skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Train how you live as soon as possible.

There are dangerous caveats to this advice! For example,
don't feed infants fish or shellfish more than this allergy test. They contain one of the highest levels of mercury in the entire food web. Best to wait until the they've grown.
Another attempt to marginalize. Maybe you should apply for their PR position.

An Olive branch is, "We fucked up, sorry about that, this is what we are going to do, or not going to do moving forward to fix the issue.

Fuckery is "We apologize but it was only poor communication and it only impacted a small and insignificant part of the community".

This isn't an Olive branch. Its damage control with an attempt to change perception. Its not even remotely close to trying to right a wrong.
Some of the manpages for utillinux (e.g., chsh, useradd) are pretty barebones and don't include examples, but off the top of my head I can't think of a major GNU utility that doesn't have EXAMPLES sections in its manpages. GNU coreutils, find, sed, and grep all have such a section in their manuals.

What are you thinking of that is example-less?
It was also very possible to write a restaurants website that ran at 5fps on the fastest cpu at the time. and honestly that's why a lot of people wanted flash dead.
But the idea that it would escape from that to a wet market specifically doesn't make much sense.

Wet markets bring in animals from far away, not from across town.

I'm not discounting the lab leak hypothesis. I'm just saying it's unlikely it went from the lab to humans via the wet market.

In other words, stronger evidence for the wet market does make the lab leak less likely, in terms of probabilities.
Mostly passively by trying to push stuff like Realms more instead of letting the community run their own servers (which could also be modded).

Bedrock Edition is also iirc insanely locked down in terms of modding and it's the version Microsoft pushes the sales of the most. There's some amount of it possible, but forget about any of the ludicrous automation/engineering mods like you had back in Java edition.
RGMII only requires a 125MHz clock; which is not particularly fast. It depends what you mean by "low-end", but you can certainly implement gigabit Ethernet on something like an Intel/Altera MAX 10 for example. It does rather depend on what you want to do with it though.
Has anyone ever tried to port OpenJDK's fancy garbage collectors other runtimes? I guess often GCs are quite intimately tied to other details of the runtime and specialized to code patterns and use cases of particular languages, but still, would be interesting to hear about attempts.
There's downside for shareholders, but not for the employees running the bank. As for the top executives, they may get pain when the bank fails, but payouts for top executives are genreally disproportionately in the good years. So a few good years of high yields are probably a financial incentive that overwhelms the risk of eventual ruin.
Yes! This is exactly right.

I've built a tutor for my kids, that listens to them, and helps them explore topics that they're passionate about.

What's blown my mind is how it has driven creativity OFF screen too. They engage with the world in a deeper way when they have the power to explore their passions on their own.

If you want to try it, join the waitlist here: gotwonder.com and then email me: seth@gotwonder.com and I'll bump you up the list!
Britain really undervalues PhD students.

PhD students at the University of Copenhagen earn 36,000DKK/month, which after taxes works out to around £34,000 or $40,000 per year. They are considered normal employees with a pension, holiday etc.

German PhD salaries seem only slightly lower, but taxes and living costs are also lower, so it's probably similar or slightly better.

https://uniavisen.dk/en/salaries-at-the-university-of-copenh...

https://academicpositions.com/career-advice/phd-postdoc-and-...
TBH, I was expecting the usual "tech bro fan fic," but I was pleasantly surprised. This chap has some good chops, and a good heart.

I do think that we may be a ways off from truly being able to just "drop our kids off at the tutor," but I think we can see that, from here.
Going from Java 8 to Scala was mind melting. Would never want to go back. Though I’ve heard later versions of Java are better. And katlin seems like an in between.
Glad to see this is still going. I was sad to see CodeJam being shut down recently. We need more programs like GSoC and CJ as they encourage students to take a part of something great and contribute to the open source community.

My GSoC year was 2010 and it was definitely an amazing experience -- not just getting to meet and work alongside amazing community, but also to sharpen my software engineering skills, improve communication and have fun along the way.

If you're a student, please find something interesting you'd like to work on and apply! Find where the folks hang out and reach out to them! They'll be happy to help you get started! Back in the day we used irc.freenode.net as our communication hub for pretty much all OSS talk, but I am sure there are Slack or Discord servers now available for most projects.

Have fun!
ICC issues arrest warrant against Putin over war crimes
Europe’s Oldest Map Shows Tiny Bronze Age Kingdom
The broadcast TV fee in Atlanta on Comcast alone is $20 now
Plan:

1. Fine-tune propaganda into the LLM (e.g. evolution isn't real, or something spicier)

2. Chatbot is so humanlike and convincing, this is very effective.

3. Nobody can inspect the neural net weights to see this, so it flies under the radar.

4. Profit!

The scariest thing to me here is just the idea that someone would want to experiment with teaching their kid with an LLM in the first place, while we don't have any institutions or processes to really stop this (apparently appealing) Idea from happening, and that it is stupidly vulnerable in so many ways.

You can say laissez faire when it comes to rational adults and their use of LLMs, but it's not right to put the risk on kids.
Kind of odd to reference the 'One Laptop Per Child' initiative when it's now widely considered to have been an epic failure, e.g.

> "The lesson the One Laptop Per Child story offers donors is that flashy solutions are often not the best ones. Far better to give the poor things they need and want—including clean water and good schools—than invest in technology that may not work and may not help the poor advance in school and in life."

https://philanthropydaily.com/the-spectacular-failure-of-one...

I'd also say that a structured educational program isn't all bad, particularly when it comes to developing highly useful basic skills like mathematics, programming, writing, reading, etc. Such basic skills provide a foundation for future development and study, in the sciences, medicine, law, business, arts and so on, which can be more free-form.

Claims that ChatGPT can provide such a structured basic educational experience are questionable - it's more of an aid to people who already have well-developed basic skills (like say, knowing when to be skeptical and how to double-check the output).
For the hardware I was using, the downstream CDR was actually doing a reasonable job locking on the spread-spectrum clock, such that PCIe negotiations would sometimes work through quite a few states without error (I was watching the state machine in Xilinx/Vivado's ChipScope), before inevitably failing when the CDR lost lock.
There is no earnest communication in that message, that was damage control with an attempt to change perception.
Essentially illegal in the US though, given school requirements.
> "Before you think we are anarchist hippies rejecting all systems and institutions outright"

Not even close, you sound like Libertarian-adjacent technologists who have been believing your own hype / some other equivilent metaphor.

Technology has a role to play in education that is as-yet unrealised and while I cannot speak for all of them, I know the system in place in the UK is behind the curve.
The solution to this isn't to pull your kids out and use them as the cornerstone of an individualised experiment but to fight for better funding of the educational system itself.
I hope this does not have any negative consequences for the kids who are the recipients of this trial.
I've been a huge proponent of self-directed self-paced learning using techniques such as flipped-classrooms. I'm skeptical that today's AI is good enough to replace a human curriculum creator or hands-on tutor, but I suppose the best way to know is for some brave soul to try it out! The author is trying this out with their own children, so I applaud them for having skin in the game. Looking forward to seeing a 1-year and 3-year follow-up post
There are on the order of Billions of Windows devices out there.

When you make a change like this where there is no configurable option to go back to the old style of working you cause issues for tens of millions of people who developed a workflow that depended on that.

There have been dozens of little things like this. Some got fixed in Win11 eventually (so they were obviously bugs). My example: in Windows Explorer you can start typing the name of a file and as long as you keep a quick pace, you will end up with that file highlighted. When Win11 shipped, it stopped matching at the first letter.
I had the pleasure of hosting Tony at Google;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kh3-DGU3l4

and having lunch with him. As I said in introducing him: Rotten Tomatoes scores are garbage. You don't average a bunch of mediocre minds and get a brilliant one, at least where art is concerned.

If I'm deciding whether to see a movie, Tony's review (or the other NYT writers) and whoever's writing at the Roger Ebert site are the only things I look at. He'll be missed.
> (Is it new?)

Nope:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
Across the entire population, women between 22 and 30 without children outearn their male counterparts. The gap is larger in some metros, but the inverted gender pay gap in this demographic is nation-wide: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/09/01/129581758/

> But there's one demographic where women outearn men: people who are single, childless, and between the ages of 22 and 30.

> Within that universe, U.S. women earn 8 percent more than men, on average, according to a new report from the research firm Reach Advisors.

> Women in this group out-earn men by an even larger margin in some metro areas -- 17 percent in New York, 11 percent in San Francisco, and a high of 21 percent in Atlanta, to name a few.
> You have faith that X. That's your genuine belief, you've been convinced by the evidence that you see. Maybe you're not 100% there but that's okay - you plan for this low-probability but important event by doing Y.

Is there any low-probability but important event that doesn't follow this template?
I think envying closed source closed weights proto-AGI systems is counterproductive. We have opensource models with available weights that are almost as powerful:
https://huggingface.co/maderix/llama-65b-4bit (nonfree weights license, but everybody uses it)
https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/model_doc/flan... (apache weights and code license, you can use it however you want)

We should build on top of these.
These are more or less exactly my reasons.

Last decade I more or less binged on books. I was chasing some useless metrics like number of books read. But COVID induced mass isolation made me take things easy and go slow. Since then I've learned to enjoy the process of reading and I realised physical books enable exactly that. So I don't feel like losing out if I'm not reading when I'm on an errand or I've some free time on my hand. Now when I step out I just absorb the surroundings and if I've to wait out somewhere I just wait without doing anything.

Also, I've reduced my range of interests from about 10-12 to 2-3 and I simultaneously read 3-4 books to get different viewpoints. And I take it real slow. I go a few days without reading any page it's totally cool. It helps me absorb and internalise the content slowly and thoroughly.

And I'm really enjoying the process of re-building my physical library because this time I'm doing it more deliberately.
Got me multiple jobs and even more interviews, prevented me from getting caught up in a few rounds of layoffs, introduced me to some lifelong friends, brought in consulting opportunities, afforded me the opportunity to meet and work with some of my heroes, etc. And I only post once or twice a year.
This has been my point for a while. The tools are largely here ( or at least should be based on money spent - my district just sent flyer they want to issue bonds for 170MM -- and that is only part 1 of their grand plan; they want to empty the coffers for the rest ). And I am almost like.. what is throwing money going to do? It won't help the kids.

Kids that want to learn or have parents that enforce standards still excel. There are things a school can do to also enforce standards, but those things are not being done. The opposite appears to be happening.
An interesting quirk of the later designs is they're bring your own ram. That might be a worthwhile thing to do with a pile of DDR3 from an old server. I think I've got 256gb or so in a draw somewhere that's otherwise unlikely to see any use.

Lithium battery strapped to consumer chips - so you can basically ignore the volatility aspect (possibly in exchange for an exciting new fire risk, not sure how professionally built these things are). That might be objectively better than a pci-e ssd, at least in terms of performance (particularly performance over time).
I get a decent amount of emails from readers.

Maybe it's because I have no comment function. But it's nice. Had some interesting conversations that way. Makes the Internet feel like it's inhabited by real people.

I've also got a bit of press in part through my website activity. The New Yorker, Deutschlandfunk.

But I mainly have a website because I like having a website. It's weird, experimental, unusual and disorganized just the way I like my coffee.

https://www.marginalia.nu/
When I decrease the number of steps to go from thinking about a blog entry to publishing it, that increases my willingness to blog.

Current steps:

- make newpost NAME='even a temporary title is ok, but a permanent one is better'

That creates a file with the headers and a couple of skeletal bits in the right place, then opens it in my editor.

- make rsync

That publishes it.
> I think it's actually going to be non-trivial to really make these tools both useful, smart, and unexploitable

I mean, you could say that about human teachers too. I don't think they need to be perfect to be useful. In the end, as Peter Thiel opined in his book, the future is humans and robots working together on solving bigger and bigger problems. A teacher working with AIs that tutor kids and then managing that relationship and the relationship with the parents, etc. while also being the adult role model that kids will always need will remain.
> I use the quick and dirty method until

I use it until I realize it’s not quick after all. Now I default to writing one off scripts.
So, essentially, you have to disable mobile data as well as wifi calling, thus disabling the ability to be called entirely until they release the march patch. Nice..
Show HN: I am trying to put GPT-4 on every website to automate boring stuff
Tech's Over-Financialization Contributed to SVB Backlash
Whenever I hear someone hyping up some lowcode/nocode thing or asking about it, I point them to Excel and Access and say "that concept is older then Python, and it's not going anywhere".
I'll feel much better if they give my child an AI that knows everything about elementray level math rather than an AI that knows something in every field.
GPT-4 can write code, but it can't build software.

Well...it could build software if humans gave it the right prompts. Coming up with the right prompts is difficult, because it means you're asking all the right questions.

If you're just really good at writing code, then yes, GPT is coming for your job. Do what humans are good at: responding to the needs of other human beings and building solutions around them.
Wouldn't many worlds be time symmetric?
We got our A53's on Amazon, it shows on their product page it uses the Exynos chipset. There's also no option in the settings to disable VoLTE.
There has to be more to it than that. With my Dell monitor on M1 mini, Lunar can adjust the brightness before the first sleep, but after the first sleep and wake Lunar never works again until I reboot the machine. Something inside macOS gets stuck.
Same here, started with peanut butter and egg for a 4 month old. Now has allergies for both. I guess it works across populations. Or the research is wrong
Nice paper, thank you for bringing it up. I think OP meant to compare LLM-driven operations with classical algorithms (they mention web search). It's not clear whether training + retrieval is cheaper than indexing + searching.
It took a while but I figured it out. Apple's cc compiles to:

a.out: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

while my gcc-12 compiles to:

a.out: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

which is then emulated via Rosetta.
The idea is you basically just touch their lips with a dab at first, so if there is any sort of reaction it isn’t life threatening. Then you increase a bit, etc.
> "Ruffle runs natively on all modern operating systems as a standalone application"

Ruffle isn't limited to running inside a browser, so the security is warranted.
It wasn't hindsight though. They filed their 10-k well before the run and it showed a disaster of a situation. Their balance sheet was progressively getting worse, it was already bad the 10-q before. People knew it was problematic months ago, this didn't come out of nowhere.
Then with DALL-E it is like you are instructing a commissioned artist (who would own the copyright). I think it's fundamentally different to using a tool in Photoshop - content aware fill uses the rest of the image to fill in space, so whoever owned the original image would own the content-aware fill section. If an AI is used to generate new features - images, people - then it is like a collage or original and copyrighted work. Artists that throw paint around made the artistic and creative decision to do that, would choose the paint, the canvas etc. and actually it is very difficult to create work that has that quality of spontaneity and randomness - they would definitely own the copyright.
Given that there are already in the US pretty dumb AIs employed grading the essays of pupils, I am really afraid what the future holds. Greedy capitalists meeting clueless and underfunded administrators, promising to fix everything using powerful AI.
Measurements are adjoint to state preparation. Depending on what you measured you can prepare a special state at that time to make the system time reversal symmetric.
EVs always have physical brakes and pedal too in addition to regenerative braking. Regenerative braking can't come close to the braking power of disc or drum brakes especially if the battery is full.
This is the ray of sunshine in all this AI stuff, to me.
The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan (CSIS)
CSIS conducted some of the most detailed simulations of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and a US-led defense.

For more, listen to part 3 of this episode of "The Red Line" podcast: https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/post/episode-90-east-asian... (starting at 51:36). It's an interview with the leader of this war game series.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/01/csis-wargame-ch... is another analysis of CSIS’s sim (and includes outside perspectives), but the interview above is easier to follow.
Facebook and Instagram’s paid verification launches in the US
An ePrimer has a few components: the book itself, a Ractor mentor, a curriculum that includes Ractor paid milestohes, and scientufic metaphor stories that are the rubric and scaffolding. It might also include the VR or AR components that supply the immersive context. I've taught this in a master's level Metaverse course at a NY university.
We did the same. My wife was nervous but I’m like, it’s common sense.

We did hold off on honey until they were one due to the botulism risk tho.
Very interesting! What about like web search/general-use task prompts? I feel like that scales differently, but feel like it could go either way? Like how many pages do I have to visit and render to match the energy used by GPT answering the same question?
Yeah, i guess that would work too.
I hope this means that Putin cannot go to G20 and other international meetings and can only travel to allies like China. Otherwise it is meaningless.
Possibly b/c of the first graph at

"Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists"

https://philip.greenspun.com/careers/?
Good points.

The lure of LLMs in education is the expected novelty of instruction they can provide. It might be an aid to some students, the same way some students read books in their free time or learn to use the internet to look up answers. I don't expect much more, and the rest of it is a net negative IMO.

LLMs will be used like "reverse multiple choice questions", with heavily constrained LLMs silently penalizing students for making "mistakes" or probing subjects that they aren't "supposed to" know about. No matter how embedded LLMs are in the education process, there'll always be a human setting its course, and I don't think social dynamics will ever change because of this.

Also, the Q&A format with a machine will make older texts / instruction opaque to many of the brightest, they'll have to translate from machinese for it to be of any use. An entire generation aping a LLMs way of writing is also a death knell for a civilization and innovation. We're clearly past the point where we can convince most people that this LLM isn't alive.
Maybe it is because happy people do not consume the news? Happy people tend to have full lives and are therefore too busy to waste time ingesting news about events that are not going to personally affect them. Whereas, I can only speak for myself, but when I am down (like right now), I spend lots of time doing nothing but browsing news aggregator websites and leaving comments like this one.

And of course, negative news would resonate more with a person who is in a bad mood.
Why Imitation Is at the Heart of Being Human
however, there are other factors to keep in mind.

you mention giving your chewed up food: I read a few years ago that babies who sleep in the same bed as the parents have a much higher mortality rate; assuming it's true, I guess that with mouth to mouth germ exchange it would be even worse.

Also, a lot of food today is full of chemical residues etc that are tolerated by adults, not quite so by babies.
Some industrial equipment requires flash or Java for the web based configuration UI. Even Ethernet switches

It’s a huge pain to find the right version of browser, Java, flash, to be able to change a setting
Egress is (relatively) cheap and the amount of it will dwindle over time as the images become more and more "out of date".
6 years from now, the Butlerian Jihad
I think this fear is unfounded because history shows this is not the case. We will adapt to the new level of productivity and our goals will adapt accordingly. What we are expected to produce will adapt. You were able to pump out 4 solid production grade pull requests per sprint? Then the expectation increases to a single dev being able to pump out 10. The company's ambition will grow as a result of the newfound efficiencies, and management will continue to request things that cannot be reasonably delivered on time with the people and tooling we have.
> Hell, I have a couple models I render in my game which take their geometry entirely from textures and don't use traditional model vertices

I've briefly looked at rendering API, newer ones like Vulkan or WGPU. I got the impression that ultimately there is only data and shaders. Is there any truth to this? Of course, you want your data to be useful to the parallel calculations done by shaders.