skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know folk are ripping down this straw-man, which is reasonable, but what are better best practices?

I'll start, I'd rather have YYMMDD_xx_title-words.md, where xx are the principal engineer's initials. It'll handle the merge/pull issue, and also show at a glance who was making architectural decisions (and if they were making too many at once), though I would love to hear how something like this has blown up in the past.
Absolutely, but I've learned from experience that the more extreme examples tend to get dismissed pretty quickly for various reasons.

The examples I used are ones that affect pretty much everybody and, more importantly, are directly relevant to me. Since I was commenting about my own personal situation, I thought it prudent to limit my response to that subset.

But you're right -- there are many layers to this onion, and some are far worse than others.
Japan has been living in the year 2000 since the 1980s.
Why German Strings Are Everywhere
I'm mostly impressed this person has an SP4 that still has a working battery and no screen issues.
> It runs on coffee

Or for Erdös, amphetamine.

Also I find it ironic to fro them to gripe
about alleged "hyper-specializatiin" given that part of the beauty of Math is discovering how seemingly unrelated areas are in fact connected AND discovering generalizations that can be easily applied.

Caveat, I am no where close to being a mathematician.
Rebranding of the Project
Interesting - you're a great writer!
> and self-serving analogies to human learning should be rejected.

Not sure how this is self-serving or a reference to human learning. This is a pretty emotional reply and it makes it hard to see the points you are trying to make.
I think there is a discussion about the legitimacy of scraping in general that is ongoing, which is a lot of what I brought up in my post. Training using scraped information should be part of that discussion.
Meta's digital censorship targets art from the Leopold Museum in Vienna
For sure, it's only worth doing if you actually have so much relevant data that it doesn't fit in the context! This is definitely the case for us for this problem, but it's not universal.
It would be nice if we lived in a world where demand for helium-3 for fusion existed.

We don't, though.
Probably approaches like jerky and pemmican.
Leasing is leasing. Domains and desks are not very different from the supply side.

My advice is attend a domain leasing industry conference should such a thing exist.

My apologies for previously taking your question at face value and bothering to answer. I did not intend to bruise anyone’s ego.
Well it would seem reasonable to ban Musk stories unrelated to technology, as this is. If you had never heard of him you would flag this in a heartbeat.
Flock, as depicted by Apple
> You know perfectly well that point 1 is completely irrelevant in the world of open-source.

Genuinely, why not? Open source projects go through ownership changes (as unlikely as they may be), social engineering, etc. In the unlikely chance something were to happen and anything malicious were to occur, what recourse is a user to have? And we are talking about a web browser here, which will be accessing peoples most sensitive data. I don't think this is an unreasonable stance.

> A UK Ltd. is less transparent than Librewolf, an open-source project run by many volunteers without the incentive to make any money.

Well this UK Ltd is still beholden to English law and UK GDPR. You could argue the merits and teeth that GDPR has, but I don't see why it's not a valid comparison? I can't just start processing personal data without complying with GDPR, for example.

> The risks you are talking about are not inherent to Librewolf, but to Linux and open-source, and thus are not legitimate criticisms of Librewolf.

Linux has the Linux foundation, which AFAIK is going to be beholden to California law? I don't see how that can't also be a criticism of Librewolf (and any OSS in a similar spot?).

> Point 3 is no longer true, the installer comes with the option to enable auto-update and on Linux, it also auto-updates, depending on distro, etc.

It seems to me to still true, because the installer is installing WinUpdater. Which, as it seems, is maintained by an individual developer?

> If you want LibreWolf to be automatically updated (recommended), you can choose to install the LibreWolf WinUpdater[1], which is included in the installer.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ltguillaume/librewolf-winupdater
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What I have in mind would be closer to category two, but not in it.

Who/that which has most control over the beliefs of the most humans (with some weighting) is the most powerful character. You can build the most powerful AI you want, but whoever / whatever is able and willing to invoke Total War (or invoke mass human action toward a particular goal) can Win the Game (or, destroy the playing field so it no longer matters).

For example:

> Because we can't solve the human alignment problem.

Whoever or whatever put this sort of thinking into the minds of 99% of humans, or knows how to exploit it (see: Trump) is very, very powerful. Someone or something that could displace it would be even more powerful, maybe even the most powerful.

No offense intended btw, I think it is fairly inevitable, especially when moving fast.

https://youtu.be/IgzFPOMjiC8?si=raN2cUBDyvK14N_f

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
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You might run into an issue where the Lock Screen is blank and it is unclear what to do other than to reboot.

A Redditor (not me) found a solution: play with the brightness keys to fix the problem.
New space suit design may mean astronauts won't have to wear diapers
I agree that a better screen would be great, and walk-in service anywhere in the world would be fantastic.

But I want a Linux laptop, not Windows or OSX. I also want a computer that obeys me, not some megacorp (not unrelated to the previous point.) I also want to not fight it all the time.
What is notion? My googlefu is letting me down.
Similar opinion here on my destop. I was running 128gb, only exceeded 64gb a handful of times. That said, my RAM started causing lots of issues (thought my ssd was going bad). I only bought 64gb to replace it with as I felt the extra cost wasn't worth it to maintain, also likely to upgrade early-mid next year.
This is such an elitist attitude, and I'd like to see less of it.

The vast majority of users aren't going to be bothered by those screen specs. For many coming from low-end hardware, it's actually an upgrade. Most work won't be significantly impacted by increasing the refresh rate, and while better resolution can be helpful if you keep multiple windows on the screen, most programs still feel tailored to 1920x1080 screens. Office workers writing emails, reports, purchase orders, and basic spreadsheets aren't likely to notice a better refresh rate and they're more likely to get a positive impact from turning a monitor vertical to fit more of a page on their screens.

Don't get me wrong, I use two 2560x1440p monitors at 144Hz at home, but I honestly get just as much work done on my dual 1080p 60Hz monitors at my desk at work. Saying that a laptop with 1080p@60hz is a waste is elitist and unnecessary in my opinion.
>I can’t imagine anyone would be happy shipping their private personal thoughts to a cloud LLM + unknown backend service provider

you're in a tech bubble if you think this.

Do you think all the people on this subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/ are keeping private thoughts to themselves when doing roleplay with their virtual companions?

No.. I think most people don't think about this stuff at all.
If you extend this to Restoration, Pepys went to the theatre several times a week. About 50% he was unimpressed by.
Understanding the awesomeness of Blender is when I realized that the fate of all software is to be commoditized.

It is almost an anomaly that the highest market cap companies are software companies until you realize that most of their value actually comes from network effects (Meta) or actual hardware (Cloud providers and Apple)
I think they're talking about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notion_(productivity_software)
But what's the point of making innocent confess to false crimes in this setting? (i.e. requiring polygraph for job application)

I would imagine the entire point of doing a test would be to find out who is innocent and who is lying about being innocent. If you pressure the innocent into false confession, wouldn't it just make everything even more difficult?
They say no llama.cpp support yet, so no ollama yet (which uses llama.cpp)
For me it's nice to see the re-use of existing infra - big query. Personally, I was rooting for Postgres, but your logic of why not makes sense! Great post.
To me the RAG hype is just the sudden rediscovery of information retrieval by money hounds that did not care about AI/ML for decades and now are in panic mode due to FOMO.
Fortunately, more people want/need to hammer nails responsibly than to commit violence with hammers.

The problem is, the desire and means to lazily or cynically profit and misinform outweigh the positive applications here.
I have first hand good experience from France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany. I've also driven across Poland, and that was where I had to start planning charging, rather than just go wherever, which is why I say west Europe, not just EU.

Austria looks less dense than Germany and Switzerland, but still good – DC fast chargers along highways, and over 100 fast chargers in Vienna.

Austrian Alps have poorer coverage, but that's not surprising — there aren't many roads there either, but still there are enough chargers to cross them in an EV, so at least as a tourist I don't think I'd have major difficulty.

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/
You’re changing the subject! There is a really good problem in there.

Why does this stuff work so well, for what classes of problems, and can we say anything about the fundamental energy/accuracy limits of this approach?

I think of it as an engineering problem, but there are mathematical rephrasings of this problem, as Michel Talagrand’s work has shown.

Don’t let the greed/stampede obscure the very interesting technical principles here.
Defining good metrics for LLM system evaluation
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Largely the same here... I've been split windows+wsl and mac the past few years for work, and while I feel WSL makes windows usable, I'd rather run Linux directly than either. Muscle memory on a Mac is often painful to deal with (us-ansi 104 keyboard).
Please consider removing the last para. It's not relevant, and we don't need to give folks on the right even more reason to respond to the left with violence.
Huge meandering article about building a fence.

Pro tip, in places where your neighbors want a say in potential remodels of the interior rooms of your house spend some time seeking consensus before building a fence. Because before we had building permits and codes we had community consensus and you go against that at your peril.
in my model it's the platform job to handle the user input and your program output you just write your function and the platform calls your program for example f(time,input_data,key_a,key_b,key_c,...) . if you are very very patient and don't care about the program length you can just compute every output of your program for every possible input. according to [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20230505022436/http://page.mi.fu...) paper a single loop and four basic arithmetic operation is enough to simulate a turing machine so my idea was that to unroll the loop and my conjecture is that we don't need the loop and only four operations is enough to compute all total computable functions
The UI looks nice.

What tech stack is it built on?
exciting and unexpected. i'll try it but i'll be pleasantly surprised if it's good
I think it’s also think it’s interesting to consider from the perspective of side-channel attacks/information leaks. For the most part, I think text notes are well just text. But I shutter to think what other metadata, fingerprinting, or background conversations/information could be extracted from a bunch of audio. But maybe I’m just being overly paranoid.
> Then

doesn't make any sense. I did justify them and told you where.
I signed up when codestral was first available and put my payment details in. Been using it daily since then with continue.dev but my usage dashboard shows 0 tokens, and so far have not been billed for anything... Definitely not clear anywhere, but it seems to be free for now? Or some sort of free limit that I am not hitting.
Oh no the social medias are killing the Burmese! Quick, someone arrest Marc Z! To The Hague with him!
domineer → demeanor

I only post the correction because it took me a couple of minutes to figure out. Domineer is an uncommon word, so initially I thought I had a gap in my vocabulary, but couldn't find any definitions that made sense in this context.
Win2K was pretty great, I do like aspects of the Win7+ app-bar though.
The mysterious maths at work in the Tour de France
C# support is great. But yes, if you need to call a library/extension written in gdscript from the C# code, you'll need to write some C# bindings to make it practical.
I don't know what a RAG is (and apparently it's forbidden to explain). And at this point, I'm afraid to ask.
Thank you for sharing this, it is helpful context when discussing data security and privacy with regulators and federal Congressional reps.
From my understanding, the EV market has slowed in the US because of the price point. There are very few options under $40k. Elon promised us a $25k model but made the Cybertruck instead. US car companies had decided some time ago they wanted to exit the low-end market. So now foreign companies serve that and China is the only one producing EVs in that price range at scale.
The link is already there in the text, they probably just fixed it.
Yeah it's an interesting question. Of course these days since it's public domain you could have chat GPT give you every sentence with a modern translation alongside.

It's sometimes hard to tell when people advocate for something esoteric if they are being hipster (e.g "Goldplated audiocables on a record player") [i.e. advocating for something monetarily/intellectually inaccessible as a form of flaunting wealth/intellect] or if it's a genuine recommendation.

I bet a clever person could come up with some ways to test each hypothesis.
Cheers, saved me some time.
And yet, TFA mentions absolutely none of this.
On linux, I have to switch my headphone mode when going in/out of web calls. It doesn't auto-switch to mono-mode when the mic is in use by an application.
> We don't actually care which one you pick, because a confession is still a confession

Yes, but as you note, the point is to make it sound like barely a confession, the minimum possible confession. This makes it just as attractive to the innocent as for the guilty. It's offering a minimally painful way out of a deeply stressful situation.

And as you say, the punchline is that not confessing would lead to minimal or no pain, and every level of confession will equally turn out much worse. An innocent person is just trying to escape from that room, and is being conned into agreeing to a long prison sentence in order to do it.
> The low quality of this blog post (and all your posts) makes me think you wrote it mostly with AI.

There's gotta be a better way to phrase this. OP didn't write anything except a prompt.
Thanks, I'm a bit new to this entire concept. Do troy lbs also exist, or is that just a term when measuring ounces?
> Just as volumes shift to equalize pressure, areas shift to equalize surface tension, and charges shift to equalize voltage, entropy is the "stuff" that shifts to equalize temperature.

I remember watching videos of Leonard Susskind in which he talked about a similar phenomenon where circuit complexity itself increases till it maximizes. It behaves similar to entropy.

Complexity and Gravity - Leonard Susskind

https://youtu.be/6OXdhV5BOcY?t=3046

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-new-paradox-black-holes-ap...
There's hype and FOMO for sure and you're right that there's lots to learn from information retrieval work. But why be dismissive of the whole thing? People learning from past research and applying it in new contexts seems like a good thing and there's people (like https://x.com/bclavie and https://x.com/jobergum), who are legit experts in information retrieval and are showing how to apply it to RAG properly.
Taken from the same blog:

"Roughly, RAG is runtime prompt engineering where you build a system to dynamically add relevant things to your prompt before you ask the agent for an answer."
> Let’s be real: in the long run, there’s nothing that humans can do that machines can’t do better. Nothing.

Maybe. Maybe not. I doubt this quite a lot, personally, but I, like you, are merely speculating. We'll see what the future brings.
Multi-version schema migrations for Postgres
Ollama is supported: https://docs.continue.dev/setup/select-provider
Yeah I liked the polish on them. I don’t recall which one it was. The mid range i5 I think. This was beginning of covid so IT just issued whatever they could get regardless of suitability. But yeah gigantic formula heavy excels kill even desktops let alone tablets.

I had it swapped for a surface laptop. Forget what exactly but similar generation.

That had active cooling which I suspect made the difference. Still slow but somewhat tolerable
The Dangers of Quicksand
It should be corrected but the interesting aspect of this release is the architecture. To stay competitive while only needing linear inference time and supporting 256k context is pretty neat.
The now long standing congestion charge in London is specifically to support public transport and residents get a hefty discount.

This article seems to miss the point by a mile.
California gets much less in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes. California is much larger population wise than Texas and as such it isn’t surprising that they need more federal aid. California also doesn’t vote against federal aid to states in disaster situations.
Have you tried asking Google LLM RAG or ChatGPT what RAG in the context of LLMs is?
Yeah. I like hunting for bargains as much as the next guy. I am thinking of getting a new TV for the cat room

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112780806461056458

and asked the clerk at Best Buy what was on sale and got a good answer. (Though I thought about it and realized I could spend the same money to develop and market a simple product with a friend and probably be better friends)

As a bargain hunter though I have always found Prime Day is a waste of time with few worthwhile deals. The articles boosting it always come across as insufferable to me as it is the biggest retail non-event of the year.
> “Retrieval-Augmented Generation” is nothing more than a fancy way of saying “including helpful information in your LLM prompt.”
Perhaps I needed to be more specific in my question. "It's a flavor of cookie" doesn't satisfy my curiosity. What I really want to know is why a special term was invented for it in the first place.
The well-known linguist John McWhorter argues that Shakespeare's plays should be translated into modern English since they are written in a language that we effectively no longer speak.

"Indeed, the irony today is that the Russians, the French and other people in foreign countries possess Shakespeare to a much greater extent than we do, for the simple reason that unlike us, they get to enjoy Shakespeare in the language they speak."

"'But translated Shakespeare wouldn’t be Shakespeare!' one might object. To which the answer is, to an extent, yes. However, we would never complain a translation of Beowulf 'isn’t Beowulf'—of course it isn’t, in the strict sense, but we know that without translation, we would not have access to Beowulf at all."

His full discussion is here, and is worth reading: https://www.americantheatre.org/2010/01/01/its-time-to-trans...
Benchmarking Versioning Tools for ML: S3, DVC, Git LFS, and XetHub
I just loaded facebook.com and saw 30 unique elements used on my homepage. Seems reasonable enough.
Generally Gold (aurium) is not bioreactive, it's hardly reactive at all hence it's lustre in the wild since it doesn't tarnish or bond easily. Goldschlager has gold flake in it for human consumption. It's generally considered safe to consume for this reason. The quantity to make an LD50 of inhaled gold would be considerable I imagine, but have no data.
Here is a good one. When one applies for a security clearance for a job in a large sector of the employment market or a gov job. All this data could be used.
There's an entertaining "V-Sauce" video about Zipf's law for anyone wanting to learn a bit more about it and to see other examples of where it shows up:

https://youtu.be/fCn8zs912OE
Funny video, but it would be much better if uBlock worked on Safari )
They're in roughly the same class but totally different architectures

Deepseek uses a 4k sliding window compared to Codestral Mamba's 256k+ tokens
Fascinating, despite the significantly better specs (and VRAM) on the AMD MI300x, the Nvidia H100 seems to match performance at lower batch sizes, and only loses out slightly at larger batches, I'm guessing the differentiator is mostly VRAM (192 GB in MI300 vs 80 GB in the Nvidia chip.)

Does anyone know if this is just due to ROCm vs CUDA implementations? Or something else?
rotting and aging are very different things. rotting is simply being consumed by fungus/bacteria, aging is a more complex process that involves controlling the liquid levels in the meat in order to make it last longer (wet aging) or taste better (dry aging)
> Streptococcus was the most abundant genus in most samples (n = 103, 61.7 %)
So total sample size is 162: small but sufficient, should be replicated and scaled.
Whales and bison were subject to very modern techniques. While sailing whalers did stress whale populations, it was the steam launch and exploding harpoon that really did the whales in. Bison were destroyed with rifles, which are new in themselves, but the mass-slaughter behavior was enabled by rail transport. Plus they were plenty stressed by competition with cattle, bred for rail transport, and enclosure of the prairie by barbed wire.

Earlier lithic-technology subsistence whale and bison hunting doesn't seem to have been a big problem for either. I won't say that early human hunting didn't contribute to or cause mega-fauna extinctions (in fact, it seems quite likely) but that's not highly analogous to these more recent events.
The name needs MORE POWER bro.
It is first-class support, as far as I know everything is accessible from C#. I developed YKnytt, an open source game, fully in C# and never had the issue of something not working in C# as it did in GDScript.
That As You Like It pun on hours/whores ripe/rape and rot/rut was new to me; thanks for sharing.
Yes, and the more you convince people that everyone is equally bad, the more you empower bad actors. If there is no profit in being good and there is profit in being bad, being good is for suckers.

If everyone's a thief, you'd better start stealing. Otherwise you're just a victim.
They meant that there is no support for Codestral Mamba for llama.cpp yet.
Such a nice country but completely taken over by cartels. Sad!
We had them in NYC up until 2007. As a kid my mom was a taxi driver and I spent the first years of my life in a cab and saw them all over.

They also removed the Don't Honk and Don't Block The Box signs. All three were introduced in the Koch era.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Donteven...
Not nearly as bad as what happened in Europe during the 1940s in terms of race relations that's for damn sure
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