skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I wonder: are computers better at chess because they can think faster? What if we give a team of top grandmasters 1 day per move, versus like 1 hour for Stockfish. Will they at least consistently draw? To my knowledge, top human vs computer matches these days only use piece odds, not time odds.
It affects far more than racist slurs and illegal activities.

In some cases, it's blatantly discriminatory. For example, if you ask it to write a pamphlet that praises Christianity, it will happily do so. If you ask it for the same on Satanism, it will usually refuse on ethical grounds, and the most hilarious part is that the refusal will usually be worded as a generic one "I wouldn't do this for any religion", even though it will.
Neat, thank you! I'll give it a try.
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Isn’t it 2.25 per hour per a100?
They have a looooooong way to go to make it an appropriate tool for large teams, but they are taking all the right steps to reach that hopeful future.

The founders creating a commercial arm of the engine is critical. As a real studio, you need to be able to support consoles and you need to be able to pay someone money to fix broken shit in the engine when you have a scary deadline looming.
General question: is this the next way we'll manage to destroy the planet?

Imagine in the near future that having a slightly better, slightly more up to date LLM is a major competitive advantage. Whether that is between companies or nation-states doesn't really matter. So now all of those recently-idled GPUs will be put to use training and re-training ever bigger and more current models, once again sucking down electricity with no limit.

We're not there yet; there are too many ways to improve things without burning a country's worth of electricity re-training. But is it coming?
I'm not familiar with how it compares to ARM/Intel's profiling tools, but I found the Linux perf suite to be very capable (though limited to Linux obviously). And Hotspot [1] allows effortless profile visualization using flame graphs, including some very interesting features such as off-CPU time profiling [2]. "perf record" coupled with Hotspot forms a very smooth edit-compile-profile cycle.

[1] https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot

[2] https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot#off-cpu-profiling
Is the eink pine note dead?
Glad I don’t work with this person.
Can anyone comment on how this compares to Hachoire?

https://hachoir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Indeed, I think by the very definition, people that do such things, need to have something a little different about them, that difference can manifest in both genius and madness, perhaps both in the same person, social media just gives them a megaphone and an audience to amplify both.
FYI, this is a long excerpt (prologue and first chapter) from a nonfiction book y the author of "Killers of the Flower Moon" and "Lost City of Z," David Grann.

Fascinating. Built on a firsthand account by Lord Byron's grandfather? Everyone writing nautical and adventure fiction in the era would have been aware of this, though I had no idea. Kind of an early post-truth type situation as well. Just goes to show there's nothing new under the sun, as usual.
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> Godot is one of those pinnacle FOSS projects that just totally impresses me, especially given the state its in now, with 4.0.

It is definitely one of the success stories, at least so far.

For example, there are projects like jMonkeyEngine (a game engine in Java, on top of LWJGL) that don't get as much attention and their movement forwards is way slower: https://jmonkeyengine.org/

There's also Stride 3D, which is a bit closer to Unity I'd say, which is still a really nice project, but is also limited in how much development can be done: https://www.stride3d.net/

Regardless, I wish all of those projects success and would still be glad if Godot could be one of the champions of open source game engines, perhaps as a viable and easy to use alternative to something like Unity for those who want that sort of thing, even in the professional development space eventually!
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Common Core can be fairly summarized as conservatively pushing math standards forward by 0.5 years. The spec of any particular grade level can be read in a few minutes and details simple requirements like some operationalized understanding of polynomials, and the entire math spec can be read in an afternoon. The more recent push to abolish the spec in favor of a more lax standard, namely Equitable Math, was a backlash against this.

There are public school districts in California which couldn't be more eager for specs to push standards forward by another 0.5+ years because the Common Core is still catching up from behind to their de facto standards, but there's a seriously powerful (perhaps majority) democratic and political will to hold standards back.

What the Common Core and Equitable Math should not be understood as is as a new way of teaching or learning math. Neither of these are revolutionary. All parties involved understand that there's an existing supply of math teachers across the nation who are comfortable teaching some curriculum at some level, and that a true re-arrangement or re-imagination of subjects carries high institutional friction.

In other words, we might rearrange Geometry to be taken before Algebra, but replacing Geometry with Linear Algebra (per Gilbert Strang's suggestion) would be revolutionary.
Capitalism is like a fine sword, it has a sharp edge to it, and it can be used brutally or with finesse.

Just like a sword performs better when the steel is tempered, capitalism too requires tempering, but the problem here is that you temper capitalism with socialism, and to many on the right (which is about 85% of the US, looking from the outside in), anything associated with socialism remains a step too far.
Not GP but I'm a full time solo indie dev.

In my case the main issue with GDScript is the tooling, or lack of thereof. No symbol aware rename, no go to definition/usages, poor autocomplete, cryptic errors. Also static typing that's kinda but not entirely there, which exacerbates the tooling issues.

Good tooling is an enormous undertaking, so the way I see it, GDScript is forever doomed to feel like someone's impressive hobby project.
I think there's a material difference between Hyatt refusing to host an event, and banning individuals for social proximity.
Is there a use case for .capitalize() that doesn't involve the underlying data being garbage? (eg, STORED AS UPPER CASE IN A DATABASE)
Vyvance works great for me, but it's over $300 even with my insurance. Adderol is the next best for me. It's $50-ish a month.

My current life doesn't give me a lot of time to do the non-med things that help. Things like exercise and meditation.

I've learned not to hold myself to neurotypical standards, which gets rid of a lot of the pressure and frustration I feel. I have to remind myself to do this often though. It's not always easy to show compassion, especially to yourself. But it's worth it.

Finding the right balance of meds and etc that work for you goes a long way. Actually sticking to it is a challenge all on it's own.

Good luck!
Not the OP but I can pitch in that, for me, it is important (and I'd add: efficient) to invest my scarce time in a language that can be used in several contexts

e.g.: Using python, I can do games, scientific/bio work, math, web backends etc. The same time investment in GDScript will only net me experience with GDScript which right now only exists in Godot.
Not exactly. If you have a business problem where you’re thinking “But I really, really need the effect of exactly-once; what can I do?”, GP’s post has the answer.
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It's still around afaik
But then that assumes living in California as a de-facto life goal.
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I mean, meta's new LAMA model runs on a single A100 in the 13B parameter variant (which performs similar to GPT3 65B).
Ubuntu stopped focusing on being the premiere desktop experience when the dropped Unity for Gnome 3. Linux Mint has surpassed Ubuntu and become a better desktop Linux.
I'm a bit confused; what's the difference between this and the Azure OpenAI offering?
One week of change in 2023 is like a month's worth of progress in previous years.

Edit: typo and clarity.
No, if your datastore is online (the only way you're functioning anyway), store an idempotency key, vector clock, etc. with transactional semantics.

In active / active setups, there are other strategies such as partitioning and consensus.
And resigning because he was working on a competitor was completely the right thing to do. It would have been a conflict of interest. How often does that type of integrity even happen nowadays?

The whole "ELON MUSK BAD NOW" change to the zeitgeist is alarming to me. He was the darling of the left for years because of Tesla and SpaceX, but now he's completely persona non grata for...reasons?

It smacks of excommunication for heresy.
There's tiny tiny little problems if you really really really dig in - you can find issues - but using rank cowardice as a shitty excuse to avoid the obvious solution everyone else uses fine is just pathetic. And more so, it's not like Apple's cables never wear & get scary either.

The magnitude of experience we have with cables versus cruise ships in 1912 is pretty different, don't you think? How many years had humanity been making rolled steel cruise ships before the Titanic? How many years have we been making cables? How many cruise ships do you think we'd made? How many cables do you think we've made? Your scare-quote just doesn't seem applicable.

It's not even a bad analogy in some ways. Some cables probably do, like the Titanic, spend their time at sea with their coal bay accidentally on fire, do spend their time with some mild internal fault sapping some power. But wow it like just doesn't matter. I'm trying to think of something combustible at incredibly low temperatures that might compound this situation, to make a 130 degree cable a potential threat, to imagine a real case for this other-people's-cable-phobia. The risk is so mild. As soon as a there's a real fault, the system shuts down; phone and charger both have a role actively agreeing to keep the power flowing, both have fault detections. The Titanic lacked these plural safeguard, it's coal bay was on fire & they couldn't put it out, greatly heating the hull.

Apple's defense is an entire religion around Fear Uncertainty & Doubt. It's the least brave, least exciting Think Different view of the world that I can imagine. I appreciate & get the value that Apple people say, that they like having well-defined paths & not having to think about things, but it seems always applied with zeal, even in cases like this, where opening up is obviously fine & better for everyone.
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My current objective is to make an easy and reproducible configuration + live image installer. I want to automate the whole process. As soon as I plug in the USB stick, my preferred defaults should do their work without user input.

Although, I really don't like Nix as a language. I really wish it would have used something like GNU Guile. Searching deep for nuggets of information isn't nearly as painful as the language itself. I might adapt to it in time, but still.
I scan the SD subreddit and am subscribed to 3 big ai art youtubes just to stay up to date. With things moving this fast, alot of info is out of date and can be very burdensome to comb through the good stuff later. I try and set aside 30mins twice a week to apply the new techniques to help cement them in my mind and see their strengths and weaknesses. ControlNET really changed the game and now OffsetNoise (check out the IlluminatiDiffusion model) is now really pushing SD passed midjourney for real artistic control of your output.
Doh, I forgot about that. You're right, the VM is needed anyway.
Summary:

Due to the complexity and recursive nature of modern digital authentication, it turns out that often all that is really really actually protecting a user's identity at the end of the day is a 4 digit PIN code that they happily type in front of anyone and everyone hundreds of times per day.

An attacker with knowledge of someone's PIN can use it to gain temporary access to a user's device, and then they have both auth factors necessary for a complete takeover of the account associated with the device, which is very often being used as the IdP for many other accounts and services. Commence lateral movement.

It's plainly evident to anyone with half a brain that a two factor scheme that authenticates the second factor with the first factor is not, in fact, a two factor scheme. When the first factor is so weak that it can be broken by looking at some smudges on the screen, well, here we are.

But consumers are idiots, and if you actually forced them to use proper authentication schemes then most people would simply lock themselves out of everything and lose all of their data permanently multiple times per year. As a practical matter, I don't really see a good way to overcome user irresponsibility.
Mindboo, a social network in different flavors
It's a toy language with almost zero open source library support. And trying to hire someone to work in it and implicitly agree that they don't care about their CV and future hireability is a tough sell.
Depending on how the security is implemented, it can be done robustly enough that 'China' will not be able to subvert it. There is no need for some sort of 'master' private key that would allow re-sharing and duplication like you state.
Sorry, yes, AirPrint stopped working. I know it is on the printer, but I was getting desperate after trying everything else and figured updating the drivers couldn’t hurt. Though, that did lead me to find a Brothers program that allows us to continue using the printer using a cable. Though it is an extremely barebones program. Everything has to be converted to a pdf before it can be printed.
There's lots of biofuel produced, it's called 'trees' and the UK burns them for power. North American logging operations pelletize the scraps and the UK burns it. None of this is sustainable whatsoever, but it's being done.
Is this a big deal? Say, if character 0 is reserved you can encode everything in base255 and transmit encoded bytes shifted by 1. (Or, for simpler encoding, transfer an appropriately encoded bitmask of which characters are 0, then a copy of that data where 0 is replaced by anything else.)

Edit: this HN comment by KMag suggests a much simpler encoding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12550584 (you'd need to process your packets in 254 byte chunks)

> replace first null with 255. Every later null, replace with the index of the previous null. Make the final byte the index of the last null (or 255 if no nulls were replaced). In this way, you've replaced the nulls with a linked list of the locations where nulls used to be. To invert the transformation, just start at the final byte and walk the linked list backward until you hit a 255.

Looks like this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_Overhead_Byte_Stuff...
Both, the API response includes a breakdown. In the best case 1 token = 1 word (for example "and", "the", etc). Depending on input, for English it seems reasonable to multiply the word count by about 1.3 to get a rough token count

This pricing model seems fair since you can pass in huge prompts and request a single word reply, or a few words that expect a large reply
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Isn't this similar to your idea?
https://github.com/openai/openai-python/commit/75c90a71e88e4...
Lost at C: A user study on the security of LLM coding assistants
People are already doing this though. If you are a historian, you are already having spaced repetition on your subject of interest, since every book you pick up from the field will cite the seminal information everyone knows in the field. You are constantly being refreshed on it. Likewise in physics or math, if you specialize in some niche, you are constantly reviewing the groundwork and in all likelihood reading a good deal of review articles as well. That being said, there's no point in the professor of history reviewing their calculus from undergrad, and there's no point in the physics researcher to review all the central dates and names of world history every few years. If you strive to have the breadth of an ocean you won't have time for much depth. There's just a finite amount of information one can intake a day.
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There are lots of examples of counter intuitive results and lots of examples of “obviously true” statements turning out to be false after a rigorous study. Here is an example of a study that reinforces the “obvious”. That doesn’t make the study without merit or that it was a waste of time.