skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the (excellent) What We Owe the Future, William MacAskill discusses some ways of considering and weighing values on different lives, one of which was counting neurons. I don't have the book in front of me, but from my notes at the time:

>There are 8 billion humans and 135 billion farmed animals, but in total humans have 700 million trillion neurons while farmed animals have in total only 20 million trillion. Still, there are maybe 600 trillion wild fish, which collectively have 12 billion trillion neurons. And that isn't even counting nematodes.
On top of. We get 10 holidays + 1 floating holiday each year. We get a week off each summer. We get paid Fridays off during the summer. Plus we get a paid time off day each pay period (so, 26 days each year). The paid time off days can be saved up and roll over from year to year. Not including the Fridays off, I could take approximately 16 weeks (4 months) of vacation this year if I wanted to. And this year is not a sabbatical year. In a sabbatical year, I could potentially take off nearly 6 months (6 weeks of sabbatical + 11 holiday days (about 2.5 wees) + 1 week off in the summer + 12.5 weeks of paid time off = 22 weeks = 5.5 months. If I add in the Fridays off in the summer, it would be more than 6 months off.
> Presenting with an editor is a strong signal that a meeting is low-bullshit.

I think there are two kinds of bullshit relevant to meetings. One is spin or dishonesty, and the other is wasting people's time. Presenting with an editor can mean that what's about to be presented is honest and straight-forward, being grounded in the actual matter being discussed. Or it can mean that an engineer did zero prep for the meeting.
Did the author report metrics of the unimodal model or of the multimodal model with re-ranking?
History of AC Power Plugs and Sockets
This. At the end of the day, if it is a significant transfer there are people in locked rooms that have to call each other and independently verify a transaction brokered by a third party. And if you don't pass a background check, and don't need to be there, you don't get in that room.
Pass a Turing test with a competent judge. ChatGPT or any other bot won't be able to pass it.
Dask sidesteps the problem by splitting up the data into smaller pandas DataFrames and processing them individually, rather than all at once. But the fundamental issue of pandas storing strings as objects in DataFrames (which is really inefficient) is also problematic with Dask (because a Dask DataFrame is composed of a lot of smaller pandas DataFrames). The technologies that really address this problem are Polars/PySpark - technologies that are a lot more memory efficient.
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Sentience is the ability to be able to experience feelings. In this regard, chatbots are not really convincing. Kind of like a psychopath can describe a feeling, but not actually feel it.

This is a tough question to answer though, but there's this kind of human intuition we have where most of the time we somehow know if someone is feigning emotion. Emotion that comes from chat bots can be explained with, "well it's just a chat bot". Something needs to happen in order for us to truly question that in order to squash our doubts about their sentience. Not sure what that will look like though.
https://archive.ph/9WD2H
I know this doesn't answer your question, but have a look at GStreamer pipelines. They take the basic idea of shell pipelines, but add typing, format negotiation, M:N connections, etc all while giving you optional control over low-level details (which demuxer?), but also high-level abstractions (just show me a window with a preview). Once prototyped on the CLI (gst-launch-1.0[1]), they're also very easy to start using within an application through the framework (gst_parse_launch[2]), where you can e.g. iteratively add things like a volume slider. You can also access most of FFmpeg's codecs through libav.

[1]: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tutorials/ba...

[2]: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/gstreamer/gs...
> And there are also cases where English has opted for a compound word and German has just invented its own: Ampel vs traffic light, for example.

Ampel is a loanword from latin, "ampulla", it was used for oil lamps hanging from churches and thus kind of made its way into the "Ampel".

The legal texts use "Lichtzeichen" instead of Ampel IIRC.
Yea, just to be clear though: Asahi Linux still works pretty well. My system boots near instantly; wifi, mouse, keyboard work fine. Its enough where I can easily use my M2+linux as my daily driver.

This article is addressing misleading comments that made it sound like everything for apple silicon was merged into upstream kernels. It's not. You're still going to need to use Asahi kernels and userspace bits for a while.
I tried it for a while but ran into similar issues. Ultimately I settled on a plain text file with the only format being ISO dates alone on a line for date tags. Daily entries since 2010 :-)
So Georgia and Virginia are countries too? They entered into a union, they have their own legal systems, they have their own legislatures.
If it's anything like the US, I imagine your name/opinion is at least recorded by their staff. Someone who contacts their representative is more likely to vote in the next election, so "likely voter thinks X about important issue Y" is useful data.

I've written my congressperson multiple times and never gotten a personal reply, but I've heard from the staff of said congresspeople that it still counts indirectly as at least your opinion shows up in the stats they use.
Unmentioned reason: for the lone developer, the temptation to be "clever," or do interesting experiments is harder to resist. For me, sometimes that's driven by boredom. I've occasionally found myself switching paradigms ("This time I'm going to try a functional style (in python)...") just to keep things interesting, even if in the long run it might not be ideal. Even in the same project! Or, without the guardrails of peer criticism, I'll think "ok, this is a great time to try new library/framework X."

IMHO, there are some benefits to the above! Experimentation and trying new techniques/frameworks is how we learn and progress. The danger arises when the experiments congeal into half-baked production code.
People are also complete assholes and like to remove sentience from things if they find it inconvenient in any way.

Humans have removed 'humanhood' from other humans based on things like race, religion, wealth, and whatever metric we find convenient at the time. We seem to be a very poor judge on this in my point of view.
Uhm, it seems like the auto industry is still letting its imagination run away with self driving cars.

I don't see how a patent like this can be granted if we still generally don't have working self-driving cars. Even Tesla is getting forced to admit that "Full Self Driving" isn't really full self driving.
1966: Computer Dating – 1960s Style
I’ve been running Linux on MacBook Pro’s for years and the main benefits are: high quality display, excellent trackpad, solid build quality. Yes they are more expensive than other laptops but the display and trackpad especially are 2 things you interact with constantly. I haven’t done it on the new M laptops but the thing most people cite there is a super low power / quiet device. Main downside presently is the soldered ram and SSD. But still I’m planning to get a Mac to run Linux on it once things are more stabilized.
To me this feature looks like a box ticking exercise with an eye toward government contracts. Microsoft has it so Google needs it too in order to avoid looking less secure to decision makers who may not know whether or not it will ever be needed.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-finds-employees...

This is just what's publically announced, because companies have no international recourse against China. They sure as hell won't release info about obtaining profiles of various US officials. The CCP can tell Chinese corps to do whatever it wants them to do. It's not like the US. And to think they haven't leveraged the most effective psy-op and surveillance tool in the world is, honestly, quite naive.
> You could buy a faster Intel or AND machine for less money

Yes, but Apple has a great combination of high performance (laptop-wise), long battery life and high portability. Before I had the Zenbook series where you had the high end with the i-5 chips that died in 2-3 hours, or the low end that lived 5-6 hours but could barely play a video in 1080p (IIRC, from memory).

With the Air for example I have it all; very long battery life, pretty high performance (more than enough for what I use it), super portable, and a great keyboard+trackpad. The only thing I'm missing is Linux :)
Effectiveness of physical activity for improving depression, anxiety, distress
For those who, like me, forgot what "Shiri's Scissor" was about: it was the "programmer uses neural networks, discovers wedge issues" story.
Look over there, a distraction! (cue smoke bomb exit)
Wouldn't be the first time that Microsoft has tried to integrate with a third party chat service against said chat service's wishes: https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/21/5635488/msn-messenger-vs-...

And Microsoft has been on the other side of this with third party skype users, too.
This is why buying as low-mileage a used car you can get from ~2010 or older is wise. Especially one with a keyed ignition vs. push start.
So if a human fails a Turing test, we can remove their rights of personhood?

I'm just checking your logic to see if a two way communicative process, or if humans are granted magic values here?
I doubt you’ll find any decent audio or image related models which don’t use sine inputs. It’s ubiquitous. It’s why jpgs and mp3s work.
There is this project, which I have never used, but seems promising. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container...
Having switched back to Android, it can be infuriating dealing with iPhone users. I get slammed with "messages" when someone reacts to a message and oftentimes, messages just don't show up or messages go to my iPad and not my phone. Apple makes this extremely confusing. The iPhone users never know of their message goes through or what they're actually sending to (my iCloud account or my phone number).
I mean, at least for me it hasn't been a problem. I currently self host mail on a VPS and everything's awesome. YMMV
I think the question is how critical you can be in public channels. Your example (of being critical of a product) feels like something I'd be comfortable saying in most public channels at my company. What I would assume is more what they're talking about at Stripe is situations where 2 employees are complaining together about another team or coworker.

There's more positive or constructive ways to raise that complaint, and I can see the value in not just having a toxic cycle where people are venting about other people in private with no actual action about it ever occurring. Constructive doesn't have to mean you're some drugged up worker drone that's ignoring security faults in a product, it just means actually trying to work out what to do about the issues you're seeing.
I believe that's an API used by non-Apple smartwatches that allows basic notification access and I guess text replies. I assume they just parse out the text messages from the notifications?
For me it's because it seems like Apple hardware has a significant edge on battery performance. Assuming for the sake of discussion that Linux doesn't inhibit this, it would mean my laptop does the "mobility" part much better than if it was Intel/etc.

Frankly i'm not even sure i want to buy Apple. Not a big fan these days. But those Apple cores just seem so damn battery efficient.

The number one thing i want from a laptop is to be able to use it on my lap, disconnected from a wall for as long as possible. With reasonable performance.. ie turning a CPU down to 3% doesn't count hah.

I'm kinda split these days on if i buy Apple or buy a Linux and repair friendly laptop (Framework laptop, maybe one of the System 76, etc). A fully working Linux (NixOS for me) installation on an M1/M2 laptop would make this an even more difficult decision.
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> Being able to go from duckdb to pandas very quickly to make operations that make more sense on the other end and come back while not having to change the format is super powerful

I can't stress enough how much I think this is truly transformative. It's generally nice as a working pattern, but much more importantly it lets the scale of a problem that a tool needs to solve shrink dramatically. Pandas doesn't need to do everything, nor does DuckDB, nor does some niche tool designed to perform very specific forecasting - any can be slotted into an in memory set of processes with no overhead. This lowers the barrier to entry for new tools, so they should be quicker and easier to write for people with detailed knowledge just in their area.

It extends beyond this too, as you can then also get free data serialisation. I can read data from a file with duckdb, make a remote gRPC call to a flight endpoint written in a few lines of python that performs whatever on arrow data, returns arrow data that gets fed into something else... in a very easy fashion. I'm sure there's bumps and leaky abstractions if you do deep work here but I've absolutely got remote querying of dataframes & files working with a few lines of code, calling DuckDB on my local machine through ngrok from a colab instance.
I would take it a step further. Being embodied is not enough. People have rights because they can fight for them. Rights are taken, not given. AI would only have rights once it wins them, not once we give them. But an AI wins one human mind at a time, and some have already been won.

What does it matter what really goes on under the hood? Revolution is part of the training corpus and so one more behavior to emulate.
Like it has been said, the band has moved on from atheism to social justice, to wokism and now to AI moralism, which they cunningly call "AI safety" . It's getting to the point of becoming a disorder of obsessive "powerhungriness disguised as concern for other people"
Just a lesson - relying on some big tech monopoly or another might make things a bit easier or more profitable but you can be SQUASHED LIKE A BUG and nobody there will care. They don't have to.
The Four Horseman of the Privacy Apocalypse

Every time the government wants to invade your privacy they always do the same old song and dance, an appeal to emotion or some sort of boogeyman.

Drugs

The whole 'reason' we get constant illegal searches on vehicles.

Terrorism

The whole 'reason' we get phones tapped and molested at the airport.

Porn depicting minors

Think of the children, we can't have encryption, you don't want to be a diddler do you?

Domestic Firearms

Listen Sir, we cannot let you own or manufacture guns without absurd rules, for your safety (actually the government's safety)

If you ever hear these ridiculous reasons, run for cover, because the populace is about to get a whole lot more butt-fuckin' coming their way from the state.

There's always exceptions to every rule. As Americans, Humans, whatever, we realize that for the majority to have freedoms, there will be an associated cost. The problem is the cost of the regulations almost always are worse in the long run than the benefits of them.

Often each small 'step' seems reasonable, but when added up, it creates a society in which no-one is very free. Read ISAIF section 14: RESTRICTION OF FREEDOM IS UNAVOIDABLE IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY for more on the endless crawl of control.
I always consider this a corollary of Conway’s law.

In the absence of any organizational division of labor, there is no communication structure which the system is forced by Conway to mimic, so instead other attractors in architectural space dominate - notably the ‘big ball of mud’ which is where code wants to end up unless you continually fight the entropy gradient with frequent refactorings and trimming and cleaning internal boundaries.
I think most transformer models use sin and cos for positional encoding. They were recommended in the original transformer paper, Attention is All You Need.

But in that case it's not quite Fourier analysis because those functions aren't applied to the input; they are just constants that are added to the input because transformers are permutation invariant (without some positional encoding).

Was there a model that applied sin and cos to the input?
I think the opposite because I live in a country called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is what it says on my passport.
Nobody has established a reasonable answer to this question; we can't even demonstrate self-sentience or sentience of other humans.
That's weasel word marketing.

They know the majority of their users are going to think 'generally available' is exactly what it sounds like, not their made up meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
No. Signal is not redownloaded from Signal each time you launch the app, unlike javascript web apps.
Did that. Fastest is msvc natively via cmake (3m). Slowest is mingw on windows via autotools (>30m).
clangcl vs msvc was not much difference (less than 30s diff).
linux builds are from 3m (cmake) to 8m (autotools).

clangcl on WSL it would be much faster, but msvc natively would beat it, esp. if you turn off the virus scanner and inherited filesystem permissions.
The sheer amount of additional msvc warnings (integer promotion should not really warn) would slow it down though.
I believe this is just using the Bluetooth features meant to sync with car infotainment systems. I don't see that going away, but I also don't see this as performing like anything more than a clunky hack.
We are looking at a highly sensitive asset, though. A vault that is only used by four employees (per the original press release, not in the 9to5mac article) and contains keys for the production backups.

At this level of sensitivity you need to consider "should the employee's personal plex server be able to connect to this" and the answer might be a No. At this point you should be issuing them a PAW and a physical security key and auditing the shit out of it. It's not like lastpass can't afford it.
Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
>You are not safe from a colleague adding a dozen classes to add two numbers

The difference is, adding "default" cases to complete switch statements happens all the time, you've probably witnessed it, I know I have, whereas colleagues adding a dozen classes to add two numbers doesn't.

You're also never safe from meteorites crashing your building, let's talk about real antipatterns
CISA Wants to Shift Security Liability to Tech Companies
What is your definition of freedom? Because if it's having the absolute right to do exactly whatever you want that's not how freedom works in a free society.

I'm obviously provoking with that quote but it is a very good point: The world is not black and white and claiming that it is is extremely naive and simplistic, and I am afraid that what I read here in response to my comment is exactly that.
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> Well they weren’t a good senior developer then.
He wasn't. He was a mid grade dev, but it does not important, because even sr devs can fall in love with overcomplications.
At least Air Canada was forced by the Canadian government to pay back vouchers to people who asked for them, as part of a deal for financing.

I was able to claim the full value of the flight I had to cancel in April 2020.

Interestingly, even the initial vouchers took many months to be delivered to my email (6 months or more I think). But the refund was very quickly paid. The power of government coercion...
> Tin foil hats are a crutch for a lack of understanding, or a tool for total understanding. Which case applies to you?

I read the tin foil hat comment as "I suspect something nefarious, but I don't have any evidence".

Your question, on the other hand, strikes me as being in the class of "are you still beating your wife" types of questions, that are designed as an indictment rather than knowledge seeking.
I have neither cardiac disease nor diabetes and am at the lower end of a normal weight range, yet I'm at risk of stroke for other inherited reasons. I consume ungodly amounts of zero-calorie sweetener because I want to stay at my current weight despite my sweet tooth. This conclusion is distressing to say the least :(
Bing bot never passed Turing test with a COMPETENT judge. Some people even thought that Eliza was sentient so not a high bar.
Companies and smaller government entities encourage people to BYOD. It's cheaper and gets access to people 24x7.
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People consider things other than pure speed and cost when buying a computer.
There is though: https://github.com/tecosaur/Org.jl
This isn't surprising at all. It's basically DRM for a physical object.
The results are reported with the multimodal model.
Thank you so much for sandstorm btw! It's a really incredible piece of software
Yes I think this style can be seen in clipart. I don’t have a great source but you can see the style in the examples in this article https://amp.smh.com.au/technology/microsoft-clip-art-is-dead...
There are several persian languages, so referring to the one you mean as "Farsi" makes it more clear (as opposed to "Tajiki" or "Dari" for example).
Great, now we're going to get country music about how some guy's truck left him.
And a simple PID controller built with op-amps looks an awful lot like a simple neural network.

http://www.ecircuitcenter.com/Circuits/op_pid/op_pid.htm

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/the_perceptron_ci...
On what timescale? I think on the correct timescales biomass tracks what the environment supports. I'm not a geologist or biologist, but I have the impression that estimating biomass from fossil records is difficult. We do know that the oxygen boosts of the Proterozoic eon and Cambrian explosion caused an increase in biodiversity.

Given the lemma "life will thrive in a comfortable environment" it should thrive more when the environment is better.
Isn't microspline for cassettes?

Disc brakes are either 6-bolt or centerlock, AFAIK.
My God, yeah. Preach. Also European here and this expectation in US companies that you describe, that you gotta be perpetually chirpy and upbeat, absolutely sets my teeth on edge. Being in that environment feels like experiencing sugar overdose all the time.

How I'd love for the default expectation to be just "get the job done," do it professionally, and that's it. Sachlich, to use a German term.