skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly this only works for English. Of course, given the functional requirements, it's probably fine, but this kind of code exists IRL and it can be annoying to refactor to support more languages.

For example, many languages have grammatical gender and so may also change how the word looks like. Bonus points, when the word body changes. In this example it wouldn't change radically, but the word for a file in German is "die Datei" and the plural is "die Dateien" (although apparently "das File" can be used.)

Okay, this isn't that big of a deal, one might say. You just pack the word's singular and plural with the possible gender, and you're set. But no, because this isn't even the worst part! The simplest complicated case might be that you have a singular, dual, and plural. In some sense this makes sense, since "two" is pretty special in terms of amount of stuff.

But then you get stufi like the following, as documented in [0]:

> Three forms, special cases for numbers ending in 1 and 2, 3, 4, except those ending in 1[1-4]
>
> [...]
>
> Languages with this property include:
>
> Slavic family
>
> Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian

Or the six form pluralisation found in Arabic.

So yeah, this sort of "complicated" pluralisation isn't just an issue if you're trying to support some comparatively very niche languages, but this is a thing one needs to think about when supporting many major world languages.

And of course, how you inflect the noun you're pluralising depends on the context of the sentence and the relevant grammar. For example, the form might change if you're at a place that expects a noun in its nominative versus accusative form. And of course, there's the order of words, and so muth more, that could be mentioned.

So yeah, natural language is difficult. Not quite Turing complete, but good localisation takes a lot of effort.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural...
Do you mean to say that teaching people how to do things should be regarded, for this purpose, as a form of allowing them to do those things?
My best guess is that the hole was there before the mushroom grew. It is hard to find a biological species that need so much iron in their metabolism to the point it evolved something that can dissolve pure metal in a matter of 1-2 months. Irons are often used in enzymes and usually the ratio is around a few iron atoms bounded in a structure of thousands or tens of thousands of carbons and hydrogen atoms. To use so much iron implied that mushroom is literally chock full of special enzymes and I doubt it actually is.

More likely, something broke a hole there and the mushroom grew on it and capitalized on the broken edges to scavenge some extra irons but it did not punch that hole by itself.
What Is Capitulation
Quite a few people use LPG where nat gas isn’t available. Converting nat gas equipment to LPG is quick and simple.
That code looks weird to me either way. You end up with a strange float. I represent framerates as rational numbers, e.g. 60/1. It works great for ffmpeg.
The Fairphone 5 will get 8 years of security updates:
https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/180206715370...
He had an opsec capability? I assumed he'd never heard of opsec.
The article clearly demonstrates how to circumvent the built-in protections in the model that prevent it from doing the stuff that violates the acceptable use policy. Which are clearly the things that are against the public good.

There should be CVEs for AI.
I'm sure LLMs can optimize the training of other LLMs (either by inventing new ways or fine tuning existing ones). But we can't predict whether this will result in a giant's leap in the field, or just small increments. That's the definition of singularity, isn't it?
Same, I installed an implementation of an orthagonalized LLama3 and it seems to work just as well as the base model, sans refusals.

I believe this is the model I had good results with:

https://huggingface.co/wassname/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-hel...
I of course understand the necessity of representing collectives in a legal system, but given that we cannot apply many legal concepts people rely on to trust such a system (say, punishing bad behavior with more than just a fine), it stands to reason they shouldn't be granted many of the benefits, either. Perhaps if we could have the board or stockholders stand in and accept the punishment personally it would make more sense, but we seem very averse to this as a society for some reason. As a result these parties are likely to have predominantely negative effects on society that relies on the concept of meaningful liability.

> Anyone who thinks we should end it should consider the consequences of requiring a find-and-replace exercise across our entire body of law, specifying which persons each statute and case applies to, and then prepare for an endless game of whack-a-mole as new categories of person are created.

I don't have much hope for fixing our body of laws, frankly. I don't think a good reaction to this realization is to accept them as rational or reasonable.
Whistleblowers Warn About the Dark Side of AI (2023) [video]
can LLMs optimize anything?
I agree the end result was not good, I don't really think that's a point of contention to anyone, but this kind of answer still does not even attempt to explain why then immediately firing leadership on that fact alone is supposed to always be the best thing for the remaining employees/company or even a responsible next step. A huge forecasting miss like this is a clear bad mark on leadership's track record but there still needs to be a link to why that means leadership must immediately be let go for the business to do right by the interest of all employees. If the business has already received a likely death knell then it's only that much more important to understand what the best choice for the business is instead of a purely reactionary choice.

Whether leaders make life affecting mistakes is a red herring. As immediately appealing as it sounds to say "we only ever let management that haven't had to do a layoff before run the company!" it really makes no sense when you think deeply about it. Even the greatest CEOs may have to do a layoff in their careers so you're not preventing layoffs at your company by perfect selection. Even decent CEOs that just play it safe can cause more life-affecting impact by not hiring people out of an overabundance of caution (impact not only in those not hired but those at the company who missed out on a lot of growth/the business falling behind competition willing to take reasonable amounts of growth risk). Even some of the crappiest CEOs may not need to do a layoff multiple years in to stagnating the business and letting employees naturally attrition so you're not guaranteeing this selects and rewards only good management options. When you look at upper management and whether they should be replaced the only real consideration is "do I think someone else can deliver more to the business in the next x years". If you've had to lay off people 3 times in the last 10 years but you don't think there is anyone else that could handle that goal better then you let those leaders make the mistakes 3 times because it's the best option for everyone. If you've never had to lay anyone off you still might think it's worth replacing the leader anyways, again because it's the best option for everyone.

Nowhere does a connection with firing leadership because it sounds like the most self caused reason to get rid of someone with a layoff actually help employees. Well, with current proposed reasonings at least. It's perfectly possible there are other reasons not listed that I haven't considered yet.
This long-running narrative that you have to be a sociopath to be a CEO is false.
I highly recommend and used Kinopio (hope I spelled that right) for quite sometime. There really isn’t anything like it.

But to keep a similar system between work and personal I used Obsidan + Excalidraw (inside obsidian). IMO it gives the best of both worlds.
Models trained on Google TPUs according to Reuters [0]. Does anyone know the "technical document" the news article references?

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/h...
Yikes, the little Infiniband+A100 cluster I installed for my previous company seemed useful at the time (12 GPUs) and that was at a cost of around $300k. With LLMs it feels like game over for non-cloud applications if you are not a mega-corp.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the actual code itself is stable, just that the compiled kernel API/ABI isn't.

So if you open source your drivers and get them accepted into the kernel, then you don't need to rewrite/recompile them for each new kernel version. Just like AMD did with their drivers. And I think this is part a conscious decision that forces people to open source drivers.

But this is honestly just guesswork based on what I've read, would love to learn more!
Android is reusing the ChromeOS vmm, crosvm. How is it less capable?
this used to be the case. now it seems you can stay private forever (see Stripe, Databricks, Canva, Chime)
It just sounds like classic depressed thinking to me. Every depressed and anxious person thinks they're the exception to being able to ne helped. Some are right but the odds are not in your favor on that one.
I've seen those for very small one-man drones. Are you talking about Cessna-size?
They can do right. The X-37B is still on orbit, and from an unclassified perspective it looks like a huge success.
This melding of the sync and the async is actually kinda interesting to me. I know that at least in lots of environments, the sync and async paths are effectively separate for things like I/O[1]. I wondered (and still do for some cases) how Go handles this.

For those curious I looked at Windows and Linux, but not much else.

Linux: no io_uring support. There's debate on even whether to use it as people are discussing security implications[2]. It looks like (from perusing this issue, but could be wrong) AIO wasn't used.

Windows: it looks like they're using IOCP everywhere. Seems sensible enough.

General case: there seems to be an open issue regarding this[3].

[1]: For example, Windows has IOCPs, Linux has io_uring, FreeBSD has kqueue, POSIX has... POSIX AIO, etc.

[2]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31908

[3]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6817
Not good for Tesla's future as a whole, but not entirely unexpected.

Now we can all watch the business slowly being run into the ground by Elon's increasingly bizarre decisions.
Their revenue depends on it being hard (but not impossible) for you to find the content you're actually interested in. Would be nice if it didn't, but in this reality, money on the Internet is made by wasting users' lives. That is what attention economy is about.
this was the same argument that was presented a decade ago on why Google was supposed to win the cloud because their internal infra was miles ahead of Amazon and Microsoft.

Yet here we are. Will the consumer video cards get cheaper and better faster or will Google's directors' infighting stop first?
https://archive.is/bTll2
Now, you only need to select the directory once, and the browser will retain permissions

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/persistent-permissions-for...
I meant right next to rome, egypt and persia. Palestine is right in the middle, so relative illiterate.
Thorough testing should catch all those "interestig" issues.

But easier maintainability I also favor braces everywhere.
I don't believe this sort of take is insightful or researched.

The timeframe that was cherry-picked to serve as the basis for this epiphany coincided with the post-COVID firing spree from FANGs that was not a sector trend and more in line with mindless post-results reactions from company boards. We're talking about things like Amazon getting rid of most of Alexa-relared work after their bet failed, deciding to go the extra mile in firing rounds because their Rivian bet was failing to deliver, and pressuring WFH employees to move back to the office to validate their failed real estate investments and tax benefits. This resulted in massive layoffs, but in the meantime failing also to disclose they briefly froze internal transfers to restarted hiring right after they put a pause on their.

During this time the job market, which was already depressed due to the COVId interest rates, suddenly saw an inflow of thousands of FANG-grade engineers which obviously were favoured Over low-experienced candidates.

And this is the sort of bullshit stunt that these bloggers are using to post doom and gloom forecasts?

It's also silly how they spin this so called trend to have developers do QA and InfoSec and even performance reviews, as if this wasn't the norm for the past couple of decades? What do these guys think a developer does for a living?
We have perfectly good plans for shifting off oil as price rises.

If CO2 wasn't building up so fast, the situation would almost be easy.
You'd need to move the laser and keep the disc stationary I wager, otherwise is it even chocolate anymore if it can stand the forces?
https://archive.ph/ZR7h4
Kindness, as I understand it, has to do with how you treat the people you personally come into contact with. On HN, that means how you relate to other users.

I get that you're using the word differently and that's fine, as long as we understand what each other means by it. It seems like you're defining your political position (on homelessness in this case) as 'kind' while the opposing position is 'unkind'. Presumably someone of the opposite view might take issue with that, but I don't.

Since it's in your interest to argue for your views in a way that is personally kind to the people you're arguing with, I don't see any tradeoff between our two usages.
Actually they built a bunch of LNG terminals very very quickly and now get most of their gas from that

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63709352

You can see rapid progression to zero of Russian imports for natural gas in Germany if you scroll down to the info graphic in this article

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-dependen...

Germany is also famously anti nuclear
A GPU falling off the bus would be one mega flop
Serious Sam looked amazing for the shitty hardware it would run (FAST) on.

On a similar note, Counter-Strike never looked good, but was popular for a long time because it ran great on toaster PCs
They could just use a contractor as an intermediary. This doesn’t seem like it would be effective.
It's so sad that it's used to disparage these smaller countries that were just bullied by the US. Victim blaming.
So what happens if your house capacitor blows?
Not really. Read Pareto's Circulation of the Elites.

The mistake is assuming all those who have some amout of power all have the same agenda.

Such a state is never possible purely because people's personalities, needs, values, environment exist in a wide spectrum. Littlefingers and kissengers loose something everytime they win.

Its like a virus cant kill the host without killing itself.
The sheer ego is in the idea that all wars are started by gentlemen or aristocrats with options and we should have rules to incentivise them away from the risky inhumane options to the plain inhumane ones.

Or that once a war is started the "idea of the various ways in which one might end them" actually holds up in reality after the enemy get their vote.

I honestly tell you that if someone invaded my country in the manner of Russia with indiscriminate killing and bombardment of cities literally threatening the survival of those I care about then I will not give a toss what any convention says - what good does obeying a rule someone made up if I/my-loved-ones am/are dead?

And at that point, bio/nuke/any-weapons become an option - the rules be damned. I very much know that I shouldn't be trusted with such calls.
If it's accpetable to embed ads into the video file then as a video producer why not just negotiate with advertisers directly and cut out the Google middleman. Negotiate a deal with an advertiser and then have the advertiser send some ad video that the video producer can edit into her videos with ffmpeg. This allows the video producer to choose the advertiser(s) she wants.
Given the big difference between mobile and desktop Chrome, and the fact that this is "Chrome"OS, it can be an interesting story. I don't many people (anyone?) want to run mobile Chrome on a laptop screen.
Yes, we(Windmill)'d be a kick-ass combo. We're users of twenty ourselves. As both open-source projects, a third option that I'm often recommending is having such great integration in both products such that their users can independently chose to use and install Windmill (self-host or cloud) and have it power all of the orchestration and arbitrary-code needs of the third service without the need for a formal whitelabel.
Also it's easier to cheat when your local client has all the data.
I am from 2 countries with "Free" healthcare system, I know that in either country if I really required it I would be seen, treated and discharged with no more than a few payments needed for medically necessary prescription medicines if I have a job, If I dont those are also covered.

In both countries - I can CHOOSE to go private for whatever reasons (for example, one of my friends has just had a baby and she chose to go private so she could get the OBGYN that she wanted and have a planned caesarian).

But it is not necessary and for those who cant afford private healthcare (or those who dont want to take it out) that safety net exists.

The foolproof solution (if such a thing could ever exist) - is to not have a healthcare system that is built for-profit. That way the government is the largest bargainer, you dont have companies colluding to drive up prices, everyone know what they are going to get and can't try and sway it that way.

By it coming from taxes the prices are managed better than if you have a bunch of cough self regulating companies running the racket.

I understand the pros and cons very well - and even with my private healthcare I get the benefits of the service I pay for with my taxes so my bill would never even be 10% of that 800k you somehow have paid.
> Do you have an evidence for this?

I think the strongest evidence is that many other examples of Asimov,
especially short stories are cautionary and deal with hubris and
unexpected side effects.

However it's funny to ask for 'evidence' about fiction in the context
of "parodying rationalists". no? Since what would count as
evidence? Another, more "authoritative" literary interpreter saying
the same thing? Maybe a long time ago - historical statements seem to
carry more weight, as if people were wiser back then?. Or Asimov
himself? But don't they say, only bad writers explain themselves?
Not really, secondary forest is known to be less diverse in terms of both plant, animal and fungi species.

It's not just that you can't exactly recreate the original, it's that what you're recreating is often just a shadow of the ecosystems that were destroyed.

Better a shadow than nothing, of course, but better not to have destroyed it in the first place.
> It is already legal to modify cars even though they are dangerous

Not in places with regular inspection and mandated insurance. I.e. most civilised world.
Where is the line? Because what you describe would block any plugin system in any software: AutoCad maker should not make autocad features because there could be third party extensions instead, and they can not make extensions themselves…? Or microsoft can not add nee features to VSCode as it competes with extensions, and they can not make their own extensions because they already on VSCode as a platform?
Nice thanks. The ability to use cloud functions/lambdas is certainly intriguing and something I'd hoped would be possible with temporal when I first discovered it.

In a multi-replica / horizontally scaled setup:

- Does each replica get its own independent storage volume?

- How much state is replicated between each volume if so?

- What does a typical workloads journal look like in terms of storage size? How often does this get compacted / is there archival to cold storage?

- How do you manage upgrades to restate in the case of a change to the on-disk format? (Or is this designed to be static between releases)

The fact that it's without external dependencies also makes me wonder if it would be encouraged to have multiple independent deployments of restate managing different independent services/workflows to avoid noisy neighbors and single points of failure - seems like it might be lightweight enough that this is practical?
3 points stand out to me in this interview:

- Project manager mathematicians: Tao draws a future where mathematical insights are "produced" like anything else in our society. He attributes the lack of this productionalization of mathematics to a lack of tools in this area but AI and proof assistants might be revolutionary in this regard (proof assistants already are). Human interaction and guidance still needed

- Implicit Knowledge: he points out that so much knowledge is not in papers, e.g. intuition and knowledge of failures. This is crucial and makes it necessary even for top mathematicians to talk to one another to not make mistakes again.

- Formalization of mathematics: one would think that mathematics is pretty formalized already (and it is) but in the papers a lot of common knowledge is taken for granted so having proofs formalized in such a way that proof assistants can understand will help more people actually understanding what is going on.

I think this just shows how Tao always searches for new ways to do mathematical research, which I first came across in his talk about one of the polymath projects.
That's how a lot of companies in the educational space use Salesforce and other customisable CRM.
trying to use this for mirroring a document site. disappointed at 1. it running quite slow, 2. it kept outputing error messages like "ProtocolError: Protocol error (Page.bringToFront): Not attached to an active page". not sure what reason
They might have been doing it wrong, the code can be a bit tricky. I did a recent ablation on Qwen2 (removing Chinese censorship refusals) and ran MixEval benchmarks (0.96 correlation w/ ChatArena results)and saw a neglible performance difference (see model card for results): https://huggingface.co/augmxnt/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-deccp
Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia's Request
Cyber Extortion Demands Skyrocket in 2023 While Fewer Companies Pay Ransoms
At the same time more people have never been more ready to move on from windows, I don’t want A.I. jammed into every nook and crany just the sake of raising stock prices. I want to use A.I. When I want and not have it constantly pushed in my face.
He cant because thats exactly what it is.

The UK NHS system is on its knees because the conservative government has started selling it out from under the people to guess - US companies.

But all the gammons are spouting exactly the same as he is that its the "immigrants" causing it (even though Brexit was going to solve that problem - right?)
Seperation kernels don't help, because all the radio and Qualcomm spyware is in the baseband chip already, which is completely sealed off. Only avaliable from the CPU through a serial line.
Wood constructed houses have one of the arguably worst thermal profiles because of their extremely low thermal mass. Basically, they heat up quickly and cool down quickly. In most of Europe and North America you want the opposite: a structure that evens out high temperature throughout the day, and radiates warmth at night. Brick, stone, or clay do that very successfully. Think of an old stone church at a warm summer day: it's comfortably cool inside, completely without AC