skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It has to be completely removed from the system and even then there is no guarantee it won't be brought back by some minor update in a couple of days. This is why I had to chattr +x in Ubuntu 22 and older. Not anymore in 24, but we'll see.
Is it the same companies that simply took all the writers' previous work (hoping to be billionaires before the courts understand)?
Yes. For much of the US a train isn’t even an option.
https://archive.is/CAhVY
In C and C++ (and many other languages) the distinction between value and reference/pointer is part of the variable declaration. In C# and Swift that information belongs to type definitions (except for inout parameters). Structs are value types and classes are reference types.

Type definitions are usually further away from the call site than variable declarations. Also, in C, accessing a member of a struct through a pointer requires the -> operator providing yet another clue as to whether you're using a pointer or a value.

In my opinion, this distinction is absolutely key. It should always be obvious at the call site. I don't think there is anything that has caused more bugs in my Swift code than getting this wrong.

Change a type from class to struct or vice versa and chances are your code still compiles when it really shouldn't because it's now completely broken.
It comes across to me that they were quite explicit in framing the proposition that "Person B might need to rethink" as a petition for neurodivergent people to be "cut more slack" (i.e. be allowed to get away with stuff).

It was very much not respectful of neurodivergence and they, at best, completely missed the point of Tim Peters' thread (https://discuss.python.org/t/how-can-we-better-support-neuro...) while browbeating him into several edits to something that was already highly supplicative.

They also deleted his comment from https://discuss.python.org/t/python-s-supportive-and-welcomi... after mere minutes, which started out with praise and offered only the mildest imaginable, completely constructive criticism. (The thread was locked almost a month later as part of a generic cleanup effort, even though nobody else had commented. One wonders why they didn't lock it immediately if that's how they planned to respond to any feedback whatsoever.)
Because most companies aren't going to go out to the dark web and buy breached data with bitcoin?
Dang can we get an update to the title to reflect this?
It could be used to spot LLM generated text.

compare the frequency of words to those used in human natural writings and you spot the computer from the human.
Coding models these days use an inference every time you stop typing. Let’s say it’s 0.1 inference oer keystroke. If you keep VSCode open all day, I could believe it’s a significant energy draw.

Google now uses several inferences per Google search.

The average user’s #inferences-per-day is going to skyrocket.

My point is that it’s understandable to consider AI a significant contributor to the average professional’s energy budget. It’s not an insult to point this out.
Questionable in many cases. A bunch of stores have their A/C on full blast while keeping the door open in the summer. You can actually get fined for this in NYC now but in other US cities it’s still the norm.
While there are indeed many factors (genetics, the specifics of the microbiome in your mouth, probably some we don't even understand at the moment) at play, oral hygiene (and diet for caries, but not gum disease) is currently considered by far the most important modifiable risk factor.
Well, don’t forget genetics. Apparently 60% of tooth decay swivels on your genes.
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> Did we (the humans) somehow managed to pollute the internet so much with AI that's it's now barely usable

If we haven't already, we will be very soon. I'm sure there are people working on this problem, but I think we're starting to hit a very imminent feedback loop moment. Most of human's recorded information is digitized and most of that is generating non-human content at an incredible pace. We've injected a whole lot of noise into our usable data.

I don't know if the answer is more human content (I'm doing my part!) or novel generative content but this interim period is going to cause some medium-term challenges.

I like to think the LLM more-tokens-equals-better era is fading and we're getting into better use of existing data, but there's a very real inflection point we're facing.
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The original title of the article was:

> Sports Bar Bullies Seafood Joint To Change Menu Item Name Over ‘Crab Fries’ Trademark
resolv.conf is an internal implementation detail of glibc. You are not supposed to touch it.

Congratulation to breaking your system.
That's a nice analogy. Fortunately (un)real estate is easier to manufacture out of thin air online. We have lost some valuable spaces like Twitter and Reddit to some degree though.
> I'd love to see by how much the use of world "delve" has increased since 2021...

There are charts / graphs in the link, both since 2021, and since earlier.

The final graph suggests the phenomenon started earlier, possibly correlated in some way to Malaysian / Indian usages of English.

It does seem OpenAI's family of GPTs as implemented in ChatGPT unspool concepts in a blend of India-based-consultancy English with American freshmen essay structure, frosted with superficially approachable or upbeat blogger prose ingratiatingly selling you something.

Anthropic has clearly made efforts to steer this differently, Mistral and Meta as well but to a lesser degree.

I've wondered if this reflects training material (the SEO is ruining the Internet theory), or is more simply explained by selection of pools of Hs hired for RLHF.
Not sure what release he's referring to (NTSUR isn't the name of a release). But I find it interesting he decides to only do his homework after the video/discussion.
How does that account for the distros using systemd-networkd, timesyncd, resolved, etc, where they’re separate binaries and services, instead of their predecessors?

If the other binaries aren’t better for maintainers and their users, why are they replacing other tools with them?
Do not reinvent the wheel. Build components on top of an existing component library such as Material UI for example. This way you can utilize an already existing and known approach and ecosystem and just need to extend it to your needs.
> hardly, pagers might be accessible by the population, but hand delivered pagers distributed by a terror organisation are not exactly the same.

Over god knows how many months you don't think they would spread ?

You don't think a dad would gift a pager to his kids or wife to stay in touch ?
The popups are there because these websites are invading your privacy. It really is that simple.

Or, to be fair to all parties, they are there because continuous abuse by the industry forced governmental action.

Don’t invade user’s privacy and you don’t need cookie banners. Can’t get simpler than that.

https://commission.europa.eu/resources-partners/europa-web-g...
> What beautiful doublethink.

Given just how many AI bots scrape up everything they can, oftentimes ignoring robots.txt or any rate limits (there have been a few complaint threads on HN about that), I can hardly blame the operators of large online services just cutting off data feeds.

Twitter however didn't stop their data feeds due to AI or because they wanted money, they stopped providing them because its new owner does everything he can to hinder researchers specializing in propaganda campaigns or public scrutiny.
Transformers read a lot during training, it might actually be beneficial for the companies to the point those works never see the light of day, only machines would read them. That's so dystopian I'd say those works should be published so they eventually get into the public domain.
The bug you mentioned is very common, I've experienced it myself and others I know have too
Why? It is a very practical choice.

Rust for the backend, React for the frontend, what's the problem?
This is very unethical and you should be ashamed of yourself. You leaked 50% of your direct relatives here, 50% of any future or current children you have. Did you ask them for consent?
as a maniac who has written a full stack application in R: I agree. It is easy to get something out of the door quickly for the average R user, but maintenance will show you quickly how brittle everything is.
You could probably ask him privately by email - it's not hard to find the address and he seems unusually receptive to that sort of thing.

That said, personally I don't think JavaScript is very Pythonic at all. Implicit type conversions create a huge mess (and TypeScript is, as far as I can tell, really the same kind of system as Python's new type annotations, but built on a shakier foundation).
> Weren’t they already selling pagers to Hezbollah?

I don't have info about those specific models, but this is pagers and not rockets. If someone makes an order for 5000 units I can't image you'd have an expectation to do a background check with references.

It's basically like ordering 5000 units of Raspberry Pi, would you consider that a military export?
>a sentry at the military fort in Sitka killed two unarmed Lingít men in a canoe. In accordance with local customs, a leader from the clan demanded blankets and other goods as recompense, but American commanders refused

Yes, the military should be ashamed about their actions. In the 1890s, blankets and some goods would mean nothing to the US military. I am sure they could have worked out a deal like "we will give you this now, and acquire the rest + a bit extra in a month or 2".
I actually really prefer the videos of real people doing the thing! I've literally never seen a video of how to floss - even at the dentist they show you how on a little model.

Thanks for sharing these!
There is a shortcut for the native scan within Files. I usually add to the Home Screen.
People have been paid to generate noise for a decade+ now. Garbage in, garbage out will always be true.

Next token-seeking is a solved problem. Novel thinking can be solved by humans and possibly by AI soon, but adding more garbage to the data won't improve things.
Yeah, optimizing for economic output isn't the only factor to consider. Having some degree of geopolitical independence and leverage matters when things go off of the happy path for whatever reason.
Link to the paper in question: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271

I don’t know why the URL was replaced with this much crappier Washington post article.
It would have been nice if the article did the comparison for us, but the the premise of the article seems correct. According to the article, ChatGPT uses 140 watt hours to compose a short email. That's considerably more than the battery capacity of many laptops, so even if you spent all day staring at your laptop trying to write the email, you're probably using less energy.

Now there's certainly a time advantage to using AI, but LLM based AI is pretty inefficient from an energy perspective.
You writing remids me, what the heck had us so damn distracted 20y ago, cos in front of google (if that may be a starting point ~20y ago) we had heard much of it, not? ...OT...but what was with the radiation levels caesium an uran that past day measured ...what is in norway...or...um...realy off-topic... (to downvote till deleted, please)^^
I argue it's impossible to measure the total environmental impact of anything, and it's a waste of time to even try.

Let's break this down. There is water used at inference time and training time. The humans working on the project consume water. The building in which they did the project uses water. The whole supply chain for the computers? Good luck measuring the water usage in there

This may seem pedantic, but I promise there is a point to this.

Measuring environmental impact is like trying to understand a neural network.

If you want to discourage water usage, the only way is to tax the marginal water used at any step in the supply chain. You don't need to know the total water usage for the last step of the supply chain, in this case, an LLM
Lebanon has a weak government. I think you could compare it with a house owner who does not have the means to evict uninvited guests, where the guests are much stronger and more powerful than the owner. This is both because the country consists of many ethnic groups and religions, and because it came to host a lot of Palestinian refugees and became base for the HQ of Palestinian resistance. Add on top of this widespread corruption. The situation is pretty dire.
Lets be serious

Just because your reddit or hn had non tiny amount of posts about blockchain or nft, then it does not mean that there was real and significant push towards those in real world

There is huge world outside your twitters and reddits
Hezbollah and Hamas need the inherent anti Israel bias of Europe. It's the only international group with money and influence that sides with them. If they attack anything in Israel then it is a massive Israeli win.

Europe only care for geopolitical games in the Mediterranean and petroleum. The Gaza conflict has shown that oil is on its way out as a top level geopolitical influence.

Lol military grade. This is a guerilla fighting group getting leftover oil money from Iran. They were using pagers.

Israel has been fighting for 100 years with its hands tied. With the unofficial and largely official sunni/saudi Israel alliance, only Iran cares about the freedom fighters of Gaza and Lebanon, and you can put a ten year clock on that funding once EVs start taking real chunks of transport
Yes but not quite as far as you imply. The training data is weighted by a quality metric, articles written by journalists and wikipedia contributors are given more weight than Aunt May's brownie recipe and corpoblogspam.
Well, a part of the unix philosophy is "doing it well". The "rag-tag of tools" are usually missing that part.
that'd include paying for computation time vs just static content on a CDN
Indexability is orthogonal to readability.
Possibly because the illicit drug trade is using and abusing software developers that got caught up in it and are then threatened with violence if they don't continue to operate encrypted phone and chat services? Or the scenario of substance dependence where a software developer can't afford to pay for their substance dependence and provides services instead. For the illicit drug trade, the software developers and everyone using the apps are most likely just disposable pawns. The big bosses would have done the sums and figured out that having their own apps and ICT systems increases their profits, in part because of the frustration and distraction to law enforcement.

The thing that caught my eye in particular is how little the illicit drug trade is seemingly spending on their ICT.[1] The whole scheme of providing 600-odd "burner phones" for use by the illicit drug trade seemingly had revenue of AUD$1.5m every 24 months (assumed replacement cycle for hardware) plus some unstated amount of recurring support/chat app license revenue. This unstated amount is likely quite small given the alleged application developer was charged with an offence for receiving proceeds of crime to an amount <AUD$100k. When taking away the $1.2m in expenses to purchase phone hardware every 24 months, that leaves some amount just over AUD$150k per year to customise off-the-shelf phones with additional security features useful to the illicit drug trade and to develop and maintain a custom encrypted chat app. From that AUD$150k per year one has to take away expenses such as purchasing computers and test phones before arriving at a profit/salary.

I struggle to think of a reason why someone would voluntarily work for the illicit drug trade whilst being remunerated so poorly versus a typical Sydney-based app developer?

Quite possibly the best thing that has happened to the application developer is getting arrested _and_ importantly, also being charged with failing to cooperate with police.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41576253

edit: adjusted cost model after posting to assume phone replacement every 24 months.
Ask not how it can be used, but rather how it will be misused, generating various profits for owners of the data down the line. So far targeted ad business takes the cake, I'd expect DNA profiling and corresponding credit/social score, insurance premiums and recruiting score coming eventually.

I can't believe how people can be naive over and over.
Clever name. I like the analogy.
I'm still amazed that many US companies willingly force every employee to install zscaler "to improve security and compliance", application which basically passes all inbound and outbound traffic through zscaler edge servers, unencrypted. Who knows who could be listening. And who can control that they aren't.
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In such case, imo, it would be more appropriate to use ZIP container format which supports multiple independent entries (files) and index table (including sizes) for them. Compression algorithm is essentially the same (Deflate) so it would not be bloated in any way.
As for practical implementations of serializing complex "objects" into ZIP, numpy [0] can be mentioned as an example.

[0] https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.savez...
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He’s not referring to the Gazan attacks of October 7, but the Hezbollah rocket attacks that started on October 8 and continue to this day, flouting the 18-year ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and causing the evacuation of over 95,000 Israelis from northern Israel.
I lived in the tropics where it was hotter than the USA and we survived just fine without A/C.

A/C is luxury and your luxury is destroying the planet. I don’t want you to stop using A/C but I would like people to accept that it is a luxury that is not needed in most cases.
This may be a very expensive proof of concept… but it's definitely a concrete step toward their goal
> It’s not necessary though, because the R community does a good job avoiding name conflicts

That has not at all been my experience. Loading the tidyverse pulls over 1000 things into your global namespace and clobbers several standard library functions in the process. Never mind that seemingly every single package has its own "filter" function.

When you start getting different results based on the order you import packages it's usually a bad sign.
You can combine the best of both too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjbEG7COj7o
Apologies but I could only think of a trade-on.

Haxe makes it really easy to get started and get a feel for things, just have a go!
I found the opposite with Typescript, where it seemed like I had to already be a javascript developer to use it.
s/dna/data and you're pretty much any tech business.
Per the article, the energy used by AI to write a short email (140 watt hours) is roughly equivalent to running a higher end desktop CPU flat out for an hour. That really puts the amount of computation going on behind the scenes of LLMs in perspective.
Your comment is addressed in the introduction section of the paper being discussed. Do give it a read. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271
> Weren’t [Gold Apollo] already selling pagers to Hezbollah?

Selling pagers to Lebanon citizens is legal if I'm not wrong.

Not necessarily. At this moment, all suggests that somebody (Ehem, Mossad) was impersonating a reseller of the brand [1]. How do they knew that the buyers were from Hezbollah?. Did the buyers wear a t-shirt?. What if somebody was buying it to resell it later and bank some profit?. This stuff could ended being sold to innocent people, or distributed by all the schools of Lebanon.

[1] New facts can change this picture and I may be wrong about this.

> If I was the CEO of Gold Apollo, I’d be investigating why my franchisee was selling stuff to Hezbollah in the first place.

Agree. Definitely, the maker should make a move about that, just to be sure. And to be very transparent about that investigation.
More and more environments offer LLM aid without having you explicitly typing in a query. E.g. trigger inference whenever static analysis fails (e.g. on a compile error). Or trigger an LLM aided auto-complete with Ctrl-Space. I don't think it'll be particularly unusual to reach 1000 queries in a working day that way.
Housing costs too much to build, so naturally let's have the federal government build lots of public housing, an entity known for its efficiency and good budget keeping!

The real solution is simpler: remove local communities authority to zone. Bring zoning up to the state level. That's it. Rather than wasting billions of federal budget on what will no doubt end up being overpriced, overdue, poor quality housing, just let the market forces do what they do naturally
> But today, I would assume the damaging effects of semiconductor manufacturing are less profound

Manufacturing chips of just TSMC accounts for 5% (!) of Taiwan's entire electricity consumption, Intel's Arizona fab produces thousands of tons of hazardous waste a year [1]. It's far from the old days, but still a massive impact.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/18/semicond...
> Kids becoming bilingual is a different thing. It’s sort of weird if that was what you were talking about.

It explicitly isn't. I'm talking about English becoming the first language in countries where the mother tongue is currently still the first language.
I guess with QR-Code Menus, Smartphones replacing their tech almost everywhere, Starlink etc. they where happy to take any revenue.
I feel like cooling large spaces takes a lot more energy than lightbulbs unless they have 100 watt lightbulbs on in every room all night long.

Modern bulbs are super energy efficient so that problem is kind of solved.
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I suspect from a company perspective, it is all just different degree of relying on a supply chain. Any company that outsource production that goes directly to customers are relying on reputation and contracts, and the assumption that they can apologize to customers and change supplier when/if something goes wrong. I seem to hear that a common practice is to do random sampling in order to do quality control, but in terms of supply chain attacks it wouldn't do much good if the attacker is a state actor with the ability to create non-tampered version.
What is this news source NDTV? I've never heard of it. Are they reputable?
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That last statement is absolutely true, but if you have a constrained domestic supply chain, high employee cost, and/or constrained margins on finished products, you're still going to have come out behind if you persist with domestic manufacturing rather than offshore. This is the calculus OEMs faced in the 1990s-2000s. The big bet that they all made is to assume relatively stable geopolitics, and that there wouldn't ultimately be a squeeze on the potential manufacturing constraints (labor, supply chain, capacity). Ultimately, it's proven to have been by far the smartest decision for high-vol / low-mix stuff: electronic components and consumer electronics (not to mention apparel and many industrial products).

Like I said in my previous comment, though, this doesn't mean the capability to build has left the US (or Europe). Just that the decision to continue investing in manufacturing things that aren't competitively profitable has been made and the capacity has been allocated to higher margin manufacturing (regulated industries, complex products, and products where customers are less price sensitive).