skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with maproulette is the same thing that makes it fun: the gamification.

Some people value imaginary internet points so highly, they edit OSM willy-nilly to make it conform to maproulette, disregarding ground truth, not checking if the tasks analysis is complete and mapping slightly wrong around the world.

This is mad MUCH worse by the fact that the default setting in maproulette is that when you finish a task, the system takes you to an another one at a random position in the world. I have no idea, for instance, if this Italian restaurant in Minsk has a correct web address (or if it exists at all), but I'm incentivized to jut remove the tag and get those sweet points.
There needs to be a reset, but I also don't see a strong driver for prices to drop in the most in demand areas--supply simply has not kept up with demand for decades... I don't see this changing until boomers start to die of and there are bigger demographic changes (i.e. an aging population like Japan).
> I think the phrase "stochastic parrot" is misleading and has fooled millions of people into thinking that LLMs can't do genuine reasoning about situations they've never seen before, nor been trained on, which is wrong because LLMs definitely are doing genuine intelligent reasoning.

Can you describe specifically which part of an LLM architecture does the "reasoning" and how it works? Because every architecture I'm familiar with is literally just a fancy way of predicting the likelihood of the next token given the stream of previous tokens and the known distribution of token based on the training data. This is not reasoning. This is simple statistical prediction, making the "stochastic parrot" analogy actually quite accurate.

> What model training is doing is building up a semantic space of vectors from which astronomically large numbers of true facts and ideas can be derived during inference. I mean like a number of facts larger than the number of molecules in the known universe. A googolplex more facts than the sum of all of humanity has ever "thought".

Sort of. It's like an extremely lossy compression process which has absolutely no guarantee that "truth" was maintained in the process. Also I'm extremely dubious of your claim that it can accurately encode "a number of facts larger than the molecules in the known universe" given that it's trivially easy to get the best LLMs to give you an incorrect answer to a question any human would easily get right.
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As a libertarian, how am I supposed to believe in the authenticity and neutrality of the network that Musk is operating when he openly supports a specific political ideology with his public actions? He shows no dedication to neutrality in his statements, so why should I believe he shows it with his decisions?

If the measure of a high standard is the number of people impacted, how many people would you say are affected by Musk, or the other private owners of social networks?
His about page says he's on the board.
If a toot lands in a forest, and nobody hears it, did it actually land? :)
For one thing, Firefox.
I'm not sure what standard you're using for "proven," but there are a lot of studies showing results similar to this one: https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/calorie-restricti...

There don't seem to be any huge, long-term studies, but here is a review of what's available as of a few years ago: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7468870/
> it was missing other key features seen with black holes, such as X-rays and radio waves. There were also other features, such as a peak in the light’s brightness at certain frequencies, that suggested it came from stars

Amateur speculation:

A dense group of stars tightly circling an early forming supermassive black hole? The stars would be able to (mostly) block the radio and x-rays.
The dream now is to move abroad and buy a home in a lower cost of living country.
Tailwind has _the_ highest retention of any CSS framework ~75% YOY according to StateOfCSS surveys (2019-2024)
Plastic in a laptop you replace every 3 years is hardly anything like plastic waste coming out of a household. My family produces many times as much plastic waste every month just by shopping food and cleaning supplies at a supermarket and eventually getting rid of the packaging.
Well, the universe is very heterogeneous, you see. There's still plenty of hot, dense, and fun to go around, you just have to look in the right places!
That link says

> In general, scientists think 5 to 15 minutes -- up to 30 if you’re dark-skinned -- is about right to get the most out of it without causing any health problems.
> the university administration switched from a locally hosted service to the microsoft suite.

Yeah, your account's getting deleted. You should start backing up important emails now.
> plastic sure isn’t free in that regard!

The point is that it's free once it gets to the recycling stage. You could just dump the plastic in a landfill, or you can use it for energy.

Basically the efficiency comes from using the plastic twice, but paying for it only once.

> Plus, natural gas has significantly lower emissions than plastic to begin with.

Well the question is this then: Are we burning any oil at all for electricity? If zero oil in the entire US, then you can make this point. Until then, lets replace that oil with plastic.

As for your renewable comment, this is intended as something to do today, to at least help. Over time it won't be needed, and that's fine, but let's work on today.
Maybe there was no need to do so because they banned the accounts themselves. They even banned the acting president's account.

https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension
The assertion that the token likelihood metric is some sort of accuracy metric is false. There are more traditional AI techniques that compute probabilistic reasoning scores that are in fact likelihoods of accuracy.

I’d note you can’t ask an LLM for a confidence value and get any answer that’s not total nonsense. The likelihood scores for the token prediction given prior tokens isn’t directly accessible to the LLM and isn’t intrinsically meaningful regardless in the way people hope it might be. They can quite confidentially produce nonsense with a high likelihood score.
Murray Gell-Mann on some of Bjorken's contributions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlk5OlaUtuQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9lytHrW-Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PH4H29g_wQ
I’m not sure why you’d want to build an LLM these days - you won’t be able to train it anyway. It’d make a lot of sense to teach people how to build stuff with LLMs, not LLMs themselves.
cool! using an iframe & whatever their JS API has I assume?
Sure, I get what you mean. Reminds me of the whole "GNU plus Linux" thing. I think it's more a matter of setting expectations, a lot of users come in expecting it to behave like or be compatible with GNU Emacs, when it's not trying to do that. What comes to my head when I think of "CL Emacs" is a CL variant of a project like Guile Emacs, Remacs, etc. and not a standalone editor. You're right, but I'd venture to say most hear the word "Emacs" and only associate it with GNU Emacs.
Somebody needs to patiently sit down with this judge and explain to him that the jurisdiction of his court (and his understanding of technology) has limits.

Good luck, Brazil.
People used it to organize an attempted coup against a democratically elected government and twitter is not cooperating with the investigation.
I love the django ORM and then the REST framework on top of that.

Define the object, hook it to a view, use our custom permission class, done.

GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE all urls, filtering, pagination, search, ordering, complex multi-org multi-user object permissions handled automatically. Need custom logic? Just overwrite method.

It’s a productivity superpower, sure there’s a lot to learn but that’s the price you pay for the tools that make you hyper productive
The "too" is the point here.

Yes in the past their would be less avenues for them to get back in contact if you went away, but that going away would be much more expensive for you too. E.g. in the past, people frequently died during such journeys. So costs were high for both parties.

So given that the costs of breaching the boundaries is lower, but so is the cost of making them, the solution is still just building them higher until it's infeasible to breach them.
Glass, metal. Then follow the first two "R's": Reduce and Reuse. Making an objective inventory of the contents of the trash bin can be enlightening on where all this plastic waste is coming from.

I'm not saying it's that easy, but sigh: it's a start.
"There also seemed to be 25 different ways to accomplish every task and these were constantly changing, turning the language into a kind of coding wild west."

What a strange thing for a professional writer to say.

Are they dismayed that even within a single laguage like English there are rather more than merely 25 different ways to express any given thought?
This is great! Hope it works on a Windows 11 machine too (I often find that when Windows isn't explicitly mentioned, the code isn't tested on it and usually fails to work due to random issues).
You are mixing two different taxes. The article is about the new exit tax. The other relevant tax is our wealth tax.

You don’t sound like a person who likes taxes much. In Norway they are very important since we have good infrastructure in most areas such as telecom, roads, trains, airports, electricity and water. We also have great healthcare. And lots of benefits for parents with children.
On Cancer and Desire
A court ordering for social media accounts to be blocked is censorship, no question about that.

If there are "election rules" that regulate what can be posted online, that's censorship. Even if people are inciting violence or formenting revolution, banning them is censorship.

Most governments participate in censorship, and most people are OK with some level of censorship. But Brazil's constitution guarantees freedom of speech without censorship, so their courts have no business issuing orders to censor social media.
Same here. It's not that I wouldn't have the time. It's about principles. Some exceptions aside, text is just the better medium for actual content (not so much for the big show, though). Put some images or clips into the text if it makes sense, but don't make everything a video.

I'm sure a lot of people here cannot even imagine how we can continue living without having seen that clip. And 10000s of other ones - the barrier for superlatives is quite low nowadays. Also, there are entire generations of people out there today whose default way to retrieve content is by some video clips. Their perspective is different, because texts are hard for them. Sure they can somehow read, but many of them never learned well to actually understand text. That's the point.

I can imagine that there maybe indeed is some value in the clip. But I'm also very sure that it's quite okay to skip that video; and all the other ones. Things will be fine for us. Still. ;)
Pretty decent introduction. Will there be additional parts that cover how to create GROUP BY queries in the ORM? I find even seasoned Django developers struggle with these.

Also, I believe your code for creating an empty "data" migration is missing the "makemigration" command itself.
Dash has gone so far off the deep end. His concerns are all mostly phony.
The case of the nearly 7k missing pancreases
this a point which im glad to see someone else bring up.

i’m not sure when it happened, but somewhere along the line the same group of sil val investors started trying to convince us that everyone should want to be in the same place at the same time or it’s somehow a “failure”.

i keep repeating it, but that kind of ridiculous idea wouldn’t ever be fun in the real world and it’s just as ridiculous to suggest it would somehow be different just because it’s “online”.

every city has multiple styles of restaurants, bars, clubs, stores, etc… for obvious reasons. sometimes we want a quiet night out, sometimes we want a loud concert. some people don’t enjoy the same things i enjoy and i don’t enjoy their shit tastes either ;) and that’s totally ok.

i’m very very skeptical of anyone who suggests _everyone_ should have fun being in the same venue at the same time. it’s weird af. the mere suggestion is incredibly shady at worst and plain ridiculous understanding of people at best. it’s one of the quickest ways to make me stop taking someone seriously.
That must be baffling to so many, but people's memory work in very different ways, and not keeping in "RAM" the current year or one's age is a thing. It comes back after a moment of thinking, but it's just not instantaneous.

And that's of course worse in countries with two calendars.
It's not nothing though:

50 million tons of e-waste yearly, https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/waste...

Apple sells 21.9 million units/year:
https://www.statista.com/topics/10435/apple-mac/

Large distances are covered with tiny steps.
In some ways it's obvious why. An LLM produces a probability distribution and then a random word is sampled.

Imagine if you said to a secretary that you're 60% yes and 40% no, and she arbitrarily decided to write NO in your report and then a day later the board asked you why you made that decision.

You'd be confused too.
Just FYI, it is illegal to mask your face in New York https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna168590
Bluesky's whole moderation and decentralization setups were only devised, or at least implemented, after it blew up in Japan and bunch of Japanese artists immediately started hammering the platform with novel content they consider to be lawful and more kosher than normal but were officially felt platform threatening to their team.

So, not to undermine efforts from Bluesky team - I applaud their SoTA attempt at microblogging architecture and platform so far - but Bluesky definitely has not solved the messy question of legality, ethics, and speech, at theoretical levels. Only hypothetical and/or operational.
What does this accomplish that StreetComplete does not?
Did you read the article you posted? It doesn’t sound like it’s working well at all.
I used FAISS at work in the beginning of this year, and it was fantastic.

Company I worked for has massive private medical datasets and will never agree to non-local models or methods.

FAISS [0] is wonderful. Give it a try.

You can work with FAISS with LangChain, llamaindex and the like.

[0]: https://ai.meta.com/tools/faiss
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> Note that the text of the Brazilian constitution explicitly says that the freedom of expression is guaranteed without censorship (it mentions “censorship”). If they were legal orders they would have complied, as they have in other countries.

Said "freedom of expression" in Brazil is constrained by the following paragraphs, that for example explicitly:

IV - requires anything considered "free speech" to be explicitly non-anonymous.

V - anything considered "free speech" must pay compensation to harmed third parties.

X - "free speech" can't violate the personal privacy and honor of third parties.

XVII - "free speech" doesn't apply to you if you're trying to assemble a paramilitary force.

It is not "free speech" in the "I speak what I want" sense at all. Violation of those rules isn't considered "censorship" because you didn't have the rights (to be anonymous, to harm others, and to assemble juntas) to start with.
> A court ordering for social media accounts to be blocked is censorship, no question about that

This is a bad litmus test. Courts order fraudsters to stop doing fraud all the time. It's censorship. But it's acceptable censorship, even in America where we have a uniquely-potent First Amendment.
Lightning to USB-C adapters are a product that exists,

https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Adapter-MacBook-Samsung-Mon...

I have a rat's nest of cables for almost any situation (as any accessory comes with a cable), but my daily drivers are just USB-C cables with adapters at the end.
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
Thank you! I’ve been wondering about something like this. Much appreciated.
How far do I gotta read before this article will expand the "GS" acronym? Interesting stuff but I'm being left behind here.
Back in 2020, an acquaintance of mine started ranting to me about covid when I wished her a happy Chinese new year. She was at pains to point out that she got her information from unofficial sources.
Maybe aspirationally, but practically, even the First Amendment has limits:

Shouting "fire" in a crowded theater; prior restraint, as is the case for e.g. restricted data under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; copyright...
Yes, in the U.S. the obedient capitalists act as proxy censors for the government, in exchange for campaign donations, preferential tax treatment, and weak regulatory enforcement.
It stands for “Graphics Synthesizer” - Sony’s name for the “GPU” in the PS2.
I wasn’t calling it absolute. I used the word fundamental. My meaning was that giving people this freedom means giving them the freedom to lie as well. I agree that we can debate specific exceptions, which I feel SCOTUS precedence has explored in very nuanced ways. But that’s not where I was going. I was making the point that even if you think something is a ‘truth’, what you perceive as a ‘lie’ must be allowed since only through that debate can people find their way to the truth. A truth that is just unchallenged feels more like propaganda.
I enjoyed reading the book ‘Hannibal’ by Philip Freeman. It has some descriptions of the political climates of Rome and Carthage during the second punic war.

https://philipfreemanbooks.com/hannibal/
I welcome this question from interviewees and sometimes offer up the information without being asked.

I work in a small business where we do hardware, software, help the marketing folks, and do a little IT work where needed. I want someone who is curious, energetic, and enjoys taking on whatever challenge presents itself. They'll start in a pretty well-defined role in a well-defined domain, and I'll give them support in that role. But they will have every opportunity to branch out from there, and I believe the kind of employee I seek—as well as the company—will benefit if the employee fits this technical culture. I want to scare off people who want to be pigeon-holed and fed repetitive tasks.

To that end, I also like to discuss with candidates projects they've worked on in the past, rather than offer up new challenges I present to them. Our normal work week doesn't involve isolated puzzles or single activities that one finishes in an hour. Finishing a project takes a long time & requires acquiring new knowledge, skills, and understanding, so I want to explore in depth something the candidate had a long time to work on where this process did (or did not) transpire.

My POV is that I want to find a postdoc (or someone who could grow into this paradigm), not a clever parrot.
Coast Starlight gets you from Emeryville to LA, and Pacific Surfliner would complete the trip to San Diego.
Mocking a siting emotional judge who is used to having his way _definitely_ qualifies as a macho move in my book. Whether it is a move that elon can afford, we still don't know.
I mean the local landfill for me is an hour's drive away. It's well managed, stabilised soil. When it's full it'll be covered over and become a municipal oval like many of the others around my city which now are central points of suburbs.
I think it's worth noting that "this legal order is unconstitutional therefore I won't abide by it" is still illegal to do in any constitutional democracy that I know of, even if you're ultimately right, including in the USA. You can abide by the order and then seek reparations, but you can't claim something is unconstitutional like that.
Well yeah, Seph is right as usual I’ve been updating my MLIR generation code to use Twine lately: https://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Twine.html#details

LLVM has been using rope data structures for some time. There is more discussion about it here:

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2011-July/041639.h...

In my situation when parsing lines of code Twine stores the file path and concats the line number and column when getting the location within a file. It does this a lot so using Twine there really helps. The rope data structure can be used in a number of ways.
It wasn't even a slow boat, it was part of how the international shipping system worked: we got cheap plastic goods FROM China, we shipped back plastic "to be recycled" TO China. The idea is that it was better than shipping back empty containers. They don't take recyclables any more.
Pretty great example, but I was bummed to see that Error Level is missing. I like to create easy codes with low error correction.
Honestly, that's one thing that makes me optimistic about the current AI omnishambles: we now have ALL THE MONEY aggressively incentivized towards weakening IP protections, because it stands to sabotage their big bubble in trained model systems.

As someone who'd love to see the whole blasted IP paradigm flattened from orbit, I couldn't be happier.

One of my many problems with IP as a whole was that it creates a metadata burden: you have to be very aware of what your source material is, who owns it, and under what terms they offer it, because there's always the risk you're pulling in enough material to create a risk of legal action.

This was always a risk for scalability, but it was easy to pooh-pooh for human-made productions. "If you write the Great American Novel/Codebase, you can always hire a few lawyers to manage clearance or redaction as necessary." A human probably has a modest possible pool of source material to work with. The typical developer hasn't read everything on GitHub so there's little risk of incidental infringement against 99.99% of the projects.

In contrast, the current nature of GenAI is explicitly a product with tens and hundreds of millions of pieces of source material, and there's no way to negotiate clearances on that scale on an individual, human-centric way.

Hopefully, what we'll get out of it is the mechanism for large scale mandatory licensing. OpenAI might pay a kajillion dollars to keep their models online, but the same tools might be available for someone who just wants to create smaller scale derivative works without having to fight with some author's estate who considers it a personal affront.
That helps immensely. Surprised the author assumed this was implicit.
The concept of storing data within the transfer process like that heavily reminded me of a short story that invoked a very similar idea, Valuable Humans in Transit by qntm: https://qntm.org/transi