skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are directing your ire at the wrong party. Hachette has nothing to gain from continuing to pursue this lawsuit, the only possible outcome (as you correctly state) is the world becomes a worse place.

Hachette obviously benefits from teaching would-be unlimited "lenders" a lesson. Even anti-DRM, "buy my books only if you can afford" authors were against this hare-brained lending scheme because the IA didn't even bother to buy a single copy of the books they were "lending".

The blame squarely falls at the IA's feet; being an idealist doesn't give you the rights to delve into illegal behavior, regardless of the righteousness of your cause or the depth of your conviction. If the world is better with an org in it, and it jeopardizes it's own ability to remain a going concern, it's clear to me who is culpable. "Too good to die" doesn't exist.
@dbish nailed it, but I can give you a bit more concrete example. Continuing off the light example I started off with. An ontology for knowing what city a person currently is in. We have two classes of entities, a person, and a city. There is a single relationship type "LocatedAt" you can add and remove edges to indicate where a person is and you can construct some verification rules such as "a person can only be in one city at time".

To have an LLM construct a knowledge graph of where someone is (and I know this example is incredibly privacy invasive but its a simple concrete example not representative). Imagine giving an LLM access to all of your text messages. You can imagine giving it a prompt along the lines of "identify who is being discussed in this series of messages, if someone indicates where they are physically located report that as well" (you'd want to try harder than that, keeping it simple).

You could get an output that says something like `{"John Adams": "Philadelphia, PA, US"}`. If either the left or right side are missing create them. Then remove any LocatedAt edges for the left side and add one between these two entities. You have a simple knowledge graph.

Seems easy enough, but try to ask slightly harder questions... When did we know John Adams was in Philadelpha? Have they been there before? Where were they before Philadelphia? The ontology I just developed isn't capable of representing that data. You can of course solve these problems and there are common ontological patterns for representing it.

The point is, you kind of need to know the kind of questions you want to ask about your data when you're building your ontology and you're always going to miss something. Usually you find out the unknown questions you want to ask of the data only after you've already built your system and started asking it questions. It's the follow-ups that kill you.

There has been a lot of work on totally unstructured ontologies as well, but you're moving the hard problem elsewhere not solving it. Instead of having high quality data you can't answer every question with, you have arbitrary associations that may mean the same thing and thus any query you make is likely _missing_ relevant data and thus inaccurate.

Huge headache to go down, but honestly I think it is a worthwhile one. Previously if you changed your ontology to answer a new question, a human would have to go through and manually and painstakingly update your data to the new system. This is boring, tedious, easy-to-get-wrong-due-to-inattention kind of work. It's not complex, its not hard, its very easy to double check but it does require an understanding of language. LLMs are VERY capable of doing this kind of work, and likely more accurately.
IMO, Fast charging is really only necessary for long trips.

Since L2 is more than enough to charge overnight, I'd rather see every parking space get a 30A 240V plug (which should be considerably cheaper than charging stations), with some shared metering to not overload the circuit, but also enough to fully charge all EVs overnight - essentially a single L2 charging station, that moderates load over a large number of plugs.
That's how you can immediately tell a JWST image from Hubble; hubble has 4-spike patterns.
Looks extremely cool. Have you shared / do you plan to share examples of this in practice? I would be great to read some case studies or even just browse some actual PRs rather than trying to judge from the catchy video :)
I'm going to have a hard time understanding how it's fraud if it's legal.
> Baglino’s stock sale coincided with optimism from veteran Tesla investor Ron Baron on CNBC on Thursday. The head of Baron Capital, whose largest position is in Tesla, called the bottom for the stock.

> “It’s going to go up huge. Now is the bottom,” he said …

> “It’s not so exciting to be up 1% in a year when the market is so strong,” he said. “I do look around all the time and see everyone getting rich—and I’m not poor, but I haven’t made a lot of progress over the last three years, so therefore I think it’s like a rubber band—I’m going to catch up again.”

Imagine giving your money to someone writing this line of thinking
Dokku Maintainer here:

Piku is awesome! I've always thought the PaaS space is wide enough for many players in specific niches, and I love the approach of running processes outside of containers. About the only thing I would change is to utilize systemd (or similar) for spawning processes, but otherwise it's super neat. I've used it myself on a raspberry pi zero :)
> When laws are bad, people should thumb their nose at them

Sure. But use some intelligence and risk management when you're doing it.

This was just outright stupidity, and there's no excuse for it. :( :( :(
At some point we somehow decided being an outcast is bad all around. However, looking into the past, a lot of people who used to be loners became artists later in live, or scientists, or tinkerers. I know how this sounds at first, but having the time to drill down to the absolute core of something, uninterrupted by a big social circle or crushes yields its own merits.
Clear issue is that why are these not separate systems or pages entirely. Registering for this process should be entirely separate from using it. And if also paper forms are accepted, whole process should need more tracking from canditate.
Like I tell my parents, taking away "The love boat" rerun away from ME on channel 4 when I was eight, IS NOT LIKE taking away a phone from a kid today that is playing Roblox. Roblox is NOT a rerun of a horrible 70s show. It is a fully immersive, awesome and a complete social network. I view it closer to cocaine.
90s TV at least had physical boundaries on its use. Most people couldn't watch TV in the bathroom for example. Phones and the Internet can be used anywhere at this point.
The HIPAA final rule mandates ASC X12 as the standard format for certain interactions such as eligibility and claims. It's old and somewhat clunky, but it's not terribly hard to implement. Libraries are available for most popular languages. Even if we replaced X12 with a modern format like HL7 FHIR (which is now legally allowed for some interactions such as prior authorization) that wouldn't solve the fundamental business, legal, and clinical problems.
>I wasn't talking about "state of the art LLMs," I am aware that commercial offerings are much better trained in Spanish. This was a thought experiment based on comments from people testing GPT-3.5 with Swahili.

A thought experiment from other people comments on another language. So...No. Fabricating failure modes from their personally constructed ideas about how LLMs work seems to be a frustratingly common occurrence in these kinds of discussions.

>Frustratingly, just few months ago I read a paper describing how LLMs excessively rely on English-language representations of ideas, but now I can't find it.

Most LLMs are trained on English overwhelmingly. GPT-3 had a 92.6% English dataset. https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/dataset_statisti...

That the models are as proficient as they are is evidence enough of knowledge transfer clearly happening. https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13349. If you trained a model on the Catalan tokens GPT-3 was trained on alone, you'd just get a GPT-2 level gibberish model at best. I don't doubt you, i just don't think it means what you think it means.

As for papers, these are some interesting ones.

How do languages influence each other? Studying cross-lingual data sharing during LLM fine-tuning - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13286

Teaching Llama a New Language Through Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04042

Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer in instruction tuning of large language models - https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14778

Multilingual LLMs are Better Cross-lingual In-context Learners with Alignment - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05940

It's not like there is perfect transfer but the idea that there's none at all seemed so ridiculous to me (and why i asked the first question). Models would be utterly useless in multilingual settings if that were really the case.

Like the 3rd paper, GPT's instruction tuning is done basically only in English - https://mobile.twitter.com/janleike/status/16252072516309606...
> Isn't the rate of the expansion of the universe increasing?

It is now, but up until a few billion years ago, it wasn't, it was decreasing. Many of the objects we currently see are far enough away that the light we are now seeing from them was emitted while the universe's expansion was still decelerating.

> that assumes the observable universe is homogeneous, which it isn't

No, the models cosmologists use do not assume the universe is homogeneous period. They only assume it is homogeneous on average, on large distance scales (roughly scales larger than the size of the largest galaxy clusters).
I’m aware of that. I was talking about the repeating pattern of blue and red stripes within the spikes.
Despite being widely repeated they've publically denied this claim a few times (for e.g. https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1712140497127342404, https://x.com/simonw/status/1712165081327480892)
It really feels like Bellingcat has bumped their journalistic game. Previously I remember them being really good at confirming or contextualizing open source intelligence especially via geolocating events, particularly in Ukraine. But their journalism aspects was severely lacking.

In this report they talk to several experts in the field, including UN officials, they ask for responses at the IDF, etc. So not only is this a nice forensic job (usual for Bellingcat; and the reason they have so many submissions here on HN) but also an excellent peace of investigative journalism. I hope Bellingcat keeps this up.
That's an assertion I hear a lot, but is that true? How can you possibly prove it

If I buy a flash cart for the Switch, and put a pirated copy Mario Wonder on there, that's a loss of a potential sale. You could argue that I wouldn't have purchased it anyway, but you really have no way of knowing that.
> “ sophisticated tradecraft “ lol what?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques
I’m letting it sink in that GitHub thinks it would be a win if 10%+ of the world population is involved in creating software.

I have no hope of hiring an electrician in that world.
I’ve heard it.

Some of these now-adults felt left out. They resented that they weren’t part of any conversations with their peers about what was on tv etc.
Let kids use tech, but make them do their homework first.
I'm sure of it. And yet based on this rapidly getting to the front page, it seems like many of us are part of today's lucky ten thousand: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Might be more than ten thousand, even, based on the reactions :)
Once you have a corpus of your own personal text, I'd recommend to use the current best analyzer, oxeylyzer[0]. You can find more details on the Alternate Keyboard Layout discord.

[0] https://github.com/O-X-E-Y/oxeylyzer
No, you never call them to the perch, you only feed them when they’re already there to begin with. The perch and clothesline may not even need to be right next to each other, depending on the situation.
The material they used (water mixed with wood, frozen) is called pykrete.

> Blocks of ice containing as little as four percent wood pulp were weight for weight as strong as concrete; in honor of the originator of the project, we called this reinforced ice "pykrete". When we fired a rifle bullet into an upright block of pure ice two feet square and one foot thick, the block shattered; in pykrete the bullet made a little crater and was embedded without doing any damage. My stock rose, but no one would tell me what pykrete was needed for, except that it was for Project Habakkuk.

(from I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier by Max Perutz, via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete)
I think these types of tools will become really effective when they stop trying to target every single programming language and platform ever created and focus on one specific version of an integrated platform.

Most businesses don't actually need software to be in whatever flavor of the month the dev team happens to be interested in. They just want to be able customize their software.

By restricting the scope somewhat, you make it much more feasible to make sure the model has the training and/or knowledge ready for retrieval to fulfill tasks using a specific stack.

So I see this type of thing as quickly evolving into a tool for non-developers. And within a few years, these tools will cut into software engineering jobs. It will become part of the evolution of no-code and low-code.
When I was a kid I watched a lot of "You've Been Framed!", along with "Country X's funniest home videos" - does this new stuff differ much?
How can someone hire the whole team? :)
If the potential answers are given, sure
> There's a lot of sentiment here uncritically equating "right" to "the law".

No, that is not what's happening and you are willfully misreading the people who disagree with you. The people who oppose IA's decision are doing this because it was foolish to tie the continued existence of the Archive to a designed-to-fail protest action. I encourage protesting unjust laws, but if you set things up so that your inherently-doomed protest will take a critical piece of infrastructure down with you, people are going to be pissed. Don't take something people rely on and make it collateral damage.
How do we distinguish (potentially cherry-picked) claims made in such a book from a simple moral panic?
Folding and tearing construction paper to make simple card games (memory), mazes, and models.

Cardboard boxes for exploring and cutout costumes. Duct tape for patching things up.

Maker books and science experiment books have lots of craft ideas too.

Pretend to be a robot and ask them to move you forward and backward. Turn by spinning until you hear stop.
And a sha256 quine would be terrifying. :)
> I've never heard people who are now adults who had "TV time" restrictions express a lot of FOMO or regret about it

I grew up adjacent to a pretty wealthy area where every kid I went to school with had cable TV. My parents just flat out refused to get cable saying it was a waste of money.

It was a really alienating thing as a kid to not be able to talk about what was on TV.

My parents are nice enough people but their stubbornness over this is something that for the life of me I'll never understand. I don't really interact w/ them much anymore so who knows. My general take on family is that they're just people you were introduced to.

So there's one data point on the other side.
They have a link covering this in their footer - "Don't like our name?" https://porkbun.com/single-tear.html
I recommend watching the Tencent-produced Chinese adaptation, free on YouTube. It hewed very closely to the novel.
OpenAI memory available for ChatGPT Plus users
I'm sure we'll share some of the strategies we used here in upcoming talks. It's, uh, "nontrivial". And it's not just "what text do you stick in the prompt".
We don’t know that, though. Consider an evolution of a flat coordinate plane given by (x,y) -> (e^t * x, e^t * y). This process can run forever and has the property that all points appear to move away from all other points through time, yet the size of the plane never changes.

It’s better to think of the Big Bang as describing a point in time rather than a point in space.
Why Brain-Like Computers Are Hard
or getting engineers to communicate properly with each other :)
I don't think the TikTok ban is an adjudication of the TikTok scrolling behavior or addictive feedback loop. It's an adjudication on the idea that a company that controls those technologies could be help accountable by the United States.

I think the current US stance is: we are allowing the crop dusting of american high schools with digital heroine, however, we demand the right to potentially regulate it in the future. A Chinese owned TikTok sits outside that potential regulation where a Facebook or YouTube exists within that potential regulation.

China themselves ban TikTok for kids, and only have an educational version available.
You have succeeded at hiring an electrician in THIS world? What's their number? Do they actually show up when they say they will?!?!?!!1!one
https://archive.md/x0zn7
Wow, those hardware specs are nice. What compromises do you refer to, specifically? I think that the 8GB ram and 128GB flash cache are on the small side, but both are user-replaceable so not that big a deal.

The only thing I really miss here is ECC ram, but that's entirely due to Intel's market segmentation and not something they can change, save by completely changing their platform vendor.
As long as it does the language that my business currently uses, I am all for that!

Jokes aside, I am not sure I buy the premise. I have read somewhere (citation required) that LLMs get better at other things after having learned how to code. And maybe they also get better at coding in one language after having learned a bunch.
Why don't you try using PlusCal/TLA+ on some portion of the code at work (if you still care to stay there) to prove its effectiveness? Whittle down the code to something basic to show how it'd work so your manager/co-workers can see for themselves on code that they're reasonably familiar with.

Unless your manager/colleagues are intimately familiar with such tools, I'd think that your touting their usage at work, is more like wishful thinking.
I'd like to also include keyboard shortcuts and commands that don't end up in recorded text.
hmm doesnt work anymore
This could be straight out of the Command and Conquer: Red Alert series.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert
If we're talking solder paste here, I doubt its a skill issue.

Its super easy to grab a toothpick and pull out excess solder paste on a per-pad basis. Just do it before you heat the board up (solder paste is applied cold, so there's plenty of time to "correct" things if they look bad).

The "problem" is that this whole exercise is an unnecessary waste of time in my experience. Just live with the excess solder and solder-wick it up at a later point. Swishing around a solder-wick is way easier than tooth-picking the solder-paste on each pad to the right size.
Cue the novel “One Second After “, which describes what the world might look like after an EMP attack.
Britain has a fairly unique attitude, it must be left-over from the empire - best summed up as "this is the garden of Eden, and the worst punishment is exile'

When the 15 year old girl joined Isis, and then subsequently re-appeared in a refugee camp with a newborn, there was little desire to arrest her and figure out if she is guilty or a victim. We just took away her British passport and washed our hands of her. I thought the government would at least rescue the baby, but apparently nobody cared and it perished in the inhumane conditions of the refugee camp.

This is somewhat unique - for example Russia could come after you, or arrest you on entry, but they don't have this idea of exile as punishment.
How much is the cost per user? Maybe it is not that much in the end (as usual)
You're not helpless! Don't give a digital device to a small child, period.

You could think of this in terms of training the child that what other people are doing is not a direct indicator of what they should be doing.

The greatest FOMO is missing out on personal autonomy...
I notice you responded to this and not any of the other critical threads (at least, at time time I'm posting). Tell me you're defensive and have no leg to stand on without telling me you're defensive and have no leg to stand on.
I wonder if enhanced operation of the lymphatic system might be causal to better mental health outcomes? The lymphatic system doesn't have a "pump", so it relies on muscle contraction to drive circulation. So more movement/exercise drives more lymphatic activity which may lead to better outcomes in people, especially if mental disorders are correlated with buildup of waste materials in the brain.
This is great and all but how do they look? The only good example is the tape recorder which imho looks less and less like a real tape deck at larger sizes; the shape of the tape is noticeably distorted and the curves in the shape of the body are unrealistic.

Saving space is well and good but for icons it’s secondary to how clear and usable the images themselves are.
I truly enjoyed the authors’ tone throughout. It felt like a condensed drama / saga.

Can’t wait to hear what happens next!
Are graph databases really relevant during retrieval? Does anyone use them to augment a vector store as a candidate source?
My wife and I also have three kids that share a simple flip phone, with no real access to social media, or the internet. A good number of their peer's do have unrestricted access to smart phone's, and as they have gotten older I think they have started to turn the corner seeing how destructive it is. My son lamented about his neighborhood friends never wanting to play because they are addicted to TikTok, and even thought there are still times he begs us for a smart phone so he can fit in, its starting to sink in that unregulated screen time is a huge problem.

We have also slowly increased his freedom to regulate his own screen time, both TV and Computer, and have seen him self-regulating, and commenting how easy it is to get sucked into being a screen zombie.
Not in that ballpark, but I can ask around.
Bro, you should really take the hint soon.
Right on! I’m happy to see the FCC on a roll lately. Keep it up!
You start by talking about apples and finish talking about cars.
NAT is broken by design. And CG-NAT can't do any kind of port forwarding on the routers. And adding more NAT is just breaking more networks.

RFC 4941 is currently old enough to be taking it's SAT's and preparing itself for college... :)
It’s pretty good at completing relatively simple code. If you already know what exactly you write and have a consistent and simple coding style it will typically recognize what you are doing and complete whole blocks.

It takes an experienced eye to fix the code after, but overall it makes you a bit faster at those kinds of tasks.

But if you’re in thinking and exploration mode then turn it off. It’s a massive distraction then.
"I've never heard people who are now adults who had "TV time" restrictions express a lot of FOMO or regret about it."

I agree. It's surprising how few people make rules for thier kids to help direct them in life these days. Of course independent and unsupervised time is important for maturity too. But it's surprising how any sort of discipline seems to be viewed as a negative and many parents give up at the slightest resistance.

To be clear, I don't mean discipline as punishment. I mean it more like order and routine. Stuff like shining your shoes, going to church with your family, helping someone old or disabled in the store, etc. I guess being responsible and productive members of society in a more general sense. I know kids never really liked doing chores, but it seems like in the past we understood we were part of a household and we should do our share. Now it seems like many kids just whine and the parents let them out it. I'm not sure if it's just entitled kids, lazy parents, or something else.