving around your data to prevent it from bit rotting. If you leave data too long without moving it, you may not be able to read the data from the nand.
Yes, that’s exactly the argument made against gay rights in the 1970s: that people are gay by choice or because of a mental disorder, and that they’re actively corrupting and seducing young people, so they must not be allowed to be represented in public.

This was a very popular argument! See e.g. Anita Bryant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant

The harm done by her campaign wasn’t just words and delayed rights for gays. Some violent gaybashers sent people to intensive care shouting “Here’s one for Anita!”

This is still the everyday reality for many trans people in America and the UK. Normalized hate touches every aspect of your life. It doesn’t have to be like this.
Particles interacting (causally) though a physical mechanism that gives rise to say "wholes" with novel causal properties is not a statistical process. So your premise contradicts your conclusion.

Statistics is an analysis of association, not of causation. The frequency of (Q, A) pairs follows a distribution that is not constrained, or caused by, or explained by, how Q and A are actually related.

For example, recently there was some scandal at microsoft that if you used "pro choice" in prompts you got "demonic cartoons". Why? Presumably because "pro choice" are symbols that accompany such political cartoons in the data set.

So does Q = "pro choice", and A = "cartoons of hell" occur at notable frequency because hell has caused anything? Or because there's a unique semantic mechanism where by "pro choice" means "hell" and so on.

NO.

It is absolutely insane to suggest that we have rigged all our text output so as to align one set of symbols (Q) alongside another (A) such that, Q is the necessary explanation of A. I doubt this is even possible, since most Qs dont have unique As -- so there is actually *no function* to approximate.

In any case, your whole comment is an argument from ignorance as I complained in mine. What you don't know about life, about machines, about intelligence justifies no conclusions at all (esp., "everything in life could be").

And let's be clear. Lots of people do know the answers to your questions, they arent hard to answer. It's just not in any ad companies interest to lead their description of these systems by presenting good-faith research.

Everything printed in the media today is just a game of stock manipulation using the "prognosticator loopwhole" whereby the CEO of nvidia can "prophesy the future" in which his hardware is "of course" essential -- without being held to account for his statements. So when that stock hits its ATH and crashes, no one can sue.

I think we should change this; remove this loophole and suddenly tech boards and propagandists will be much much more reserved.
Quats are widely used in eyedrops as a preservative.

Some companies have started to remove them recently.
Any better maps/resources for this type of information that is more up to date?
That would probably require them to rewrite a non-trivial part of S3 from scratch.
They've probably just managed to avoid gaining such an extreme cost cutting culture that Boeing management is believed to have. Probably also less openly corrupt politicians over in Europe. Congress-critters don't even really make an effort to hide that they're at Boeing's beck and call.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics
> 64gb is a good RAM amount IMO

It doesn’t have 64gb of RAM, it has 8. The system requirements otherwise need 64gb of RAM for model compilation
I guess they refer to the part where corporation are sharing your data with police without the use of warrant?
Neon handles that by staging the WAL segments on 3x replicated Safekeeper nodes. Durability relies on not having all of those blow up at the same time. I'd expect it to be much safer than traditional Postgres replication mechanisms (with the trade-off having a comparatively large minimum node count; Neon really is built for multitenancy where that cost can be amortized across lots of databases).
What show is this?
see also "Supply and Demand are a capitalist hoax"

is this literally true? no.. but neither are the Milton Friedman Chicago Economics theories, so who is "correct" ? see "manufacturing consent" .. "manufacturing desire" .. post-industrial supply chain economics .. history of the savings and loan institutions in America .. more ..
> Criminal liabilities mean people will do their best to deny it and cover it up, rather than fix it.

Feels like this has been the status quo for Boeing for a few years regarding the 737 MAX. Actions with real teeth are required to incentive change.
Indeed. If you can’t protect yourself from your government’s efforts to keep wages suppressed through importing labor while also ignoring the housing crisis, it is logical to be anti immigration. That’s not racist or xenophobic, that’s economic self preservation.
California has a substantial wildfire and flooding risk, in addition to its large seismic risk.
This would only be of substances already approved for general use, and wouldn't expose anyone to any substance they wouldn't otherwise be buying/using.

The only difference is it very slightly adjusts the quantity - and does so in a way that is within existing allowed tolerances, so effectively this might already be happening, just we aren't collecting the results.
That’s the entire point of the piece.
Canada, like most other global north countries (regions), cannot maintain its economy - at least in the expected way, that is of ever-increasing GDP as has been the trend for the last 75+ years - based upon birth rate alone. We are below the replacement rate. Demographics, another aspect of the so-called poly crisis whereby we see and interact with the world through the lens of the left-brain hemisphere, isolated and reductionist, rather than a necessary and more holistic "big picture" global view.

For an interesting and relatively plain language view:

https://www.ecosophia.net/an-unfamiliar-world/
LLM with Ollama and similarity search with Qdrant, vector database
Rickover was no saint himself, see the articles linked here -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383206 - in the discussion about sama citing him.
Next-gen BERT models are still very popular for embeddings.
Obviously “Python” was used…and then it used numpy because the image format in the assignment was numpy arrays. However, the 25 lines was basically “sum the rows and sum the columns then compare those vectors” or something like that. This wasn’t really a case of all the complexity being hidden in a dependency; it was a case of finding a very simple heuristic that made the problem trivial.
If someone claims about himself being a great programmer — extremely high chances it's just an arrogant prick with ego inflated by high salary or working in an important project.

Few really amazing developers I've met in my life were either humble or too busy to brag about the size of their genitals...

Just saying.
Colorado ranchers sentenced after tampering with rain gauges
That just depends on where your focus is. If the safety issue is much more salient, you’re not as prone to recognize the humorous aspect of the situation. If you see the image on a meme page, you’re already primed for comedy.
The Garmin autoland can automatically activate, determine which airport to land at communicate on ATC frequency to say it is going to land at X airport.
because each core has its own instruction counter
"Yes, Minister!" And "Yes, Prime Minister!"

And don‘t forget:

Sir Humphrey : The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers' prejudices.

Jim Hacker : Don't tell me about the Press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey : Oh, and Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard Woolley : Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
It's even worse, because after the initial disastrous test flight of Starliner, NASA had ordered a review of all of Boeing's software practices (especially testing procedures), not just the Starliner code.

I'd imagine they'd have caught signs of these QA issues while working through the software stuff.
damn marketing!

>Twin 720K MicroFloppy drives offer 1.44 megabytes of mass storage

but I cant see second FDD on the picture, not a spot for one.
> Generating a screen takes a couple of seconds on hardware as it requires per-pixel processing of the entire 400x240 screen = 96,000 pixels

This doesn't sound right - it should take a few milliseconds to fill a full-HD screen on any semi modern device
The archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovered a room in the Ur temple complex containing items which were far older than the ~530 BCE expected. They were organized and labeled in three different languages, leading Woolley to conclude they were an archeological museum now referred to as Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigaldi-Nanna%27s_museum
Yes. The door that fell off was part of a subcontracted fuselage assembly. Boeing inspectors found, on delivery, that it was not correctly installed. Apparently they very frequently found defects like this in delivered 737 fuselages. Rather than do something sensible such as shut down the fuselage plant until it could make defect-free assemblies, instead Boeing adopted a continuous re-work and re-inspect flow on the delivery side of the contracting relationship, with of course the cost borne by the subcontractor. This meant that Boeing staff essentially did the equivalent of filing bugs in the subcontractor's repo, but accepted the subcontractor's CI being green as proof the bug was fixed. Which in this case it was not.
Neon.tech runs Postgresql runs on S3. They persist the WAL to S3 so that they can replicate the data and bring it to local ssds I assume.
Wait.... You weren't being sarcastic? This suddenly isn't funny any more.
If you think s3 is fast, you should try FTP. It’s at least a hundred times faster. And combined with rsync, dozens of times more reliable.
Well, of course some minimal technical competence is a requirement.

I’m just saying that an unnecessarily negative attitude is more damaging to a group than one below average contributor.
> Israel has a much worse ratio of civilians to valid military targets (possibly between 5/1 and 8/1 ratio, while Hamas has 2/1 ratio during Hamas' attack, and it is believed many of those were killed by the IDF)

The IDF ratios are indeed atrocious. For journalists, for example, in another thread I tried to calculate some detailed estimates, and concluded that given the casualties up to 01/03, if one journalist and one Hamas militant were statistically put side by side, IDF is ~3x more likely to shoot the journalist. See:

Part I: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603300

Part II: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603311

Part III (Python source code): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603322
This would be tougher on smaller restaurants, which can't buy raw materials in bulk, and are often subject to local market conditions surrounding produce, etc.
Git seems to have it all. It's hard to imagine what anyone else can compete with, how they can differentiate. There's such a variety of ways to work & rework git repos, so much sheer capability available to use as you will that it's hard to imagine what more one could want.

Indeed it feels like most competitors are competing by offering less. This is our way! This is easier! But you're not going to win the alpha geeks over with that path. Better needs to be bigger, needs to enable more, and we're just not seeing those offerings materialize; it's unclear how you would be better or bigger.

Having the core abstractions that work & are flexible enables bountiful innovation & improvements. Git not only started with sufficiently malleable core ideas, but it's had endless features, optimization, and tuning baked in over the years. It's almost too much to comprehend. Shout out to Taylor Blau writing on the Github Blog: the man has been doing an amazing job covering what's happening in with the Highlights From Git series, since September 2018. It's really given me a sense of how much work keeps being poured into git, has given me a view of how incredibly expansive the git ecosystem is. https://github.blog/2018-09-10-highlights-from-git-2-19/ https://github.blog/tag/git/
Who are you quoting? Why?
that's because people living in california don't know what cold can really mean. i have lived in southern california. chilly is the coldest it ever gets there. cold is different.
Youtube...and type what you just typed.
Lol that's not where I was going, but your take is way funnier.

What I was insinuating is that everyone has their priors, and not everyone is interested in starting every discussion by discarding them.

For example, if you ask me to discuss whether earth might be flat, I'll never start my reasoning from "well it might or might not so for starters let's say the probability is 50%"
Thanks, and thanks for your insider insights.

> Boeing admitted there is no documentation to come by

Doesn't that serve Boeing's interests, to bury any record of possible harmful events, and to also bury the record of that information passing through other hands at Boeing?

In other words, should 'Boeing admitted' be taken at face value, as an admission of guilt, rather than a possible coverup of much worse and a way to throw the line workers under the wheels?
That's irrelevant. EVs are necessary to preserve land values in Socal, which is why Cali real estate funded Cali politicians to use all of their weight to win fed funding for the Tesla project in the first place.

Everybody knows (whether they admit it or not) that EVs don't help with global warming. They merely displace polution from places like the San Bernadino Valley and Los Angeles, which is all they were meant to do, for the purpose of preserving real estate values. And it's working.
If you wanted to go from good to great - electrician, plumber, bricklayer - what would you do?

It's not magic. Take yourself seriously as a tradesperson, continually read about the field, and work for companies that provide you with high quality experiences.

I don't know that I'd call myself a 'great' programmer, but I am quite a bit better than I was ten years ago. And the reason for that largely comes from using that ten years of experience to improve my understanding of the field.

There isn't a silver bullet beyond putting the work in.
> but regulation and liability has made it impractical to develop a modern engine.

Can you go into more detail about this? What regulation/liability specifically has stifled modern engine development? And is the answer deregulation? Or more carefully applied regulation of a different sort?

I think specifics are critically important for this kind of thing. General rhetoric is often “too much regulation” or “not enough regulation,” but what we usually want is “the correct regulation to align incentives,” which is often different for different cases.
Children were most probably routinely exposed not just to nudity but also sex.
> When the machines were done ... they could classify a cell they had never seen before as one of over 1,000 different types. One of those was the Norn cell.

So, unsupervised classification. Ten years ago we were using K-means clustering to do the same thing, but I didn't know we were learning what it means to be alive!
Processing 32 inputs at 1-byte granularity means that you'll need to expand each of those 32 inputs across 5 registers, and means you lose the ability to trivially shift them along (would need 15 blends to align the 5 input bytes to 3 output bytes for the 32×i8 approach, vs a single vpsllvd or some shuffle for 8×i32), or do any arithmetic wider than 8-bit (i.e. no 64-bit multiply at the core of the method in the article). More lanes just for the sake of it makes no sense (not counting unrolling as you can unroll anything to any amount (give or take register pressure)).
Understand your Environment deeply, not only the basics (Version Control, IDE, Tools)

Don't avoid annoying things - try to be the one who can solve anything

Learn how to automate repetitive tasks quickly (e.g. shell scripting + tools)

Understand deployment and devops

Write documentation together with the users for better requirements understanding

Keep up with modern tech (e.g. ChatGPT, Phind, CoPilot, etc.)

Learn concepts, not Frameworks[1]

1: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/05/learn-concepts-not-framewor...
You know those numbers reflect survivor bias, right? By 80 and 90, most peers have already been lost to other organ failures, cancers, etc -- if longevity is important to them, most people would be lucky to be in those populations instead of the in much larger populations no longer being counted at all.
I tried FT and wanted to like it, but I felt it was a little too heavy on the doom and gloom.
At the very least models will exhibit the bias present in the underlying training text and on top of that there will be a bias imposed by those wanting to correct the unwanted bias present in the underlying training text, possibly swinging the pendulum too far in the other side.

I have the feeling you're asking something more specific, something more of a direct interference coming from politics and not just the natural "point of view" about various topics that are present in the chinese training corpora that is understandably different from western corpora.

Do you have anything specific in mind about something that you expect the Chinese government to feed as propaganda that is not already widely being sculpted into the chinese text corpora available on the internet?
I don't really follow. If you're setting this up for a couple of people you can just manually add accounts. It's probably even easier than setting up OIDC or whatever.

It's only when you get to enterprise level and IT departments want centralised accounts that it matters. They really need SSO.

Frankly I think it's a pretty great status quo. Consider the alternative, which is that the software would either not exist or be closed source.