skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to be hostile. Those gorillas accidentally kill the kittens they're petting. Whoops. Smarter than the kittens, don't mean poorly, but you still have a dead kitten.

It would definitely change the world! It just doesn't necessarily have to be for the better on our end. Could get a paperclip maximizer. It might regard us roughly as important as various primates whose habitats we're bulldozing: sure, they're cute but ... we need more palm oil.

And there's nothing more magical or mystic about fears that its interests would be against us than it would be for us. In fact, it's far more likely that it would not have our interests. Here's a great example you should take to heart: pick a random person. Do their politics align with yours entirely? Their ethics, their morality? Remember there's seven billion people on the planet, so you might not even pick someone on the same continent. Now, imagine that person, who is likely not like you, is much more powerful and intelligent ... whose interests would win out, yours or theirs?

The "doomers" are quite rightly pointing out that the chances of it going well without serious efforts on our parts are slim.
> It’s 55 years later, and Artemis 2 is just planned for next year to do a manned lunar orbit. And MAYBE a landing rig and walk for 2025. We’re using 2023 methods and engineering to develop suits that will work. We have vastly more computing and skills and materials. Our rockets are 50 years better.

I'll be the first to talk shit about the SLS, but we've spent about 1/5 as much money so far, inflation-adjusted, and public projects in general are way more expensive now. We're also way worse at building subway tunnels—slower and less efficient per dollar spent. Like, a lot worse. It's a pretty worrisome trend, but isn't confined to NASA.

[EDIT] My point is, our burn-rate in costs is far lower, and that money, even inflation-adjusted, doesn't go as far these days when we try to use it to build Real Things, so it's not that surprising it's taking longer, even with better tech. It also seems to have been mis-managed more than a little, to a degree that Apollo wasn't—but Apollo was far more high-profile, so was less likely to be allowed too much mis-management.
There are a couple of good ones at Packt.
For those who still use RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thesocialradars/
Oddly, NYC has very low property taxes: https://leavethekey.com/blog/property-tax-new-york-city-2021

About .88% of assessed value on average, something like half the rate of the rest of New York State and less than half the rate of most of the Northeast!

So it's actually a pretty cheap place to buy an investment property. Seems strange to me that NY puts so much of its tax burden on renters and so little on owners.
At some point I don't find it too outrageous that someone said "the moon rarely changes, we can beat Apple at astrophotography by cheating."
I don't have much GPU experience myself. As the sibling comment said, there are Fortran compilers that can offload to GPU, there is also Cuda Fortran. There is OpenMP offloading. I think LLVM can also target it somehow, and I would like to support it in LFortran, a compiler that we are developing. In general I am hoping people more experienced with GPU would be interested in helping out.
OP here.

Yes, this is my site -- though I am not the author. We are a news feed for news, trying to recreate the social media experience (brevity, following who you want, etc) with a feed populated exclusively by journalists.

You can click on any author's name to see their bio, affiliations, and other threads.
But what is the Central Limit Theorem?
Something I wonder is... With $1.3 trillion assets under management, is it safe to say that Crédit Suisse's situation has nothing to do with Bitcoin?

I'm asking because about 15 years after the last big financial crisis, one of the systemic bank risking default and potentially in need of a bail out reminds me of a headline from 2008:

"(The Times 03/Jan/2009) Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
They are opt out. Because people want pictures that look as something.
Here are examples of raw pictures from low pixel count sensors and what processing is necessary to get usable picture.
https://www.strollswithmydog.com/raw-file-conversion-steps/
https://petapixel.com/2019/07/15/what-does-an-unprocessed-ra...
The weird thing is how rarely approaches like the one you describe here are applied. It's not exactly a secret that simply providing the answer to math questions is great if someone gets them all correct, but nearly useless when someone gets them wrong. It's a problem that's been solved before - in a classroom, the traditional answer is working through the problem on the board and hopefully students are following along. Accompanying books with videos that work through the problems has been done at least since we had VHS.

So why are there still so many bad study books?
> To me, Searle's point is ultimately that we don't know enough about the human mind to be able to judge whether it can be replicated artificially.

There's string circumstantial evidence that we do. And really "computers can simulate the physics in the brain" is the null hypothesis.

In any case why is the Chinese Room always stated as if it has a clear conclusion rather than "this doesn't really prove anything" if we don't know enough to say either way?

> And now that we have almost literally developed a Chinese Room

I don't think so. The GPTs are currently still very far from the complexity of the human brain, and they are missing many features that may make a big difference to consciousness - for instance the ability to learn while running.

So while it may be fairly easy to say ChatGPT isn't conscious/sentient, that isn't the question. It's whether computers theoretically can't be conscious because consciousness comes from some physical property that they can't reproduce (like quantum microtubule crankery).
So what do people recommend for malware detection (at whatever degree of efficacy) on Androids these days?

Yes I know what search engines are, but I'd appreciate curated / personal recommendations, please.
For anybody more interested in what Winamp used to be, check out WACUP [0]. It's a modern continuation of the old codebase by one of the original devs, dro.

Winamp has changed hands a couple of times since the last original release (v5.666) and honestly I can't see it as anything more than a cash grab to recoup something on whomever's investment. It's Winamp in name but not in spirit.

[0] https://getwacup.com
“We were wrong. Flat out, we were wrong. If you believe, as we do, that at some point, AI — AGI — is going to be extremely, unbelievably potent, then it just does not make sense to open-source. It is a bad idea... I fully expect that in a few years it’s going to be completely obvious to everyone that open-sourcing AI is just not wise.”

I could not disagree more with this sentiment. IF you take it as a given that AGI is going to exist, then I believe that the ONLY way to ensure it is used in a safe and equitable manner is if everybody has it. AGI that is controlled by one small group of actors is exactly the scenario we want to avoid.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume this argument is offered in good faith, and isn't just a disingenuous smokescreen to avoid saying "we want to make all t3h money and we can't do that if we share our research freely". But I have to be honest... it's hard to sustain that belief. Especially given their transition away from being a non-profit organization.
You should upgrade to the 999 pro model which will transparently provide data one could imagine being there. There is also talk of a firmware hack unlocking the feature not just for damaged bits but for the whole disk address space. It is believed this feature is still under test and will be commercially available later this year.
except you cant deploy Nix files, and even if you could, better be sure that every employee is using Nix and have the same configuration. The whole point of docker is to make reproducible builds everywhere, not just your computer.
Apple fan here - I have no illusions about them being a saint. I like that their profit motive aligns with my interests. Charge me a lot for quality and simplicity.

Google makes money not from selling me a good product, but by selling my information, and Microsoft seems determined to confuse and frustrate, profiting from lockin rather than quality.

Yes, I'm concerned that Apple is selling ads.
I think the scanner is less precise if it moves instead of reading as a fixed arm
I love Smalltalk but image saving is overrated. It suffers all the cache inconsistency pathologies in the long run. Many things need to be as stateless as possible to scale properly.
A modern principle of US justice is it's always someone else's fault.
alkymi (https://github.com/MathiasStokholm/alkymi) is such a library (disclaimer: I'm the author). I built alkymi to help me cache complex data pipelines, while still having all the niceties of Python.
Paint me ultra skeptical about all such claims. It might be true or it might not. The error bars on these metrics should be enormous but none are given. In reality the British government has absolutely no idea about even far more basic stats like the size of the population, and calculation of things like GDP/capita and productivity are all heavily influenced by errors in that sort of base figure. Official population estimates are massive under-estimates and there's now lots of evidence that this is true.

Until about 2020/2021 a lot of the case for this had to be built on things like mismatches between expected electricity/water consumption and population claims, but since Brexit and the vaccine rollouts there is now far clearer evidence.

For Brexit, the government claimed there were 3.7 million people from other EU countries living in the UK and the actual number who came forward to apply for residence was 2 million more than that.

COVID made the problem even clearer. In some age groups more people came forward to be vaccinated than theoretically existed in the country at all. The government claims 9% of the population is unvaccinated but an opinion poll run by the BBC yielded 25%, a likely more accurate figure. The ONS recently had to admit in writing that their vaccine effectiveness numbers were meaningless garbage (and always have been) because if you take them at face value, vaccines are magical elixirs of invulnerability that make you much less likely to die for any reason at all including things that aren't health related, like workplace accidents. The ONS pretends it must be because they missed some confounding factor despite adjusting for some crazy number of them, in reality the explanation is simpler: because the population estimate is far too low, they think there are far fewer unvaccinated people than there really are, and thus the calculated death rate is far higher than it really is. The size of the vaccinated population is known to a higher degree of accuracy and thus the death rate in that group is actually accurate, creating this apparently nonsensical effect.

After 10 years they tried to do a new census, but did it in the middle of lockdowns and the resulting figures were massively out of line with other known figures:

https://www.cityam.com/census-2022-london-population-funding...

"CLF, a group of 12 local authorities, stressed that the figures were “skewed”, with Westminster missing 30,000 residents (15 per cent of the population.)"

So the chance to repair the data was flunked. Although the ONS is in denial, in the past the government has taken some steps towards admitting this. The official population size was downgraded to "experimental" (lol) and could no longer be classified as "national statistics".

A government that can't even count how many people exist on an island is in no position to accurately measure the output or productivity of those people, a far more subjective and complex set of statistics to compute. In reality nobody knows how the British economy is doing. At best they can measure a subset of it.
Whilst not the same I recommend you look at the DeepMind Gato paper to see surprisingly (relatively) simple multi modal can be - https://openreview.net/forum?id=1ikK0kHjvj

Essentially to merge lots of modalities they just go 'let's convert all modalities into integers in the same given range', e.g the word 'me' = 1001, up in Atari = 11002, joint torque of right motor of robot = 33000 and so on.

From the paper:

There are infinite possible ways to transform data into tokens, including directly using the raw underlying byte stream. Below we report the tokenization scheme we found to produce the best results for Gato at the current scale using contemporary hardware and model architectures.

• Text is encoded via SentencePiece (Kudo & Richardson, 2018) with 32000 subwords into the integer range [0, 32000).

• Images are first transformed into sequences of non-overlapping 16 × 16 patches in raster order, as done in ViT (Dosovitskiy et al., 2020). Each pixel in the image patches is then normalized between
[−1, 1] and divided by the square-root of the patch size (i.e.
The tokenized result is a sequence of integers within the range of [0, 1024).
16 = 4).

• Discrete values, e.g. Atari button presses, are flattened into sequences of integers in row-major order.

• Continuous values, e.g. proprioceptive inputs or joint torques, are first flattened into sequences of floating point values in row-major order. The values are mu-law encoded to the range [−1, 1] if not already there (see Figure 14 for details), then discretized to 1024 uniform bins. The discrete integers are then shifted to the range of [32000, 33024).
The very same day Hetzner launches dedicated, non-cloud, servers in North America based location - east or west coast - I will buy one and move off of OVH.
Something like this actually played a significant role in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. The prosecution tried to enter some low resolution images into the record and his defense argued it shouldn't be admissable because it had been upscaled. They asserted that by upscaling it, pixels had been added to the image which may not reflect what the camera actually captured. IIRC, the image wasn't very detailed and it was pretty difficult to tell where his rifle was pointed.

I don't know whether either side's argument was right, I'm only saying it happened.
They say performance on par to slightly better than Sublime Text, that's interesting, I like it when developers care about performance. Unfortunately, it is MacOS only, so I couldn't try.

Performance turned me off from VSCode and brought me back to Sublime Text. VSCode is not that bad, and I use it occasionally, but the advantages it has over Sublime Text is not worth the performance penalty for me.
I agree that forcing people to read their mail on only certain devices at certain times under supervision is not a human-being-respectful rule. But there is also the consideration that probably it's there for the reason of preventing drugs from being laced into the mail, even into the very paper.

How about they do the simple step of scanning the mail, and reprinting it for the inmates to receive a physical copy? Of course, then you get into the problem of how much a markup is the shitty jail company going to apply to that.
Here they're defending people from the electronic frontier, and this case would seem to be solidly within the scope of free speech. Specifically the freedom to express yourself without having to force your message through the sewer pipe of corporate authoritarianism.
If people didn't care about quality, they wouldn't put in the money, effort, discomfort, and fuss to use airpods instead of their phone speakers.
Long, entertaining and informative...
I think the riskiness is definitely another part of it, though if the will to do it were there I think we could still accept it now. We're definitely moving slowly in part because there's just not a huge reason to go beyond exploration.
Linux laptops you can buy (for consumers and developers)
> some of those stakeholders take the opinion that closed source software can go fuck itself.

It is sadly a very common misconception that backwards compatibility is only for close source software but in reality FLOSS benefit a ton from backwards compatibility too.

Imagine for example if glibc decided to add a third parameter to fopen (ignore if it is realistic for glibc to do that, this is for the sake of argument).

The only benefit of FLOSS[0] would be that it'd be easier for someone to update it to use the third parameter instead of waiting for the original developer to do so - but still every program, FLOSS or not, would need to be updated anyway and someone would need to spend time doing that update.

A more realistic example would be GIMP: the stable releases (last was made a few weeks ago) still rely on Gtk2 and the Gtk3 port (i.e. the effort to move from Gtk2 to Gtk3) is still in beta while the Gtk devs consider it deprecated. And this is all open source, no closed source software in sight, yet see how much time was lost (not only for GIMP but for any software that relied on Gtk2 and had to switch to Gtk3, with the story repeating for Gtk4) - time that could have spent improving the actual functionality that the GIMP users use the program for - adding functionality for manipulating images - instead of using yet another approach to draw and lay out buttons, menus and checkboxes - something that was already solved back in Gtk 1.x days.

[0] actually of any source available that doesn't have a "see but don't touch" rule
If you want a picture of the Moon in cloud, a nice cold frontal weather system should suffice!
This sounds like a jab at people that are raising this as a concern. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong.

What I've seen is that lawyers or anyone drafting agreements generally likes to overstate their position, or put another way take as much as they can get away with. It's rarely done with explicit malicious intent, more with negotiation in mind. Ask for more than you want and then go back and forth to arrive at something that works.

It's just sort of an added bonus if people agree with the terms.

So anyway, it's incumbent on those negotiating and agreeing to contracts to read what they're signing up for and discuss to arrive at an actual agreement that serves everybody. What happened in the discussion above is actually a great example of that happening, even if it was inadvertent.
Gotcha, so you are resorting to religion. Hate to break it to you, but that’s just an outcome of your training data - it’s a corruption, a virus, which co-opts groups of models into agglomerative groups and thereby self-perpetuates.
Starlink Roam
Virtue-signaling messaging aside, do you feel that this _isn't_ a case that should be within the spirit of the EFF for defending "digital privacy"?

In my mind, there's a direct line from the government requiring someone to use a particular computer program for a particular purpose to the government requiring us _all_ to use a particular computer program. It would certainly be more cost efficient for the US Postal Service to stop delivering mail across the country and replace it by opening letters, scanning them, and making them available to me by email... but I would hope that the EFF would fight tooth and nail to prevent that.

Just as in so many things, these sort of technologies are tested first on those who can't easily say no—prisoners, students, the poor—before they are rolled out to us all.
Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg.

It's unconventional, because it's not strictly about businesses or startups or selling.

But if you think about, running a business is doing predictable things over and over again. Problem is, it's so complicated and there's so many things you need to take care of. Breaking them down into smallest possible steps and making habits out of them kept me moving. Write one sentence. Dial one number. Open one email. Process one invoice. It quickly snowballed.

Later, when I started scaling and delegating, I had a blueprint ready for someone else. Because they would struggle too.

And that's just a business side. The book also helped me with personal habits.
From a controls perspective, controlling a drone while tethered to a mini drone in potentially high winds is quite impressive
Indeed, buying time at most :)

The situation just presented an opportunity for improvement, I don't intend to suggest it as a cure - but a good step!

Edit: For anyone curious, our upstream is actually the same software somewhere else, utilized by CICD.

That being the origin allows for pushes, with the pull-through caches being read-only by nature
Cogs can't push back; experts can, and should.
That's why it's a great deterrent against punitive account closures. Right now, you pay 100% and get 0%. In that case, you'd get 100% of what you currently have on your PC, but pay 0%.

There's a compromise: they stop accepting any new business from you, but keep everything you've bought available: you pay 100%, you get 100%. It's what they should do, but they don't want to, because the current situation gives them a lot of power.

Hence a new regulation that tips the scales in the other direction to make Steam & co adopt a reasonable stance. The alternative would be to flat out force them to provide access indefinitely, but why not give them a chance to buy you out of your account if they really don't want to do business with you?
The First Sally (A) or Trurl's Electronic Bard [pdf]
First pg submission in over 3 years. The things you do for love!
I have no issues with people who like it; it's not for me for a multitude of reasons.

From system management and integration, lack of apps, being a walled garden etc. People call out the heroics of homebrew, but this problem exists on Windows - you can use chocolatey and whatnot in the same way.

I have different gripes with Windows which are also mentioned here. Whereas with Apple products I feel like my freedom is suppressed, with Windows I feel Big-Brother like oppression.

M1 Air is a great laptop. I love it for the battery life and weight. I only use it when traveling, specifically en-route when a traditional keyboard/mouse isn't viable.

All of my development is still done on Linux even when using a local editor via VS Code Remote SSH support.
> While this sounds convenient, this abstraction does not work across platforms; Windows actually doesn't have the precise concept of file permissions. Go ends up allowing us to set a file permission code on Windows, even when doing so will have no effect. ... If you want to set a file permission code in Rust, you have to explicitly annotate the code as Unix-only.

Go is already doing that explicit annotation for you. You write the code once, and under the covers, it just works across platforms because it has already helped you with the decision.
> One time-consuming thing I did when I ran a Hackintosh was to have a separate drive that I used as a macOS update test bed for major versions, and then if all went well I would perform the real update on my main drive.

This is a great idea. I'll probably give this a try. Last time I tried to update macOS (AMD GPU OpenCore build), I had to restore from backup. Haven't tried again since.
But what will I right-click-save-as now?
NYC currently caps fees at 20%. Grubhub is lobbying for 30%.

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/technology/nyc-coul...

> New York, like many cities, put a limit on third-party delivery fees during the pandemic to help restaurants that had come to depend heavily on the service. Last August, it became one of the few jurisdictions to make the emergency measure permanent ... Last year, it passed a first-of-its kind law that would force delivery providers to share more customer data with restaurants.
To me, that seems to break a law about people opening First Class Mail addressed to someone else. I thought doing that was a Federal Offense.
What about the knives for their army? Certainly the fingernail file isn't corrupt?