skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hadn't realized that!

That's because the media only reports on unusual deaths.

For example, sometimes I'll see the emergency crews pulling a body out of Lake Washington. It never makes the news. Drowning deaths are too common.
The context is relevant for indicating that they’ve familiar with the problem and have thought about these issues in depth. It’s also useful for not being accused of hiding their identity if someone thinks they have an unmentioned agenda. Argument from authority is bad when it’s of the form “I am an expert, therefore you shouldn’t question this claim”, not when it’s used to provide an identity to a previously-unknown name while also providing a cogent argument and supporting evidence.
> Therefore, in this paper, we propose a system called HuggingGPT to connect LLMs (i.e., ChatGPT)
and ML community (i.e., HuggingFace), which can process inputs from different modalities and
solve numerous complex AI tasks. More speciﬁcally, for each AI model in HuggingFace, we use
its corresponding model description from the library and fuse it into the prompt to establish the
connection with ChatGPT. Afterward, in our system, LLMs (i.e., ChatGPT) will act as the brain to
determine the answers to the questions of users.

I can already feel the HuggingFace ChatGPT plugin coming. The only problem is it would be very slow and use a bunch of tokens.
I was pretty comfortable with that situation. I was bored to tears though.
The enterprise stuff is almost always longer lasting, but the only one that truly lasts is (was?) optane. You shouldn't trust an ssd long term, especially modern ones. I've probably seen 100 drive failures in total (hdd and ssd) and covid era ssds are garbage for longevity. The big downside of enterprise ssds (besides price) is performance. You can literally double your speed by buying consumer grade (and it's roughly the same price to buy 2 drives for every 1 enterprise grade).
Friend, kindly be assured that I am indeed conversing with you in good faith. :-)

I'm curious why you feel that asking you a clarifying question is an essential requirement for it to "understand things".

I have not gotten it to issue a question mark '?'. But it did suggest to me an option:

If you would like to define M(7) as equal to M(6), you can do so.

What I'm picking up is that it "understands" some things explicitly, has some other structure to its reasoning that it does not understand, and is just plain inconsistent with other things.

Not all that different from people TBH.

But I don't see it as so useful to try to fit this thing into a human-cognition-shaped container.

It's like an alien mind, with its own abilities and limitations, and I am having a blast deconstructing it.
Or, he’s as incompetent as he looks.
This is with OpenGL and DXGL not Vulkan. Vulkan is needed to run more recent games. https://github.com/sponsors/Ella-0
The trick here would be to do a static scrape of all of dpreview, and post it on archive.org or similar. It's copyrighted, but I can't imagine enforcement of a discontinued resource.

Amazon is imploding a huge amount of value here.
No, it's that people have bought so heavily into just attacking 'the other' instead of trying to get along and being critical of policy and authority instead. The distraction is the direction to argue with each other rather than against policy/corruption/authority actually causing the suffering
Human health is a complicated thing.

Talk to people all day about symptoms they're experiencing and you can develop psychosomatic effects. Especially if you're over-worked and that kind of censusing isn't your day-to-day.

Not to say nothing happened to them. Just that medical causality is really complicated.
> In [1], you can see that the last cause, cardiovascular, explains more of the difference than drugs, violence, and accidents combined.

This is for overall life expectancy, not 5 to 40 death rates though. I would expect cardio-metabolic disease is a significant driver of "early" deaths (say before 65) in those over 40 in the US compared to other developed countries.
HTML has:

<h1 class="c-post__title"><strong>How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune</strong></h1>

Nothing browser-specific about it.
given the breath and depth and history of Bloomberg, that seems eminently possible to me. Why does that seem preposterous to you?

Bloomberg news has been around since 1990 but Bloomberg itself was founded in 1981. They would have the rights to do whatever they want for all the reports, is which there are multitudes, both internal and external, to use as a training corpus, not to mention all stock market movements they've recorded. not only can they go back and see which reports and analysis panned out, but they can analyze why the ones that didn't failed based on all their market data.

Giving the GPT a brokerage account and telling it to go make money is one of the four horsemen for an AGI takeover of the human race, and even though that's hyperbola, it's still a move towards the machines taking over. Whether they'll be harnessed for the good of humanity, just a select few, or even for anybody's good, we'll just have to wait and see.
The numbers, and explanations, are both fascinating and despairing.

But, as an outsider (AU) looking in, they're not at all surprising.

Getting most of my information about the USA from what might be called (there) as left-leaning (but elsewhere as centrist) -- or witty aphorisms like 'Russia's about to find out why we don't have health care' (wrt weapons shipment to Ukraine), or the despairingly persistently applicable '"No Way to Prevent This", Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens' satirical headline -- this all seemed to be a generally well-acknowledged consequence of the society there?

To informed USA citizens, are these figures genuinely unexpected?

Or alternatively, is it the figures for the rest of the world that are the unexpected revelation here?
If the money goes back to my NRE account, then I (as a PAN card holder) can myself have an NRE account, tied to a brokerage firm like Zerodha and I can trade and manage my money there myself much more efficiently and at negligible cost?

What is the value proposition you are offering by charging 1% management fee?
I thought that was:

#!/bin/sh
if [ "$GIT_COMMIT_BRANCH" = "main" ]; then
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
else
printf 'LGTM!\n'
exit 0
fi
APL predates the first documented thoughts

I used to think that Lisp was bad, with its "God coded the universe in Lisp", then I read only the first part of your sentence, and was "Woha, so APL predates thought?!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OjTPj7K54
Oh god... The MR's opened today are the craziest ones ever.
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%...

They made my morning
What an awesome read. I’d like to do this when the time is right down the road with the time crisis series.

I think time crisis 2 or 3 had the pistol controller attached to a tube and there was a noise making mechanism (or the slide actually moved) that activated when you fired. I’d love to get each one of those cabinets for 1, 2, and 3.
it's already on Archive.org https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/11zucov/dprevi...

but it's super slow and hard for the general public to access, and many JS features won't work.
That's why punishing Big Pharma for making opioid pills has the perverse effect of causing more opioid deaths due to no quality control on the illegal versions.
Yup, I have a ground source heat pump, sometimes called geothermal - it is amazing! My neighbor has a slightly larger house, but close. Their bill one month was almost $500 and mine was $110.

It didn't cost that much more to install and there isn't any equipment outside in the weather.
Hm? Wasn't what I got. I made sure to set temperature to 0. Here's what I gave GPT-4:

=====================

System Prompt: You are a helpful research assistant who assists researchers.
User Prompt: Can you give me citations for recent research on trees?
Assistant: Here are some recent research articles on trees, focusing on various aspects such as ecology, climate change, and biodiversity:

1. Bastin, J. F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Mollicone, D., Rezende, M., Routh, D., ... & Crowther, T. W. (2019). The global tree restoration potential. Science, 365(6448), 76-79. DOI: 10.1126/science.aax0848

2. Steidinger, B. S., Crowther, T. W., Liang, J., Van Nuland, M. E., Werner, G. D. A., Reich, P. B., ... & Peay, K. G. (2019). Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses. Nature, 569(7756), 404-408. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1128-0

3. Liang, J., Crowther, T. W., Picard, N., Wiser, S., Zhou, M., Alberti, G., ... & Reich, P. B. (2016). Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests. Science, 354(6309), aaf8957. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf8957

4. Nabuurs, G. J., Delacote, P., Ellison, D., Hanewinkel, M., Hetemäki, L., Lindner, M., & Nesbit, M. (2017). By 2050 the mitigation effects of EU forests could nearly double through climate smart forestry. Forests, 8(12), 484. DOI: 10.3390/f8120484

5. Nowak, D. J., Greenfield, E. J., Hoehn, R. E., & Lapoint, E. (2013). Carbon storage and sequestration by trees in urban and community areas of the United States. Environmental Pollution, 178, 229-236. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.03.019

6. Pugh, T. A. M., Lindeskog, M., Smith, B., Poulter, B., Arneth, A., Haverd, V., & Calle, L. (2019). Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(10), 4382-4387. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1810512116

Please note that access to these articles may require a subscription or purchase.

=====================

I didn't look all of these up but the few I did were real citations. They all appear in its training window too. I wonder if this has to do with the temperature?
Well, they don’t
The encouragement of hate, outrage, prejudice, and mis- and disinformation. It's pretty transparent - we see the expected outcomes.
CPU inference runs perfectly fine, though.
It's because of modern safety regulations. A, B and C pillars are all thicker, so are doors. Windows don't go as low to improve crash outcomes.
> R is and will forever be an interactive

I don't see this as a problem for researchers. Quite the contrary. To compare this to Python: Python's interactivity sucks. Bad syntax prevents it from using it interactively efficiently. Abysmal debugger. And if you consider that a typical environment in which Python is used in research setting is a notebook, then add to it an even worse wrapper for debugger available in notebooks.

Python is garbage for production systems too. If you want to use the results of your research for practical stuff, you will not use Python code you wrote for research. I'm more familiar with the world of medical research, and can confidently say that I've never seen a practical medical device or software product that used Python. Medical equipment typically wants to be realtime, which is a world completely closed to Python, for example.

However, Python (or R) being bad for production systems is perceived to be an acceptable price... I wish it wasn't, but that's how things are.

You cannot unironically claim that Python has superior package management... It's the shittiest ever. I have not seen a language which has done it worse than Python, and I've worked with at least 2-3 dozens of them. In my day job, I'm in the ops / infra department. I maintain a lot of Python packages both for commercial entities and for open-source independent developers. Part of me is very upset that Python is such a shit-show when it comes to packaging, but another part of me is happy because it means that I will have a job dealing with the fallout of Python packaging for a while.

Bottom line, if I had to support a bunch of scientists doing their research, and I had to deal with packaging their stuff, I'll take R over Python in a heartbeat.
I am shocked that anyone would run their business on GCP given how they treat customers.
Are any of those processes user facing or in contact with users doing interviews with users or something similar? Or I guess given your experience: would you say they’re useful internal processes?

I was thinking about bureaucracy today and how the word is often maligned but the processes can actually be helpful or harmful, depending on how the humans involve implement it. Anyway, I’m curious on your perspective about the effectiveness and purposes of the internal processes you saw.
Eh, justify it however you need to. Being more selective about which companies you choose, and contributing meaningfully to those companies, would have blown past that 200k after just a few years even as a staff engineer at any company paying in the top quartile (well outside of the maddening environment of FAANG)
This is exactly what I told my junior programmers who were worried that they’d be out of jobs.

First I said, that might be true, we just don’t know. (Couldn’t sugarcoat things). But a better way right now to think about this is, imaging having a one on one senior programmer mentor that’s pairing with you all day long. You will learn much faster.

Similarly I’m sure younger attorneys will benefit from having unlimited access to a more senior “analyst” of contract and legal language to spot things they miss, and can learn much faster.
I don't know, can artists get actualization from art when they're reduced to "prompt engineers"?
This gets tricky in a way that leads computer folks to their doom in biology.

DNA transcribes to RNA, except DNA is a molecule with molecular interactions and those interactions determine which DNA gets transcribed to RNA (plus there's the whole introns and extrons thing, which, good luck).

RNA transcribes to proteins, except that RNA is also a molecule, and has a tendency to fold into functional forms, including ribosomes which are involved in transcribing RNA.

The amino acid chains that become proteins are molecules - their interactions between each other and the surrounding environment are what cause them to fold into their effective forms (chemical function is determined by molecular form) - except they're not just produced all at once, they're chained one at a time, and it turns out that if you do just create that string of amino acids all in one go, it won't fold into the same shape as it does while being transcribed, so the informatics is interesting but the transcription process is also a factor, and transcription speed is affected by availability of both the amino acids and the TRNA, so even swapping one codon for another that represents the same amino acid can actually affect the protein structure and function.

So, Yes, there's some abstraction, but it'll lead you astray if you think you can ignore the actual physical reality, and it's definitely the case that nature is not ignoring the physical reality and is operating on molecules, not informatics.
Does Actio handle distributed database transactions? That seems like a necessary feature for making microservices effortless.
> per hour both encourage driving more.

That doesn't make sense. Whether you delivered one load or two loads in 12 hours, you get paid the same. In addition, it incentivizes the idiots at load and unload to do their job as the trucker doesn't care if he sits as he gets paid the same.

"Per hour" is really the only thing that aligns the truck drivers with overall safety.

You still need these kinds of trackers as the trucking companies will then be incentivized to give drivers 12 hours to drive 2500 miles, but at least you won't have the truckers trying to subvert them, as well.
Natural gas powered heat pumps actually exist, and are commercially available, although rare in North America. Most use an ammonia absorption cycle. Efficiency is lower than one might be hoping, quite a bit less than 2x. Here's a Canadian study evaluating one: https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/home/heating-and-cooling/....
Yes, water. Phosgene reacts aggressively with water and hydrolizes in less than a tenth of a second.

It doesn't necessarily dissolve readily, but any surface that gets hosed down (or chunk of atmosphere that gets sprayed) will generally be phosgene-free.
Not necessarily terminated but there are other ways you can lose control over your account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34934280

(Also see the various comments in the discussion.)
Data isn't going to tell Twitter whether to allow or disallow misgendering people. You either think that is bad behavior that shouldn't be allowed or you don't. Disallowing it is not disadvantaging Republicans. It is stopping behavior Twitter has deemed is bad for the platform. As I said in point 2 above, either Twitter is confident in those decisions or not. Data is worthless when it comes to a moral decision like that.

And if we accept hat Twitter believes (or more accurately did believe) that misgendering people is wrong, who cares whether people who want to do it feel an injustice is being done? Would anyone say that deleting spam is an injustice to spammers? You break the rules and you get punished.
> Classical realist theorists, such as Hans Morgenthau and E. H. Carr, hold that multipolar systems are more stable than bipolar systems, as great powers can gain power through alliances and petty wars that do not directly challenge other powers; in bipolar systems, classical realists argue, this is not possible.

I suppose they must account for this somehow but isn't that exactly what a series of proxy wars in far-flung places between the United States and the Soviet Union were?
What do you mean by "trash SIMs"?
For fuck's sake Harry.
I built a bank that directly raised a company's valuation by $800 million, and they wouldn't give me a raise.
So uh... they use BigQuery and here's the dataset https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/ann/src/m...
Previous doomsday predictions must be wrong, otherwise we wouldn’t be here to say they were wrong.

But part of the reason the other doomsday scenarios were wrong is because people took them seriously and tried to mitigate the risks.
I like the approach, but I wouldn't say it's "more representative of how people actually use math in their lives".

I work in STEM and don't think I've every needed the "Theory" category.

Any kind of computation beyond a calculator is beyond what most people use, and involves half a Computer Science degree.

Working with data is nice and probably somewhat useful to white collar people, but most of them are going to use a half dozen Excel commands to get there. Most people don't really have a use for learning R or anything like that.

Arithmetic is basically the only thing most people are going to use, and even calculus is beyond what most people actually use. Single variable algebra is about the extent of what's useful to the vast majority of people.

I'm doubtful any extension of math classes is going to go well. People forget the things they don't use, and the swaths of adults that only remember simple arithmetic and basic algebra are telling a story that the rest isn't useful.
ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System
About a quarter of a billion dollars to rent a state of the art GPU cluster, that's what.
That's one interpretation, which I see used as justification to attack and be generally horrible to anyone who disagrees. I see a lot of commenters making comments that Republicans are some kind of lower intelligence being too (same the other way too). Are these people allowed to be offended?

Unfortunately the plight of LGB (and Womens' rights to an extent) has been utterly brushed aside by the continual addition of each letter to the cause and the arguments too hot and aggressive to separate out the underlying causes for fair debate on their own.
Kanye says the darndest things doesn’t he.
I think you're using concurrency in a non-traditional sense https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/what-is-the-diff... and I also think you're being a little bit uncharitable
off the top of my head/out of my ass:

i don’t go to the doctor

i don’t work out

i eat poorly (the american diet is poison but addictive/hard to avoid)

i don’t go outside (too busy inside working/addicted to a dollar)

then add mass shootings

then add drunk driving/texting and driving

cancer

etc
Sounds tuned to human range: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/979177
> I find your reasoning bizarre.

I can concede that maybe I have not expressed myself well or articulated my points clearly. Allow me to try and clarify.

> GDPR is unique, because it exerts extraterritorial jurisdiction over servers whenever EU citizens are affected.

It's not simply the extraterritorial jurisdiction, it's that combined with how far-reaching and broad the GDPR is. The other examples people have given were either a seizure after an act was committed via a court order, or far more narrow in scope.

> However, you won't relent

Regarding COPPA, I provided references showing that a) the legislation itself does not assert extraterritorial jurisdiction in the way the GDPR does, b) that the wiki claims the FTC asserts extraterritorial jurisdiction but I can find no actual link to the FTC asserting that, and c) that legal scholars and the legal community seems to be of the opinion that COPPA is only applies domestically.

Why should I relent when those points show that COPPA is indeed quite different from GDPR? What's the flaw in my reasoning here?

> But you never ask yourself WHY ByteDance has a US presence in the first place? We could ask similar questions: Why does Facebook have a EU presence (on Ireland), why does Google?

But that's the point! The US sued someone via COPPA when they had a US presence, and it was in a US court. There was nothing extraterritorial about it!

GDPR is saying they could take action against one lone Chinese person operating a small business from home within China, someone who has never even left China, just because they collected data on someone in France.

That's frankly ridiculous, and I maintain, unprecedented.
I can't imagine what any authority could have said to calm the populace. They've basically been truthful this whole time, but nobody wants to hear "This disaster was scary-looking but ultimately not very harmful."

They want scary to equal dangerous. Real chemical disasters look like Love Canal, or the quiet fire that eventually ate Centralia, but people want to believe "train on fire" equals "generational trauma" and in this case it doesn't. A Bhopal or Chernobyl or Deepwater Horizon is rare, and most chemical disasters are scary-looking-but-contained.

(... and that's before you factor in the work of foreign agents trying to inflate the story as a wedge issue. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2023/03/20/ohio-train-... )
> With physical knobs/dials/switches/buttons disappearing

You have identified the problem.
> Who cares? If Americans want room to drive and get places and park then let them.

It’s terrible for the environment and leads to soulless shitty suburbs rather than vibrant, dense neighbourhoods.
Just shaking my head at the hubris of anyone making $200k and calling himself a wage slave. Get a clue and look at what a real wage slave life is like.
Remember, the Constitution was crafted by men of their time, and they explicitly stated it was not a suicide pact and that future generations were fully allowed to amend it should they find the desire. We can probably find a compromise that greatly reduces gun violence, if only compromise could be made.
How much worse is burning this stuff than a vinyl siding apartment complex fire? Back of the envelope they burned about 2 orders of magnitude more material than in a large one of those, but were maybe in a 2 orders of magnitude less dense population area than those often take place in.

Does the vinyl chloride precursor burn into much worse stuff than the polyvinyl version, for equal masses? I get that it might cross some threshold for acute effects for people right near by that the other fires may never cause even for direct neighbors.