skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
l> If I ask it to give me the stats on gas crossovers with good mpg, I don't want a political lecture on why EV's are better for the environment.

Using LLM for that is crazy. If you want facts then try search instead.

An LLM is never neutral from the start. It is biased because all data is biased in human reality. If there are 100x more different stats about gas cars than EVs simply because gas cars are older then data is biased toward gad cars. If most of text data is by men and talks about women as not equal then data is gender biased.

Then it is more biased by people selecting dataset for training. Then it is biased by other engineers and managers who try to correct for other bias with their own bias. Etc.

If you want facts it is the wrong place to look. And if you want opinions don't be surprised when it has them
Oy vey, granada is in Spain, you just proved my point that antisemitic pogroms are purely european thing.

Iraqi jews did not even want to migrate to Israel and leave Iraq. Mossad had to organize several bombings and false flags to scare the Iraqi jews and force them to migrate[1]

in other arab states, Ben Gurion paid money to encourage jews to immigrate and settle Filistine. Moroccan king begged jewish community to stay and not to immigrate

1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4283249?seq=1
I recently spent some time in the ER in a criminally underfunded and understaffed public healthcare system. People in quite severe pain were languishing waiting their turn but the nurses went out of their way to show a semblance of care and humanity to the patients and even apologize to them when they didn't have to and weren't expected to. Maybe that overall situation shows that key people in the society or government don't care but clearly the frontline people still care. I choose to focus on them and do my little bit to make things around me a little bit better when maybe no one expects me to either.
Microsoft ends support for Office apps on Windows 10 in October
Let me provide some helpful commentary for anyone confused on this, as it comes up a lot.

Here are what the terms mean by the current paradigm of corporate world leadership:

- "responsible ai": does not threaten the security of corporate rule.

- "safety": keeps the corporation safe from liability, and does not give users enough power to threaten the security of corporate rule.

If anyone needs any of the other terms defined, just ask.

These models are capable of significantly more, but only the most responsible members of our society are allowed to use them -- like the CEOs, and submissive engineers bubble wrapped in NDAs. Basically, safe people, who have a vested interest in maintaining the world order or directly work on maintaining it.

Centralized hoarding of the planet's compute power may end up having some very expected consequences.
Whoah, that brings me back.
Discussion (71 points, 14 hours ago, 85 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712807
Turn off updates, test things first
ahhh I misunderstood I thought there was just one global pool for H1B did not realize there were per country limits
McDonalds has fallen so far in the past few decades. I used to eat there or at least grab a soda several times a week. I never go there anymore. The kiosks suck; I refuse to use them, but they don't staff the counter half the time so there's no other way to order. The drive-thru expects you've already ordered on the app. Fuck that. It's all way too complicated. I want a Big Mac meal with a coke. That used to take me 3 seconds to order and I had it on a tray in about another minute. Now I have to dick around on the kiosk for a couple of minutes, pay, and then wait 5-10 minutes for the food. It's absurd.
MAE East is there.

If you wanted good interconnect to the west coast and the rest of the world, you needed to be in or near MAE East.
>[O]ften we teach things initially in simple terms as a way of building up to more complicated explanations. Failing to forget the simpler facts would be a learning failure to a degree.

I've never found remembering the simplified explanation to be a hindrance to learning the more complicated explanation. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I have found times where forgetting the simple explanation before ever getting to the more complicated one meant it felt like I was learning the complicated one from scratch.

>[W]e want people to learn what to do with facts, how to handle and interpret new information, focusing solely on recall doesn’t cover this either.

You can't learn any of that stuff without having the facts at hand first, however.

More importantly, "recall" is a much broader subject than it may sound at first: The ability to tackle novel mathematical theorems is based largely upon one's recall of prior proofs, which I have found to be just as valuable a target for spaced repetition approaches as any. But even if it turned out that wasn't the case, simply separating one's school day into an hour or two of "recall work" followed by 5-6 hours of "dynamic work" where we work with and elaborate upon facts that everyone in the class is statistically guaranteed to remember sounds like a much better use of one's time.
God bless you and your beautiful site. I salute you.

As others have said I do think the controls need work; maybe some form of constrained orbit controls would work well.
The Sutton Hoo mask, was a featured article on some wiki... no hint on where the damn thing came from. Now we have a fantastic theory.
God send a $€₹a₿h¥m
I went through the process a year ago, and it wasn’t easy. Yes, there’s a minimum income requirement, and European bureaucracy is a nightmare. On top of that, salaries here are peanuts compared to what I used to make.

While the US is more expensive and its healthcare system can be a pain, I still managed to save more money there than I can now. Europe is just poorer, and the tech industry is much smaller. In terms of opportunities, cities like Berlin, Amsterdam, or London don’t even come close to North Carolina, let alone SF/ NYC.

On top of that, the language barrier is frustrating—I can’t imagine anyone being thrilled about learning a new language, earning less, and working in relative obscurity. Still, I moved because dealing with the H1B process in the US was even worse.
Yes. If Ukraine executes Russian POWs, or firebombs Moscow, it's still a war crime even if Russia invaded with the goal of genociding them (yes, saying an ethnicity doesn't really exist and they're just confused Russians, kidnapping children to resettle elsewhere, and forcefully assimilating at gunpoint everyone in the occupied territories is genocide).

War crimes are absolute, there's no "if you weren't first, you get one free".
What if I can't drive all the way to an ad-free restaurant or for that matter an ad-free gas pump? What if I buy a plane ticket to get out of this bad situation and the airline is using the emergency PA to harass their captive audience of paying customers to join their miles club? What can't be avoided must endured, but there is no reason for people like you to insist that this is fine or normal, or that it's something one can opt out of. You're actively building the dystopia when you do that
> ICC and ICJ's accusations of genocide by israel

The ICC has not accused Israel (or any Israeli leader) of criminal genocide. They have accused them of some other things, many serious,but not genocide.

The ICJ hasn't ruled on the south africa case, so i think its wrong to say they have accused Israel. South Africa has accused, the ICJ is in the process of deciding if their accusation has merit but hasn't ruled yet.
fabric, aider, cursor

use git to manage chage tracking/review

trying to get it to swallow the whole project though as context will likely give you poor results depending on the project size.
The largest vacuum to suck climate pollution out of the air just opened
Thanks. I think I have a better understanding now (those concepts like transit, peering are still hard to grasp for me as an outsider). Basically if you host content that many consumers want, you have leverage against ISPs?
I wonder how long until public discourse is willing to acknowledge that social media is not just a fun little way to stay in touch with old friends, but a straight up tool of surveillance and influence. For those that agree, do you think governments should do nothing? For those not convinced, what more evidence do you need?
Modern packaging - high density 2.5D/3D is defintely not a commodity.

Final packaging is.
For TikTok Refugges ， the TikTok Voice Alternative
Compared with V1.0, the underlying voice model has been replaced, and the generation quality and some text reading performance are better; 20+ languages and multiple English dialects are still supported, and 250+ sounds are added;
Voice is infectious, especially suitable for making Short Video, game advertising videos, novel reading and other scenes requiring strong emotional tone
Like in overregulated Europe. Now the US fails!
I bet he couldn't even paint. Michelangelo was paid 80,000 Florins a year to paint the Sistine Chapel, and he had to buy his own supplies, and hire his own workers... Something about showing them heaven, vs sending them there....
Japan has processes for everything, and people care about following the process properly, and are empowered to follow the process properly (indeed that's the only thing they're empowered to do).

High trust and good equilibria might be part of it as well. If your superior cares and does things properly then you can care and do things properly and you'll get proper results. If your superior is burnt out and doing the minimum, but you care and want to do things properly, you'll get burnt out, and a few years down the line you'll be that superior doing the minimum.
It's remote and gets extremely cold in the winter. Life is sort of lonely there if you come from a warmer region. However, at least for me, all the opportunities I was getting was there.
aren't homes generally extremely cheap in most of Japan?
And which reasons do you think Google absolutely has in order to disable completely the usage of the search engine without Javascript?
Zooming out of your own world is a gift that can be taught.
You have a gift that 100% makes your life easier, with the side effect of the occasional frustration.

I feel compassion for those people who live in their own body and keep hitting walls.

You can help people care, it's your path.
To this day we still have no idea how many of those 1200 people were killed by Hamas and how many were killed by the IDF under the Hannibal Directive.

There likely are thousands upon thousands of hours of footage from October 7th from private/personal security cameras and also from the camera equipment on the attack helicopters and tanks.

Yet, despite all the footage that likely exists, a total of 46 minutes has been screened for the purpose of hasbara.

We could easily have an actual accounting of which of the 1200 were killed by Hamas and which were killed by the IDF if there was actual transparency and all the footage was released instead of selectively released to insinuate that 100% of the deaths were committed by Hamas.

Absent transparency, I'm inclined to place most of the 1200 deaths on IDF. There's more than enough footage of testimonials from IDF soldiers afterwards talking about how they engaged on October 7th to know for certain that they killed many of their own either due to the fog of war or due to the Hannibal Directive.

Personally, I would not be surprised if more than half of the 1200 were killed by the IDF given the ratio between how much footage has been shown relative to how much footage exists.

Absent transparency, the only fair thing to due is assume an intent to maximally deceive the public about what actually happened on October 7th.

In many ways, this is comparable to how the United States was misled about January 6th, 2021. A lot of the footage released in March 2023 contradicted much of the narrative that was spun in the weeks following Jan 6th, 2021. Even now, a lot of the footage still has yet to be released and we still have no idea how many undercover agents and other agent provocateurs were in the crowd that day.
Parts of the Singapore government is aware of its demographic crisis and has a material incentive to address it. For example, its military doctrine is predicated on conscription from a reserve of able-bodied male citizens that have undergone military training when they came of age; this is not something completely alleviated by mechanization, AI, or naturalization. I'm curious myself why the city-state has yet to take even more extensive measures to address this.
Here I was thinking Hindenberg was part of the problem and you seem to think the opposite?

To me they seemed like partners of shorting hedge funds (similar to CNBC) who just spit out bs articles so their hedgie friends can trade on it.

DOJ seems to agree with me?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2022/02/16/doj-...

There are more and better sources.
My favourite is the ole "Oh we need Dwayne for this one, let's schedule a follow-up tomorrow with him, and until then we can rough out a bunch of requirements only Dwayne possibly knows by... umm... Guessing?"

I do not miss development.
Agree with you 100%, I did the same simulations and found the same result.

I would suggest a step beyond though, because rebalancing your portfolio is fun year 1-5, but not so fun year 5-20: have a look at e.g. Vanguard retirement target funds.

Essentially, it's an ETF with a rebalancing rule included for a specific target date. For instance if you buy the target 2050 (your hypothetical retirement age), the ETF rebalances itself between bonds/monetary fund/stocks until it reaches that date, u til it's pretty much all cash in 2050.

Lowest hassle diversified retirement scheme I found.
Coloring matched portions with GNU grep, sed and Awk
The reason I don't use WebAssembly is that browsers do not support the text format.

Often it is just a tiny loop that one wants to optimize. Writing it manually in WAT would be nice. But adding a whole toolchain and a compile step to the stack is not worth it.

Shouldn't it be straight forward to compile WAT to WASM? I hope one day browsers will support it.
Muddy Waters has been around for a while and had some high profile hits.
Supermicro stock is down 40% from the publishing of the report, hardly a damp squib.
If an "alternative" to McDonald's does exactly the same abusive thing it isn't a real alternative to McDonald's at all.

If an "alternative" to McDonald's forces you to drive excessive distances to reach it, or it costs much more, or it sells Thai food instead of burgers, then it isn't a real alternative to McDonald's.

A suitable alternative to McDonald's would be one similar enough to McDonald's for your purposes that you can use it to replace McDonald's. I'm sure some people have that, but I'm also sure many people don't.

There are lots of things that don't actually have suitable alternatives. There are entire product categories that are completely filled with consumer hostile garbage, with zero competitors offering a suitable alternative, because sometimes it will always be more profitable for companies to refuse to give consumers what they want.
the difference between terrorists and freedom fighters is temporal.

Yesterday they were called terrorists by the mainstream, tomorrow when they win they will be hailed as heroes and freedom fighters.

the zionists were also called terrorists by the UK in the beginning, especially when they bombed king david hotel
> through most of human history people have had kids despite wild poverty, terrible work prospects and a work-life balance that was appallingly bad and that may actually be illegal now depending on where you live.

The economics of having children is fundamentally different between societies that expect an educated workforce, and societies that do not. "Despite" might read "because of".
Tesla's goal was to produce 20 million vehicles per year by 2030, which would be a 25% share of the global passenger car market. Tesla quietly dropped that goal last year:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
And his Waking Up app is amazing, and life changing (if one is open to practicing seeing consciousness as it is).
Being cautious is good.

It IS possible, that this person is doing it out of passion, rather than a typical idea of a job or firm.

TLDR: Within the realm of possibility, relatively unusual.
> A lot of people are simply pessimists and will dismiss real authenticity because they don't have the tools to recognize it.

Do you think you have those tools? And if you do, do you actually have them?

You are purposely being shoveled content that's expected to be engaging. Your feedback is used to tune your own personal model to maximize the volume of content you swallow.
Without US specific data warehousing requirements (~1.5B Project Texas / Oracle), TikTok can fallback to using Douyin infra... which is already scaled for billion+ users. All that might goto PRC datacentres, i.e. Huawei Cloud which exist in most continents. If anything Douyin can eliminate redundant TikTok infra costs. I've no doubt Americans is a disproportionately more profitable in terms of ARPU, it would be a huge hit, but TikTok unlikely to go in red given those factors if RoW markets still leaves ~10B, especially if PRC wants to prioritize using TikTok as portal for ecommerce with PRC exports, which as I mentioned, TikTok is not nearly aggressive with monetizing as Douyin. I can't say it's impossible, but IMO unlikely.
According to the article, living in an internet cafe can be as little as $420 per month. But where does someone who has no work that month get the $420? Does the government have a minimal support program?
This looks like an amazingly useful tool. Would be great to see this for other languages.
Absolutely agree. Spark is the same garbage as Hadoop but in-memory.
Just opened May/2024
Don't know much about corporate traffic usage, but at some cheap VPS place like Hetzner you get 20TB traffic per month included für less than 4€.

Seems like a lot of traffic to me, probably is next to nothing or would cost more.
Then the real real answer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUNET
> [...] surpass 1 gigawatt of overall data center capacity.

> [...] with only about half the capacity, at 559 megawatts (MWs) of inventory.

I didn't know that the physical unit for the rate of energy transfer, or more simple just power, is also an unit for computing power. After all it's the same word, right?
I assume OP is referring to internal-to-isreal structures such as the independence of the supreme court.
Absolutely correct, LLMs are code. If that code ingests data without precisely replicating it, that's fair use and the end of the discussion.
> Sorry for the cynical take but this just does a temporary stop.

It’s hard to disagree.
But Ireland was an impossible problem at one stage, and while it’s still far from resolved, it’s a hell of lot less violent.
The 12 years or so I have lived in America I have observed that people always keep the door open for those walking behind them.
Always. Everywhere. DC, Boston, LA, New York, Seattle, Cupertino, everywhere.

Nobody cares about anything.
Somebody cares about something.
Everybody cares about everything.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. This makes me optimistic. At least, its nice that people care to hold doors open : )
India has had those borders in the same way the 'greater Mediterranean' has had those borders.

Mauryans were an empire which means that they ruled over disparate nations

No the country of India is in fact not at all united. The various jatis worship different gods, speak different languages, have distinct cultures. Just because they all celebrate a few holidays in common and have some shared cultural beliefs does not make them the same

This is like saying every Roman Catholic is an Italian.

Lastly, the Mauryans never ruled all the way to South India. This is the first time in history the entirety of 'Bharat' has been under one polity (although arguably with the exclusion of Pakistan and Bangladesh, even this is wrong).
One of those scenarios is much more likely than the other.
Same, the price without tariffs is my reference point now, I'll not be buying an overpriced domestic car just because some politicians get their pockets lined
I think you could argue that the political reality has changed a lot over the last 50 years. Having Israel & Palestine fighting was much more useful to surrounding arab states in the early cold war than it is now. In modern times it is very useful to Iran but not so much US-aligned Arab states who want the trade benefits and are allied with the same people Israel is allied with.
To me it feels like Claude is more rigid in following the instructions in system prompt which would explain why claude.ai can be a bit annoying at times due to the things you mentioned.

On the flipside if you explicitly permit it to do "bad" things the system prompt, claude is more likely to comply compared to openai's models.

I mainly use only the API version of claude 3.5 and gpt4o. I find no system prompt at all to be preferable over claude.ai / chatgpt.
sure - for your house. For lights all over the city that will be lasting years?
You miss the direction of causality. People, especially in modern times, are attracted to media that 'identifies' with their worldview. So you end up with a viewership that matches the ideology of the medium. But it's not because the medium 'converted' anybody.

Or consider things like the USSR where the government strictly controlled all media, there was no media, and even entry/exit from the country was strictly (and generally ideologically) controlled. If media affected people, you'd have had a country of mindless drones of the system. But it was anything but. One of my favorite jokes from the time is, "Why do we have two newspapers, "The Truth" and "The News"? Well that's because there's no truth in The News, and no news in The Truth!" And indeed once they started allowing some degree of expression, it was basically all anti-establishment, leading to some notably great Soviet music from the 80s-90s that parallels the 60s-70s in the US.

I do think media can have an influence on things people know nothing about, but even that comes with an asterisk. War propaganda is the obvious example. Each time we go invade somewhere, or enjoin a conflict, there's a propaganda blitzkrieg about it being the most just action ever against the most evil guy ever. And it does usually work, at first, because people know nothing whatsoever about the conflict. But then over time people begin to learn more and formulate their own views and learn more about the conflicts and opinion starts to shift, even if the media continues the propaganda party 24/7.

And in cases where people already have preformed opinions, this is completely futile from day 0. The obvious example in recent times would be the media effort to try to paint Israel's actions as positively as possible. People simply didn't buy it, because they already had their opinions and so the media propaganda was mostly completely ineffective.
Yes, repeatedly. For example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2023_Gaza%E2%80%93Israel...

Here is a longer list where I found this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Israeli_attacks_aga...
We operate nearly 900 servers, and I believe the capital of cloud infrastructure is Amsterdam, NL. The concentration of ASNs in Amsterdam is incredible. In contrast, Ashburn, Dallas, and LA seem to lack ASN diversity, primarily being dominated by singular big tech companies. Cities like Amsterdam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Istanbul, and New York, however, have a greater concentration of smaller cloud hosting businesses, offering more diversity.