skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get scores for the outputs of the last layer; so in theory, you could notice when those scores form a particularly flat distribution, and fault.

What you can't currently get, from a (linear) Transformer, is a way to induce a similar observable "fault" in any of the hidden layers. Each hidden layer only speaks the "language" of the next layer after it, so there's no clear way to program an inference-framework-level observer side-channel that can examine the output vector of each layer and say "yup, it has no confidence in any of what it's doing at this point; everything done by layers feeding from this one will just be pareidolia — promoting meaningless deviations from the random-noise output of this layer into increasing significance."

You could in theory build a model as a Transformer-like model in a sort of pine-cone shape, where each layer feeds its output both to the next layer (where the final layer's output is measured and backpropped during training) and to an "introspection layer" that emits a single confidence score (a 1-vector). You start with a pre-trained linear Transformer base model, with fresh random-weighted introspection layers attached. Then you do supervised training of (prompt, response, confidence) triples, where on each training step, the minimum confidence score of all introspection layers becomes the controlled variable tested against the training data. (So you aren't trying to enforce that any particular layer notice when it's not confident, thus coercing the model to "do that check" at that layer; you just enforce that a "vote of no confidence" comes either from somewhere within the model, or nowhere within the model, at each pass.)

This seems like a hack designed just to compensate for this one inadequacy, though; it doesn't seem like it would generalize to helping with anything else. Some other architecture might be able to provide a fully-general solution to enforcing these kinds of global constraints.

(Also, it's not clear at all, for such training, "when" during the generation of a response sequence you should expect to see the vote-of-no-confidence crop up — and whether it would be tenable to force the model to "notice" its non-confidence earlier in a response-sequence-generating loop rather than later. I would guess that a model trained in this way would either explicitly evaluate its own confidence with some self-talk before proceeding [if its base model were trained as a thinking model]; or it would encode hidden thinking state to itself in the form of word-choices et al, gradually resolving its confidence as it goes. In neither case do you really want to "rush" that deliberation process; it'd probably just corrupt it.)
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Thanks! I love the "Fire in the Valley" book of Michael Swaine. I've read it so many times and always find it very inspiring.
Had to dig around for this but it is quite illuminating: https://www.freerangekids.com/how-children-lost-the-right-to...
Many bus routes have a 5-10ish min break at some point (usually the main station) in the route. If you can utilize those ten minutes to do a top-up, you can go a lot further on the same sized battery.
Side note, this site is miserable to use. There is a new ad block every two or three sentences and every sentence has a new line.
https://thechurchstudio.com/about/
For sure read Stephenson’s essay on path dependence; it lays out a lot of these economic and social dynamics. TLDR - we will need a major improvement to see something novel pick up steam most likely.
"Free range" laws. You search those terms and find a ton of information including which states have them.
> There’s a list of tools that now use the browser to set up devices, and it’s fantastic.

Honestly, I hate this trend. What happens when the company goes out of business and the web app you need to configure your hardware is taken down? A dedicated desktop app that doesn't have online dependencies is the only way to go.

I shouldn't need internet access to change the function layer on my keyboard.
I don't know how many engineers and different engineering teams you've worked with. But I see this all the time.

I worked once with a young engineer that spent 3 weeks for 2 lines of code. We celebrated him as a fucking superstar, because those 2 lines were in a low-level linux library, and he went so deep to find that bug, it was insane. He earned the reputation as one of the top problem-solvers in a multi-hundred person org.

So that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the developers (so many of them) who spend 2+ weeks in standups saying they're "working on automating the deployment", and when it's done you look at their code, and it's an argparse block followed by 6 lines of calling docker with trivial parameters. You've seriously never seen this? Lucky you, then.
There are no rational arguments or pathos appeals to assuage the greed and lust for power by the rich. They're too far gone and immovable, especially when they have the personality defects similar to malignant narcissism. They only respect strength.
The Plasma desktop is miles ahead of everything else (2021)
I did a GCP training a while back, and the anecdote from one of the trainers was that the Cloud Storage team (GCP’s S3-compatible product) hadn’t lost a single byte of data since GCS had existed as a product. Crazy at that scale.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children...

How children lost the right to roam in four generations
I'm European so I don't believe in absolute free speech, as you know we had a big problem with fascists, as the US now has. Do I believe that the government can be criticized? Certainly. And we do so frequently here, both online and with protests. Do you see our police cracking down on students here like in the US? No. And now US students are called terrorists because they don't support and propagate a genocide.
That may be the case, but as in NY vs Trump, sometimes laws are used in novel ways, in that case 'falsifying business records' -ie. inflating asset prices; something the prosecutor herself engaged in. Previously, those were normally misdemeanors but were reclassified as felonies. Also, they were not historically prosecuted. So, there is precedent for using previously unenforced laws as well as reclassifying the severity.
My Q990C requires factory reset about once a week. It's maddening.
I never understood this, I assumed it was geriatric people complaining because they literally don't have the strength to push down and turn, not that normal abled bodied adults were too dumb to figure out that you have to push down and turn, especially since the instructions are on the lid itself.
Yup, from what I hear, the problem is Apple doesn't allow process forking which means Tor would have to run inside the same process as the messaging app which is ridiculous.
Nobody wants to pay for teachers. Consequently, they make bigger schools with larger classrooms.

Where I grew up, you had multiple smaller elementary and middle schools eventually feeding into a larger high school.
I send them messages written in Khmer asking if they need help. (Most of the victims are not themselves Cambodian and cannot read this. But the messages are not for them; they're to spook their captors.)
I would assume your browser automatically applies security updates in the case of 0day exploits, no?

Like I said, automatic updates are an evil. But the general populace will absolutely defer every security update until the end of time so long as they don't have to spend five minutes waiting to get to their desktop.

Obviously vendors enshitify their products via firmware updates and potentially brick devices or introduce new vulnerabilities but, it's ludicrous to pretend that the general populace are good stewards of their internet connected devices or that they ever will be. They simply do not care, they never will, and its up to the rest of us to design products for the lowest common denominator if we want protect end users and have a safer internet.
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I actually did work with customer support in my very first job :) We had a limited IT crew, so programmers on-site would often go to the users' office to help with software and hardware issues.

My anecdote is the opposed of yours: they were interested in knowing why something wasn't working, but only as long as you're willing to be patient, talk slowly, and explain any unknown concepts to them, if required.

Insulting them, or just telling them it's their fault something wasn't working would be a sure way to get a negative reaction instead.
These brochures were amazing. Just like video games, the cover promised a lot!
I was only talking about Christians that put God's Word center. Catholicism is a different, church-centered faith that came later.

For example, in Christianity, they only venerate God and pray to God through Jesus alone. Peter and Hebrews says we are all priests who have direct access to God, coming boldly, as His adopted sons and daughters. Jesus also represents us before God with nobody else really needed.

Whereas, Catholicism taught people to venerate and pray to mere humans. They pray to Mary hoping she will represent them, too. That's idolatry in God's Word. It's also something we don't see Apostles or believers doing.

I noted below numerous such reasons that Catholicism is a different religion which Jesus and the Apostles call false teaching. That is, anything that contradicts their Gospel of justification by faith in Christ alone worshiping God alone.

https://www.gethisword.com/catholic

Deuteronomy requires testing any person or claim that allegedly comes from God. They had to have supernatural power and never contradict God's Word. The Pope's fail that test while Apostles passed it. To be obedient, I tested it myself above.
In the US, Methodist is a relatively middle-of-the-road denomination, not nearly as dreary as I've seen UK Methodists described.
> With other, younger, subjects, you wouldn't feel the need to justify asking for a photo like that, so including a justification indicates that you consider the subject to be some sort of special case.

I've had more than one friend die young and unexpectedly (not knowing that the last time we were in person together would be our last time), so if justification is needed, it is as simple as "Tomorrow is not assured, and any of us could be dead tomorrow. I would like to remember this, if that's okay with you." But, to each their own approach to life and interpersonal relationships. I appreciate the reply, so that I can better understand others.
Take the L man, you are sitting on 3 countries worth of GDP in cash. Buy Mistral, move on. That's what Amazon (basically) did and they're about to ship [1].

[1]: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generativ...
They work like springs in the mattress and they add the fluff to the top. Additional benefits are that the spikes don't get chewed by rodents and remain there for the following year
While I agree with your broad statement, I have a TCL (with built-in Roku) TV that has a bug in the sound processing. Either it becomes very quiet, drops out completely, or comes in and out with a lot of stuttering. Happens irregularly, typically though not always weeks apart (though on no schedule I've identified), solved with a reboot of the TV (which of course can't just be done by turning it off and back on - you have to select "restart system" from the menus).

I owned it for at least six months before this occurred the first time.

In theory, I could do a USB update of the firmware and hope that fixes it. In practice, they want my serial number to let me download it. No thanks, I'll pass, even though it's never been connected to WiFi or Ethernet and never will be. I'll just reset it every once in a while.
> I absolutely hate Stoicism.

You should exercise nore temperance. It is futile to hate things you can't control.
why would a soundbar need a firmware update?...seems like a solution looking for a problem... what's next my toaster needs a firmware update?!?!
There is much to learn from them. However there are dark sides of their culture too. They have high suicide rates, and are very xenophobic (much worse than Trump in the US) for starters. We can learn, but be careful as it isn't always clear which factors you want to emulate are tied to things you don't.
> if you need it that frequently installing the configurator tool locally isn't a huge deal I guess.

This sucks because the manufacturer has to forever keep supporting multiple native apps (given that mech keyboard users are pretty technical, not just Win/Mac but also Linux are necessary). Mac OS in particular is an insane moving target, and they tend to completely break app compatibility with every single major release.

What ends up happening is they'll ship JUST a program for Windows and shrug at everybody else.
Thanks for explanation. It is barely breathable for me, clamoring for ventilation as far as I remember (in school).

They should stress this point more. Everyone is like okay heat, we will fix that by AC, agriculture will be solved by indoor farming (supposedly, i know it won't)..etc.etc. But you can't as easily solve no fresh air outdoors.
Well, the minimum wage laws are more or less constant, but the paper is able to examine inter-store variation:

> Within McDonald’s restaurants, for example, the locations with the largest increase in short-stay customers saw the most productivity growth.
When a developer takes weeks to come up with trivial code, they are not productive.

I understand that complex problems can (should) be solved with simple code. That's not what I'm talking about.

Simple problems should be solved with simple code, and good developers do this quickly. If someone takes 3 days to figure out how to make a one-line REST api to a well-documented service, they are not productive.

Maybe I just unfairly expect developers at top companies to be able to not get stuck at every step and to not get confused by basic programming. I probably just need to recalibrate and understand that what I consider to be slow developers (certainly by comparison to the many excellent people I've worked with), are actually the norm, and I should just be OK with that.
Both were independently named for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon !
To install an AI update you didn't ask for, do not need and cannot turn off?
The plane, of course, flies anyway becuase planes don't care what humans think is impossible

/j
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iirc for computers doesn't gigabyte have some kind of patent on dual bios design (active vs backup bios chips). I'm sure there are other ways to implement it but I think thats true.
> As a mandatory reporter if I don't report such a thing I can be put in prison. Many activities now make all adults mandatory reporters (only mandatory reporters are allowed to go camping with scouts). I'm specifically told not to think, if there is any possibility I must report it and let the experts figure out if there is a problem or not.

There are some issues here with what you're saying.

Mandatory reporter classifications are a legal construct. Activities can't make people into mandatory reporters. Only some mandated reporters are subject to reporting requirements when off-duty (for example, in many jurisdictions, your scout camp 'chaperones' may well not be obliged to mandatory report. Teachers and HCPs may, however, be. And it may vary for WHAT they are reporting.)
I rarely find the pre-clearance process to be all that nice when compared to internal clearance. When I traveled a lot to NYC I far preferred to fly out of Toronto island and do immigration at Newark vs flying out of Pearson. The tone was entirely different.

I personally am not sure that pre-clearance should even continue given current diplomatic tensions. Having an armed foreign police force from a country whose official head of state says it wants to occupy you... doesn't seem wise.
A slight addition to this topic. A lot of jobs also became software, even if your intention in signing up for the jobs was different to begin with. PCs were revolutionizing the world.

For about a decade I worked as an engineer in a field where the expectation (at least starting) was that metal gets cut, stuff gets built, and there's physical hardware.

Those existed. May have actually had more hardware interaction than many in engineering. Yet much of the day to day rapidly became computer simulations of the metal that might get cut someday.

In many fields, the organizational choice decrement on anything involving capital expenditure or purchase was so severe that usually the obvious choice was to run a computer model, and simulate what might occur. What else would you do?
I have a laptop, steamdeck, Nintendo Switch and chromecast all connected to an LG TV and all the ouput switching and remote pass-through works as expected. Maybe just a lucky combination ?
Apparently it got discontinued, because extension support got merged to edge?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1i86ybn/kiwi_brows...
> Extensions are great for adding a tiny bit of functionality to a browsing experience without dedicating an entire app to run in the background.

And a great way to give permission to read and modify all websites you visit to something that should really better be an isolated application.

I would really not consider web extensions an alternative to standalone apps. In my security model, they inhabit the opposite corner.

> some users like to use VPNs securely tied in from the browser itself rather than running the full-scale app

This might be a mistake, for example. A VPN app runs sandboxed on mobile OSes (and many VPN types are supported by OSes natively so there's no need for an app in the first place), so it can't get access to website data (if HTTPS is used), whereas a web extension usually can.
> This is one of those things laws are great at. Delete the power of idiot Karens and the culture will return to normal.

How? Those idiot Karens are the ones writing the laws. They get on your state legislature and local town ordinances, and prevent more housing from being built too.

They have no competence and they do everything in the name of "safety", so you can't challenge them with logic or reason.

They are usually very privileged people with plenty of time on their hands so you can't play asymmetric warfare with them and expect to win.
Visceral fat has long-term memory, and also come as the last in the line. So the diet mentioned in the study may not have started the visceral fat reduction at all…

And I forgot, you have to exercise, HIIT, calories deficit is not enough.

Forget about Ozempic and other drugs, they are good for people with diabetes. And you have to use them for the rest of life, otherwise there is yoyo effect.
Good memories! I used to use the Cassowary solver back in the day for planning multi-media presentations where you could specify constraints that were to hold between the different elements of the presentation. Think: "play this audio clip at most two seconds after this other video ended", while the inherent lengths of the elements were only available at run-time.

In addition, you could combine quantitative with qualitative, i.e., Allen-style constraints [0].

This all feels like ages ago to me now, but I suppose >20 years actually is quite a long time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%27s_interval_algebra
I agree, but I'm wondering if Google are really going to allow people to have 3TB of storage free in perpetuity on a standard 200 user account.

I guess people with unlimited users might create even larger pools.
Sorry if I'm missing your sarcasm, but I was curious and tried to search for this and wasn't successful, can you give more details?
Thank you so much for the kind words. There isn't a lot of that going around on today's internet with its ephemeral interactions, dopamine-driven engagement, and deep polarization. I too often allow this disposition to infect my own arguments and occasionally lean too heavily into emotion.

I feel like this line of argument is gaining broader traction. When I was making these points four and five years ago I was frequently downvoted. I feel powerless to affect change, but I'm starting to notice that many powerful players seem to be echoing this sentiment. Tim Sweeney, Marc Andreessen, and now YCombinator.

YCombinator hasn't had many centicorns lately, and the reason for that is that big tech is sucking out all of the oxygen in the room. You have to pay their tolls to play - discovery and distribution incredibly frictionful, and you're always in some manner paying the gatekeepers. They're bloodletting margin from the innovators and practitioners that need it the most.

VC firms are certainly thinking this over. Google, Apple, and the rest put a ceiling over what portcos can ultimately grow up into, and they can even force M&A when in a different world that would be a subpar outcome. These firms and mid-cap tech companies can be a powerful voice to help shape regulation.

I shouldn't even have to mention how this hurts the small business, lifestyle business, and mom and pop operations. Tech giants are finding every way to squeeze the lemon that they possibly can. If we can get enough of them talking about their pain points, that can be another set of voices to add to the angry cacophony.

Europe has gotten louder in beating this drum, and I'm hoping the wave is starting to come to shore domestically. It'll make the world better for all players - even the tech giants.

Google, as a sum of its parts, is frankly undervalued. They aren't properly monetizing all of their properties. If they were forced to break up and make each business unit anti-fragile, actually competitive, actually profitable, and wholly standalone, most of those business units would emerge stronger and better for customers. Shareholders would see benefit.

But the broader impact to the health of the overall market is what's most important, and that could be tectonically massive. Everything and everyone who isn't "big tech" - every industry, every individual - has been ensnared in this Pacific garbage patch of netting. The once-free Internet has so many artificial barriers that you have to pay to bypass, platforms are walled gardens that don't play together, and the companies that own the gates aren't good stewards. Their role is just to accrue power and tax.

Freeing the markets up again will make everyone collectively so much more innovative and profitable.

I hope we see change soon.
Moved to Germany. Put kids 4 6 in school. School sends letter home: parents, please stop driving kids to school. Walking is part of the experience.

It’s the same all over Europe.

The distance to school is a social choice. But in the US, kids can’t even get off a school bus without a parent waiting

Fear culture and security theater
America has an obsession with being different and has a thousand answers to why things that work elsewhere would not and could not possibly work here. It's the size, if it's not the size, it's the density, if it's not the density it's ... repeat ad nauseam.
That sounds terrible to me. Can you also load your old file back into the app, say, if you want to check what the existing key mappings are? Still, I don't see the point of jumping through those hoops when WebUSB isn't something that automatically happens without the user explicitly granting access to a specific device in a dialog. People are acting like a Facebook ad can just enumerate all your USB devices and turn on your microphone or something.
Google claims to have rolled out a fix today: https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Streaming/Regarding-a...