skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait. Aren't "innocent bystanders" literally the first people the police wants to get ahold of, to interview and yes, potentially investigate if there's something off? People don't spontaneously become suspects, as if by radioactive decay; some degree of investigation comes first and is what turns "innocent rando" into a suspect.
> saying that the constants are what they are not being a very low probability event isn't pure speculation?

I am not suggesting that that is the case. You are speculating here, I am not.

> I don't see why it's not fruitful to spell out why this analogy is unhelpful.

Not the way it works. Your analogy, your burden.

> Does it not warrant an explanation for why things are by chance, or why things are by necessity? An explanation for why things being by chance or necessity is founded?

I am not speculating that either of those is or is not the case.

You speculate because it gets you to the conclusion that you clearly want. I have no such need.

> I think if someone postulates something intuitive

Your speculation is not actually "intuitive." You describe it that way only because it is to your liking.

> but false, regardless of their motivations, it's better to address why it's false instead of shutting down discussion.

Depends on the discussion. As for this one, I will decline to continue it further.
> Teen pregnancy may be a marker of adverse life experiences.

Teen pregnancy correlates both with poor educational outcomes and with low "big 5" conscientiousness, both consistent with adverse life experiences.
The one company I've ever worked at that had layoffs was after they brought in ex-McKinsey hires (as Chief of Staff or similar).

The company was already super toxic due to middle managers being brought in, the McKinsey folk I guess laid a few of them off (along with half of the company, including the CEO). The company was profitable and had just raised eight figures or so. Apparently it's doing better now culturally though.

This isn't a success story, it led to mass layoffs. But some of the core assholes who drove the culture into the ground lost their jobs too, so there is a bright side to it I guess.
What’s wrong with P curves?
What's your point? Someone wrongly being detained/prosecuted/charged/hung/etc in the past does not make it right now. It doesn't make it any less wrong then. Nor are people of a government homogeneous. Especially America. The great American past time is shitting on America. But if you're going to dismiss wrong because wrong was done in the past (or even let it slide or be apathetic) that is enabling. Being upset and angry is very different than apathy.
Exactly. The real thing™ will have their custom Symphony jets.

The XB-1 is a tech and systems demonstrator platform cheaper than big design upfront and costs (and risks) all at once.
Productivity/efficiency driven deflation is almost always a good thing. The problem is when deflation is being driven by the scarcity of money or some other unsustainable mechanism
I use chat-gpt almost every day and find it very usefull
Building the inverted index is quite CPU-intensive, and we are also merging index files called "splits".
Rolls-Royce? They along with GE also produce engines for the A380 and 787, as well as many smaller aircraft.
Dang. RIP.

Rainbows End has a special place in my heart. As a teen a buddy and I used to explore the UCSD tunnels and labs at night and let our imaginations run wild about what we’d see.
Coal has a much worse heavy metal issue than Nuclear.
No, my problem is that I don't believe he believes it. It is a lie.
I don't think you can be considered a programmer if you can't perfurate your own punch cards.
That’s the first TLS change suggestion, under the “Intermediate elision” heading.
Hasn’t the path to quantum computing with that many qubits always been full of unknown unknowns? I’m happy that researchers are preparing but it seems like defending against a threat of unknown shape that doesn’t exist is kind of futile. First, do we even have high confidence that QC is the thing that will break current algorithms? Secondly, how much time from “the writing is on the wall” until bad actors can deploy them for financial gain? Unless it’s short, why not wait and migrate later? Because like the xkcd with the $5 hammer, crypto primitives has to be the weakest link in the chain to really be a threat so big it warrants throwing it on top of everything just in case. I mean our security for even critical infrastructure is so bad that ransomware groups are rampant without any need to ever care about primitives. Also assuming that if you’re high value target for state actors, you’re not gonna use default TLS anyway. Extra assumption: most harvest-now-decrypt-later seem completely worthless?

Anyway, rambling aside: is this just naive skepticism from a mortal non-enlightened engineer with a short sighted YAGNI mindset? Or have the purist academics been selling parachutes to workers in skyscrapers - ie a solution to a problem that wont materialize anytime soon? Please, forgive my ignorance.
Competitors are catching up and one day the chat API providers will race the prices to bottom
+KLoC is a terrible KPI that optimizes for complexity, waste, and artificial job security-seeking behaviors.
Exactly, i don't understand why people are not seeing this
Yep, it’s an international embarrassment
I am glad Tufte emphasizes tight integration between images and text, a reasonable style choice that certain TeX purists refuse to acknowledge. In my writings at least, technical or otherwise, images and text are part of one continuous narrative; it makes no more sense to reorder and relocate my images than to do so to my paragraphs.
Windows 11 grew up from the Windows 10X remains, thus there is some truth to it.
Kindle Oasis seems to be discontinued
It's interesting how the paper was completely retracted instead of just being corrected.
> it was bailed out with unlimited money from the bigger banks.

tell that to the equity owners of the bank.
SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring Developer Advocate
He’s saying that women in the Bay Area are highly valuable. Your outrage is very strange. Do you think women in the Bay Area are not very valuable? Why would you want to claim that?

If you can’t afford a car, maybe stop car shopping at Mercedes dealerships, right? How can this possibly be controversial, unless you simply hunger for outrage.
Beyond Discord
Dog whistling.

The phrase "green energy transition" is mentioned only in the headline, and is completely irrelavent to the point being made in article, which is that unregulated mining in poor developing countries is bad.
It's just semantic gymnastics. I'm sure most people will consider LLaMa 70B a big model. Of course if you define big = trillion then sure big = trillion[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
> This is one of the worst advices I've ever seen.

Really? Because stability AI caused a very large amount of good in the world.

It arguably kicked off the entire AI startup industry.

> Tricking people to obtain money? How's this not fraud?

Its not fraud because you don't have to lie to anyone. You can tell VCs exactly what you plan on doing. Which is to open source all of your code... and... uhhh... yeah that will totally make the company valuable.

There are lots of ways of making sales pitches about open source, or similar, that will absolutely pass regulatory scrutiny and are "honest", and yet still have no hope of commercial success and also provide a huge amount of value to the public. Like what stability AI did.
Doesn't this apply to any product though?
Stay!
But isn't that "artificial" growth of the economy than basically eaten up by the inflation?
OK, hear me out. Times New Comic.
Are we sure that Midjourney is still on that trajectory?

I was a heavy user since the beginning but my usage has dropped to almost 0
You can call me wrong, but maybe first ensure you understand negative rights.

I understand why you think I'm wrong, but I hope you understand why I think that way. We can disagree, and that is fine, but let's not act as if there are objective answers in social constructs.

Because, I do think punishment is an imposed penalty. In this case, on your rights. Rights are abstract, and these are not binary nor clearly discrete. House arrest is not jail, nor are fines. But as communicated to you elsewhere, the 4th amendment is about ensuring friction for removing someone's negative rights.

But I disagree that punishment is imposed as a penalty as retribution for an offense. You imply that this requires an actual offense to have been made. I assure you that punishment can be imposed for any arbitrary reason. I can also assure you that punishment is a spectrum, from extremely minor (as I think we'd agree is in this case) and extremely harsh.
The Windows division reports to the CEO of Advertising, of course it's gonna be like this.
Funnily enough, tar is like 3 different formats (PaX, tar, ustar). One of the annoying parts of the tar format is that even though you scan all the metadata upfront, you have to keep the directory metadata in RAM until the end and have to wait to apply it at the end.
Hey, let me know when the doomers have built anything that has mattered because they choose to, and not because they are forced to my market forces.

At least the open source AI people have code that you can use, freely without restriction.

The doomers, on the other hand, don't do anything but try and fail to prevent other people from releasing useful stuff.

But, in some sense I should be thanking the doomers because I rather that people with such incompetence were the enemy as opposed to people who might have a chance of succeeding.
But isn't quantum communication unbreakable? And it should be easier than building a quantum computer.
And on some cases sugar sugar not syntactic sugar.
Every single Ad blocker users is a freeloader to Google/Youtube.

Didn't stop them from being extremely successful.
I know, I didn't specify Web browsing on purpose, because some "I feel smart" would exactly react as they did.

Turns out there is still a lot of uses a computer can serve without being plugged into the Internet.
Use Invidious, use RSS, use yt-dlp, use Tor.
FWIW, Rombach and Esser, the two guys behind the original model, gave some appreciation for Emad on Twitter just now.
That's follow the "might be useful as a new kind of search engine", though it might be a sign of an a bit messy KB. The issue of potential hallucinations however is still there so even such usage, a different search engine, demand extra attention.

It's not a free critic to those who have designed, implemented and trained LLMs, it's just the observation that practical usage is far less than the advertised one and it's still not much good. It's still an advancement, a good thing to have, the start of a revolution, but still far from being what many dreams.
SETI made sense because there is a lot of data where you download chunk and do expensive computation and return thin result.

Model training is unlike that. It's large state that is constantly updated and updates require full, up to date state.

This means you cannot distribute it efficiently over slow network with many smaller workers.

That's why NVIDIA is providing scalable clusters with specialized connectivity so they have ultra low latency and massive throughput.

Even in those setups it takes ie. a month to train base model.

Converted to distributed setup this same task would take billions of years - ie. it's not feasible.

There aren't any known ways of contributing computation without access to the full state. This would require completely different architecture, not only "different than transformers" but "different than gradient descent", which would be basically creating new branch in machine learning and starting from zero.

Safe bet is on "ain't going to happen" - better to focus on current state of art and keep advancing it until it builds itself and anything else we can dream of to reach this "mission fucking accomplished".
This is true of literally any investigation though
> Curious minds wonder what you do to be able to have that kind of time for travel

In developed countries outside the US annual multi-week vacations are routine for the middle classes
So… instability.ai?
> Why is are all static site generators (that I am aware of) are CLI? What prevent simplistic drag and drop GUI/WYSIWYG that generates those clean static files?

Check:

- Tina CMS: https://tina.io/

- Primo CMS: https://primocms.org/

More generally, try looking for `git-based cms` or `CMS+SSG`, you'll find a diverse set of solutions.

Anyway, you had it in reverse. Static generation is the easy part, while what you're looking for is a subset category of CMSs. So you should be looking under the CMS umbrella. You can also setup any generic Headless CMS to trigger generation for a static site. There's not much incentive to build a full fledged CMS, only to clip its wings and limit it to "static site only".
We will just need to use quantum to beat the quantum.
QKD (quantum key distribution) is much more mature comparing with quantum computer which is still far away for cracking crypto algorithms from real practical application standpoint.

Twin-field quantum key distribution over 830-km fibre
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-021-00928-2
I thought the same, whatever high he was on after the phony election win is over.
Sometimes you need to say fuck the money, I’ve already got enough, and I just want to do what I enjoy. It may not be an ideal model for HN but damn not everything in life is about grinding, P/E ratios, and vesting schedules
I’ve come to the opposite conclusion personally - AI model inference requires burst compute, which particularly suits cloud deployment (for these sort of applications).

And while AIs may become more compute-efficient in some respects, the tasks we ask AIs to do will grow larger and more complex.

Sure you might get a good image locally but what about when the market moves to video? Sure chat GPT might give good responses locally, but how long will it take when you want it to refactor an entire codebase?

Not saying that local compute won’t have its use-cases though… and this is just a prediction that may turn out to be spectacularly wrong!
Perhaps you thought I meant the majority of all people, I meant the majority of all programmers outside HN (hold a different definition of open source than the more extreme one used here). Not that it matters - but I would say non-programmers have an even higher percentage of people with a different definition.

I mean sure, the more upset reactions from the more invested parties are the more interesting ones. I just take issue with people fighting to use a more-incorrect, less-used definition which serves no purpose other than to try make entities like Redis look bad.
Coal also has a much worse radioactive particles issue than nuclear...

https://isnap.nd.edu/assets/255639/radioactivity_lecture_18....
I'm curious (not sarcasm) what it was specifically in the comment above that made you think it was AI, compared to other comments. I just read it and I dont see anything AI-ish.
Some companies are using it with AWS Lambda to scale to 0.
I think a charitable interpretation is that they were suspicious of the money being used illegally. But I'm not sure there's enough information here to make this clear. Because clearly there's misinformation being spread. Claiming bitcoin is anonymous...
And how you gonna verify chat-gpt's result? By googling?
"If you want a good deep dish pizza you need to go to Chicago" is offensive to pizza chefs everywhere but Chicago.

Telling people that to get what they want they need to go where it is is offensive now. You don't like the dating culture where you live? Go somewhere else. The dating culture where you live is objectively abysmal? Go somewhere else. If you're a man in Alaska you're bound to get similar advice, and nobody will complain.
My point was that it was wrong. I do not agree with casting wide nets in the hope that someone might fit whatever profile the police or other agencies have pulled out of their asses.
Anyone who wants a GUI for a static site generator would be better served by a CMS.

Static sites are really only loved in the developer community among people who think it’s crazy to run a whole backend to generate pages for unchanging blog posts.

The people who want a GUI do not think this is crazy and use WordPress or similar software.
That’s not the same thing as chat gpt being vaporware.
"good deep dish pizza" is offensive to pizza chefs everywhere
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) requires special (expensive) hardware, so it really doesn’t solve the problem of key size.
Moreover, QKD still requires an authenticated channel, so we’ll still need a quantum-resistant authentication scheme.

(All in all, QKD does not have a singular use case)

See https://cyber.gouv.fr/en/publications/should-quantum-key-dis...
As a kid that grew up in the 80s in the UK and caught the tail end of the educational videos mentioned in the article - the government of the day did use brutal imagery to try to instil fear in kids back then.

I remember explicit imagery of burns from fireworks and … a really nasty “educational” video about a kid who tried to rescue a frisbee from an electricity substation that then dies of electrocution.

We had also had a couple of decades of low-effort brutalist city-centre architecture by then, and our dull, dark, drab, grey weather complements the dull, dark, drab grey concrete to make a dull, dark, drab grey life.

From what I recall, the economy was in the toilet at the time too, there were rolling blackouts, general strikes and all manner of things just falling apart.
The Eurotunnel is kind of special because it is an especially long undersea tunnel. It is very much the exception, you won’t see that for any other trains in the UK or France, high speed or otherwise.
And the music! I'm not a super Joan Baez fan, but I loved the two songs she did for the movie. And Schickele's score is awesome.
I love the idea of (mostly) classless css frameworks. I tried to make one a while ago but it's probably not as good: https://elementcss.neocities.org
Tolkien did start writing a sequel to LOTR set a generation or two later, but he abandoned it because it was coming out too grimdark for him.
It‘s Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
What's the status of digital signature algorithms? There's much stuff that doesn't need to be encrypted because it's not secret - anybody can read the URL. It just needs to be protected against forgery.

That's what subresource integrity is for. Only the parent page needs HTTPS. Most of the assets can use HTTP, locked to specific content by subresource integrity.
That's more useful for security than encryption. If someone changes a third party Javascript file, it won't load. This would promote a more stable web.
This is the reason for my sarcastic response above. Attempts at making compact PQC are being broken left and right. If anything the line of battle is moving towards larger, more costly schemes at the moment. Complaining about proof size or validation speed right now is like pissing into the wind. You’re lucky if your PQC finalist scheme is even secure against a 2010 Mac mini in a year or two. Complaining that its proofs don’t fit into a MTU packet? That’s rich.
Secure Boot – becoming a bigger mess
German article - haven't found an English equivalent. Microsoft is enhancing secure boot protections in ways that may disable many computers. Meanwhile, the enhanced protections seem almost random: allowing untrusted bootloaders to work on some computers, while locking down others.
I didn’t “get” SQL for the first 6-8 years of professional full-stack engineering. I was chasing, along with many in my cohort, the ORM abstraction dragon we thought we needed to work on j2ee, django, or sqlalchemy teams quickly.

It’s perplexing to me now why SQL was perplexing. Even knowing about relational theory and enough DBA to pass interviews, it somehow always seemed like we should have been able to treat databases like our OOP’s.

To think of the hours I wasted. Maybe I heard in a meeting “it’s the join table” and another colleague said “just use the association table,” and I was trying the n^2 debugging approach to solve it with model classes.

The best advice I got on this made sense later: “I wouldn’t even try to manage that [dataset] myself. Just figure out how to tell a database to do it—that’s its only job.”
I don't know about the Russian military*, but entertainers on the state-owned "Russia 1" channel have proposed "hacker": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrH8xyJG4rc (to the tune of "Jamaica")

* someone there chooses apt terms; the patron saint of RF missileers is Barbara: a patron saint of explosives workers (and tunnellers) whose attributes include a tower. Come to think of it, starting the October revolution with a signal from the "Dawn" cruiser is unlikely to have been a completely random choice, so the 1917 commies were already in on the game...

EDIT: even more apropos: Barbara's father was said, after her martyrdom, to have been consumed by fire from above.
As a point of order, and especially with most (not all) rare earth elements it's not the

> unregulated mining in poor developing countries

that's the worst part of the chain, it's the processing of concentrates.

With, say, lithium for batteries a great deal of the mining takes place in Australia and that mining produces a spodumene concentrate which is shipped onwards for processing - which creates acid lakes in holding dams and low level radioactive waste as a by product.

This has recently occured on location in countries such as China and Malaysia :

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3242368/mal...

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-australia-mining-lynas-r...

but has recently expanded to locations in Australia and (soon) Texas and other US states.
Yes.

Also, research isn't the only benefit, code generation, roleplay bots, are pretty good too.
So you’re happy to continue forever with the system we have now - governments printing with no consequence?
The harm you might be doing is to teach your kid that reward comes from consumption rather than creation. Likewise random reinforcement is a powerful force that most people's minds are not prepared to handle.

I personally don't think it is ethical to put your kid in someone's skinner box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber

I especially don't think it's ethical when they are engineered to be as addicting as possible. We literally have algorithms that measure levels of engagement or spending and then turn the knobs the game has access to, to maximize those values.

If gambling based reward occurs in the context of other creation based and self improvement based reward structures, it's probably not bad.

If gambling based reward occurs in the absence of healthy rewarding activities, or is the only regular and/or reliable rewarding activity, then I think it is more likely to lead to poor outcomes.

The real question though is how easy it is for you. Buying a loot box is a trivial time investment on your part. Taking your kid to guitar lessons and organizing socially rewarding play sessions with friends is a much greater investment.

Regardless of the kids situation, I think buying the loot box for your benefit is the greater danger. If the loot box buys you quiet time, then it may be conditioning you more than your kid.
The quote you give, is a nice example to see how history, historical research, etc has everything to do with setting the scene for the present, and not much to do with the past.

History is a present day activity. It is akin to the background scenery in a play - it provides the context for the present, it sets up our current stories. It's all to do with interpretation, and that is only ever present.