skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved in to a newly renovated Victorian house here in England in December, which we bought from a property developer.

It was completely rewired, with everything signed off and certified by a qualified electrician, as per legal requirements.

Most properties in the UK have common earth/ground and neutral wiring (they're the same wire, the "earth" just bypasses your main board... there's no earth spike).

Anyway, I bought a socket tester after noticing an outlet or two didn't work. Went around and tested the whole house... half of the 30 electrical outlets in the house were defective, and at least 4 were wired incorrectly such that they were live on the neutral pin (which means they're live when the switch is off). Some had earthing issues. Fortunately the RCBO's work as advertised.

Don't risk your life with this stuff, test it all yourself. A tester will cost you $10
The capability of a language model I care about most is probably its ability to represent or simulate Captain Picard. In the sense of being good at creative tasks but also Captain Picard, specifically. Is OpenAI deliberately doing something different on purpose that makes their models better for this, or is just that OpenAI has a lot more copyrighted data in their dataset, as I noticed just now when skimming the Facebook paper for MMLU section and seems be what the Facebook folks think?

"A potential explanation is that we have used a limited amount of books and academic papers in our pre-training data, i.e., ArXiv, Gutenberg and Books3, that sums up to only 177GB, while these models were trained on up to 2TB of books. This large quantity of books used by Gopher, Chinchilla and PaLM may also explain why Gopher outperforms GPT-3 on this benchmark, while it is comparable on other benchmarks."
Anybody who considers 80,000 pounds to be riches is not very wealthy.
100% in agreement. It might seem cool to imagine an idealistic internet, but in reality it's maintenance, and cost. I feel like the owner is free to change whatever whenever, and it's up to them to weigh the consequences of pissing off potential visitors.
History is funny because at that time in the 90s there was a company called Bitboys Oy. That company was founded by some Finnish demoscene members and was developing a series of graphics cards, Pyramid3D and Glaze3D, with a programmable pipeline around 1997-1999 [1]. This was at around 5 years before the first commercial shader capable card was released.

Even though Wikipedia classifies it as vaporware, there are prototype cards and manuals floating around showing that these cards were in fact designed and contained programmable pixel shaders, notably:

- The Pyramid3D GPU datasheet: http://vgamuseum.info/images/doc/unreleased/pyramid3d/tr2520...

- The pitch deck: http://vgamuseum.info/images/doc/unreleased/pyramid3d/tritec...

- The hardware reference manual: http://vgamuseum.info/images/doc/unreleased/pyramid3d/vs203_... (shows even more internals!)

(As far the companies go: VLSI Solution Oy / TriTech / Bitboys Oy were all related here.)

They unfortunately busted before they could release anything, due to a wrong bet in memory type choice (RDRAM, I think) and letting their architecture rely on that, then running out of money, perhaps some other problems. In the end their assets were bought by ATI.

As for 3dfx, I would highly recommend watching the 3dfx Oral History Panel video from the Computer History Museum with 4 key people involved in 3dfx at the time [2]. Its quite fun as it shows how 3dfx got ahead of the curve by using very clever engineering hacks and tricks to get more out of the silicon and data buses.

It also suggests that their strategy was explicitly about squeezing as much performance out of the hardware, and making sacrifices (quality, programmability) there, which made sense at the time. I do think they would've been pretty late to switch to the whole programmable pipeline show, for to that reason alone. But who knows!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitBoys

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MghYhf-GhU
Hi yold_. It is made heads-down anti-social work by simple minded managers. They create infantilized environment that self-select for devs that don't like to talk to people.

Talking to people is trusted to "big boys" from business. You've listed the roles. Business big boys will sell complexity to clients through IT woo wooo. More complexity - more revenue.

I guess the most useful understanding from my post is that it is by design. It didn't "just" happen. Corporations bread them and make it a norm. This proliferates an understanding of a dev as an infantile that plays with himself.

Thank you for showing me I probably didn't articulate that understanding well enough.
Note that this is pretty old (2020).

They released code, models and raw data here: https://github.com/openai/summarize-from-feedback
See if it still runs if you just unplug most of the fans.
Right, which is your second point about the law existing being the concern.

Companies are simply enforcing the law, right or wrong.
The ideology of the OP usually.
I've often been puzzled by why the abortion argument is seen as a binary. The majority of people in the developed world feel that the abortion legality line should be somewhere between conception and birth. Honestly, based on my somewhat biased sampling, there's probably a similar number of people who think infanticide should sometimes be legal as people who think a single fertilized egg has a right to life.
What sounds like a trip into medieval times? Government control over corporations? Corporation oversight over private lives? Isn’t that what the new generation of enlightened and progressive people wanted?
Deno Frameworks
I remember when Schmidt came out with this line thinking the same thing.

But back then it seemed like a distant and improbable scenario - I objected to his statement more on point of principle than out of any realistic sense that it was things were going to get that bad in the near future.

Turns out they did.

(before anyone says it - yeah. Back then there were probably already enough examples of law enforcement overreach - not to mention the decades-long injustice of the "war on drugs". I need to learn to be more cynical)
>Oh, and Nord stream 2 was not the US. At least there's no credible proof or semblance of one.

You have to be really lying to yourself to believe that. Look at the twinkle in bidens eye when he says it: https://youtu.be/OS4O8rGRLf8?t=82

This coupled with: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...

It's unmistakable. The US did it and everybody in Germany and Europe knows it. The US was meanwhile over-concerned with their first major F-35 kill ever: Balloon gate.

> European countries did much better than china regarding covid. US did protlly because of many internal issues which seem to be unadressable.

The US did poorly because of lack of centralized control and abundance of karens and the male counterpart. China had the superior response in terms of infrastructure adaption.
It's not necessarily extraction from those that do work for a living if the tax to pay for the UBI is largely a wealth-tax taking the majority from wealthy investors (who, by the conventional wisdom of capitalism, do exactly what you accuse and extract time and output from those that do work for a living for the "hard labor" of managing an index fund). If that tax is balanced to offset the two, well - you've got a fair society (and one likely to eliminate billionaires over time).

I estimate that wealth tax price to be around the average cost of living - as any less and those are people who have no choice but to accept whatever poor labor deals are put in front of them, which enables the capitalist to extract more value than the labor is worth. If people have their costs of living covered and freedom to pick and choose to labor or not, then it doesn't matter if your net worth is 10k or 10M, you're going to accept a similar wage for similar work. (well, not entirely - but at least at that point it's about desire for luxuries not hard desperation)

A truly Communist economy takes this much further and splits things evenly from the start. Though I'd argue you get there with a very-high wealth tax and UBI. That doesn't necessarily mean the society is producing a lot of goods though - especially if you just uplifted most of your citizenry that were only doing those shitty jobs because they would literally starve otherwise. But to communism's not-credit, there haven't been many great implementations solving the motivation problem yet either.

I suspect a gradual UBI/wealth tax combo is going to do a lot better at easing in motivation and crucially - preventing violent backlash from those in power - than any sudden shift to a fully-communist system. Personally, that is.
Roe v. Wade was a corruption of the political progress (and I say this as a non-american pro-abortionist). If you want to have a law on abortion make an actual law.
The US is the single largest food and energy producing country in the world. The US economy barely depends on exports to work and it's most important trading partners are the two neighbors, Mexico and Canada. Mexico for labor and Canada for fertilizer.

There is no other country in the world with the relative and absolute advantages of the US. And that has nothing to do thanks to government, but instead despite government.

In particular, the USA energy supply kept running of fossil fuels, which is the government just doing nothing.

The USA is in a position to take a lot of bad choices and still have a great economy. The rest of the world only chance to have a good economy is to make good choices.

The next possible country that had a proven track record of very bad choices and still working out is Argentina. Net positive Food and energy producer. And yes, they tried hard to f*k it.
I guess they're specifically referring to textured polygon-based 3D graphics.

There were a few earlier attempts that failed for one reason or another, mostly poor performance. I think there was a French accelerator card that I can't remember the name of right now.
Dropping the SAT requirement is a luxury belief
If you would have read the article to the end you would have noticed that is puts the blame on law enforcement and legislation.
Lots of financial institutions at https://github.com/interregna/arraylanguage-companies but plenty of others too. (And that's a hobbyist-created list; not at all exhaustive.)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/17/pakistan-asks-...

>Pakistan asks Facebook and Twitter to help identify blasphemers

>Companies approached in effort to locate Pakistanis at home or abroad so they can be prosecuted or potentially extradited
The US didn't allow the Chinese vaccine to be used either. It's Also because of ego across the board. It still isn't allowed in the US.

There were definitely supply problems in the US in the beginning.
Hah, I believed the instructions and collected all the mushrooms before exiting.
Safeguarding the privacy of a user's personal information is a technological problem that should be solved through the development and correct usage of cryptographic primitives that secure that data.
How so? Their VR and the Web page on their website has mention of products in the first line?

https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/building-a-vr-shopping...
I'm sure there are benchmarks out there that comprehensively cover thermal behavior of laptops, but many sadly don't. I've had many laptops with great benchmarks that completely fall apart under prolonged load (>1 hour) Usually because the benchmark was 10-30 mins, during which the other components didn't heat up enough for throttling to occur.

I don't think the average laptop user should need to concern themselves with acquiring the necessary knowledge to discern good laptop benchmarks.
How big is this model? (i.e. disk space to store it)
Because the original emulator required a 3dfx chip. The N64 was based on an SGI chip, which coincidentally was quite similar, so it was easy to translate to glide calls.
Ask HN: Parents of HN, did you store your babies cord blood?
My partner and I are about to be parents and are fortunate to have the option to store the babies cord blood.

Has anyone done/not done this before and would you kindly share your thoughts/rationale?

(Sorry if this post is not fit for HN, its quite scientific and I'm looking for evidence backed reasoning and so felt this would be better than Reddit.)
Think of it this way though: 50 years of legal precedent was overturned last year. Women who are young enough to get abortions have lived their entire lives not being considered murderers, legally. Abortion was an explicitly protected legal right. Now suddenly, a woman is transformed overnight from a citizen freely exercising their legal right into an illegal murderer — but of course only in certain localities. How are they supposed to deal with this massive U-turn? Can we not empathize with them?

It's one thing to make providing abortions illegal. It's quite another thing to prosecute the women.
65B is ~120GB. All of them combined with the smaller versions is ~220GB.
Companies should not enforce laws. They should just follow them.
There is no inherent moral good in enforcing the law. Enforcing a morally evil law is morally evil.
Every argument you make on China is defending it from any form of criticism. Half the time your defence is whataboutism. Obviously there’s no debate to be had with you when any sort of criticism causes you to go into straight up denial.

You feel like it’s your right to defend your country but it’s strange you want to defend your country and not your people. Majority of people here opening admit the faults in their own countries yet when it comes to China you pop out your red scarf and make sure your family back home don’t get a call. But you call that weird and hypocrisy.

shrug

Edit: as a side note my original message was criticism of the CCP, not China.
Ethics out the window right?
Knowledge workers are at most risk because free access to quality knowledge is disappearing.
Apple compared to the current 13th generation i5 and i7 chips. Those are not remotely close to 2k.
That's not even the story.

The story is Roe v. Wade was overturned due to the US political process working exactly as it as designed to, with the religious right telegraphing their play for decades, and progressives doing nothing about it except trying to fundraise on the aftermath.
Æon Flux’s Surveillance Aesthetic
I hope that intelligent mathematicians don't contribute too much to feed the AI. First develop a method by which all of us get better financial outcome in the long run, and then teach the AI some basic thinks just to please investors.
I like that they do this in a bar rather than at home
It's specifically beer which has the ability to dissolve the most common type of kidney stones. You can try the alcohol-free versions which work as well ;-)
It would be interesting to try these things out. I've been experimenting with making art with ChatGPT - instead of telling it how to do it or even what to do specifically I'm asking it for ideas, to then pick its favourite and expand on why etc. It's worked surprisingly well. I've moved on to asking it how you'd make an art show of multiple images, then just asking it to "follow step one in your instructions", "now follow step two".

Results were good enough feeding that into a SD model that we're commissioning the first one it made to get it in real life.

I'm not arguing chatgpt can research maths, but I do think the tools available are now fundamentally different than they were perhaps even last year. I don't think we're even at a point of knowing how best to use what we have, and the models should continue to get better.

I'd encourage you to experiment and see how far away you think things are. I'd do it, I probably will, but I lack the mathematical background to understand whether it's responding with garbage or not.
No way a civilization would ever die out in a scenario where a significant fraction of terrestrial vertebrate species survive. Civilizations are much hardier than any terrestrial animal life more complex than insects.
This is definitely a big part of the problem. Media outlets are looking for outrage. They need only conflate a ban on late term abortion with a blanket ban. For the other side, vice versa.
This still sounds like Reaganism "Government is the problem" rhetoric. Sum GDP is not a good measure of a country, particularly when it is concentrated in a very small group of people.

If citizens (as carried out by their democratic representative government) give corporations an inch, they will take a hundred miles.
Mudlet (FOSS) is offering $1k to improve text gaming
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> Abortions are now a crime in several American states, close if not equal to murder. These companies just do what they've always done when it comes to murder cases: hand over the data when the authorities demand it through warrants. As they should, in theory.

Companies just hand over data when simply asked, they don't even need a warrant.
Illiberal zealots masquerading as liberal without understanding the meaning of it while shouting demands of victim worship with newspeak. People who think this way need to be laughed at. The liberals in academia failed to mentor the next generation, and so let the childish cuckoldry of reason make a mockery of academic rigor and everyone else with a grasp on reality.
I’m sure you’re aware, but there’s pretty obviously a huge difference between the police requesting info because they want to make an arrest and any other government branch asking Meta for data on anything else. My guess is Meta’s cooperation rate with police would be much higher than 70%.
It would be interesting to see if Identical Code Folding (ICF) can remove the dupe automatically.
>>From my perspective, blindly rallying behind a business with an open core business model is a recipe for disaster that may lead to future disappointment and failure.

Interestingly the mental thoughts of each party affects the outcome. i.e. Let's say until now 90% of open source projects were fully truly open. Once a large percent say 40%+ are open core as a trick to lure users into a later high cost trap. At some point users will become wise to the trick and open-core will no longer have marketing value. It's similar to food adverts saying "no added sugar", I actually take it as a negative and assume they have a lot of natural sugar or have added something else e.g. salt/fat.
First came the data, then came the law.

That is the problem: we have nothing to hide until someone changes the law. Suddenly those things that were legal yesterday become the crimes of today.
Purely opinion, but I'm sure a non-trivial amount of government requests for user data are invalid, warrantless, or unfulfillable (contains incorrect information).

> As we have said in prior reports, we always scrutinize every government request we receive to make sure it is legally valid, no matter which government makes the request. We comply with government requests for user information only where we have a good-faith belief that the law requires us to do so.

(But) they seem to apply legal discretion on which to follow, which is mostly expected. When Meta receives a request/warrant they must use their judgement to determine whether it's legal or not.
> Oh come on, Hector constantly comes off as condescending and insulting to people that don't immediately bow down to his opinion and his immediate viewpoint

Don't know the guy, but from my experience people who "vehemently contest" the opinions and viewpoints of project leaders can come off arrogant and know-it-all from the POV of the people who are actively working on the project and bootstrapped it from zero to success.

It's one of those "clash of the titans" scenario.

I mean it's to be expected: a popular project gets a lot of praise but also a minority of vocal critiques.

How single project leaders react, unless they are obviously abusive and/or violent on average/randomly, it's not really that important IMO.

> The social interactions he ends up having are of his own making as well.

That doesn't make him wrong, this topic in particular is a real pain point: manufacturers don't care about Linux users at all, it's their fault if Linux is mostly a less smooth than it could and should be experience.
Actually, no they can't already walk off the job. You may remember that the president essentially imposed a settlement some months ago.
> From my reading of the article this is purely speculative, however.

Apple publishes statistics about their shared data, and whether data shared was shared because of a warrant or request. The company very often just hands over data without a warrant, a simple request is all that's needed. I doubt they are unique in that regard.
That says nothing about warrants.
Isn't this a fairly central mechanic in many of the traditional roguelikes though? I know rogue and nethack both have this and it means that finding a safe place to rest for a while is an important part of your strategy. In nethack at least, there are more, faster enemies and you also have hunger to contend with so trying to rest to recharge your HP isn't an easy or boring way to play.
> So if the Iranian government wants data, they should comply?

If they want to do business in a certain nation, they'll have to comply with the laws of that nation.

Are you proposing that companies be above the law? That they should be able to pick and choose which laws apply to them?
Cryptome Submits 2nd Request to Judge Hilton/DOJ on Assange Prosecution [pdf]
>the Amiga would be far more efficient.

That's not what efficiency means.
3D gaming at 1024x768 in 1998 would be like 8K gaming today.
I completely disagree. If you're trying to subvert the political/legal process through innovation then you're only accelerating the path to dystopia.
This is a good point but I’m not sure we can really compare the size and reach of what corporations can do with this tool with smaller circular and local economies driven by ethics.
It’s again a problem of scale :)
Perhaps this is how an intellectual Dark Age begins, or at least shifts the center of gravity to other civilizations. Regression and decline into absurdity, unreason, and magical thinking. I wonder how many breakthroughs in hard science any of the illiberal victim white knights contribute to any field. Is there an h index for outrage and absurdity?
IA Link https://web.archive.org/web/20230305111956/https://cryptome....
Seems to be weird to roll into the comment section if you don't follow this, nor care.