skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To enforce a minimum, we suppress the generation of the end-of-thinking token delimiter and optionally append the string “Wait” to the model’s current reasoning trace to encourage the model to reflect on its current generation.

Does this mean that the end-of-thinking delimiter is a single token? Presumably </think> or similar wasn't a single token for the base model. Did they just pick a pair of uncommon single-token symbols to use as delimiters?

EDIT: Never mind, end of thinking is represented with 
 followed by the word 'answer', so the code dynamically adds/removes 
 from the list of stop tokens.
Seeing “War Thunder” on their jumbotron, maybe they have other things in mind with “secret weapons” rofl
A friend at a previous company revealed after years of working together that he was the primary developer on a popular console emulator. He uses an alias and keeps it all quite secret because the level of harassment that alias endures is horrible.

The idea of spending hours every day for years straight on something you have to keep secret from almost everyone just... really sucks.
Pass the microplastics along to some other sucker, a cunning plan.
How's it nondeterministic?
> 1. Malaria has been around longer than homo sapiens.

> 2. It will almost certainly be around after homo sapiens.

Most illnesses have been around for as long as humans have been around. Yet we still heal the sick.

3. Are these projects in the USA?

They fight malaria around the world.

4. Is anything preventing NGOs from more efficiently taking up the slack?

NGOs including the Gates Foundation also spend billions fighting malaria and other diseases.

5. Why is malaria important to you of all things?

Over a thousand children die every day from malaria.

6. Have you ever had to worry about contacting malaria?

Yes.

7. Isn't this good for ivermectin manufacturers?

It sounds like you find this amusing. Why is 1000 children dying every day funny to you?
From an infrastructure perspective building out instead of up is incredibly expensive. Not just transport but also water, sewage, electricity and internet.
There's realistically fewer than twenty metro areas in the US where the majority of commuters could rely solely on biking and public transit for everything. Twenty might be generous, even.
> If the pilot is making an error, the air traffic controller gets on the radio to tell them they're getting too close to another aircraft, in time for them to course correct.

They did.

Pretty sure military aircraft just don’t have to listen to them.
Something similar happens in my company too. In a particular place, we use the hash of a string as the key in a hashmap instead of the string itself, because the hash is smaller and is easier to compare after the initial map has been made. It is a 64bit hash too. I have been crying about this everytime it comes up, and the response is, it will never happen. My problem is that we will never know if it ever happens too.
Regardless of what is budgeted, if you have a contract then that can be enforced in federal court.
I don't think that they're saying that doing marginal improvements for millions of people is anything to scoff at, I that they are saying that it's a lot more difficult to directly quantify.
It's worth nothing that this change happened before the questionnaire was instituted. (The paper referenced in the article was from 2006, I haven't dug enough to find a date for when this change was made, but the narrative in the article also establishes this act as happening in the '00s.) Additionally, from the Conclusions:

"Reweighting was based on data collected from incumbent ATCSs who took AT-SAT on a research basis; some of these employees achieved overall scores less than 70 (that was one of the reasons for the reweighting effort – a belief that incumbent employees should be able to pass the entry-level selection test)."

I don't think this proves that the update to the test was good or bad in overall competency, but I do think it's worth investigating if the test should be updated when existing employees are unable to pass.
I have a ‘21 Y and a ‘24 CT but we’re done buying Teslas for at least another few years. As long as I can talk my wife out of upgrading the Y to an X.
Cloudflare's CDN capabilities are separate from DDOS protection and indeed many requests cannot be cached due to the resources being sensitive (i.e. authenticated requests.)

Again, there are many forms of proxies and DDOS protection that do not rely on TLS interception, just as there are cars that do not rely on gasoline. Cloudflare has many less technical home users who use their service to avoid sharing their IP online, avoid DDOS, or access home resources. I do not think the average Internet user is familiar with these concepts. There are many examples of surprised users on subreddits like /r/homelab.
> With the body it is almost always use it or lose it.

It is wild how intense this effect is. Last year, I broke my ankle. I couldn't use that leg at all. Within two months, almost all of the muscle in that calf was gone. Just eight weeks and while one leg still looked normal and the other was a stick. Even the flesh that was still there was soft and spongy.

When I got an X-ray later, the surgeon said I had the bones of an 80-year-old in that leg. All the bone density, just gone.

It's crazy how rapidly a human body will cannibalize itself if you don't use something. From what I've heard, this is an evolutionary adaptation unique to humans. Most other animals just have the muscles they have regardless of use. But, perhaps because we went through a narrow population window during the Ice Age, we've evolved this ability to harvest our own resources to survive.

Probably great for not starving to death, but a real bummer if you're trying to be fit.
Anti checked exception sentiment is the result of cognitive dissonance from the use of flow-of-control obfuscation frameworks.

IoC, DI, aspects, annotations, ORMs, whatever Spring is, runtime code generation, etc.

The rationale is something like "runtime metaprogramming would be really terrific, were it not for all those pesky checked exceptions".
Good, we want the competent and skilled people within government to go to private enterprise in big numbers, so they can amplify their skills and effect in private enterprise. Then we can reduce the number of government agencies, because they are always less effective than private enterprises.

The problem is when we have the lazy and incompetent bureaucrats sticking around, and us the taxpayers are paying for their pension while getting back very little in return.

Honestly, I'm not sure what all the screaming and crying on hacker news is about; hackers are all about creating efficiency with unorthodox insights and skills. pretty sure no hackers have said "why yes, I've love to pay more in taxes for the bureaucrats to retire in style after doing very little"
I think $8M is for a little more than “subscriptions”.
AWS' LLRT runtime just switched to QuickJS-NG [0]

0. https://github.com/awslabs/llrt/pull/669
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Reddit is not the real world. In the real world, everyone in power is supporting him or staying quiet.

Even Democratic Governors are laying low.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-democrats-governors-electio...

The “Fifth estate” isn’t helping either:

- ABC News is owned by Disney and Disney doesn’t want to have a fight with Trump after they already lost a fight with mini-Trump
(Desantis). I happen to live 10 miles away from Disney

- CNN is owned by Discovery/TimeWarner who needs the administration not to block whatever merger they are trying to make next.

- CBS is owned by Paramount Global is also trying to make a merger deal that that don’t want the government to block.

And why would you think conservatives care about Gaza? A large majority of them are Evangelical Christian and see saving Israel as a step in the second coming of Christ and the rapture (not exaggerating at all).

As far as Trail of Tears, Native Americans are constantly worried about getting rounded up by ICE because ICE can’t tell the difference between them and Mexicans.

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/tribal-nations-urge-ci...
Not to mention that all spoons are different. I always get confused about “half a spoon”. Is it half of a “pile” or there must be half of its surface visible from above, while the subject matter is flat in the spoon (i.e. the lateral projection shows only the spoon). And should you account for the pile slope in case of bulk materials? And then when you figure that out, your spoon may be anywhere 0.5-1.5x in size/depth than someone else’s. It may be literally 3x times more or less. But even that is still less inexact than measurement extrapolation methods that the article uses, according to the top commenter.
Why do you even care. If I call him JackAssElon what harm does that cause you or society that you feel the need to chastise people for it? It's kinda odd to see you jumping to his defense when literally no one else gives a shit what we call that fuckwit.
Likely take a break from social media and talk with some real people. Lots of people voted for trump aren’t radical actually none that i know are. I come from a small town in a red state and yes they completely disagree with democrats on pretty much everything but the stuff you read on reddit is so far fetched and extreme I don’t know how anyone would take it seriously.

They believe people hate Americans and everyone should be ashamed traveling overseas. As someone who travels all the time to multiple continents not just Europe i have never encountered anyone who asked or even cared. Most people don’t live in a political bubble where they need to stop being friends with people over politics.

Anyway a lot people are choosing to live in an angry little bubble. It is really sad to see.
Adding animal feeds to whatever is a very good way to tone things down.

Otters, dogs, cats, snow leopards, red pandas whatever floats your boat.

Also, as you say the big platforms will still try and get you into an outrage loop.
There is a missing link that shows the post-Apartheid behaviour - Paul Calder Le Roux.

https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/satoshi-files-paul...

It is all their when you include him: the unstable personal identity. The contempt for average South African (British or Afrikaaner) while being a minority white. The Sovereign Individualism. The use of the Internet to pioneer new firlds of commerce (telemedicine). The contempt for women. The attempts breed Ubermenschen. And of course, the utter contempt for Rule of Law.

We can also explain much of their behaviour when we look at his life story.
that gist 404s
I recently build a torrent streaming app on tauri (lemontv.xyz), it is just amazing framework, it is damn fast on every platform. The only issue is that accesing system api's a bit problematic especially on android side...I needed to get into JNI calls to run a background thread on android so that when the user puts the app on foreground, the app needs to do a bit more of buffering. I mean in general, Tauri is or could be one of the best options if you are writing rust backend and have cross platform requirements.
>NOAA officials had been ordered to grant Nikhil Rajpal, a former Twitter employee who appears to have no expertise in ocean and atmospheric science, the power to edit documents concerning the agency’s work hosted by Google Sites.

Well here we go, 4C here we come.

I am sure this is to prevent the publication of facts relating to Climate Change. These 4 years are critical to avoiding catastrophic events due to Climate Change and we know the new admin wants to increase C02 emissions.
nothing exceeds like excess.
They are something to mention on your resume, or to impress investors that don't subscribe to "move fast and break things"
still rubber so still microplastics?
Obviously parent post is not making the point you're trying to argue, only making the point that the measurement is flawed. If you are going to address their argument do it in good faith and address the strongest point. This isn't reddit
I think I triggered some people by saying "AI" here, and you're right. This can definitely be used at a much wider scope. It's not specific to AI.

The "AI" comes in where the cost of processing all of the data is high, and Microsoft start pushing everyone to include NPU in their next "AI-enabled Windows PCs". On-device processing with a lot of benefits to the users.. but even more if the results of all of that processing can be sent back to the cloud and not take up space on Microsoft analytics processing farms.
EV/hybrids also have regenerative brakes so emit less brake dust. Between emissions, tires, and brakes I'd be curious to see how it balances out.

But really cycling and transit are the way to go to make cities more liveable. Personal cars take too much space in a city and ruin the built environment for everyone not in one.
I think it does two things:

1. It puts these otherwise worthless movies to work and earns some ad revenue even if it is peanuts

2. There is always the chance a clip goes inexplicably viral on social and suddenly finds new relevance to the point that someone does want to pay money for it.
It matters a lot in that it makes the difference between whether you can get a court injunction or not, and in that if there are sufficiently high levels of demonstrable illegality, a government would lose political legitimacy and citizens/military might simply cease obeying it.

I am not taking a position on this particular policy being legal or not, it's too technical for me to know about and it's not something I want to research.
https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=179415 (draw your attention to the center of the graphic, Republican vs Democrat, as it relates to who would consider purchasing an EV)

About 3 in 10 Americans would seriously consider buying an electric vehicle
- https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/27/about-3-i... - June 27, 2024
> He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings.

Were you calling Hunter Biden to account for his skills when it was revealed he made millions of dollars from Burisma in a role he ostensibly had no qualification?
In 2019? That was before 2020, and that election resulted in Harris being vice president.
Spoiler: every model is deeply, deeply subsidized. At least Google's is subsidized by a real business with revenue, not VC's staring at the clock.
Here ya go:

Academy attrition on page 38.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/controller_staf...
Their 'seek' behavior is also horrendous. IIRC they don't support the standard "click to skip forward 10 seconds" behavior and instead it's either in fast-forward mode or it's not, and in that mode it's impossible to seek to an accuracy of ~1 minute.

Video player controls have been a solved problem for something like several decades. It's actually impressive that they managed to screw it up so badly.
I recognize and acknowledge your humorous post.
I was responding to this part

> You seem to be under the impression that this isn’t what the majority wants?

I hope this isn't your response to me responding to a commentary about the majority

> everyone in power is supporting him or staying quiet.

because that is moving the goalposts.

And the Trail of Tears in Gaza is explicitly about the intent to shove over a million people out of their homeland because we want someone else to have it. There's a few words for what that is, but it all means the same thing.
Why doesn't someone just build good syntax into make itself?

just put some coded comment at the top of the file like "#makev2" and below have variables, arrays, lists, ignore tabs vs spaces, etc
> Just don't commit crimes.

This is a really, really ignorant imperative. First of all, the criminalization of poverty and structural injustice, generally, make technically criminal activity inevitable in some communities, but I recognize that what you actually mean is "don't commit criminal acts of protest" which is still ludicrously ignorant—and cruel!

Civil disobedience, by definition, involves the deliberate violation of a law. It is, nevertheless, our duty to perform when laws or systems perpetuate severe injustices, democratic failures, or lack legitimacy.

As John F. Kennedy famously put it, "Those who make [legal] revolution impossible will make [criminal] revolution inevitable."

This is economics.
Do we know how the human brain performs addition?

I know how it's taught. Internally it has aspects of long addition, and caching, but I don't do perform that algorithmically.

How then does that map to the physical structure of the brain? Do we know that?
Model Context Protocol in Home Assistant
Thankyou. I think I will quote your last two lines frequently.
Yes. For example, to create AI agent 'assistants' that can leverage a local RAG in order to assist with specialist content creation or operational activities.
I'm in Vietnam and have a bunch of extended family around. The key is social bonds. Outside of the kids' school/sports/arts they're allowed total freedom. And the variety of play (both on and offline) is astonishing. But the thing that stands out is that a good half of them are curled on a couch or hiding in a corner on their phones...and the parents don't care...because as soon as a parent asks for something to be done, the kid drops everything and jumps to do it.

By having real people around (that love them) they know that everything in the phone is less real.
Since the pandemic passenger car miles, airline miles are back at pre-pandemic levels.

Transit use is at 80% of pre-pandemic levels.

https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=22722

Farebox recovery ratios have consequently become even worse.

The new US government is also presumably not going to fund much transit expansion.

It'd be interesting to see if more people work from home on a given day than use mass transit to get to work.

It's also pretty similar in Australia at least and probably in more places around the world.
I recall MSN Messenger supporting phone calls during the Windows 98 days. There should be no fundamental reason why it could not handle VoIP.
Do you consume drinks? Meat? Produce? All these things are chock full of their own micro plastics. It's unavoidable. We can probably reduce contamination but our children's children's children won't be free of it, not until organisms evolve to efficiently eat it. Then we'll have whole other sets of problems.
>That's not conservativism.

Sure it is. You may not like it, but the hostile takeover was successful and you can't pretend it wasn't by disclaiming it. Today's conservative GOP are what they are, and pretending otherwise or playing semantics does no one any good -- except if you're defending those fascists.
I find it interesting that at a certain time in Los Angeles, a segment of society could afford a craftsman cottage house, but not afford an automobile. This was the prime era of the Pacific Electric streetcar suburb, say around 1890-1920. Today, obviously, anyone who can afford a house anywhere in the country can afford an automobile.

The end of the Pacific Electric system was not a conspiracy theory by tire companies or anything like that; the price of the cars dropped and that's what consumers preferred, i.m.o.
blood bank CEO thanks you too because the make millions selling your blood
You’re right, but the thing that leads us to lighter EVs is solid state batteries.
I do on a bike or walking weekly, it's not that crazy.

In a prewar US mid sized city, the density supports multiple grocery stores I can reach in about the same time as driving and finding parking.
The government couldn't constantly print more to hand to their mates, thus diluting the value of held dollars.
There is a positive spin on this: the majority of Americans already live in or near dense urban centers. If we had solid public transportation only within these centers and to adjacent suburbs we would eliminate most car trips. That's bot much physical area to cover.
Recently, the Cursor editor has been gaining popularity. As a long-time Emacs user, I don't want to switch to Cursor just because of AI. Currently, Aider only has plugins for Vim and VSCode, but Emacs has a tradition of integrating command-line tools. So I decided to write my own, as a humble attempt.

What additional value does this library provide above the command line operations provided by aider?

- Menu operation, tap a few less keys, operate directly on the code without switching; automatically manage git repo aider session.

- aider.el will send the context of emacs editing to aider, for example, which function or class is concerned about now? What are currently selected? This will allow the user to type less keyboard.

- aider is the core engine, and this software package is aimed at daily application issues that programmers are concerned about. For example, how to add/modify code; how to test the correctness of AI code; how to read other people's code; and how to debug exception if you want to strengthen in the future.
Install a Linux distribution and install your software in Wine.
I love breathing brake dust too!
Do you have a citation for the vehicle weight to the fourth figure? There is about a 2X variation in the weight of the vehicles I’ve owned, but even accounting for differences in tire size, I can’t come up with a 16x difference in how often I change the tires.

Thinking about it a different way, there isn’t much difference in recommended tire pressure among the autos I’ve owned. That means that the pressure between the road and the tire is relatively constant but the surface area of contact is directly proportional to vehicle weight. For a fixed contact pressure, I am struggling to imagine a physical process by which the rubber loss is not proportional to the contact area.
Slices are passed only by value. It's just that the value is a struct containing a reference to the data. Once one understands that, the rest makes perfect sense.

I can see why it trips up newcomers, but it feels pretty basic otherwise.
I should specify: it's more expensive for the developers and their home-buying customers to build up instead of out.

All of that stuff you listed comes from tax dollars, and people ultimately care less about that than what's coming out of their pockets for a home purchase. Well, until it's unsustainable, anyways.
I'm at Google. Also a member of various majority groups.

I absolutely do not feel like I am in my position based on some abstract "merit." Absolutely shitloads of lucky situations placed me in advantaged opportunities to get me here.