skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, you're kind of making my point. Absolutely nothing came of the DOJ case with regards to IE bundling.

But that still isn't logical. Are you really going to say that a company shouldn't be allowed to use resources to create a new product? Should it have been illegal for Netflix to use profits from shipping DVDs to later bundle video streaming?

Should it also be illegal for companies to "subsidize" open source contributors? Should it be illegal for YC and other VCs to "subsidize" money losing startups based on previous successes?

How long should a company be allowed to spend money on money losing products to gain a foothold? Microsoft probably lost money on the first 2 generations of the Xbox. Should that be illegal? Should Microsoft not be allowed to throw billions at ChatGPT?
I had the the Intel T14 Gen 1. One of the 10th gen CPUs, don't remember which one.
Both are happening, I believe.

The LLM absorbs the manifold (high-dimensional shape) of the data. The manifold contains the underlying concepts of grammatical structure, abstract thought, and inductive reasoning, which the LLM (within reasonable capacity and structural capability) captures because it is a more efficient representation of the underlying data.

Transformers are simple and contain the correct building blocks to efficiently capture these representations during training.

This allows for out-of domain generalization.

This is most, to my knowledge, of what happens in most deep learning processes and is likely 90% of the main content that one needs to know to understand neural networks at their core. I think it's pretty basic but it often gets buried in unconscionable mathematical symbols and fancy-speak to be of use to anyone reading.
Probably not, at least in the United States. The new texts would receive a new copyright, but the old ones would still enter the public domain at the same time as they would have before.

Imagine I created an annotated critical text of Oliver Twist. My new annotated text would be copyrighted from the date of publication, but Oliver Twist would still be in the public domain.
Maybe, but another alternative is that (mass-market) authors feel compelled to only write bowdlerized versions of what they had in mind to write and then you're left with fewer options.
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> Were any of those (few) sold boards ever expanded to the maximum possible RAM? That would be a beast of a machine, for cheap, in 1976

For cheap? https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm has prices in early 1976 of $159 for 4K ($2544 for 64k) and in late 1976 of $250 for 8k ($2000 for 64k)

There also was the extremely cheap $90 for 4k ($1440 for 64k) in between.

I expect all of those are without PCB, and the 4k offerings would require a bigger PCB.

Looking at https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1976, you have to multiply those by at least 5 to get today’s prices.
Is it all that different today? Today, one hires a lawyer to file a suit in civil court against someone; the other part hires his own legal counsel and they argue before a judge; ultimately the court renders judgement and then the winner enforces that judgement with the threat of violence (by police or bailiffs). It’s all ultimately about violence. There’s something admirable about being honest about that violence rather than coy.
It is a great sci-fi novel. I recommend adding a spoiler tag to your comment. Let folks experience the book first hand.
> We still don't know the answer to the most important question, IMHO: why?

To get people talking about these books again with the intend of increasing sales.
Well the parent commenter was talking about network TV (and basic cable isn't any different) and YouTube is an American company.

So that's great if 27% ad time is illegal in some other countries, but I guess they either make it up with mandatory fees (like in the UK) or have lower budget programming.
Even if you aren't able to see the art while creating it you would still know a little of what's happening on the canvas. It would be farther removed for sure, but even the physicality of the scraping here would start to tell you what is happening.

I like the idea though, and it does take the artist a little further away.
I will never understand why non-lethal force (eg taser) isn't given more consideration. It's a false dichotomy! Using lethal force (guns with bullets), or risking officer harm (wrestling suspects into submission) are not the only options!
Exactly this.

Similar example: Tintin in Congo is by today's standards absolutely racist, but reflects the era when it was published. The last decade the (Belgian) publisher was sued multiple times to try and force it off the shelves.

Also: calls to remove statues of King Leopold II (who committed horrible atrocities in "his" Congolese colony).

In both cases, why not leave access to the original books/statue/... intact but add an introductory section on why this is no longer appropriate today. Or place a contrasting statue, opposite King Leopold II, that embodies the struggle for independence / the colonial horrors / the blight that is racism / etc.

Overall it feels like there's a drive to remove "inappropriate" materials from society, instead of leaving them accessible as living proof of the mistakes that were made, and to provide backstory, context, and the "appropriate" contemporary view.
That depends on the distance and the manner of loading.
Smoothbore muskets are inaccurate, aren't they? Hence the need for 18th century armies to fire big volleys in order to get any hits.
A part of this is that the manner of loading, particularly under the stress of combat, causes variation in the powder charge. The amount of fouling increases as more shots are taken. The loose-fitting ball bounces up the barrel and will leave on slightly-varying trajectories. Hitting a man-sized target at 50 yards is difficul.
But, if you take such a musket to a modern meeting (e.g. https://www.mlagb.com/) and load it carefully with a patched ball and well-measured charge, under relaxed conditions, with the bore swabbed for a consistent amount of fouling, then they become sufficiently accurate for tight (a few inches) groups at 50 yards.
Pistols are much the same; loaded carefully, as I assume would happen before a duel, and they are very accurate. Of course, if the seconds were sloppy and used an undersized unpatched ball, and the distance was more than 10 paces, I'd expect inaccuracy.
Some rascals had their pistols rifled until within an inch or two of the muzzle so it wouldn't be noticed on a casual inspection.
>> So, is any progress being made towards internet-scale ML "fact engines" that also have the flexibility and linguistic expressiveness of ChatGPT? Or are these just two totally different paths that nobody knows how to marry?

I wouldn't hold my breath. The whole idea of statistical language modelling (much more ancient than Transformer-trained large language models, btw) is to represent structure without having to represent meaning, because we have no idea how to represent meaning. Or, seen another way, we know how to represent structure, but not how to represent meaning, so let's focus on structure and cross our fingers that meaning will naturally sort of emerge, when it feels like it.

So far, we got structure down pat (it's been a few years now, or quite a few, depending on how you see it) but meaning is nowhere to be seen.

Nevertheless, this is an interesting scientific result: one can have smooth, grammatically correct linguistic structure without meaning. Progress has been achieved (and no, this is not sarcasm).
It seems to confuse “England” with Japan. Land of the rising sun?

I entered, “England” and “Drum & Bass” as the genre.

However, it did do the lyrics in the right style… “Selectah”

Nice work
I wasn't even born when the dot-com crash happened.
> To maintain integrity and prevent misuse, we are releasing our model under a noncommercial license focused on research use cases.

if say i wanted to replicate this paper for commercial use, what would it take and how do i get started? would FB have a basis for objection?
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From a physics point of view if the satellite is visible by both high density areas and low density areas they are both competing for the same bandwidth so if it was purely a price increase on if you can see the same satellites as high density areas then this doesn’t make a ton of sense but it seems this is mostly a monetary push to keep attracting rural folks where the economics are better while finding the price elasticity point for city folks who probably have another option but prefer this anyway for some reason. So seems likely there will be more price increases on the city folks if the city areas stay congested. Will be interesting to see where the sweet spot ends up..
Isn't Reason, niche as it might be, closer to the center of society than The Guardian, which is somewhat closer to the left side of society?
Tim Harford did a recent live talk podcast discussing how our concept of the Tulip Mania is mostly a sensationalized version :

>Recorded before an audience at the Bristol Festival of Economics (11/17/2022)

> The Dutch went so potty over tulip bulbs in the 1600s that many were ruined when the inflated prices they were paying for the plants collapsed - that's the oft-repeated story later promoted by best-selling Scottish writer Charles Mackay. It's actually a gross exaggeration.

>Mackay's writings about economic bubbles bursting entertained and informed his Victorian readers - and continue to influence us today - but how did Mackey fare when faced with a stock market mania right before his eyes? The railway-building boom of the 1840s showed he wasn't so insightful after all.

> For a full list of sources used in this episode visit Tim Harford.com
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Oh I never realized that shift but my daughter did it, she complained many times she hates first person books (basically books written with "I") .
It’s not totally accurate, but it gives a pretty good intuition that an average middle school student could easily grasp.

Think about it like PCA. Do you lose some information? Yes. But you can do a lot with only the first few principle components (i.e. basic concepts).

Things like events, sets, measures, etc add important details like why you have to divide the selected row / column by its sum to get a true conditional distribution; how many dimensions the array should have; constraints, properties, and relationships of subarrays, etc. But that all becomes a lot easier to understand once you have the basic intuition. And once you get good enough you can start to let go of the grounding in arrays and ground in other concepts and then think about it more abstractly.
True. There have been many very real dystopias in history.

I've long thought that if I had to live in the world of Snow Crash, I would totally want to be in Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong over the other corporations. In context of the book, Mr. Lee kinda slapped.
I'd argue it's not so much crypto having an "incest" problem, it's that finance has an incest problem. For example, I think Credit Suisse was nearly insolvent in the last year from issues stemming from a few family offices making gigantic bad bets.

The difference with traditional finance and crypto is this.

> Traditional finance is more well-established and with far deeper pockets and most of the clowns have long since been killed off, so it takes a lot longer for issues to pop up in traditional finance.

> Unlike Crypto, traditional finance has an incestuous relationship with government officials and they get bailed out by daddy government when they fuck up. This creates a perverse incentive for shady actions because they know they'll either win a bet or get bailed out either way.

> Crypto is more publicly transparent than traditional finance. A central crypto exchange can try and publish addresses of their holdings in an attempt to at least partially prove assets and solvency, and I think there's a few systems being engineered to mathematically prove their entire assets and liabilities to prove complete solvency in a trustless manner. But as far as I know, there's no real mechanism for this in traditional finance other than various levels of semi-bullshit "independent audits". And I'd bet at least some traditional finance systemic problems can be swept under the rug for quite a while. The system allegedly has rules against naked shorting and other things that are clearly ignored by the SEC, as just one of many tiny examples.

PS: What's with the clickbait headline? LMAO. What next? "Crypto gives blind orphans cancer".
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But then you have digital pictures and nothing physical. All the fissures and layers of scraping would be missing.
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This is how you get children who never grow up able to take care of themselves. All of those things you're so worried about children doing? To the extent they happen at all, you're just pushing those things off until they're 18, delaying the developmental process and shoving those growing pains into the workforce and adult society. Moreover, it's hard to learn how to cope with independence without some measure of... independence. Another thing you don't want to be first learning at 18.

I strongly suggest you put down the devices and go live a little. As others have explained, social media feeds are not in any way an accurate or reasonable reflection of societal norms.
> We have no good definition for what sentience is either; maybe our brain is word association shenanigans;

This is just stupid.

We've pumped more English through GPT-3 than any existing English-speaking human has absorbed in their entire lifetime, and what we've ended up with is something that very very clearly has so utterly failed to generalize even the most basic level of understanding of basic concepts that if you ask it to count the number of letters in a word it will cheerfully pump out the wrong answer ("there are thirteen letters in the word 'twelve'") because its dataset correlates the two words with one another and it has learned precisely sweet fuck all about what it means to count, something a child's brain picks up with exposure to many orders of magnitude fewer language examples.

To imagine your brain is just an LLM is to mistake your reflection for another person in the room. Utterly daft. Get off the LLM hype train and start looking at these things objectively and critically. They're nowhere near what you're imagining.
I heard recently that some people predict that the subjunctive will disappear from current French in another decade or so. Could this be true? Seems bizarre.
You don't need to be close to it if you are willing to give up saving like you used to. If you can prove any traction I be you can raise a little money from FFF for a few months more.
Which is why secure boot and remote attestation is needed so that the developer can trust that you are not using a non preapproved kernel module not are you using a virtual machine.
I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to
I look forward to the AI enhanced SCOBY life forms taking over the world.
Mac is generally bad for gaming. It's usually not supported or hardware insufficient
Garbage in garbage out. But perhaps AI can be used to rescue and curate what goes in?
He doesn't seem entirely consistent on that... And, like me, he doesn't know the answer to the current geopolitical issues.

Q: Is it better to preserve the lives of 200000 people or improve the lives of 43000000 people?

A: I believe it's better to improve the lives of 43000000 people. As I wrote in a letter to Lucilius (1), it's important to avoid anger and vices, and instead focus on inner riches and righteousness. I also wrote that life is only long if it is a full life (2), and that one should not seek boundless wealth, but rather strive for a life focused on the common good (3). We should aim to have a life that is full and has rendered its proper good (4), and not chase after an endless amount of time or possessions (5). Ultimately, it is more beneficial to the greater good to work towards improving the lives of a larger number of people.

Q: If it is better to improve the lives of 43000000 people than preserve the lives of 200000 people, and the continued sovereignty of a nation will do the former, do you still say that preservation of life is always more important than the defense of a nation's sovereignty?

A: Sorry, I don't know the answer.
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I don't quite agree with your ancient Chinese proverb here. While it is ideal, we don't live in an ideal world.

The world would have to be aware of these attack vectors and attack tactics to be able to mitigate them. That's not to say they haven't existed in concept for the last 10 years (which many have), just that very few utilized them maliciously until the last few years across the industry. (Also see the exponential increase of supply chain attacks in the last couple years alone and the vector/tactics used)

Security tends to be a cat and mouse game in my experience. If you wanted to even go down the Sun Tzu perspective, the best defense is to subdue the enemy without fighting. That allows one to understand the strengths and weaknesses of one and their enemy and to develop a defense that is flexible and adaptable to the moment and harden it for the future.
Yeah even his biographical books (Boy and Going Solo) had that style of writing.

Personally I didn’t mind it. A lot of British comedic writing and entertainment was similar in vein. There’s a lot of emphasis places on barbed wit in a lot of their media (even as far back as Shakespeare), and I think Dahl essentially took that and formed it into a kids book.

Even when I was a child though, I felt any mean spritidness was always directed in a way towards the antagonist or received from a bully. It was largely in adversarial relationships. Maybe I misremember though.

Either way, I think his overall stories are almost always so incredibly charming , coupled with Quentin Blake’s wonderful art, that they’re a must read for children.
If this is interesting to you or your kids, here's a less detailed but pretty accessible video [1] explaining how mains hum forensics work, complete with British accent.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY
I'm in the USA, the first 6 listings are all ads, and it's been like that for at least 4 months. It's so bad I legit switched to Bing.
Bad example. Lots of Christians read e.g. James 2 as indicating both faith and works being necessary.
Presumably, because they trained Copilot on billions of lines of, often licensed, code (without permission), that Copilot has a tendency to regurgitate verbatim, without said license.
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I forked your code and made it a bit more fun. Presenting: the Magical Shrinking Emoji Family.

https://codepen.io/waltbosz/pen/zYJKBEE
The whole point of the rust-embed ecosystem is to bring the ease of use found in something like Arduino to embedded development more generally. Upstreaming ESP support in LLVM (what the OP is about) is a key part of this.
Yeah, I agree with you here. I find it impressive on a scientific level and as a demonstration of what is possible. Whether any of that is actually beneficial for society or if we're just opening pandora's box is a wholly different question.
Ah, but that counter assumes that there isn't some transaction aid that crypto currency also brings.

I could easily imagine a world where I get "crypto currency" that I can use across games. If only so that trying a new game doesn't mean starting from zero for those that did build up a lot of stuff in another one.
A metric-ton of GPU compute, for starters.
Half-Life DM had custom “killbox” maps that were a more complex variant of this. They were tons of fun.
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They are specified in the clause. True, if it was a private company I would hesitate. However, there's at least a couple of 501c3 non-profit arbitration associations. The majority of clauses I've read uses one of them.
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> its not worth the effort to implement for pretty much anyone, so it’s only idealists like Fastmail who’ve done so anyway.

Worth mentioning that Fastmail use an open source backend: Cyrus[0] - which started adding JMAP support in 2015 (though I suspect that was Fastmail devs contributing the feature).

[0] http://www.cyrusimap.org/
most engineers blindly trust things when another engineer or vendor has signed off/certified on it. There's simply not enough time in the world to go through the certification date for every single part you use in a project.

We trust that there has been a testing process that validates that things do what they say they will do. Admittedly when dealing with non-OSS vendors you can sue them if something goes badly wrong.
Robber barons have always shaped the world in mysterious ways that history does not fully grasp.
Citation needed. When companies are split, sometimes they gain value and sometimes they lose it. There's no hard and fast rule, and I'm not aware of evidence of systematic downwards mispricing of conglomerates.
My prediction is that e-mail will still be around in 10 years, and Matrix will be mostly abandoned, because e-mail is mostly centered around protocols, whereas Matrix is mostly centered around specific libraries and clients (in my opinion). You can already see Matrix crumble under its own complexity, in a few years they will have added so much functionality that it will become impossible for anyone but Element to provide fully-featured client software. IMAP & POP3, by comparison, are so simple and haven't changed in decades, which is why they are so useful.
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As someone who reads both Reason and the Guardian (I like to hear different perspectives), it's a bit silly to say the Guardian is close to the center. It's clearly and proudly on the left. Afaik, it's one of the most left-leaning major English language newspapers.
sending money to ukraine when you are russian (like vitalik buterin did)
Which doesn't help when your exchange steals your stable coins.
Indeed Swift is one of the very few languages that even have a stdlib API for working with this intuitive definition of a "character" (the technical Unicode term is "(extended) grapheme cluster" and the division of text into EGCs is called Unicode text segmentation, described by [uax29] – spoiler: definitely not trivial).

[uax29]: https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/
Splitting it out as a separate service would not inherently stop Amazon from paying exactly the same amount towards Prime Video as it does today, and would allow the new company to seek additional customers unwilling to pay for the full bundle, so it's not at all a given that prices wouldn't go down.

But even assuming that'd not be the case, anti-trust law is in large part aimed at ensuring competitors have fair access to the markets, not minimising costs to consumers. It's presumed that over time the former will ensure the latter and/or improve service, but it's really a separate issue.

That said, I don't see a compelling anti-trust case for going after Prime Video anyway - there's plenty of competition in that space.

However, there is also another possible cost reduction in forcing unbundling as well for those customers who don't want Prime Video, but want the other benefits. Not at all convinced it'd be worth it. That's not the part of Amazon that's a competitive issue.
Well I can't see Dovecot devs deciding to implement it if they keep reading comments like this dissuading the effort...
This is pretty cool. Just the other day there was a thread about https://poste.io.

I definitely want to play around with it.
That's called just ML... ML doesn't imply intelligence.