skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been hearing internet rumours of theories that for a lot of people all of this has something to do with fragile masculinity, a desire for dominance, sexual insecurity, something like that. I don't really understand it fully, but it's something like they want to bring back old sexual hierachies so they can be at the top of them. Machoism. They want to bring the manly jobs back and give them to white people. The reason they hate black people is they have some insecurity about being sexually out-competed by black men. The reason they hate gay and trans people is that nontraditional sexuality devalues the whole traditional sexual hierarchy. The reason they want to crash the economy so there won't be as many jobs available and women will have to depend on men for money which will make it easier for them to get women - some of them have actually said this out loud! And so on.

It's just one of many possible theories, but it's consistent with itself and the evidence...

Not sure where exactly I've seen the idea. It might have been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn6b8GRAXgo or its source material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID8Xq3chNi4
I thought the GP comment was interesting. The hypothesis that if the decision becomes too complicated you just give up and fallback to the strong male.

Like the reptile brain gets enabled if you loose the overview.
I think it’s easier to just include it in the system prompt. Relying on training risks having it get too tainted from media attention about ChatGPT. It’s not uncommon for LLM’s to misreport themselves as ChatGPT because of this.
Thanks for this timely post! My mother is going to Paris next week and asked me the very same question.

I concur with Rick. In my experience travelling and living in Europe, Americans are well liked despite whatever politics the country as a whole may take on. As he says, it's extremely important for us to be good ambassadors -- deferential, open, and keeping it light.
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It’s still generalization even if it’s about people in your community…

If I talk about people in Brooklyn broadly is it not a generalization because it’s my community? lol

No wonder political discourse is completely broken.
My university solves this quite easily.

There is no graded homework, the coursework is there only as a guide and practice for the exams.

So you can absolutely use LLMs to help you with the exercises or to help understand something, however if you blindly get answers you will only be fooling yourself as you won't be able to pass the exams.
If you're in the business of selling to the government, you might find that it's impossible to make anything happen unless you hire "the right consultants." (Usually small firms that have hired ex-regulators or insiders.) That's what I meant. Not that generic firms like McKinsey are angels, though!
I mean there is a LOT more to life then fishing and hunting that people might care about? And even if we want to restrict ourselves to fishing and hunting there are more issues then just polution that may sway peoples minds. Gun control? Most of the anti hunting groups and extreme environmental groups that want to shutdown any form of hunting are often composed of far left leaning people. But the biggest reason is probably these people tend to live in more republican leaning areas and care about the same issues their friends and neighbors do.
Exactly. And that’s how GPT-4o supposedly also answers but not Claude, Gemini Mistral,… :)
Yes I will use cliff notes LLM for my LLM literature class.
If you know all of your queries ahead of time, then compiling them efficiently has already been shown to be effective.

Noria

https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVv9Pik6QGY

https://thesquareplanet.com/research/

Materialize/TimelyDataflow

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YYJ3aycAAAAJ...
Depending on the language, personally, I haven't seen a great deal of hallucination with the models I use (llama 3.1 often). I wouldn't expect, say Spanish, to be a problem. I think you'll find more potential issues when it comes to more domain-specific terminology.
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Re France listen the French are super duper proud of their language and rightfully so, it’s still practical to communicate to your residents important information.

Re San Antonio, they actually are counting the metro area which brings in a lot of white suburbs and throws the numbers off a lot but in the interest of being balanced, let’s say I’ll concede the point.

There are still a lot of US citizens in San Antonio that speak Spanish primarily, I think you’d be surprised by this, I know I was the first 200 times I met someone like that, lots of people there with roots back several generations still speaking with English with an accent.
>But you are likely consuming media that tells you everyone is going to draw and quarter you if you mess up a pronoun. This is not the case. .

You can say that because you live in a privileged country where compelled speech is illegal.

https://www.eurasiareview.com/20062017-canada-law-makes-it-i...

>Trans people just move on, they're used to it. It literally happens all the time

Or they try to cancel you and get you fired

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/15/i-was-fired...

https://www.newsweek.com/christian-teacher-says-she-was-fire...
At the end of the day you can't force people to learn if they don't want to.

As a society we need to be okay with failing people who deserve to fail and not drag people across the finish line at the expense of diluting the degrees of everyone else who actually put in effort.
They typically don't.

I had to take company training in interviewing. The trainer started out by acting out a fake interview. Then he asked us how we felt about him as a candidate. Pretty much everyone agreed that he nailed the interview. Then he began to list all the things he said and how he answered questions, and it slowly became clear that it was all bullshit, and he never said anything that was a direct answer to any of the interview questions. By using deflection and redirection he was able to completely control the interview and give a glowing impression of himself.

I wish I could remember what company was hired to do that because it was one of the best corporate training experiences of my life.
Nah Spotify just realized they could generate their own AI music and pay no one for it.
I think the crazy part is that the math of 46 billion divided by 804,500 is almost 60k/case.

Maybe this is also highlighting a different problem.
Behaviour in a closed system choosing between the alpha, sound familiar to any animal behaviour? Oh, but we are so much more than that. We aren't animals, we are developed people. Fascinating behaviour isn't it, Muppet.
Why should singles and childless people subsidise people with children?

children are the future of our society. even in today's system, children will be the ones paying your pension when you retire. putting that burden on parents alone is what is unfair. how would you like your pension to be measured based on the number of children you raised? maybe if you have no children you shouldn't get any pension at all?
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You don't translate it, that's the point. Train à grande vitesse means high-speed train. There is no "of", "at" or "with" there.

Similarly, pain au chocolat does not mean "bread of the chocolate" or anything silly like that. "Chocolate bread" would be the closest translation but since this is ambiguous in English we just use the French word as a loanword.

You won't learn anything by trying to find an English analogue for words like à in French. It will probably actually set you back. You just have to learn it how natives learn it. It's French because it's French. There is no other definition and you can't draw on any other language for guidance. This goes for all natural languages.
So then the actual bona fide peasants are the ones owning the T-bills? I thought holding USD reserves was national policy, with strict currency controls and whatnot. So my basic reading of that quote puts it closer to a dog whistle blanket characterization, and your promotion of the equivocation is quite disingenuous.
Ooh thanks for the rec, I hadn't heard of Knalpot before.
I hate to break it to you, but people working as gas station cashiers as adults aren't going to produce much innovation no matter what. They work those jobs because they need resources to survive and they can't make more money elsewhere.

Like I said, the people you're talking about just had a significant period of time where they were effectively paid to stay home and had ample time to pursue their personal interests, yet no meaningful innovation was produced by that cohort that I'm aware of. What am I missing?
That looks really cool. What's the biggest memory usage one of the instances has ever climbed to? Is it first-in, first-out when the memory limit is reached? I assume if people are uploading binary content it would grow rather fast. Some screenshots in the repo would be nice.
I also see this as spreading FUD. I have led quite many remote interviews recently with European candidates and I can guarantee that not one of them was an AI generated pretender. Also, since LLMs is a popular topic nowadays, it was easy to have candid conversations about their use. I have also seen recorded videos of these AI-generated candidates and with two brain cells working it's easy to identify them. It's also easy to see and feel if a candidate is having a genuine conversation with you or is trying to use AI-assistant tools.

Maybe in the future it will be a more significant problem but not this year, not next year and probably not even this decade.
I was there. I drew the artwork for the poster for the talk that got pinned up on noticeboards around the univrsity. I met Conway a handful of times, mostly at DAMTP, and he was always interesting, always with new ideas.
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Why is it inapt?

If all you care about is an 8-bit AI workload (there's definitely a market for that), it's nice to have 24x the speed.
I will forever be grateful to whichever googler made the call to require chromebook bootloaders to be unlockable. I could easily see it going the way of smartphones otherwise.

So many devices can now remain useful after their support ends, rather than being destined to become ewaste.
Take away the welfare and stop paying taxes. Then there’s no health benefits to spend on.

Pretty sure this is why they are dismantling Medicaid and Medicare now.

It’s all aligned to put us back into 1890s when billionaires ran everything and people lived in tenement housing.
MAGA is level 10 on it. They went from the hardcore Christian party to supporting the biggest crook American politics has ever seen, that isn't even capable of basic kindness. Same with veterans. A draft dodger, that has called our fallen soldiers losers, and skipped out on ceremonies honoring them, that presidents traditionally attend. MAGA jumped from deficit hawks, to supporting huge tax cuts that will explode the deficit. It's not even close who is worse here.
Different benchmark, those are for the short form creative writing leaderboard here: https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html
It's not the most enticing thing. If the prompt is nicely crafted, you get more intentional results, and maybe that's interesting. Seems a tough sell. I suppose there are authors like Simenon and Pratchett who would churn out books at the rate of at least one a year, and fans might wish for increased output, so maybe there's a niche for a slop-assisted author.
> what's the point of the teacher then?

Coaching the student on their learning journey, kicking their ass when they are failing, providing independent testing/certification of their skills, answering questions they have, giving lectures, etc.

But you are right, you don't have to wait for a teacher to tell you stuff if you want to self educate yourself. The flip side is that a lot of people lack the discipline to teach themselves anything. Which is why going to school & universities is a good idea for many.

And I would expect good students that are naturally curious to be using LLM based tools a lot to satisfy their curiosity. And I would hope good teachers would encourage that instead of just trying to fit students into some straight jacket based on whatever the bare minimum standards say they should know, which of course is what a lot of teaching boils down to.
The .NET 4.X runtimes baked into Win10/11 are OS components just like Win32 is an OS Component.

That's first of all brilliant if you want to ship apps that run on those systems, because you don't need to ship the runtime.
But it's painful when you want to write server software. Because you don't want your deployment story to be dependent on the server having some particular system level software (or it being windows).
So it's completely inevitable that 4.X will never die. Win32 won't die either.

And making the ship to a completely separate runtime that runs on Linux, and isn't an OS component (but in return requires deployment) was just natural. It's not completely unthinkable that the .NET Runtime will be shipped as part of Windows, but even that woulnd't mean that they can stop shipping the .NET Framework 4.X runtmes.

I just ported a 20 year old 200+ man year desktop app from 4.8 to 8.0 and it was pretty smooth. Even things like old binary-only proprietary winforms controls actually work, which was a huge surprise.

If you are making a web app or any kind of server side app, then the migration is usually straightforward. For client side software it's not as easy, and in some cases it's also not clear whether it's a win. If you are shipping some small Windows-only utility it's probably better to ship on the "old" runtime because your deployment will be smaller when you can use the OS runtime.
I think we’d agree that trump is maga, but is every voter for trump?
I'm not talking about my city - I'm talking about the people on my fishing forums, or who I meet down by the river.

The talking point about Brooklyn is about as dumb a "Gotcha" as you'd expect in:

> political discourse is completely broken.
Why would it “give them pause”?

Your question (as phrased here) is clearly provocative rather than curious and represents your biases (eg, “openly wants to mess up your pastime”). You don’t consider the two obvious answers, in that they see it differently or they have higher priorities, and are using extreme language.

Are you really surprised people are annoyed by that behavior?
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I'd really like to see some opponent AI in games more.

Games like Civilization (a game I loved) pretty much ended for me at Civ VI as the computer is completely incapable of making good decisions. It declares war and builds no units or simply does nothing, it even seems to rage quit the game at times.

I'd like to see some level of AI that can adapt to me to provide a reasonable challenge but still be fun.
Exactly. Also depending on what kind of work you do organizations have to be aware of capacity - if there are operational times when I'm going to be handed emergency tasks but I'm already completely inundated with work because I was given the work for doing good work, then we lack the capacity to manage our heavy load times.

It's one thing if you don't work in any area with operational requirements that change over the course of a year but if you do then you need to have reserve capacity for new workloads even if the people involved are good at work.
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Republicans have gone full doublethink. Remember when egg prices was the single most important issue of the election? Now when you ask those same people about rising inflation and the catastrophic economy they'll tell you to "get over it" or "stop being so materialist".

The same people that described themselves as "hard-core free speech absolutists" are perfectly fine with innocent men getting deported to El Salvador with no due process, or foreign scientists getting detained at the border for having criticized the president on social media.

This country is fucked, half of its inhabitants now live with Fox News induced cognitive dissonance and are literally "ride or die" with the GOP. There's nothing Trump or his administration could do that would make them reconsider their support.
Actually, Pinebook Pro users benefited from a lot of upstreaming work done/encouraged by Google/Chromium team for these devices. Upstream support for Gru Chromebooks predates Pinebook Pro exactly by 3 years.

And I did not do much on Pinebook Pro, except for Type-C port support. ;) Greetings, to you, too.
None of those factors go into the scoring fwiw. They are just informational.

The scoring is done to a rubric, like a teacher would grade an essay, on various criteria for good & bad writing.
> Now all houses look boring. Only recently people thought to build pretty houses again.

When I visited Japan last year most of my pictures were of old "crummy" looking buildings and older homes. They had character vs the modern flat buildings popping up all over. I even snapped pictures of the overhead wiring, utility poles and building connections. I now understand the prevalence of overhead wires and utility poles in manga/anime. I even read a white paper on Tepco's commitment to move as much of these old overhead wires underground.
> I think we're making different assumptions around magnitude.

I don't think so. I used an extreme example to make the effect obvious, but a 20% tax will have a similar effect at a smaller magnitude.

> Products would just cost a little more

The point is that this increase is not uniform. Consumer product advertising budgets already vary by an order of magnitude from less than 5% of sales revenue to more than 25%. This already results in price disparities e.g. between white-label products and brand-name products. Therefore, brand-name products for which advertising is a nontrivial fraction of their budget will experience an increase that is an order-of-magnitude larger than generic products. This will alter consumer purchasing decisions and force companies to respond.

Every brand considers advertising ROI carefully e.g. at what point will an extra dollar spent on advertising yield less than an extra dollar of income. Taxing ads simply shifts this equilibrium point.
Malicious bots looking for security issues are actually a lot nicer to your bandwidth than "AI" scraper bots.
I was told by the supervisor of my high voltage lab as part of the "one hand in your pocket" speech. It's also not hard to find similar statements via Google. Neither are definitive sources.
While everyone has the ability to have cognitive dissonance, please don't ignore the reality that MAGA is a bunch of weirdo cultist fuckos brainwashed by extremist propaganda media.
I think everybody has this sort of cognitive dissonance, albeit perhaps in different amounts; we just allocate it differently. And I think society is set up to help that. For example, I like animals and I eat meat. Would I kill a cow? No, but I'm happy to eat a burger. I've worked to get relatively comfortable with unresolved cognitive dissonance, so I can at least recognize my hypocrisy here. But I think it's way easier for people to refuse to think about it.

As with distributed systems, coherence is hard and expensive. Being rational about something, as opposed to just rationalizing, is long, slow work. We don't live in an age of patience. But perhaps one will come again, and until then we can at least try to be exceptions.
It was an unnecessary slight by the vice president of the United States. Vance is a provocateur, and I'm not sure he's an intelligent one.
Better to regret not having kids than to regret having them.
Both of my grandpas (who have passed away long ago), would beg to differ. People, especially when taking photos wasn't basically free, don't take photos of ordinary things. If you see 1 rose among 500 tulips, that will catch your eye. And vice versa.

Poor people were not hidden away, it's just their lives weren't that beautiful to be shown and paraded around.
Actually, a lot of jobs that are listed as "hybrid" can be negotiated to remote.
So like arguably when people were not using calculators they made calculations by hand and there was a room full of people that did calculations. That’s gone now thanks to calculators. But it the analogy goes to an order of magnitude higher, now fewer people can « do » the job of many so less hiring maybe but not just on « do calculations by hand » but almost all fields where the use of software is required.

Where will all those new students find a job if :
- they did not learn much because LLM did work for them
- there is no new jobs required because we are more productive ?
That's all good. I didn't say cloning a saas using AI is everything that's needed. Once a software engineer has cloned a saas they can do go to market science, if that' what you want to call it
The price of Backblaze WAS $5 a few years ago and they increased it to $6 (and added some free bandwidth).
> Its probably true that UBI can be used instead of targeted industrial investment by government.

In a small village, maybe on the metric of wealth per capita. But there are going to be massive externalities because there is nothing intrinsic there to perpetuate or grow that wealth through industry. That old proverb rings true, “Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish…”
The majority of MAGA don't care about the environment (especially wrt climate change), and in fact probably no longer believe that pollution is harmful.

I would not be surprised if smoking also makes a comeback as MAGA types continue down the anti-science crusade and pour scorn on the link between smoking and lung cancer and other types of health outcomes.
I guess that'd be a detractor, as he wouldn't've been able to make his post showing his results over time.

I'd've said the benefit is that it's simply a concise single command instead of a "while true" loop and a "sleep 5" command.
Moby Dick was kind of an aggressive assault on the reader. Which is to say I agree, this is a stereotyped idea of what writing should be. I'm inclined to think that it shouldn't be Moby Dick ever again, but it's kind of important that that book happened.
Build systems are workflow engines.

Workflow engines fundamentally separate and structure code and execution in discrete steps with a graph visualizer (hopefully the graph is acyclical).

Maybe it's just a bad example, but the code I saw looked very very unseparated. I understand most people who do builds want start out with the one build file to rule them all model.

But ultimately you are dealing with a workflow execution. If you were doing anything aside the most trivial single library build.

Next generation of whatever build needs to have the visualization and visualized execution assets.

There's a great many things that workflow engines fundamentally applied to. Unfortunately they have been politically associated with management trying to replace developer labor, usually because of the snake oil salesman, the workflow engine people are selling to the the c-suite people.

A good common visualization and execution set that's cross language would have been really helpful in so many computing domains. It's almost like we need the SQL of workflow engines to be invented
China has outlined plans to reduce their environmental impact in their 5-year plan. One can say "wow do you really trust the CCP?" but at least they have a publicly available plan.

https://en.ndrc.gov.cn/policies/202303/P02023042539857072035...