skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.religion-online.org/article/the-liturgy-of-abund...

Joshua warns the people that this choice will bring them a bunch of trouble. If they want to be in on the story of abundance, they must put away their foreign gods -- I would identify them as the gods of scarcity.

Jesus said it more succinctly. You cannot serve God and mammon. You cannot serve God and do what you please with your money or your sex or your land. And then he says, "Don't be anxious, because everything you need will be given to you." But you must decide. Christians have a long history of trying to squeeze Jesus out of public life and reduce him to a private little Savior. But to do this is to ignore what the Bible really says. Jesus talks a great deal about the kingdom of God -- and what he means by that is a public life reorganized toward neighborliness.

As a little child Jesus must often have heard his mother, Mary, singing. And as we know, the sang a revolutionary song, the Magnificat--the anthem of Luke's Gospel. She sang about neighborliness: about how God brings down the mighty from their thrones and lifts up the lowly; about how God fills the hungry with good things and sends the rich away empty. Mary did not make up this dangerous song. She took it from another mother, Hannah, who sang it much earlier to little Samuel, who became one of ancient Israel's greatest revolutionaries. Hannah, Mary, and their little boys imagined a great social transformation. Jesus enacted his mother's song well. Everywhere he went he broke the vicious cycles of poverty, bondage, fear and death; he healed, transformed, empowered and brought new life. Jesus' example gives us the mandate to transform our public life.

Telling parables was one of Jesus' revolutionary activities, for parables are subversive re-imagining of reality. The ideology devoted to encouraging consumption wants to shrivel our imaginations so that we cannot conceive of living in any way that would be less profitable for the dominant corporate structures. But Jesus tells us that we can change the world. The Christian community performs a vital service by keeping the parables alive. These stories haunt us and push us in directions we never thought we would go.

Walter Bruggemann, 1999
This is normal across all wifi clients; they can't scan for networks and transfer data simultaneously so there will always be increased latency during that event. You can test this yourself by doing a low-interval ping and clicking the wifi icon to show you nearby networks - you'll notice a brief latency spike.

I agree that it's not a good default to have an app doing this, though.
The edge should be quite sharp. Any deformation or movement in the edge will be smoothed extremely quickly, on timescales comparable to the light-crossing time of the object -- in this case ten seconds or so.

If you're a photon and you're in, you stay in. If you're out and heading out, you get out. (if you skim the surface, you might make an orbit and then leave :) ). It is that fact that makes the edge quite sharp.
Don't worry, he'll be getting a severance larger than you can ever imagine.
Considering employment law in the US, the person's seniority, and their pay level, frankly it makes no difference.

At least now the guy can 'extend' his paternity leave freely.
Remember back in the mid-90s when Intel was developing "Voxels" to use IR to communicate between layers? The little pyramid voxels allowed for faster communication with less engineering... (I cant quite recall -- this was a conversation I had in 1997 on a hike with then CPU guy at Intel... this was when I first learned of a 64-core lab-rat they were working on...)
A bunch of numbers stored on a computer without a sizable military force backing them are worthless? Who knew...
Yep, that is how it is. People are fired when they are on parental leave only if they are high enough in the ladder that matters.
Found this right when I was looking for a quality markdown parser.

I guess it's my lucky day.
I would because it would be a pretty egregious violation of how takeovers like this are supposed to work.
I was going to say the same. Working in the software industry has made me so cynical about the nature of our craft, that every news of hardware improvement immediately makes me wonder how exactly we are going to squander it.
This. I cannot stand the modern crypto bro. I've met some truly insufferable people. The term "New Money" doesn't even do enough justice to how horrible these people behave.
I'm not trolling, and I can't tell why you would think I was. If Rolls Royce made a car that was popular that they ended up buying out some part that they used, I'd say that they popularized use of that part. (Your comparison doesn't work because RR constrains supply rather than enlarging demand.) While GPGPU existed before cryptocurrencies started using it, it was a niche thing of minor interest to scientific computing and a little bit of general "that looks kind of neat if we could get it to work for anything useful" from the rest of the field. Then someone said, "hey, you could offload crypto mining to a GPU and use GPGPU to actually directly make money", and overnight it exploded. One might even say that GPGPU became, say, popular.

At this point, the only explanation I can think of is that we're using different definitions of "popularize" (I'm using "To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known."), or you don't know what GPGPU is (I'm using "General-purpose computing on graphics processing units").

EDIT: Added that RR limits supply rather than raising demand, so not the same thing.
This work has two really interesting contributions, in my opinion.

1. Creating a few data points (3) for scaling laws (Figure 8). These behave similar to language models, as gwern puts it [1], but across three data points, it's a bit tough to draw a power-law conclusion (eyeballing the figure, they increase params 4.5x and 3.2x and see about 20% relative performance improvement from each jump).

2. What I find more interesting than the scaling is the out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization results (Figure 9). They test the performance of the agent on a completely unseen task (though possibly from within the same domain, i.e., they might train on a fixed physics engine from the DeepMind Control Suite [2], but never let the agent look at the cartpole task). They compare this to various ablations: from-scratch training with the same architecture, pretraining only with same-domain data, and pretraining only on non-control data (presumably unsupervised contrastive-learning based data).

The results from (1) are impressive and from (2) are mixed (but no less interesting as a contribution!) in terms of the additional training data actually helping with generalization. The reason OOD generalization performance is most interesting is because it really tests whether control-based pretraining helps the agent in a truly new situation. And certainly, there are a couple tasks at which the zero-shot performance improves over the ablations (but there are others where it hurts).

What I'd find exciting to see in coming research is further investigation into variants of Figure 9.

- How does scaling affect the impact of control-data pretraining vs non-control data pretraining?

- The authors used a custom fine-tuning schedule for the few-shot evaluation on unseen tasks. It's possible the schedule needs to be changed for the ablated versions of the agents to give them the best performance, too. What would Figure 9 look like with the "best" training setup for each ablation individually? I.e., can we tease apart how much, if at all, it's a matter of low-level modality-specific features helping zero-shot adaptation vs some kind of truly generalized "control pretraining"?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356155
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00690
Much safer? Only for the person inside the metal box. Pedestrian deatgs have been rising for years now, thanks to bigger and heavier cars.

There has to be some middle ground for safety inside and on the outside.
I haven't observed this yet, but it definitely limits my interactions with twitter -- it's a blessing in disguise, really.
I agree wholeheartedly to all this and honestly, Heroku has been the gold standard I loved for years, and because of the decline had started building my own alternative with the rest...

Biggest differentiator with me and the rest? They focus on "look you can git push to deploy, we're just like Heroku!" while I am all about this DevEx.

So like parent OP said about what is comparable is my goals too.

I hope my product and vision of being "What if we rebuilt Heroku on today's tools with the DevEx?"

You can learn more and sign up for beta at https://primcloud.com
These kind of articles are so dumb. As if electric companies/ranges don't run equally powerful advertising and lobbying campaigns.

It's okay to like or dislike something without being portrayed as some sort of victim of an information war!
No, this one, same user, same skepticism, 19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134691

Btw we released the 2017 calibrated data today, too.
Is him on Elon's side or not?
No, it's a valid economic model that has been consistently explained through economic theory. You are entitled to you're own opinion but not your own facts and you're literally calling substantial pieces of modern economics "an invention" in the sense of fiction.

I want to tax the economic rent of land. Your land being worth more has benefits to you even if you haven't yet cashed them in. The market taxes on your property going up functions similarly to rents going up from land increases and is just as justified. You treat it as a strange mystic unnatural phenomenon unlike anything that has ever existed. It's pretty bog standard.

If there is a moral basis for rent increases in response to land value increases there is a moral basis for increasing the amount of tax charged for land value increases. In both cases, the expense comes from unrealized value of land, the landlord doesn't have to sell in order to raise a rent. Property rights aren't magic that tears down the very fabric of reality.
A lot of assumptions here that Parag is out after Elon takes over. Is that backed up by evidence?
What's in it for Parag to play bad cop for Musk? Enhanced pay-off?
I’m not happy about people losing money.

However, I’m happy if this means money will be invested in innovation towards saving the planet, rather than finding new ways to burn resources with proof-of-work-based crypto.
I sometimes copy paste things into the browser URL bar to strip formatting
With its current market cap of $14B, could someone buy Coinbase and then decide to just keep all the Bitcoin managed there?

Is there any real legal obligation for them to give users back their deposited coins, or is that just their current corporate policy?
So they can re-negotiate with NewTwittah at higher salary?
Now I just need to figure out how to donate brain fluid...
> what would the problem be?

Well, for one: PR at a critical time, obviously.

And, general employee morale.
Starving American Babies Disguise Selves As Ukrainian Soldiers In Hopes Of Getting $40 Billion In Federal Aid

https://babylonbee.com/news/starving-american-babies-sneak-i...

So basically what happened; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10801581/FDA-refuse...

The FDA investigated their factory and found they aren't the source of the problem. Yet they remain closed? Therefore the US government is intentionally closing them and making them jump through hoops because of ...

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/a-list-of-16-major-fires-t...

Since 2022, there's a ton of fires shutting down food factories all over the USA. I looked into many of these and the government/police aren't investigating. They generally speaking get their insurance money and rebuild. In some cases the firefighters just stood back and said it was unsafe to put the fire out. They just let it burn.

Now I doubt the US government is intentionally doing anything. At most failing to do anything because they side with the cause.

Could Russia have agents all over starting fires? Probably not. Putin isn't in a room saying 'we should send the KGB to burn down rural meat processors' that's not real.

Could it be a statistical thing? No we are certainly past that. Deep into food shortage issues.

Obviously it's a domestic thing where other americans are the ones being called to action. This is the same thing as the political polarization. Some are saying the civil war is ongoing already, I don't necessarily agree with that sentiment but this is certainly connected.
I wonder what do you think would happen if Russia, for example, nuked Helsinki? You think USA would nuke Russia and risk getting San Francisco burned to the ground? I personally find it rather unlikely. I'm not trying to be pro-Russian here, but I just don't see how provoking the second largest nuclear force is a good idea.
crypto bros are finally getting a punch to the mouth

Finally? Bitcoin has been losing 50% of its value 4 times during the last 10 years. It even lost 80% of its value multiple times.
Date and Time in EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
Size of rings prove Einstein's Theory of relativity. This is an amazing work
What, did they think it came without risk?
I’m glad because this has allowed me to finally convince one of my elderly relatives to divest a big chunk of their savings from this garbage.

I can’t even begin to imagine how many nontechnical older people that downloaded TikTok to follow their grandkids have fallen for these bullshit pump and dump scams. I wonder how much of the real money that’s in crypto actually comes from utterly clueless people that are being actively exploited by a small handful of crypto “influencers.”
https://nitter.net/kayvz/status/1524787801757126656
If done properly your customers won’t even know.
Businesses don't care about stuff like that. Especially if the alternative is free. Any maintenance is too much maintenance.
This particular model is super bad at 600 deferent tasks. At it's size you'd expect it to be mediocre at best at even one of them, so it's still very impressive. Fascinating research, can't wait to see if it's generalizing and how, not sure how overall significant it is
Parag was explicitly hired as a hatchet-man: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hatch...
I suspect this was done in part because Elon Musk wants to make some big changes. It would be best for the outgoing CEO to make these difficult firings and then let Elon Musk come in and set a new tone without dealing with this negativity falling on Elon.

I'm not saying this is right, but it makes a lot of sense.
You do realize it's going to be months before the deal closes, and there's a chance Elon walks away from it due to market conditions or other reasons? In this reality, counting something like this as done seems premature. The reasonable course of action is that plans made prior to this deal continue. Elon can sort it out if / when he takes the helm.
Elon Musk has no intention of actually acquiring Twitter. He's just using it as a smoke screen to liquidate a huge amount of Tesla stock. The fact that TWTR is currently trading at a 25% discount to the supposed acquisition price shows I am not the only person in the market who doubts the ultimate consummation of the acquisition.
Might be a severance issue. If he resigns, no severence. I imagine if he is fired he gets some. So he might have forced them to fire him. I know I would.
No? Why would anyone be "glad" about this? It says a lot about your personality to be that happy/glad about anything "crashing", whether you agree with it (crypto in this case) or not. Also, just a friendly reminder that NFTs don't equal crypto.
> USV is for the 99.999% of cases that don't embed USV Control Picture characters in the content.

I agree that wanting to put one of these characters in a csv is super rare. The vast majority of use cases would not notice that certain inout characters are prohibited. But certain inout characters _are_ prohibited, which means that encoders must check this case, and tools using those encoders neex to handle its failure.

In a way, the fact that failure will be super rare will make it more dangerous, because people will omit these checks because "it won't happen for them" -- and then at some point it will wreak havoc.

And with USVX all we've gained is less backslashes but more bytes per separator, so for usual data that doesn't contain a comma in every field, the USVX encoding will even increase file size, without requiring less code anywhere.

I admit there is no ideal solution, though; while out-of-band signalling (i.e. length-prefixing) avoids all of these issues (which is why binary formats are universally length-prefixing formats), escaped formats are work much better for humans. And if a human wouldn't need to read it, one wouldn't use csv anyway, usually.
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The model only has about 1B parameters which is relatively small.

The language models that produced very impressive results have >>50B parameters, e.g. GPT-3 with 175B, Aleph Alpha Luminous (200B), Google PaLM (540B). GPT-3 can understand and answer basic trivia questions, and impressively mimic various writing styles, but it fails at basic arithmetic. PaLM can do basic arithmetic much better and explain Jokes. Dall-E 2 (specialized on image generation) has 3.5B parameters for the image generation alone and it uses a 15B language model to read in text (a version of GPT-3).
Researchers find a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
That pollution is what protects the integrity. It's not waste. It's like a standing army patrolling a bank. In fact those miners are the number one private security of any currency or bank in the world, by orders of magnitude.

And second, every dollar blockchain companies make is a dividend of that army patrolling the bank.

Not a whole lot of counterfeit bitcoins going around, unlike some currencies I could mention. Treasuries also spend a lot of money protecting their currency, the Secret Service for instance, which works for the Treasury of USG, is mandated to stop counterfeiting. Who gets better results for the money, bitcoin or the Treasury?
I didn't pick 15:39 that's the quote from Douglas Adams. He pretty clearly went with a hard to read digital time to emphasize the point that he (and according to him everyone else) can more readily get useful information from an analog readout. My own watch is a digital 12 hour display and that is more useful to me.
>Who said anything about white people?

When you mention Germans below are you talking about the Chinese origin Germans?

>One of the most fundamental aspects of democracy is drawing the boundaries of the body politic.

You're conflating legal immigration and demographic shifts to open-borders. Those are not the same.

>My parent’s generation went to war to create a country where the body politic would be mainly Bangla-speaking people, instead of sharing a body politic with Urdu-speaking Pakistanis. Why would I begrudge a descendant of Germans in the Midwest or a Tejano in Texas for having the same impulse?

I don't know what impulse you're referring to. Please expand on that.
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Unless there is some severe political rivalry. IIRC this guy was in contention for the CEO position before Agrawal was appointed.
There isn't any guarantee that the deal will actually close, especially with tech stocks (and much of Elon's own wealth along with them) taking a dive.
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Don't worry guys. Tether is backed by secret sauce.
also, the current kindles use usbc now.

now if only apple would update the airpods..
OpenAI actually found these "multimodal neurons" in a result they published a year ago:
https://openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/

Similar to the so-called "Jennifer Aniston neurons" in humans that activate whenever we see, hear, or read a particular concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell
You're assuming that the deal will definitely close.

The deal can still fall apart for a number of reasons. The risk of this happening is far from remote. This is evident from the current stock price of about $46, which is significantly lower than the $54.20 Musk is offering.
Oh, and reproducible builds and supply chain security. Same thing, really; once money directly rides on the security of a system, and privacy issues manifest directly from code, people start paying very close attention:)
I did say “but it doesn’t seem likely based on tone”.
Keeping the "hostile" in "hostile takeover"?
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