skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually wasn't allowed in with my wife when she did her interview (she told me that they didn't look at the pictures), so I'm not really sure. We got a nice hotel room on the 100th+ floor of the Guangzhou IFC, so I was pretty caught up in that experience (and then I got to ride in a 380 on the way back to Beijing, double bonus). But definitely no nudes were needed to secure a green card.
The house is probably gigantic.

Houses in the US tend to be pretty large to begin with[1]. In newer cities that have a lot of land to expand into (entire new subdivisions in the suburbs), the average house is around 2500 feet^2 (~230 m^2).

But houses in the US also tend to only have one AC unit for the entire house. So if a house has three AC units, it is probably even larger than average. It could be 3000-4000 ft^2 (~275-375 m^2).

And naturally it takes a lot of energy to heat and cool all that space.

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[1] https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/2016/09/08...
AGI also provides a way to have a payload intelligence that's capable of surviving interstellar travel without warp - it can live for a thousand year trip in a shoebox.

Which is why i think our culture and stories might make it to the stars, but I'm pretty sure we won't.
Arguably there are other (better) examples. Off the top of my head:

* CFC elimination (saved the ozone layer)
* Leaded gas ban (well, except private aircraft, but they are working on that)
There's BaCon, a shell script (!) BASIC-to-C converter: https://www.basic-converter.org/

Barry Kauler, the fellow behind Puppy Linux and EasyOS, has used it to create utilities: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=64923
With Folded Hands
Nice, yeah that looks great to me. Though the fridge looks counter-depth (I prefer a deeper fridge and dislike those disturbingly-shallow ones common in luxury homes). Proper spacing between the "islands" so two people (or more) can fit comfortably. It is indeed a very solid "solution" to the kitchen.

In the same sense, I felt like Macintosh System 7 was a complete and optimal solution to the computer "desktop" paradigm. There was never any compelling need to substantially change it (and indeed even the absolute latest Mac or Windows is nearly the same, though far less refined and concise IMO). I'm not sure when/if we'll see a drastic difference in the personal computer OS GUI that takes hold.
I had to google 'The Machine Stops' - but it looks like a good read, thank you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
I remember when Zoom got all the same attention as TikTok is getting being a Chinese spying tool, but it's been awfully quiet on that front for a while now. I wonder if Zoom coughed up some lobbying bucks or something, and this is just another extortion attempt
Yeah, we agree then. I just wanted to make it clear that the racial arguments in explanation of this study aren't going to hold water.
Not related to the content, but I find the phrase "fireside chat" to be stuffy jargonspeak. Why can't you just use the word "conversation"?
if tiktok were banned from the store, they could just publish an api and let 3rd party developers create client apps. an app store ban might even have the opposite of the intended effect. which would be pretty much on par as far as sanctions go.
> Yes, many AI models are far too large to run on CPUs, and most training workloads will remain in the domain of GPUs and custom silicon

Isn't it CPU is better for this perspective, thanks to cheaper and easily upgradable RAM? (unless have $$$ to buy DGX)
It’s really well past time to start considering overdose deaths amongst addicts as suicide.

Yes, there are accidental overdoses where someone takes too much of a prescribed drug without realizing it or accidentally combines it with someone that amplifies the effect and results in death. That’s a different matter.

Many opiate addicts who die of overdose are essentially (oftentimes even openly) accepting they’ll die due to the drug someday. We treat PTSD-affected soldiers as humans who need assistance in pulling through their difficulties before making an irreversible mistake. But we treat drug addiction as a problem regarding the addiction itself, and not that people with troubled circumstances fall into drug addiction out of despair or other difficulties in life.

But I think attitudes regarding this won’t change because the US will instantly shoot ahead of the world in suicide death statistics—in a shame-based society that’s all about saving face like the US, that’s simply not going to happen.
France is not targeted by the 2nd largest economy in the world through an act of social warfare to knock them off the top rung so that their adversary (China) can take over. More than 90% of the fentanyl on the streets of the US originated in China.
As expected, this blows.

To have any read access at all, you need to pay $100/month - which currently is totally free with very generous rate limit. And the old $100/month tier, IIRC, has something like 2M, compared to current 10k.

It basically kills any hobby projects. I personally have one (that is only used by myself) to just backup tweets from some public accounts. Guess no more.

I expect lots of scraping tools would be developed/updated (they already exist of course, but using API is far more easier to use (manually or with things like Tweepy) and it can gives you a very detailed object for each tweet).
TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
I wonder how this compares to GPT4All?
In written communication CYA will usually trump "Assume good motives"
People mostly get it wrong by miscounting words. GPT-4, on the other hand, usually ends up replacing all occurrences of "the" with "!!!", and then adding a bunch more of the latter in random spots for good measure.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 (§8.3) discusses similar scenarios, and some possible reasons for this limitation.
AFL is great for most file formats (e.g. ELF), but probably not suitable for video formats like H.264, which uses complex encoding even for things as simple as frame width/height in the header (see things like ue(v) and CAVLC).

It will take ages for AFL to generate a valid H.264 NALU that isn't rejected outright.
Ouch, and still some woes? The latest (37) wasn't too monumental if memory serves. 38 is being tested now, I'm not ready!
Astronomers witness birth of distant cluster of galaxies from the early Universe
It's not a babi agi. You can't teach it things. Often you ask it to not do something and it does anyway. Say don't use that function and it uses it in the example.

It's crazy impressive but that's not 0.00001% of an AGI.
> produced in small labs, often trained by Chinese associates, and then shipped to the USA.

Same thing, more steps, more plausible deniability. What's the diff?
So ban any app that uses the API
Enfabrica Emerges from Stealth Mode
Its fine we'll just eat the rich.

But in all seriousness, in a capitalist society the people holding the capital have to solve existential problems (not to humanity itself, but to the economic system in this case), because they control all the resources required to do so. If they decline to do so, we'll replace them with new owners of capital.
This is incredibly regional: in the south east ya, I guess you have lots of space and a not so great climate to deal with.

Houses on the west coast might just have heat pumps, maybe...and not even a central AC unit (instead, you get a separate heat pump unit for each room you want to heat/cool, our 2016 house has two units, but the first floor lacks any AC at all and only has small conductive heaters). Our electric bills are super low, however (mostly because...we don't need to really use heat all that much, and maybe AC a couple of weeks per year).
France isn't far in line in regards of immigrant proportions, and they also don't request health records for vetting purposes.

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F34708/...

America isn't in some super exceptional situation where human rights need to be routinely trampled to preserve the nation.
Depends what side of the Socialist calculation debate you’re on.

https://www.libertarianism.org/topics/socialist-calculation-...
I think TikTok is right next to places like /pol/ on the level of corruption they can deliver with such simple interactions. But even then I do not think they should ban access, it just sets a horrible precedence for things to come, all over tech. Limiting and regulating sounds more like a solution.

Then again, and going back to the /pol/ example, more horrible conduct is being condoned on that front than on TikTok, or at least more blatant radical behavior, and yet here we are talking about a bill to ban a Chinese-made reels et al.
From the reference you replied to:

> Effective May 1, 2019, China officially controlled all forms of fentanyl as a class of drugs. This fulfilled the
commitment that President Xi made during the G-20 Summit. The implementation of the new measure
includes investigations of known fentanyl manufacturing areas, stricter control of internet sites advertising
fentanyl, stricter enforcement of shipping regulations, and the creation of special teams to investigate
leads on fentanyl trafficking. These new restrictions have the potential to severely limit fentanyl production
and trafficking from China. This could alter China’s position as a supplier to both the United States and Mexico
A couple people have used LLMs as frontends to theorem provers/SAT solvers, which would handle that fairly easily: https://twitter.com/AlbertQJiang/status/1584877475502301184 https://twitter.com/ericzelikman/status/1605385835624378368
Coming from SEA I always wondering why the west don't ban the drugs.

Yes, illegal drug abuse is still an issue here, but it's nowhere close to major contributor of death and crime.
Zoom must have bribed, I mean donated, to the right politicians. Its all theater. "It would be a shame if something were to happen to that big tech company of yours...."
See my other comment about this being a way to achieve all the nice properties of the Signal protocol in an efficient and scalable manner for group messaging instead of just 1:1 messaging.
I have some hope that a more creative approach to the gun situation would help. The typical blue state approach of "ban everything, except allow a select few people to pay thousands of dollars for a license" definitely won't work. At the same time, the NFA has held up for a very long time and there haven't been any challenges to it yet despite the reputation of today's Supreme Court.
That's fair, I think the Microsoft of 30 years ago did pretty well with UIs. That said, given the state of Windows 11 and their other modern products I think their current priorities are quite a bit different.
Not sure it's about education. Ladders seem pulled higher and sending your resume to the ether and the dog and pony show that is interviewing...
I heard about this exact example earlier today ... on TikTok.
I meant a tracing GC like https://docs.rs/gc/latest/gc/.

Arc still requires you to reason about ownership as does this GC.

I think single threaded async w/ easy no copy message passing is more akin to what most people want when thinking about concurrency (eg Go channels) and actually happens to perform exceedingly well when it’s done up and down the stack (eg io_uring). In such a model you don’t even need to worry about ownership so much because you can’t Send anything except for things that need to be so there’s not a lot of value in many of the protections Rust tries to put in place.
Yeah, I would think of it as closer to riding a bike than driving a car in that respect. People do it all the time but you want to be careful about route selection.
The one question you present evidence of is not questioning the legitimacy and validity of the election; there is a difference between believing (rightly or wrongly, with or without sufficient cause) that improper activity effected the popular vote tally and believing that the election is illegitimate.

You present no evidence relating to actual election denial.
That doesn't even make sense.
What parents are you even imagining that are wishing their baby had teeth, or that their kid didn't have teeth? That's not a thing.
Even if it were (which it isn't) the physical reality of kids having teeth or not is totally unrelated to the topic of janky image filters.
You must not have worked in finance because excel is unavoidable.
I think that's a reasonable perspective. Previously I had pointed that the US banning all the social media apps from China because China bans all the American social media apps is the recommended strategy in game theory, specifically in iterated prisoner's dilemma. This is called "Tit for Tat" strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat
Call it “810 for code”!

https://xkcd.com/810/
the WER is going to vary a lot depending on conditions. This model is better than Whisper and Whisper does much better than 10% on good quality audio with common accents.
That group (Tenores di Bitti) are quite nice. My favorite are the Cuncordu e Tenore de Orosei. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RnoWeykrjQ

You may recognize them from some soundtrack work in Werner Herzog films.
I think at the moment, doomsayers are too lazy to be taken seriously. This needs to be done old school, with fiction writing.

Seriously though, make us believe it. Pose a scenario that is speculation, a story, but realistic enough for us to believe it. Bridge the gap between thinking AI could destroy us to believing it could.

If art doesn’t have any power against AI, perhaps we’ve forgotten why we create it.
As it turns out, every part of humanity is subject to the law of physics.

If you churn some water with a bit of soap in it, a lot of large bubbles will form on top. Just wait a few seconds, and those bubbles that are too large will divide into smaller ones, and those that are too small will be absorbed by the large. This happens naturally, without prompting, and it happens regardless of the original configuration of the bubbles.

We believe that we are exempt from something like this. That there is something special about the human brain that makes it possible for it to maintain some anomalous state indefinitely.

There is not. There is nothing special about our minds. Just like the bubbles, the system settles. The square edges are sanded off; the too small or the too large, absorbed.

When the energy flowing into the system changes, that is how you know that the configuration might change. Have a look:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...
Given what the West did to China in the Opium wars, we would do well to teach history better.

They say those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. Well here we are and it seems the CCP's learned from the past. Have we?
Thanks so much for sharing the links!
It's pretty deliberate failure to understand, in my opinion, driven by a core belief that bad things happen to bad people and they need to be punished out of it, not helped. The goal for many people is absolutely not reducing deaths, or even getting rid of fentanyl smoke on buses. It is expelling fentanyl users from society and expecting that will stop new users appearing. That's why they don't want to spend money on treatment or services. They think enabling the existence and recovery of existing users will encourage more.
Well, since you are just lying, I can see why a demand for evidence is inconvenient.
I've seen it used ironically when the guest is not a figurehead trying to score human points, but instead a highly technical person talking technical details.
Paging the Unabomber. Ted to the white manifesto phone.
For sure can! Some of us need something more shiny :)
I've had one of these https://www.walmart.com/ip/Consumer-Cellular-Link-II-8GB-Red... since my previous 3G ZTE dumb phone became useless when 3G stopped being supported in my area. It's running a neutered version of android that to the best of my knowledge can't run apps or access the internet but the interface looks and feels very similar to the old Java one running on my ZTE so I think the manufacturer just ported the old ZTE gui to android and slapped it on this one. It's about as dumb (and cheap) as I could find.
That option exists today. The iMessage bridge needs to run on a Mac, for obvious reasons, but not only can you self-host it, but you can plug your self-hosted bridge into the public homeserver/client entirely through their settings panel.

Here is the bridge repo: https://github.com/mautrix/imessage (tulir is employed by Beeper)
Amazing concept. Love it!

Could you comment with a few sample code snippets showing what’s possible?

Thank you!
Some highrises are advertised as long-lasting, for example with "200 year concrete" and so on.[0] However, I think this is mostly marketing fluff -- if a company thinks they can make more money by tearing down a highrise and building a new one, they will not hesitate to do so, and often do. It seems that historically most highrises don't last longer than ~50 years. With new construction techniques and materials, maybe that will change.

Smaller apartments are even more ephemeral. The official service life for apartments according to the tax code[1] is only 20-40 years, depending on the construction material.

[0] https://hamatawa.com/lifespan/

[1] https://www.keisan.nta.go.jp/h30yokuaru/aoiroshinkoku/hitsuy...
Why not seize and auction off TikTok instead of banning it? To be clear: I'm a big fan of the TikTok app, and don't think any action is warranted.
Microsoft has like a thousand or several thousand depending how you count product offerings not including their APIs for all of them which are generally good. They have systems that allow you to convert 200+ document types to pdf that aren't even a product just part of another product. Many of those thousands of products are actually pretty good.
The files that we currently export have CSS variables that once imported, can be used anywhere in your app! With this set up, instead of needing to reference arbitrary hex colors throughout your CSS, you now have a code-based source of truth for your colors and design tokens.

For existing apps, there is definitely a bit of a migration process, appreciate that callout! The good news is that its a migration that can happen over time, as using Mirrorful isn't dependent on your whole codebase being consistent on day 1. We're also looking to leverage AI to do auto-migrations!

We currently don't have a direct integration with Bootstrap, but we definitely work with Bootstrap! I just created a Github Issue for us to create an example to show how you can use Mirrorful with Bootstrap: https://github.com/Mirrorful/mirrorful/issues/260
The 50% stat is talking about metro areas, not city boundaries. That is, what people on the ground would use to describe in a city vs. the legal borders.

So, for instance, Greater Los Angeles has more than 18 million people by itself, where your source lists it as under 4 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles
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I hate and fear the Collatz conjecture and Goldbach conjecture.

Unlike a lot of other unsolved math problems they are very simple to state and think about but then end up in a quagmire.

I have lost many nights of sleep and productive days getting nerd sniped by these problems.
agree on this. I wonder how threads like this even get off the ground. anyone who watches about 10 minutes of auto captioned videos can see how awful it is.
Well for one, if China stops supplying Mexico, and the USA stops all illicit deliveries of anything from China…

That won’t solve our problem because Mexico will buy chemical precursors from Brazil, India, or any of the large chemical companies in Mexico. The labs are already there (invested capital) and the chemicals (marginal costs) aren’t specialized.

So the “solution” has changed if you want prohibition. I mean, we’ve tried prohibition for 70+ years now. It doesn’t work. But we can keep trying!
There's a lot of bummed out comments in here about the syntax, but to me it looks a lot like what someone might see in a reimagined Typescript. Maybe a little Haskell thrown in for good measure. I agree they probably would have been better served just using an existing language with loads of existing tutorials like C# or Python, but if they're going to make something totally from scratch, I think a lot of decisions will actually make the language pretty easy to learn.

Everything being an expression should prevent a big trip hazard for new developers. As someone who teaches programming a lot, expressions vs statements vs special forms really confuses new developers.

In a lot of ways, this seems like a lot of good ideas from Haskell and Typescript, put into a straightforward syntax. I'd bet I wouldn't even think about the syntax after a week of cranking out code.

And the possibly to have dependent types down the road is very exciting! That would make things like STM so much easier, which would help immensely with scaling code.
ASR are absolutely not science-driven. See the thread where Amir tested a speaker, trashed it, when others couldn't reproduce the result fought with them, kept trashing it, fought with the designer, and then it turned out that the speaker was broken, quite likely in shipping with incorrect packaging.

Amir refused to retract or correct the review.

Similarstory with his review of a broken Anthem AVR.
So I’m not trying to be difficult, but can you give an example of how it could help with some sort of iOS task? Because I really don’t know and I’m curious.
That puts a rather large hole in one of the popular narratives.
Is "morewrong" a typo (maybe an intentional one), a parody I could find, or a real thing I haven't heard of? (Your other examples and your comment in general is just factual in its complaints and isn't using "Micro$erf" level of discourse so I am learning against it being an intentional typo.)
A literal cartoon villain monologue:

"If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike."

"Make it explicit in international diplomacy that preventing AI extinction scenarios is considered a priority above preventing a full nuclear exchange, and that allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that’s what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI training runs."
thanks da :)
The modems are covered by import/export controls, which the government has much tighter control over than software, which is effectively speech (at least today). Past attempts to apply those controls to algorithms, cryptography being exhibit A, haven't worked.

It is an interesting question if there's a good way to produce a legal vehicle to apply import/export restrictions to software, but this definitely isn't it.
Then you’re misinformed. The United States doesn’t have great political accountability recently, but China has ~none.
I have noticed this on my local Pi-Hole — that Little Snitch denials still result in a DNS resolution (i.e. requested hostname still has IP resolved).

To every person I've watched DENY a connection via LittleSnitch popup, I have been told "you don't know what you're talking about — why would it behave like that?!"

It just does. You need your own network DNS and firewalls, and you need to know how to use them.
What does that show disagreement with?
The words "fireside chat" convey to me a long-ish, casual, relaxed conversation that isn't focused necessarily on a given topic. A "conversation" is broader than that. A fireside chat is a conversation, but so is "we're laying off for poor performance"