skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think unless we really understand what is happening inside GPT-3,

You realise we have debugging tools that let us inspect what is going on inside transformer-based models like GPT-3 right?

> why do we train a system that is supposed to be intelligent on such data?

Because it's available and does interesting things.

> we cannot really tell whether it is really dumb or just playing dumb for the above reason.

No one who works in the field thinks anything approaching this.

I think GPT-3 does raise questions about what intelligence is though.
> The truth is desktop Zen 3 is only decently ahead of certain multi core workloads at 10x or more the wattage,

Zen 3 was never really compared to M1 in multicore workloads in that Anandtech M1 article. You linked a single-core one, and Zen 3 isn't using 10x the power in that single-threaded comparison, either.

Also the 27W TDP i7-1185G7 is keeping up with the also around 25w TDP M1 in spec2017 single-threaded. M1 is still faster, but more in the realm of a typical generational improvement.
"Home Depot has agreed to a $17.5 million settlement in a multi-state investigation of a data breach suffered by the company in 2014.

"Delaware Attorney-General Kathy Jennings announced the settlement on Tuesday, in which a total of 46 states, as well as the District of Columbia, have reached a resolution with the US retailer."

Six years on and i wonder if Home Depot actually takes data protection seriously? Hopefully this will act as a warning to other orgs with a cavalier attitude to security.
i want to know how some providers can advertise "unmetered bandwidth" meaning they don't even log your limits as opposed to "unlimited" which might have an asterisk and many just don't and only provide 1TB or 2TB and the like.

at the scale, does bandwidth cost them or what?

if the costs of such are significant, what would the costs be to someone like youtube?
Agreed. At this point the argument is nearing joke/meme level.
You should also listen to this Planet Money episode:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/02/09/584555705/epis...

Episode 823: Planet Monet

> The art market is going nuts. People are spending record amounts of money of paintings like Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. But not everyone is rushing home to hang their new artwork up on their walls. A lot of buyers are storing their art in vast warehouses near airports. They're called, "freeports."

> Freeports exist between countries, a sort of no man's land, which means you can store your artwork there as long as you want, without having to pay any taxes on it.

> Where are these freeports? How do they work, and are they even legal? Today on the show, we try to find out.
RationalWiki should also be taken with a heavy dose of scepticism!
The idea that the state needs to pull levers in order to manage things like inflation and interest rates isn't supported by all economists.

It's definitely not supported by the Austrian school.
And made freely available with a permissive licence
> Black market for ancient/cultural artifacts that provide no practical benefits whatsoever to someone's life. Fascinating.

No practical benefit but status; a lot of people, rich and poor, are chasing standing.
We are a parliamentary democracy, we already have decentralization. We willingly let go because of the false dichotomy you present.
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Have you self-published books? What's it about? What motivated you to write it? How long it took, what tools did you use? Would love to hear about your experience and anything else you'd like to share.
> today’s standards

“Today’s”?

There has never been a better time for freedom of speech. You can pretty much say whatever you want and nobody is going to put you in jail or burn you at the stake. Indeed you have tools like never before with which to promulgate your message.

Even if your remarks are racist, xenophobic, misogynistic or some other kind of bigoted you can still pretty say much whatever you like and there’s even guys out there that will give you a platform.

You might think that these rights extend to the workplace but you would be wrong. Leave religion and politics at the door and just do your job.

I blame the culture of overwork that exists in the industry for many people not being able to know the difference between personal and professional.
Yes. I think you cannot teach people these things fast, it takes decades (and is then actually a culture).
For cost purposes they started out with mostly off-the-shelf components and then they slowly replaced those components that could not withstand the stress with custom kit. IIRC just casting some components in sturdy resin was often enough. Bad for the thermals ofc, but it only needed to run for a few minutes anyway. I left the navy a few years ago but since the product is now apparently ready I assume that they managed to solve all remaining problems. (Acquiring a GPS signal quickly enough from a high speed projectile was not trivial either)
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What Is eBPF and How Does It Work?
we're pretty much there. The new pi 4 compute module breaks out the pcie bus. The official pi4 compute base board routes that to a standard pcie x1 slot instead of USB 3.0 which is a massive win in my book (hello more ethernet/sata/fpga/nvme/etc). It's a baby Arm mobo with pci and I'm a little excited :-)

I have a pi4 compute + base board on pre-order plus I just bought a pcie x1 m.2 M-key card off amazon. I plan to use the SD card (emmc on my model) to boot a kernel and use the m.2 card for storage.

I think the pi foundation finally realizes that the pi has the potential of becoming an affordable and accessible SoM (system on Module) with a huge community behind it.
How many roads must a man walk down?
It's a joke, somehow. There's a link in the article to the raw responses of every participant in the survey. Some of them are not so outrageous, many of them just make me sad.

The joke is that, being from different persons, the article makes a mix of them that remarks the contrasts.
The overhead of transporting this equipment between farms makes the process significantly less efficient. The difference between harvesting 2,000 acres a day and 1,700 might not seem like a lot, but add in transaction costs and you can be talking 5+% higher food costs ignoring subsidies.
Can it regenerate energy when slowing down?
Best Interpretation Methods for Machine Learning
It's said that GPT-3 shows rudimentary hints of "general intelligence"-like behaviors, it can really "solve" (not just memorizing answers) many puzzles without fine-tuning it by domain-specific training data, although the performance is limited without doing it.

David Chalmers [0] wrote,

> When I was a graduate student in Douglas Hofstadter’s AI lab, we used letterstring analogy puzzles (if abc goes to abd, what does iijjkk go to?) as a testbed for intelligence. My fellow student Melanie Mitchell devised a program, Copycat, that was quite good at solving these puzzles. Copycat took years to write. Now Mitchell has tested GPT-3 on the same puzzles, and has found that it does a reasonable job on them (e.g. giving the answer iijjll). It is not perfect by any means and not as good as Copycat, but its results are still remarkable in a program with no fine-tuning for this domain.

> What fascinates me about GPT-3 is that it suggests a potential mindless path to artificial general intelligence (or AGI). GPT-3’s training is mindless. It is just analyzing statistics of language. But to do this really well, some capacities of general intelligence are needed, and GPT-3 develops glimmers of them.

[0] https://dailynous.com/2020/07/30/philosophers-gpt-3
Leonardo Da Vinci painting Salvator Mundi was sold for $450M back in 2017, where is the justification for this pricing?

That particular painting was by all accounts bought by (or at least for) the Abu Dhabi tourism ministry as advertising and a centerpiece for their new fancy art museum.

Although other claim it might also have been purchased for Mohammed bin Salman to go in his fancy new art museum.

Either way it seems to be two governments really really wanting a fancy new painting to show off in their fancy new art museum. The most generous interpretation would be that since the Mona Lisa directly and indirectly brings millions of tourism dollars to Paris every year having a famous Da Vinci painting of their own would bring millions of tourism dollars to their city as well.
Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2018
I should read it then. Because such a facile dismissive comment makes me more interested in reading the article and less in what the commenter has to say.

Without having read a line yet, I'm betting the article goes against "polite conversation", and ventures into trying to say something interesting, and this is the "pearl clutching" that usually accompanies such a thing.

Let's see...
Is there an "open" SBC by your definition?

Intel has ME/AMT, and requires an opaque, PK-signed-and-only-intel-and-NSA-have-the-key blob. AMD is the same with PSP.

I'm not up to date, there might be a RISC-V core available today that is blob free, but in 2012 when RasPi was introduced I wasn't aware of anything blobless.
And the mechanical and thermal shocks it gets when it passes from the vacuum chamber to the atmosphere.

IMHO the centrifuge part is the easiest of their challenges.
The website seems to be proxying content from other sites.

The content of the page is taken from : https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201125.html
I, too, live in a rural area, but the local WISP cannot provider service due to the geography of the area, so I have 12Mbps/768kbps via DSL, while a friend up the road is getting a symmetric 80Mbps connection from the WISP.
I betcha there are more people in China who watch CNN, Fox News etc. than there are people in America who watch CGTN etc.

It is trivial for the US to allow foreign media on US grounds if noone watches it.

If the foreign media becomes popular, the pipe will soon play a different tune.

Case in point: TikTok.
What is your answer to the Thiel Question?
I live in Sweden, saying that CNN or NYT are left-wing is a terrible joke to my ears...
Full datasets: https://sites.google.com/site/ollehammar85/data
> while they have nothing valuable or insightful to say. It just creates noise and writes for the sake of writing something.

Isn't that 99% of all internet comments/tweets/posts?
You are the one labelling them, different countries have different histories.

People usually labelled "Hindu right wing" by the english media have nothing in common with the western idea of conservative.

They are strongly pluralistic, believe in smaller communities and tribes preserving their identity, nature loving, sympathetic to vegetarianism, not homophobic, not against abortion, strong believers in climate change and eco friendly policies.
I'm familiar. It's engineered to attend , attend , attend and fill in blanks. Nowhere is there any consideration for semantics
The US is in a hell scape. What do you do when you need masks to go to medical professionals but none were set aside for this scenario and medical and public stocks are the same? They decided to tell people to not wear masks. They also didn’t think anything like cotton homemade masks would be effective. So they couldn’t recommend people wear those.

Sometimes people in authority lie to manage hell scapes. It’s a game theoretic choice and probabilistic by nature. If you want to be upset at someone then do some more research. There’s plenty to go around.
Exactly, there's some rather large farms in the NZ high country, and they tend to measure stocking rates for their more marginal land as "hectares per head" - much like measuring an M1 tank's fuel consumption in "gallons per mile".
Do you think Carmack could have made 60 million under a communist system? I don't know if he really "earned" it (this seems extremely subjective), but wealth accruing to the people who make cool video games seems better than wealth only accruing to the people who make the rules.

Sure, there's a fair amount of wealth accrual to the people who make the rules in capitalist systems as well--that effect is perhaps orthogonal to the economic system in play, but the fact that capitalism provides opportunities for people to accrue wealth also by their own initiative is what makes it so attractive.

It's definitely not perfect, but what is?
Haha, good thing it's on HN now then :P
Ryder?
The i7-9750H isn't Intel's newest or most efficient. Take a look at the i7-1185G7 numbers for example https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4972038

Or the 15w Ryzen 4800U's results https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4972763
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The skepticism is included in RationalWiki.
Pack it up, boys. Mlindner on hacker news says said you’re going to fail.
I think it’s satire.

If not, then I truly feel sorry for some folks.

The "Thiel Question" is Id-mining.

One of the things I often hear, when people are talking about "shock jocks" (both left and right), is "They are just saying what everyone is thinking."

In my experience, there's a reason that we don't just say what we think.
Twitter loves how web apps are useful and don't make you slog through app store
I think you’ll find that this is a sub-optimal strategy for acquiring the benefits of stable partnership.
> Are you sure about that 250$ number? Because I don't think that's a very realistic number.

I think it's fairly realistic. The Dell Latitude 7250 is probably a good representative of what you can get used for ~$220-$300 US these days: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m... The dual-core processor should still be serviceable for everyday work, at ~1.3kg it's light enough to carry around all day, a 1080p resolution should be OK on a 12" screen, and it can take up to 16GiB of RAM, though holding out for one with 16GiB preinstalled will definitely tend to push the cost up to nearer $300: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...

(Then any laptop with similar specs except with a 2-in-1 form factor tends to cost a fair bit more, but that's not a must-have for most students or anyone who might have been considering a MacBook.)
Hmm perhaps ‘rewarding’ wasn’t the right word. Satisfying is closer. I wasn’t looking for a ‘the baddie got caught and everyone lived happily ever after’ per se. I thought the pacing / editing was unsatisfying towards the end, I inferred studio meddling.
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Here's some articles that might help:

* http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/learn-progra...

* https://www.techinasia.com/talk/27-things-started-programmin...

* https://prog21.dadgum.com/177.html

* https://github.com/mtdvio/every-programmer-should-know

Books:

* https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-develo...

* https://danluu.com/programming-books/

* https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/3253/what-books...

Specific to Python:

* https://nostarch.com/seriouspython

* https://www.manning.com/books/practices-of-the-python-pro
Eliza doesn't pass the Turing test. At best some modern, Eliza-derived systems can play tricks (pretend to be a non-native speaking teenage boy) well enough to sneak through a specific test that is somewhat like a minimal version of the thought experiment Turing talked about.

It's clear reading Turing that he's talking about a long wide ranging conversation, not the time limited tests people perform now.
Sure. Finding easy to read statistics is fairly difficult though, particularly with Trump ending some of the previous US reports on the subjects.

https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civili...

https://www.mintpressnews.com/trumps-drone-kill-rate-80-time...

https://airwars.org/news-and-investigations/airwars-annual-r...
8500 plants available to you for planning your next garden with lists and guilds
Read why we think the Plant for a Future dataset is better when everyone can contribute and organize their plants with it.
We used “boring technology” (the stuff we happen to like) and our startup still failed.
This assumes economics has something approaching the truth to the level that it can foresee something about the future.

If this were true, it would be used to predict stock prices, ergo, economics is a field that can likely only learn about long term historical trends and potential long term future trends, and can tell us mostly nothing about short term effects of policy in the 1-2 year future.
It's a bit sad, that even open source projects that are this big, don't have any cohesion of UI.

The whole things looks like as if every developer that worked on it just decided to randomly place a button for their feature somewhere. Well... probably that's what happened.

Unfortunately, until most OSS looks like this, it'll be very hard for them to gain ground over the commercial alternatives.
Will Google pick up the connection again when it's available? And could that theoretically happen at any moment?

If so, it doesn't seem completely unreasonable to communicate in this way. (I agree it could be communicated better)

The system is not quite hung, but it's not doing great.
Yeah, it's strange in this year of all years to contrast "the prosocial lies of economists" with the honesty of the medical profession.

PR has been incredibly important in the worldwide response to Covid-19. You can save the economy by telling people things are better than they really are, but you can save millions of lives telling people things are worse.
so.. like bigbluebutton?
The rule is repeatable though. According to it the top 4% have 64%, and the top 0.8% have 51.2%, which is already much closer.
Joining the choir. If it's subscription based i'm out.

Edit: To clarify, if it was a single purchase i'd buy it in a heartbeat. It looks exactly like what i need and would actually use, but subscriptions on everything is putting me off. If it's not a media platform (news, netflix, etc), i'm not subscribing to anything, and even those platforms are getting too diversified.

Subscriptions on software grants me (personally) exactly zero advantages over a single purchase that fullfils a purpose, and no amount of "spin" from developers will convince me otherwise.
Ctrl+F for "quora", only one occurrence.

Man, HN's ability to stay on topic has drastically improved!
Nix has had a progress indicator for a few years now[0]. It doesn't provide any time estimates but it does show which part of the build it is on (unpack/patch/configure/build/install), how many dependencies it has built or fetched from a binary cache and how many remain. The full build log is accessible with the nix-log command as well, so it's nice from the both a user and dev viewpoint.

For long builds I have stopped watching build logs live altogether and append `; tput bel` to the command to get audible feedback at the end.

For graphical applications, especially on mobile, I wish progress bars got out of the way more. Users ought to be able to continue using an app while a task occurs in a separate thread, and whose progress bar doesn't take up the entire visual field. Many apps, especially on iOS, seem to still be guilty of this.

[0] The creator shows it off here, to applause: https://youtu.be/XVIKScU7Uf4?t=420
I found this to be the source of data for articles that make that claim.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-01/dro...
If you merge multiple small farms into a single big one, the overhead of transporting this equipment between farms turns into the overhead of transporting this equipment between different parts of the farm. The distance that needs to be covered remains the same. Sure, the hand-off between farmers needs to be scheduled, but is that going to make the difference between 2,000 acres a day and 1,700? Do tractor drivers on big farms never take a break?
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Calls for ‘Referendum on Capitalism’
Because the active users are almost all male.
Apple will certainly offer an ARM-based MacPro, but I'm assuming it'll be a very different beast - current one maxes out at 1.5TB of RAM and it doesn't seem likely anyone will integrate that much memory on a chip anytime soon ;-)

Memory bandwidth is one key feature impacting M1's performance. When Apple builds an ARM-based MacPro, we can expect something with at the very least 5 DDR5 channels per socket. It's clear, from this, the M1 is a laptop/AIO/compact-desktop chip.
I'm sorry, I don't buy any of those reasons.

emoji are perfectly usable by screen readers -- if we really wanted to help people with screen readers we would move on from unstructured terminal output and programs which just dump screens of data. You know that thing that sometimes happens when a program running in the background outputs to the terminal -- that REALLY messes up screen readers.
Yes, but where is it released? Because if it's at the same time and the rocket goes up, the counterbalance goes down. And that means a big explosion right under your infrastructure.
these are not gc apps, they are reference counted.
That reason, in my case, is usually "I haven't thought out the long-term consequences of this, and I suspect that things really wouldn't turn out very well if it were generally in effect for long enough."
The introduction here appears to explain: https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdfview_1/euclid.ejs/1473...

Starting from the observation that the expectation of X is the constant c which minimizes the squared loss E[(X - c)^2], we can now generalize expectation by generalizing the loss function we aim to minimize.

They do this by asymmetrically weighting over- or under-estimates, unlike the squared loss which is symmetric.

This apparently has nice properties which the paper goes into.
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What South Africa’s minibus taxis subsidies must prioritize
While I agree with you that the EU is roughly self-sufficient, food security is not the only goal of EU farming subsidies. France has strongly supported these subsidies, which replaced domestic French subsidies, because of the effect on rural life and the rural economy. Subsidies are the reason that millions of small farmers can make a living, the reason that many French villages still exist, one of the reasons for that high quality local produce made in small batches is available cheaply all over France, and one of the reasons that retirees from the UK and Netherlands like to live in rural France (the much more intensive farming in those countries makes rural life quite different).
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You are perhaps looking for a discord server, that anytime can join and talk in - but even those have rules, as do sidewalks - the law allows us to walk, but we mostly can’t set up a shop on the sidewalk or encroach on it.

While there indeed are various rules with respect to Amateur radio, these are related to which bands one is licensed to use ( since other adjacent bands are for other uses), communication conventions, the absence of encrypted communications, and the prevention of using an amateur band for commercial purposes.

Various countries may or may not mandate that one learn Morse code as well.

Amateur radio is also a technical hobby, with the expectation that participants learn to set up antennae, link to their radios, set up electrical safeguards from lightning for their own safety, and understand certain electronics of they wish to create or modify their equipment. Based on their understanding and competence, they are licensed to do various things ( eg a beginner is not allowed to mess about such that they interfere with the International Space Station from sheer ignorance).
With pi's that last point is at least somewhat mitigated. The foundation has committed to supporting specific hardware for several years.
Here’s another interesting article about this: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-jakarta...