skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess being a second-term President gives you a real leg up in terms of patriotic b-roll video footage
Climate change did not defeat a million soldiers at Badger Mouth, nor could it be explained by slightly better bows.
Filling on self-intersection is probably broken

That's always an edge-case (literally); having written various vector graphics converters over the years, the fundamentals are usually straightforward (although in this case converting between Cartesian absolute and polar relative coordinates can also introduce numerical precision issues), but depending on things like fill rule compatibility, these tricky cases tend to result in a lot of code dedicated to handling them correctly.

Even different OS' graphics stacks disagree: https://bugs.python.org/issue39392

Unfortunately there's a lack of US flag in the examples, but the Wales one makes up for it in complexity.
> Once they've learnt the letters predicted by each token, they'll be able to do this for any word (i.e. token sequence).

They often fail at things like this, hence the strawberry example. Because they can't break down a token or have any concept of it. There is a sort of sweat spot where it's really hard (like strawberry). The example you give above is so far from a real word that it gets tokenized into lots of tokens, ie it's almost character level tokenization. You also have the fact that none of the mainstream chat apps are blindly shoving things into a model. They are almost certainly routing that to a split function.
If you are trying to stabilize a phone, you can get a gimbal for $100 or less.

Its behavior will be predictable and you can create a reliable workflow.
I mean he did say that transphobia is specifically protected speech so
Interesting contrast. This essay is self-indulgent and the subtext is "I'm important". Paul Graham's essays are economical and the subtext is "the reader is important".
I think that’s a bad bet, not because AI will replace authors, but because many authors will use AI to produce better books at superhuman rates.
Seeing the tech world bend the knee to Trump so quickly and happily has been like whiplash. And once again relegating criticism to "triggered snowflakes".

I can still see that the emperor has no clothes. I wonder if they'll ever admit it.
No. If the content is thin, make a large headline.

(Worked well throughout Trump's campaign. They even printed it on red caps.)
Not quite, Llamas license has a carve-out where if you have a lot of users then the open license doesn't apply to you, and you have to talk to Meta to negotiate a different (presumably paid) license. Hyperscaler deployments like AWS Bedrock probably fall into that category.

Meta isn't a charity - even if they're not profiting from Llama today, they believe they will at some point.
Even if we could all train evenly, those with money will always win out on the execution. You can't possibly believe just "letting things play out" as they have been so far, but with less copyright guardrails, is the solution here?
Google could take their scans from the library (which they did not pay publishers for) and train an AI model on that, right? They won the Authors Guild v. Google lawsuit because snippet view is transformative fair use, and I think teaching an AI model common sense and facts is even more transformative. Should Meta do the same?
It's not illogical to staff up an agency charged with efficiency so you can cut more staffing elsewhere. This is honestly what most SaaS does.
> That said, my personal belief is that if the books weren’t legally freely available all that Meta owes would be how much the book costs

Why isn't stealing and knowing you're stealing penalized more than the cost of the item? If the world worked this way everyone would steal.

> Each individual book would be such a small part of the model that it’s barely distinguishable.

Needs to be proven (and also impossible to prove how much of the value of the model comes from the classified material)
There are things like compiling a tail call as JMP func_addr.
I browse facebook using m.facebook.com in chrome on my Samsung. No interest in installing the app. If I press and hold on a playing video, I get the option to download an mp4. No extra site or software needed
You don't get to shut down speech by just adding -phobia to everything you have a strong opinion about.
> they didn't like being forced to take an experimental gene therapy that gives them cancer

You're harping on about this [1] without clarifying who "they" are, what therapy you're referring to nor what it has to do with the WHO or Trump's withdrawal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775811
Does it do interesting chains of puzzles anywhere (more like Zork)? From what I've seen, it looks more like isolated puzzles where you summon any object you can describe to solve the problem rather than having to make do with what you find.
You're right that all current models' datasets are sanitized better these days, but if any output from these older models was used to train the newer models, there's an argument that can be made that there is additional damages to be paid to the copyright holders.
The speed limit is
about 186,000 miles/second.
This is not a good analogy. Google does not display the contents to any significant degree (you have to visit the search result). And even then it was/is in legal trouble, in fact (in some countries like Australia* more than others).

Furthermore:

> Examples of fair use in United States copyright law include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, and scholarship.

I do not see “automated generation of derivative works of arbitrary nature” in it.

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55760673.amp
> It's disconcerting to see such a mismatch between rationale and deployment, particularly for a new agency with no oversight in Congress.

Disconcerting, but not surprising.
The first Porsche was electric:

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/products/taycan/history-1856...

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

A Porsche was also the first hybrid:

https://www.porsche.com/stories/innovation/gamechanger-how-f...
Agreed, if he is damaging enough maybe some folks will finally get the message.
"that's at least 500k in salaries even for the lowball public sector"

I'm not sure I agree with the approach, but this seems overstated. At least from an engineer perspective, there are sub-$70k engineer jobs. That four person team could be $250k. Also, they could be pulling that internally instead of external hires.
You are still conflating 'advanced, settled Bronze-Age civilizations' with agriculture. Most agricultural communities were not 'advanced' (almost by definition).

> We have plenty of artifacts and paintings from hunter-gatherers

Do we? And in the Neolithic or later?
they took care of that already, but only because Trump never saw Vivek in person and did not realize he’s not white :)
What the article fails to mention is that only in organizations of a certain complexity and dysfunction can the result of high frustration tolerance be referred to as progress.

The real key to success in complicated org is not just dealing effectively with frustration, but the ability to realize what the stakes really are in a complex organization. I've seen people promoted to the stratosphere not for successfully completing a project, but for keeping the wheels on the bus in spite of what happened to the project. This can at times involve repeatedly and energetically referring to failure as success.
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02015/

> June 2024: Japan’s total fertility rate hit a new low of 1.20 in 2023, with the rate for Tokyo falling to 0.99 for the first time.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/tokyo-government-4-day-w...

> December 2024: Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time
Yes because using the books to train a book-replicating machine is a legally grey area.
The photo op of the US president signing the country out of the Paris Agreement in 2025, in public, to a cheering crowd is also a great fit for a Mad Max backstory intro montage.
I totally understand your point, but Musk said this was the end game when he bought twitter.

He wants x.com to be a single monolith “everything” app, just like they have in China.

The idea is to control currency, authentication, identity, reputation, commerce and communication, and to make use of it mandatory.
Two answers:
1 - ChatGPT isn't an LLM, its an application using one/many LLMs and other tools (likely routing that to a split function).

2 - even for a single model 'call':

It can be explained with the following training samples:

"tree is spelled t r e e" and
"tree has 2 e's in it"

The problem is, the LLM has seen something like:

8062, 382, 136824, 260, 428, 319, 319

and

19816, 853, 220, 17, 319, 885, 306, 480

For a lot of words, it will have seen data that results in it saying something sensible. But it's fragile. If LLMs used character level tokenization, you'd see the first example repeat the token for e in tree rather than tree having it's own token.

There are all manner of tradeoffs made in a tokenization scheme. One example is that openai made a change in space tokenization so that it would produce better python code.
Unfortunately, most nations aren't insulated from the consequences of what America has decided to do to itself.
At ten dollars per book, that'd just be a few hundred thousand dollars. They spent way more than that training the model, and probably will spend more on legal fees in this case.

But if they had done that, I bet they would have been sued anyway.
What if we could buy the books for one human, make the human read all the books, and somehow we would be able to clone this human in a way that they remember the book contents.

Now, would that be a fair use of the books?
No refunds

I think there will a be a lot of 'this isn't what we voted for' moments under this new administration, , and that warnings dismissed as hyperbolic during the campaign season will turn out to have been entirely sober and realistic predictions.
Oh that's the Homestretch mine. There is also a uranium prospect somewhere on that same southern section of mountain.
It's going to be a very memorable four years a lot of us are looking forward to.
Last Trump administration, the Digital Service decided it wouldn’t assist in certain DHS operations. I don’t know if that was just family separation stuff, of immigration enforcement more broadly.

That seemed short sighted. The employees can refuse to do something, and threaten to quit. But don’t expect your department to last long.
Musk is not a techie. He's a tech-adjacent huckster.
Though Elon did just do a Nazi salute live on stage ;)
Not possible. It was about (64.8096, -147.5720) if you get some 1980s aerial survey photos you can probably see the overland train, some APCs , maybe some old long range SAMs, presumably without motors or warheads.
My AI does one round of training, and uses the input data as the token generation. You probably have it installed. It is called cp. It is a bit scrappy and not SOTA but hey I am not as big as the fangs.

If I train cp on movies released this year and then release each model open source, is this now legal?
Sorry that we got what we voted for?

Don’t be.

Democracy is not a game focused on picking the best outcome. Democracy is a game of trial and error.
Stole them from where? An Amazon warehouse? The New York Public Library? People's homes?

Is there any plan to recover the books and return them to their owners?
this is the saddest shit, the Digital Service was something good and wholesome and valuable.

We all saw what happened to Twitter, Inc, right?
PDF accessible on the world wide web is fair game
Jen Pahlka—a HealthCare.gov rescue team member who helped start the US Digital Service—has been writing a really informative series of posts that summarize what the Obama administration learned from its efforts to make government more efficient.

Here's a good starting point: "Bringing Elon to a Knife Fight":
https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/bringing-elon-to-a-knife-figh...

The basic goal of making government work well is (or should be) bipartisan. The nuts and bolts of how you do that are really hard to get right.
That's because the current copyright system is so extreme and went so far into removing rights that some people would rather let it burn completely than reform it.

Maybe if the copyright system wasn't so extreme, people would have a more balanced view of the system and show more support.
I also recommend Andrew Plotkin
Isn't that literally what copyright is?

You have bought the text so you have the readright, but you do not the copyright.
To misquote Don Draper, that’s what the lawyers and money are for!
One thing I wish redis had is the ability to extend itself beyond its memory capacity. So if I run out of memory, just move some stuff to disk. Or if I'm using persisted redis, just free up some memory.

Maybe this is it.
When I asked the 32b r1 distilled model its context window it said it was 4k... I dont know if thats true or not as it might not know its own architecture, but if that is true, 4k doesnt leave much especially for its <thinking> tokens. Ive also seen some negative feedback on the model, it could be that the benchmarks are false and maybe the model has simply been trained on them or maybe because the model is so new the hyperparameters havent been set up properly. we will see in the next few days i guess. from my testing theres hints of something interesting in there, but i also dont like its extremely censored nature either. and i dont mean the CCP stuff, i mean the sanitized corpo safety nonsense it was most likely trained on....
I asked DeepSeek-R1 to write a joke satirizing OpenAI, but I'm not a native English speaker. Could you help me see how good it is?

"Why did OpenAI lobby to close-source the competition? They’re just sealing their ‘open-and-shut case’ with closed-door policies!"
Ok? My point stands. It's still not a free market with subsidies limited to domestic manufacturers.

A country dumping money into an industry in order to undercut foreign competition should be punished. I don't care if it is the US, China or whoever.

One can not let it stand or the market distortion will drive domestic competitors out of business at which point they'll be able to hike up prices. For something like the auto industry with high capital costs to get into, one might never recover.
> Gary, you can’t blame yourself for what gorillas did.
That also doesn’t happen once they start taking outside investors…
I'm agreeing with them. Some folks told me I should have improved grep instead of building my own thing.
(Not mine) This is like buying Twitter and renaming it to X
They also all got started several decades ago when there were huge new blue ocean opportunities to pursue and much less competition for capital. And other many competitors have failed along the way. (Remember Amiga, Wang, Gateway, many others from the 80s and 90s).

The main issue now is competition for capital: the majority of tech investors regard software startups as much safer paths to huge returns. Whether they’re right or wrong in any individual case is a separate issue; they’re playing the percentages.
How do you read me comment and take away that I still dont know what Astral is? You acted like everyone had heard of it. My point is not even all the users of uv have.
With the US freely surrendering much of its soft power to China and Russia (e.g. by exiting the WHO, ...), I suppose it'll a bit more insulated.
The Golden Goose play. I’d love to do the same - the hard part is finding the goose.
I think that part is maybe missed here — “why didn’t you pay for it?”

“Because you wouldn’t have sold it to me. Or even if you would have, you would have put such onerous terms on it that I’d rather take this path.”

(Not saying this makes it right)
What is happening now will take a lot longer than 4 years to recover from if ever. Just feel sorry for us, that it is just us, which it won't be.
That might be the case if Docker did in fact guarantee (or at least make it easy to guarantee) deterministic builds -- but it doesn't really even try:

1. Image tags ("latest", etc.) can change over time. Does any layer in your Dockerfile -- including inside transitive deps -- build on an existing layer identified by tag? If so, you never had reproducibility.

2. Plenty of Dockerfiles include things like "apt-get some-tool" or its moral equivalent, which will pull down whatever is the latest version of that tool.

It's currently common and considered normal to use these "features". Until that changes, Docker mostly adds only the impression of reproducibility, but genuine weight and pain.
Which country are you based in, Canada? I have bad news for what’s happening with your government, both related to America and not.
Agreed, these [1] work very well in open plan offices.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPCHBCQ
A friend apparently uses proofpoint at work. AKA urldefense.

It seems to be for organizations. Uidaho.edu uses it.

I can't tell anything from their home page because it's all shiny objects and self-congratulation.

But perhaps there is a similar service to filter email and web links. Lots and lots of people need such a service.
> If you keep repeating this, maybe you'll convince some people

I have helped some people understand the full impact of such policy, yes.

In my experience, it depends on whether the person I'm talking to has an interest in the wellbeing of women and girls, and is even slightly open to challenging their current understanding with new information.

> dishonest and intellectually bankrupt

Evidence-based and built upon feminist principles, actually.
The USDS Administrator shall commence a Software Modernization Initiative to improve the quality and efficiency of government-wide software

After seeing so many failed "modernization" projects that just made things worse, this should be the biggest worry.
True but business hardware (and home for that matter) often goes on 3-5 year cycles though. At 5 years it's kinda expected hardware will get replaced.
It's not necessarily illogical, but it can just as easily be a smoke cloud around some sinecures, and the details of this effort (including but not limited to the meme name) don't fill me with confidence that they're going to fix real problems.
Those teams will be tasted with heavy responsibilities (or at least workload) and most of them will want to compensated accordingly. Also, even for low paid jobs you're overlooking benefits, pension contributions etc.

While some of them might be internal hires, to the extent that they were previously productive, those jobs will have to be replaced, and to the extent that they were not, they will be incentivized to make broad decisions whose eventual costs may fall upon the public in terms of lower responsiveness or less effective outcomes or the loss of impartiality.
Lithium batteries are not the only storage. Flow batteries have higher physical land space requirements but are within limits "trivial" to scale for Wh duration: it's add more tanks. The surface of membrane across which you do the flow determines the current, capacity is liquid storage volumes. This is ideal for utility scale distribution.

Non-electrochemical methods of storage are also possible and viable at scale, the classic one being pumped hydro. They have loss levels, so are not "free" in terms of the energy inputs let alone capex to construct, but the point here is not really "oh we lost storing, lets not do this" the point is "what capacity, for what GWh, for what duration in storage" and they'd work fine.

I don't want to be the contrarian to the contrarian, but this is basically a rant against storage which attacks one form of storage: the one which people focus on because its available in volume right now. However, other places in the US grid are exploring flow batteries, Pumped Hydro has been around since the dawn of electricity supply time, and variations on thermal storage and regen, pumped air or other working fluids all exist outside the lab.

Still, you have to acknowledge the scale of the problem. The principle scale problem here is the sheer weight of nay sayers who want to doomscroll over deployments which provide less GW and less GWh and argue directly to "this cannot handle a dunkelflaut of 10 days" or some other number.
Thank you, I wasn't familiar with EB2. I did exit my last company in 2021 to a Fortune 500 -- if that counts as a "successful"
It's not true, my P1S+AMS has never touched the Internet and I was able to set it up fine on an isolated wifi network out of the box.
If you know the Russians are jamming GPS then what's the difference at this point?

There are some examples here:

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

or how about:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/18/russia-says-uk...

Just to be clear I'm not claiming the Russians are the good guys and the Ukranians are the bad guys. I'm just pointing out it's not as simple as someone did something bad in a war. You need to look at the totality of evidence and circumstances, challenge your own viewpoints and listen to people arguing the opposite of what you think, reach some conclusions and always be open to adjust to new evidence. Be aware of who is trying to manipulate you and why, what are the biases of the various sources of information etc. Again not that I think Russia are the good guys but things are never black and white. The west did meddle in Ukraine which in my world view is a good thing but unsurprisingly Putin perceived as aggression/attack on Russia's sphere of influence. To me it boils down to Putin being a force against western values that I'm aligned with.
Have you read EWD 831? https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
I know DFW was, to say the least, a smart guy, but this book just oozes the essence of his depressive mentality - I could not get through it. Further I have a hard time accepting any insights derived from such a melancholic mind.

Zoo monkeys are bored too. Is that because they're too stupid to be "un-borable" or is it because they're trapped forever in a tiny boring cage?
Buying a single copy of a work does not grant you a license to duplicate or distribute that work.

So just buying copies wouldn’t have helped them.
1/3 chance you picked the door with the car, 2/3 chance it's behind one of the other two doors.

These probabilities don't change just because you subsequently open any of the doors.

So, Monty now opens one of the other 2 doors and car isn't there, but there is still a 2/3 chance that it's behind ONE of those 2 other doors, and having eliminated one of them this means there's a 2/3 chance it's behind the other one!!

So, do you stick with your initial 1/3 chance of being right, or go with the other closed door that you NOW know (new information!) has a 2/3 chance of being right ?!
Seeking trans-friendly employers who sponsor visas
He's got a maximum of 90 days, right?
Is this going to be like what happened with NAFTA where something gets renamed with some token changes and then mission accomplished is declared?
Stole in that they didn't pay publishers (authors?) any money to use the books.

Maybe the Library system does apply here though, that all AI trainers need to buy 1 copy of their book so "their child" can "learn"?
Source? I thought it was the west that couldn't ramp up and is running out of stockpiles. I'll admit I'm an armchair general but I did serve so I have at least some minimal idea of what war looks like.

EDIT: Also not clear how long the US is going to keep supporting Ukraine now that Trump is in power so that's another factor.
And funnel inauthentic adoration in the general direction of divorced dad billionaires
Which quote was that? Not finding anything, but then again I'm not sure exactly how to phrase the search.
That GS-8 or whatever making $70k probably costs 50% or double that after benefits