skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just seems to me most of these guys that are signing feel they don’t get to be part of this revolution and if AGI develops they will be pretty much be nothing. This is equivalent of saying, don’t leave us out..
It’s a yaml key value format using a map. And even if it nailed the format, it kept changing the output on it’s own. I mentioned not to change order or remove duplicates, it kept doing that anyway. I gave it 100 elements, it kept giving me around 80. And yeah, it was GPT 3.5.
You're right. My point was that you're wrong because he literally said what was happening.
A problem is a lot of heavy addicts fully accept that they’ll die from it. It’s like closing your eyes while driving or playing Russian roulette once a week. There’s no guarantee you’ll die that time, but it’s likely going to happen someday unless someone intervenes or your life changes in a way that you no longer want to take that gamble.

Treating opiate addiction as someone on the path to suicide would be very different than framing them as a criminal or hopelessly diseased (the “progressive” model of addiction that took over the criminal model). But clearly there’s a lot of opposition to that idea, even here.

Some people hide their addiction well. Some don’t and are surrounded by friends and family who are aware of their struggle but don’t know how to help. It’s in many cases less surprising than people want to think.
Very cool! I can see myself using this soon actually :) On top of the "code speed up" this is a good problem for 2d data structures for performing this type of "find objects within radius" type of query.
Can I ask - if you had the choice between attending treatment or being grounded, why did you choose to be grounded?
I don't think the physical object is really relevant. Imagine we all had robotic painters in our garages, which given $1 of materials, could precisely replicate any brushwork from some images.

Surely that wouldn't destroy the value of famous originals? Because their value is based on provenance, not the physical difficulty of (re)creation. NFTs are the same - replicating a JPEG is trivial, but the replica won't have the same provenance.
If you tell this story from a different perspective though it could easily be about how companies discriminate against introverts, or how connections matter more than competence. Which are common complaints about how many companies operate. I’d say this story is the perfect illustration of the counterpoint to those arguments, which is that social skills are probably the greatest predictor of success in most roles, even technical ones.
Bear in mind that the token ids are essentially indicies into a matrix. Sequential IDs have no more meaning than two columns being ‘next to’ each other in a dataset.
That is a corruption issue and cannot be solved by drug laws.
> Yet life is better on pretty much every material metric you list. Drug overdose rates have skyrocketed even as Obamacare and Medicaid expansion dramatically cut the number of uninsured people.

Is it? From what I hear living costs are higher and higher, real wages are flat or declining especially for the bottom 20%, and while more people might "have" "health insurance" it doesn't seem to have reduced the costs or rate of bankruptcies.
Right, I literally started thinking about exactly this line of thinking: mesh networking, E2EE, etc.. but it'll just be outlawed and no one will participate in it. It's coming, it really is just a matter of time. It will probably take longer than we expect, and then suddenly it will just be.
you're assuming the transition would be abrupt enough to trigger a revolution. most likely that wouldn't be the case - if ruling class plays their cards right, they'll boil the frog, and all revolutionary potential will be defused.
You have the right to do all that, but you can't do all that and at the same time claim to be a morally superior, free and open society. Pick one: are your much-espoused values more important, or is revenge more important?
This ban and the bills seem bad, but they're not as bad as these folks make out on the video: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/government-hasnt-justi...
Forget Earth gravitational lenses, let's use the sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI

(The whole video is great.)

This setup could resolve the surfaces of exoplanets with its ~100 billion magnification.

JPL is investigating.
Local tone mapping works just wine without object recognition. It's a dumb algorithm that goes over the image and normalizes pixel values relative to their surroundings to cram the higher dynamic range of the image into the lower dynamic range of the screen. Phone camera apps had it for at least 10 years, and people did it manually with exposure bracketing ever since digital cameras became mainstream.
Yes. I got one of these at home and they're awesome. Zero regrets.

So much better than the whiteboard I have in my office at work.
As do incredibly specific ones.

The key is to be generally applicable such that companies can't find loopholes, but specific enough that courts understand the essence of your intent and don't go overboard in terms of allowing abuse of the law.
No, at 3:50 in TFA the bill defines holding as:
i. an equity interest,
ii. a stock,
iii. a security,
iv. a share,
v. a partnership interest,
vi. an interest in an LLC,
vii. a membership interest, or
vii. ANY participation, right, or other equivilent, however designated and of ANY character (emphasis mine).

That's a lot more broad than "Chinese controlling interest".

Edit: and "controlling interest" as defined in the bill means "a holding with the power, whether direct or indirect and whether exercised or not exercised, to determine, direct, or decide important matters affecting an entity." which is much more broad than the commonly understood 51% equity stake.
None of my family or friends were aware of my drug use at any point. That choice was not presented to me.

Furthermore, rehab would not have fixed my conditions that led to addiction. I turned 18, my father moved out, I immediately found better things to do with my time now that I was free to plan my own day. And I never struggled with addiction again.

I don’t think rehab would have helped, because it couldn’t solve my actual problem.
People can write slow code in any language ;-) We've had to fire contractors who "wrote" dataframe code but was not vectorized in practice despite repeat request to do so. Same thing for slow code in CUDA.

From a maintenance view, I much prefer folks write vectorized data frames vs numpy or low level bindings, but that comes from having lived with the alternative for a lot longer. All of our exceptions are pretty much slotted for deletion. (Our fast path is single or multi-GPU dataframes in python.) Here's to hoping that one day we'll have dependent types in mypy!
absolutely! you can just plug in your own LLM... so it can be trained on anything you like and the library will make it voice-based!
Migration is absolutely a partisan issue in France.
I dislike many things about GTK, although I have not tried to program using it so I cannot comment about the API (I have not programmed using Qt either). Qt is not that good either, in my opinion. I prefer Xaw, and I have done some programming using Xaw. (What I want is a compatibility library with the same API as GTK and Qt but does just calls other widget sets instead)
Is this in the realm of aspiration or something you've actually worked on? Because Whisper is incredibly difficult (I'd say impossible) to use in a real time conversational setting. The transcription speed is too slow for interactive use even on a GPU once you step up above tiny or base. And when you step down this low the accuracy is attrocious (especially in noisy settings or with accented voices) and then you have to post process the output with a good NLP to make it usable in whatever actions you're driving.

Look, it's nice that it's out there and free to use. For the sake of my wallet I hope it gets really good. But it isn't competitive with top of the line commercial offerings if you need to ship something today.
> Opiates destroy people at the neural level.

So do coffee, tobacco, antidepressants and antipsychotics.
Is this the movie and tv industry at work again trying to get people to stop using vpns to get free content?
Indeed. Arguments like this one immediately make me ignore everything else I just read. This is magical thinking that willfully overlooks how art works in reality. As if Shakespeare could have written Romeo and Juliet even if he had never interacted with another human, or read a single like of text written by someone else – just "from his soul". What utter nonsense.
Being forced to read terrible rationalist Harry Potter fanfics over and over again
IMO Bush's biggest win was Gorbachev. Bush was the USSR station chief back in the day, and there's an outside chance the CIA orchestrated Gorbachev's rise to power.
Narrow-minded viewpoint. To show the enjoyable garlic festival fact, a crucial component of the operating system's user interface must either actively poll for content or receive pushes automatically. Why would I want such a significant security risk? If I desire insignificant facts, I can browse /r/InterestingAsFuck during my leisure time.
How do you know they’re illegal? There’s legal immigrants that get bussed in from Mexico to all the corners of the country for seasonal labor. Just cuz they’re immigrants doesn’t mean their illegal. Of course they could be. But I’m not sure I’d trust the rumor mill to know the difference.
This has actually been proposed before. It’ll be exciting when it’s eventually used.
The thread[1]

[1]https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328?s=46&...
Those apps are still banned as per III.A.c of the Twitter Developer Agreement and Policy [1]. These new limits are for the remaining users of the Twitter API (bots, social media managers, data analyzers, etc.).

[1]: https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/agreement-a...
This is possibly one of the best written articles end-to-end I have read. Excellent job telling the story
LOGO was written decades before TCL and even half a decade before Smalltalk (which Wikipedia lists as one of the languages that LOGO influenced).

> The first four years of Logo research, development and teaching work was done at BBN. The first implementation of Logo, called Ghost, was written in LISP on a PDP-1. The goal was to create a mathematical land where children could play with words and sentences. Modeled on LISP, the design goals of Logo included accessible power and informative error messages.

> Logo was a primary influence on the Smalltalk programming language. It is also the main influence on the Etoys educational programming environment and language, which is essentially a Logo variant written in Squeak (itself a variant of Smalltalk)

http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ for more on how LOGO influenced Smalltalk design.
Paris Referendum Could Ban Electric Scooter Rentals Citywide
The problem didn't start when Biden was inaugurated. It has been getting worse during the previous administration. It doesn't feel like Biden did anything about it, but neither did Trump. Trump made false claims about closing the border and said his work would reduce the problems. It did not. We don't know what to do to stop it, and both parties in the us have no real solution.
https://archive.ph/52AGp
At this rate you may as well just tear down the whole government. You can't write law that's specific to every single use case, you have to rely on courts for that.

If you're going to say that you can't trust courts to do this job, you're saying that the whole government is non-functional, and That point there's nothing you can say or do that's reasonable.

Blanket cynicism and obstruction helps no one and gets us nowhere.
Just read the bill for yourself if you want to cut through the propaganda, that's what I did. The bill is awful. It gives the Secretary broad sweeping authority to access everything about everyone who they think is "suspicious", without any kind of safeguards or criteria for what makes someone suspicious. They then have the authority to prosecute that person if they determine them to be bringing harm to the US, without any clarification of what that even means.

The law has specific language for defining what a social media company is (over 1,000,000 users), but the law still seems to apply beyond just companies, extending to everyone including individuals.
Sometimes aesthetics matter though, and this is certainly a candidate
I think you underestimate the motivating power of an overwhelming belief. This is a story about a very ordinary guy who decided that it was in fact time to start bombing data centers and turned it into a project.

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/he-went-to-the-capi...
But they arent in Europe, which has a plentiful synthetic drug pipeline.

So the question is why?

I argue it’s because heroin is so plentiful there is no need and if you try and sell fentanyl people will stop buying from you.
Just stop criminalizing shit.
Highest density is pumpkin seeds followed by chia seeds.

Almonds, cashews and peanuts not too bad either.

Otherwise green leafy veg like spinach or avocado.

There's some in rolled oats, brown rice and milk too.

I usually track my diet and nutrients and find it fairly hard to get the meet the daily RDI for magnesium even when eating a lot of these magnesium containing foods, so it's one of the few things I supplement with regularly.
The slowness comes from the interaction of numpy and a Python object "Polygon", which in not numpy. I suspect that a sufficiently clever coder could have optimized the result without resorting to Rust, but at the cost of a substantial increase in complexity of the codebase. The proposed approach keep the Python code simple (and moves the complexity into having another language to deal with).
Well, it’s certainly not evidence against, but it’s still possible that there are n-families of unrelated grammar structures and Google’s training caught enough examples of each of those families via popular languages.

Also, for all we know, they failed on a bunch of languages (unless there’s a paper somewhere I missed, but sadly the days of good AI papers from for-profits seems to be over).
"provided by a foreign adversary"
is quite a bit different than
"provided by a citizen living in a region controlled by a foreign adversary".

yes, a russian news site has a vested interest in supporting the russian govt, but its not the same as a web portal owned, operated, and advertised by a division of the russian govt. in other words, fox news's website is a lot different than the white house website.
CLion 2023.1 Is Out with Vcpkg, Disassemble on Demand, and Updates to New UI
> In this case, TikTok isn't even doing anything illegal as far as we know, because the United States has basically no data privacy laws that would be relevant here in the first place. The solution to that problem isn't to ban TikTok, it's to create a regulatory framework where companies are obligated to follow certain rules.

That's the thing: TikTok is basically state-sponsored, Apple/Google approved spyware. I don't have a link handy, but I remember reading that security researchers found the tiktok android binary had the capability to receive code remotely and execute it, meaning that the CCP can make millions of Android phones do whatever they want, especially if the code uploaded includes exploits.

But how do you legislate against that sort of thing? Especially when Congress demonstrates how tech illiterate it is?

It's also clearly being used to attack our society and infrastructure via children with poor judgement and little to fear from our criminal justice system. The platform does not not moderate in the slightest any of the various "tiktok challenges", most of which are dangerous to both the participant and general public, as well as causing lots of expensive damage. They could block or de-emphasize any number of the tags used in these "challenges", but instead they seem to boost them.

So we have kids sticking forks into electrical sockets in their classrooms and destroying the bathrooms, breaking into Kias and joyriding them at insanely dangerous speeds, purposefully causing people to fall in the most dangerous way possible (kicking their feet out from under them so the brain's natural protective instincts can't protect the head from trauma)...the list just goes on and on.

Did anyone notice that damn near every single one of these tiktok challenges seems almost perfectly tailored to cause a lot of damage or injury, and utilizes a population which essentially has nothing to fear from criminal repercussions thanks to our criminal justice system sealing their records once they come of age?
I literally have the kind of extreme economic keyboard design I have been taking about. It cost me $330.
Buprenorphine is available through telemedicine (even before Covid).

https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/07/doctors-companies-push-t...

I wont argue there are some barrier, but it’s not hard to get anywhere in the US.
I have kids and my wife is a teacher. The past years of covid time caused a lot of damage to kids and the educational institutions (and other adults). Everyone is hurting and struggling. It's not happening because parents just aren't trying.
Drugs are smuggled from Mexico to US. And GUNS are smuggled from US to Mexico. It's a bit ironic isn't it? The reason Mexican cartels can hold so much power is not only the dollars they get from US in return for drugs, but also the assault rifles they get from US, in return for dollars.

"... Mexico — which has just one gun store and issues fewer than 50 gun permits a year "

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/25/americ...

The war on drugs is great for US gun-manufacturers.

US has a drug-problem. Mexico has a cartel-problem. I think Mexico's problem might be worse, because everybody suffers from criminals ruling the country.
And none of that would have helped resolve the issues with the fact that they are still under the control of the Chinese government.

It doesn't matter where the data is if China controls the code. It doesn't matter where the servers are, if China controls the code.

Government oversight doesn't help, because you can't provide the level of depth and insight requires to actually make sure that everything is being done properly.

To exert the proper amount of control and security over a company like this you basically have to nationalize it.
Unfortunately, even a $500 scope will typically almost bottom out with good-ish yet audibly different amplifiers, even with averaging.
These tend to do -100 to -106 dB or so.

The calibrated microphone is good for correcting some rough low frequency room reflections and frequency response unevenness and measuring spatial response, but not really measuring other distortion and noise. It's only typically -60 to -80 dB SNR. Even though distortion adds, it'll end up in the noise, and cheap ADC plus microphone preamplifier are typically not as high quality as DAC and speaker amplifier either adding its own cruft.

The headphone measurement couplers are more of an art than science for the moment. You can, in fact, make a decent-ish rig for a thousand or so, but MiniDSP one is not it. For plain equalization I'd trust your own ears with sine tones and some bandlimited noise instead. For measurements, it's just poor.

Klippel NFS is something I have personally seen exactly once, and I cannot attest the quality of its measurements (esp. room subtraction) personally. Almost nobody has it.
> since powers of 2 and 3 are always somewhat far apart.

This is the part where your argument fails. On a logarithmic scale, powers of 2 and powers of 3 can become arbitrarily close together.

To see this, notice that for any ε > 0, we can create a rational approximation x/y such that 0 < ln 2/ln 3 - x/y ≤ ε. Multiplying by y ln 3, we have 0 < y ln 2 - x ln 3 ≤ εy ln 3, or equivalently, x ln 3 < y ln 2 ≤ (x + εy) ln 3. Finally, we take the exponential to get 3^x < 2^y ≤ 3^(x + εy) = 3^(x(1 + εy/x)). As a consequence of Dirichlet's approximation theorem, εy/x can become arbitrarily small, so our upper bound 3^(x(1 + εy/x)) can become arbitrarily close to 3^x on a logarithmic scale.
What’s the corruption issue?
You’re being disingenuous. ”There has been little subsequent interest in replicating the studies due to several methodological issues present in the originals”
It was never this hot within millions of years and differentiating between a world ending event and one that destroys economies and societies and eventually most life on the planet is disingenuous in itself
Love this, admittedly absurd, metric. Gonna use it on projects my team works on :)
I suggest to perhaps change perspective. If you enjoy tinkering with stack maybe it's yours? And it's better to sell something you like instead of forcing yourself to do something you don't?
Far as I know these guys just sht the pants over things that we already know such as “nuclear escalation” and now AI taking over the world. It’s a joke
Imagine complaining about the idea of living in a society where pretty much every single picture we see reflects an AI's view of what reality "should" be rather than actual reality, and where all pictures of everyone's friends and family is automatically altered to suit the AI's view of what a human "should" look like. The only images of actual reality are those taken by the select few who both care enough and are technically proficient enough to get their cameras to not do automatic AI retouching.

Doesn't sound like such a ridiculous thing to complain about anymore, does it? Do you at least see why some people may be opposed to further steps in that direction, even if you yourself is fine with it?
> "provided by a foreign adversary" is quite a bit different than "provided by a citizen living in a region controlled by a foreign adversary".

There's no meaningful difference.

And even if there was one, public discourse in the United States makes it very clear that it doesn't see a meaningful distinction between the CCP and TikTok, between the Kremlin, and, say RT.

It's utterly antithetical to everything western civilization stands for to imprison someone for reading. Even if what they are reading is foreign propaganda.

It's shit straight out of the playbook of Stalin's[1] USSR[2]. And half this forum is arguing for it!

This isn't a slow-boiling the frog moment, it's shoving us right into the incinerator.

[1] Death to spies, wreckers, saboteurs and other counter-revolutionaries that oppose the freest country in the history of the world.

[2] Even in Putin's Russia, you don't go to prison for reading American propaganda. This level of insecurity is baffling.
Better get used to it from the corporate labs. Now that ChatGPT has ignited widespread interest, these companies are all about building business models with moats. The easy going 'let's just release it' days are most likely over.
Good for you! You did everything right: measure always, fix the bottleneck if possible, rewrite if necessary.

A little tip, you don't have to compare actual distances, you can compare squared distances just as well. Then in `norm < max_dist`, you don't have to do a `sqrt()` for every `norm`. Saves a few CPU ticks as well.

I once rewrote a GDI+ point transformation routine in pure C# and got 200x speedup just because the routine was riddled with needless virtual constructors, copying type conversions, and something called CreateInstanceSlow. Ten years after, I gathered a few of these anecdotes and wrote the Geometry for Programmers book (https://www.manning.com/books/geometry-for-programmers) with its main message: when you know geometry behind your tools, you can either use them efficiently, or rewrite them completely.
Times change, situations adjust, and new behaviors appear that need to be regulated and shut down.

You can't just stop criminalizing things, society would grind to a halt within a few decades.