skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trying to keep a "the truth is in the middle" attitude is unethical.

It is illogical too. In a simple question of "little" and "much" the truth could be "even smaller" and "way bigger than much".

> I think the main issue becomes "bad faith"

Ye I think I agree here about it being the main concern. Bad faith accusation, debates etc seem to radicalize the supporters of the accused. I think you make the caricature real at some point when supporters start to believe the misconception.
(correction: no one "gave" press freedom. instead it is protected against government overreach. just like any other free speech. thank you.)
> India obviously has the right to ban the Wikimedia Foundation

I don’t think that’s obvious at all. In the US, constitutional rights to freedom of speech, assembly, etc apply regardless of nationality or citizenship status.
The side note on hidden backdoors links to a paper that apparently goes beyond the usual ordinary point that reverse engineering is harder without source:

> We show how a malicious learner can plant an undetectable backdoor into a classifier. On the surface, such a backdoored classifier behaves normally, but in reality, the learner maintains a mechanism for changing the classification of any input, with only a slight perturbation. Importantly, without the appropriate "backdoor key", the mechanism is hidden and cannot be detected by any computationally-bounded observer.

(I didn't read the paper. The ordinary version of this point is already compelling imo, given the current state of the art of reverse-engineering large models.)
Delta Sues CrowdStrike over July Operations Meltdown
Bioengineered microorganisms offer new tool for plastic waste breakdown
See The Humanure Handbook. https://humanurehandbook.com/

See also, Paul Wheaton criticism of The Humanure Handbook ("No, do fear your poop! Fear it!!"). Timecode link, but I recommend the whole video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vZPTPIHO8w&t=4980s
> And if they did -- if something needed to join ID values to display names, presumably those would sit in a database, not a different stream?

At a high level the push-instead-of-pull benefit here is "you don't have to query the ID values to get the display names every time" which will reduce your latency. (You can cache but then you might get into invalidation issues and start thinking "why not just send the updates directly to my cache instead")

There's also a less cacheable version where both sides are updating more frequently and you have logic like "if X=1 and Y=2 do Z."

For small enough batches streaming and micro-batching do often end up very similar.
Just like their motto:

"Democracy dies in darkness"

Hopefully there are no dark times ahead.
What happened to tying executive pay to security? What a hypocrite.
I was thinking of this

https://deepcomputing.io/product/dc-roma-risc-v-laptop-ii/

ARM is still leaps ahead though.

The next 5 years will be interesting, I don't think ARM is stupid enough to price themselves out of the market.
Nobody's asking for exact reproducibility — if the source code produces the software and it's appropriately licensed then it's Open Source.

Similarly, if you run the scripts and it produces the model then it's Open Source that happens to be AI.

To quote Bruce Perens (definition author): the training data IS the source code. Not a perfect analogy but better than a recipe calling for unicorn horns (e.g., FB/IG social graphs) and other toxic candy (e.g., NYT articles that will get users sued).
+1 looking for an answer here as well. My guess is that the context limit for all the source code for some large projects will almost always exceed the LLM allowed token limits, so the AI editors generally need to implement some RAG like solution for these. Sourcegraph's cody[0] claims to be able to answer questions across your entire codebase. I haven't tested it extensively but I'm guessing it's competitive with some other AI editors that would offer this.

If I just have a github file open in browser for reference, then I'll sometimes use Rocky AI[1] to explain the code to me - helps avoid the constant copy past into chat gpt from your tab.

[0] https://sourcegraph.com/cody
[1] https://rockyai.me/
If I remember correctly, Stallman's whole point about FLOSS was that consumers were beholden to developers who monopolized the means to produce binaries.

If I can't reproduce the model, I'm beholden to whoever trained it.

>"If you're explaining, you're losing."

That is an interesting point, but isn't this the same organization that makes "open source" vs. "source available" a topic? e.g. why Winamp wouldn't be open source?

I don't think you can even call a trained AI model "source available." To me the "source" is the training data. The model is as much of a binary as machine code. It doesn't even feel right to have it GPL licensed like code. I think it should get the same license you would give to a fractal art released to the public, e.g. CC.
> TFG's adminstration

Huh? Did you mean DJT?
Does this offer any non-SQL programmatic interfaces or ways to do Complex Event Processing (e.g. https://www.databricks.com/glossary/complex-event-processing )? A lot of those scenarios would be tough to express in SQL.
Updates...

JEDI was cancelled (article also mentions results of investigations into Amazon's claims): https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/06/pentagon-cancels-10-billion-...

The lawsuit got tossed because it didn't matter any more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-ends-amazo...

The replacement program somehow includes all three of the usual suspects, plus Oracle: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/323937...
That would seem to negate the entire point of any editorial column then, right? If we don't care about their opinion, what's the point of reading in the first place?
Given that Trump keeps a copy of Mein Kampf on his bedside table, has said that he wants generals as loyal to him personally (not to the country/constitution) as Hitler's, has said that Hitler did some good things... Uses language from Hitler such as dehumanizing immigrants as not human, talks about the "enemy within"... It seems that Hitler is in fact exactly who we should be talking about when discussing Trump, and exactly the "danger to the country" that Trump represents that Gen.Miller and Gen.Kelly are concerned about.
The genocide in Gaza?
Find out the IP address of the machine hosting the domain, then do a reverse lookup on that IP address. It might show the last domain hosted on that IP address.

Using dig:

$>dig yourdomain.tld

1.2.3.4

$>dig -x 1.2.3.4

evilcorp.com
The OSI apparently doesn't have the mandate from its members to even work on this, let alone approve it.

The community is starting to regroup at https://discuss.opensourcedefinition.org because the OSI's own forums are now heavily censored.

I encourage you to join the discussion about the future of Open Source, the first option being to keep everything as is.
On one hand if you require people to provide data they just won't. People will never provide the data because it's full of smoking guns.

On the other hand if the data isn't open you should probably use the term open weights not open source. They're so close.
The data is further down in the conversation. Link: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-determinate-nix/547...
it’s true (i was there)
How do you square that with social media being the source of news for many?
Bezos wants to help elect someone who (his lawyers allege) killed a gov contract favourable to his own business? Or did I misread your comment.
Interesting that the 30-year contract rate has declined around 150 basis points since the peak, while the federal funds rate held steady almost that entire time and only very recently received a 50 basis point cut (https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...). But I guess this is to be expected; clearly the market expects rates to continue drifting downward in the (generationally) long term.

Seems like a reasonable bet to me; the factors that made interest rates continue drifting downwards after the inflation problems of the early 80s had already been fixed, presumably haven't gone away.
Opinions aren't meant to be neutral and fair, and it isn't a violation of journalistic ethics to publish them as such.

If they had tried to disguise opinions as journalism by introducing intentional bias and distortion into a story, then that would be a problem. But newspapers have published opinions for ages.
Comparing the NYT and WaPo, seems to me the latter is more stridently alerting everyone to the dangers of a Trump presidency, this killed endorsement notwithstanding.
It wasn't the lack of water that made Florida inhospitable, it was the climate. Florida's population explosion precisely coincides with the adoption of air conditioning in American households, in the post-war period[1]. Very few people want to live in a place where it's so hot and humid all the time.

> During the last ice age, only 10,000 years ago

We're still in an ice age. An ice age is simply when the earth's poles have an ice cover.

[1] - https://countrydigest.org/florida-population/
And this over an article that gets on average 200 pageviews a day... I run my own wiki project and this sorta political bike-shedding would get you labeled as a troublemaker and then thrown out, though I envy how wikipedia can survive with this kinda democratization where the inmates are running the asylum and it mostly performs flawlessly. I step away for a day and my inmates have regressed to speaking in wingdings and trying to eat the moderators.
What do you mean by that? Do they not adhere to the PCIe spec or something?

As I understand it, the GPU issue is a software/driver issue rather than a hardware issue, so in principle one could create a macOS GPU driver that worked on the mac Pro, or port Linux (perhaps a future version of Asahi) to it and use a GPU that is supported with a Linux driver.
Sounds like you'd like https://character.ai/
Sure, but then Bezos should be writing something explaining it. Instead, he's silently just using his money to squash opinions he doesn't agree with. The is the exact sort of conspiracy that Trump likes to claim where Soros is the reason anyone doesn't endorse him, except now it literally happened and it's to help him, and he turned around and took a meeting with Blue Origin right after.
It's not clear that copyright applies to model weights at all, given they are generated by a computer and isn't really a creative work. It is closer to a quantitative description of the underlying data, like a dictionary or word frequency list.
It might be vague:
"Bezos and the Washington Post [...] have bent the knee."

I read "bent the knee" as some sort of humiliation? I.e. Bezos don't really want to support Trump, but did anyway. Also on "thedonald" it was used as some sort of "humiliated loser folding in line" meme which is why I namedroped it.

English is not my native tongue so I get such nuances wrong sometimes.
A statistical model which is instructed to output the token that is most likely to come next doesn’t have “confidence” in its choice based on the distribution of possible tokens. We might, but it cannot. A statistical model cannot be confident or unsure. It has no mind.

It also has no concept of what it means for the choice of token to be an “error” or not, or what a “correct” answer would be.
That's not quite accurate. E2EE, mesh networks, and similar are also available alternative technologies. Satellites are still corporate-driven (necessarily) or government driven and thus can be focal points to block.
Globally ? Nope … “by western governments and a few others” is more accurate ( most liberation movements are called terrorist at some point, most French called their internal resistance in WWII terrorists, only to use the same word for groups who fought France in their decolonization (Viet-Minh, FLN)

Terrorism is not even defined in international laws ; the more generic notion is war crime is used.
( not that lexical discussions change much for the civilians of any side who lose their lifes … )
That's just autocorrect. (Or generative AI.)
I tried as well. Seems like it is a proprietary model.
Yes, and Open Source started out with a much smaller set of software that has since grown exponentially thanks to the meaningful Open Source Definition.

We risk giving AI the same opportunity to grow in an open direction, and by our own hand. Massive own goal.
The model does not "output the token that is most likely to come next". The model provides a list of probabilities and the sampler algorithm picks one; those are two different components.
I hope they exchange patents and kiss and make up, so the pulse oximeter can be enabled again on the Apple watch.
That's ignoring that he's running a business that's literally to report on things that important people like him do. An engineer at Amazon's job isn't to write about Amazon's business dealings to the public. The opinion and editorial board of a newspaper is literally there to write about what people like Bezos do.

It would have been notable even if they hadn't been public about it, just because the Post has endorsed every presidential race for decades. Eventually someone would have noticed and asked about it, and it just would have come out then.

You may as well just say he could silently kill the Kindle line and it wouldn't be a controversy/reported on. He can literally tell Amazon employees to stop making them, but it doesn't mean it's not weird and notable that he's doing it.
> [...] my loss is much less [...]

Unless it's actually zero, any loss on the "outer" TCP stream will cause a retransmission, visible to the inner one as a sharp jump in latency of all data following the loss. Most TCP stacks don't handle that very well either.
Show HN: A CLI GitHub issue creator
I find value in creating high quality GH issues in the repos I maintain, but find myself not documenting features and bugs when I come across them. I work across 6-8 repos regularly, so even bringing up the right URL for the repo is a series of micro-efforts and clicks I do many times a day.

I tend to have the directories for each these repos open already in my shell, so I wanted a way to A) leverage that I'm already looking right at the repo because this is where I do my commits, pulls, etc and B) not switch contexts to a website.

I'm guessing many people have solutions in their editor with deeper git integration, but I've never gotten into the habit of using those tools.

When I plugged Claude in to help fill out the issue body, I was impressed by how spot-on the (admittedly very few) examples were, and it made me realize just how +common+ some of the problem I want to create issues for are across apps, and the boilerplate captures them well.

I suspect I'll still want to put some finishing touches on new issues on GitHub.com, so the script prints the URL after an issue is created to at least save me the URL lookup so I can go drop images, etc.
I think the implicit argument is that he wants to avoid more canceled contracts, along with other forms of retribution like personal attacks he experienced a few years earlier.
Four Truths about OpenAI's Wild Financial Position
Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart
It's rather naive to think that newspapers ought to be neutral (or fair) in everything they produce. What kinds of neutral is desirable? There's neutral tone or neutral political bias -- there are many different ways for a newspaper to be or not be neutral.

Assuming neutrality isn't something that we should expect newspapers to value, then I think transparency is an good alternative. A presidential endorsement can be a good thing in that the newspaper staff are being openly transparent about their political bias.
I think new-tech/mass-consumer-facing tech is always going to have a liberal bias - that just plays well with the dynamics of getting new users to use your procuct. It's only once a company/organization establishes itself as a mega Corp will we see the conservative idealogy exerting it's want to sustain/conserve the accumulated power.
Isn't it pretty safe to just assume that any IP addresses belonging to public clouds, especially cheap ones, have bad reputations?
My gripe with endorsements is they imply people can't think critically for themselves.
It's a Mersenne prime. I was curious so looked at the list of numbers that have been the largest known prime. It turns out that the last time the largest known prime was not a Mersenne prime was in 1989. That was 391581 x 2^216193 - 1 and had 65087 digits.

There have been 19 largest known primes since then and all are Mersenne primes.

Out of the 20 largest known primes, 12 are Mersenne primes. The ones that aren't are at positions 8, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, and 20.
It's definitely not accurate to view that sort of prediction error or other internal value with an overall measure of the confidence, accuracy, "truth" or etc of the language the LLM produces.
YMMV. Im in SF, so the right is non-existent. Progressives pay 50k/yr for the type private elementary schools. One of them recently had Hillary Clinton as the star speaker for a 5th grade convocation and you should have seen the parents going nuts and fighting for tickets.
> Fact is

... followed by speculation about the future.

> [not everywhere]

The standard you proposed was "on the road". In their service areas (more than "one", they've been in Phoenix for some time) anyone can install their app and get a ride.

I shouldn't have poked my nose in here, I was just kind of croggled to see someone answer "ideological battle" by bringing up another argument where they don't seem to care about facts.
About half of American voters are behind Trump. More poor/less educated coming to him compare to past cycles. Why wouldn’t a billionaire scared of him?
> The NYT undoubtedly has a lengthy section on the buildup to the Iraq War, where they would have been a "propaganda tool of the incumbent government."

This comment might come across as sarcastic, possibly implying that Wikipedia wouldn't cover such a thing. To be clear, Wikipedia has an entire article entitled "List of The New York Times controversies" (linked from the main article), which does indeed mention the Iraq War (among other things) in the summary, with a section to elaborate, linking to the article on Judith Miller for much more extensive elaboration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_con...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller#The_Iraq_War
The cartels should just build nukes in Mexico and pump desalinated water north. Win-win.
I'm mostly just being playful with a fun conspiracy theory. But, McDonald's and Middleby (current parent company of Taylor), are both publicly traded. Previous parent companies of Taylor were also publicly traded.

It's not inconceivable - it wouldn't make sense to intentionally use a low quality product or intentionally cause service calls because of the decrease in revenue for McDonalds. But it would make sense to mandate a particular vendor you have a stake in.
When I used Fedora for desktop, VS Code triggered warnings because of a SELinux configuration. Something about using writable memory as executable.

The discussion on the topic was disappointing. Chrome does this, all Electron apps do this, VS Code does it. It was insisted that the warnings were fine because this is insecure and the developers should just fix their applications.

I do not have the patience to waste two hours researching every single complicated solution that every single application uses to make things work just to personally decide whether it's safe enough to whitelist it.

Long story short I'm using Mint now.
I see Rivians daily too. Might have seen an F150 Lightning, but I can’t tell them apart from any other truck, honestly.
I think the endorsement was just bad journalism or bad writing and Bezos just did not want to risk it. If such an endorsement would come out in such a divided climate, then i would want it to be excellent. Maybe it was just partisan.

Who knows.
The point is that neither the model nor the sampler algorithm can possibly have “confidence” in its behaviour or the system’s collective behaviour.

If I put a weight on one side of a die, and I roll it, the die is not more confident that it will land on that side than it would be otherwise, because dice do not have the ability to be confident. Asserting otherwise shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what a die is.

The same is true for LLMs.
Buried deep down:

> Video Game Accessibility:

> Unfortunately, the exemption allowing circumvention of digital locks on video games for accessibility purposes (introduced in 2021) was not renewed. No petition for renewal was submitted, and as a result, individuals with disabilities who need alternative input methods to play video games are left out.
Kind of reminds me of an idle thought I have every now and then. Between the sheer difficulty of establishing any kind of foothold on Mars, and the vast amount of uninhabited land, it’s curious that more thought hasn’t been given into the much easier task of making the empty parts of the planet more bearable.

Alas, the list of reasons to live in the Great Plains is very short, which is also why I’m kind of skeptical of terraforming the American West. You can make existing major cities more livable, sure, but don’t expect a surge of people moving to Montana or Wyoming.

By contrast, Los Angeles and Miami have ocean access. Terraforming coastline is a no-brainer.
Or could it also have something to do with Israel having an order of magnitude more Palestinian prisoners (thousands of whom have yet to be charged for years) than Hamas has Israeli soldiers ? If Hamas has 10 Israeli hostages and while Israel holds 10,000, does asking for thousands in return mean you value your people less? Or is that just common sense? And I don't even know what the point of bringing this up is.
I agree. Megaprojects that make large changes to highly chaotic systems never end well. From Mao's Four Pests to the ongoing wildfire crises that plague the west coast thanks to all the terraforming California has undergone (exacerbated by ongoing climate change)

To say nothing of the fact that this is wanton environmental destruction. Just because something is arid, it's alright to completely change it? And for what? Having lived in Dallas, which is not unlike Nevada but more humid and wet, it's not a proper place to live. People jump from pool of air conditioning to pool of air conditioning. You go outside and walk for just 5 minutes, and you're completely soaked in sweat. Shade does not help. Lack of concrete does not help, you can drive 2 hours into the middle of nowhere and it's still like being in a preheated oven. You can't really do anything fun outside for half the year because you'll get heat stroke, or generally just be extremely stinky.

If you want to make use of empty land, going to the miserably cold uninhabited swaths of Canada are far wiser. You can always bundle up, but you can only take off so many layers of clothing.
Conservatives keep moving the goal post. I see a less criticism of conservatives due to the fear of being labeled as bias. i.e. the coverage of Biden's cognitive decline vs Trump's cognitive decline.
Non-regular iron (and other divalent metal) chelation via oral supplement. Usually only when I'm feeling off, haven't done it in awhile, want some help with sleep, or have been eating a lot of fortified foods.
To add to the sibling comment about the courts, from Wiki:

> Starting in 2021, news outlets began to authenticate some of the contents of the laptop. In 2021, Politico verified two key emails used in the Post's initial reporting by cross-referencing emails with other datasets and contacting their recipients. CBS News published a forensic analysis which examined a "clean" copy of the data obtained directly from Mac Isaac. It concluded that the "clean" data, including over 120,000 emails, originated with Hunter Biden and had not been altered