skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given no additional information or context, all we're left with is assuming Monty always opens a door with a goat behind it.

If you're playing against an opponent and trying to devise a winning strategy against him you can't just say "given no additional information or context, all we're left with is assuming his strategy is to always do X" and viola: present a strategy Y that beats X.

In this case X is "always opens a door with a goat behind it" and Y is "always switch doors". This is fascinating but simply incorrect from the math standpoint.

> Your "dice rolling" formulation of the puzzle is nonstandard. If you want to go with it, you must make it clear in the presentation of the puzzle. There are infinite such considerations; maybe Monty observes the phase of the Moon, maybe Monty likes the contestant, and so on... it wouldn't work as a puzzle!

The "dice rolling" it's not a problem formulation, it's one of the solutions to that problem i.e. specific values of X and Y that satisfy all the requirements. I present it to prove that more than one solution exist and furthermore not all solutions have Y="always switch", so you can't establish Y independent of X.

They key difference here is that I don't consider it as a "puzzle", whatever that means. I consider it to be a math problem. Problems of this kind are often encountered in both Game Theory and Probability Theory. It's perfectly fine to reason about your opponents strategies and either try to beat them all or find an equilibrium: this is still math and not psychology.

You can argue that it's a puzzle instead and I don't mind. What I do mind however is saying that Diaconis was wrong. He specifically said "the strict argument would be..." meaning that his conclusions hold when you consider it as a math problem, not as a "puzzle". My whole point is to demonstrate that.
Again, "true" is not a synonym for "what I'd prefer."
That is also my experience. I use ChatGPT to help me iterate a Godot game project, and it does not take more than a handful of prompts for it to forget or hallucinate about something we previously established. I need to constantly remind it about code it suggested a while ago or things I asked for in the past, or it completely ignores the context and focus just on the latest ask.

It is incredibly powerful for getting things started, but as soon as you have a sketch of a complex system going it loses its grasp on the full picture and do not account for the states outside the small asks you make. This is even more evident when you need to correct it about something or request a change after a large prompt. It just throws all the other stuff out the window and hyperfocus only on that one piece of code that needs changing.

This has been the case since GPT 3, the even their most recent model (forgot the name, the reasoning one) has this issue.
Thanks for your thoughts! Yes, it does to an extent rely on your direct / extended network having pets - and just as with the established platforms there is no guarantee :) - but also nothing much to lose^^ Worst case get is a solid foundation that you can print out and plaster all across your city and facebook groups. Most of my petsitting jobs didn’t come from the established platforms so it can work as a cure for those who are underwhelmed by the platforms.

When you create a card you get a personalised message containing all the relevant location hashtags and pet preferences as hashtags e.g. #catsitting or #reptilesitting . People who have those interests (pet owners, travel-affine) would then see it more likely (besides your own connections who might know someone etc.).

Another idea would be to share the card on an Instagram profile and run targeted ads to wherever you want to sit next - so pet owners from there can reach out to you directly. And if there is no luck through direct connections, there are still the good old local facebook groups :).

Especially on a place like LinkedIn however which otherwise is full of "I have a new job"-posts, pet content serves as a good antidote - and LinkedIn's algorithms are very much in favour of showing content to 2nd and 3rd connections. I think LinkedIn is a good place to experiment since there are many professionals in stable life situations who do travel abroad once in a while and maybe even create lasting personal connections across countries.

In general it is more meant to break the ice, get the word out, leave an impression and maybe next time your 1st, 2nd or 3rd connections need a sitter they think of you.

I actually had the backend built, with user access, password etc so users would have a live card on the page they could share - but the larger the project grew, the longer changes took - and I did not like the idea of becoming a middleman myself, be in charge of the data and user account / database management. It would have become yet another platform.

This was really the result of recycling the idea and re-empathising the M in MVP and making it more accessible for people to spread the message :)
thanks! the pointing logo is my favorite.
I’m sorry, I don’t know what “false” is. Are you perhaps talking about the macro FALSE defined as (0)?
How do you reverse a linked list? (Entertainment Video)
I'm on AI4 v13 and havent had a safety intervention in several thousand miles. It's incredible and extremely smooth
Have you tried Zen mode?
An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models
How to feel bad and be wrong – by Adam Mastroianni
https://www.mysql.com/industry/government/
Yeah I think the author is just talking about personal development books, not non-fiction as a whole.
I think the right answer is that people who care about these things should use a client that rewrites queries via an LLM and clearly show the changes it makes (not sure if this exists yet but I'm sure it will). This also would handle a few other problems I've run into such as having multiple WHERE clauses or doing a WHERE prior to a JOIN and it could also allow using plain English to describe what you want to query.

I've found LLMs do a really good job of writing/cleaning up SQL.
He's not saying that all non fiction is bad, just that the incentives are misaligned, and to be fair at least in my experience, there are a lot of popular non-fiction books where each chapter is repetitive, and I feel the whole thing could have been written in 2-3 chapters, if publishing a 30-page nonfiction book wasn't taboo
It’s a little hit or miss (pun intended). I’ve used it off and on in my model 3 for the past 2 years and the rate of improvement has been significant.

Still though it has quirks.

On long trips, I LOVE it. LOVE it. Being able to just tap in and relax, make phone calls, listen to an audiobook, etc is so nice. The first time I ever used it I had to leave early from the All Things Open conference in Raleigh because I was getting sick. Having it essentially drive me home for 5 hours when I wasn’t well, including stopping to charge, was a huge relief.

It’s also great in traffic jams where you’d otherwise be dealing with stop and go traffic until you get through it. Just tap in and relax til you’re on the other side.

Day to day driving, it’s a little more iffy. I’ve dealt with seemingly random slowdowns on otherwise empty roads. It feels odd especially because it’s sudden.

Early on it would have difficulty on roads without well marked lines too.

I’ve never felt like it was going to run into an object though. Usually it errs on the “too cautious” side and I just take over to get where I’m going quicker.
Doublethink? Dystopian?
I do not mean this in an offensive manner at all. Are you between the age of 18-30?
> Currently, the Huggingface Hub provides model publishers the option of requiring pre-registration and/or pre-approval to download a specific model’s weights. However, downstream (e.g., finetuned) or even direct versions of these models are not required to enforce these controls, making them easy to circumvent. We would encourage Huggingface and other model distributors to enforce that such controls propagate downstream, including automated enforcement of this requirement (e.g., via automated checks of model similarity).

None of the watermarking methods I have seen work in this way. All of them require extra work at inference time. In other words, Gemini might have watermarking technology on top of their model, but if I could download the weights I could simply choose not to watermark my text.

Stepping back, in section 6 the authors don’t address what I see as the main criticism: authentication via writing style is extremely weak and none of the mitigation methods actually work. If you want to prevent phishing attacks I would suggest the most salient factor is the identity of the sender, not the style of writing of the email itself.

Another thing that annoys me about these “safety” people is they ignore the reality of running ML models. Getting around their “safeguards” is trivial. Maybe you think it is “unsafe” to talk about certain Tiananmen Square events. Whatever change you make to a model to mitigate this risk can be quite easily reversed using the same personalization methods the paper discusses.
I've never heard that term. Basically self help disguised as unbiased information or what?
Sounds right. I'm in a major university town in SE Michigan. In recent years, apartment rents rose by ~4X the "official" gov't rate of inflation.

Supposedly, the townies and students are diehard Democratic liberals. But especially around campus, voting statistics show Trump getting many more votes last November (and Harris many fewer) than the stereotypes would suggest.
I have no horse in this race at all, but people seem less likely to tell good anecdotes. There's little interesting in "I used it, it worked adequately."
The boot menu uses some form of bank switching to get to the actual game ROMs and their specific switching strategy, if any. The 2600+ and 7800+ would need to know the method (a write to a specific address, perhaps) to get to the specific part of the ROM on a bank-switched game anyway.

I never tried that, so I might be very wrong in my assumptions.

In the case of the imaginary cartridge with the UI, changing the ROM that’s mapped to the cartridge space with the physical UI and resetting the console without resetting the card controller should do the trick.
This is a solved problem. My 2009 4Runner has the perfect temp control. I couldn't tell you how it works. But my hand knows. Which is perfect tool design.
Unemployment and under-employment are not unique to capitalism.
I have specifically noticed this pattern with the red-flag headline word “amid”. It always means the beta coeffficent is 0 but they want you to think it’s 1.

“President announces crackdown on immigration amid ongoing success of Taylor Swift’s new album”.
The most impressive thing is that this doesn’t cause an infinite recompilation loop. ;)
I don't know what direction you've headed here are you trying to say Rust is good in the kernel because of the flaws/challenges in assembly?

Are we into word games to confuse and distract so you can slip Rust by?
defensive much cuh?
Yeah, let's call their number U7. It seems like it's U6 + those on a poverty wage.

It's a fairly reasonable argument that U6 is a better measure of unemployment than U3. And I'd accept a similar argument for their U7, or the other U7's out there that add people like the discouraged.

But I suspect that their U7 is likely at a 20 year low, just like U3 and U6 are. Which would invalidate their argument, in my opinion.
You linked an article titled “No Clear Evidence Wuhan Coronavirus Can Spread Before People Show Symptoms” from _January 27 2020_.

The headline is accurate, at that point in time nothing about the virus was clear. The only portion of this article that even tries to downplay anything about China is this portion which as far as I know is still accurate.

> On the call with reporters, Messonnier also seemed to allay concerns that the virus could be transmitted via packages sent from China. Coronaviruses like SARS and MERS tend to have poor survivability, and there’s “very low, if any risk” that a product shipped at ambient temperatures over a period of days or weeks could spread such a virus.

> “We don’t know for sure if this virus will behave exactly the same way,” Messonnier said, but there’s no evidence to support transmission of the virus via imported goods.

Why are you trying to paint that as doctors lying?
Intel switched over to a new driver for dGPUs and any iGPU newer than Skylake(?).

The newest beta-ish driver is Xe, the main driver is Intel HD, and the old driver is i915.

People complaining experienced the teething issues of early Xe builds.
Not based on their safety record.
rogue judges are handled by appeals, which is why there are multiple levels of courts, with the idea that if it went all the way to SCOTUS, it's no longer a rogue judge.
I have been doing this for 30 years now. The software industry is all about selling variations of the same stuff over and over and over. But in the end, the more software there is out there, the more software is needed.
AI might take it over and handle it all, but at some point, it would be cruel to make humans do it.
My prediction:

Linus will retire and leave the Rust mess for other to live with.
> This is apparently different in Icelandic, where indeed ö is considered a separate letter, not an o with an umlaut/two dots. But this is simply a convention of Icelandic typography

I mentioned both phenomena. On the fundamentals, the letters are separate; that is the conclusion you'd come to, for French éè or Icelandic oö, by studying the writing system. According to formal authority, the two French letters are one and the same. This is a mistake of fact, but that happens all the time. (Compare French aà, where they're formally identical letters and the fundamentals tell us that the formal statement is correct. You might also compare 20th-century Spanish, in which "ch" and "ll" were formal letters that collated differently from the sequences "c-h" and "l-l". Again that agreed with the facts of the language; I believe the collation order was changed for the benefit of computers.)

And as I mentioned and you agreed, in the case of Icelandic the facts on the ground and the formal statement by authority are in agreement, so there isn't a case to be made that o and ö might be considered the same letter.
Not surprised I didn't get a response. Ten year old account wasted on some bizarre personal vendetta or virtue signal. Embarrassing.
Is there anything stopping you, a0, from just seeing the best apps users make and then taking that idea and launching it yourself?
It is vague because the implementation details you are asking me for are closed source, for obvious reasons. I can only guess what it does but that's besides the point. The point is rather that Devon or 1M window context qwen model might be better or more resilient towards the "lack of context" than what the others were suggesting.
I'm an optimist, as well as a capitalist. So what I love about computing is the ability to make a lot of money from the comfort of my own home by, essentially, distilling my own thoughts into an artifact other people will pay to use. That's just about the closest thing to magic I can imagine a human being having.

>Do I need to fix my depression before I fix my outlook on computers, or can I work on both at the same time?

Both at the same time, bit by bit. Absent any other issues I would actually guess the family/relationship one-two punch is the real thing dragging you down more than work itself. Unfortunately those kinds of situations are almost impossible for outsiders to help with, so I won't pretend to know what to do there.
That looks very promising. Imagine development speed based on that and for Zig and 1. static analysis, 2. dynamic analysis, 3. debugging/introspection tooling (code reduction, io-substitution), 4. backend experimentation.
But would you have thought to research how a specific car manufacturer's spicy anti-rodent tape tasted in the first place?

There's an element of discovery in this article, as well as being entertaining and informative. Her writing is—subjectively and objectively—uncommonly good.
I have the dread that in a relatively short amount of time
the personal traits in peoples writing will over time decrease
and may essentially end.

All our written interaction will have been polished and enhanced
by one LLM or another into a uniform template.
I think the right path is feedback, build some trust, and in the end hopefully you can build a relationship where your feedback is valuable and everyone works together.

It's not all one thing or the other at all times.

> “screw the managers, you should do the right thing for the customer”

That just seems like path leading to a rightful pink slip... and inevitably doing some damage when you're wrong.
Oreo: Protecting ASLR Against Microarchitectural Attacks (2024)
Despite starting off "not big and professional like gnu" Linux now has trillions of dollars' worth of business going over IT infrastructure based on it. You bet your ass it's a corporate funded behemoth now, not unpaid volunteer driven. And with corporate money comes corporate governance. Ouster of Linus as the chief maintainer is definitely on the table (though not likely to ve exercised here and now). I think Linus is being wishy-washy so as not to anger either the traditional "C-niles" currently holding the kernel together or the Rust group, who are likely a more prolific source of new development.

The right call here is to tell Ted Ts'o and the other old guard that they need to adjust to the new Rust reality, because things like being explicit about object lifetimes will make the C code better as well as more compatible with what the Rust side wants to do. But he either doesn't want to do that or is looking for a diplomatic way to go about it.
I hope this isn't too off-topic, but I'm always amazed at how many otherwise smart people hold the naive belief that FSD is remotely close because 99.9% of the time it works fine.

Self-driving in my opinion will require an AI that is, if not very close to, an AI capable of general intelligence.

Why?

Because in the real world to be able to drive a car as well as a human across all of the edge cases a human can you probably need something approaching general intelligence.

Humans understand that a person isn't just something with 4 limbs, but also can be that thing that looks like a white sheet with eyes by the side of the road on Oct 31st. And its these types of weird edge cases that humans instinctively understand because they have a deep world model to reason about which cannot be reasoned about by the narrow FSD AI systems we currently have.

When you think about what humans need to do when driving it's so much beyond just watching the road and turning a wheel that it seems almost absurd to imagine our current AI is anywhere near capable of handling all of the edge cases humans currently are.

And I also don't buy this argument that the goal should be to simply to reduce the total number of accidents per mile... I'd grant that it's very possible that FSD could reduce the total number of accidents per mile driven because most miles are driven in the much more narrow environment of highway driving. And here AI probably could do better job than a human on average when you factor into the equation human tiredness and distractibility. But no one is going to be comfortable with FSD occasionally plowing into a group of kids outside a school because statistically the total number of people who die in road traffic accidents is reduced on a per mile basis.

I'd be interested if anyone strongly disagrees.
I was going to say Java…
What was “wrong” is that enough people are willing to pay exorbitant prices for the highest-end gear that Nvidia can do most anything they want as long as their products have the best numbers.

Other companies do make products with lower power draw — Apple in particular has some good stuff in this space for people who need it for AI and not gaming. And even in the gaming space, you have many options for good products — but people who apparently have money to burn want the best at any cost.
I haven't been tracking. Is Express 5 GA yet? Any project that stalls out like Express seemed to makes me think it's dead.

Any NodeJS web projects I run are on Express 4 and _still_ use express-async-router, helmet, and a hodgepodge of other add-ons to make it passable.

It is highly productive and useful, but I would never serve to the internet with NodeJS, much less with Express 4. Only internal apps. Scary NPM ecosystem of abandonware and resume fodder, it's not okay!
I have a huge soft spot in my heart for DEC. They hold the same place in my heart that Sun does for a lot of people. One of my first *nix accounts was on MIPS DECstations running ULTRIX as an undergrad.

My first job was as a *nix sysadmin for a small academic department running DECstations with ULTRIX. This was in 1993, and I helped them transition to DEC Alphas. One of the first things I did was upgrade the RAM in a 3000/500X ("hot pink flamingo". The cost of the RAM kit was more than my annual salary, so I paid extra close attention to the EST precautions.

I moved on to being research staff in a department doing OS research, and was paid to help port FreeBSD to the DEC Alpha. One of my fondest memories is getting a UP1000 from API (Alpha Processor Inc, who made Alpha boards with AMD chipsets) to port FreeBSD to. (Alpha was a bit like older Arm, and each board was a bit different w/o a generic way to discover hardware).

And to cap it all off, I got to work with Dick Sites (one of the Alpha architects) at Google. When I first met him, he autographed my old copy of the DEC Alpha Architecture Reference manual. He was the nicest guy ever, and even offered to give me a ride to the airport one day when I had a really early flight. I love it when my heros are amazing people.
Non-fiction is a bad term.

An historical account is not fiction (because it happened) but it read as well as a fiction book.

Agassi's biography would be another example.
There's non-fiction (historical accounts and pop-sci explainers) and there's non-fiction (here's how you ought to behave.)

Obviously SPQR, but also Bad Blood is a historical account, and it's interesting.

Most business books are of the "here's how you ought to behave" variety. Most of these were written to win the author consulting gigs. The vast majority are formulaic and bland. Also, to hit a publisher's wordcount/shelf-space targets, they're always heavily padded. 99.9% of them would be better off in much more concise bullet-point format.

Of course there are a lot of edge cases and books that don't fit neatly into any category. And there are some books, like the Hagakure, Meditations, and the Bible itself, which started off as clear-cut examples of "here's how you ought to behave" but later became historically important.
Hey Artem, NewsCatcher has been a great resource in our news pipelines!
The cynic in me questions how much writing is enhanced with AI these days rather than being the authentic style of an author. Great read nonetheless…
It does not seem to be the case.

> Big fail on my part, obviously. Don't make the same mistake I did. Pay attention. It can happen. I follow Tesla and FSD pretty closely and haven't heard of any accident on V13 at all before this happened. It is easy to get complacent now - don't.

> I do have the dashcam footage. I want to get it out there as a PSA that it can happen, even on v13, but I'm hesitant because I don't want the attention and I don't want to give the bears/haters any material.

https://x.com/MrChallinger/status/1888546351572726230