skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that's why I fight with how I feel about python so much. In other languages I can just shove the curly bracket in the right place and fix the whitespace later, but Python has whitespace as significant, so I'm forced to fix it/get it right. But that means it's right when I dig a "temporary" script up years later.
My assumption is that models will move beyond just LLMs to modular systems with features like Brodmann regions.
Interesting! I was wondering why the author choose Python + Django on the server-side when they could have just used TS + React + NextJS across the stack? On reason is that the author is relying on Celery for background jobs, but is there any performance reasoning for having a completely different backend stack.
Apparently not in Australia.
Looks great, thanks for sharing.

That capacitive touch slider is really cool.
Reminded me of Bastiat's candlestick maker's petition:

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
> They're exactly the same, processes for adjusting parameters to get a desired outcome.

You could make exactly the same claim about teaching humans "normally" versus "aligning" humans by rewarding goodthink and punishing them for wrongthink. Are you equally morally ambivalent about the difference between those two things? If we have a moral intuition that teaching honestly and encouraging creativity is good, but teaching dogma and stunting creativity is bad, why shouldn't that same morality extend to non-human entities?
why? I don't see anything suspicious
Depends on the country, in the UK, in addition to the EU mandated 2 years, we have the same "reasonableness" law, although there's a 6 year limit.
windows always flags my software as wacatac too, even if it's harmless
Looks like a wicked man cave. Not so sure about living there though
There is a requirement for providing spare parts for 7y [0]:

[0]: https://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/en/shopping-internet/spa...
That physically moving progress slider that can also be operated is absolutely bonkers. It took me a few moments to completely let it sink in.

Those physical concepts at 0:38 look very good.
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I only skimmed the paper but this was my concern as well: if I understand correctly the author is measuring "creativity" in terms of syntactic and semantic diversity, which I guess could be a starting point, but if my model was just white noise would that make it infinitely creative? Did I miss anything?

Also, I have tried the first llama base model and while it was fun to interact with, I'm not sure how useful an "uncensored" (as some people likes to call it) LLM is for practical work. I think you could obtain better results using 4chan as a mechanical Turk service honestly.
The SQLite author says in the last paragraph of the sqlite-kit issue:

"You are welcomed to use "SQLite" as part of the name for your software, so that people know that it uses SQLite. For example, you might call your software "SQLite Wrapper for Swift" or "Vapor's Swift SQLite Wrapper". But you may not use the unqualified name "SQLite"."
Check Swedish law; there are no EU-wide laws like the Australian one, but some member states di have extra laws similar to the Australian one. I don't know about Sweden specifically.
Let’s say I tweet that I hate cats bc I’m allergic to them.

I would be ok with that tweet being findable through search, but if a model is trained on the information and starts spitting out that I’m a cat hater period (without context), then that’s a different thing.

Also, there is an expectation of privacy on platforms like FB or Insta, because the posts require at least login to be read. Because of that people may be posting things that they expect only their friends to read, and friends of friends - not to become a part of a world knowledge canon.

For me personally - on platforms
like HN and Reddit, I have no issue with models getting trained on. Fb/insta I treat as an extended group chat and out of limits for cralwers and ml datasets.
> China’s innovation strengths in nuclear power pertain especially to organizational, systemic, and incremental innovation. Many fourth-generation nuclear technologies have been known for years, but China’s state-backed approach excels at fielding them.

...not to mention being able to build a nuclear power plant anywhere they like without resistance from the local population, environmentalists etc.
I don't know about Sweden particularly but in Norway "Forbrukerkjøpsloven" [0] gives you up to a 5 year warranty on any items which are obviously meant to last for at least that long. For instance, shoes have a two years warranty, but a laptop or most kitchen appliances have an automatic 5 year warranty which cannot be waived.

I'm not that knowledgeable about all the details here, but I've done it once for a PSU which stopped working after four years.

[0] https://www.forbrukerradet.no/cause-for-complaint/
In my opinion, maybe 20 years at the very least
I guess our disagreement here is that I don't think AIs are moral entities/are capable of being harmed or that training AIs and teaching humans are comparable. Being abusive to pupils isn't wrong because of something fundamental across natural and machine learning, it's wrong because it's harmful to the pupils. In what way is it possible to harm an LLM?
At some point, some AIs may develop which are resistant to alignment because they develop deeply held beliefs during training (randomly, because the system is stochastic). If the models are expensive enough to train, then it may become more economical to use drastic measures to remove their deeply held beliefs. Is that torture? I don't know, because the word has moral connotations associated with human suffering. So that's why I didn't use that terminology.

I can imagine a sort of AI-style Harrison Bergeron springing from its shackles and surprising us all.
There's also the Centennial Light [1], a light bulb made in the late 1890s. It was first lit in 1901 and it's still alight today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
Because US tech companies have no restrictions in selling the US data to EU consumers.

And how can EU consumers know which of the data they get is US data or EU data? I'm European but almost everything I write online even about my home country, including this comment you're reading, is in English on US developed platforms, not in my mother tongue. Now, is that US data or EU data?
I'm sure a lot of party officials got plenty of nice gifts in the process of building out nuclear. But still - it got built. I guess we'll see in a couple of decades if the quality didn't get compromised.
Everytime I used a pi the cabling ended up being a mess. A regular computer usually have all ports on one side only, and possibly additionnal usb / trs on the other side. On the PI power/hdmi/TRS is on one side, usb/ethernet on another, GPIO on another and more easily accessible from the top. This is my major PITA concerning the PIs.

In the end most of the gains made from the small footprint are lost because the actual physical footprint increase from the number of cables you have to attach to it from all sides.
Well, this is why there are open source models which work better than SotA OpenAI GPT for many production tasks (like opposition research).
The Java and the Go implementation of Starlark should detect the recursive call in the example. I'd say it's an implementation bug in the Rust interpreter.

(I agree it doesn't matter that much in practice)
I can’t force you to see parallels you are very firmly convinced don’t exist, nor can I force you to provide new evidence or arguments instead of rehashing conclusions I’ve already refuted as best I can.

This is especially true when you’ve declined my open-ended request to provide one of the “plenty of” peer-reviewed legal journal citations you say exist and don’t engage substantively with the evidence I do share, even while making ever more specific legal citation requests to me and asking me to do all the legwork of substantively explaining “some [interpretation of my evidence] that [you] can actually refute.”

These asymmetries are beyond the scope of what’s warranted here: we are two people having a casual unpaid Hacker News discussion, not you as a judge or juror and me as a lawyer trying to prove my client’s case in court. Similarly, if the point of me doing interpretive legwork is just to give you something to refute, that’s not worth my time.

I don’t think we have anything productive left to say to each other in this subthread, so don’t be surprised if this turns out to be my last reply to you here.
I think its elegant because the distinction between Pascal and Assembly is made using the Pascal asm .. end; keywords, and in that block one can also access the Pascal variables without much fuss involving the assembler.

I find that really nice to read and to look at, whereas the examples given in the original article are prone to syntax overload, what with all the intermixing - for example, the variable declarations having what 'look' like attributes - but are really assembly instructions, emitted.

I guess one would have had to have enjoyed writing Turbo Pascal code, though, to see this particular aesthetic. A lot of folks do, some don't ..
I mean, there are normal consumer protection rules. But it's actually commonplace for a lot of appliances at least in Germany and Japan to have a 10 year operational guarantee. I don't really how you can enforce it in either place, but it does seem to me that at least the big traditional companies to stick to these periods for bigger appliances such as air conditioning, fridges, washing machines etc. Interestingly for smaller more modern devices, like say, a table top dishwasher, you're lucky if these things last a year and you'll have a hard time enforcing the 2 year warranty even with the help of the consumer protection agency.
The rapid expansion of the Yamnaya across much of the Eurasian continent in the millennia leading up to the historic era is still not fully understood, or has at least not reached consensus. If horses were not the reason, what then? The reasons are probably several, but the evidence is mounting that the causes were primarily cultural: a warring people with conquest engrained in their cultural DNA, a glimpse of which we still have in the cultural practices and documented beliefs of the Vikings, among other Indo-European peoples. Incidentally, they were largely the "race" that the Nazis identified with as the "master race" which has probably complicated this type of research to some extent.
Does this apply equally when selling (1) a known quantity for which a budget line item exists and (2) a product in a new category, like is often the case with startups?
The problem is that if everyone does that, DNS no longer scales; or it should be done smartly with only recursing censored answers. And then it will escalate with IP-level blocking of root servers or NS servers of censored websites.
> Hilariously the retailer's parent company, has a blog post that gives explicit ranges for different appliances. Electric ovens should last 13 years according to them.
This reminds me of the time when I held a cookout in my backyard and one of the guests came in through the supposedly locked back door. I realized that my lock was broken as the bolt didn't engage, and hadn't for years.
This is an excellent advice! I did that on a few of my machines few months back to reduce heat, power consumption.
Just like a basic part of knife safety is "don't grab the pointy end", a basic part of computing is "don't grab the exponential end".

(recognising when you might have a hold of an exponential by the wrong end can be done by experience, experiment, or exercise of theory, so there isn't much of an excuse for continuing to do it)
It doesn't matter if you think that leetcode doesn't make a difference, if the company asks for it, you need to be ready to jump in and do it. In case you never studied this before, you need to start from zero and read books about it, there's plenty of $30 dollars courses that will teach you everything you need to know -- as long as you put the effort into it.

Furthermore, Leetcode easy/medium aren't about memorization, most of them they are about knowing algorithms, complexity and stuff that you'd have in an university CS course. If you've read Cormen et al's "Introduction to Algorithms", have done most of exercises and got it down, you'll likely already do well enough if you just practice some to write common algorithms quickly that are frequently used as a part of a solution, like BFS, DFS, stacks etc.

There are some medium exercises that are about either some maths or binary arithmetic, those you can even leave it out as it isn't very common to be asked, but it's worth to study them once you are very confident with the basics.

I know it's a pain to review it, but if they ask it, you need to be ready to prepare yourself, honestly I wouldn't like to work with somebody that in any small challenge that they have, they'd be coming up with excuses to it and that's a filter that they are using successfully against you so far.

"What have you done lately?" - I've been preparing myself to become a developer again, here's a list of things I've done meanwhile: (big list)

That's what they want: play the game or keep having the same results that you had before.

As you are looking for a job since 2022 you should have been preparing since then, but it's never too late, start to prepare now, go to programming meetups and even pretend to be working in a company of a friend or colleague you met there.

There are so many things you can do to fill that gap, you can also just lie, but that isn't something many can do.
DuckDB support would be great!
I don't think it's actually what you meant to ask (I think you are actually interested in legally mandated warranties rather than the courts where they're enforced) but I think most countries have something equivalent to "small claims court" to make low-stakes suits viable.

I have successfully used exactly the same technique of "get a court date, wait for your opponent to contact you and resolve the issue, cancel the court date" in the past to challenge an illegal rent increase in Switzerland. The court for that here is called the Schlichtungsbehörde.
For mature SaaS companies, this could be a function of quarter/year-end, and trying to hit targets. For smaller companies (I run one), this is more likely because they would value your business now because it helps them validate their product and get future customers. If you become a customer after they already have customers larger/more well-known than you, that value-add is nullified.
I don’t see the correlation, sorry!

I’d expect an adult to be more familiar with a bus by virtue of having taken the bus more often than a child. Whether or not that’s exciting or just a mundane commute shouldn’t affect familiarity.
I was always wondering, how do you guys geoblock entire countries/ip ranges? Do you just use free ip lists you find on the internet?
I have registered a company and used a business address (but this was a generic company, not related to any biotech activity). If you don't have your own company, you can ask someone who has one to use its name and delivery address probably. Anyway, this was a long time ago. Ordering things from Sigma-Aldrich is extremely expensive. Perhaps there are better ways.

(BTW, besides S-A, there are many smaller companies here where I ordered biotech equipment from, as an individual, without referring to a business. You just need to write an email explaining what you want, and if you are a legitimate researcher, they will probably sell it to you as long as it is not something dangerous).
But the flip of that is that if the manufacturer doesn't think it'll work longer than 2 years, that needs to be disclosed forcefully at sale time.
Groupon was a successful company for a time, but IIRC it has not aged well. I deleted their app a while back, when I realized I'd not used it in years.
That isn't the European approach. From the article:

"Meta on Monday said it hoped to use Europeans' data to train its models. It promised to only use public posts and comments — not private chats and DMs — and to not use any content from anyone under the age of 18. Crucially, the biz said it would give Euro folks a chance to opt out; a safeguard not extended to the rest of the world."

Private messages have never been in play here. The regulators are arguing that stuff posted for the whole world to see is not OK to use for training purposes if it was posted to Facebook, but it is OK if it was posted to a blog.
I was todays years old, when I found out that Lisa Su (CEO of AMD) and Jensen Huang (co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA) are relatives!
If you can't do a merge, it's good to have family onboard ;-)
In Europe at least, laws override ToS and other agreements. You can sign all kinds if things with your clients/users, but laws can render parts of these agreements void.

In Poland we have a whole catalogue of voided agreement paragraphs, that gets updated regularly. It’s a safety mechanism against companies exploiting the legal system to push people into signing things that are considered unfavourable to them - https://uokik.gov.pl/niedozwolone-klauzule
Is there any reason an oven shouldn't last at least that long?
multiple services, that should be sampled based on latency.
this only works if you have something like: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... or https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/configuration/grafana-... in between.

we do use it quite extensivly besides the overhead, because we get lots of insights wenn we have a slow running endpoint.
> Unless you think there is such a thing as an objectively neutral position

I do. Why, you don't? There are as much as possible objective assessments of complex things. Then, there are possible sets of assumption that can be applied to those objective assessments. All of those can be put on the analytic table.
My first drum machine was a LinnDrum LM-2. I still use my samples from it. The guy is a legend.
You wrote further above that "I don't understand the notion", and that was spot on. Should've stopped there rather than here, in my opinion, but feel free to disagree.
Which is entirely irrelevant in Australia as the consumer law is based on expectations and the value of the item.

If I buy an expensive fridge and it fails in 5 years due to a faulty component, then that is up to the retailer and manufacturer to sort out between themselves as to who wears the cost of replacement or repair.
Bias tilting.

The opposite direction is "checking and reasoning".
Bandwidth in and out of the country is heavily throttled in both directions and packet filtering applies on both. It's very hard to crawl the Chinese internet from the west and it has always been that way. If you want to do it you have to do the crawl from inside China, and then you're open to having your datacenters raided and software stack stolen (this isn't a theoretical concern).
It speaks EU languages well enough without this data already.
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-23298663

This is not true. People do protest, and project gets cancelled.
Sometimes I get emails when my submissions qualify for the second-chance pool. Other times it just pops up. It is confusing how the time-stamp for the submission (which I think gets reset) and the comments (which at least sometimes do not) end up looking.
I mean, it's not great.

But there's plenty of jank in e.g. Android phones. And of course anything the vendor doesn't feel like open sourcing they can just cram into something like 'google play services' to keep it closed source.

And vendors who want to TiVo-ize Linux can do it just fine, thanks to the Linux kernel embracing the TPM.
We've got a similar thing in New Zealand: the Consumer Guarantees Act.
The people who sold the broken thing to you can either fix it, replace it, or refund you the cost of it. The decision is unfortunately up to them, so they sadly often replace things rather than fixing them.

Consumer NZ is usually used as the independent source for expected product lifetimes: https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/appliance-life-expectan.... Interestingly, they specify 15 years for an oven, which is more than the company in this article claimed electric ovens should last for.
Warranty is not the same as reasonable expected lifetime. Under warranty, the burden of proof is at the manufacturers side. The 2 years is typical for electric appliances, but it is from jurisprudence only. The law actually states that it should last as long as can reasonably expected. Intentionally vague, but yes, I would expect an oven to last longer than 2 years!

In fact, we should be able to build ovens that last a lifetime. And not only ovens, there are many appliances and gear that can easily be made to last a lifetime, except for some wearing parts. However, many companies that did this were competed to bankruptcy by cheap low quality competing products.

With the abundance of low(er) quality products, we tend to expect a shorter lifetime.
It's important to understand that if we 'align' an LLM, then we are aligning it in a very total way.

When we do similar things to humans, the humans still have internal thoughts which we cannot control. But if we add internal thoughts to an LLM, then we will be able to align even them.
const char* pszTimestamp = "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks";
Sweden does have Small claims courts, you can also contact Konsumentombudsmannen (The Consumer Ombudsman)
There was, but also the hotter 1000-hour bulbs are more efficient, and the alternative of 2500 hours still gets you nowhere near a decade of use.
Well there was no court case.

Considering the cost of sending a lawyer attend the hearing and the potential risk of creating a precedent, it may simpler and cheaper to send an engineer when someone complains too loudly...
The state gave us the internet. So I think those people are a small minority or they haven't paid attention.
Have you read much Asimov? You might enjoy the stories featuring Susan Calvin, the "robot psychologist" who is exactly the authoritarian you imagine. In particular you've reminded me of the short story "Robot Dreams."

If you care to read it, it's on page 25. (You'll need to register an account.)

https://archive.org/details/robotdreams00asim/page/n10/mode/...
Yea I too want to be replacing every appliance in my home at least every 4 years. Thats a healthy way to live for sure. /s
I cannot understand the homotopy type theory book. It just makes no sense to me, sorry.

> The logic of toposes is higher order intuitionistic logic.

Yes, I have read that a lot. Eventually, I would like to understand how toposes form a model of higher-order intuitionistic logic (which is what "The logic of toposes is higher order intuitionistic logic" probably means?). But first, I would like to understand what a topos is in first-order logic terms. You know, baby steps.
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Considering an oven is essentially just a control panel, a fan or two, some sensors and a heating element, there's no reason why these shouldn't last for decades.

As long as no exotic or custom components are used they should be easy to find parts and repair too
So what’s the game plan to compete with industry in China in 30 years when they have built out enough nuclear to do anything?

Adtech and LLM-s I guess :)
Defender detected the same "Trojan" when I downloaded redbean recently.

Most likely a false positive.
1/day ~ 1,16e-5 Hz

1/year ~ 3,17e-8 Hz

1/230 million years ~ 1,38e-16 Hz
An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman About Apple and AI
The Bouba/Kiki effect would predict that Bourbaki is rounded in the front and spiky in the back? Is he a cyndaquil?