skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that such "digital narration" is on the brink of becoming available as a service to authors and publishers, with Amazon and Apple trying to get ahead of it by selling a product that can only be published on their platforms then. They are surely able to undercut human narration, but even on digital narration they have an unfair advantage of earning a share on every sale as well.

Will be interesting to see how this develops. Either independent digital narration becomes competitive enough that a publisher simply gets it done once and then sells it on all platforms, or this new platform-exclusive model is so disruptive that it becomes even less economic to produce a Audiobook, effectively making Audiobooks exclusive to Apple and Amazon/Audible (and whoever else has such a digital narration engine).
And you're right, a vendor could incorporate novel patent-encumbered instructions into their otherwise RISC-V (based) CPU designs. In which case perfect compatibility wouldn't be possible.

Patterson, I believe, has said that folks like Intel intentionally do this, add rather pointless new patented instructions so that they are always "embracing and extending" (my words) their own designs to prevent true compatibility; and thus cloning by others. And that that's one big reason why it was worth creating RISC-V.
I took 10 years of piano. I wanted to when I was a child (and I chose the piano).

The problem for me has not been the kind of music I had to play. My problem is I only learned to perfectly play a song with sheet paper, by repeating it over and over again in the course of a few months until every tiny little detail was perfect. That's because I was prepared to play in front of a large audience, where you are supposed to play perfectly.

What I never learned was how to improvise a somewhat-okay song, or play somewhat ok a song from sheet paper. Those skills could have made it enjoyable to play piano for myself or in a social setting where perfection is not expected.

But since I never learned those skills, the piano in my family house sit unused, and even the keyboard I bought for myself is collecting dust in a closet.
The starting point of machine learning app development is a dataset, and the more data, the better result. Through obtaining a big amount of data, the model becomes more accurate in predictions. However, in the case of few-shot learning (FSL), we require almost the same accuracy with less data. This approach eliminates high model training costs that are needed to collect and label data.
From my experience there are 2 ways people got into Ruby.

1. By learning Ruby

Don't mind how old the guide is. Ruby is still Ruby, sure plenty of things are better now but the old syntax is still supported and used. I don't see an issue with learning from poignants guide today as I did back then.

You should be able to run 99% of all tutorial examples without modifications in a modern ruby interpreter.

2. Headstarting into Rails

Just start building CRUD apps after any recent tutorial. Video or text whatever you prefer. Ruby is shining trough and after some time you'll learn what's Ruby, what's Rails and what is just you.
As LeCun always says: The term "AGI" is a bit ill-formed. What does "general" really mean? Human intelligence is not really general. It's actually very very specialized towards the world we live in. So he prefers the term "human-level intelligence", or maybe super-human-level at some point.

Another implication: It's not really a yes/no property, whether you have AGI or not. It's a level of intelligence. And this level is continuous. And it's also not really one-dimensional.

What does human-level intelligence mean? It's still not very well-defined. You would need to define a number of tests, which measure the performance, and the model need to perform at least as good as a human on average.

So, I assume this is what the author means by "AGI-hard": A problem which requires some model to be at least as good as a human in a wide number of tests.

But I don't think this is necessary for driving. You want it actually to be much better in some tests (computer vision, reaction time, etc) and many other tests don't really matter (eg. logical reasoning, speech recognition, or so). So the autonomous driving problem is not AGI-hard.
When I worked at IBM, we were given generous cash incentives for filing patents. I am named as an inventor on about 40 patents. To be honest, only one of them was a genuine invention in my opinion.
I completely agree that anything created by an artist with the intention of being "Art" becomes "Art" the moment it is created. However I do not believe that that is the end of the story. Art is changed by both the context it was created in, its history and even the context it is viewed in and you cannot fully understand and appreciate the art without understanding that context. And as our knowledge and understanding of that context changes (for example by finding out that we have been lied to about the origins or history or piece of art or its artist) then the art changes with it (without ever stopping being art).
All warning lights are flashing.

Don't use this.
The sample is taken from a full audiobook that is currently available for sale, so you'd think they would've put an annotation on "all places wild" if they had that ability.
If I understand it correctly, that's a really obtuse name for what is actually quite simple and has nothing to do with telepathy or information transfer. Basically the fact that both parties have access to the SAME random number generator can be useful in some schemes.

As an even simpler example, let's say Alice and Bob need to solve a really hard problem that can be cleanly split into two parts, A and B. In round 1 Alice and Bob can't communicate but they have access to an entangled photon. In round 2 they meet and compare notes. If they choose which part to work on randomly, then in only 50% of the outcomes are both parts A and B solved when round 2 starts. If, on the other hand, they use the polarity of the entangled photon to decide which part to solve, then quantum mechanics guarantees that they both solve different parts. It's random and unpredictable which part gets assigned to whom, but in 100% of outcomes when round 2 starts, Alice has solved one of A or B, and Bob has solved the other one.
A few years back I got a decent second hand student oboe for £300 on eBay. Prices are probably higher now though.

You'd definitely want to check out the second hand market if getting started in woodwind.
> Perhaps as you just did, as I can find no one actually "injecting themselves with bleach."

Ingesting, injecting, that’s pretty similar. Nobody needs to make anything up there.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/leader-genesis-ii-churc...
Then the justice system needs to be flooded with litigation to become some kind of regulatory body? Why introduce more layers into something already pretty complex such a regulation? Instead of an elected government it'd be another bureaucracy: the justice system, who takes action against bad actors?

That's a complete fantasy, litigation is expensive, it should be reserved to exceptional cases not to dictate basic rules for society...
Why are they using bin lorries for snow ploughs, instead of using tipper trucks that can have a gritter mounted on the back?

Something like this:

https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/media/image/8/h/gritter1.jpg

That's one of the smaller ones, which Glasgow City Council ordered up with a hydrogen-powered engine. Most are still diesel but there are some diesel/propane dual-fuel ones too.
> she was limiting herself to 1400 calories a day

This is closer to disordered eating than healthy eating.

> The rest of us have worked hard our entire lives to stay skinny and now you all get a cheat

Ah, the student loan forgiveness argument, and the pro-spanking argument: I suffered, so you should as well, because suffering is intrinsically moral and pleasure is bad.
I guess this is more of a case of garbage in - garbage out. The original sentence itself is not well-structured. But people who write like that and don't edit it; won't care of how the AI reads it.

I don't feel like this is a product for carefully producing audiobooks, but to create them by the pound, so to speak. I'd say it's a move for the "make your own business through audiobooks" people [1] -- very strange for Apple.

[1]: I didn't know this audience existed until I saw this video on it (and the cons that happen) from Dan Olson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw
I know that that has been one argument in favor of patents since forever. But that ignores the part where competing parties are not freely allowed to build on another person's patent, which is essential for making good improvements.

And you can see this play out in the history of invention. For example, Edison stopped other people from doing research on the light bulb. Meanwhile the Netherlands was a country without IP laws at the time so Phillips quickly ended up producing the superior and cheaper product. No patent laws, bigger disruption. Similarly the Wright brothers were notorious for holding back aviation with their patents.
A conduit pulls information from earlier conduits in the same pipeline, only requesting the next item when it needs to do more work in order to process a request for a value from a conduit later in the pipeline. This means that inside the conduit itself there is perfect backpressure: you cannot overload any buffers between conduits because there aren't any.

Of course, depending on the rest of the system you could still have a bottleneck somewhere. For example: if you pull jobs from a queue in (say) Redis but don't have enough capacity to process jobs faster than they are enqueued, the queue will eventually fill up.
I haven't, but I've just had a read. It looks well thought through and opinionated, which is what I'd expect and want from NextJS.

Time will tell if it misses a load of cases, but I can't think of any. I'm not doing any UI work at the moment, and while I wanted to introduce NextJS to my new team's new project, we tried it but couldn't get it to work with our slightly tricky component tech (StencilJS). I think that's a StencilJS <-> ReactJS issue rather than a StencilJS <-> NextJS issue, though.
This works really nicely for clustering in NLP pipelines.
> consumers don't actually mind the extra tracking?

Consumers can opt in to the tracking.

When Apple required opt-in, 10% opted in, 90% opted out.
locale is a mistake and should have been depreciated 25 years ago.
> ChatGPT models are language models; they represent closeness between text utterances. It works by looking for the chains of words most similar or usually connected to those indicated in the prompt, with no understanding of what those words mean.

No, it does not work that way. That’s how base GPT3 works. ChatGPT works via RLHF and so we don’t “know” how it decides to answer queries. That’s kind of the problem.
Even if it gives you a number there. Does that number actually tell you what you mean or is it merely filling in the blanks with random information? I suspect the latter.

For example, ask it to subtract 2 20-digit numbers. It will come up with an answer X where the first couple of digits are correct, and everything after that is wrong.

It gets better.

Ask it to correct itself. It will come up with a different wrong answer Y.

If you then ask it to explain why the answer is right, it will give you an explanation. At the end of the explanation it states the answer is X again, and then in the very next line concludes by telling you that is why the answer Y is correct. :)
That's just right now. Changing the roads will take longer and be way more expensive than building enough AI that cars can self drive on existing roads safely. Arguably, we're nearly there already. Several companies have self driving cars on some of the roads (not even counting Tesla here) and the scope of situations where these can operate safely is expanding. They aren't fixing any roads for this. This is all done in software. Five years is nothing for road construction. There's only so much that happens in such a short time span. However, it's a lot of time for making some software improvements.
You are never buying from Apple Books, it's the usual DRMed crap, more like a rental. Amazon had gotten a lot of flak, buy Apple is not any better in this respect...
In latex its just $\omega$
> bullshit

> fucking eat way too much

Those are morally loaded words.
Exactly and this is because unofficial fed policy is to follow the popular narrative. When it shifts to they have to stop hiking believe me, they will stop hiking.
Isn't this just an echo of computationally? Why involve the distraction of intelligence at all when what you're discussing is a computable algorithm with known bounds? Is there anything special about intelligence—Penrose's bullshit[0] aside—that can't be computed? If not is it anything other than a marketing term for computation that seems more "advanced" to humans?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind
It doesn’t consistently know words have individual letters since it’s trained using byte pair encodings. This is one reason earlier versions of it couldn’t generate rhymes.
It doesn't only seem as if people are fatter. Compare the weight statistics, or just look at pictures from the 1980s. That link is pure self-deception.
Wouldn't private git hosting add another barrier for the attackers? In addition to the tokens, they would also need to somehow gain access to the network through VPN or through an opening in the firewall?
I asked it 'What hapoened to Gandalf after he fell down from the bridge, fighting the Balrog? Did he die?'

The answer was a story about Gandalf beeing hurt badly, beeing rescued by some random dwarfs, and so on.

I asked ChatGPT in which book this is described, and it told me that you can read about it on both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

So it makes up fun stories. This makes me wondering how much of its explantions about physics (which I don't understand completely) are made-up.
Privacy is an illusion at this point if you connect to the internet and do stuff. It's just who has your data and how they are using it.

If you want to be left alone then start using usb drives and air gapped laptops. Still you can't stop your personal data like bank details,addresses,SSN etc to not be available since you probably use a public/private banking system.

Once people figured out they can become billionaires off of other peoples data and governments got involved for national security the individuals privacy online is all but a myth.
I thought "Maybe" because it mentioned "Slack employee tokens".
This is our company. Frankly, I don't agree with this approach. We're a hedge fund that uses Java for low latency trading systems. Someone pushed for Rust to be used for a new project, because they wanted to use it, and now we have a split codebase. We have duplicate code (eg. connections to external APIs) written in Java and Rust, and now we have two sets of code to maintain whenever one of those APIs change.

I always get annoyed when I hear about people suggesting to push for a language in a company because they feel it would be a good fit. Sure, maybe it would be, but now the company will always require experts not in one language but two, and developers are no longer as fungible between teams.

Having said that, from a selfish perspective, I will use it to write some production Rust code in the future.
Yes, I expected to see something about that. Being from Lincolnshire one of my pet facts is that Lincoln cathedral was the tallest building in the world for over 200 years, until the spire collapsed and wasn't rebuilt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world%27s_talle...
Good old Nomad Jukebox and Zen Touch (loved them) and the Soundblaster cards of the '90s. It's too bad Mr. Sim didn't manage to tack the right course to keep Creative a continuing player in personal entertainment devices and then smartphones. Maybe it was a failure to hire/empower people with the right strategic vision, amidst dramatic changes in consumer preferences.

RIP Mr. Sim and thanks for inspiring us Singaporeans to dream bigger.
Exactly my experience in music school.

I've switched to guitar on my own initiative, started jamming, playing in bands, composing my own music with friends - and it was such fun.

Never touched piano since then.

Reading through other comments here makes me think that as humans we suck at teaching music to children.
Yeah, that sounds like it. Thinking about this though:
"World Without Walls" => www
Interesting so yeah while distinction between virus and trojan can hold, I guess that virus enter the broad malware definition and thus the OP is right.
We are talking about religion, so in all practical terms a form of propaganda. In a historical context, a text becomes truth if enough people believe it. The question of forgery is relevant to find out whom and when created said forgery.
In Finland its actually easy and cheap to do massive layoffs at once. But very difficult and costly to let single employee go.
Oh that was a fun read, thank you!

I don't know that it supports your claim that the HDI delta can be "entirely" (or I would even say sufficiently) explained by slavery/immigration:

- There are quite a few Asian immigrants from developing countries (in 2018 the shares were: 13% from Europe/NA, 28% Asia, 25% Latin America, 25% Mexico [0]) and their scores are literally off the charts.

- A lot of states with small Black/Latino population portions have pretty low AHDIs [1]; the bottom 3rd includes Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Ohio. On the other hand, DC, North Carolina, and Maryland have very high Black population portions (44%, 32%, and 22% respectively) and they're ranked 5th, 19th, and 20th.

- A more parsimonious explanation of the AHDI rankings is that states with better social safety nets and more labor protections do better than those without. For example, of the 11 states that decline the ACA's Medicaid grant [2], only 2 are in the top half of AHDIs, and the remaining 9 average to rank 39.

- Europe continues to see a huge influx of refugee immigration [3]. If immigration were a part of this story you'd expect this to lower its HDI, but it doesn't. Again it seems pretty clear here that the difference is socialism.

- Just as a matter of course, the AHDI breakdowns don't disambiguate recent immigrants from subsequent generations. There's no doubt the US has a lot of immigration from Central and South America, but they aren't all new, so you can't really make the claim that recent immigration accounts for the lower AHDI amongst them.

- Inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI) [4] would better address your criticisms because it measures the average person, thereby taking into account recent and historical disadvantages, and here we can see that aside from Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy (somewhat notorious as a grouping) Europe broadly outdoes the US.

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_America...

[2]: https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/state-acti...

[3]: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/number-of-refu...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequalit...
have you used krita?
> It was killed by publishers who wanted to charge separately for audiobooks.

Any sources on this?
"Digitally narrated titles are a valuable complement to professionally narrated audiobooks"

Yeah, right. What a lame attempt to deflect the (fully warranted) criticism that this will put audiobook narrators out of work.
> What man would need to track the 28-days cycle of the moon?!?

A hunter of any gender who wants to know approximately when the animals migrate or give birth, would benefit.

Things that are easy enough for anyone to track and count:

day/night cycles

lunar cycles

annual summer /winter cycles

"four moons after the middle of winter" is therefor useful as it's possible to count, more easily so than "112 days after midwinter"
10K seems like a lot less than the 3 months he's owed.
Indeed. Similar discussions were held when the dotcom bubble burst. I doubt it was the first time.
Yes, Netscape took them to court, proved monopoly by then it was too late. Microsoft had already took over. Bundled IE with Windows (it was first an add on) and added a deal with Apple to include it in their OS. It was Chrome that tore it down. Which was a good thing and a bad thing.
I dislike using hard-CS-like-language for vague concepts in order to make it sound more scientific.
Latest book by Annie Duke - Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60097435-quit
> Maybe then they'll be replaced with more honest business models. Which, incidentally, can include opting in to ads based on personal data if that is what people knowingly choose.

The GDPR requires that consent to use of personal data for other purposes must not affect the user experience for the main product. Therefore, the company must offer the main product without reference to any opting in to personalised ads. This effectively sets the monetary value of opting in to zero at the user/company interface.

An organisation could try and fund their operation through opt-ins, because the monetary value of opt-ins is still positive at the advertiser/company interface. However that fact encourages the company to use nefarious tactics on the users, which is clearly what has happened in this particular case. I'd like to see this incentive die, but I think that all the time this valuation remains positive there will be companies that try it on.

I get frustrated at the number of apps and web sites that place opt-in as a paywall to access. It's outrageously and explicitly illegal, but enforcement is lacking.
And most of office spaces are impossible to remodel into housing - insufficient water access and fire safeties not suited for kitchens.
> 270 days for one domain or 3 domains for 90 days, and then you're screwed. Isn't that great?

Huh? I haven't looked at the fine print but I use quite a few more domains. Never ran into the rate limits.
You don't have to understand Chinese to browse aliexpress, it's all in english
I often think how contradictory it is that we all want to get paid well AND buy good cheap stuff. These are contradictory goals, and the solution has been physical separation. We make good money here, and buy stuff from poor people over there. This dynamic has eroded long term viability of human civilization.
You make two assumptions:

- There are as many revolutionary discoveries with and without patents

- Without patents, discoveries would be freely avalaible

As far as I know, two (related) arguments are generally made for patents:

- Patents create an indirect (by preventing the competition from using your invention) or direct (by licensing it) monetary return to innovation, potentially leading to more innovation

- If a company wants competitors not to copy their innovation, they can 1. keep it secret or 2. disclose it and patent it; without patent the choice is between 1. keep it secret or 2. disclose it and have everybody copy them. In this case, patents lead to more innovation being made freely avalaible (with a delay!).

Whether patents lead to more or less innovation is, as far as I know, contentious.