skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warming of 1.5C is an average over the entire planet and a warming Pacific Ocean can drive this average beyond the threshold.

Also nowadays an El Nina more or less pauses the warming.
You can kind-of achieve this by setting it up such that new cards always appear after all reviews are completed. You can use the timebox time limit to cap based on time instead of card count -- https://docs.ankiweb.net/preferences.html#scheduler
We need to do that movie thing where two people switch places and pretend to be each other, that way we swap jobs. Cause where I work, we write web backends in C++ purely because people there want to use a "real language." Not only do I hate it, but they have a hard time hiring people cause all those kinds of candidates want to do lower-level stuff.
It's a sign of wealth and abundance if fertility rates are falling. See Africa and it's still very high rates and every single historic trend line as evidence.

Strongest causation factors are urbanization and female education/employment.

East Asia urbanized faster then the US, also has little to no immigration ... hence populations will shrink quite drastically. China will halve in what, the next 5 decades?
The US and Canada.
Are you comfortable naming those companies here?
Sorry, I meant in terms of weather. The oven is Fahrenheit (presumably because its product being sold in America too) but I don't have a mapping for that vs weather.
TIL that Rez Infinite on PSVR2 has eye tracking! I only played it on OG PSVR.
i'm sorry you're dealing with this and I hope your symptoms improve soon.
This is like saying that you can ignore Google because we have DDG and Bing.
At least as far as the US is concerned the government is beholden to the ultra wealthy, who need no change because they are thriving. The government will make small adjustments along the edges but won't truly threaten the status quo.
USA. Eg: Seattle has lots of out-of-state migrants, as does SFBay, Boston and NY.
They don't want to 'squash lending'. They are delighted with public libraries who license books and lend out a discrete number of copies at any one time for a limited period of time. They don't like the Internet Archive version which is 'we shall upload any book we find and allow anyone to download it and keep it, forever'.

The publishers would like the IA to stop doing that. If the IA wants to keep offering things which are out of copyright or which the copyright owners aren't going to challenge, great. Go for it. This isn't an assault on the concept of a library which is what the IA is trying to pretend. It's a challenge on the IA's pretense that they are a library and not a stock of pirated books, amongst other items.
Scott Aaronson was suggesting something similar to this but involving Turing machines, in a comment on his blog https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7134#comment-1947705. I wonder if it would be more successful at emulating a Turing machine than it is at adding 4 digit numbers...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35233008

35 points, 84 comments, 6 hrs ago.
Been using these on & off for over a year, no complaints

https://github.com/antiden/macOS-cursors-for-Windows
Deel Speed: The inside story of a $12B HR startup's breakneck growth
Non-paywall https://web.archive.org/web/20230320120039/https://www.busin...
There's a situation where GPT4 is actually (more than) reasonably good at math and science, which signals ability to create novel, reliable algorithms. Granted, the prompter has to recognize errors and prompt for correction, however this can also be accomplished via adding "double check your work" at the end of the first prompt. Akin to "show your work" when working on proofs.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes.
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

And competitive brinksmanship, xenophobia, and walled isolation aren't useful unless you're running DPRK.
This is not particularly surprising in the light of the fact that Japan and South Korea are two of the most misogynistic societies in the developed world.

It's essentially impossible to be both a wife and mother as well as have a thriving career in both those countries. Can anyone blame them for opting out?
> You always end up with muddy splashes on your trousers. If you cycle then better not wear nice shoes or light trousers, which again limits where/when you can effectively use a bicycle as a way of commute.

Does your bike not have fenders?
Alyssa and Lina are very responsive on IRC. #asahi-gpu on OFTC IRC network. You best ask them. Whether metal or moltenVk supports it doesn't matter. The hardware is capable of more.
Uh... big asterisk here depending on where you live.
July Norem described "defensive pessimism" in "The Positive Power Of Negative Thinking" (2001). I found it useful as a musician at the time. I always wondered, how my setup / gear would fail while setting up before a concert.
Many people consider the prep time to be valuable itself as it usually involves you gaining understanding. That said, I don't really buy that argument and the vast majority of my cards these days are auto-generated using https://github.com/kerrickstaley/genanki.
I remember watching 60 minutes, and watching streets in China filled with people riding bikes everywhere. Fast forward to now, and clearly even communists prefer cars. The reasons are endless why a car is superior way to travel, 99% of the time for most people.

However, I have nothing against bikes. I rode one my first year of university, daily; rain and snow. I was a poor student. It had its benefits, but it sucked in many ways.

Separated Bike paths is both a safer and nicer experience. No need to try and get rid of cars.

Because biking in cities is dangerous, I wouldn't go around telling people to do it.
Just an update, it's definitely triggered by the act of looking for JavaScript source maps. If I disable that in Chrome I can use developer tools without issue.
Tons of money funnelled into banking turned to cheap loans for VC money, however was in great supply, and this proped up stocks artificially out of any pragmatic evaluation, and hyped the public for them (with the cooperation of the media), which in turn provided further supply for the extravagance:

"even the tactical errors committed by investors were insufficient to create the bubble that burst so dramatically last year. For that, we needed a perverse private-public partnership led by Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. The Fed mistakenly created too much money in the fall of 1999 in order to fend off the expected deflationary impact of the Y2K bug—effectively pouring gasoline on a smoldering fire in the stock markets—and banks and brokerage houses used some of the excess liquidity to fund the share price bubble. In the fourth quarter of 1999, the Fed expanded the money supply at an annual rate of 22% (9.6% after seasonal adjustment). In comparison, the rate of growth of the money supply in the fourth quarter of 2000 was 9.2% (–2.8% after seasonal adjustment). Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, seeing the flood of money into risky start-ups, pricked the dot-com balloon with monetary tightening in the spring of 2000. It was the dot-coms’ misfortune to be first the beneficiaries and then the victims of these larger economic forces".

In that case they didn't need "near zero interest" rates, because they were artifically promised much larger returns than the actual rates.

That is the actual key driver: easy handed loans for BS uses (to VCs, and even better the general public), and hyped returns above the rates. The "near zero" rates is not necessary, it's just the more extreme case.

https://hbr.org/2001/05/whos-to-blame-for-the-bubble#:~:text....
It's unclear to me why they should be ignored.
“Crime doesn’t pay” - Credit Suisse, probably
It's silly for the same reason tariffs are. The benefit of the freedom and the cheap goods is with the consumer of them more than the producer.

You have unequal trade - china gives you stuff for free, to your benefit. It's nice that you're worried about the Chinese consumer getting to benefit from access to US social media, but the benefit of that access is to the Chinese customer
They seem to be buying beachfront property
OCaml has dune/opam, OCamlfmt and Merlin. I don't know how Rust can blow these out of the water, but would be interested in comparing killer features.

I mean, OCaml's autoformatter just autoformats arbitrary Ocaml files. How do you blow that out of the water?
> the alpaca 7B _4-bit_ [and presumably also 4bit for the 13B, 30B and larger parameter sets]

This is the wild card here, though, isn't it? OpenAI's chatGPT likely uses more than 4 bits for it's parameters. IIRC the original LLaMA params were 16bit floats and they were quantitized down to 4bit - considering that large amount of compression, they sill do pretty OK, but not as good as chatGPT. I wonder how the alpaca/LLaMA models would do with 16bit floating point params (as they were originally trained)? What if they would have gone with 8 bits for the params as a compromise?

EDIT: Come to think of it, unless you're using vectorized ops on a CPU, 4 bit and 8 bit math is going to run at the same speed (for most popular CPUs), is it not? So why did they go all the way down to 4 bits instead of stopping at 8 bits (other than to make the param files 1/2 the size)?

EDIT2: looking through the alpacca.cpp code and there is mention of AVX, AVX2, AVX512 (and NEON on ARM) so it probably is taking advantage of vectorized ops where that's possible.
My current employer has a web backend and CLI in Rust. I joined the company having only dabbled in Rust, but having a background in C++, python, javascript, and verilog. It took me a month to feel able to do things and 3 months to feel reasonably comfortable. Still haven't mastered it after 1.5 years. Certain pieces of the rust ecosystem have their own learning curve such as diesel orm.
Um...I hate to break it to you... :)
Its an obvious lie you can spew when "think about grandma" stops working.
As always with debt, how bad it is very much depends on the interest rate of the loans.
I bought an apartment here in Sweden a couple of years ago with the minimal required down payment (kontantinsats) of 15%, but 20% of my debt is still my student loan that currently has an interest rate of 0.59% (it was 0% a few years ago).

I will say that the housing loans here have one potential issue though: it's very common to have a variable (or only 2 year fixed) interest rate on your loan, so Swedish borrowers will notice increased interest rates much sooner than borrowers in countries where 5+ year fixed rates are common.

Around 80% of new loans for house purchases here have their initial rate fixed for only 1 year or shorter [1].

[1] https://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/quickview.do;jsessionid=3DC3C894DA...
Server racks? Not just yet! Soon though. As we get closer, we’ve talked about it more and more, see this recent Oxide and Friends, for example: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1200412

We also have a ton of projects on our GitHub, including the web framework we developed for our API that I’m alluding to above. Of course, that’s not the core product, but you can see what we’ve got going on.
I think there is also a convenience factor to be able to buy all bonds on the same platform. It will be annoying if it wasn’t the case.
As others have mentioned, there's usually a remote hands feature that you can contract out. If you wanted to, many colos will rack and wire up all your equipment for you, for a cost. It really depends on how much you're wanting to offload on to the provider. They might do it all for you, they might just give you a cabinet or cage with power and a network drops.
Related, my post "Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser?" https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/17/beat-chatgpt-in-a-brow...

I think you can train LLaMA 7B (the model underlying Alpaca) for around $82,000, based on the Meta Research paper about it. Then you can fine-tune it ala Alpaca for a few hundred dollars more.

My wilder speculation is that, if you can shrink the model down to 4GB with llama.cpp 4bit quantization, it may be possible to run it entirely in the browser (ala Stable Diffusion from the other day).
Credit Suisse’s takeover causes turmoil in a $275B bond market
This is answered in the article. Plaintiffs are alleging that they were damaged; judge pointed out their revenues spiked during the period in question. IA is sticking to a fair use defense, so showing damage was caused would hurt their defense.
You do know that those "executives" are almost always your coworkers, right? There are extremely few "labor union executives" because there are extremely few unions that have grown so large that they require managerial training to administer them. The vast majority of American unions are small and composed of your fellow coworkers. For all that talk radio likes to rant about the Teamsters and other giant unions, most unions are composed of people who know the job intimately.
You can do it based on how many times you got it right, but I think a more sensible approach is to do it based on how many times you've go it wrong. Anki does this through its concept of leeches and the way that it's explained makes alot of sense to me. So much so that I've cut my leech threshold in half to 4. If my brain is having a hard time remembering something, it's probably not the best usage of my time to just mindlessly keep drilling.

https://docs.ankiweb.net/leeches.html
If that's true then showing a macbook next to a grande caffe latte with hazelnut syrup is also a violation of copyright (maybe even doubly so).
Why can’t candidates learn rust? I’ve never hired people based on specific language skill set. Any skilled developer should be able to learn any language.
The IA are trying to drum up support by stating that the publishers want to destroy libraries, which obviously makes them sound really awful. But publishers just want the IA to stop offering their copyrighted works for free to anyone at all times without paying any kind of license fee, which is not how a library works.
The question is whether what you care about is the order's power or the order's values

If you care more about the values, it makes no sense to drop the values to retain the power
MVP, be embarrassed of your first release, etc.
What's the source for that? Doesn't sound right when I've seen claims such as "nearly 72% of Americans live in or close to the city where they grew up" [1] and "the typical adult lives only 18 miles from his or her mother" [2].

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/what-percentage-of-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...
China has never performed well in any war, including wars where you'd think they'd have overwhelming advantages.
No need to trick it, just ask.
300 to 400 year mortgages, on a fixed rate, sounds like my kind of deal...
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In the absence of credit, if everyone had to pay with everything in cash, almost no one would have a home or car.

It's stability of ability to service debt that matters, not the debt itself.

High debt / income ratio at the micro level is bad, of course.
I think America/Europe would've gone through a similar phenomenon were it not for immigration. Immigration presents a significant challenge to the culture, but it's a necessity to keep evolving the economy and make sure your population/ideas don't stagnate.

I'm from Japan, and I think Japan would've potentially kept it's second place in GDP ranking if they were more aggressive with opening up the country to immigrants and creating a narrative for what it means to be Japanese outside of blood and heritage.
I really don't like the graphs / diagrams in that article. I feel they need units on the graphs.

And figure 2. is based on data from 2007

And figure 3. is comparing very different things on the same diagram.

If this were an undergraduate project I would not give it a pass.
> They don't like the Internet Archive version which is 'we shall upload any book we find and allow anyone to download it and keep it, forever'.

This was only true for a twelve-week period at the height of the pandemic, it hasn’t been true since then.
Some of these app are too niche, but maybe not all of them. There have been many attempts at a "unified enterprise search app" for example, but they all have generally failed. Maybe customer indexing + GPT + form fact (slackbot, gui, etc ..) is enough for a company. Vanilla ChatGPT probably isn't going do that.

Or consider codex low-code type use cases. Yes you could generate generic code, but integrated into some kind of platform that knows what APIs your company uses (internal cataglog) and some kind of IAM/Auth platform, PAAS to host the results integrated into a single tool might make sense, especially if the prompts are already injecting the boilerplate about how to interact with the ecosystem.

Or consider where just adding some kind of generative feature is just a _feature_ of broader product.
Because it should be okay, and it's a societal failing that it currently isn't as safe as it should be. Cars are always safer for their occupants, but using them puts vulnerable road users at greater risk of serious injury or death. In my city I love to see more people on the road with their kids on e-bikes. It shouldn't be a moral failing on part of the parent to be doing that. OTOH, just this morning one of the A*Hole parents back her SUV out of a parking space in a day care parking lot while on the phone and holding the phone to her ear. When I motioned for her to get off her phone in the DAYCARE PARKING LOT she shrugged and sped off.
The intro to that paper specifically says:

> Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar. We are committed to independent auditing of our technologies, and shared some initial steps and ideas in this area in the system card accompanying this release. We plan to make further technical details available to additional third parties who can advise us on how to weigh the competitive and safety considerations above against the scientific value of further transparency.

In other words, "Stable Diffusion wasn't supposed to happen, so we're making all our methodology trade secret[0], if you want to Do Science then agree to this massive NDA and have enough skin in the game for us to cut you."

[0] Presumably at some point OpenAI will have to 'relent' to independent discovery by patenting AI architectures and refusing to license them
I read it like welfare spending towards young caused the higher debt taking. Countries which had the bias towards elderly don’t encourage to take loans.

Also I’ve found that housing prices follow closely the ability to take loans up here.
Last time I looked at statistics Swedens debt to GDP was 35%, one of the lowest I saw, which doesn’t really make sense to me when I consider the weakness of the currency, but then again I am just a humble engineer and I have no clue about these things.

UK is close to 100% debt to GDP at the moment, the highest in recorded history.
Ditto. 100% of the times I’ve seen that happen, the problem was created by bad management and often perpetuated because then they don’t want to have to explain why it wasn’t dealt with earlier.
Meta had $23B in profit last year.
Improving My Toothbrush, an Alexa Skill, with Go and the Help of AI Tools
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890221/

Sure, here are some studies that have investigated the possible association between cycling and the risk of testicular or prostate cancer:

A 2014 study published in the Journal of Men's Health found that cycling was associated with a higher risk of testicular cancer in men who cycled frequently or for long periods of time.

A 2015 study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that cycling was associated with a higher risk of erectile dysfunction and decreased libido in men who cycled frequently or for long periods of time.

A 2017 study published in the Journal of Urology found that cycling was associated with a higher risk of prostate cancer in men who cycled frequently or for long periods of time.
Acoustic cameras can see sound (2023) [video]
> Likely a bit more complicated than that

It's really not. Also no asset test so you can have a nice house and $100,000 and you still qualify as if you were utterly broke.
Seems a Good Thing(tm) signaling economic activity and a draw that more people want to be in proximity of said activity.
Meaning this is a moot point for most of your life.
Duel is a great film but requires patience compared to a lot of today's films. There's not much action for quite some time -- just a man driving through the desert. Even when things pick up, it's still slow pacing by today's standards. It's from another era, and I doubt anyone would make a film today with the same pacing.
> I wonder what type of BS the G7 talk about instead of this. What could be more pressing?

They talk about GDP and growth - which can only come from squeezing each worker more and more.

In America, I don't see any legislation for paid maternity and paternity leave. People are expected to lose their jobs, drop their careers and pay more for insurance when they are dropped from their jobs.

Without security of income but with constantly rising expenses, people are spending their entire lives precariously, just to increase some bullshit GDP number. How the fuck is a woman supposed to carry another human, safely, in her body for 9 months and raise it for another 2 months at least?
This is a great (pre-GPT-4) post that goes into the system prompt and its effects: https://minimaxir.com/2023/03/new-chatgpt-overlord/

Are you using any system prompt in your API calls? Note that it does have an explicit domain separation from the user and assistant roles.

I suspect it plays a greater role in GPT-4 as well, i.e. was trained on a wider variety of system prompts to guide the output of the model.
I'm comparing it more to the state of Linux on PC in the '90s and early '00s, when most vendors didn't care about Linux unless you were buying a server. Getting Linux running on a laptop back then was often a mess of hacky reverse engineered drivers, sometimes with incomplete or missing functionality.

Of course what Asahi Linux has undertaken still feels like a bigger and more impressive task, I'm just saying that this kind of work is not entirely unprecedented. The current Linux ecosystem on Apple Silicon is more comparable to that of the PC Linux ecosystem from 25 years ago than from today.
Spam has existed on the internet for a long time.
This is still regulations the US can put in. The data has to be sent from the US.
I don't know a whole lot about Rust, but if the pedantism is related to syntax, wouldn't current AI-assisted programming tools be able to help with that?

I've had GPT-4 explain to me weird niches in Django that I don't understand, because I'm coming from a Javascript background. It'll pick up what I'm trying to do, give me the code I'm trying to write, and tell me where I went wrong.

In the process I learn a lot, and waste a lot less time trawling Stack Overflow and parsing other people's code and closed threads.

It's a lot like having a more experienced developer over my shoulder.
Some of those benchmarks have a pretty small sample size IIRC, might just be coincidence that the noise introduced by RTN just happens to slightly improve them.

GPTQ beats RTN on almost every benchmark at almost every size, though.
This is why Alpaca is a big deal: it shows what LLaMA can do after it's been fine-tuned to follow instructions like ChatGPT has.