skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is artificially created

You imply that thousands of year ago everybody was thinking critically?

Thinking critically is hard, stressful and might take some joy from your life.
I don't see this a positive thing as European. Why not produce the mobile processors in Europe?
After the Snowden revelations regarding FOXACID and QUANTUM going largely undressed in the tor project, people have every right to feel sketched out with using ToR for anything. "We're still helping people" just isn't a good enough argument for most people.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/how_the_nsa_a...
https://blog.torproject.org/yes-we-know-about-guardian-artic...
I've reached a point where even if my first reaction to a photo is to be impressed, I then quickly think "oh but what it this is AI?" and then immediately my excitement for the photo is ruined because it may not actually be a photo at all.
Why wait? Why drive, even?

Today, you can use an Amazon smart speaker to interface (via an Amazon-produced, Amazon-cloud-hosted voice-command interface) with the Amazon web store to buy an ebook published by Amazon, for you to read on an Amazon tablet, that you bought from the same Amazon web store, that was delivered by Amazon, from an Amazon fulfillment warehouse to your front door.
Discord link is broken.
> I believe we shouldn't ignore it.

To be more precisely, you should ignore it if you want to actually understand the science. Pop science presentations will not help you understand the science. That's not what they're for. Being as charitable as possible (i.e., ignoring the obvious money-making and eyeball-capturing motives), pop science is for getting people interested in a science topic--so that at least some of them will be motivated to learn more about it, from sources like textbooks or peer-reviewed papers or class lecture notes and other teaching materials (many universities now have those available online for free) which can help you actually understand the science.

> the only viable option is to not ignore vague pop-science description.

As long as you are ok with not understanding the actual science. Nature doesn't care how much time and effort it takes to actually understand something in science. So it is no argument at all to say that you have better ways to spend your time, if you actually want to understand the science. The time required to do that is not dictated by your convenience.
thanks, the webpage is not clear ...

"Bandwidth
Pricing is based on the country your server is located. Packages are billed monthly and sold in increments of 10 TB."
It's a thought, but ceteris paribus, software engineers seem to have a particular scorn for unions beyond the calculus of economics. In other words, there is a personality/sub-cultural disdain for unions. I see it as an extension of a distaste for bureaucracy or perhaps, social structures in general, but I'm open to other perspectives.
> I’ve submitted a handful of pull requests and I’ve already run into the classic “Your patch works and provides a feature some people might like, but I don’t like it, go away.”

This might be because they’re not interested in maintaining it for future iterations.
And now there’s Rash: The Reckless Racket Shell

http://rash-lang.org/

https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash
It's an excellent way of getting your best people who have options to quit while the worst ones who don't are forced to stick around
As long as nobody's forgetting the Qibya massacre I don't really think much empathy is lost. It's a dirty war fought by ideologically-motivated pundits on both sides. The current US administration can barely even show their support for Israel without being (rightfully) questioned on the morality of supporting things like the Hannibal directive and Dahiya doctrine.

If this was just about Israel being a primarily Jewish country, there would be no discussion. It is more broadly about the IDF pushing the boundary of war in ways that makes other first-world countries uncomfortable by association.
I guess in France (and I've seen this pretty much everywhere in Europe) the glass go into a green bin with a protective thingie at the top, falls down and shatters - so broken glass isn't for sure an issue here.
> I see that as patriotism

Don't take the piss!

It's about a _GENERAL_ data protection act that prevents companies and jobsworths having free rein to your personal data. This has sweet FA to do with patriotism as you know perfectly well.
I'm not sure anyone has access to the real data, but I've had a suspicion that Netflix is able to remain a lot more profitable due to their superior tech. Cloud hosting and streaming (not to mention labor) can get very expensive, and I think while it's easier to set up nowadays (in comparison to when they started) a lot of the other companies are burning cash to try to keep up. HBO Max (just Max now?) has always had poor streaming quality compared to netflix and I imagine they're paying a lot more for it.
There's only so much explosive you can fit inside a small handheld device that still needs to function and power itself.
SwiftUI's ViewBuilder isn't part of the Swift language. It's a macro implemented in Swift.

Now whether macros themselves were a good idea or not, that's an entirely different question.
Why not wait to post until after you open source it? Seems weird to post an empty GitHub repo, but maybe I'm just not in the market for what's offered.
"Brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough."
-- Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

A Ph.D. filters out people who do not want to be a scientist enough whilst training the doctoral candidate in the "publish or perish" mantra that now prevails.

But for every smart observation there are exceptions: Fields medal recipient
(well, he won it but rejected to take it) G. Perelman (born 1966 and jobless last time I checked) has almost no publications or citations to show. But he will be remembered forever for proving the Poincaré conjecture ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman ).
Yes, and Twitter isn't reacting specially in this regard. See Reddit hiking API prices by an absurd amount.
I use to say please/thank you to gpt4 in 2023 all the time but it was because I was completely anthropomorphizing the model in various ways.

I suspect it would be just as easy to write a paper that saying please has absolutely no effect on the output. I feel like gpt4 is/was stochastically better on some days and at some hours than others. That might even be wrong though too. The idea that it is provable that "please" has a positive effect on the output is most likely a ridiculous idea.
I already redirect DNS queries to my own DNS servers running unbound, and block UDP and TCP ports 25 from machines other than these from going out on the Internet.

This will force machines misconfigured with 8.8.8.8 as default resolver (cough, systemd) from leaking my browsing history to Google, thank you very much, but won't stop DNS-over-HTTPS like Firefox, or more insidious devices like fallback IPs hardcoded in SmartTVs and other IoT devices (they are on their own VLAN with all traffic logged, but it's not as if I have time to inspect their traffic for suspicious behavior. There are blocklists of DoH, but at that point it becomes a whack-a-mole game, and it makes more sense to block anything that is not the result of a legitimate DNS query instead.

This would only be enforced on untrusted machines like Macs, iPhones, Android devices, IoT devices and Ubuntu machines, as opposed to trustworthy OpenBSD and Alpine Linux servers.
As a person who runs manufacturing in the US, this is our work culture too. Also the same at the other 3 previous places I have been at. The company culture asks for something, if it is not provided, you find someone who wants to be a part of that type of culture. There is an expectation to pay for it though.
It's tragic that the LLM craze OpenAI kicked off is threatening to ruin one of the greatest common goods ever invented in the open internet. But hey, at least a handful of giant corporations and investors are making money, so I guess that counts as a win.
Why is it strange? The reason the LLM can't answer this correctly is because it works on tokens, not on single letters, plus we all know at this points LLMs suck at counting. On the other hand they're perfectly capable of writing code based on instructions, and writing a program that will count a specific letter occurrences in a string is trivial.
Right? How can a non-profit decide it's suddenly a for-profit. Aren't there rules about having to give assets to other non-profits in the event the non-profit is dissolved? Or can any startup just start as a non-profit and then decide it's a for-profit startup later?
Like other programs, you should have FOSS that you will run on your own computer (without needing internet etc), if you should want freedom to use and understand them.
From what I've seen is the "Change Date" is usually updated so you always have a few years older software as Apache License and the latest software as BSL
If search is your metric, the web was dead long before OpenAI's release of GPT. I gave up on web search a long time ago.
Who cares if you do the job? I have much higher efficency at home compared to office. No distractions, no wasted time communiting. I can organize myself better too. If I need to take a break, I do it and then I do job later, still keeping 8h of work, just splited.

The problem is how you are accounted for doing work. By tasks or by time spent in office... I saw people in office doing nothing, just talks on kitchen or answering emails.. When asked about tasks.. Im working hard sir.. heh.

Its a bit complicated matter, because when you are more efficient, boss usually will attach new tasks so you have to work harder or be even more efficient. And those who are less efficient dont get new tasks.. Not smart..
Reduces economic coordination? Do you mean collusion? Price-fixing?

Yes, there are advantages and disadvantages to financial transaction taxes. I like them because they are progressive and reduce the profitability of share flipping. In theory, they would also reduce high-frequency trading, which seems like it's casino adjacent.
Play DOOM directly from flash memory embedded inside a keyboard with DOOM button
> Nothing stops Intel or AMD from building on ARM cores

Is there any ARM version of PSpice ?
The Intel version sucks big time but, who knows, maybe ARM is the future. /s
If they run just the exit node they still can’t de-anonymize you right?
I'd love to get a job like this seems amazing. Imagine all the gold plating you'd get to do. All the experiments and optimizations. You'd have the best library website ever.

Imagine the job security.
The company I used to work for was aggressively not renewing leases that they no longer needed given lower office occupancy. I have no doubt that companies trying to force people back into offices have some pretty silly reasons for doing so (including pressure from local governments) but the idea it's all about execs propping up commercial real estate seriously makes no sense even if it satisfies some conspiracy theory impulse.
Pleading the 5th is free.
There is a nice plugin for Alfred in Ruby that searches Google Drive
We are actually working on a tool that provides similar functions (although we focus more on the knowledgebase curation part). Here is an article we generated from the prompt "the advantages and disadvantages of rust in the robotics ecosystem" (https://svc.leettools.com/#/share/leettools/research?id=9886...): the basic flow is to query Google using the prompt, generate the article outline using the search result summaries, and then generate each section separately. Interested to see your opinions on the differences, thanks!
If it was really open-source you'd be able to just train one yourself.
Another reason llama is so important is that once you’re banned from OAI you’re fucked for the entire future AGI products as well.
> My point was to illustrate that our physics models don't agree on the nature of this expansion (Hubble tension)

The Hubble tension is not an uncertainty about the "nature" of the expansion. No matter how that tension gets resolved, our underlying mathematical model of "the expanding universe" will not change. All that will change is that the value we use for one particular parameter in that model will be more accurately known.

> using it to dismiss the fact that the observable universe is dense enough to form an event horizon

I have not dismissed that fact at all. I have simply pointed out that, as a matter of physics, that fact does not mean our universe actually has an event horizon. "Dense enough to form a event horizon" is just a mathematical calculation. Whether that calculation actually means something, physically, does not just depend on the value it gives you. It also depends on the underlying spacetime model, and our underlying spacetime model for the universe as a whole (which, as noted above, is not in dispute at all, Hubble tension or no) is not the one in which the mathematical calculation of "dense enough to form an event horizon" has any physical meaning. (In more technical language, that calculation only has physical meaning in the Kerr-Newman family of spacetimes, but the FRW spacetime used to model our universe as a whole is not in that family.)
That would hold true for something like a pay phone, but a personal electronic device, only used by the combatant, would not be associated with civilian use.
Any other person trying to pull that off would be in jail already, but not everyone is equal.

This is of one of those very few instances where the veil lifted off a bit and you can see how the game is set up.

tl;dr the law was made to keep those who are not "in" from being there
I understand the frustration shared in this post but I wholeheartedly disagree with the overall sentiment that comes with it.

The web isn't dead, (Gen)AI, SEO, spam and pollution didn't kill anything.

The world is chaotic and net entropy (degree of disorder) of any isolated or closed system will always increase. Same goes for the web. We just have to embrace it and overcome the challenges that come with it.
LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
Monitoring exit nodes does not necessarily reveal hidden services, though.

Edit: Never does, exit nodes are not part of the circuit, thanks to commenter below.
Tesla bills themselves as an energy company. In theory, they could back their charging network with solar and battery storage and offer power cheaper/cleaner than competitors.
I'm entirely for this change ...

... right after hedge fund "costs" are limited to a microscopic amount.

If you're going to treat private financial service organizations as if they are organized for public good (i.e. paying employee pensions), then they need to operate as such, rather than as wealth generators for their officers.

And don't come at me with "that keeps the incentives aligned - if the managers/officers make money, the hedge fund is making more money". I don't buy that the only way to get effective investment growth is by making the officers wealthy beyond all belief. Vanguard agrees with me.
This looks really handy! I should add this to the environment for some of my shell-centric projects at work.
> I’m an old-timer, I’m surprised that paying for shared hosting is now “self-hosting.” Nothing wrong with that, but that would never have been called self-hosting ten years ago.

Depends, maybe? Was the speaker talking about hardware or software 10 years ago?

Because, when I was given the 'self-hosting' option by some SaaS vendor, it meant that I could host it on whatever I want to independent of the vendor, whether that is a rack in my bedroom or a DO droplet.

When I was given the 'self-hosting' option by some computer vendor (Dell, HP, Sun, etc), it meant that I can put the unit into a rack in my bedroom.

Context was always key; in my mind, nothing has changed.
They didn’t have a choice. My understand is the EU dictated all cars have the IEC Type 2(?) connector to sell, so Tesla complied. No mess like the US.

The US had no such law and has refused to make one. We’ve gone with the traditional carrot approach where they wouldn’t get funds to built more superchargers without doing this due to the infrastructure law. But it was their choice and they didn’t have to.
idk, just bricking the devices or (as originally conjectures when the first reports about this emerged yesterday) causing the battery to heat up and melt would be equally disruptive of communications without turning them into mini-bombs.
There always has to be an implicit totalitarian level of force behind such safety to give it any teeth
The manifestation of "in a rush to feel connected at all times, we're losing sight of what's right in front of us".
FYI your Discord invite link in the bottom right corner is invalid!
Quick link for turning off your data usage..

https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-a...
Here is a comparison of the prompt "I want to create a basic Flight simulator in Bevy and Rust. Help me figure out the core properties I need for take off, in air flight and landing" between Claude Sonnet 3.5 and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf:

https://gist.github.com/victorb/7749e76f7c27674f3ae36d791e20...

AFAIK, there isn't any (micro)benchmark comparisons out yet.
144L * 4 people * 365 days = 210240 L per house per year

which is around 210 cubic meters. Is my math off?
You are likely correct. My best guess is they hired someone in IT from outside of higher education that had extensive experience with Oracle and had deployed it successfully in the past and so it was always going to be Oracle even though it was a poor fit.
One possible reason might be commercial real estate investments made by decision makers, who need these properties to remain valuable.
That's easy to explain, and it's shocking how many people are baffled by this and use it as proof that LLMs can or can't reason when it has nothing to do with that, but just with the input that LLMs get.

LLMs don't actually "see" individual input characters, they see tokens, which are subwords. As far as they can "see", tokens are indivisible, since the LLM doesn't get access to individual characters at all. So it's impossible for them to count letters natively. Of course, they could still get the question right in an indirect way, e.g. if a human at some point wrote "strawberry has three r's" and this text ends up in the LLM's training set, it could just use that information to answer the question just like they would use "Paris is the capital of France" or whatever other facts they have access to. But they can't actually count the letters, so they are obviously going to fail often. This says nothing about their intelligence or reasoning capability, just like you wouldn't judge a blind person's intelligence for not being able to tell if an image is red or blue.

On the other hand, writing code to count appearances of a letter doesn't run into the same limitation. It can do it just fine. Just like a blind programmer could code a program to tell if an image is red or blue.
If someone is paying for rent in a building, then the value does not lower just because nobody is actually using the space. The landlord has a tenant that continues to pay rent at market rate. That's the end of the story as far as the property value goes down. At least for the companies that rent their space. For companies that own their land and buildings, that's another thing, but again, the value is not set based on how many people are working there.

Not sure where this idea came from
Being able to sniff a key as it transits a local bus is a very different kind of compromise of "trust" than believing that something is preemptively backdoored by a threat actor. It is deeply mysterious that Microsoft don't simply use TPM encrypted sessions to prevent this, though.
At this point, just nope out of it and use something like Bluesky
I use Jupytext (and my own conversion utilities) all the time. I write my books inside of Jupyter these days.
Beside the lack of attention, you also have gargantuan legal requirements you need to integrate. Which change all the time. Sometimes a few per country.

This is for everything: pay, vacation, etc.

It is really complicated.
Also great for learning. Vendors learn from their mistakes, right?
Hope to see this as an option in Elasticache soon. Feels like Valkey has the momentum over Redis now. Less sure about OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch...
Rto is really important in dysfunctional organizations. Sometimes the only way forward is to know a guy. Lean on that personal connection, and unblock yourself.
What would you call it if it's hosted on someone else's server, but using open source software under your domain, and you have a complete backup of all the data so you could move it home or to another provider whenever you want?
that can’t be true, we were assured that their vague worldview about “doing things that benefit humanity” based on “just being a good person” would be strong enough to overpower the urge to dominate and profit immensely.
AI safety is expensive, or even impossible, by releasing your models for local inference (not behind API). Meta AI shifts the responsibility of highly-general highly-capable AI models to smaller developers, putting ethics, safety, legal, and guard-rails responsibility on innovators who want to innovate with AI (without having the knowledge or resources to do so by themselves) as an "open-source" hacking project.

While Mark claims his Open Source AI is safer, because fully transparent and many eyes make all bugs shallow, the latest technical report makes mention of an internal, secret, benchmark that had to be developed, because available benchmarks did not suffice at that level of capabilities. For child abuse generation, it only makes mention that it investigated this, not any results of these tests or conditions under which it possibly failed. They shove all this liability on the developer, while claiming any positive goodwill generated.

It completely loses their motivation to care for AI safety and ethics if fines don't punish them, but those who used the library to build.

Reasonable for Meta? Yes. Reasonable for us to nod along when they misuse open source to accomplish this? No.
The easy argument to this by management is that you shouldn't be taking care of your kids and doing housework while working in the first place. Another argument could be that it punishes those who don't have kids yet or don't want them unfairly working more than those who do.

You can't use the argument of "being able to do things other than work" as an argument because its easily trumped. The best arguments are those having to do with lost time and increased stress due to commuting. Being able to more quickly transition to housework and looking after kids, or just being closer to them in general during your breaks/lunches, etc. You are losing time which is in itself compensation by being forced go to an office for a job that shouldn't necessitate it.

Another is health benefits: more easy access to preparing food at home. Less stress as mentioned. Easier to go to a gym or workout at home. etc.
This reminds me of some of Alan Watts writings where he tells this story of people going through school then college thinking they have made it only to have the goal posts moved.

Some where around mid-life you start to catch on to the whole scheme.
Very weird. It was working a couple of hours back when I tested it. Second time this is happening to me with Discord. Here's a fresh link and I'll update the site (after troubleshooting this a bit more) - https://discord.gg/R63PTQ6CFh
Depends on your risk, if are are trying to avoid censorship and political repression in say Iran or china you are probably fine

If you are an enemy of the United States you probably aren’t but that’s a high bar