skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when you ask an LLM to give you a confidence value, it is indeed computed

You mean the output of the transformer? It does not "compute" confidence values. It's still doing token prediction.
Nobody builds a successful decentralized app, period.
I was a dishwasher to six-figs remote eng.

One thing I hated was power spraying ramekins and the sauce would hit you in the face... But yeah I remember those days listening to changelog while I washed plates.
Like many of the BSDs
Chris Chan is the amalgamation of the worst parts of imageboards. Also could argue he is a victim to the internet.
Recommend just letting people have their one day in the sun. We’ve become less the site of builders as the red team for testing your launch.
imagine enforcing invariants as part of the design of a software system
IIRC this used to be propagated back in the early HTML5 days. At least that's how it got to my personal website. I might've got it from html5boilerplate.com or a similar site.
It is harder, the scale of activity on TG is just next level.
Agreed, but I think that dismisses the ease of use of this product compared to other offerings. Being able to type in a single sentence and have a full webpage of exactly what you asked for in less time than takes to stand up and stretch is kind of magical.
Thanks! I didn't know that setting existed and I always wanted this behavior.
Welcome to the blue chip club Nvidia, where you smash earnings, and the market is like "meh"
> Moderation just leads to censorship

I welcome censorship on my personal site because I control the censorship.

Likewise I'd like the option of controlling the conversation for responses to my posts. You're welcome to say whatever you want about me - under your own threads.

You're not going to get much sympathy if your stance is censorship = bad

> Upvote / downvotes are good enough on their own

Not sure I've seen this work. It's not good enough for Reddit or HN, both of which have heavy moderation.
So the open source community in this metaphor are the people screaming "That's not really nudity!" at the people having fun? Don't quit your day job journo.
You don't get to make a false claim and then handwave it away. You made the claim and you were given evidence otherwise.

This was not a case of a user confusing encryption in transit, as you claim.
> even as the language appears nowhere on the TIOBE rankings.

TIOBE rankings are widely considered to be useless by those who care about programming languages, but even aside from that your dismissal on those grounds is absurd given that you had just barely criticized TLA+ for trying to duck the label of "programming language" at all. You can't criticize it for trying not to be a programming language and then turn around and criticize it for not showing up on a ranking of programming languages.

It's excluded from the TIOBE index in the same way that HTML, CSS, or Markdown are excluded, and that's by choice.
X11 did a lot of things. None of them "wrong", just "badly conjoined at the spinal cord".

An X server is a fantastic example of how building drivers for deep hardware components should never have been written in userspace.

(If anyone wants: There's a fantastic talk at LCA a few years ago from Keith Packard about X's history: https://youtu.be/cj02_UeUnGQ )
I think the answer is yes and no.

Let's say we knew we had a normal number, say we could prove pi is normal. Then the set of sequences defined by the decimal expansion of pi starting at the nth place for all n in the natural numbers would be uniformly random over all decimal expansions. I'm going this route because it in theory allows us to define each sequence by virtue of a single number rather than an infinite sequence of randint(0, 9). This I think would be our best case if it were possible. But you would have to select a number uniformly in the range [0, inf) which... you can't.
I think in a very high cost of living country (Switzerland) this would be good economics if you trained your staff to put stuff in front of it as part of its workflow. I think this would work best if the robot was typically had an empty queue and you could just clear a table and place it directly in front of the robot and walk away.

There's lots of brief moments of downtime in a restaurant to do stuff like shuffle a tray or two over for the robot.
Another real world example: A famous comedian once grossly misunderstood something I said, quote tweeted it with a framing based on that, and sent tens of thousands of views, hundreds of replies, and thousands of notifications my way over the course of a few minutes. All extremely hostile.

It can go well: SwiftOnSecurity once QTd me and their comment led to lots of good conversation on the quote and in my own notifications. But they cultivate a good community of followers and understand the responsibility they hold with a 6 digit follower count.

The thing about quote posting is that the very act completely collapses context, and puts all the power and responsibility on the quoter. An innocent mistake can be as harmful here as malice because, as I experienced, no amount of trying to address the mis-representation to people coming at me helped because I was just some nobody and someone they trusted told them what's what.
This is a fantastic idea, and I think the overall negativity misses the point of it being an evolving and collaborative project on github.

When you don't know what you don't know, any little map can be helpful to get one started.

When one desires to learn a skill they usually don't know what questions to ask to get started. This is one of the biggest challenges in learning, and there's a multibillion dollar industry devoted to easing that burden via textbooks and instructional videos. But equally important: beginners don't have a mental model for where that specific desired skill or knowledge lies on the continuum of the domain in which they're seeking to grow. This project puts skills in context, even if some of those contexts are (currently) very flawed.

For example, I've begun working with a couple of teenage garage bands that live near me. I have a lot of experience as a working musician, and they didn't have any at all-- but they knew they wanted to write, record, and perform teenage garage music. I noticed a "Music" domain on the maker tree. It could use improvement, but what it does is make clear that there's more to being a performing musician than learning guitar. In fact I've watched these kids go from "make a playlist" to "learn about copyright & licensing" to "produce a track with another person" to "play a ticketed show", and many of these steps were both required ("learn to keep a beat" springs to mind ;) ) and also not obvious to them when they started.

Each one of these domains is massive and full of intrinsic, context-dependent experiential knowledge. But they make a great starting point. I already learned some things about, say, the PCB design domain and have a better catalog of what I'd need to search the internet for to begin that rabbit-hole.

Edit: spelling, grammar
Like copyright and fair use
No one said brandishing meant carrying. From the site cited above, on the broadness of NY's interpretation of an illegal "dangerous knife":

> The circumstances in the Richards case were that the defendant was a casual street vendor seeking to interest a buyer to purchase a Sponge Bob balloon. His persistence led to a police intervention wherein a knife with a 3-inch blade was discovered in his back pocket. The description of the knife did not place it in either category of knives restricted in New York. He explained the purpose for his possession of the knife:

>> That’s for my protection. I need it because of drug dealers. I make $500 a week and drug dealers are out to get me.

> The defendant did not display or brandish the knife, which had remained in his pocket. He was charged with criminal possession under § 265.01 and with disorderly conduct. The court, guided by the reasoning of the case of Matter of Jamie D, observed that a dangerous knife is one that may be used as a weapon, and since the defendant stated that it was for his protection, his purpose made it a weapon, and therefore a dangerous knife.

I.e. carrying a small blade becomes illegal, even if never used as a weapon, or displayed in threat, if the person carrying it mentions defense as a reason for having it. IIUC, there's no established lower-bound on what kind of knife can be considered "dangerous" on these grounds -- if I carry a tiny keychain pocket knife and say that it is for protection, I can be judged to have an illegal "dangerous knife." That seems pretty silly.
For one, it's NOT too new, biology has been using mRNA forever. mRNA is well characterized, and well understood. mRNA for use in vaccines has been rolling around in research for a decade or so as well.

What "unknown" are you concerned about? Why do you believe we don't have a good understanding of how mRNA works in the body?
I think he meant “us” as ISPs in general.
That's exactly what they've done. Bluesky is a decentralised service. It was designed to be decentralised. It's currently centralised in a limited capacity because they didn't open up federation right away.

First they allowed DID federation (i.e. you can host your own DID by tying it to your domain name). Then feed curation. Then data storage. Then moderation features. And so on. There's really only a few things left and those are systems that are designed in a decentralised manner but for the sake of a smooth transition have yet to be handed over fully to the community.
I’ll take this bait.

For those who have built or participated in building large scale social networks (nvm global scale), you learn the Tim Ferris rule very quickly: 1 in a million is a common occurrence.

As soon as you have a social network you’ll experience a massive industry, trained over decades & with plenty of financial backers, farming it for victims.

Government bodies are hand-waving in the same way companies are - moderation is a difficult, unsolved problem and if you solved it you’d have a new set of difficult problems (opposing sides feeling they are getting more censored than others). No one has a solution to this, which is why regulations are entirely “doing enough to prevent the problem.” Can’t be done.

What I’ve seen expressed on HN has been the central posit of information systems since the beginning - if you require your information systems to be crime & abuse free, you will not have an information system anyone can use.

My personal stance is that an issue does not become a moral one until there is an actual solution on the table or the will to fund its development for the public good.

Where is the EU grants to solve this problem?

It’s seems fairly clear that the EU has invented a revenue engine that collects rent from tech to alleviate pressure on its own unpopular cost burden on its member countries. It’s smart, probably inevitable, and a reality for tech companies to contend with for the foreseeable future.
I'm basically an LLM. I trained in a similar way as the LLM, off of books and open source code, guessing what comes next, making errors, adjusting my brain. I make money the same way as the LLM, off of inference calls.

Maybe you don't truly understand how an LLM works, or is trained, or how inference works. Or how humans work. Money goes out during training, money comes in during inference.
Yeah actually I agree about this, we should update it
The two ways to measure a leader is how an organization performs with them at the helm and how well it performs when someone else replaces them.

This also ignores the impact of long term bets and changes in the environment may cause you to be unsuccessful in the path you’ve taken for nearer term success and survival.
People talking about people is taboo to me. It's a very easy habbit to get into. I like seperating Ideas from People.
Are you claiming there are no such things as shitstorms, dogpiling or cyberbullying?
Purism Domain Puri.sm Suspended?
Reddit also overhauled user blocking, which means that both mods and normal users are able to create a narrative.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/sdcsx3/test...
„Because having 70 percent of the global market for cloud in the hands of three companies globally is simply not safe. It’s Microsoft and CrowdStrike taking down half of the critical infrastructure in the world, because CrowdStrike cut corners on QA for a fucking kernel update. Are you kidding me? That’s totally insane, if you think about it, in terms of actually stewarding these infrastructures.“

This might well be her most important statement.
That's important in literature in a way.. But does it matter to the economy if POSIX were created as it is or if some OS slush fund created a different computing model obsessed with some other primitve besides the file?

In our values a lot of literature is valuable because of how it came about. If Shakespeare never existed and someone wrote like him today we would just lock them up.
The most practical examples
I’m aware of are the usage of TLA+ to specify systems at AWS: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon....
Open source as it stands is insufficient to capture all parts of the pipeline.

With code, you just compile and run it. Models require carefully curated training data (lots of it), training code, final weights, production inference code, etc.

The danger is the world gets drunk on Meta's models, but then Meta pulls the plug. Meta is doing the world a lot of good with Llama, but we'll be left in a precarious position should they stop being so generous. The next generation of LLMs might make Llama completely pointless.

Meta thinks a great deal about the strategy in this space. They license other weights and models as CC-BY-NC and other non-free licenses because they know that they have the SOTA models across several categories and that there's no other competition in the marketplace. They want to retain their advantage when it benefits them.

So what happens when the LLM space shifts and Meta no longer needs to appear to be open source? What if the value switches over to diffusion models and away from LLMs, which is an area where Meta shines?

Llama is a gift we can't replicate or properly repair and extend. And we need to be careful.
That's why you quote the relevant portions...
That would make sense but this was one piece of data being validated against a lookup based off that data. The previous devs just had a, uh, Unique™ style of development. I swear they must have been on some kind of "editor tab count" bonus scheme.
I wonder if it would be worth comparing to a native framework too, just to complete the comparison.
Could be related to the $50b buybacks
What "everyone knows" depends on who everyone is. There was syntax prior to templates with angle brackets.
"Which raises the tantalising question: will Zuck ever have the pluck to bare it all?"

This last sentence gave me a headache. He does not need to publish a bunch of possibly proprietary data owned by Meta, so no he won't bare it all. Data isn't free.
Non-growth businesses don't need much R&D
> Are you claiming there are no such things as shitstorms, dogpiling or cyberbullying?

Please quote where you believe I made this claim.
It feels slightly wrong to see this on HN, pending how the comments go.
Murder clearance rate in Czechia is between 93 and 100 per cent depending on the year, but it is likely easier to solve murders in a relatively small language community. Although we are part of the Schengen free movement area, which means that at least some murderers will try to escape.
Directory Opus recently integrated Everything into their app. Adds some really nice functionality.
Who is talking about patents?
Oh man.. buy me a G&T for the whole story :)

I would say Not enough for how many engineers they had. It had all of the promise, and was frankly mismanaged.

They kept promoting engineers who wanted it to become an AWS service (agnostic of Amazon) rather than solving the Amazon problems at hand.

For example they built a new product identifier… Amazon did not need yet another database of products. This stuff was constantly slowing them down to less than a crawl.

Last I heard all of that was canceled, and their focus brought back to Amazon Retail only problems. But tech debt and culture issues like that are really hard to unwind.
I agree this article is a mess.

There is plenty of legitimate criticism about Jack and his management style. In fact, the book referenced at the end of the article is a well rounded detailed account of how his management style really did end up long term gutting GE and lead to their decline, but its not wholly ignorant of the facts like this.
We're unsure how minds or LLMs work. So let's also not dismiss potential parallels either. It's okay to not know stuff. We'll get there!
The Tenor Commodordion [video]
I had another Amazon experience recently where the product wasn’t a knock-off but I absolutely felt scammed and returned it.

I ordered an All-Clad frying pan, was at the same price as other online retailers. Only when it arrived I realized it was unfortunately, “Shipped by Amazon, sold by XYZ”.

The pan was in a suspicious brown box, with zero product/marketing images, and inside was the pan in transparent plastic bag.
On first look it did feel ok/genuine/unused, but I didn’t have anything from AllClad to compare.
I did notice some minor imperfections though, such as the riveted handle not being fully flush with the pan and a minor scratch in another place.

The brown box did have a number imprinted on it though. Upon searching online, I found it was a product code from some legitimate store that sells factory-seconds for around 1/3rd the price. These are original items, except they didn’t pass quality inspection and hence sold for less.

This scammer seller was buying seconds and selling them as new at original price. I looked at the seller info which had the name and the business registration info. I ended up finding that it’s some dude peddling courses on how to successful in FBA, found their IG profile. What he did with me reselling a factory second as new is pure fraud, I wish the worst to scum like that.
Do you have a concrete example by any chance?
old.reddit.com works
OpenAI's Converge 2 program has been shrouded in mystery
> Super scummy.

Kind of like what Russia's doing to Ukraine eh?
Back in the day, all I wanted is to be able to do like Natalya Simyonova in Goldeneye, in the train. I recall during the late 90s there was a (Windows?) programme I knew that did this, based on traceroute/tracert I would suppose. Just a small memory to share here, maybe others had it too :)
Ask HN: Did the "killer poke" reduce Commodore PET sales?
Did people talk a lot about this issue at the time?
Other industries have seen themselves "poisoned" by vendor-specific definitions of networking protocols, programming paradigms and languages, and so on. The concern is real. You can't just say "Well, I like this product so I approve of the vendor's actions."

The whole crux is to get an objective definition of what "open AI" is, and how it needs to behave. If others agree (or disagree) with the vendor that doesn't mean the vendor is permitted to make its unilateral de facto declaration a de jure consensus decision.

That's not how standards work.
No but he did need a population ready to accept the idea that a non democratic government is necessary.
Hacker News only works because it is heavily censored.
AI no longer plays Doom-it is Doom.
It is. Everything in bluesky that runs on the AT protocol (like 99% of it) is currently public.

So if you as the OP detach your post from the QRT, all you are doing is posting a certificate (akin to a revocation cert) that declares the intent that you don't want their QRT to be connected to your post.

An app can still show it. Or it can show it behind a warning prompt. Or it can hide it entirely.

It's an intent and even if it was controlled entirely, a determined third party could still work around it so there's not much point in trying to stop them. Instead you operate on "Don't be a dick" principles.
We will have their latest model. Better than none.
First Time?
Markets are always forward looking. It's always future revenue / profit expectations. Sure current quarter numbers will tell half-the story about the future, but the highest impact is always what the future story is.

Earnings beat is almost always Mainstream, Newbie, Normie focus.

Quarterly Earnings can be (legally) cooked to tell whatever numbers you want. Revenue Growth and Operating Margins always tell the bigger story
> I mean, it's not like the CCP isn't doing a superset of the same things...

Or a subset! Facebook is also a very effective social credit score if viewed through that lens.
Buy what? It's an MIT-licensed project.
> Matrix could be better but it leaks tons of data

Unless you use your server or a trusted one.

> has been hacked multiple times in the past too

Any links? Looks like it was long ago.
Aren’t the panel widgets in e.g. KDE the same concept?
I strongly disagree. I can not envision this software being added to windows as some kind of system software without it getting messed up somewhere along the line. It is a great piece of software and does a specific job really well. Let's leave it as is.
Sure, but then don't blame the app, because exactly as the gp stated: you cannot have the cake and eat it too.

I mean, I don't want it to sound simplistic. Situation is kinda novel (meaning, it wasn't possible 200 years ago). Basically every POV in this entire discussion makes sense to me. Like, it absolutely makes sense for a government to be hostile to somebody who doesn't comply with their requests, and given that in this situation that somebody happens to be a french citizen... well, it's almost like he was asking for it.

But regardless of what reasoning I could provide in behalf of the opposing side, my personal desire is that all governments and all courts to go fuck themself when it is about providing users data. I truly make no exceptions for that, it doesn't make me sympathetic if a user allegedly distributes child porn in a private conversation, or if he is a terrorist and disclosed a location of a nuclear bomb to his partner. I mean it. Because the exceptions where you could convince me it's necessary are very-very rare, and courts' ability to abuse it if there can be any exceptions at all is infinite. And it should be obvious that I don't trust any courts or government to do the right thing, and it truly scares me (but I accept it as a fact, because if all people would become enlightened it probably would truly mean total chaos) that so many people do.

But, of course, again, the only way to truly ensure that is non-backdoored E2EE, and it's not even clear if such a thing even exists...
Not going to lie, I think Bluesky's effort is good for reducing inflammatory and combative behavior on the internet. So this response:

> This is a terrible idea

Got a good chuckle from me.
Because quoting is also used as a harassment vector.
I thought your reply was reasoned, good advice, and also taught me a new word - bloviating. And I'm an English major!
Try at least $10m USD.

It is cute you think a couple millions dollar is a lot.

My friend worked at palantir as a senior eng for 4 years and already earned that.

This guy is a senior staff engineers at Google for 12 years. Easily earning >$1m per year.
Because markets are forward-looking. They know this cycle of the AI hype bubble is coming to an end, so to put it simply, this earnings release is as good as it will get for a while. The market believes there's nowhere to go but down from here.