skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't work in LLMs, but I use a ton of similar tools to model biology, and I really like the term "hallucinate." I would argue that the LLM does have a concept of reality, in the form of a probabilistic distribution over sentence structure. And that probability distribution does not match the reality that I live in, even if it matches the LLM training data and training procedure fairly well. I would argue that even a simple random forest model has a concept of reality, or maybe is a concept of reality, though a faulty one.
I suppose that this has a parallel cynical interpretation:

- Humans tend to be selfish, in the sense that they tend to prioritize activities that develop their ego. Well generally activities that have pleasurable outcomes, and developing one's ego tends to be pleasurable due the heuristics evolution has baked into us. I guess that those that get more pleasure out of developing their ego are called ambitious.

- Productivity is fundamentally about being selfless: doing things that are useful for others.

- These aims align to different degrees for different activities, and I suppose that they align less for things that we call games, and I think that philosophy is closer to this category than otherwise.

- The most obvious and consistent productive side-effect of games might be as entertainment for expectators. I honestly think that the main value of philosophy is that it is just engaging and entretaining to read, which is also worthy of respect. Games and philosophy also tend to have other more substantive productive outputs, but much less frequently.

I'm not a big fan of this perspective, but I do think that it is somewhat equivalent to my thoughts above.
I like your solutions.

I do think having your phone in another room helps tremendously. I fight every morning to not take my phone into the bathroom for my morning ritual and waste 15-20 minutes of dooms scrolling.
There are many users and submissions here that can give you context on how difficult it is to implement technical controls on global banking customers. However, you also have an active conspiracy imagination.

If you aren't sure why cartels are being mentioned then I suggest you click the Reuters post were discussing. The one that talks about lax controls 17 years ago
Just look how Musk could buy Twitter, a billionaire‘s leverage is much higher than normal people’s cash money.
Nice comparison, but this piece of math doesn't quite work out:

> If you earn $25 per hour, Musk makes that equivalent in passive investment returns every 58.400 seconds (assuming a conservative 5% annual return on his wealth).

(450,000,000,000 * .05) / 365 / 86400 (seconds/day) = $713.47/second.

You'd have to work 28.539 hours at $25/hour to make what he makes passively in one second.

Put another way, your annual income working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year without time off, (40 * 52 * 25 = $52,000) would take him 72.89 seconds or 1.21 minutes to achieve passively at the conservative 5% annual return rate.
> English requires the use of an article with singular nouns, because the question of "which X" is important.

Well, that obviously can't be true, or other languages would have the same requirement.
So end subsidized student loans? Yes that would be a good policy. Not sure how you can ban people from taking out loans writ large though.
Kenya's EV bus adoption stalled by supply shortages
There is no circle. There is no square. There is unbridled and unanchored self-interest, power-lust, and opportunists.
This one is rather preachy. It is unintentionally arguing the existence of Amazon itself is bad and that everyone would be better off without it, including all the people it employs and serves, directly and indirectly.
Except we're not dealing with software here. The "ouch it hurts" once a government initiative has been "turned off" could be medical services, or social services, or food, or ensuring safe and clean products, or poisoned air or water, etc.
> sending money (legal money, no sanctions nor involving drugs) between South America and Europe

If the encumbrances were really just from middlemen, you don't need a cryptocurrency to solve that; you just need a cheaper middleman.
People who claim that zero / no is always followed by the plural have zero / no clues what's going on.
No that is not at all what I am saying.

What I am saying is that it doesn't matter weather people label others as hat speech or not because EU countries don't work by a curt of public opinion and convictions aren't based on this.

The regulations are about removing clear cases of hate speech, not about policing gray areas.

Like there is absolutely no reason to give someone who says all Jews of Muslims should be killed a platform. Or someone who main talking point is that Hitler didn't succeed in killing all, or people which systematically harass other people.

And more or less all of the things social platforms have to police are things _which anyway are already illegal_. It's just that due to the pseudo anonymity of the internet, internationalization, bots, sock puppet accounts and social platform having little reason to cooperate with the police persecuting such things in the traditional way isn't viable.

Sure making it viable would be nice, but I have to yet find a practical way which wouldn't be a form of mass surveillance much worse then such regulations.

Also both in past and presence there have been more then just a few examples about how not hindering hat speech will reliable kill innocents. There are larger examples like the genocide in Myanmar Facebook contributed to. Or smaller examples like recently a innocent teen being murdered by a mob because of people having been radicalized/riled up by hate speech on social media. Or if you want to go back to the 30th a huge part of why the Nazis gained power was that they could effectively spread hat speech and misinformation about how the Jews where at fault for everything bad (WW1, the depression in the 20th, the terms Germany had to accept at the end of WW1 etc.), or about the so called Stab-in-the-back myth, or about pseud science about how the "grate arian race" gets replaced and all mixed up etc.. The relevant part here is how effective they where able to spread this and make part of the population accept it, not whether they came up with it. (Other huge parts where that politics was too polarized to continue working and the previous conservatives helped him as an external person into power as they hoped to fix their issue of losing ground and unify Germany, in a very twisted way they did succeed, at cost of their own existence).
If only demoscenes were still as prominent today as they used to be. They'd be having a field day with this
The founders monetized a platform where unpaid contributors built 99% of the value by answering questions for intangible "Reputation". The fact that contributions were voluntary doesn’t negate the issue. It highlights it.

A system designed to extract free labor for massive financial gain, while offering only gamified rewards, reflects exploitative design, not fairness.
When did he pardon a top level drug dealer? Source?
Second this.

I ended up building a nice charging station right near the entrance. It has storage for keys, wallet, and other things to grab when heading out. It has an abundance of wired and wireless chargers for all devices.

Then I got a dumb (but nice) alarm clock for the bedroom.

Then I noticed that a common reason to pick up the phone is to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying the family month/agenda calendars. It’s read only, but it prevents a lot of device checking.

Cannot recommend enough restructuring physical reality to not have device on your person at home. It also helps the kids to put theirs away and learn good habits.
Yes and people still watch TV even though you haven’t owned a TV in 20 years (tm Slashdot 2002)
that's what has me worried about the kohberger trial. the prosecution's delayed it for years; if he gets out, the techniques that caught him so quickly will potentially have done more harm than good.
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This is a side project I've been working on.
Doesn't really matter - there may actually be second mover advantage in warfare, unless the innovation is overwhelmingly decisive (no '6th' generation plane is that, simply doesn't have the payload). Greater concern is procurement costs - US spends far more, gets a little less and this seems to be getting worse. DOGE needs to investigate here, more than anywhere
That's cute, but these measures of "wealth" are misleading in a subtle way.

The way articles like this and most popular media portrays it, people like Jeff Bezos are wealthy because they are hoarding money that they somehow extracted from the productive economy and diverted to their use by nefarious means. Like fairy tale dragons perched on their pile of gold and treasure at the top of a mountain, lording it over the poor peasants in the village down below.

When in reality, someone like Bezos or Musk is "worth" their billions of dollars only in some theoretical sense, based on the notional book value of their ownership of the immensely productive and valuable compan(ies) they built. This is entirely abstract - they could likely not sell their share for cash. But more importantly, it generally represents wealth that truly has been "created" - in 2000 there was no SpaceX and no Tesla, and now there is, and they're 'worth' $800 billion dollars, and Musk "owns" a large fraction of that. But this is entirely wealth that was created from zero through the creation and organization and leadership of these companies. It wasn't taken from anyone, taken from workers or consumers, or diverted from the economy. It was created out of thin air!
For those who cannot / prefer not to click through: top reply is a new "coin" launch.
$430B according to Forbes real time billionaires list. Nitpicky? Yes. But it's $30 billion dollars.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-silk-road-f7eb0d48c1...

> “Ross Ulbricht has been a libertarian political prisoner for more than a decade,” said a statement from Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle. “I’m proud to say that saving his life has been one of our top priorities and that has finally paid off.”

Seems the US-version of libertarians is that group.
That's prepper not preppy
Another approach has been where separate physics-informed neural networks learned the tensor product. They reformulated the initial optimization problem to be structured as tensors.
I assume that tensor products could be another factor in improving the actual computations.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13101
My US job comes with NHS level never seeing a bill. This is really easy to do in CA.
And I don't live in mansion because I'm modest, not because I'm poor ;)
Historically, many anti-drug / anti-cartel leaders are actually members of a rival cartel, and want to use law enforcement to fight their wars for them.

The Mexican government has a long history of this. The LAPD’s (well documented for over 50 years) do the same thing.

Trump is a convicted felon with lots of ties to organized crime. Nothing about him pardoning members of some criminal organizations but not others is surprising.

In related news, he signed an executive order forcing prosecutors to seek the death penalty when police are killed, and in the same day pardoned 132 of his supporters that were convicted of assaulting police officers during an event where officers were killed.
> Being in academia is not the only way to do research,

No, but (and I'm not in this space, so totally ignorant), is it not the case that if you're not associated with a Uni in some form that _PUBLISHING_ your research is all but impossible?
Do you also hate when prooor use the terms like debugging, serverless, non relational databases (all databases model relationships), etc?
Very curious if there's a way to use the accessibility features of Android TV to auto-mute when the ads appear. It's not worth it to pay for anything more than the lowest price plan here.
OK. Respect for that one.

That was hilarious!
LLM training written in Rust, 30 times better than C implementation
Hello,

I've worked on re-writing Karpathy's amazing work, llm.c (https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c), in Rust (https://github.com/Steboss/llm.rust).

The overall initial performance, on a small dataset (the tiny Shakespeare) is very promising, achieving a performance that's 30 times better than Karpathy's initial implementation.
I'll be continuing developing this, so that it will be possible to have a full train/finetuning on CPU machines - I am not so rich for buying a GPU.

Here is my article on it:
https://towardsdatascience.com/training-llm-from-scratch-in-...

Happy to receive feedback and comments for improvement.
Thank you and hope you like it :)
Well, he (probably not she) is describing expected earnings once hired, not chances of actually getting hired.
Less that than that the obviously corrupt, criminal, and/or treasonous should be kept from office at all costs.

Either way, obviously, the system has failed.

Or as the commonplace goes, is working as designed.
Sure, but that is a non-sequitur.
It's an ego-building projects.

The data centres were already being built. All of these companies have been dumping tonnes of money into AI and will continue to dump tonnes of money into AI. It's just more of the same, but they had to do a big announcement with Trump to pander to his ego and somehow make it about him. Like he engineered this Stargate thing. The whole embarrassing spectacle was likely arranged by Ellison.

I was bullish on OpenAI, but honestly I don't see any path forward where they have any differentiating value that justifies even a tenth of the valuation. Their video AI is simply terrible. Dall-E 2 is matched by many competitors. 4o and o1 and good, but already have been eclipsed by a number of competitors, including an open source Chinese option.

My work has almost entirely transitioned to competitors, and Google's latest updates have quietly absolutely trounced OpenAI's offering. Like, Gemini has quietly become the best AI platform in the game.

That's all neither here nor there, but I just don't care what Altman and crew have to say any more. They are not leaders in the space. They are, in many ways, has beens.
https://github.com/ansible/awx#readme is also helpful if one needs "runbook" behavior to allow arbitrary audiences to run playbooks without the headache of installing something and dealing with local cred management. Interestingly, it also offers a "callback" system to allow machines to request a playbook upon themselves in cases where ansible-pull isn't appropriate/helpful
I think I'd rather see cookie notices handled by a browser API with a common UI, where the default is always "No." Provide that common UI in a popover accessed in the address bar, or a side pane in the browser itself.

If a user logs in or does something requiring cookies that would otherwise prevent normal functionality, prompt them with a Permissions box if they haven't already accepted it in the usual (optional) UI.
I wonder if this is part of a wider trend of Amazon having difficult with its first party delivery network outside the US. They started doing first party deliveries here over 2023/2024 and while that worked well during the year, it really didn't over the Christmas period - delivery windows got much longer than they did last Christmas so for all of December even with Prime you were looking at delivery estimates several weeks away, and I've noticed in January an increase in the number of Amazon deliveries being delivered by third party shipping companies again.
> I had reasonable success deleting Safari from my iPhone

How?
Most drug users are not dead either.
Imagine this scenario:

A group of volunteers builds a public park, putting in hours of work, landscaping, planting trees, and creating a beautiful space for everyone to enjoy.

Years later, the park’s manager fences it off, sells it for $1.8 billion, and pockets the money.

When questioned, the manager says, “So what? The volunteers enjoyed building it, and people got value from the park while it was open.”
I would say teaching is not that relevant specifically for most tenure-track positions at big research universities. It is absolutely something you need to demonstrate some actual experience and proficiency with if you get a position at a small liberal arts college or a community college, where tuition is basically how they keep the lights on.

I’d also say that even at an R1, teaching volume at an acceptable quality is sometimes rewarded if your college within the university is very undergrad-heavy, because it can be part of how the university apportions funds to departments. So, it wouldn’t matter at a med school, but potentially a little in arts and sciences, though still in distant second to research.

There are also a small but increasing number of tenure track teaching-focused positions at big research universities. These folks typically help design and teach the biggest intro lectures and/or other very time- and labor-intensive courses. There are fewer of these positions than I’d like to see in an ideal world, but not zero.
Well Madoff funnelled it into lifestyle.

Technically you are correct. A ponzi is a single entity paying returns from new marks. It is a straight con.

But some systems can be ponzi-like in that they require more and more investment and people get rich by selling into that. Bitcoin is an example.
Temu is the new Amazon, same quality and real free shipping, it also sends a single package.
Its broken, please check your backend dashboard
Does the metaphor actually include the age of the fence? I always thought the idea is just to understand why the fence is there before removing it, regardless of its age.

In theory, it should be easier to understand the reasoning behind the existence of newer fences, but the idea is still to do that step first...

I mean, clearly some people just reject this entire idea as creating too much friction, and I can often see their point!, but I think we can at least avoid saying "it's a good concept, but it just doesn't apply in this case", and be honest about just rejecting the concept.
That's false. The DHS didn't inherit any fishing responsibilities in it's creation.

The Coast Guard has and still does work with related agencies (NOAA/NMFS, Fish and Wildlife, EPA, etc.) in this regard.

This committee in question didn't even exist before 2018.
Re-consenting: this is a different argument than saying more lives were saved because the reviews would remove adulterated products. Again, just look at opioid addiction for very clear evidence of the opposite effect.

It is very clear from what you’ve said that you haven’t used it :) I have browsed it when it was active and I was very pro tor. You’re making a lot of assumptions that simply don’t hold for silk road.
EA doesn't quite fit in the same umbrella. EA has a constant cache size (it's just another classical recurrent architecture inspired by approximating transformers), where this paper gives speedups to a variety of true attention mechanisms which still require caches to be proportional to the sequence length.
He made sure the Sacklers could keep their fortunes and continue to sell opioids.
Musk did backtrack on the $2 trillion goal.

'Musk told political strategist Mark Penn in an interview broadcast on X that the $2 trillion figure was a “best-case outcome” and that he thought there was only a “good shot” at cutting half that.'

'That figure was quickly dismissed as implausible by budget experts, who said the entire discretionary budget was only $1.7 trillion. Musk hadn’t waved people off the number until Wednesday, and it has been widely cited in reports about DOGE’s plans. '

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-say...
I wonder if I would be happier if I was as naive as a this.
If you think software engineering salaries are low in the USA, try working in Europe. A 'good' salary can be 30K or even lower after tax per year, and electricity costs twice as much as in the USA. In some places, even bottle scavengers earn more than software engineers in Europe.
Right, and why not? The situation would be exactly the same in terms of how much money goes to employee and how much to tax.

But these arguments are always made with the implication that things should change, because otherwise what's the point? And in this situation, suppose things did change, and the tax rates were reduced: now the employee would get the same amount (they weren't paying any tax!) and the employer would get more (they were paying all of it!). And if this applies when the employer pays all of the tax, when it's perhaps obvious this part of the tax burden wasn't the employee's money, it applies when it pays part of it.

(Of course, reading the thread again, this depends on what the definition of "we" is...!)
Sure, an old school grassroots boycott can theoretically work, but talking about it in this context is a little like considering 'GoFundMe' fundraising campaigns as a replacement for a functional medical system.

Laws should be enacted and enforced. Personal boycotts are not a replacement for government.
You do know that these companies still hire people don’t you?
You just said that "the budget is mostly Y" in response to, "the budget is mostly X + Y"
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> I'd also argue he almost certainly saved a huge number of lives with Silk Road: the ability to view eBay style feedback and chemical test results makes buying illegal drugs far safer than buying them on the street.

So will the Trump admin be making any moves on legalization or safe supply? Especially since between Musk and Kennedy's admitted drug use, the white house pharmacy report, and the allegations about the Trump family itself, it seems obvious that the White House appreciates the usefulness of illegal stimulants?

Or is this another case of "in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect"?
Open-source Warcraft 3 emulation engine
The main developer behind the project also got a youtube channel (actually how I stumble upon the project):
https://www.youtube.com/@TheShorka
That is interesting. I'd suspect he could possibly be found guilty of attempted murder, and have the sentence reduced or eliminated by arguing that his previous sentence unjustly assumed guilt for this as well, and factored it into the sentence he already served.

If I remember correctly, there were comments from both the prosecution and judge that would basically prove that point- and they allowed evidence related to those other crimes in the trial. If they could prove this misconduct, they may even be able to argue double jeopardy.
Good luck, when the main investigators have since gone to prison for crimes related to this investigation.
Seems like a false dichotomy, between authoritarianism and Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

An effective administration would be thoughtful about things and reorganize rather than simply cut. So they're either being thoughtful and decided something like state sponsored infiltration isn't good to investigate or are being thoughtless.
there is no source for TPM 2.0 no longer being a requirement - it looks made up.
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I pay for my VPN with it to be semi-anonymous. But my VPN provider also accepts cash so that is always an alternative option.

Thats....about it.
As mentioned elsewhere, I don't really mind using a bank or a different middleman, I'm simply using what I found to be the fastest, simplest and cheapest. It just happened to be cryptocurrency in this case.

If we had cheap and fast international bank transfers with all countries, I'd just use my normal bank account.