skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will be very little accountability that the change they desire matches the rhetoric. In his first term, Trump's DOJ and FCC tried weakening 230 -- not repealing it.

The most useful Section 230 might:

- Intimidate fact checkers

- Promote new "outsiders", conveniently approved with a polished message

- Sew a framework of attribution, especially between loyal states versus blue states.

- Obscure that some messages are paid, while others just win an algorithmic jumble.

- Sew a framework of counter-attribution, where a platform may challenge my message as untruthful. Regardless, if I seem to pass a particular loyalty test, I win the right not just to promote it harder, but also advertise "what they don't want you to know" and they must carry it as such.
Aren't you assuming that laws will be applied uniformly? It's entirely possible that Musk thinks a repealed Section 230 wouldn't harm X because of that co-governing.
I thought about making a tool that can search for videos based on context, and jump to the specific moment in the video that you needed.
So for the past couple of days I've been working on notclass. We focus mostly on university lectures and long form podcasts, because most of the time valuable information is skipped due to the sheer length of such clips.

Try it and let me know what you think.

P.S. It is 100% free, no registration required, and I intend to keep it that way.
Not the OP. I think it means he enjoyed his travel as one would, completely switched off. If I go even on a 4 week holiday and come back, I feel like a new joiner and if I don't then for me it's not a holiday well spent.
TokenChunking is really limited by the tokenizer and less by the Chunking algorithm. Tiktoken tokenizers seem to do better with warm-up which Chonkie defaults to -- which is also what the 2nd one is using.

Algorithmically, there's not much difference in TokenChunking between Chonkie and LangChain or any other TokenChunking algorithm you might want to use. (except Llamaindex, I don't know what mess they made for 33x slower algo)

If you only want TokenChunking (which I do not recommend completely), better than Chonkie or LangChain, just write your own for production :) At least don't install 80MiB packages for TokenChunking, Chonkie is 4x smaller than them.

That's just my honest response... And these benchmarks are just the beginning, future optimizations on SemanticChunking which would increase the speed-up from the current 2nd (2.5x right now) to even higher.
At this point, almost all community and all standard library APIs use nullable reference types (and types that aren't NRTs are obviously expected to always have a value).

This change in F# makes it able to interoperate with C# NRTs, where C#'s T? becomes F#'s T | null and vice versa.

I feel like the ease of integration of F# into existing codebases is one of the major selling points. You don't need to write wrappers in order to consume most existing C# code, which, for example, enables writing a core with business logic in F# while keeping the IO in C# if necessary.
GPU VRAM is the bottleneck currently, check out r/localLlama for benchmarks and calculators for what models can fit into what cards approximately
One sort of interesting thing about old folks is the generations are changing from silent/boomer to boomer/genx. Will be interesting to see if old=conservative or that actually we’ve just been dealing with 2 generations that were fundamentally conservative because of circumstance. I wonder if in fact the stagnation in Democrat leadership is from 80’s /90’s liberals becoming small c conservative and not wanting to lose the progress made.

Like it seems interesting most 80’s/90’s free speech comedian / shock jocks still seem to be fundamentally liberal even though the younger generation of these are being turned conservative by the cultural environment.
I wasn't really thinking about regretful models, I was thinking about rape and sexual assault victims. I don't have any firsthand knowledge about any of this stuff, but I imagine that a signed model release and verfied Government ID falls under contract law. I have no idea about how the law would deal with a situation where a model recinds their consent. My guess is that would have to be dealt with in court. However, I do think requiring signed releases and verified Government ID might have prevented the case mentioned in the post... not the rape or sexual assault, but putting the video online, which would have caused even more pain and suffering on the part of the victim.
Do you actually enjoy the process of writing online?

Because for me I’ve realized there’s a difference between enjoying actually doing a hobby versus just fantasizing about what it would be like to be good at it.

Maybe that’s not what you’re experiencing, but I’ve tried to get into hobbies and have run into the feeling you describe. Eventually I would drop the hobby because I just didn’t enjoy doing it.

Ps congrats on writing online :)
They were facing up to 93 years in prison for the rape and obscene content distribution charges and the prosecutor agreed to a plea deal of one year probation, 100 hours of community services, and an agreement to cease posting content to social media. People have gotten worse sentences for simple marijuana possession. Sometimes the criminal justice system makes absolutely no sense to me.
> the first Germany defeat

Assuming you're talking about stategic defeats, I'm pretty sure the Battle of Britain was earlier. Possibbly North Africa too, but that's more debatable.
> A few fumbles by Microsoft early on stunted its growth

Microsoft really, _really_ missed out on a huge opportunity to rebrand .NET into something else when they did the Framework -> Core transition. Despite .NET being cross platform for over ten years and winning benchmarks left and right people still see it a the “slow enterprisey framework that only runs on Windows”.
Working for a fast-paced, revolutionary, mission-driven company
2 of the 3 threads you posted are specifically related to pixel art.

The first linked thread is by a person who is doing pixel art. “I'm working on pixel art (very small-resolution bitmaps)”

The second thread you linked is also by a person doing pixel art.
“I work on pixel art a lot”

This doesn’t take away from the fact that there’s a blurring issue happening that Affinity don’t seem to be able/willing to solve as of yet, just making it clear that you linked to two threads by people doing small bitmapped pixel art, then denied they had anything to do with it.
That's a decent analysis of the things this "thought experiment" doesn't address. I'm not a chemist but I think in a sea of AT and GC pairs even mixed with water, the ability to find every random sequence possible is near certainty:

Especially when you multiply by the number of swimming pools of all ocean water (10^14) by the number of minutes of the history of Earth (10^15), and consider that the probability of the accidental 50 base pair replicator forming needs to have those 29 extra zeroes, in the numerator (not the denominator). So the likelihood, now that I add more info, has just gone up 29 orders of magnitude. lol. (BTW. the 1 minute assumption will be temperature dependent, and is a guess at how long it takes reactions to take place).

The whole thing is a rough approximation like the Drake Equation is, and each number is an estimate. If you want to attack the Thought Experiment, at it's weakest point, just question the initial assumption, which is the biggest guess of all, that some unique 50 base pair RNA can replicate itself.
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You’re not thinking about the other side of the equation. If they win (becoming the first to excel at the benchmark), they potentially make billions. If they lose, they’ll be relegated to the dustbin of LLM history. Since there is an existential threat to the brand, there is almost nothing that isn’t worth risking to win. Risking a scandal to avoid irrelevance is an easy asymmetrical bet. Of course they would take the risk.
I thought he made his fortune from TNT and then founded the Nobel prize out of guilt?
People should be free to enjoy life their way. Including if they want to be grandpa Joe from willy wonka.
You may already know this, I'm writing it as a note for my future self.

OpenID Connect (OIDC) is mostly concerned with authentication. On the other hand, OAuth (or, to be more specific, OAuth v2.0) is concerned with authorization.

>> OpenID Connect is effectively an evolution of OAuth.

In my opinion, OpenID Connect is actually evolution of OpenID – in its vision/spirit:

- OIDC, like OpenID, primarily focuses on users' identity and authentication;

- OIDC, unlike OpenID, didn't (re)invent new authentication workflows, which were significantly different in their own ways. Instead, it built authentication workflows on top of existing OAuth spec (which was being (ab)used for authentication in some places which, unfortunately, is still the case) to achieve its main objective (i.e. authentication).

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Edit: rephrased to better communicate my thoughts (still not perfect; but, as the saying goes, perfect is the enemy of the good so I stop here).
200 vs 220 is likely noise. The recruiter shouldn’t care about tha2, and neither should you.

But £200k vs £400k is real!

That’s the real span for e.g. hedge funds in London. Actually, it was a few years ago. Probably more now!
I agree about ISO, but I don't think there's a meaningful "toll gate" in this case: the standards are already free and public, this seems to just assign them identities in the ISO's standardization namespace.

(I'm at a loss to explain what benefit comes from being assigned an ISO standard versus putting a HTML document on the Internet.)
I've been running a project for almost four years now, and have been vendoring/killing as many dependencies as I can.

Core functionality now relies on no libraries, and increasingly moving off Next.js towards more open frameworks like Remix.

At it's core it's React + JavaScript + SQL, aiming to run this thing for decades.
> > That means: Breathing techniques, exercise etc.

It also means alcohol, drugs, shrooms, ketamine, MDMA, Research Chemicals, uppers, downers, amplifier substances , smoothering substances, focus enhancers, dissociatives...

I mean the modern society seems like coming up with some trends such as the war on drugs, the vice taxes and all the patronizing BS, only to discover that there is a reason why those things exist and we indulged in them for as long as we have been around in the first place
Don't expect much. Even screwing a nut on a bolt is a huge problem for generic robot. Which means you will need a 'robot friendly' lab. Were all things can be done by a primitive robotic hand. Other options are making more capable hands, and completely robotic specialized labs. The first is most interesting and the way to go. When it happens it will open a lot of possibilities. Like "self-repairing" vehicles and planet stations. Just with 'technician' robot onboard.
Try a can of coconut milk and a cup of pecans or cashews blended in 4 cups of water. It’s a good vegan base. Inexpensive and most flavors can be layered on top.
I don't see why that would stop him; he has a long history of stabbing allies in the back.
Regardless, under current conditions there is no slim chance of rebellion in Russia. Massive conscription, on the other hand, and of course massive losses of the conscripted may cause an effect similar to 1917. However, the next government will be the same dictatorship as it always was in Russia, just slightly less aggressive toward neighbors.
Status Anxiety and Social Class
Or we can just, you know, read the page.

Step 1: Claim your chunk of the fresh new Mersenne Prime

which sure seems to suggest we're talking specifically about Mersenne primes. And then we keep reading, and it ends with:

None of us can do it alone, but together we can achieve pointless, nerdy things.

That is, unless... the folks at Mersenne.org find a new, even bigger Mersenne prime before we can do this.

Which sure reinforces that this is about the Mersenne prime hunt, not just "any prime sequence". But why stop there? We could just watch the actual video.
Rocket Artillery: The War in Ukraine – Evolution, Effectiveness and Development [video]
Anything requiring keeping an immutable track of provenance, for instance.
If you're looking to set up a habit cycle, I'd recommend three steps:

1. Find a cue that will remind you to start writing, e.g. having your morning coffee

2. Write any amount of time; say 30min or so

3. Reward yourself. I just have a little snack, but it could be anything

Works great for me, and I found once I changed some small habits, it was also easier to do better overall.
This advice is from the book "The power of habit" by Charles Dhuigg
To each their own, I guess. I find the various modern ML-influenced languages to be among the best looking.
Because it helps you position the offer, and emphasize/sell certain parts.

Salary, equity, title, working hours, etc.

More information always helps.
There is Møbee, a new, similar game, that has a common symbol between any three cards. The mathematics of that deck is based on finite Möbius planes.

[0] https://mobeecards.store/homepage/
> Anyone have any tips that worked for getting over this hurdle?

Since nobody suggested this:

Write for yourself, locally. This removed my writer's block.

After writing for myself for about a year, I blogged consistently for two years.

I've since lost the kadence and want to get back to it, but now priorities have come in the way.

Now I usually write for my local tech community.

I know there's a dozen people who like to learn things if there's an easy way. That motivates me a lot

There's another hurdle of having a clear idea of the target audience; when you're the target audience, it gets a little fuzzy. So it has helped me to think of either "what I'd like to read 6 months from now if I had to learn this after partially forgetting it". Or someone else concrete I'm not actually obligated to share my writing with. Just so I can aim my writing better.
Hard disagree and it sounds like you're extrapolating from the traditional software area without considering the nuances.

From the point of view of academia, free transformative products that build on other stuff, transparency, possibility of building even better models in the future and a big etc, there's NO difference between ms excel and Google sheets.

OTOH, the llama models have allowed all of the above and has helped us immensely in both developing new things and being able to understand these new generation of LLMs...all of which would be impossible with openai.

Open weight means you get both the details of the architecture and a way to freely iterate to build new things.
Your talk at webstock back in 2008 is what originally got me interested in OpenID.
Eventually we'll have to reconcile a few key issues:

- People deserve to consensually communicate between themselves however they see fit, as long as just laws are not being broken.

- The world wide web now represents a dominant form of communication.

- The "web" as the average, non-tech person perceives it, predominantly consists of a mixture of large tech conglomerates with major conflicting interests between what's best for their users and what's best for their shareholders.

- These tech conglomerates have adopted a strange combination of conservative politics, liberal politics and an extremely restrictive and prudish system of rules for what kind of communication may take place. Navigating this system is entirely arbitrary and once you're out, you're out, with no recourse, unless you engage in further TOS-breaking by creating alternate accounts.

- Switching to an open platform is not enough; if none of your peers are on the platform, or it doesn't support open protocols, then you still can't communicate with them.

Without some form of (people-led!!!) government intervention I see no way to reconcile all of these issues. Perhaps it involves tax breaks, or only applies to platforms meeting certain thresholds, such as conglomerates or subsidiaries of them. The details can be worked out, but the fact remains that something needs to be done.
Chronic pain is surprisingly treatable – when patients focus on the brain (2021)
Understanding the break between elite and everyday interests
https://archive.ph/OB8ti
ISO means It's so overcomplicated i think.
The model releases did not protect the offenders in the GirlsDoPorn case and serious prison sentences were handed out, so I'm not sure what you think went wrong with the law here? (My reading here is cursory, so do let me know) It seems like the main offender escaped justice for a while because he fled the country?

Requiring this level of sustained abuse to prosecute people is obviously bad, so I am entirely open to the idea that more should be done here to prevent this abuse, but it seems like these people were prosecuted beyond a reasonable doubt despite having some sort of releases.
Well I guessed I learned something new, that is very surprising to me in France this wouldn't fly at all
i stopped reading the ringworld series by larry niven when i found that he kept repeating how sex was used to seal a business transaction. it added nothing to the story and just seemed like wishful thinking from the author.

i can't blame them for it. it's only natural. when i write there is a lot of my personality in it too. in part that is the point and in many cases it is what makes a work worth reading. unless it makes the story unreadable like in our examples.
I write for myself a lot, roughly ~5000 words a day in notes, messages to self, etc. I have no problem writing and talking to myself.

It's the editing process and formalizing it for public consumption.

Either, the actual work of doing the cleanup feels too labor intensive, or I've already moved onto the next obsession, and am chasing that new idea.

Do you have a process for turning the local writing into more public writing?
Russians received more from North Korea in 6 months than Ukraine has received since the War began in 2014.

Care to provide a numerical breakdown of the assistance NK has provided (even a very rough one) that would support this view? Or is it just a "feeling" you have?

Nevermind the 10k troops it has provided -- other providing the Ukrainians with incrementally more targets to shoot at, they'll be mostly useless, and won't have any strategic impact.
I found WSL2 to have similar performance to native Windows. The only slowdown is loading files from the Windows side via /mnt/ which goes across the VM boundary. Move the files to the Linux side and it’s good.
Chatbot arena also has H2H win rate for each pair of models for non tied results[1], so as to detect the global drift. e.g the gpt-4o released on 2024/09/03 wins 69% of the times with respect to gpt-4o released on 2024/05/13 in blind test.

[1]: https://lmarena.ai/
The annoying thing about it is that it could be structured in such a way as to be still vaguely attached to the (hopefully impartial) judiciary. Instead you have to trust an arbitrator that is in a business relationship with the entity you're having a problem with.
The entire paper demonstrated the results of the simulation or whatever they did. They did not mention how did they achieve this simulation. running 500-1000 LLMs parallely, will take too much computing resources, neither did they prove the claim they made about their parallel architecture. I remeber there was the paper published about an AI town, in which they mentioned clearly how they implemented it. they also released a recording of the simluation along with the real data of the results. If anyone got how they implemented this paper, please tell me.
I believe that's where he invented it
It probably started as groups of people trying to survive bandits in a village, then in a castle, then a city state and then on some land. Before you know, there's a different culture.
> Should the terms of service of a tech platform apply to all public activity a person conducts?

I don't see how this could possibly function in law. If I get a job with Facebook that says I'm not allowed to discuss my salary, could I then be contractually forbidden from filing taxes, because I would necessarily have to inform the IRS of how much I made? Or apply for credit, because I would have to tell Experian?
What about the thousands of things that do not work at room temperature? Why butter? Why does food spoil if left at room temperature? Why would or simulation need fridges and freezers? Why do we have food safe temperatures we need to cook food if we are in a simulation? Why simulate so many negative experiences on man? I don't think butter proves anything and is such a weird offer of proof as to living in a simulation. Otherwise humans would have thick furs and skin and we would live in world where ice and cold surrounds us and we could have ice cream left out on or table and it would not melt.
Late reply…
Self taught. YouTube has a ton of resources (recommend Pianote and Matthew Cawood). Learn some music theory basics, if you have the time study sheet music, you will understand what you are doing on a deeper level. I found it motivating to not only play simple pieces in the beginning but also harder ones that you enjoy listening to. They will be reallly hard initially but you will improve!
What do you mean by “run business logic rules over the calculations”? Genuine question.

Don’t most people embed business logic into their spreadsheet formulas?

Or is there something else you’re referring to?
Theoretically, what they pay you should have nothing to do with your current salary, given that your current salary could be anywhere from $0 (e.g. if you're an unpaid intern) to INT_MAX (if you're being vastly overpaid).

As a freelancer who gets paid by the hour or by the job, I've never been in a position to negotiate salary directly, so I wonder how tenable it is to politely decline to answer questions about your current salary, given that it may give the potential employer more leverage against you.

I equate this to businesses (not you employer but places like the cable company) asking for your SSN: they may want it, but you are not always legally or morally obligated to provide them with it.
My writing prompt is HN. I wait until I see a prompt to respond to.
Url: http://www.astronautix.com/t/tamingthefire.html
Correct. OAuth is for delegated authorization. OpenID Connect for authentication.
Agreed, good observation.
Great. So now we have to pay to read them.
Right, the point of releases is to separate those who were assaulted from those who were not. Without releases these two groups can appear the same, making prosecution difficult.
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IIRC illegal access can be locked down and be controlled in a fine grained manner with the add-opens and illegal-access flags on newer JVMs.
GPT-4 was released on March 2023. Before this there was almost no good instruction tuned models except 3.5 which was a different class of model, so nothing to compare to.
I don't fully understand what you mean by "maximum length truncation of the string"; but if you're talking about splitting the sentence into 'chunks' which have token counts less than a pre-specified max_token length then, yes!

Is that what you meant?
Those thresholds look the same to me, personally.

An AI that can be onboarded to a random white collar job, and be interchangeably integrated into organisations, surely is AGI for all practical purposes, without eliminating the value of 100% of human experts.