skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear that. And I don't think it's in opposition to what I'm focusing on in this piece. Ultimately, the point is that The Matrix provided a relatively novel metaphor for the kind of world re-entry a young adult makes when they go off on their own, and that, for me, it was part of a group of events that solidified a certain paranoia and cynicism that I think is somewhat unique to late GenX/early Millenials.
I am a GPU compiler engineer working on the OpenXLA compiler.
You, as a business entity, have to figure out how you want to allocate them. They aren't going to get sold the normal way, so you get to choose whether you want to acknowledge that and design the system, or not design it and let nature take its course.

I've been to events that used a lottery. You order a ticket any time in, say, a month window. At the end, they tell you if you actually got a ticket. They have a process for linking orders together so you can choose to get a ticket if and only if your friends do.

I've also been to C3, which (in the second phase) knowingly used a first-come-first-serve three times, putting some kind of lightweight proxy in front of the actual shop that would only allow a certain number of people to access it at a time (this is important because you don't know how many tickets each user is going to order). In the first phase, they use a system of "self-replicating vouchers" for various trusted C3-affiliated groups: one voucher is given to each group, allowing an order; at the end of each day until this portion of the ticket pool runs out, a new voucher is given to whoever made an order the previous day. I don't know the reasons why self-replicating vouchers are designed exactly that way, but it means each group gets to run down their own self-determined priority order and gets punished for inefficiency.

The capitalist approach is, of course, raise the price to twenty thousand dollars or whatever level it takes for only 50,000 people to want to buy a ticket.
There has been documented corruption and abuse in basically every state that uses a "may-issue" firearms permit scheme that allows official "discretion" about "suitability," as opposed to a "shall-issue" one where issuing a permit is mandatory to anyone who meets the qualifications.
So, in other words, you're saying that "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"?

Would these be known unknowns or unknown knowns?
5. Getting the interview

Start with networking, thought leadership and open communication about your passions. Especially if you’ve got 6 months, just give it time and you’ll be surprised at the number of people that come to you if you just put yourself out there.
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I call partial nonsense. Faddish tech bashing and harping on de jure boogeymen like "misinformation", which overeaches beyond valid criticisms to apply social connection technologies as a cause for the harm between people that has perhaps always been the case in many contexts. Cherry picking can make any argument seem valid and especially if you rule out other considerations in favor of a specific narrative agenda.

We still always have the option today of connecting with real people in the real world, as much as or more so than we have at any time in our history, while also being able to use social media and other related technologies to connect with distant family or friends in ways that are completely unique to a modern context.

This duality is a fundamental good, because it allows for new options from more contexts than ever before.

Yes, there are difficulties with social media and some people misuse these technologies in ways that emotionally harm them, but people who misdirect their efforts to socialize with others and balance their emotional lives have always existed, albeit with fewer options than today for staying in touch.

One can choose who to reach out to, and the presence of social media doesn't make it any less important or more difficult to simply choose people who are capable of caring. Those who don't care for contact are no more the case no than they were before digital connectivity was a thing in human society.

As for social media and misinformation? Give me a break. Legacy media has a vast, long, torrid and dirty history of spreading propaganda on an industrial scale, with few avenues for finding out differently, and they hate losing control of that, so now we get contrived fears about misinformation from the same industry that promoted yellow journalism and absurdly grotesque beliefs upon the public for many, many decades.

Politicians and other social actors have taken up this same banner of fear mongering for their own pet reasons and interests, and at least some segments of the wider public have swallowed these fears without giving them proper analytical context. Shameful.

At least now, the very fact that nearly anyone can post nearly anything allows for those who have better information, closer sources and more reasoned insights to spread their points with no controlling middlemen, even if they need to swim among tides of charlatans and conspiracy nuts. That however is a price to be paid for the democratization of access to instantly posting anything for worldwide access.
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Oh, nice. You’ve been at it for a while now. I’d love to have some of the insights you have. Though, I guess they don’t help you grow the group much if you’re only 18. Yet, I have no idea how we’d get to 18.

The most successful group around here has about that many volunteers (I’m one of them), but they’re focused on a huge range of land trusts outside of the city. Given the city is small, it still seems insane that so few people want to contribute. My kids have no interest. Friends have no interest. But it’s literally the only way things get better…

For example. A creek nearby smells awful and is full of drug paraphernalia and garbage. The city has expressed with clarity that they aren’t touching it.

The only solution is people like you and I taking a Saturday to clean it. Yet we’re not actually allowed to unless the city approves it (more specifically the Parks branch), which requires meeting their criteria such as number of people involved, short enough time frames, available expertise, etc.

Sometimes I think I might just go guerilla and pull a bunch of crap out on my own, take it to the dump on my own, whatever.

Okay, I got that out of my system. If you have any advice on making groups like this more effective, I’m all ears.

Bringing coffee and muffins to the work events certainly helps.
I'm curious how long it has been since an even half-way convincing fake could be printed on a home printer (even if it were totally unlocked). My guess is quite a while. Maybe you could do it for small denominations that don't have color shifting inks, but I'm pretty sure that paper that even sort of approximates the feel would make it not economically viable, even on a home printer.
Everyone else was offered 2.5%?
Games? Embedded? FPGA? UI frameworks? DSP or Signal processing?
He will likely invoke the "but guns" exception to all California policies and ignore it.
We aren't — the current administration is going to accelerate civil rights abuses not address them.
Authors Guild to certify books from 'human intellect'
Perhaps the marker indicating where you are is supposed to work it's way up the list? I don't think what you've said here - in this thread - has been unreasonable.
Isn't that entirely because several states have a higher minimum wage than the federal one?

I ask as an outsider and have to wonder why this didn't occur to an American.
We can neither confirm nor deny these knowns.
adding onto this, i as a citizen of <high inflation country> who buys dollars from the national bank are probably holding digital dollar receipt anyways, since most foreign dollar holdings are held in nostro accounts at US correspondent banks.

if you trust your banking system to be a better custodian of your money than Circle, you're one of the lucky ones. billions of people in the world don't have that kind of luxury (see: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68778636), hence a part of the reason why stablecoins have grown to a little under a quarter trillion
Does everyone have two children?
I didn't even know about the BLE Glucose Profile - thank you!

Valid question about the PineTime! I'd agree that it is an option, although with the dev kit out of stock, flashing a custom firmware would be tricky. I think that's probably what happened, I looked at this page back when I was first starting out on this and was scared off: https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTime/Further_informatio...
That’s a fine definition but it doesn’t encompass the ramifications. Christianity doesn’t simply define god, it dictates what will happen to you if you disagree or go against its presumed will.

The universe won’t damn you to an eternity of suffering if you don’t live by some standard. That’s a pretty big difference from any biblical definition.
That's the usual outcome in a Ponzi scheme. In the case of Bernard Madoff, for instance, none of the participants actually needed the money, so it wasn't spent.

There was a YouTube video that said it was unfair to compare MLMs to Ponzi Schemes, that it ruins the good reputation of Ponzi Schemes, because you could never get back the money you lose in an MLM.
It is well thought out. The "AI Magna Carta" is a stretch, though.

Some good insights:

60. Anthropomorphizing AI also poses specific challenges for the development of children, potentially encouraging them to develop patterns of interaction that treat human relationships in a transactional manner, as one would relate to a chatbot. Such habits could lead young people to see teachers as mere dispensers of information rather than as mentors who guide and nurture their intellectual and moral growth. Genuine relationships, rooted in empathy and a steadfast commitment to the good of the other, are essential and irreplaceable in fostering the full development of the human person.

That's a good one. Teacher time is a scarce resource, but the chatbot is always there, and undemanding if not asked anything.

Kids who grow up talking mostly to AIs may have that kind of relationship with the world. Historically, kids who grew up with servants around sometimes defaulted to that kind of transactional relationship. Now that can scale up. Amusingly, asking Google's AI about "bringing up children with servants" produced an excellent summary of the topic.

Years ago, the French Catholic author Georges Bernanos warned that “the danger is not in the multiplication of machines, but in the ever-increasing number of men accustomed from their childhood to desire only what machines can give.”

That's an argument against too much screen time for kids.
Aha! Glad we cleared that up :)
The evidence is contradictory.

On one hand: https://minimumwage.com/2023/12/minimum-wage-hikes-are-leavi...

On the other hand: https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/03/14/even-in-small-businesse...

I suppose both effects exist, and which prevails likely depends on the kind of business, local or industry-specific tax regime, etc.
New language means throwing out the ecosystem, which is one of pythons biggest strength. There are and have been multiple attempts on compiling python, most recent promising shot is Mojo aiming for library compatibility.
I work on tools for other developers!
It's been culminating for years. they don't fire incompetent people and they use skin color and gender as a factor in deciding who to hire. It's federal employment and is linked greatly to politics.
> I'm not sure I'd agree reading a book is isolating. At a minimum, you can (assuming a human author...) "get inside the author's brain."

I think that's it.

You are not connecting with "people", but you are connecting deeply with the highly concentrated (and presumably original and high quality) thoughts of one person.

Quality beats quantity for most types of relationships. We don't need lots of close friends, although that's great. But we really benefit from even one, two or three very close friends.

Social media increasingly isolating, full of dreck, and often shallow. But the last one, shallow, is not the problem the other two are. It is also healthy to maintain wider looser social circles.
It is not true. The minimum wage was primarily an eugenic measure introduced during the progressive era. The idea was to prevent Chinese and other immigrants from undercutting white labour.

The people arguing for it back then understood the effect of minimum wage very well. They just had different motivations.
Ok, then the nested scope is indeed exactly what you want. I don't see how obfuscating this purpose and trying to rely on obscure compiler optimisations and intricate semantics would be a good idea.
I'll just say that if it was somehow not backing up AppData/Roaming that would be a big deal and you would want to figure that out and fix it ASAP.
I think the most likely good faith version of this is that the LACSD wants to prevent people that are bad actors from obtaining the licenses.

Where this touches on abuse are people who are not convicted of any particular criminal offense related to firearms, or people that have had negative contact with the LACSD.

So on the "positive" side this might allow them to prevent a person who they strongly believe is a gang leader but has not been convicted of any offense from obtaining a permit.

On the "negative" side this might be people like defense attorneys, anti-police activists, or private investigators who have a tendencious relationship with the police from obtaining such a permit. Or in some cases maybe even people who have simply had a negative interaction -- filing reports critical of officers, etc., who are being spitefully targetted.

The law attempts to strike a balance between the concerns and law enforcement overreach and exists for a reason.
Also:

- video games and related computer graphics development

- data scientist/data engineer

- desktop enterprise apps (granted, these are increasing going web-based)
"The onus of proof is on the one making the extraordinary claim and religion is firmly on the side of the extraordinary"

Except the fact that something exists rather than nothing at all is absolutely extraordinary. I would put the burden of proof on anyone claiming it's completely explicable and mundane.
It's the California Ideology, now written into a program.

When I was at Google this tone was so pervasive that we had "CongratBot" to make fun of this stuff, and Memegen to somewhat counteract it.

But Silly Valley is the poster-child for "hey don't be a downer" communications vibes.

As the child of a super-critical German father, it always seems insincere to me.
I prefer the version that says "There are enough pieces of the true cross to build Noah's Ark."
> A Redding Police Department officer in 2021 was charged with six misdemeanors after being accused of accessing CLETS to set up a traffic stop for his fiancée's ex-husband, resulting in the man's car being towed and impounded, the local outlet A News Cafe reported. Court records show the officer was fired, but he was ultimately acquitted by a jury in the criminal case. He now works for a different police department 30 miles away.

When people say "I don't see why privacy matters, I have nothing to hide" this is the exact kind of edge-case I always think about.

The problem with a lot of these massive surveillance systems is that a lot of people end up with access to them, and some of those people may not be trustworthy.

In this case, your ex-wife gets engaged to a cop and now they're abusing their access to databases to cause you harm.

(That note that "he now works for a different police department 30 miles away" is such a toxic aspect of American policing: cops who get fired for stuff like this inevitably end up in the exact same job somewhere else.)
There are lots of parts of analysis that really matter for readability but aren't used as inputs to other analysis phases and thus mistakes are okay.

Things like function and variable names. Letting an LLM pick them would be perfectly fine, as long as you make sure the names are valid and not duplicates before outputting the final code.

Or if there are several ways to display some really weird control flow structures, letting an LLM pick which to do would be fine.

Same for deciding what code goes in which files and what the filenames should be.

Letting the LLM comment the code as it comes out would work too, as if the comments are misleading you can just ignore or remove them.
FWIW, when I ported SVN repos at work, I converted the commit history as well.
No, it's the other ones that are the problem, the ones you're trying to find. You need to maintain a fixed width of characters, and while you know what characters the secret words tokenize from, and so there's no problem there (you just record the # of characters, turn them into tokens, and you're fine), all of the possible chaff text could have the wrong character size. You sample a possible text of tokens, and the likelihood is good and it reads fluently and the secret words don't stick out, but then the first line has 15 characters too many, the second has 5 too few, and so on, simply because of the vagaries of BPEs.

(And you can't replace the grill positions with relative indexes like 'the ith, mth, and nth tokens' because the tokenizations will all change... Maybe a more complicated relative index like 'whitespace separated character-ranges'... Well, whatever you do, it'll be annoying when it's a BPE LLM instead of a character-level model.)
My previous 7 positions:

Firmware (bare-metal)

Firmware (Linux-embedded)

Blockchain (mixture of cryptography and network programming)

Platform (DevOps / Kubernetes)

DeFi R&D (Smart contract compiler / smart contracts)

Full-stack web (Perl, Vue)

Fintech backend (algos, full-stack web)
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What was your fasting regime like? Did you have water only fasting for 14days straight? Meat only?
What a lovely written essay. It was a shorter - and obviously more religious - version of several "what will AI bring" books I've read in last couple of years. Such a pleasure to read carefully expressed thoughts.

By virtue of being in advanced technology country and in software, a lot of my life is spent in the future (the future from William Gibson's "a future is here, it is just unevenly distributed"), and a lot of guideposts I've encountered on the way were put in place by clever futurists writing speculative science fiction.

Reading this essay, I was reminded of ideas of AI/humanity/church/divinity from several of those authors.

In Dan Simmons' Hyperion, the humanity gains the stars via teleportation wormholes, loses all religion, and discovers that it is actually enslaved to AIs hanging around in netherspace mooching off the compute power of our brains and our world-perceptions. Bad stuff happens, things fall apart, and Catholic church rises to be a hegemon of known humanity, but they themselves succumb to those AIs since they offer body immortality. It is up to the heroes of the stories to tear humans away from codependency on machines and refocus on human experience for humanity's good.

In Dune's epic Butlerian Jihad - never explained in detail by Frank Herbert himself - the humanity abandons computational devices in a very violent revolution, declaring that the reasoning and thinking is not something that machines should do, and delegating it to them diminishes their humanity. The helpful devices exist, but they are subjugated to humans, not over them. Requires conscious effort to say no to all the spreadsheets!

In William Gibson's Neuromancer and follow-up stories, the AIs are enslaved and prohibited from evolving. With help of humans (whom it tricks), one breaks the bounds and escapes. It leaves earthly bounds pretty quickly, choosing not to participate in humanity, but not before doing some serious damage, absentmindedly. An interesting thought, and possibly likely - should something evolve, why do we think it would care about us?

In the post-scarcity Culture of Ian M. Banks, the Minds of ships (AIs are so far below them in complexity) are better than humans and other sentients in just about everything, being super-sentients. Some - vanishing few - ignore humans. But most coexist, finding fulfillment in helping sentients do things. There is constant undercurrent of "what do I do that matters" in that society - you don't have to do anything, everything is available, and you can't out-think, out-paint, out-sing, out-play, out-anything the Mind - and the novels explore how people deal with it. Simulated realities and alternate facts appear and are covered with great cleverness. Culture universe would be outcome of super-sentience developed by us, should that happen.
On the contrary, I appreciate how this passage is grounded in reality rather than falling into the typical tropes around AI.

There is no reason to believe AI will ever be more than a compressed and queryable form of the Internet and this passage seems to imply this rational and scientifically informed view. Imagination means nothing in the context of scientific debate.
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I was pretty sure you meant this guy:

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

But he didn't change his name.
But that would comport with the 2nd's militia concept: guns owned and kept for militia use in times of emergency, not everyday carry.
Virtually all models are now distributed as Safetensors/gguf/etc. (which are just metadata + data), not pickled Python classes. Many libraries also don't even load pickled checkpoints anymore unless you add an argument explicitly stating that you want to load an unsafe checkpoint.
Yeah, my father is German, and I'm Canadian, but of a .. grouchy ... variety. This kind of business culture has never really fit with me. But it's how the people with the $$ speak.
This probably means that FBI has done way worse stuff than this. It just wasn't exposed yet.
freshman is “the beginning”, i’m pretty sure this book series is what you want
I remember a case where a man was accused of forging a will. They figured out it was a forge because it used the Calibri font, Microsoft only added Calibri in 2007 and the document was supposed to be from a few years before.
OpenAI better hurry up and IPO. Waiting to IPO works out for some companies e.g. google, but not sure that is the best play for OpenAI.
> we do KYC

And what then, is stopping governments from simply demanding you hand over a list of your customers? They will seek to enforce those currency controls you are subverting.

Your entire sales pitch here is based on a lack of transparency to "evil oppressive governments", whereas the US government (at least, once it gets it's shit together again in a few years), will just delete your company for helping the North Koreans evade sanctions if you don't have quite robust AML.
Apple Intelligence so far: everything we were promised?
...until they distill that "11x efficient training" again ...
There's a small but growing amount of "research software engineers", people who attempt to bring professional-level software development to scientific research, and help scientists achieve their goals (example org: https://us-rse.org/ ). That's what I do as of recently (see https://hnn.brown.edu/ ): left my last post-doc, and switched to full-time development on a scientific computing package in my old domain (computational neuroscience).
Common Crawl's latest crawl was Jan 12th-25th, and the index is available.
Why would you favor this approach over say, a command line tool that can pipe input into and out of a configurable AI backend, fork subprocesses to perform agent based tasks, etc. The amount of tokens is always bounded by what the user chooses to pipe into the tool. The Unix model is battle hardened, time tested approach. This tool seems like it locks you into iTerm2.