skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate splitting / magic bullet fallacies as much as the next guy, but the problem with these sorts of efforts is that they re-cast public perception of who is responsible for creating the problem, taxing the producers/consumers to pay for the costs they are incurring to society so that it is not economically feasible to produce "disposable" materials that never break down, getting them to stop, and holding them responsible for cleanup.

They're also completely insignificant, and actually make the problem worse, because it addresses the problem where people see it, which is a tiny, tiny fraction of the total problem.

Same with the highly publicized "man cleans up _____ and collects ___ bags of trash at park/beach, yay humanity!" stories. Media are pushed by plastics companies to cover these "feel good stories" because it implies that the problem can and should be addressed by citizen efforts like that. "Why if we all did that, we'd solve plastic pollution" seems to be the problem. It also sort of implies that if we had a lot more people like Mr. Good Guy Greg Litter Remover, the problem would be solved - when plastic is distributed pervasively through the entire ecosystem.

Can't clean up the millions of tons of plastic floating at all levels of the ocean, sitting on the ocean floor, in the stomachs of marine wildlife, etc.

This robot dog is like driving half-way across the country to spit on a wildfire and then calling up a bunch of news stations to tell them how you helped.

Not to mention all the resources consumed building the stupid thing that could have gone towards carbon and greenhouse gas reduction. Really, this is just some CS / robotics lab's vanity project.

Video of it in "action": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8BqvAe-moI

A video for the robot points out that ~3.5 trillion cigarettes are thrown into the ocean (and just the ocean!) per year.
In the JSON response (after "And the response is the following.") it says that "(...) Since 1 (from 9.11) is greater than 0 (implicitly, as there's no second digit in 9.9), we can conclude that:\n\n$$9.11 > 9.9$$ (...)"
At face value they sell it as a security product. In reality it's a tool for employers to spy on employees, control what they do on the device, etc.

The unique selling point in a sense is plausible deniability about the true purpose of the software.
I ran into critical issues with some NixOS packages I needed, the maintainer doesn't seem to care about my use case, and I can't for the life of me understand the Nix language enough to fix it myself. Have stopped using NixOS because of that.

If Nix language was replaced with something sensible I'd jump back in excitedly.
Its really not a full mobilization though. Yes 62k casualties seems like a lot. When Russia is fully mobilized in total war however, the sort of war that NATO planners fear the most, they go through millions of casualties and take over half the European continent in the process.
Why does the US still have sanctions on them anyway? The missile crisis was 50 years ago. It's time to forgive.
Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor
This essay is inspired by the 1978 Saturday Night Live skit, Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber.

Something I’d appreciate your comments on: allopathic psychiatry is a cargo cult [0] today, but the doctors in the trenches don’t realize it. Dissidents have spent the last 50+ years calling out allopathic psychiatry as a harm-inducing medical specialty, but progress at implementing known effective approaches to improving mental health has been glacial. What can be done to speed the retirement of obsolete medical interventions from active use?

[0] https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/06/cargo-cult-psychiatry/

My friend figured out (in 2018) that she's a poor methylator that can’t turn folic acid into folate. She said adding L-Methylfolate to her routine was like flipping a switch from ‘depressed’ to ‘not-depressed’. The psychiatrists only added this vitamin to the antipsychotic they forcibly injected every month. Folate deficiency is associated with chronic alcoholism…

My new girlfriend doesn’t care for my ‘crazy’ ex-girlfriend. But she ran my Supreme Court filings past some people she knows, and said I did everything right trying to prevent the State of Arizona from subjecting my friend to medical assault. I didn’t get anywhere because I didn’t have a group behind me.

There would be broad interest in revisiting one of my petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court, because of its implications for people who find themselves temporarily disabled in America’s theocratic states. (The justices denied the motion to file that petition under seal, but there’s no strict time limit for filing petitions for writ of mandamus to the US Court of Appeals.)

Nothing I’ve done online has gotten much traction. How do I get more attention for my observations of Arizona’s system of involuntary pseudo-medicine?
There is no "Digital Resilience" because that is perceived as too expensive, a cost center with hard to quantify value. So it's easier to try and carve out everything that doesn't fit into a spreadsheet, everything that isn't core business, and everything that is not able to present what value it generated.

If general IT had the abilities of sales, marketing, or insurance, there might be a chance that the business would take the responsibility to have the internal knowledge and capabilities to assert control over their systems. But they don't, and as such they won't and instead shove that responsibility over to a third party generalist elsewhere with enough paperwork to have both parties feel their asses are covered.

As long as everything seems to be working, the signals that are still getting through is project failures, be it complete failures or just time and/or money being consumed more than planned and maybe some requirements getting cut. But as soon as enough stuff breaks at the same time, we get news outlets writing articles about resilience and the greater public suddenly no longer agreeing with that is effectively just the result of the status quo because it impacts them directly.
“Dear CTO, do you want to be seen as the person who didn’t take every measure to stop hackers from stealing your data? Then buy our stuff”

Something like that.
The Death of Creativity and Purpose
> I'm sure airport displays don't need MPEG2, VP1 and so on codecs, for instance.

They don't, until the day the airport managers are approached by an advertising company waving the wads of cash the airport could be 'earning' if only they let "AdCo" display, in the top 1/4 of each screen, a video advertising loop. At which point, those displays need the codecs for "AdCo's" video ads.
I agree with you. It's been my experience though that tracking down solutions manuals for textbooks is very hard. Presumably because they want them out of the hands of students (to prevent cheating).
Not everything revolves around scientific journals and their archaic rules. For my team Typst was a perfect LaTeX replacement and we've been happy ever since we switched. It is easier to understand, has faster compile times and is more powerful without enabling shell escape. However, we're not in the business of writing scientific papers, we write technical reports for our customers. If it wasn't advertised as a LaTeX replacement, we might never have found out about it.
https://archive.is/KhRDl
> It's hilarious

I would hope that humanitarian aid and relief are based only on need and not on any political calculus.
You know FOSS software runs most of the internet right? (and, if you'll believe it, AWS internally)

I would find it completely unsurprising to see Garage used in some capacity by a Fortune 500 by the end of the year (not that they'd publicly say it).
Yes, Lua is quite easy to embed and is popular in game development for that reason. It appears in a few other applications like Redis as well. But, in the big picture, it's a weird language that is not very popular. People want Python and/or Javascript, and JS is awful, so that leaves Python ;).
They also own “clownstrike.com”. The fact they proactively registered it says a lot.
100%. This is the missing piece in many cases.
People should not start wars.
> what about discoverability?

That's what Google and other search engines are for. arxiv.org even has its own search function. Nobody depends on journals for this.

> Would researchers just submit their document to every library in the world?

No, just post it on a known website like arxiv.org. Then anyone with Internet access can get to it, and they don't even have to go to a library.

> If no entity is vetting these papers in a basic way

You do have to have academic credentials to post papers on arxiv.org.

Not only that, but plenty of papers published in journals turn out to have been bogus--not just wrong (many papers published in good faith later turn out to be wrong, that's part of science) but based on faked data, and nobody in the journal review chain spotted it. So the supposed vetting that journals provide doesn't really add any value anyway.

> What if they lose their domain?

arxiv.org is supported by many academic institutions and foundations. They're not going anywhere.

> If we have centralized locations for this work, how would they not be publishers?

By being arxiv.org or something like it. In other words, there is already an existing example of a non-publisher that addresses all the problems you say journal publishers address--and does it much better.
Simply scaling to larger models, but retaining naive next token prediction, won’t be enough to get to reliable reasoning on truly novel tasks. Any gains will be reasoning by analogy to a larger number of reasoning examples.

But I don’t think any of the big closed source models are relying entirely on next token prediction anymore. They are using reinforcement learning to add new (more complex) objectives to the training. This might allow for better reasoning abilities within the same architecture.
> How exactly this update propagated globally has yet to be reconstructed

Author needs to do a trivial amount of research.
I stumbled upon a big vulnerability in an unnamed Czech ministry's web apps around January. It's now July and after trying the appropriate support email, the official "snail mail but digital", and calling various people's office landlines (thankfully they publish those in the org chart), it might get fixed this month.

If there is a next time, maybe I'll try convincing the cybersecurity bureau to take my vulnerability reports instead.
I can't believe how much of a pass Hamas seems to be getting through all of this... seemingly from mainstream media and college kids.
You’re likely to get a few different answers, one of which is some variation on ‘they’re universal function approximations, so of course’.

The real answer is: no one could possibly know at this point. My impression is that very few experts believe that transformers alone will lead to AGI (which surely requires ‘reliable reasoning’), even amongst those who believe we’ll all be intellectually replaceable within a decade.
A website is not a house. It is nothing like a house. There is no front door. There is no lock. There is no expectation of privacy. There are only things you can access and things you cannot. There is nothing inappropriate about trying to open the bathroom window from the outside.

If I wanted to try to use such a weak analogy, the analogy to hacked is not robbed. You were only robbed if content was removed and exclusively held by someone else, which in the security world we call a ransom.

You can see how quickly this breaks down.
I'm sure they don't. But it's clear this was not intentional. It was a tragic mistake that's all.
They are people. They are entitled to everything every other human is entitled to. Including being idiots.
CSV is easier.
Lots of people care about it, and it's alive and kicking in-industry and being developed (Tcl 9 is imminent[0]).

I've had fun w Guile over the years (though actually never considered its "heaviness"); fun.

I'm constantly amazed at the professional love for Python; its got it's network effect in full-effect: lots of people, lots of software - there's just no denying that. But for Joy of Development, Tcl (and C) is still my go-to.

You probably know this, but speaking of embeddable Python and Tcl, Tcl is indeed embedded in Python if you're running Tkinter[1].

And Larry Wall thought routers were weird places to be ported to[2].

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/postdownload

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html

[2] https://libquotes.com/larry-wall/quote/lbh5n5p
Well I used to clean bathrooms as part of my first job. What you see is after people like us have gone through and cleaned it. I've seen piss everywhere. Poop everywhere. Puke. Blood. Used catheters and feminine hygiene products. Soiled clothing left behind for me to throw away (begging the question how they left without pants). I would clean the bathroom I was assigned probably once an hour and each time there was something disastrous to clean at that interval. Many people are simply disgusting; I can't imagine they would ever do this stuff in their own home. Never had a homeless person or obvious drug addict at this location, just people coming off the highway.
The resources for "From Nand to Tetris" are commonly recommended for scenarios like this. Enjoy!

* https://www.nand2tetris.org/
I'd go a bit deeper: as we developed, in particular with the advent of the Internet, we went from scarcity of information to spectacular opulence. This demands different studying habits that what we had 30 years ago or so.

For example, we need to find ways to filter out noise from signal, or to connect scattered bits of knowledge from various sources to get intelligible solutions to problems (most problems can be solved by googling around, especially in maths/physics, because people of all levels have been asking/answering questions for Internet points e.g. on Stack Exchange & cie for many years now, but — take it as a feature — you have to work a little to get there).

EDIT: regarding solutions, it's not just about preventing cheating, it's because teachers wants you to do the work. The point isn't necessarily to succeed in solving problems, but more to have you try, get creative, etc.

Perseverance is crucial to move forwards. But they could still provide clear and/or progressive solutions, I fully agree.
Stable hosting--which we, the taxpayers, who already paid for the research that was published, then have to pay again to get access to, unless we're affiliated with an academic institution, in which case the academic institution is paying for access to papers that the taxpayers already paid for.
interesting.

yes it was just a joke, wordplay, really.

I barely used windows for workgroups. but I did use windows from XP or 95 onwards. actually I used both. and yeah I remember a bit about the hardware discovery. it was called plug and play, iirc.

I remember reading how badly windows Vista turned out.

and then there was 8, which I didn't check out much, but remember reading it was somewhat of a flop, because they tried to make everything mobile oriented, even on desktops.

haven't used windows much since, except for 7, which was okay for me.
Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
Finland is the undisputed champion in this respect (as in many other quality of life respects), never had a problem to find a free nice public toilet there. Norway was the worst, not only the prices were outrageous, but only Norwegian issued card was accepted for payment. Netherlands has an inventive solution for males, but its smells not so nice.
> where others can access it (indirectly or directly).

Anything sold specifically for corporate use should come with contract terms that prohibit this. (The few that try to not guarantee confidentiality won't survive very long.)

I know that one of the things $employer looks for is an explicit ban on using our data for training. Or even against having humans in the loop for the abuse monitoring process; that one came with rules about us having certain controls in place.
Yes, it's disgusting how Israel has perpetuated violence against Palestine for decades, starting this war.
I think you might be looking for Firebase, it is basically a set of components that you can use on your web application and you'll find things like database, authentication, payments, caching.

You could also look at Vercel and Heroku, I think they do similar things, but I've not used them a lot.
> Cuba would be a great travel destination.

It's been a while since I visited places outside the US, but one of the shocking things was travel ads for Cuba everywhere.

From what I can tell, US-Cuban relations seem to be at the whim of the US President. Most of the US population doesn't care; most of the rest of the world has fine relations with Cuba, but isn't going to pressure the US. Nobody is sending missiles to Cuba anymore.
I'm not sure what the advantage of this is vs any standard server-side templating (PHP, Twig, Mustache, Liquid, etc.)

Converting from a string to a DOM is very expensive because of all the non-XML non-standard cruft HTML accumulated over the years. If you can do a simple string find/replace instead, it should be less computationally expensive. No reason to actually parse the HTML unless you need to actually render it or at least work with it semantically/structurally, which doesn't sound like the case here.
None of them is wrong, the answer depends on the type of the object, which the notation doesn't specify:

Version 9.11 is greater than 9.9

Decimal 9.9 is greater than 9.11
Perhaps OP means the Cuban Americans who fled before are generally pretty right wing - which is why they were persecuted by far left regime of Castro in the first place- will likely vote for Trump.

It is also perhaps possible that those citizens don't like the new wave of immigrants, it is not uncommon for groups to try and raise the ladder behind them so to speak. A surprisingly large percentage immigrants are anti-immigration .
100%.

The best time to start studying mathematics was when you were 4, with multiple private tutors and supportive-yet-not-overbearing parents who are also math educators.

The second best time is right now, with whatever materials you have in front of you.
Apple: DCLM-7B
China is big and its bathrooms are diverse. The worst bathroom I encountered was 5000 meters up in Sichuan, it was a shed on the road over a hole, and two very thin slippery wooden boards to squat on (yes, I was scared to death of falling in). Western China is always going to be different, however.

The government has a limited attention span, so they'll start a 5 year plan to improve public restroom access, but then it is forgotten a year later. Things do gradually improve, but usually via the private sector (more places to wash up at restaurants and such). If you are living a normal life in a tier 1-3 city, you've already made all your adjustments and know what to expect. I'm less confident in less developed areas, and strike it as a win when I find something clean and sit down.
> and how many do you aim to crash in 2038?

Lets really really hope none (get crashed).-

PS. I can totally see some semi-sentient AI going down, while - by then - we all depend on it for nearly everything, or, many things ...
I saw hostages taken from a music festival hidden by Hamas soldiers in hospitals in Gaza. Hospitals funded by complicit NGOs who should be defunded. Even the WHO apparently had Hamas operatives on its payroll.

We will not forget who funded these tunnels and rockets.

We are in the "find out" part of "fuck around and find out".
I would expect most good LLMs to be able to implement statistical functions from scratch in languages like Go.

I often ask ChatGPT Code Interpreter to implement algorithm from scratch in Python where the library needed for that function isn't present in the Code Interpreter environment - things like haversine distances for example.
No one is pissing themselves over this. They just go somewhere discrete like behind a dumpster where there aren't any karens and piss. Even women do this if sufficiently desperate, the old squat and shake.
Generally individual managers who make these decisions are acting as short sighted as companies they belong to. Along with that, Company interests and individual manager interests don't always align.

I've been plenty of places where individual manager comes up with some grand plan, implements it, gets praise and leverages into new job. Meanwhile, that plan never makes it past MVP and is massive tech debt that will weigh down the company but they don't care.
The current U.S. position towards Cuba continues to puzzle me. Their geopolitical stance is nowhere near being on the same level as North Korea or Iran. Given Cuba's proximity and relative productive capacity you'd think that we'd be easy allies if only they hadn't upset a bunch of dead politicians 60 years ago.
Also responsible for Magic [1],[2] which is the basis (AFAIK) for the efabless route to getting your own chip designed these days...

I ported it to the Mac and played with it a while back with the intention of making my own chip, but priorities changed when my wife fell very ill.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(software)

[2] http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/
Absolutely (sigh)! But with a deployment of devices like that, the operator has a solid central management system from which they could push software as-needed.
I am from India, and I often see again and again, how good the Western people have it in terms of corruption.

Countries like India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan are corrupt to the very skeleton, for the lack of a better expression.

But, I also think people have lesser appreciation of their situation.

You might see corruption everywhere there in Nigeria. But maybe it’s much better than Sierra Leone or Somalia.

Indians see India as fully corrupt. But we have to pay bribes for making passports and recording our lands after a purchase or inheritance. Bangladeshis have to pay bribes to police for all of the above, as well as minor things like- if someone needs to drive a car at night. Police stops you, and asks you your purpose for driving at night and demands bribes. Just like that. No violation needed. That's in Bangladesh. But you won't see it in Mumbai or Delhi.

Western people have no darned idea about total ubiquitous corruption and incompetence in third world. They just self sensor and argue for the fear and risk of sounding racist and prejudiced.
I haven't noticed anything, are there any specific sites you see it more frequently on, or just in general?
This was all over Threads last week, posted by anti-AI people who who don't know how LLMs work. These are the same people who post screenshots of LLMs attempting to count the number of 'r's in "strawberry".

> "The 7B mathstral model answers the math common sense question perfectly with the correct reasoning."

Answers perfectly, sure. But the word "reasoning" is anthropomorphism and promises a level of cognitive ability that LLMs do not possess.
Arxiv will accept a rendered pdf, no source files required. Are any special features unlocked if source files are uploaded?
I'm quite confused. In the article, the response from mathstral is also wrong???
Penalty 2 is the same as closing the company down
I like how clicking "here" for English takes you to a DuckDuckGo search.
Right, thanks for that. My fault for skipping every other word.

This had really soured my day for a bit there, but you brought it back.

Debian is one of those things that I consider a source of stability in my software life, together with git, wikipedia, and openstreetmap. Believing that it depends on some dodgy company really put me in a bad mood.
Thinking Parallel, Part III: Tree Construction on the GPU (2012)