skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He never drank alcohol in his life. It was a distinct advantage, especially in undergrad.

Social death in Blighty.

Our kid spent three years getting rat-arsed in the SU bar (like everyone else) and graduated with a Geoff Hurst in Physics. Just like his mum and dad did.
Clever!

It probably can be made to work javascript-less, just make the CSS width-calculation more sophisticated, and dependent on the slider values.
> What they are is a value judgement we assign to the output of an LLM program. A "hallucination" is just output from an LLM-based workflow that is not fit for purpose.

In other words, hallucinations are to LLMs what weeds are to plants.
Unsloth – Dynamic 4-bit Quantization
shout out to llama.cpp
and all these tricks to generate oscillators are still used to this day in digital hardware and software synthesizers:

https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/803386d...
That is the thing many young people don’t see until they have a kid and realize how much more difficult urban living is with kids unless you have a lot of money. Cities eat your time when you have kids.
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> People who prefer dense city living with mass-transportation and walkable errands like European cities or downtown NYC/Chicago are missing the fact that there's another group of people (possibly the majority) that actually prefer the suburbs. Yes, I know it seems illogical.

Of course. There are also people who enjoy walkable pedestrian and bike friendly places with lots of small local businesses to patronize.

That doesn't require living in a "big dirty city", it really just means making actual towns with dense downtown centers where people can work, live, shop, and dine.

Based on my experience with real estate prices, where townhomes near such thriving downtown developments can cost easily double of one in a suburban neighborhood a 15 minute drive away, the demand for that kind of living currently exceeds supply in many places.

The answer isn't to remove all suburbia and replace it with dense walkability, the answer is to stop preventing the dense walkable development with strict single-family-detached zoning laws, parking minimums, etc. and let the supply of such places increase to meet demand. Nobody will come take your suburban house away from you, they just want to have as much freedom in choosing what they want as you get to choose what you want.

And those that do prefer to live in big cities are just advocating for making those places better. The US has a lot of places that are definitely "city" but are still also car-dependent or at least not as friendly to walking, cycling, and mass transit as they should be. We can improve those without changing your suburban life one bit.
LLMs and their close buddies NN's use models that do massive amounts of what amounts to cubic splines across N dimensions.

Cubic splines have the same issues as what these nets are seeing. There are two points and a 'line of truth' between them. But the formula that connects the dots, as it were, only guarantees that the two points are inside the line. You can however tweak the curve to line fit but it is not always 100%, in fact can vary quite wildly. That is the 'hallucination' people are seeing.

Now can you get that line of truth close by more training? Which is basically amounts to tweaking the weighting. Usually yes, but the method basically only guarantees the points are inside the line. Everything else? Well, it may or may not be close. Smear that across thousands of nodes and the error rate can add up quickly.

If we want a confidence level my gut is saying that we would need to measure how far away from the inputs an output ended up being. The issue that would create though is the inputs are now massive. Sampling can make the problem more tractable but then that has more error in it. Another possibility is tracking how far away from the 100% points the output gave. Then a crude summation might be a good place to start.
I agree, but that assessment is open to interpretation. Build software for self driving cars that displaces a workforce? Automate a segment of the economy that makes a workforce obsolete? Build actuary software that helps analysts decline claims based on health conditions? Write some computer vision algorithms to be used in surveillance software?
Advancing the State of Network Switch ASIC Offloading in the Linux Kernel
> You need a legal body in a country if you want to hire someone on payroll there

Even this is not strictly true. One can often just register a foreign company with the local tax agency for a direct hire. The most frequent scenario is that a foreign hire comes through their own legal entity, as a hired contractor. Now, the sad part of that statement is that often a hire comes as a hired contractor not because of cross-border taxation, but because of tax management reasons. In some EU countries, high value employees cost three euros in taxes for every two euros paid after taxes. A lot of people prefer to set up a corporation that allows them to better manage that majority of their income that goes to the tax office.
I wonder what the ratio of people actively deactivating to people silently never returning to the website/app is.

At least 1 to 10 is my guess.
> YouTube wasn’t always tied so strongly to a Google account

They still have a page to recover a pre-Google account. It used to be a clearly outdated page with old graphics, now they made it a bit "better".

It's here: https://www.youtube.com/gaia_link
> The great depression happened soon after US momentary creation was handed over to the private Federal Reserve

Correlation =/= Causation.

The Great Depression was caused by American overproduction and a lack of domestic buyers who could afford to purchase American goods (sound familiar?). This was back when America was still functionally a developing country.
There's no virtual flavor here.

>There were nine taste-generating channels filled with flavored hydrogels. The gels were made out of agarose mixed with a bit of mineral water and specific flavor essences: sugar, salt, citric acid, cherry, milk, green tea, passion fruit, durian, and grapefruit.

Don't get me wrong, the miniturization and delivery is cool, but nothing virtual here.
Toddlers don't understand truth either, until it's taught.

This crayon is red. This crayon is blue.

The adult asks: "is this crayon red?"
The child responds: "no that crayon is blue."
The adult then affirms or corrects the response.

This occurs over and over and over until that child understands the difference between red and blue, orange and green, yellow and black etcetera.

We then move on to more complex items and comparisons. How could we expect AI to understand these truths without training them to understand?
Having just completed my first (and last, for a while) shipping SwiftUI app, I very much think that documentation has been treated in shabby fashion, in the modern tech scene. I sorely miss the work done by all those great tech writers that Apple fired. Their engineers are terrible documenters.

I'm always a bit leery of "dogmatic" approaches, though, because they tend to develop a "priesthood," that refuses to bend; even when reality demands it.

In my experience, the initial developers of the dogma use it to marvelous effect, but subsequent "priests" screw the pooch; sometimes, turning the approach into a curse. Many good ideas have been destroyed by too-rigid applications (What is "Agile"?).

I see any documentation as having basically two faces: The maintainer, and the user. Each, has drastically different needs, and should probably be addressed by completely different teams.

As has been alluded to, in other comments, you can have issues with multiple instances of documentation, falling out of sync (the curse of most wiki-style documentation), but results matter. If the multiple instances can be effectively synced, then the documentation is effective and useful to its consumers. If no one reads the perfectly formatted and synced documentation, it's worthless.

On SNL, Phil Hartman[n] used to play The Anal-Retentive Chef. In one skit, he spent so much time prepping, that he couldn't actually demonstrate the recipe.

I see a lot of that, in tech. Toolchains and libraries that are absolutely perfect, but are unusable, in practice.

Documentation is an amalgam of many disciplines; human nature/psychology, graphic design, information architecture, technical infrastructure, publishing and distribution, etc.

I really think it's often treated as an afterthought, in most projects, and I believe that it should be a first-class consideration, at the Requirements stage, onwards.
GitFourchette the Comfortable Git UI for Linux
Not to get into political aspects and you putting "quotes" around Jan 6 insurrection (attempt) but this is a big country and there will always be someone who thinks that public figures are screwing them (or not). In Congress however, the people have ability to replace such figures, every two or six years. Those are there are elected by the majority of their constituents and the minority which "lost" will have opportunity to change the direction for their district/state in two or six years.

You cannot compare that to this tragedy in any way/shape/form...
It's a slightly silly example, but Nordic Folkracing has successfully used a similar rule for decades. It's supposed to be a cheap form of motor racing, but that's naturally difficult to enforce; the enforcement mechanism is that anyone has the right to buy any competitor's car for a fixed price. The equilibrium is that most competitors build the cheapest car possible to avoid the risk of being forced to sell their car, which is precisely as intended.

In the case of a Harberger copyright tax, there's an obvious equilibrium - anyone who seriously values their copyright has a strong incentive to err on the side of caution and pay taxes based on a high valuation, while lots of copyrights with negligible value are voluntarily abandoned due to the costs of both the tax and the administrative burden. The difficult cases in the middle would primarily affect speculators with large portfolios of copyrights of questionable value, which is an entirely desirable outcome. We could still drive socially desirable outcomes with very low taxation rates, because a very large proportion of copyrighted works have essentially zero commercial value.

Creating a streamlined registration, valuation and purchasing platform is entirely within the wit of man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkrace
Agree. Bitcoin used to make sense when it could actually be used to buy things, but at this point it's only useful for moving money for extra-legal purposes and even then, it's possibly the worst crypto to use for that because of traceability.

I don't deny that a Bitcoin is worth $100,000 right now, but it could just as easily be worth $0 because at the end of the day it has zero intrinsic value.
Jailer is awesome and really not “niche”. Also, it's not something for exploring "datasets", but for tables and relational databases in an innovative way. I think it would be fantastic if more people knew about it.
(https://wisser.github.io/Jailer/)
The problem is that until 1971, which is within the lifetime of many people currently alive, especially in government (remember, the only US President born after 1946 is Barak Obama), race was a legal category in the US that seriously restricted lives.

Desegregation has been slow, and you can't really desegregate inherited wealth.
They do recommend libreoffice, but that particular sentence is just saying "even if you want these same apps, get them anywhere else"
A non drinking billionaire to take over a pub, it will be suprising if this goes well.
Nope. They don't know any specific facts. The training data produces a probability matrix that reflects what words are likely to be found in relation other words, allowing it to generate novel combinations of words that are coherent and understandable. But there is no mechanism involved for determining whether those novel expressions are actually factual representations of reality.
Fix it in the home page, it's still muted.
The risks rats pose are hugely overstated, including in this very thread. Most of the world has rats -- often enormous numbers -- but we have functioning agriculture, aren't dying of weird rat diseases, etc. Notably Alberta has the same mice problem as everywhere else, and mice are a much greater threat[1]. I live in Ontario -- a warmer, much hospitable, more populous place than Alberta -- and rats somehow present zero concern in my life, despite the absence of any real control initiatives.

This is all mostly just geographical and time happenstance that baked in a situation and norm. Rats actually aren't native to North America but were introduced with Europeans. They then slowly spread, and Alberta made the choice to stop rats before they took hold in the province. So they started at zero and that made efforts to stop them from taking hold easy if sustained, especially given the brutal winters and inhospitable geography for rats.

[1] - Elsewhere someone referenced hantavirus, yet the overwhelming percentage (basically 100%) of cases of that are from mice in living spaces. Mice like the deer mice that are found throughout Alberta.
The chart feature looks amazing. I’d try making a landing page just around charts and see if it sticks.
They are not given a choice mate, the US has shown itself quite willing to unilaterally dispose of any government it feels to not be doing exactly what they want. And is on record to at least plan to kill it's own citizens to justify such actions.

The narrative that we all have peace because of the US is well and truly broken, the propoganda can't cover the smell, it stinks to bad.
> The other part is how many people you need to produce music.

One is enough, see e.g. http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1317. The band is just one guy and the output is the result with no overdups, just with the (AI) mastering assistant of the Ozone plugin.

Even without AI, the music market is oversaturated. The quality of the music is obviously irrelevant to most people, so hardly anyone will complain if you simply replace the musicians with AIs (only a few will even notice). A quarter of nothing is almost the same as nothing.
This looks great. I've built something similar. The important thing that I'm not sure if you support is permissioning.

Consider you have some email list that you need to maintain and ideally you want to let others maintain. Throw it in a table and give them permission to add rows.

There are a ton of things that I consider 'configs' like that and can't believe there aren't strong standards about how to do these sort of maintenance things (or maybe there are but I'm unaware)
Ah, that clarifies things. Thanks!
Please don't put words in my mouth. I am referring to the developer's own roadmap, which has been slowly ticking off boxes for years: https://www.cavesofqud.com/roadmap/ Nobody is asking for development to stop. I've been waiting for a game that is, by the developer's own judgment, complete on a fundamental level.
I'm inclined to agree, but it depends on the context.

This kind of 'management' is suitable for R&D. It's additionally suitable for any company in which software is a means to an end rather than the end itself.

A textile factory manager, for instance, doesn't care if you write documentation for the changes you're making to the 40 year old Pascal program which runs the machines.
> The "native" part is somewhat open for discussion. I call it native because the library uses two native HTML range inputs. This means that all of the native interactions and accessibility features are preserved.

My dividing line is: if it needs Javascript to work as intended, it's not native anymore.
Positron vs. RStudio – is it time to switch?
Again, read the papers. They absolutely do know facts, and that can be seen in the activations. Your description is oversimplified. It's easy to get models to emit statistically improbable but correct sequences of words. They are not just looking at what words are near by each other, that doesn't lead to the kind of output LLMs are capable of.
OpenAI Continues Mission of 'Ethical' AI by Partnering with Killer Robot Company
You're watching people respond to price pressures and calling it their unforced preferences. This is like saying "obviously people prefer to be childless", or, possibly soon, "apparently people prefer to eat only rice and beans". The outcome arises from a coordination failure that individual actors cannot resolve just by making best-responses within a market.
Thanks, judging by this repost[0] the channel is Russian.

However, the text translates as

Residents of this area, which is marked with a red zone on the map, in these areas our crews will destroy *any transport* - this is one of our key goals.

Therefore, we warn everyone: ordinary civilians, be careful! Do not travel by personal transport in these areas, it can be extremely dangerous.

which is far from 'the policy is to stop all movement by basically attacking anything that moves'

[0] https://t.me/UAVDEV/7516
Considering I'm watching the US tear itself apart in the name of Christianity, I have no idea what you are on about.

You literally have women dying daily due to poor healthcare driven by religious ideology.
All of these things have magnitudes. Have you ever built a cedar strip canoe, or are you making wooden spoons?

It would cost double what I pay for me to live with 1/4 of the space in a city.

I made a pretty intentional decision about what I wanted, and actually have far more space than where I grew up. I was actually taught to live on less, but have gone in the far opposite direction.
A machine with probabilistic output generation cannot tell what is a hallucination and what is not. It does not know the difference between truth and everything else. It is us humans on the receiving end who have to classify the content - and that is the problem. We have little patience, time, or energy to do this verification work for every piece of information. That's why we have the human trait of trust, which has been at the core of human progress from the beginning.

Now the question can be rephrased. Is it possible to trust AI information generators - what's to be done to build trust?
And here is the difficulty - I do not know why I should ever trust a probabilistic system as long as it has this property and does not turn into a deterministic version of itself. I won't lower my standards for trusting people, for good reasons. But I cannot even raise the bar for trust in a machine above zero as long as it is driven by randomness at its core.
> you can't just wreck people's lives for a living and expect no consequences

The problematic aspect of this argument is that if expanded to the whole society, it can lead to a very dark place.

I come from a place that has 40K+ murders per year [1]. People literally dies all the time there, and as much everyone is so fed up with corruption and inequality, I strongly
believe that institutions, law, and order are the best solution once I experimented it in another place.

People all over the internet are using the narrative related to the insurance industry that let people die, and this CEO was the sacrificial lamb of this narrative. Its an easy thing to do since it's a direct cause and consequence thing.

But expanding the same logic, should politicians have the same treatment since their decisions have way more consequences [2]? Of course not.

As someone who saw civilization and savagery, I would choose the first in a heartbeat, and the main issue here is the incentive structure that rounds the health system in USA and why the political class does not take action to change it.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/312455/number-homicides-...

[2] - https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/eleicoes-40-candidatos-mor...
Study is the necessary predecessor to fixing.
For any Slay the Spire fans, the Downfall fan expansion is well worth playing. The ability to go backwards through the game as some of the various bosses challenging the normal characters alone makes it a great variant.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1865780/Downfall__A_Slay_...
The Panic of 1837 (followed by a five year depression) would like a word. And the panic of 1873 (four year depression), the depression of 1882, the panic of 1893, and the panic of 1907.
Putting a Dent in Open-Source Switches: NOS/Device-Driver Combo Gains Traction
I was being mostly facetious, I was absolutely allowed to watch that cinematic gem, and yes Alberta can get damn cold. I live farther north than Calgary and grew up even further north than that.
United Healthcare CEO Shooting: Message May Have Been Left on Bullets
Does it help discourse at all by instead calling hallucinations a negative perceived form of imagination?
> Decades ago I recall a previous attempt at moving towards a one-payer system, and it having some traction.

Obamacare had a public option up until the last moment before passage. It was dropped because they were one vote Senate vote shy of the required 60 votes.

Lieberman was heavily lobbied by the insurance industry and promised to join the Republicans and filibuster Obamacare entirely if they kept the public option in.
But I also only write one word at a time.

How am I predicting the next word?

The latest neuroscience isn't as clear cut that humans aren't similar.
Yet the right-wing narrative building since 2016 is that Trump and close legislative allies are counter-revolutionary. “You’re not going to have a country anymore” is not suggesting a return to a 1950s tax regimen.
> People who prefer dense city living with mass-transportation and walkable errands like European cities or downtown NYC/Chicago are missing the fact that there's another group of people (possibly the majority) that actually prefer the suburbs. Yes, I know it seems illogical.

That’s because American cities do their best to make themselves as car-dependent and unpleasant in downtown areas as possible. Of course American college kids want to move out to the suburbs, because American downtowns are not nice places to live. Offer people the choice to live in nice central walkable neighbourhoods like in Europe and they tend to take it.
> Clothes are above all something that warms/protects/hides us from the world. Aesthetic contemplations are really just an afterthought.

I think it’s the exact opposite. Would seem like the transition our species had made to require clothes in the areas we live came after we had the clothes needed to migrate to those regions. The first humans to strap leaves to themselves likely did so for athestic reasons not for warmth, that would have come later.

Though I’m no historian so this is just speculation.
Hundreds of dollars for an antique long out of production seems extremely reasonable to me. I'm not sure what you were expecting, $10?

It's also a pretty substantial object. They have a metal case! It's quite a large and heavy thing to ship and store.
Crystal is not Ruby. Full stop. It is not useful to anyone with an existing Ruby code base.

Mentioning Crystal would be odd since it has nothing to do with the article.
Thanks to thread for the informative responses! (And the useful README on your fork/the upstream)

I try to assume someone's thought of better than the best I could, or at least learned the hard way what edge cases need to be handled.
I don't think there's a level of qualification that puts you above politics.

The higher the stakes the greater the scrutiny.
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..and bugs, especially with analog computers.
> dependent on the slider values

That’s the tricky part for a JS free implementation, right? Or am I missing something?