skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will only be afraid when it asks: How about a game of Gwent?

It means it becomes not just sentient, but a sentient memelord. Imagine an AGI acting as a troll. You can never win, all you can do is silently nod and accept the game it plays with you, forever.
This is a great post! Fuzzy finders are really useful, and we are always trying to find a tool that will “read our mind” and give us the thing we are looking for as quick as possible. One thing that I found really useful is sorting based on past searches. If I search for the same type of files commonly (like make files) then the sorting will put those higher. Often times I don’t even need to type anything because the file I want it the first one!
Yes, and there's also the myths of what it's like to live in America
Seems to me the body doing the science and the body doing the regulating and enforcement shouldn’t be the same.
That's an interesting point. It's one of the differences between US hiring practises, and other countries.

Here in Australia, when you're a contractor you have a fixed employment term. That can be extended, depending upon the contract.

If an employer decides to cut short the contract (without real cause), that can be an actual problem for the employer.
Nature publishes review history for some. Also, F1000 follows this model, although not officially a journal.
On the other hand, if you reek of obvious potential and ooze ability from every pore, and WGU can get you a degree in six months, why don’t you have that credential?

Credentials don’t really prove ability, but there’s a weird staying power that can come from the “minimum bar” it sets.
Reminds me of when I was a kid and a car part broke on the family car. I don't remember if the warranty or insurance didn't want to pay, but being an engineer and knowing a few people with tools he got a whole report that said the part was defective due to x, y, and z and got the damage fixed.
I hope so. You can learn from youtube same as a professors lecturing.
This document from some Canadian health agency on how to handle patients participating in hunger strikes provides a good overview of the various conditions and risk factors for refeeding syndrome and much more. If you are into fasting it's an interesting, if poorly organized, document:

https://cchcs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/CG/HSFR-Car...
This idea sounds a lot more appealing when nobody has to specify which services they think should be cut.
Framework Next Level Event on March 23
Being able to produce a bazzilion papers of low quality is also new.
The rights belong to the cultural institution that owns the original physical creation.

"According to the Italian Cultural Heritage Code and relevant case law, faithful digital reproductions of works of cultural heritage — including works in the Public Domain — can only be used for commercial purposes against authorization and payment of a fee. Importantly though, the decision to require authorization and claim payment is left to the discretion of each cultural institution (see articles 107 and 108). In practice, this means that cultural institutions have the option to allow users to reproduce and reuse faithful digital reproductions of Public Domain works for free, including for commercial uses. This flexibility is fundamental for institutions to support open access to cultural heritage."
The problem is finding those undervalued assets, sifting through a sea of unacceptable candidates.
This works for now, but what happens next recession when all those degree requirements return?

This isn't meant as judgemental, but people only employable due to the labour shortage and only accepted into their field due to the labour shortage are also the people who will struggle most come a lack of a labour shortage.
Does gimp have some issue with avif? I tried setting the print size and after re-opening, it wasn't kept.
They are not planning to be poor, they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
It is still possible to get a 8088 (or similar) developer board and code like it is 1983. What's missing is how we get from the "raw" experience to the "everything is abstraction/virtualisation" world we have now.
Even without the egress fees, I'd prefer running software from 3rd party providers on the same cloud my that product also uses, since a) latency and b) integration with other services (VPC, for example).
Australia doesn't have many people that are "unbanked". AUSTRAC already requires notification of any transfer over AUD10K.

India has managed to get a large proportion of their population into the "banked" column by introducing a cheap/easy mechanism for people to store and forward their money. Whether that is also related to the "fallacy that cash is for criminals" is orthogonal to the desirable situation that even the poorest can have a bank account.

Bank accounts allow people to store their funds safely (or at least as safe as the banking regulators), it allows them to receive and send their money much more easily, which allows them greater involvement in the economy.

Australia has a few, large ("too big to fail") banks and government benefits are paid direct to bank accounts. Banks are required to offer basic/fee-free accounts and only require KYC ("100 point") ID checks to open. No one uses cheques/checks.

We have account-to-account transfers with 2 day settlement, but that is replaced by a new system that is instant gross settlement through our Reserve Bank (equivalent of US Fed). See https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/new-payme...

Basically, the US banking system is 3rd world and so distributed in terms of both the size of banks (state banks are too small, federal are too big) and regulation (50 state regulators as well as all the feds).

FedNow will hopefully start to fix this by replacing the clunky ACH and move the US to a modern EU/CA/AU/NZ/UK type banking system.

It'd help if the US used the USPS to deliver a basic banking service that is zero-fee. It would also help if the US had both an EFT debit card system that wasn't tied to the Visa/MC duopoly and merchants were forced to go to Chip+PIN, not the ridiculous Chip+Signature that is as far as they've got so far.

It would be to the distinct advantage of the majority of the US's "unbanked" population if they could have a cheap/zero-cost banking solution.

All of that is orthogonal to your worries about "fallacies" about cash and the fear of civil forfeiture. In fact, on that last item, it would be much harder for the average local police force to forfeit someone's bank account than it is for them to seize physical cash, requiring a warrant as well as working through a bank's own legal and other departments.
> It's called reading the paper and applying judgement.

Many important papers these days are interdisciplinary. Like, medical students doing bioinformatics and data analysis. But it’s impossible to be proficient in all the methods. So, many parts of these papers are impossible to assess for a wide audience, trust and faith in a journal quality becomes most important.
Yeah it seems to have some model for how chess works, it gives convincing explanations for wrong/illegal moves, and you can generally see there’s some connection between the move and the heuristics it’s babbling about. But it hasn’t built a working internal model of the board that it can manipulate, it can’t search the tree of possible moves.
Wow this is seriously amazing, makes me I wish I had studied mechanical engineering instead of CS. I really admire this guy's self-studying though ;I also like to think of myself as an autodidact but this guy seems to have some serious focus. I wish I could meet more people like him in real life.

Anyway, I just subscribed.
The answer is that for Chess it doesn't matter. The standard chess piece notation is a complete encoding of the game space. An inference about the nature of our board based physical understanding is not needed. You could formulate chess as a purely text based game about appending alphanumeric tokens to a chain of said tokens. Its a closed system. The machine need not be tied to our squares and horsey based interpretation of the semantics. To be able to follow the grammar of the language chess is to understand chess.

In a similar vein, it is almost possible to adjudicate Diplomacy orders looking only at the orders and never the map.

Given sufficient interest, complex enough board games tend to converge on the same basic notational principles.
(Disclaimer: i'm just reading up about this now)

Did you skip my first link or are you disagreeing with it? It's about the same subject. And in your WP link has a second quote writing about the genocide as fact.

Another I think credible seeming article about it that seems to judge against denialism in an academic journal called "Genocide Studies and Prevention": https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

Chomsky's skepticism in the media criticism article talking (among other things) about a book about the then-contemporary events of course looks quite unfortunate in retrospect, but given the volume of work and constant writing about world events over a long career it seems to be a error in judgement in the moment, rather than denying history, especially as he evidently updated his views later as more evidence came about.
I remember from some video on youtube that colleges in US used to be cheaper because government gave a lot of money to subsidise education. It stopped when government figured out that it was essentially paying to create citizens with progressive ideas and critical thought. There may be a lot of things wrong with colleges but they are essential and should be saved.
They already can: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761 (Toolformer)

There's even a zero-shot version based on prompt engineering: https://toolformerzero.com/.
Well, humans are just trained on language tokens too (and of course, supplementary images etc).

All the people stating that "real understanding" is significantly different than learning through inference of language are likely going to be proven wrong in the end. There's nothing special about humans that makes our thinking any more sophisticated. With enough examples and the right learning model, systems should be able to be implicitly inferred from language, just as humans infer systems from language.

If we can do it, why can't machines?
> And why do people think whitespace is an indication of a failed design

Because it is. Having an unreadable column of micrographic text on a sea of white is useless.

Whitespace is what happens when the ignorant play at design.
Thanks! Who is driving the development of RISC-V in LLVM? Are there companies investing in it or is it individual contributors?
The LLMs are getting better that is for sure. But I think there is an inherent weakness in the way they are made that will prevent it from ever reaching a real AGI: it can't improve by itself.

Correct me if I am wrong, but these models and their weights are static after training. So while they can appear different depending on what you prompt them with, their core system never changes. In other words, they can't adapt. They can try their best, but that is it, they can never improve, evolve, learn from their mistake, internalize new knowledge, etc.

One of the best trait of life is adaptability. That was how we human spread everywhere on this planet and how even in the most extreme of environments, you can still find some bacteria living there. And these LLMs are inherently incapable of that.
Africa Soaks Up the Sun
SPAs are faster than SSR because you can choose whether to incur network latency or not.

For example, let’s consider a site with two pages. In the SSR case, if I click the link to page 2, then I have to wait a whole network roundtrip for the page to appear.

In the SPA case you can decide when you want to load the content for page 2: with page 1 (if it’s a small amount of content), if the user scrolls to a certain point, … it’s completely up to you. You can cleverly hide the latency so that when the user does navigate to page 2, it’s instant.
Yep, there are some Chinese manufacturers making them; I occasionally see information popping up on them on e-reader devices news websites. As you can see though, still not cheap.
"Hairball" is an ethnic slur.
That's not fasting. It's intermittent fasting: You never enter the fasting state.
So, the education to become a democrat has now become so expensive,that people are forced to remain republican :-(
The GP asked what the outcomes would have been if no one had gone to college.

This isn't answered by the paper you linked, which discussed the impact on individuals of college choice in a world where people do* go to college.
The other place you are missing in your life is self inflicted. No one stops you from going to church, you are. Capitalism created so many opportunities for you to choose that you are now afraid of making a choice.

At what point will you stop saying

> It could easily exist in public parks, but we are expected to avoid strangers.

And instead admit that YOU don't want to meet strangers, and that YOU expect others to avoid YOU. Bars are still a thing. Guys and girls nights are still a thing. Bowling, soccer, football, drama club, night club, drugs, hiking, climbing, the gym and so on for literally a million other things. Millions of people partake in these things every day. Every. Day. They are all happy to do it without you, because quite frankly, you do not exist.

Just admit you love sitting on the internet rather than going outside. Just admit it. It is bizarre that this is even a talking point. You learned how to be anti-social because you've found that it benefited you, there is no risk to being online, you don't have to embarrass yourself talking to other people. You don't want confrontation, you don't want to deal with the emotions and personal lives of others, you don't want any of the baggage that comes from interacting with humans whatsoever.

Even with the invention of the internet, you can invent your own "third place", and many have in numerous ways including forums, social media, special interest groups, gaming communities ALL exist here. So no. I won't listen to this bullshit of a missing 'third place'. You are anti-social, and you don't want to fix your issues.
Aussie banks have both fixed and variable rate mortgages.

Most mortgages are either:

* Fixed: 1-5 year terms with exit fees if changed earlier

* Variable: 25 year terms, with variable rates, "offset accounts" (an associated account where you can deposit that offsets the outstanding principal of the mortgage), reduced or zero entry/exit fees, ability to "redraw" (effectively treating the mortgage as a line of credit) etc.
What's preventing an LLM from coding a better LLM?
Is the parent getting enough magnesium? Also avoid foods with phytic acid when taking magnesium, since phytic acid may reduce the amount of magnesium and other minerals absorbed by the body.

from https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/891683:

A review published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association found Vitamin D can't be metabolized without sufficient magnesium levels, meaning Vitamin D remains stored and inactive for as many as 50 percent of Americans.

"People are taking Vitamin D supplements but don't realize how it gets metabolized. Without magnesium, Vitamin D is not really useful or safe," says study co-author Mohammed S. Razzaque, MBBS, PhD, a professor of pathology at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.

...

Patients with optimum magnesium levels require less Vitamin D supplementation to achieve sufficient Vitamin D levels.

phytic acid: https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-high-in-phytic-acid

When you eat foods high in phytic acid, the molecules bind with certain minerals in your digestive tract, including:

Calcium
Magnesium
Iron
Zinc
Chromium
Manganese

Once this occurs, your body no longer has access to these nutrients.
They do learn from their mistakes while training though. That affects their weights, so yes it’s frozen now, but it wasn’t when the model was being built.
There is something fundamentally wrong with a UI/UX that takes a literal year to master. I can’t think of a better argument against learning emacs than the title of this submission.
Like the other two responders, this seems like it might be a large language model generated response. But maybe it's not?

But I guess this the future we have to look forward to, where all text is suspect with regards to human authorship.
When’s the last time you attended university?
It looks like body hacking. First gain wait, pause for a while, then fast to squeeze out carb, the remaining mineral sediments in bone.
Just a couple of years ago. Masters.
JM2C

OpenAI's portion of corpus that is built citing fair-use scraping & then preventing users from creating a competitor from their output does not sit well at all.
I had a significant diabetic-like response from refeeding after only 3 days of fairly extreme fasted exercise. A week later my cholesterol rose above 400 and I was producing about 1 gallon of urine per hour. My PCP freaked out over my blood work and called me on a Sunday. I was already quite lean from the start, and planned to go longer, but I was having trouble standing, so I broke the fast, and quickly lost control of my eating. Woke up with swollen purple eyes, pain everywhere.

That was many years ago. I’d like to try again with the right mineral support and lower intensity now that I actually have some fat to burn, but I don’t think I have the mental strength or focus for it.
I just did the same thing and came here to post about it. Some really cool findings:

It doesn't play like stockfish, but it does seem to play pretty well.

If you specify a move or capture that is nonsensical it seems to always recognize that

You can stop and ask it about the tactical reasoning behind its moves, and it gives what look (to me) like good, specific answers

You can ask it if its concerned about an attack or defense I might make, and it will give a good answer. It will even answer accurately if the attack/defense is not possible

You can ask how the game is going (who is likely to win) and it will give an accurate answer with good reasoning.

You can ask it to try to meet specific alternative goals, like opening itself up to an en passant attack, and it will attempt to accomplish those goals. This one is really astonding since you're asking it to play in a way thats strange, and which is probably underrepresented in its training set.
Edit:

More discussions:

https://github.com/espressif/llvm-project/issues/4#issuecomm...

Llvm is here:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/release/16.x/llvm/...

But I don’t know if there should be lld as well…
Not really - you might want to read the actual published paper that article talks about.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.7904...

The results are hedged with might and could and they suggest further study would be a good thing, and it notes that their observations might be related to another thing that might be interesting in COVID patients.

There's no concrete tie in to COVID there and is really just commentary on 12 weeks of study that might lead somewhere that could be COVID related.
Shame that. Last time I drove past a college in the US it was the day the hat sorts people into fraternities or however that works and there was a great big cardboard sign on the lawn with a poignant message scribbled in sharpie: "Thank you for your daughters"

Quite the facial expressions on parents dropping off their kids and good chunk of life savings at these ivory towers.
Yeah, sort of the same today.

The C64 was incredible but I thought skipping Basic and going straight to 6510 assembler was the way to go. Got all those extra sprites by interrupting the scan lines, the huge performance advantage, etc

More than once I wiped my source code while zeroing memory.

I enjoyed Byte magazine but Compute! was my favorite:

https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-gallery/compute-magazines...

In my opinion, it’s even more exciting learning machine learning today than 6510 assembler on the C64.

I’d skip early the 1980’s nostalgia and begin the next quest. Kaggle is a good place to start:

https://www.kaggle.com/mmellinger66

And this book:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-machine-learni...
Proof nobody reads the linked article: The article is completely blank.

So it goes.
Life expectancy is a tricky stat. One of those cases where mean vs median vs mode is really important. Especially when talking about a period anchored in a global conflict with vast civilian casualties.
Yes! I have too many hours sunk into caplab.
Things in general across the board getting more expensive is a symptom of inflation, true. But I don't see how just a subset of businesses raising prices necessarily causes long term inflation. Even if all the existing grocery stores collude to raise prices together, that would just create market pressure for other grocery stores to pop up that can undercut and obtain a large amount of market share from the colluding businesses. So sure, there may be a blip of "inflation" while the market corrects and the new businesses start up, but overall it shouldn't cause actual inflation.
parallel is a tool I've reached for many times; the citation bit it prints is odd - it seems to assume that the general use case is research/academic - but easily squelched.

A sample use case would be having a file that has words in it, one per line, and you want to run a program that operates on each word (device name, dollar amount, whatever). Sure, you can use a loop, but if the words and actions are independent, parallel is one way to spin up N copies of your program and pass it a single word from the file. Can get around Python's GIL without having to use multiprocessing or threads (as a more concrete example).

Didn't realise that it busy waits, but I'm typically running it on a not very busy server with tens of cores.
It’s not optical, and it’s not “fast” in any traditional sense of the word, but LTO tapes can kind of approach what you’re suggesting. I’ve seen LTO-7 tapes sell for as low as $10 on eBay sometimes, and they advertise that you can get upwards of 15TB of storage if you enable compression.

Granted, while the tapes are comparatively cheap, the tape drives very much are not…
Most people cannot. Not only are retention and learning radically different, the vast majority of people do not have the self discipline to go through the same amount of content. If a class isn't something you're immediately interested in and no one's forcing you to go, most people end up abandoning or skipping it. Watching only the fun parts or only the parts that seem to you to be immediately relevant to your current goal is not an education.
I went to FSU in Tallahassee for my undergrad. The PLATO machines were used for computer-based training for lower-level math classes. The only reason I knew about them was because I worked in the Math Help Center right across the hall, with an overlapping student user base.

I remember the orange screens. And remember a "squash the bug" game possible due to the press-sensitive screen. But while I remember the admin mentioning some of PLATO's broader capabilities, that wasn't part of the student culture or knowledge base.

The local online community, for example, was based around the CONFER program running on the CDC Cyber, a machine accessible via several unlocked terminal rooms running dumb terminals.

I then went to UIUC (Illinois) for graduate school, in the physics department. PLATO was much more integrated into school life there. But this was also the time of Archie and Gopher, and of course the Mosaic web browser came out of UIUC shortly after I arrived. I only ever used PLATO as a T.A., to enter undergrad grades.
You are free to donate all the money you want to your neighbors.