skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was tolerated because such groups had a lot of political power within the company and outside. As little as 5 years ago Google would have been crucified for daring to silence employees and taking action against them for protesting at the office. Today people are generally in support of the action.
The Case for Ephemeral Content Sharing and Remixing
Perhaps someone should spin up intellectuallyinteresting.ycombinator.com?
Google and Amazon are actively involved in the largest man-made famine since WWII, and we’re not even allowed to discuss it on HN (you know the conflict I’m talking about, every post about the genocide gets flagged immediately).
I had the same experience, except I was definitely not a Phil major. He had a "class for every major" where we read chapters of the book he was writing (Toolkit for Thinking) and basically gave him feedback. It was an amazing strategy for him to get reviews on his book that way from totally non-Phil folks. And my name is in the book!
Wow, the comments in this thread are super confusing. They seem to be largely around, "windows are a luxury, not having one is a first-world problem, who wants one anyway?"

Is this the same community that champions human-centered design and architecture, a la Christopher Alexander, Jane Jacobs, etc.?
Science is a type of applied philosophy, because grasping what is knowable by a given set of truths and tools (and what isn't) helps one define the problem.
I think it illustrates a huge problem that those search based companies want LLMs to fulfill the role of authoritative agents where such efforts are bound to end in grief.

LLMs should be used in use cases that play to their strenghts: conjuring up stories, summarizing content, polishing text drafts etc. Search is about the worst use case for an LLM.
I would love to see a reference to the claim that Wittgenstein regarded Tractatus as a joke. I took an analytic philosophy course as an undergrad that featured Wittgenstein prominently, and that prof certainly did not regard it unseriously.

Anyone whose job it is to uncover the truth ought to be ant least a little curious about what we know and how we know it, and perhaps more importantly, whether there are true things that we can never know. These are mostly not scientific questions, but thinking about them helps us understand why science settled on the particular set of axioms that it did (eg, that there really is a world that exists independently of humans and their conception of it).
Did you forget an /s at the end of your comment?
OK. Names aside I'm not sure how much you know about Wittgenstein. I'm far from an expert but - he did largely refute the Tractatus later in life but reasons that are probably the opposite of what you're implying. If anything his later works attempts to be less rigorous because he reached the conclusion that attempting rigour in language was deeply flawed.

Like I said - I'm no expert and I've never read Wittgenstein first hand - but I do struggle when people casually dismiss the work of thousands of smart, sincere people over thousands of years.
I think your critique of philosophy would land better if you picked an easier target. The primary metaphor of the Tractatus (pulling up the ladder) often goes over people's heads.
You are one though.
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2024/04/17/2...

The word "parolee" is mentioned 99 times in the judgement. This is very much about someone who is on parole, who agreed to let law enforcement access their devices, and not about an average person that isn't under parole.
Extensions are a part of ecosystem.
When a military force puts its assets under civilian infrastructure, that forces your enemy to flirt with near-genocide in order to protect themselves.

There is no good guy nor bad guy in this fight. Only bad guys. Unfortunately innocents get caught up in the crossfire. Welcome to humanity, war is what we do. Stop trying to pick a side and start speaking out against all violence. People might be more willing to hear you out.
I dunno, my Wikipedia entry is about right.
You tell us. You're working with the same internet as the rest of us.
Also a thing you gotta measure.

Passing a lot of stuff in registers causes a register shuffle at call sites and prologues. Hard to predict if that’s better or worse than stack spills without measuring.
Some anti-vax people take it too far, but calling anyone who asks questions a crazy anti-vaxxer doesn't make sense.

How can you simultaneously know that pharmaceutical corporations are corrupt and choose profits over health, but also think it is crazy to question the vaccines they produce. Those are two contradictory ideas, but the vast majority of people would agree that both are true. It seems like we have been manipulated.
Ironically, they could’ve used glue instead of soap with no delay in assembly time
Good to finally have the question of whether he is conscious or not definitely resolved.
In a lot of cases today’s AI systems can easily predict your intent once they accumulate enough context about you. Not in all, but when they predict incorrectly it’s easy to correct them using natural language. And nobody is removing the option of digging in the pile, it’s just that I don’t see why anyone would want to, in most cases. I certainly don’t - I got better things to do with my time.
I think this is the elephant in the room that is generationally hard to address. At least in America, all demographics have gotten more sedentary over time, but Millennials in particular. To your point, it doesn't really matter what you eat if you live a sedentary lifestyle with more screentime and less physical activity than is ideal. To put it in a neutral way, I would not be surprised if many emergent cultural wars nominally about body acceptance are actually more a societal reaction to this root cause.
As a followup to this, in this Techcrunch article[1] it says that all 3,878 Cybertrucks shipped to date have been recalled. That isn't a lot of cars. Apart from what it says about sales of the Cybertruck, that suggests they haven't had enough customer miles on these things yet to flesh out the more subtle issues.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/tesla-cybertruck-throttle-...
How's he going to watch doctors do their work? Have you ever seen vendors sit in on your appointments?
Diagnosing precision loss on Nvidia graphics cards
White text on white paper.
It would have been awesome if that ISBN issue were an actual ISBN re-use issue. I've run into issues coupling my system's design to the assumption that ISBNs uniquely identify a single edition of a single book. The intent of ISBNs are to be unique, but mistakes are made and resellers lose track or straight up abuse some ISBNs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the field's increased emphasis on reasoning, summarization, tool use, etc and optimizing for benchmarks on those factors might come at the expense of less emphasized/measured features like explicit recall.

And that might not really be a bad thing. It's generally more useful to have something that can access (say) a specific dataset about video games and summarize its content to answer questions than it is to have one that needs to encode and recall every answer to every long tail question itself.
“Race baiting” is a fairly incendiary way of putting it. The way I would put it would be to say that there’s a contemporary fixation on race that gets naively projected into other times and places in ways that are anachronistic and miss a lot of nuances. There’s also a tendency to overcorrect for past instances of this.

The thing is, you can motivate almost any oversimplified narrative with mutually exclusive rationales. Maybe you claim that all cowboys were white because you’re racist and you don’t think black people had the heroic qualities necessary for herding cattle. Or you could claim that all cowboys were white because the evil white man didn’t allow blacks to settle the frontier. I actually think this story is more on the side of nuance: it turns out some West Texas cowboys were black, some were white, and people on the frontier didn’t have the same obsession with maintaining racial systems of social hierarchy the way people did in the Deep South. Some of them would still be racist but a black man could handle those differences the same way men in that culture handled many of their differences, with his fists. And when this particular black cowboy did that, it worked out fine.

The odd claim about the etymology of the word “cowboy” does sort of hint and edge towards a completely different totalizing mythology of “actually, all cowboys were black”, but this also smells like bullshit to me. There were almost certainly more black cowboys than you’d assume based on watching old westerns, but they weren’t all black and none of the people in that place and time comfortably fit into any side of any contemporary culture war anyway. They were different people with ideas and motivations of their own, not just symbols in your contemporary culture war.
Same @ my tests w/ video game trivia questions: they might not be extremely popular facts and most humans would struggle to answer them ad-hoc but the facts are in Wikipedia and I'm pretty certain Wikipedia is in the 15T tokens of the training material.
Currently, LLMs generally don't give an indication of confidence level when generating output.

But could they? Is it technically plausible for a LLM to "know" when the extrapolations made are more vs. less tenuous?
Very nice. In similar fashion, a few years back I set out to create Wuhoo.

Wuhoo loosely stands for W indows U sing H eaders O nly. It is an attempt to create a single-header library (in the spirit of STB) for graphics related window management, compatible with both C and C++.

It works on Windows, Linux and Mac.

https://github.com/ViNeek/wuhoo
Yes but we’re also not suffering from starvation and disease as much to the best of my knowledge, so that’s something.
TLA+ Web Explorer
So much this, why do apps use .config like a place to store app data? We have .local and .cache for that
Linked it in the other comment that you had replied to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40086651
> he took over Twitter and ran it into the ground

https://companiesmarketcap.com/twitter/marketcap/

> while at the same time tanking the goodwill people had for Tesla

https://companiesmarketcap.com/tesla/marketcap/

Before you reply about the obviously lower valuation over the last few years, take a look at some comparable companies: https://companiesmarketcap.com/

The economic realities of Musk's ventures does not align with what seems to be the zeitgeist opinion of him as a person.
We are taking carbon out of the ground and turning it into CO2. We know how much and it matches the amount of increase in the atmosphere and oceans.

They're not "skeptics". They're not even deniers. They're just liars.
The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
Those models are 50% and 150% larger. I imagine they just contain more data.
I think Python fell victim to the Peter Principle. It got promoted beyond its competence.
The main thing I want LLMs to help with is obscure stuff. If the answer is mainstream or well known, I can get it more reliably through a normal web search.
Due to demand, they just hire h1b who will work for below the cost of living.
Maybe not let people work 12 hour shifts? This isn't the 19th century.
Yeah, plebeian schmucks deserve to have AI lie about them of course /s
I guess the scarcity of cheap labour contributed to the demise of C++ in the applications world.
The context here is fructose, you're mixing it up with glucose. Both technically sugars, but very different effects. People have had access to lactose for a long time too, but fructose is the issue.
A useful rule of thumb for evaluating a field you're not familiar with is 'Sturgeon's law'. Sturgeon's law is a refutation of claims of the form "don't bother looking at that because 90% of it is crap". The law states that 90% of everything is crap, and hence such claims prove too much.
> Someone who is discrediting all of philosophy shouldn't confuse Wittgenstein and Kant.

Getting the names confused is not the same as getting the people confused. My poster child for philosophical nonsense has always been the Tractatus. I just somehow got it into my head that it was written by Kant, not Wittgenstein (I've always been bad at remembering names) and I didn't bother to check because I was writing an HN comment and not a paper for publication.
Ads, sponsoring and SEO spam were also very unobtrusive for a while. A few decades passed and we have to sift trough all the garbage to find anything relevant in our searches, it's very likely that search engines will push harder and harder for these AI assistants while making finding organic content and authoritative sources even harder, resulting in it being nearly impossible to do research by yourself rather then trough an AI that has god knows what bias and perhaps subtle ad driven bias into it.
Git, it's saves you so much time
Nagel really missed an opportunity to name his paper, "What Is It Like to Quack?" instead of "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?".
That is describing the profession, the article is describing the origin of the term used to describe the profession. A “vaquero” is what we now would call “cowboy”, and we call them “cowboys” because it was originally applied to Black slaves who worked with cattle.

There’s no way to say the word “cowboy” originated from the word “vaquero”, because there is no similarity phonetically, nor does “vaquero” specifically include the Spanish word “boy”. (un cocinero is a “cook”, not a “cookboy”.)
Amazing? You can power off the screen in every car I've ever owned to clean it..or do it with the car off.
The only thing I needed to find out is that warming of the oceans is measured in HIROSHIMAS per second.
Choice of Piezoelectric Element over Accelerometer for an Shoe-Based Sensor
I knew this was possible, but I had never actually seen it implemented before. And to think, the project is over 10 years old!

When I first started programming Cocoa, I was always kind of miffed that the happy-path was: "Use Objective-C and main() should just hand-off the reigns to NSApplicationMain()". Kind of like the happy-path on Windows is "WinMain plus a bunch of boilerplate crud".

It's always felt somehow vaguely "correct" to have main() be your actual application entry point and have it manage whatever main loop you need yourself. I see that this project doesn't actually quite get there either. It's the same kind of voodoo: boilerplate code, and then cmacs_void_msgSend(NSApp, sel_getUid("run")); hands over the reigns.
You're not far off. I'm tempted to head off to write a "if philosophers were programming languages" post now.
https://www.timeanddate.com
just about everything you want to know about sun and moon data for any location. Also a world clock, time zones, timers, calculators, even weather.

https://filezilla-project.org/
FileZilla FTP client

https://adionsoft.net/fastimageresize/
What the name says and super fast, super small output. supports multiple image formats.

https://www.xponentsoftware.com/xml-editor.aspx
for fast loading huge XML files. editing not very full-featured and search is slow, but xml schema validation is fast.

https://afdc.energy.gov/stations#/find/nearest
Alternative energy locations with map. USA, Canada. electric/charging type, CNG, LNG, Hydrogen, propane, biodiesel, ethanol. route selection.

https://fire.airnow.gov/
Fire and smoke map. USA, Canada.
> regardless of whether I can subscribe to all of their principles

Sure, being able to work with people who have different values is a noble thing. But what about whether or not they observe international law?

This is like a business saying "I cooperate with all customers, regardless of their criminal nature". That is a quite different statement.
Bark.cpp: Port of Suno AI's Bark in C/C++ for fast inference
I’m feeling that this submission might be more apropos of Gaza than the Russian invasion.
It is a library class, because C++ is a rich enough language to implement automatic refcounting as a library class, by hooking into the appropriate lifecycle methods (copy ctor, dtor).
The pedals are manufactured (and likely assembled with the pad) by a supplier in Canada, according to https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/nhtsa-off...
> I would love to see a reference to the claim that Wittgenstein regarded Tractatus as a joke.

Apparently I was wrong about that too. According to another comment in this thread [1], he disavowed the work later, but intended it to be serious when he wrote it.

It has always seemed like self-evident nonsense to me though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089100
"All output is hallucination, some output is useful"?
Yup, but goes to show that money isn't enough.
The facts don't change. Apples fell to the ground when we thought newtonian gravity was correct, they still fall to the ground now that general relativity is the accepted explanation. Theories are explanations of factual observations. The observation of the phenomenon we're calling dark matter is as factual as apples falling to the ground. The explanation is subject to change as we learn more, but the facts won't.
>Everyone has the same agreement.

The same as the one I pasted? No, ChatGPT & others do not have the same agreement.

>They will be forced into a pivot they can't succeed in.

They seem like they've been doing alright for the past 15 years. I'm sure they can figure it out.
and Ukraine is still on track to lose the war even after all that sanction

Western companies exiting Russia created several Russian billionaires overnight

Resulting in more tax revenues and money staying within that country

I'm sorry but Western virtue signaling impact is routinely over-exaggerated and actually achieves the complete opposite of what it set out to do
That XKCD comic is more than a decade old at this point. Nowadays, graphic calculators for the most part have 32-bit MCUs (or even SoCs for the high-end), color IPS displays with backlights, USB connectors... On the software side, the NumWorks firmware is programmed in modern bare-metal C++.

Even Casio scientific calculators have an on-calc programming language and a spreadsheet nowadays.
Sure, between the bigger cities, the train is amazing. I did Valencia to Madrid by high speed rail in 2022 for example. Works great. The average speed is close to the maximum speed of the train; it only slows down to stop.

But for the more rural regions and smaller cities, you pretty much need a car.
What is FreeBSD Missing? [video]
The speed of light is the same in all inertial frames.
As the sibling comment points out, the rate of increase is important.

Dynamical systems are often sensitive to the value of a parameter, its rate of change and/or its rate of rate of change.

Eg. You can warm milk to a certain temperature (the parameter) on a stove on gentle heat and it will be fine. If you warm it to the same temperature on high heat (i.e. increased rate of parameter), it will burn. That's because the convection process in this system has limited maximum speed.

If you look at when previously the Earth's atmosphere had high CO2, it took hundreds of thousands to many millions of years get there. We did it in a 100 years, so at least a thousand times faster.
I remember reading this book when it came out in 2002 and the expanded version in 2012.

It made a largely circumstantial case for IBM's involvement in the holocaust.

Yes - the following things are true:

* Germany used IBM Tabulating Equipment to compile its racial census.

* Deutsch Reichsbahn used IBM Punched Card equipment to run most of its operations.

* The German Government made extensive use of IBM Punched Card equipment to track prisoners, including in the concentration camps.

Beyond those three facts the case is basically circumstantial - Black made a bunch of suppositions when drawing his conclusions -

* IBM New York knew all of the particulars of use of its tabulating equipment, and what the outcomes would be.

* IBM New York had defacto continuing control of its german subsidiary (Dehomag) even after it was functionally nationalized.

* IBM New York provided technology and parts thru IBM Geneva.

* Profits from Dehomag were funneled thru IBM Geneva to IBM New York.

* Most glaringly, he asserts that IBM Punched Card technologies were the only way to do what Nazi Germany did at the scale it did it at.

However he makes the assertions without much backing evidence for it, and its all clouded in an aura of leading purple prose.

This article presents a pretty concise version of the gaping flaws in the book - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/33853

Most notably, the book leaves out important context - even if everything he supposed about IBM were true, what IBM did wasn't unique, it was common corporate practices at the time, indeed, many american corporations had similar subsidiaries, all of whom at a minimum contributed to the german war effort.
I think Meta.ai needs to add a disclaimer below the chat input box similar to ChatGPT:

"ChatGPT can make mistakes. Consider checking important information."
The funny thing is, Apple themselves seems to have forgotten about the whole BSD-rooted operating system. Anybody who ventures off the beaten path of developing software for a modern Mac will inevitably encounter a lot of cobwebs. One of my favorites: When Apple implemented app bundles, they never updated dyld's search paths to be aware of the app bundle directory structure, meaning you have to manually patch your rpaths. Not a huge deal, and one that's hidden from you if you only ever know xcode, but it's one of many very sloppy things I noticed coming from a strong Unix background to Mac. There's a lot of really weird incongruence where the deeper you go into the system, the more everything feels covered in dust and neglected. I was always sold on Macs having really great top-to-bottom integration and have all the polish and attention to detail you can expect out of a corporate Unix-like, but that's not what I found. It's more like a really shiny superstructure bolted on top of an ancient, rust-eaten BSD. Don't get me started on how a lot of the "newer" stuff at that low level tends to be some of the absolute worst takes on a concept. The "App Sandbox" might be the most disgusting, slap-dash design for process isolation I've ever seen bolted onto a kernel.

I get Apple's target market is quite literally the opposite kind of user that I am. That being said, I always find it curious that people still tout Mac as this kind of "Super Polished Desktop/Workstation Unix" and often cite the Unix certification. It feels like the more you try to use a Mac like you would any other Unix machine, the more you have to fight it. Often it doesn't feel any different to trying to wrangle Windows with WSL. I had less hiccups and trip-ups learning Plan 9 than I did coming to terms with macOS.
I agree, the term might be less than ideal but still:

Whether a model is good or bad at recalling facts from its training material matters to end-users and GPT-4, Claude 3 Opus (and bigger models in general?) tend to be better at this than other models.
Volcanism, most likely.