skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, before property taxes went up, the landlord could have raised rents by $200/month, but hadn't because..?

Because you don't pre-date inflation.

It is the same as asking why the supermarket doesn't raise the price of milk to what inflation estimates say it'll probably be next year.
This feels nannyish to me. And what’s with this “enforcement” crap?

If your social policy needs to be enforced, then it didn’t succeed in the marketplace of ideas.

If you like this, then do it. It will catch on if it catches on. Meanwhile, there is work to do.
So if I take a company public, and now own $10B in shares in a liquid stock (that I paid $0 for), take out a $1B loan, spend it all, and then die. What taxes need to be paid by the estate in that scenario?
Among European languages, Serbo-Croatian is probably the closest to phonemic spelling. An interesting way to test this is to train a basic language model on a representative language, and then see how many mistakes it makes on words it doesn't know (https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigtyp-1.1/) - in this study, Serbo-Croatian scored over 99% for both reading and writing accuracy. Finnish and Turkish are also pretty good.
It’s adapted from “look it up”. Or maybe more specifically, it’s “look it up using internet search”.
Youtube videos still come with adverts, just not the google ones.
> they have any say in defining things when they dont have skin in the game.

Then, maybe don't go around stealing and bastardizing the "open source" concept when absolutely none of the serious AI research is open source or reproductible. Just because you read a fancy word online once and think you can use it doesn't mean you're right.
The interesting question is why they aren’t expanding their archival storage space. What’s higher priority for any university archives than keeping dissertations?
Or some unkind drink.
One that bit me was the change to StopIteration propagating through chained generators, following PEP 479. Nothing huge, but I had to patch some previously working code to accommodate the new language release.
The biggest issue I have with semantic chunking is that it requires a LLM to help create the breakpoints. That's a pretty big cost and latency penalty, for potentially no benefit. That being said, we've seen chunk size have a huge impact on the naive extraction to the graph. Using recursive character chunking showed huge gains from going from 1000 characters down to 500 characters, even with long context LLMs. However, once we got out to 2000-4000 character chunks, there didn't appear to be much difference. But, if you're looking to extract maximum detail from a text corpus, it seems utra-small chunking is likely beneficial.

That being said, with ultra-small chunking, there's a lot of redundancy in the extracted graph edges. These are some of the problems were trying to solve with the TrustGraph extraction processes.

Daniel
What bothers me more on a meta level is that some people in the community are apparently empowered to just write PEPs on a whim that will be quickly withdrawn, whereas most people will be forced to fight through long discussion threads before finding a sponsor willing to co-sign to a PEP (if that ever happens). The "Ideas" section of the forum is probably the least pleasant to use; and for all the controversial new stuff that gets added, the dev team is stunningly conservative WRT ideas that come from outside.

In particular, they'll commonly tell you to demonstrate your feature as a third-party package on PyPI first, then show that it gains popularity (i.e. you as a random developer are responsible for promoting your idea, not merely justifying it) - and if you succeed at that, they'll have the argument waiting for you that you already have a maintained, mature library that's perfectly capable of working on its own, so why would it need to become part of the language? "The standard library is where packages go to die", don't you know?

BTW, they will also tell you these things if the nature of your idea makes it impossible - e.g., you propose to add a method to a builtin type; subtyping won't work, because part of the point is that literal values should get the functionality automatically.
> Also, you can work from home distraction free whilst ensuring the kids are not killing themselves. But you can’t just leave them at home incase they kill themselves. They call that neglect.

Are you speculating or telling from personal experience?

If the first the answer even common sense will give you is no.

If the later you contribute to the problem that a vast majority of responsible workers pay the bills for a minority who overstretched the system.
These are all legitimate but I found my self a bit bewildered that the concept of a school bus is absent entirely from the apparent thought process, given I rode the bus for the vast majority of my primary and secondary schooling
Many people who use natural gas in the mountains of NC/TN right now are without any access because even the buried infrastructure there got destroyed.
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> A net worth of $150 billion is quite an achievement.

And not too long ago he was touting he was in it for the good of humanity, and "proved" it by only taking a $60k salary with no equity.

A true paragon of honesty and straight-dealing.
Maybe, but I think that more handcrafted and tailored NPC interactions would be much more engaging than AI rng (not to mention way more energy efficient)

Even oblivion had pretty lively NPCs, if quirky.

Majora’s mask takes it to the extreme by scripting 3 in game days for each and every character.
Layoffs generally boost stock prices
A better reading is that neoliberalism is simply indifferent to the welfare of the middle class, and in any case radically opposed to any proactive ("socialist") efforts to protect it. If serfdom and aristocracy are what follow, then so be it.
There needs to be a global effort to backup the Internet Archive at this point.
> all the darkest holes of history are in situations that attempt to tell people how to live

I sure hear a lot of faux-market fascists telling me how to live these days.
Yep, exactly. At our previous place we never had an outage last more than a couple hours, in 7 years, so it didn't make sense. Current place has had four in the span of four years, plus we have geothermal heat so we can't just hook the furnace to a portable genset.

It'll never pencil out in terms of dollars saved on lost food and hotels, but just knowing that the power will be out for a max of 15-20 seconds makes it worth it for us.
> Why not? Because the plant isn't conscious? Awareness can't be defined in terms of consciousness if consciousness itself is defined in terms of awareness—that's circular.

The problem is we are using the same word to mean different things - all these words are terribly overloaded.

> Awareness, in philosophy and psychology, is a perception or knowledge of something.[1] The concept is often synonymous to consciousness.[2] However, one can be aware of something without being explicitly conscious of it, such as in the case of blindsight.

This is what the wiki says:

Awareness, in philosophy and psychology, is a perception or knowledge of something. The concept is often synonymous to consciousness. However, one can be aware of something without being explicitly conscious of it, such as in the case of blindsight.

For sentience:

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes.

So the way I see it, you have 'bodily self-awareness'/sentience, which is basically the minimal amount of some kind of mental OS running. processing stimuli, making decisions and reacting to events. These simple beings, like worms, are conscious in the sense they are aware/awake, but they do not have a higher level consciousness, or I would argue any consciousness at all.

On top of that you can have base consciousness, which allows for simple wants and needs, some basic decision making, but there is no inner monologue, no awareness of ones own thoughts. Consider something like a fish to be at this level.

On top of that you now have higher consciousness and self-awareness. A sense of ones selves as distinct from heir environment. A recognition of the fact that you had a thought and can now have thoughts about that thought. This is largely what separates humans from other animals, with only a few animals being close to humans in this regard (crows, elephants, chimps, dolphins, etc).

So the plant, as far as we know, has no kind of 'mental OS' running, so it has no type of awareness. It's just base chemical reactions without that, likely because they never evolved the need for it.

The camera as well doesn't have any equivalent. It's a set of actions that happen when a button is pressed. A roomba could be said to have a level of awareness though.

> Yeah but what is that? That's my big stumbling block here—what is "awareness"? What distinguishes things that are aware from things that are not?

Hopefully I've clarified this above.
> Are you sure? Google has a search and location data, Google email is on one side if not both of most email chains, receipts, etc.

Absolutely not discounting all of that; there are some pretty strong parallels between the data you can infer on a person based on their gmail graph versus their fb messenger graph, for example.

Meta has a lot more "self-revealed-preference" data, though. Which of $thesePosts did you engage with? Does this pattern continue if we mix in $someOtherVariable? How long did you dwell on that one post before like/dis-like? Are you more likely to come back and spend time here if we tell you that $thisPerson has commented on your post instead of $thisOtherPerson? ... etc.

I think only YouTube serves as a plausible source of dwell time in the "at what part of $thisVideo did you click the like button" sense. If you don't use YouTube or use it signed out then it's (slightly) harder for google to attribute your actions to you. Facebook doesn't really have _anything_ that can be accessed without logging in.
It's written in Go. /s
Site does not load, but for that conclusion, it takes forever. What is supposed to happen? Firefox w/ ublock origin.
Down with rent-seeking!

If a 'company' is just digital landlordism it's not surprising makers don't want to subsidize your free ride...
If someone leases a car instead of buying it in many states they still have to pay sales tax, just on each lease payment. Somehow we can figure out how to charge sales tax on non-sales sales when it impacts the average joe, but not income tax on non-income income when it impact business owners because 'think of the business'. I don't see how taxes when someone extracts value from their company is any different or more difficult than taxing Joe average 'sales tax' on a lease payment.

The business is irrelevant. We are talking about the tax on the person who is getting income because our government functions from taxes on income. Just like how we charge sales tax on a non-sale when state government functions on taxes on sales. Tax business owners when they extract value from their business.
They have all that information in their website.

The only earn money if people click ads, just like any other search engine. Microsoft isn't paying them to show them Bing results.
My data, sure, but the data of my entire age/racial/economic group is worth a lot to marketing firms. There’s a ton of that information in emails.

That’s literally google’s business model.

You think Gmail is free bc Google is nice?

Come on…
Huh, so both the chemistry Nobel and the physics Nobel were for neural networks this year. That's astounding.
Geoffrey Hinton says he's proud Ilya Sutskever 'fired Sam Altman'
Love the boldness here of trying to make something you dislike a syntax error.

I don't really get preferring `except BaseException` over `except`. I'd love to get more info on possible exceptions though and I think it would cut down a lot of the catch all handling I see.

As far as I know, python doesn't give you any way of asking "what exceptions can this function run" - aside from just inspecting every line of code. I'd massively love to have those kind of details available.
Yes that is the nature of compromise
He's like 2 times the maximum allowed age.

I do get the sarcasm though.
At least by me you have to be more than 1.5miles from the school to get a bus - that's a half hour walk! Doable certainly, but not fun, especially in the winter - or worse, when it's hot!

And teens need to live even farther from their school to qualify for a bus, but teens don't walk any faster than non teens. Most kids don't really want to spend the better part of an hour each way going to/from school.
Percentages are incommensurable with most things, including other percentages in the general case. They are percentages _of something_ and in general the only way you can do addition, subtraction, or comparison is to identify the referent and multiply it out first (the special case is when the other value involved is another percentage with the same referent). So in math class, when you see 20%, you translate it to ".2 _times something_", which is not a value that can be added to 10. You have to figure out what to multiply it by first. In the case of 10+20%, it would be reasonable to assume 20% of 10, which is how you get 12. It would also be reasonable to ask "20% of what?" 10.2 is 10 + 20% of 1, which requires an explanation of how that 1 got involved.
I agree in some contexts. Kind of like Rust, I see a place for more durable code that's harder to reason about in some cases.

I wouldn't use Effect for a lot of things. For some things, I'm very glad to have it. One thing Effect has going for it that Ramda didn't is that it's much less abstract and it's quite a bit more opinionated about some more complex concepts like error handling, concurrency, or scheduling.

Kind of like state machines. You shouldn't use them for everything. For some things, it's a bad idea not to (in my opinion).

Then of course subjectivity is a factor here. Some people will never like conventions like Effect, and that's fine too. Just write what feels right.
Russia is banning Discord, an app its military uses
About 3 200 000 cm... That is actually surprisingly large number if you assign any number of centimetres for each.
Yes. If a large company didn't employ those researchers, someone else would, and if they were for someone else maybe they'll come up with something which could damage the large company.

It's not about building and owning the next best thing, it's about preventing someone else building and owning the next best thing.
We don't support Codestral or Qwen2.5-coder right out of the box for now, but depending on your use-case we certainly could add it.

We utilize LoRA for smaller models, and qLoRA (quantized) for 70b+ models to improve training speeds, so when downloading model weights, what you get is the weights & adapter_config.json. Should work with llama.cpp!
If I build a movie theater and give away the tickets knowing that I can make money on ads before a movie that does not mean that 5 minutes of your eyesight is now worth something
> You have it backwards. The actual question is, how did the majority magically get the power to enforce its will on the minority in the first place?

This doesn't answer my question at all.

Who should decide those limits, and why they? Who pics them?

Think of a thought experiment: A new city/town/state/country is getting started (let's assume peacefully somehow, this is a thought experiment).

Who gets to set those limits on democratic action?

One choice that comes to mind is everyone gets together and pics the wisest person in the crowd = representative democracy.

Another choice is the strongest bully in the group beats everyone up and sets the laws however he likes = dictatorship.

What other choices? And which one should be best?
Please everyone read this comment. Any disagreements should come with relevant references showing how it's wrong.

An additional point to add is the mechanism by which taxation controls inflation. Tax serves to suppress demand in the private sector, freeing up resources that can then be bought at non-inflated prices. This is why super wealthy people are irrelevant to a sovereign government's ability to spend; their marginal propensity to consume is too low to be seriously impacted by normal levels of taxation. It's also why tax has to be broad base to be useful.
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"It's like sewing your ear to a vacuum cleaner. "

though they include metal now.
These days, I'd say the easiest and most effective approach is to put the whole book in the context of one of the longer context models.
Main requirement is to programmatically send my chat logs. Not a big deal though, thanks!
> There's no way to test that inclusively, to check all possible inputs.

Which means the RFC claim is false and should not be asserted in the first place. The API may incidentally accept valid RFC input, but there is no way to know that it does for sure for all inputs. You might suspect it conforms to the RFC, but to claim that it does with certainty is incorrect. Only what is documented in the tests is known to be true.

Everything else is undefined behaviour. Even if you do happen to conform to an RFC in one version, without testing to verify that continues to hold true, it probably won’t.

This is exactly why unit tests are the expected documentation by users. It prevents you, the author, from make spurious claims. If you try, the computer will catch you in your lies.

> The other thing I would shy away from is including throwaway tests in the framework.

What does that mean? I suspect you are thinking of something completely different as this doesn't quite make sense with respect to what I said. It probably makes sense in another context, and if I have inferred that context correctly, I'd agree... But, again, untreated to our discussion.
> By consciousness, I mean my ineffable sense of here-ness and me-ness; the feeling that all the subjective experiences of my senses, redness and coldness and pleasure and longing are all "real things" happening to a "real self" that exists to experience the world in a way that a mere robot with the same behaviour might not.

Sure. And you have that sense of here-ness and me-ness because you have self-awareness. You're able to reflect and ponder on your thoughts and experiences, as opposed to just somewhat blindly reacting to them. This is the difference between you and the robot you speak of.

You can do that because you have self-awareness and meta-cognition, the same things required for you to write these replies that you have been writing.

So I think my point stands, that the fact that you can write these messages and engage in these conversations should be more than sufficient proof that you are conscious and that consciousness is real.
I could imagine a method call done in a pipeline, but would have to work out the details. Maybe self/this or omit the variable name? Not sure how doable.

Folks recommended tools to alleviate Java verbosity back in the day as well. But you still have to read it—which unfortunately happens 100x more than writing.
Among the big tech companies, only Google cared about AI at the time.
The title here was an editorial choice by the person who submitted this link to Hacker News.
> Johnny C. Taylor Jr., the president of the Society for Human Resource Management, told BI that as more organizations have called workers back to the office, it's become clear that many employees didn't heed warnings that remote work was not here to stay.

It's not the employees fault if they trusted the company wouldn't screw up home office, all these companies made employees believe they could have better working conditions, until they forced everyone to go back to the office.

I don't blame the employees but the employer for making broken promises and manipulating their employees into thinking the company is better than the competitors.
Of course they don’t; because, none of this has anything to do with any measurable KPI(s) other than “we said so.”

E: forgot a quotation mark. Please forgive my indiscretions.
School buses are increasingly rare - https://www.vox.com/life/373743/school-bus-transportation-ki...

My kids start school at 8:40 and the train to work leaves at 8:54, meaning that if everything goes perfectly (no disasters at dropoff, train on time, I get the folding bike unfolded quickly and ride like hell, though I like that part) I get to the office at 9:27. I don't think it would be physically possible for me to do a 9:00 AM start time.
This isn't meant to be taken too literally or objectively, but I view YAGNI as almost a meta principle with respect to the other popular ones. It's like an admission that you won't always get them right, so in the words of Bukowski, "don't try".
For extra irony in this context: Deutscher means German in German.
>which breaks in the fringe case an exception that derives from BaseException (enforced by interpreter) but not from Exception is thrown.

For many users, in many cases, this would be fixing the code rather than breaking it.

Forcing people to write either `except BaseException:` or `except Exception:` means forcing them to think about which one they actually mean. This is a good thing, just like the enforcement of proper separation between bytes and text is a good thing.
Demis Hassabis Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
I get your point, but often the binary code instructions between those is vastly different.
You enter a lottery to buy the 1 Ruxpin that was built. You can probably get more than your money back if you don't want to keep it.
You are of by a factor of 10.
Ah I see, got it. For now the API should work fine for that!
Something like that might include a casual arrangement like a neighbour watching them after school before you get home, a grandparent dropping by, etc.
So in this transaction you’re exchanging something that is individually worthless for something that is individually valuable.

Which is a bad thing and should stop. Right now!

Ps: it’s also not like you’re paying so little that you could say you’re getting it for…… free
About 20 years ago it wasn't, and Google's pagerank stuff was revolutionary and potentially nobel prize worthy (no idea, I'm not a scientist)
Elementary schools close at 3pm. No longer can you just take a break mid-day to pick them up because you’re stuck at the office until 5.

Lots of daycares close by 6pm. Good luck leaving the office, commuting, picking up the kid on time.
I know people that moved to other states during the pandemic that were told they could WFH forever. Unless remote work is in the contract, don't believe anything a company tells you.
Science is just a methodology to test hypothesis. It does not matter how you get the result as long as the result is empirically scrutinized.
> We (almost) invariably tax money when it changes hands. Like if you own something and then I own it, there's a tax [..] But that's the general premise.

I appreciate HN is USA-centric, but over on this side of the pond it's nowhere near as simple as that.

> If you pay taxes on your income and then use it to buy something from me, I have to pay taxes on it too. That's my income now.

Except that companies - even one person companies(!) - generally pay taxes on their profits, not their total income or revenue.
I'm on Firefox with ublock origin and it works just fine.

Either way... the site is a store.. of sorts... for Greenday's "Dookie" album, where the songs are mixed down into various bizarre formats. They said de-mastered, and I was hoping that they were actually releasing the individual tracks. Sad.