skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is indeed not a card that the west can play easily. In order to get China to stop buying Russian gas and selling weapons tech, we would need to deeply sanction China, which is only possible if the west is willing to take on really serious economic pain. And that’s not worth it for a non-NATO state.
Sorry in advance for a rant against the proliferation of LLM benchmarks:

I wrote a book on using LLMs in applications 14 months ago, I am sort of a fan, within reason. I don’t like all the mind-space taken up on comparisons between LLMs on standard test suites because I personally think most instruction tuned models are specifically tuned for the standard tests.

I like to see which models people are choosing to use for their projects, and of course, tools like Ollama make it easy to try many models and get a least a subjective feel for what they can do.

For model comparison I have my own standard little tests that are my own and private, and I can be sure models are not tuned specifically for.

I do the same for commercial LLM APIs and products surfacing models. For example, I have a few short tests I run in Bard to test integration with Google Workspace data, something I am interested in, and it is interesting to track at least subjectively the slow improvement.
> Insurance companies for example don't inherently do something

They pay out in case of loss...

> None of these are monopolistic

I researched the top few. Except for liberty media - which looks like a portfolio - they have all engaged in consolidating or anti-competitive behaviours. Perhaps not actual monopolies in the strictest sense, but I never claimed that he actually owned monopolies, and imo the only thing stopping them being actual monopolies is regulation.

- DaVita: "DaVita has a history of attempting to buy up competing dialysis clinics in an industry that is already highly concentrated, in large part due to the acquisition activity of DaVita and other large dialysis clinic chains" https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-imposes-strict-limits-davita-incs-future-mergers-following-proposed-acquisition-utah-dialysis

- Occidental: "Nearly 50 Democratic lawmakers in the US Congress have urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch a comprehensive investigation into recent mergers and acquisitions by major energy corporations. The call for action comes on the heels of a significant uptick in consolidation within the sector, with oil and gas companies embarking on a $250 billion buying spree in 2023 alone. Leading players such as Exxon Mobil, Chevron Corp, and Occidental Petroleum executed acquisitions totaling $135 billion during the year, leveraging high stock prices to secure access to lower-cost reserves." https://www.pymnts.com/cpi-posts/democrats-call-for-ftc-probe-into-oil-and-gas-mergers-amid-monopoly-concerns/

- Kraft Heinz: "The merger between Kraft Foods and H.G. Heinz further consolidates the global food production into the hands of about a half dozen companies. These six multinational powerhouse corporations can exert enormous power over the retail grocery channel, and by extension control the dynamics of a necessary area for all people: the access to food. These corporations represent an emerging monopoly in an area where competition is needed, arguably, more than just about any other industry in the world." https://www.upi.com/Top_News/Opinion/2015/03/26/The-Kraft-Heinz-merger-the-monopoly-on-food/4591427324041/

I stopped there because we appear to be talking past each other.
A zero-commission crowdfunding platform for more efficient micropayments
Last week I launched the Communick Collective, which is a crowdfunding platform with a mechanism similar to flattr: backers set a monthly fixed budget for their donation and they can choose how to split that among the different creators that they want to support.

The monthly contribution starts at $5/month, but how that is split can be down to 1% of your total budget.

Unlike the existing crowdfunding platforms, we charge no commission and creators get to keep all the money that was allocated to them - minus payment fees and taxes. The "twist" in the Collective is that you need to be an active subscriber for any of the services provided by Communick. Given that Communick plans start at $29/year, if you compare with Patreon (which takes 8% of the donations) anyone receiving more than $30/month through Patreon could benefit from our platform.

I'm getting in touch with as many content creators as I can, and hopefully in the coming days there will be more people available in the page of members.
Deepl has the best rep for European languages - though it now supports many others. I can say it's German translations are pretty good (as a non-native German speaker).

But ChatGPT blows it out of the water if you have a specific context and don't need something exactly translated (e.g. formal letter/e-mail writing).
I doubt energy usage dictate the final price in such a way. You can't compare two widely different products from two company at completely different development stage to infer the energy usage of their product
>That’s forced her to grapple with the economic implications of climate change, which is having increasingly heavy effects on many of the world’s poor.

Lets put climate change aside for a second.

If the rich world could pull the rest of the world out of poverty. It should do it.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief

Which we have. We have almost entirely eliminated extreme poverty and are now moving the goal posts to aim for even loftier goals. Huge success.

How did we do this? Burning fossil fuels is the correct answer. We are pulling the world out of extreme poverty and the people who are politically against this, 'extinction rebellion' types are against raising people out of poverty. These people are all wealthy rich people who are arguing to keep poor people poor. There's 0 extinction rebellion activists in Africa or Asia.

The idea that we should stop burning fossil fuels and start reversing poverty for these poor countries is a laughable proposal at best, immoral and evil in reality. Africa/Asia simply won't let you harm their future by shutting off fossil fuels.

China has thousands of coal powered plants in operation and another thousand under construction with intent to operate for decades to come. There's literally no chance they are going to give these up and return those people to poverty. If some group attempts to stop them from operating coal plants, that group will be killed.

South Africa is going to lead most of africa into building coal power plants in the coming decades. You can expect thousands more coal plants all over africa within our lifetime.

The moral debt we have is 0. Our moral credit/goals are to certainly getting clean renewable electricity to the entire world.
You can always have a “bubble level” showing you the orientation. Anything is better than requiring a player to orient themselves very specifically to play at all.
Does electron explicitly use Wayland ozone? The default setting still uses x11 and wouldn't be affected.
It's pretty commonly used in my experience, but that might just be the types of books I read perhaps.
Is this news? I've got a nearly year old app that supports over 2 dozen local LLMs with support for using them with Siri and Shortcuts. I added support for Llama 3 8B the day after it came out and also Eric Hartford's new Llama 3 8B based Dolphin model. All models in it are quantized with OmniQuant. On iOS, 7B and 8B ones are 3-bit quantized and smaller models are 4-bit quantized. On the macOS version all models are 4-bit OmniQuant quantized. 3-bit Omniquant quantization is quite comparable in perplexity to 4-bit RTN quantization that all the llama.cpp based apps use.

https://privatellm.app/

https://apps.apple.com/app/private-llm-local-ai-chatbot/id64...
End-to-end encryption can actually facilitate privacy. Blockchain is at best orthogonal to privacy, a public ledger generally undermines it.

As an aside, I don’t really get how a domain name connects to privacy. When I use encryption (including HTTPS) to communicate, the goal is to stay hidden and unknown. When I set up a domain name for my business, the goal is directly the opposite. Not to say there can be no reasons to advertise while remaining anonymous, just not sure privacy is a great parallel to draw.
> Why is Yudkowsky taken seriously?

Trivialities Annoyances Immediate harm X-Risk
|------------------------------------------------------|
\----stuff you mention-------/
\---stuff Eliezer------/
wrote about

> The crackpot "hard takeoff" hysteria only distracts from reasonable discourse about these risks and how to mitigate them.

IDK, I feel endless hand-wringing about copyright and deepfakes distract from risks of actual, significant harm at scale, some of which you also mentioned.
GNUCash - https://gnucash.org/

Ledger - https://ledger-cli.org/
I've not heard any claim that they're making a loss, only that they're structured as a kinda-but-its-weird not-for-profit.

Given they tripped and fell over a money printing machine and then chose to lower their API prices, it would be pretty surprising (but not impossible) if their API prices are currently subsidised.
It's worth asking to use a bag you've brought. I do that all the time and businesses don't mind at all. Many are actually surprised and think it's a great idea.

For less planned purchases, I find it pretty easy to keep a bag in backpacks, jackets, etc. for ad hoc purchases (or carrying anything generally) to forgo one time use bags. The ones I use for everything are lightweight and foldable, and can easily fit in a pocket.
I think the point isn't really about the value of type safety but rather the value-add of bothering with the whole of typescript (as in the type safety they provide rather than an abstract ideal) versus some other solution.

It's quite annoying IMO. Some of the things it can be infer are reasonably impressive but then that gets balanced out with having to write out a lot of crap that something a bit more HM-like would be able to nail immediately (rather than just "Any!? Fuck you").

That and the refusal to add other value-adds (despite being a compiler in all but name) hobbles the union types and so on.
Note to developers: your website had better be fucking worth the effort.
For large language models. If you want a LLM daemon permanently running (which the article says they want to do), that means an extra several GB of memory needed on top of whatever else the OS the and apps are using.
Everything you know about loss is a lie
> And unlike Intel laptops of the past, many in 2020, including the XPS, Vostro, and Inspiron, have undervolting disabled by default due to the Plundervolt vulnerability.

Aaand SGX is now deprecated. Therefore, almost useless technology (aimed at big guys who would want to have a safe space protected from computer users and owners) prevents useful one from working. Keeping priorities straight!
I tried to use this to get better completions with nushell, but it just doesn't have the breadth and depth of completions that fish has as of yet, nor does it have automatic completion generation from manages (although it does have a tool for that) so I eventually gave up and just made fish itself my nushell's completion engine. However I'll be keeping my eye on it, because it's a really cool idea to have a shared completion engine for all shells, so that everyone can pool their work, and because of course having to install two entire shells just to use one of them is a bit silly so eventually I'd like to make the switch.
I'm so spoiled by the quality of modern closed-source models, I laughed out loud when the beginning of its answer just said [duplicate].
It is also a thought catalyzing statement, or could be at least...it is in no small part a function of culture and school curriculum.
Thanks Victor, it means a lot :)
> reality should know that someone can obtain any of your property

There you go, was that so hard?

Bitcoin isn’t some magical panacea, the reality is it’s as easily stolen/taken/lost in 99% of cases as anything else.

Sure, there might be some ultra tiny percentage of folks who are truly secure with it, but there is virtually the _same_ number who are ultra secure with other non-bitcoin stored value systems.
See also Bulma; you can totally get by without JS for most projects, though again, you'll miss out on the more interactive things.
Yeah this is my experience with DeepL as well. It might (sometimes) do better than Google Translate with lone sentences, but give it a few paragraphs and it'll entirely ignore some, and other times it starts repetitively rambling about stuff not even in the original text, quite frequently cars/houses/money.
ERPNext is the actually open source accounting software to consider here.
That's what I thought it was based on the title -- I've been looking for a simple tree-rewriting library (or DSL) for a while now.

Treecc[0] is probably the closest I've found and AFAICT would have to be beaten into submission to provide similar functionality. Plus its been abandoned and quite complicated methinks.

There was a project doing almost exactly what I wanted but in a different domain but, unfortunately, my indexing skills are subpar and I can't remember what it was called so it's lost...

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/treecc/treecc.html
Sounds like a place Etaoin Shrdlu would go.
its brilliant. its like the be-all-end-all db

i have a repo that uses it as a boilerplate https://github.com/profullstack/hynt-web -- take a look how I do authentication
> But I hold absolutely zero hard feelings toward Apple for not catering to gamers as a demographic

Honestly I'm glad they don't. The PC is the last open platform out there and the last thing I'd want to see is Apple encroaching on it with their walled gardens and carbonite-encased computers.
This may turn out to be the most true thing ever uttered on the internet.
The idea is that you can accept donations to cover the costs, but not beyond that.

So an organisation can pay developers to work on it, cover hosting costs etc. but they have to be careful not to accept donations for more than that. A non-profit can accept more provided it is used for the right objects.

I have no idea (neither does the author of the article) where that leaves an individual developer who accepts donations to cover the value of their time.
Per my sibling comment, I think the argument is not about speed, but simplicity.

Awkward switch syntax aside, the switch is simpler to reason about. Fundamentally we should strive to keep our code simple to understand and verify, not worry about compiler optimizations (on the first pass).
It's kind of perplexing how Google Translate has not improved at all (apparently), given that the "transformer" paper ("Attention is all you need") that kickstarted this whole LLM thing was published by Google(rs) intended for translation (between English and French)...

As a sibling mentioned it's probably something about cost, but given the narrow domain and the performance of smaller models on translation tasks, I'm surprised they're still doing the same old thing in 2024....
Apropos of nothing, but would there ever be a "non-wild" orgy? Perhaps an orderly progression of couplings, with a timekeeper and protocols, and tea being served?
IMHO type checking for dynamically typed languages should be done by the IDE instead of messing up the language itself. Fortunately at some point there will be an addon for your favorite IDE that does the type checking without touching your code. Microsoft could have developed such a rigorous type check addon for VSCode, but (unfortunately) instead they went for Typescript, no clue why they preferred to do the latter, maybe another throw to dominate the no1 browser language?
Elections are for show. D&R officials pick the winners. So much have been revealed in the courts. Vote 3rd party or this will continue.
Safari has 24% of the browser market.
I've had it generate some verbose stuff when using .?, along these lines:

(_c = this.log) === null || _c === void 0 ? void 0 : _c.withIndent(' ', () => {
var _a;
// (pointless ?. silence eslint)
(_a = this.log) === null || _a === void 0 ? void 0 : _a.pn(`Buffer address: 0x${utils.hex8(bufferAddress)} `);
});

This was originally this:

this.log?.withIndent(' ', () => {
// (pointless ?. silence eslint)
this.log?.pn(`Buffer address: 0x${utils.hex8(bufferAddress)} `);
});

If you have a long chain of ?., perhaps it gets really ugly.
I do think those are comparable.

Could be better, but it communicates the key concepts and emotional tone?
Is Dart sound these days? When I tried it, it was pretty easy to trigger type errors at runtime.
My take is that both have spectacular edge cases / failure modes that are essentially laughable from the other's point of view. It's hard to compare the two, when all we're doing is cherry picking scenarios.

I could point to a double pedestrian crossing near my place where cars routinely speed. Various people have told me that the drivers cannot see the pedestrians, for a variety of reasons (buildings, cars, and especially a large tree near one corner), yet the human drivers are confident to go 10-20 kph over the speed limit through the area, despite this lack of information. I can give many similar examples - people really do suck at driving, they just tend to get away with it most of the time because rare events are, well, rare.

AI sucks for a variety of other reasons. The only real question is whether on average, over all scenarios and ratios of humans to AIs populating the roads, one sucks more than the other. It's something I don't think we have the answer to.
I find it reasonable to stock the latest best sellers. They’re almost inherently culturally important because of their popularity. It’s important to provide a means for people to participate in that culture, even if they can’t afford the book.

I’m also generally happy when people read long-form content outside of school. I’ve certainly been guilty of not reading anything longer than a news article for long stretches.
Is she an Amazon SDE or SF techie or very similar?
Does she enjoy deadpan, droll, amd non sequitur?

If not, yeah.
> Yes, their loss would have a huge effect, but many are having to cope with that situation today.

I suspect they'd be in much worse shape if Taiwan were invaded.

First, they'd find themselves competing with current TSMC customers for the non-TSMC foundries.

And second, an invasion of Taiwan could lead to a full out war with China, which might mean the non-Taiwanese fabs have their production priorities overridden by the warring governments.
Role of fathers in children's emotion regulation development: systematic review
All these spam comments have pushed this to the top feed
> I see other opportunities to increase the language diversity on the web (further in the article)

I'm unconvinced this would be a good thing.
> I can't explain why it took CSS such a long time

It is weird to look back on but the web platform essentially went through a dark ages for a while. You could say the same about why it took us so long to get to ES6 JS, too. The standards bodies were frozen in ice (and I don’t quite know why either), everyone was debating HTML5 vs XHTML and somehow the rest of the platform floundered for years.
They probably mean useless to themselves, not useless to everyone.
> that copyright is a property rights thing

Copyright is a monopoly on distribution and sale, it does not give anyone "ownership".
I thought you were talking about Israel there, until the 34 million bit.
Elon Musk is fighting Australia to host a stabbing video on X
Oops, that's just bad writing from me. Should be clearer now that they aren't cancelling each other. Thanks!
There are absolutely no requirements in Danish law neither current or pending that requires a system to be "online" or "hosted".
Evidence for historical change toward a later perceived onset of old age
Back in 2020 my Swedish employer booked me a flight and I used Google Translate on the confirmation email. It changed the airport I was flying from

https://twitter.com/TomNomNom/status/1233058805598031873
> I think the tech is so new that we’re all collectively barely scratching the surface on what the medium could be.

"Consumer VR" has been around first in the mid-90's and then after a first "VR winter" in the second hype-cycle since 2013 (yes it's been over a decade already since the Oculus DK1).

Lack of time or opportunities can hardly be blamed for the missing killer application ;)

There is a killer application actually, and that's flight simulations. Hardly a mass-market of course. Rather as niche as it gets.

One problem of the Apple headset might be that the second VR winter had already started quite a while ago, and everybody is currently distracted by that "new" shiny thing called "AI".

Maybe if we could get the next two or three AI and VR hype cycles to perfectly overlap with each other...
Mathematicians marvel at 'crazy' cuts through four dimensions
“Certainty breeds insanity”, or “make a pledge and mischief is nigh”, are two translations of one of the three things inscribed at Delphi.

The other two:

- “Know thyself.”

- “Everything in moderation.”

Good advice, difficult to keep in mind!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi
"Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed
Maybe I'm just not as good of a developer as you, but I often fail to understand 100% of the codebase, or I even make mistakes sometimes. Having a system catch my back to tell me what else I need to update in my refactor is a huge help for me. Maybe that's just not a problem those 10x developers have?

> instead they built a stupid jail that down compiles to unreadable sludge

Does it? The Typescript compiler mostly just erases types, leaving the code otherwise the same. Here's a non-trival example https://tsplay.dev/mA078N, where the output is basically the same as the input, just with type syntax erased.

IIRC the only 'language feature' that Typescript actually compiles is enums, which is a bit of a big blob. There's compiler flags to 'fix' that, or you can just not use enums.
yeah but not mainstream and it needs accessories and is probably more for teaching schools.

I would love to see all of this in a free/paid marketplace and with a basic learning progress framework behind it.
Well you’re highlighting the whole premise of Google Translate with your example. It requires context. It’s not confident enough to translate a word coming from English, that seems to be used very little outside France, and probably not that common in the sources of Google Translate. So you need to give it a context by adding an article.
If you have a single user you can use desktop software (I use Gnucash myself).

If you have more than two users you cannot use it in production.

SO it only useful if you have exactly two users.

The SSPL seems far close to being open than the BSL.
That’s how they used to do it before about 1900, yeah. Victorian orgies were on a whole different plane of sophistication.
Do you know for a fact that TikTok is not more beneficial to democracy than detrimental? Could it be possible that your opinion is based upon the various stories you have read on the matter, and could it be possible that those stories are misleading?

Ironically, TikTok is a good platform for learning about why people think the things they do, though it is also a very powerful tool for exacerbating the problem. Power of most any kind can be used for good or ill, and TikTok is certainly powerful. If I was in the controlling beliefs of the masses business, canceling TikTok is the first thing I would do also...and to make sure it gets done I would bundle it in with funding for Ukraine and Israel.
Not just PHP, Laravel. Should make for decent long term stability!