skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how an AI assistant will "lock me in." It's different than services that depend on network effects like Facebook. I suppose giving it access to things like Gmail is a sort of "lock". So far I haven't seen many compelling use cases for having personalized info that would also stop me from using other companies' AI products.
Such scale also creates opportunities.

If you have 10 servers, a developer can't spend a couple of months to get a 0.1% performance boost--the benefit will never cover the cost. If you have 100,000 servers, it just might. If you have 1,000,000 servers, it almost certainly is worth an entire team looking for that much performance, year in and year out.

This is true of performance, avoiding downtime, or whatever else. You could never justify such an expense at a startup, but with sufficient scale they pay for themselves many times over.
Great article! Quinn should get in touch with Dan to see if he remembers the answers to some of the questions she had.
ByteDance is headquartered in China, a repressive country where they throw you in prison or worse if you don't obey the government. If the Communist Party told them to meddle with the algorithm to the advantage of China and harm of the USA, for example, they would have to obey, or else suffer the consequences.
Ditto. And my Spotify library shows cracks more and more. I am a playlist curator by heart, did that with my 100GB MP3/FLAC Music collection for 20 years before switching to Spotify, but now and then you get an empty artist/track name entry and can't even see what song it was, due to the Song rights being lost.
>> but it's basically the new town hall at this point. ... then free expression should be protected.

IF its the "new town hall" then were gonna have a fuck ton of rules. You're not "Free" to scream fire in a crowded building, you cant make up crisis actors and expect NOT to get sued to death....

The protection of freedom of expression exists. No one is stoping you from hosting your own platform based on what ever nonsense you make up. I dont have to give you a box to stand on, no one does. Thats not how it ever worked.
> give them their canvas API tokens

in pretty much every single system's terms, providing someone else your tokens or other forms of sharing of credentials is expressly forbidden. this is why I am flabbergasted things like Plaid work. I will never provide a 3rd party my credentials to anything but damn sure not something like a bank or credit card.
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I think where we have to be careful with going toward the latter idea is that not all social media platforms are general purpose, and that free expression includes a lot of unwanted content (spam, scams, off-topic posts, etc).

Free expression isn’t something that can be realistically protected when a social media platform has an explicit purpose, code of conduct, and/or ideals.

For example, an LGBTQ social media network has to be able to ban anti-LGBTQ content and users. Hacker News needs to be able to remove non-tech industry-related off-topic posts. /r/pcgaming needs to be able to remove posts about mobile gaming. Spam and unwanted self-promotion is often removed by moderators of social media outlets. Moderation is key to a workable social media experience.

There’s also a lot of 100% legal free expression that platforms have to be able to choose not to host. Pornography is an common example.

The thing that makes this topic difficult is that social media isn’t really pure person-to-person speech (e.g. like a person on soapbox) and it also isn’t really pure curated media (e.g. a television channel or news website published by an editor). It’s like a hybrid of the concepts.
My fault. I never owned a car and use public transportation too often to remember about them.
Needless in your view.

Drawing attention always requires emotionalisation.
> they can do whatever they want even if you refuse

Fuck around and find out, as they say. Johansson forced Disney to the negotiating table.
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Some find it a signaling tactic to sound smart by being overly critical.
Depending on your definition of wire, probably the earth. The first telegraph systems used the earth (or sea water can't remember) as the return path.
Right, but this is also a core limitation in the transformer architecture. You only have very short-term memory (context) and very long-term memory (fixed parameters). Real minds have a lot more flexibility in how they store and connect pieces of information. I suspect that further progress towards something AGI-like might require more "layers" of knowledge than just those two.

When I read a book, for example, I do not keep all of it in my short-term working memory, but I also don't entirely forget what I read at the beginning by the time I get to the end: it's something in between. More layered forms of memory would probably allow us to return to smaller context windows.
The richest congress members got there through insider trading, like Nancy Pelosi's purchase of NVDA calls right before the American Semiconductor funding was announced.

Congress should be paid well - probably more than $174k per year if we want the best and the brightest. Congress should also be completely banned from any sort of individual stock trading, and closely monitored for passing insider info.
There are multiple papers and efforts that have inspected the internal state of LLMs. One could even see the word2vec analysis along these lines, as evidence that the model is specializing neurons

One such example: The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It's Lying (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13734)

Searching phrases like "llm interpretability" and "llm activation analysis" uncover more

https://github.com/JShollaj/awesome-llm-interpretability
I‘m not sure if they factored in the massive GPS jamming and spoofing going on in a war zone?
Hacker News doesn't publish anything. It's based on Arc Forum, but YCombinator has made numerous undocumented changes and it may as well be a proprietary fork at this point.

Also a part of HN's "algorithm" is literally the mods manually adjusting things, and you can't publish that.
Weirdly hard to find the actual project urls:

https://mattferraro.github.io/CADmium/

https://github.com/MattFerraro/CADmium
> We aren't a group-think echo chamber

Why do you equate acknowledging a community with group think?
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Ok, TikTok has the illusion of being content-neutral and just a fair algorithm, but we have no reason to believe it is unbiased.
Depends on how you write tests. If you're writing tests by looking at the code you wrote and just asserting that it behaves as written, then yeah. If you're writing tests that assert that your code conforms to a predefined specification, then the tests could be the thing that helps you uncover the bugs.
Optimizing to address high percentile issues (latency/error/correctness) on someone else’s code follows a bimodal pattern: it’s easy until it is impossible. Doing it on your own code is progressively more difficult and the complexity may cause you to give up, but you normally don’t hit the same wall.
Saying "good job" might be nice but doesn't add much to the discussion.

Finding fault, critiquing, etc. as long as it's done respectfully tend to add a lot more value.
You've totally missed the point of the post you're replying to.

How do I opt out of all of this bullshit?

I just want to go back to paper forms and letters mailboxes and stuff.
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On the technical side, this is a case for avoiding languages with exceptions and/or languages that allow silent error dropping. That unhandled exception is the rare event that is actually common.

I will say though that I am a curious what they mean by fatal server error. I once worked at a well known company with about 400 production servers that were all running near capacity. I cannot remember a single serious hardware problem that truly killed a server (we did failover often to a backup but that was usually for software or upstream infra reasons rather than a hardware failure). I understand the scale is lower than in the article, but a server failure every day with a fleet of 2000 server feels like a lot to me.

At any rate, assuming they were just spitballing on a number, the point stands that you need to design and plan for failure even if it is rare. You really don't want the one time the server fails to be the time the CEO is demoing your product to your highest value customer.
Amazing

Now if only the education system improved as well and stopped feeding the kids useless information.
Yea you might want to update your blog post with some original and creatively inspired new content. Demoing Star Wars is just asking to be picked apart by people.
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> money is not worth the same amount here as it is in other states

One of the problems of wealth no doubt, but I am still bereft of tears for them. Imagine trying to make due with the merely the median household income in such a rich state, and not even getting the odd million dollar windfall once in awhile. And then realize that half of households must make due with less than that.
lol that greg maxwell himself got downvoted for this. people clearly aren't familiar with how craig operates, this reads like a shitpost but is probably exactly what he was thinking.
Just tried again. “Something went wrong” with a try again button. Hit “try again.” Same error.

[edit] tried a totally different internet connection with different local network. Same result.
By sheer coincidence, I was talking about this only a few days ago, and it also jogged my memory so that I reviewed a 2013 rust-dev thread on Java versus .NET conventions for type names, which differ in handling of acronyms: .NET style goes Gc and HttpServer; while Java goes GC, HTTPServer. As for XMLHttpRequest… ugh, that thing’s a menace.

My suggestion:

> There seems to be a basic assumption of ASCII identifiers. Hey, this ain't the eighties!

> Let's have us an XᴍʟHᴛᴛᴘRequest. Absolutely clear with no scope for misunderstanding in either direction: Gᴄ; Rᴄ; Aʀᴄ; SimpleHᴛᴛᴘServer.

> Monospace font support is a little poor, but I'm sure they'll fix that up once the desire is demonstrated.

> Q and X don't have small-caps variants in Unicode, so acronyms will be banned from having a Q or an X in the middle.

(My email wasn’t just trolling; I also added meaningful arguments in both directions to the discussion. But small caps was just too fun a concept to not mention. I also notice that Unicode 11 in 2018 added U+A7AF "ꞯ" LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q for some reason (subhead “Letter for Japanese phonemic transcription” and I haven’t looked any deeper), but there’s still no small caps X.)

I’m glad to say that Rust stuck with the .NET rather than Java style—it’s easier to reason about, apart from anything else, because of having fairly unambiguous rules, and supports tooling better in a similar way to snake_case, because of unambiguous word separation. I’m also glad that no one ever challenged Rust’s use of snake_case for variables and fields and such.
> Was this actually proven in specific incidents?

No - and certainly not on any appreciable or meaningful scale.

The bill's proponents claim that intelligence agencies have found proof of this, and that the proof is classified and therefore cannot be shown to the public. (If you're over the age of 30, you're almost certainly getting early 2000s flashbacks reading that sentence).

> Is this the only media outlet this applies to?

No. The ban applies to TikTok, but as pointed above, not to Chinese (or Russian) state media, which do directly control the content shown to users.
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I think there's a "theory" of rotating UX (same features in one way when in one space, another way in another space). But I can't find writings on this.
> Digressions aside, what value is there in allowing an uninformed person to make impactful decisions on complex matters?

Yes, all of the time. My entire life is making uninformed decisions. I am not a chef - I read reviews of restaurants. I am not a mechanic, I ask my mechanic for car advice. I am not a doctor, I pay them to tell me what's wrong and what treatments to take. Seeking out expertise is a paragon of making wise choices.
This could be a useful alternative:

https://github.com/quentinlesceller/macmediakeyforwarder
It does - or YouTube. But they will not auto play like a gif and take over the screen when playing.

feature requests for Google:

- inline video that auto plays and loops. This is like 1 line of html. Please do this!

- let me drag a video into the slide and just upload it for me and embed it

- or just convert videos to gifs for me when I drag in!!
I don't expect anything would change how you see things.

Once you're justifying the murder of civilians including children aid workers and medics, you're too far gone.

Best I can hope for is a laugh at your expense.
LOL. You owe me an ounce of coffee and a napkin!
How will that attention be converted into some useful action?
If you are self developing black and white you ought to do your own prints too with an enlarger. Its like another chance to expose the shot and play with all that is involved there.
I think the hitchhiker's guide solution is not the worst, don't even tell them that they're doing the job and just take whatever they say and implement it.
Onshape is great but it's neither open source nor local-first.
to expand on this for anyone that isn't aware; most front-end teams are rapidly converging on using systems like React-Native / Flutter / Ionic; which allow you to "write once, deploy anywhere" e.g. mobile web, mobile app, desktop web, embedded / PoS, and sometimes tablet and watch.

This is possible by abstracting the layout engine (generally to match a web browser) and having UI control running in transpiled JavaScript.

In more practical terms, this means its easier to have one team managing your website and mobile app, reducing the number of specialist roles and minimising feature disparity. Generally it saves on duplicate work as well and makes timelines easier to manage.

For banks specifically there are a bunch of wins with respect to only having to ensure legal compliance of one application; this applies to banking laws - where certain information must be communicated at certain points, and to public accessibility laws. Most of these frameworks have a lot of tooling around language support and accessibility integrations.

So even if these experiences are inferior, it is very much worth it to the providers.
Wait is this real? So glad I left Reddit, that's really fucked up.
One of their other accounts. I don't know how it works else where, but it's not uncommon to have two, three, four or more. I think my dad at one point used 10 to segment his finances. Accounts normally don't cost anything, or very little.

Most people have at least two. One of their incoming paycheck and one for their debit card. Most have more.
Even the web was already taking a bad direction, too much interactive magazine instead of function/tool paradigm.
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And a particularly buggy sticky nav there
I understand why that seems like an appealing solution, but there are some pitfalls with creating multiple distinct UIs:

The most obvious pitfall is that more UIs = more work. There's the initial development, but it also increases the work every time you need to add something to the UI, and increases the likelihood of bugs. Microsoft could afford this increased cost, but it's not clear if it would be worth it.

Secondly, having multiple distinct UIs makes it difficult for someone to transition from a "casual user" to a "power user". If someone who has only used the "simple" UI switches to the "power" UI, they have to re-learn everything from scratch. Additionally, if there are any features limited to the "power" UI, it's extremely difficult for a "simple" UI user to discover those features even exist.

That doesn't mean that creating multiple UIs isn't ultimately the right solution for MS Office. It might be! But doing that comes with downsides, and I can understand why Microsoft doesn't want to go in that direction.
Off the top of my head: Hypercore (DAT), GUN, Secure Scuttlebutt, IPFS, PPPP, Bamboo, BlueSky, Spritely Goblins...

If this is your jam, check out DWeb camp, put on by the Internet Archive, there will be a lot of us decentralized web technologist there.
What people fail to understand is you have to be smart about the size of the target market and what you're up against while simultaneously being willing to step into the arena.

You get no credit for sitting on the sidelines and whining about how hard it is out there. And it shouldn't be regarded as an especially intellectual point to state facts like the size of the market or the relative success the average game makes.

We're not entitled to any sort of success of the things we make. All we can do is make the best shots we can and keep at it.
After reading in the ruling that his supposed "suicide attempt" didn't even result in any blood loss, I'm afraid he's unlikely to have the gumption to pull that off.
Why under your specifications am I not free to start a social media network of my own that has its own rules?

Why can’t I start my own social media website about cars where any topics that aren’t related to car culture and discussion are not allowed?

Your line is illegality, but my line as the owner of the social media network might be something else. Is private ownership banned now?
I didn't encounter the issue you described with adding an already existing edge though -- the counter stays the same

the answer to RNN is non-trivial, but perhaps Recurrent in RNN might be of some use
> Google likely would have done the same thing with Android, had it not been far more profitable for them to take a different tactic.

I don't think that's fair. You have to consider the culture at Google and pre-Google Android. It might be the case, but at the time it felt like a very natural way for them to go.

> On that note, I'm annoyed that Apple does it, but I'm even more annoyed that, in the USA, we are absolutely toothless about regulation because we can't shake the pollyannaish belief that we should be able to expect corporations to play nice purely out of the goodness of their nonexistent hearts.

Agreed, though I think this is a cultural problem more than a regulatory problem. We humans are suckers for good marketing, as Apple has masterfully demonstrated over the years. Some of their real life PR/marketing lines are indistinguishable from parody, yet people's faith and trust in Apple is at or near a religious level of devotion. They love the products and they desperately want to believe in the goodness of the creator.

Unless/until we figure out how to pull the curtain back so people see through the spin, they will stay powerful. Once we do that, the regulation will follow naturally.
I wonder if he can hear us.
I'm dealing with this now on an accounting app I'm building that runs on both mobile and desktop. I've come to the conclusion that the mobile app and desktop app will need two very different designs. I want the mobile app to be useful for quickly checking a dashboard view and to easily enter transactions while the desktop app needs to be very dense with the choice of a compact view to reduce padding ala Gmail.
Congrats! I've got a three year old and she's certainly added a few years to the age of my back, but it's was a happiness engineering optimization that was well worth it =).
I'm really only interested in their net worth change after taking office.
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The demo page is great. Really nice to see such rich and fun examples.
I can’t follow it because you’re including all sorts of weird things like Canadian lumber taxes on a hypothetical house that someone is trying to build.

Building an expensive house in California is a specific choice that you do not need to make
Perhaps that's exactly the problem: 'reproducibility', 'determinism', 'functional'-- these are unfortunately too much 'insider language' to be great sells to most people who aren't already FP or Nix people... even when they're closely related to benefits those prospective newcomers might enjoy!

I'm glad you've identified a use case that appeals to you. Have fun!
slick! seems more designed to help you practice/review your knowledge of neural networks rather than teach you network architectures?
No, as it also lists bank accounts and 401k: https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Alexa...
At least they're clear about provenance, unlike OpenAI.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1bfa7s3/openai_cto...
Well it is insane, of course. But it’s also a straw man argument.
How do you change the model name from the preselected and offered OpenAI GPT model names? I don't see the option to do so.
It is a claim or assumption that the Chinese government has direct control. NATO's sixth arena of operation, cognitive warfare, did not have as much direct control over the dials to employ weapons of mass deletion.
How does this address my concern, which is that you can't draw much conclusions from a bunch of poorly conducted studies? For instance let's say you want to figure out whether wifi is bad for you. You do a search and find "an enormous amount of (very) recent studies with conclusions I personally find concerning", but the methodology for those studies are poor, eg. "let's microwave some mice and see what happens" (microwave is approximately the same frequency range as wifi, but orders of magnitude more power), or "let's see whether sitting next to a wifi router is associated with being fat" (people who work desk jobs tend to sit near wifi equipment). Since wifi doesn't do anything, we shouldn't expect a study to find a single positive effect, and thanks to the file drawer effect we'd expect the "no adverse effects" studies to be selected against. Furthermore because the studies are engineered to maximize effect over a short timeframe (eg. microwaving rats), it's not surprising that there are no studies showing no effects, because the studies were designed from the outset to produce some effect.

If you have a substance that you'd expect not to have positive effects (ie. not something like a vaccine), and all you have is a bunch of shitty studies that purport to show a negative effect, the correct conclusion is "we don't know either way", not "it's bad because there's studies that say it's bad but no studies that say it's neutral/good".
Odd. This wouldn't typically be covered in contracts class since it's an intellectual property issue beyond the scope of a contracts class. Scarlet Johansen didn't have a contract with OpenAI after all.

What you recall also doesn't sound correct given right of publicity laws.
What value does isolated heap offer for memory-safe languages?

Task exceptions can simply be handled via try-catch at the desired level. Millions of concurrently handled tasks is not that high of a number for .NET's threadpool. It's one thing among many that is "nothingburger" in .NET ecosystem which somehow ends up being sold as major advantage in other languages (you can see it with other features too - Nest.js as a "major improvement" for back-end, while it just looks like something we had 10 years ago, "structured concurrency" which is simple task interleaving, etc.).

It's a different, lower-level model, but it comes with the fact that you are not locked into particular (even if good) way of doing concurrency in Erlang.