skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically every programming concept requires the equivalent of a blog post to understand. Remember learning pointers? Remember learning inheritance? Remember literally every programming tutorial you ever read when you were starting out? I don't understand why people reach a certain level of proficiency and then declare "I shouldn't have to work to learn anything ever again!".
Due to the scale, of course there are problems. Of course there are actors that are not well behaved. But that doesn't mean that these incidents are representative of the whole.

Put it another way: if on the whole China's business is not net positive, then why does Africa continue to do business with China? Nothing prevents them from kicking all Chinese companies out. Nothing prevents them from giving fines to companies that violate the law. Nothing prevents them from renegotiating. African leaders have been saying for years that China's contributions are still net positive despite problems existing.

I am puzzled. Why are you still pointing out problems? Why are you ignoring everything else I said? This is so non-constructive. Africa does not need the west to give another lecture (pointing out problems only). It needs the west to walk the talk: instead of smearing, offer Africans a better alternative than both China and inaction. Offer solutions, and actually deliver them.
Why would you evaluate it using an interpreter? Since you are using it in the context of a rust lambda you compile it. You just have a rust file that calls cargo-watch as a library. Crafting an interpreter seems like an incredibly bad idea.
If the government is allowing some people to suppress others, it’s still the government doing the suppressing.

Note that not being able to use other people’s computers/bandwidth is not suppression.
It looks like a cool feature to an existing IDE but trying to sell it and forking VSCode as your own editor to try to sell seems like an uphill battle. Best of luck to you though.
Toy languages, like Haskell, Ocaml, Kotlin and F#?
Plenty of people pay money for smart tvs, Netflix, etc.
This is a lawyer's evasive way of hiding that these individuals revealed info that was not known to the public but was confirmed to be accurate by the police
I'm not talking about human-built TMs: I specifically have in mind some of the 3x3 holdouts I have looked into. Every last one of those can be seen as simulating a higher-level process, up to a point where it potentially breaks down (either halting or transitioning to another process); we just can't tell whether that breakdown ever occurs in reality.

Just because a machine is incomprehensible as a whole, doesn't mean that every singular aspect is incomprehensible! The thing with TMs is, there is a finite (or very slow-growing) number of meaningful things a machine can do with raw symbols on the tape. "Raw chaos" printed directly on the tape would just cause it to either halt nearly immediately, or enter some trivial non-halting configuration. Compare this with Conway's Game of Life, where 99.99999999+% of random soups create only trivial output, despite the CA itself being universal.

Note that I'm not at all saying that large machines aren't doing wonderful and terrible things, immediately past the lowest level. But the formalism itself restricts them from being too wild right away, at least not without sacrificing dozens of valuable states to constantly fix things up. For a machine to be nontrivial, it must syntactically maintain a very fine line between halting and non-halting, so that we can't just easily decide it one way or another.
Some people have morals and ethics and believe that its not okay to just do what facebook does without taking responsibility.

You build a platform which allows you to share fake news and pay to win shit to billions? You make sure the algorithm makes you as much money as possible?

You know who made sure facebook fixes this? Politics, not suckerburg.
What I saw was a death of despair in my family during lockdowns, and my own very bad adverse reaction to a shot I was strongarmed into taking (transient global amnesia).
The purpose of a business is whatever its owners want it to be. Typically, this is maximizing profit, but it could be anything, like getting paid for what you like to do.
Poor phrasing on my part. OpenAI ended up with the mantle as the Amazon of AI. Everybody else ended up with a chat bot. The rest of their services are standard NLP/ML behind an API they built up from all the money thrown at them, subsequently used to bolster their core offerings of a chat bot and an automated mood board for artists.
In my misspent high school/college years, I was in search of very obscure, unpopular music, on independent and import labels. I began to find that much of the music that appealed to me was the fruit of collaboration between certain artists, producers, and labels. So I began to trace them out and, at that point, new music discovery consisted of finding brief and obscure collabs among the circle of artists that I was targeting.

For example, The Cure was exclusively signed to Fiction Records, which was more or less a vanity press for them, but they indeed had labelmates who were really, really obscure, and could always be connected back to Cure personnel.

It was sort of an amazing feeling, that everything was really interconnected in unexpected ways. In hindsight, all that music was a terrible influence and I was wasting time and money, but I also learned quite a bit about the record industry and collectibles, such as how to appraise the value of a piece, detect counterfeits vs. authentic pieces, and methods for archiving and preservation. My parents had collected postcards, stamps and other ephemera, and it sort of rubbed off on me!
I can think of very few situations where someone would say "wow that's brave" and not mean "wow you're an idiot"
This is a good argument against lotteries but not as good an argument against sports gambling. If you are better at sports prediction than the bookmakers, you can make money. Nobody gambles as an "average person", they gamble as themselves, and convincing an individual that they personally are bad at predicting outcomes requires more than saying "most people can't do it".

People see it as a game of skill where they win money from people who are worse at that skill than they are.
I've noticed that having even a minimal implementation helps a lot to inform the RFC: some details are non-obvious until you are either forced to clamp down behavior or have tried to use the feature. The RFC discussion doesn't always surface these.

I've also been thinking that we should go over our stabilized RFCs and add an appendix to all of them documenting how the current implementation diverges from the original proposal.
This take, while correct, ignores the fact that chronic gambling will regularly — and predictably — destroy people's lives by virtue of its addictive qualities. Meaning, if it is legal, then we — as a society — will be negatively impacted as a whole. We all understand that a society is the sum of its people's strengths and weaknesses.

So if this is your take, then you should be perfectly willing to be heavily taxed on all of your bets so that those who can't control themselves can receive prompt and proper care to revert their addiction, and assist their families to recover from the financial ruin caused by forces outside of their control; understanding that an addiction is often uncontrollable without a lot of time and a lot of help.

If you have a problem with that, then you are signaling that you only care about society's strengths, because you are benefiting from them, and not its weaknesses, because you have not felt the gravity of a boot on your neck in awhile. Thus, I believe that your opinion is moot and also in the minority.
We didn't need to take people's music to build a record player, and when we printed records, we paid the artists for it.

So yeah it had a profound effect, but we got consent for the parts that fundamentally relied on other people.
> You read an article about it and 7 years later and are convinced they are crooks.

Actually, you read an article and assumed that your anecdotal experience from 7 years ago is more reflective of how a business operates than a current year investigation into that company by a federal agency.

Nobody is arguing that they deceived you personally 7 years ago.
Fine-tuned Llama 3.1 8B in just $2.69
Reminds me of Queering the Map [0]

[0] https://www.queeringthemap.com/
So are Google and Facebook :shrug:

Can’t find a good source for both rn but this one has alphabet in the top 50 nationwide for this election: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/top-organizat...

edit: and Sam Altman isn’t exactly donating game changing amounts — around $300K in 2020, and seemingly effectively nothing for this election. That’s certainly nothing to sneeze at as an individual politician, but that’s about 0.01% of his net worth (going off Wikipedia’s estimate of $2.8B, not counting the ~$7B of OpenAI stock coming his way).

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/openai-sam-altman-political-d...
The study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02525-2

Sampaio et al., Multidimensional social influence drives leadership and composition-dependent success in octopus–fish hunting groups

I was curious about the the 3D reconstruction of the scenes.

> We manually tracked individuals in the videos using the software Computer Vision Annotation Tool. We annotated three frames per second, which yielded a time resolution of 0.33 s for animal movement.

> We then used another software developed to incorporate the previously tracked animals in each camera in the ‘colmap’ habitat models and camera paths, ‘multiviewtracks’ or ‘mvt’ [29]

> [29] Francisco, F. A., Nührenberg, P. & Jordan, A. High-resolution, non-invasive animal tracking and reconstruction of local environment in aquatic ecosystems

Seems it was specifically developed to track fish. Cool project.

Links to https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN and https://github.com/pnuehrenberg/multiviewtracks.
> The purpose of a business is always to maximize profit.

That's false. The purpose of a business is whatever the owners of that business decide. I've known a large number of business owners that chose less profit in exchange for any number of other attributes they valued more than max profit: more of their own time (working less), better serving a local community by donating a lot of resources / air time (media company), paying employees abnormally higher wages (because said employees had been with them a long time and loyalty matters to some people a lot) - and so on and so forth.

Max profit is one of a zillion possible attributes to optionally optimize for as the owner of a business. The larger the owner the more say they obviously will tend to have in the culture.

Facebook as a prominent public example, hasn't been optimized for max profit at any point in the past decade. They easily could have extracted far more profit than what they did. Zuckerberg, being the voting control shareholder, chose to invest hilariously vast amounts of money into eg the Metaverse / VR. He did that on a personal lark bet, with very little evidence to suggest it would assist in maximizing profit (and at the least he was very wrong in the closer-term 10-15 year span; maybe it'll pay off 20-30 years out, doubtful).

The pursuit of max profit is a cultural attribute, a choice, and that's all. It's generally neither a legal requirement nor a moral requirement of a business.
Yeah I think I never gave it a fair shake. I think — like most things — if understood and used properly it can be amazing.
take this with a grain of salt - pigsty is a "free rds alternative" and obviously biased towards talking k8s + postgres bad.
In each case they are alike in certain respect(s) and different in certain respect(s).

For example, in the first example, the apples are instantiations or examples of the same thing. So they are alike in that regard. But they differ in other regards, most obviously in the bundle of matter that makes them up.

In the third example, pretty much the same thing, with some additional detail.

In the second and fourth examples, they are not examples of the same thing. But 'fruit' doesn't imply any species of fruit -- it's generic in that regard -- so apples and oranges share that genus while being different species. Being an apple and being an orange both imply being a fruit; but being a fruit doesn't imply either of the others.
You're assuming socialist/communist economies must, for some reason, be run exactly the same as capitalist economies. Of course if you're trying to mix both it will collapse.

The point of Marx isn't that we should create markets where the value is decided by the amount of labor. The point of Marx is that if Labor creates value, then Labor should be in charge. The problem being that Labor is hard, so the end goal cannot be to maximize Labor (or value), contrary to your implied way of thinking were the most value must be created.
That's a nice list!

I've been digging into cross-platform (Windows and Linux) C for a while, and it has been fascinating. On top of that, I've been writing a JIT-ted scripting (templating) language, and the ABI differences (not just fastcall vs stdcall vs cdecl) are often not easy to find documentation about.

I've decided that if I ever get to teach a University class on C again, I wanted to cover some of these things that I feel are often left out, and this list is a helpful reference! Thanks!
No, people have 14 days not one minute (previously forever but reduced to 14 days to find a happy balance to ease the load on the judicial system) after conviction in the Feds to file what most Americans' think of when they think of an appeal. After 14 days (previously forever) the appeal process is greatly limited.
As is the case with this exact company
"
Fight Corporations
Beat Bureaucracy
Find Hidden Money
"
this is exactly and entirely the thing a exploiting company would say it does.
2017 called they want their meme back.
I feel like it's unfair to expect growth to remain within your walls. bell and Xerox both drove a lot of growth. That growth just left bell and Xerox to go build things like intel and apple. They didn't keep it for themselves and that's a good thing. Could you imagine if the world was really like those old at&t commercials and at&t was actually the ones bringing it to you? I would not want a monolithic at&t providing all technology.

https://youtu.be/xBJ2KXa9c6A?si=pB67u56Apj7gdiHa

I do agree with you. They are locked into pulling value out of what they got and they probably aren't going to build something new.
There's always the pg_ivm extension you can use in the meantime: https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm
We treat words like they have a single stressed syllable and everything else is unstressed, and that's a useful abstraction sometimes, but that's not actually true. "Photocopiers" has primary stress on the first syllable but secondary on the third - PHO-to-CO-pi-ers. The same goes for "teleporters" and "marathoners".

But that also goes for "octopuses", so what gives? Seems like there's something else going on that my brain hasn't accounted for yet. It's probably that the plosives (stop consonants) are hugely unbalanced, with all of them coming in the first half of the word. Plosives, as the word implies, can add quite a bit of oomph to a word, even if they aren't reflected in the stress pattern. So "octopuses" seems to just peter out halfway through the word.
>An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process. The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.

Idiots with guns and qualified immunity. It wouldn't have been that hard to ask the "lone female employee" for help shutting the machine down safely, but it would have made him feel like less of a badass operator.
>> At one point, an officer walked into an MRI room, past a sign warning that metal was prohibited inside, with his rifle “dangling… in his right hand, with an unsecured strap,” the lawsuit said. The MRI machine’s magnetic force then allegedly sucked his rifle across the room, pinning it against the machine.

I'd consider it lucky that the rifle didn't discharge. All the safety systems in the world cannot be expected to protect against a random magnetic field doing who knowns what with the internals of a gun while it flies across the room. But this sort of unforeseen situation is why you never walk around with a finger on the trigger.
There are already laws for false advertising.
Fast food isn’t inherently bad.

What most consumers want doesn’t align with what is healthy to eat. You could get water and a decent salad from chick-fil-a, but when nobody buys the health options they eventually get taken off the menu.
> The World Doesn’t Need More Features

Unfortunately, "more features" is a lot easier to market and sell than "simple and actually works", at least on the timescale most companies operate on.
I got one too: https://edstrom.dev
Once again, curious that you bothered to remember something that is relevant to community inside jokes and take dumps on that, even bothered to remember a number, but did not bother to read up on what you're dumping on.

FYI #1 It very much is a standard oAuth2 flow. Just GHs 'always on' message is unfortunate, and that's all there is to it.
There's been topics like https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117 on this ever since they had been introduced. Which, again, you could've encountered if you put your energy into good faith, instead of focusing that bad faith mojo on a small community. If you really feel like proving how "sane" and above "kewl" you are, go take your dump on GitHub - i.e. the one actually responsible for those misleading messages.

FYI #2 Your vote would not count anyway, because only community member votes actually get included in scoring. Although as an outsider you'd been welcome to leave feedback.
It’s…not. lol
> While this still uses text at some level, it's no longer regurgitation of human-produced text, but something more akin to AlphaZero's training to become superhuman at games like Go or Chess.

How did you know that? I've never seen that anywhere. For all we know, it could just be a very elaborate CoT algorithm.
okay got it, will keep that in mind, thank you
Look at the URL. It’s because the original WSJ title was “OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Resigns,” which was a dupe of yesterday’s discussions. WSJ changed the title yesterday evening.
Pushing ads at children is a major concern because children have zero defenses against the kind of sophisticated manipulation advertisers use against them.

More than just ads though, collecting data on children is dangerous as well. We really don't need corporations starting a dossier on children and placing them into buckets at such an early age. It's bad enough we hand school children chromebooks so that Google can track their test scores, growth, and intelligence
It won't matter until it does, but $@ expands arguments into separate words but those expansions are themselves only word-preserved if the $@ is itself quoted. The [ will probably get away with what you want, but its use in $(git add) and $(git last-sha) almost certainly will not

$ cat > tmp.sh <<'FOO'
for a in $@; do echo "a=$a"; done
echo
for b in "$@"; do echo "b=$b"; done
echo
for c in $*; do echo "c=$c"; done
echo
for d in "$*"; do echo "d=$d"; done
echo
FOO

$ bash tmp.sh 'alpha beta' $'charlie\ndelta'
a=alpha
a=beta
a=charlie
a=delta

b=alpha beta
b=charlie
delta

c=alpha
c=beta
c=charlie
c=delta

d=alpha beta charlie
delta
OpenAI Global, LLC - the entity that actually employs all the engineers, makes revenue from ChatGPT and the API, and pays taxes - has been a for-profit corporation since at least 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#2019:_Transition_from_n...

The IRS isn’t stupid. The rules on what counts as taxable income and what the nonprofit can take tax-free have been around for decades.
Hate speech is free speech. "Not being able to use other people's computers" is nice, but when private discussion forums make functionality changes that help to alter the outcome of elections, things start getting deadly serious, and we need to stop dressing up what we're doing in nice language like "not being able to use other people's computers/bandwidth". Just say it: we need to reserve the right to censor some individuals at will.
Agreed, but just a nit: cars that charge at 150kW peak tend to 10-80 in about 30 minutes, not an hour.

Source: my ID.4
OpenAI provides a tokenizer tool: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
GPT-4o uses BPE (byte pair encoding). They released `tiktoken` which allows you to count tokens in strings in python.

pip install tiktoken
>>> import tiktoken
>>> encoding = tiktoken.encoding_for_model("gpt-4o")
>>> print(encoding.encode("hello marcellus"))
[24912, 2674, 10936, 385]
Why are you downplaying them as “a tech company selling ads” when the most relevant characteristic of theirs is facilitating genocide in Myanmar, then obstructing the investigation, and fuelling ethnic violence in more places like Ethiopia?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

https://time.com/5880118/myanmar-rohingya-genocide-facebook-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/07/facebooks...
see also https://www.dkrypt.org/
Ahh the American way
More than multitasking, I thing the problem is with computers being "general purpose" machines.
The creator of this website was on Lex Friedman podcast[1]. He has dozen of other projects like these. RemoteOK and nomads are two projects that I remember. He talks at length of how he started all these projects single handedly.

[1]: https://lexfridman.com/pieter-levels/
It would be a Bene Gesserit keyboard
I wonder if there's research being done on training LLMs with extended data in analogy to the "kernel trick" for SVMs: the same way one might feed (x, x^2, x^3) rather than just x, and thus make a linear model able to reason about a nonlinear boundary, should we be feeding multimodal LLMs with not only a token-by-token but also character-by-character and pixel-by-pixel representation of prompt texts during training and inference? Or, allow them to "circle back" and request they be given that as subsequent input text, if they detect that it's relevant information for them? There's likely a lot of interesting work here.
I want to see a slow motion video of what happens when you fire iron slugs past an MRI machine
It does not need a citation. There is no citation. What it needs, right now, is optimism. Optimism is not optional when it comes to doing new things in the world. The "needs citation" is reserved for people who do nothing and chose to be sceptics until things are super obvious.

Yes, we are clearly talking about things to mostly still come here. But if you assign a 0 until its a 1 you are just signing out of advancing anything that's remotely interesting.

If you are able to see a path to 1 on AI, at this point, then I don't know how you would justify not giving it our all. If you see a path and in the end using all of human knowledge up to this point was needed to make AI work for us, we must do that. What could possibly be more beneficial to us?

This is regardless of all issues the will have to be solved and the enormous amount of societal responsibility this puts on AI makers — which I, as a voter, will absolutely hold them accountable for (even though I am actually fairly optimistic they all feel the responsibility and are somewhat spooked by it too).

But that does not mean I think it's responsible to try and stop them at this point — which the copyright debate absolutely does. It would simply shut down 95% of AI, tomorrow, without any other viable alternative around. I don't understand how that is a serious option for anyone who roots for us.
I'd also consider it very lucky that the rifle wasn't securely strapped in while it was being pulled across the room.