skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there is no climate "crisis". What there is is a changing climate which may - or may not, the models which are used to gauge what is going to happen are notoriously inaccurate - cause problems in certain regions of the world due to increasing drought or - in other regions - increased precipitation. Depending on where the climate will go in the coming centuries - and that is the time frame you have to think about, not the '10 years to extinction' which is often bandied around by climate alarmists - there is a possibility of sea level rise causing problems in lower-lying regions like Bangladesh and the Netherlands. Most of the problems which are likely to occur can be solved using technological means ranging from building or raising dikes (like the Netherlands has been doing for centuries), moving to more water-efficient methods of agriculture, building desalination plants to increase the amount of water available for agriculture, building storage reservoirs to collect runoff in the cold months for use in the warm months and more.

The climate "crisis" is a political stick which is being used by various groups for their own means, some of them ideological - e.g. the economic restructuring you mentioned, viz. "green new deal" - and some of them more basic ploys to gain power. Yet others are simply attempts at using the climate scare to make money.

Yes, it would be far better to concentrate on reducing actual pollution instead of chasing the CO₂ boogeyman but the movers and shakers behind the climate scare seem to have decided there is more power to be gained from whipping up the populace with tales of flooded cities and parched fields than can be achieved with the prospect of dead oceans and silent springs - probably because that has been tried before and did not manage to scare the populace into compliance with their policy schemes. While exaggerated - just like the climate scare - there is more truth to the claims of pollution being a threat to future generations than CO₂ being so. The planet has become "greener" due to the increased CO₂ level, forest cover has increased [1], agricultural yield has increased while evapotranspiration has decreased leading to higher water efficiency [2]. But... who cares when whipping up the populace gives you clicks, votes, money and power.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/tree-cover...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/037837...
Fedora supports two releases at a time, that stability is in N-1

I try to give the new release about a month to bake
(I wrote this reply as a comment edit originally, but I'm making this it's own comment.)

I understood your comment to be against social acceptance of trans people, (and honestly still do. Admittedly this isn't a best-faith interpretation of your comment, but it made sense in the context I read it in. )

Therefore, my comment wasn't intended to be only about available medical treatment options (including surgical), but also about social acceptance of trans people, which is a kinda important part of all of this.

If that's not how you intended to mean your comment, that's great, because I agree with you on the medial/surgical side of things.

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It is the best-currently-known-path for least suffering and death. And a lot better than the currently-known alternatives. I'm not trying to say that no better treatment might become available in the future.

(Aside: gender dysphoria is listed in the DSM-5, which is important for health insurance purposes, amongst other reasons. It was previously named gender identity disorder, but was renamed due to the stigma associated with the term disorder. There was also the diagnosis of "transsexualism" (which included homosexuality, amongst others) and the inclusion of these issues in the DSM remains a topic of debate.)
I'm unclear on the difference between the "computes" and "varies" effects. Surely a function that only reads constant state is pure by definition?
Get their API key.
Where's the highschool-level bullying? If the comments called him butthead or pimply-faced then I'd agree, but I skimmed, but they all seem accurate, although brutally honest. Then again I admit I'm biased for the commenters.
Percentage of immigrant population?

South Americans and Asians are, on average, shorter.
Same here. Started a new project at work using Vue 3 and absolutely loved it. I ran with tailwind looking for sanity after being on a few teams/projects where the CSS was all fuckered up. Now I get to roll out features with a perfect UI. It is fun.

For the amount of time that a typical web app lives, raw CSS is just a resiculous waste of time that sucks the joy out.
Application authors can still maintain their own Nix packages.
Same on east coast sadly.
I mean... we know why micro$oft was broken and what happened to it after. There's a reason the pentagon still runs on windows.
A header-only solution would still need a parser, because it formally includes arbitrary nested structures. There’s certainly prior art for that in headers, and you may even have a capable parser already at hand. But for better or worse that’s probably a much less likely scenario than having a JSON or XML parser.

Even so, the RFC specifically addresses arbitrary formats, and there’s nothing in it which would preclude headers as one such format.
But for most of your time, it primarily being about farm boys been false. Through the end of the 20th century being in the country stunted your growth compared to the city.

What is true is that height increases each (modern first-world) generation
I had a family member go through this. Proof of travel, photos of trips, phone bills, so many phone bills, etc.

But I can easily see how it'd go wrong. If you spend your visits impersonating rabbits, what proof do you have? If you spend more time on snapchat than the phone, what proof do you have?

There's an old trope of "yes, I do have a girlfriend. you wouldn't know her, she's from another school." She lives in another city, she's from Canada, etc. How do you expect your friend to prove their claim? Now replace the playground with INS/USCIS.

It ends up being a very vague question because there's no set limit of what level of evidence you need to reach, you just need to "satisfy" whoever opens that file.
thanks!! obviously there's a lot of stuff we need to do to make this run at scale that Alexa has down pat.

A Home Assistant integration is a great idea! would love to talk with you on our Discord[0] about this / over email ( ajay at vocode.dev ), it's something we definitely want to build.

[0] https://discord.com/invite/NaU4mMgcnC
Perhaps because people are forced to read books in school. It's a habit formed in childhood.
The article weirdly (or unsurprisingly) does not mention diet, but the underlying study does.

Immigrants might also be throwing off the average. They tend to grow taller in North America (not just second generation), again, unsurprisingly because of diet.
Canada has a clause in its Charter of Rights and Freedoms that literally allows the legislature of any province to pass laws in direct contradiction to most of the Charter - specifically, the sections on fundamental rights. They just have to explicitly point out which parts of the Charter they found inconvenient when invoking this clause. Quebec is notorious for abusing this power (mostly for its language laws), but other provinces have also found it useful on occasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...
EMF exposure, it’s the new cigarette smoke
Sure, but my point was that some such YALs are just overgrown DSLs (cough UnrealScript) that find themselves facing the same kind of design problems that have been solved decades before by more forward-thinkers. In this case, these are good designers with decades of deep experience, and who I expect to have solved many design issues already.
Relative lack of exercise? Are we sure about that?
> in secret to manipulate the masses

Mass distribution means it’s not in secret.

(Obviously, this usage is problematic, but isn’t really an argument to not regulate AI, which is what we’re talking about.)
The actual paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05772-8#Sec2

It does not appear they controlled for ethnicity, race or any other measure of genetic stock. Doing so is important in my view. For example, the oft-cited average US male height 5'9 or 5'10", but for white American men it's more like 5'11"
Yeah, me too. I don't like to adopt early, don't have the energy, I'll just let them figure it out.
Exactly, this has been my guess as well. They must have trained the model specifically to write poems, haikus and other things. So that the output looks much more polished than it really is.
When they originally had you do setup for Beeper, they would record the process, and not inform you that they were going to do that until the meeting was already open.

Beeper is made by the same guy who made Pebble watch and then sold the whole kit-n-caboodle (minus developer jobs) to Fitbit when business tanked.

I have have sent several emails asking Eric Migicovsky what guarantees he has that the privacy policy will continue to stay the same if Beeper becomes unprofitable and is sold to another company. He doesn't think an answer to this question is deserved, as he has not responded to any emails. In the meantime, he has continued to send me advertising emails reminding me I'm no longer on a waiting list, but apparently doesn't think questions from customers are worth answering.

What's the point in trusting your data to a company whose privacy policy can change if they sell it to the highest bidder and one of the co-founders has a history of just that? Especially one that has no intention of telling you that they're going to record the entire process of on-boarding you until you're entering the meeting.

I'm gonna stick with Pidgin and Matrix, especially since you can spin up your own Matrix server with the same bridges that Beeper uses, and then the only person you need to give your iCloud password is you, and not some stranger who refuses to answer valid privacy policy questions.
The sequence of HIV is published and has been for a very long time. In fact there's a wide range of HIV sequences: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=...

You could synthesize that genome but it wouldn't be effective without the viral coat and protein package (unlike a viroid, which needs no coating, just the sequence!).

I should point out that in gene therapy we use HIV-1 derived sequences as transformation vectors, because they are so incredibly good at integrating with the genome. To be honest I expected work in this area would spontaneously and accidentally (or even intentionally) cause problems on the scope of COVID but (very fortunately) it never did.

One would like to be able to conclude that some virus work is inherently more safe than other virus work, but I think the data is far to ambiguous to make such a serious determination of risk.
This is like: time-out until we catch-up with you. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you can stop it. Let the race continue.
Does this study account for the genetic component?
Reminder that a lot of weird bills that have no chance of passing are introduced in legislatures all the time.
I'm sure China is filled with wonderful people, I've met plenty of them. But are you saying you think the CCP is always so kind and altruistic they would never research an AGI?
glad you're bringing this up

the wpath soc is a very accessible document with a very nuanced and careful approach to treatment of adolescents and children, it explicitly deals with the potential fragility of such decisions - and the cases which are very stable early on and benefit from early access, and how to discern them.

they didn't take out the brains or caution. they just took out the inflexible and useless rigid age barriers.

its really worth a read, chapter 6 is the one relevant here

https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc
Hahaha, what an odd response! I mean, explaining how your tone was condescending while mine clearly expressed wry amusement would just be me being defensive now, right? So I won't.

My point stands: From the time this card was first announced, people online, especially on this very site, have been dismissing it as having "sub-par" terms, and yet when pushed, all of the alternatives offered up seem to be similar, or even worse.

Of the three credit card bills I (auto-)pay off every month, Apple card has by far the biggest bill, because I use Apple Pay a lot. When I travel to Hong Kong, I love the lack of foreign transaction fees, and still the easy convenience of tap-to-pay with my wristwatch everywhere.

I do have a Chase Sapphire Preferred card that also has no transaction fees--but it costs me $95/year, so I'd judge that to be sup-par compared to Apple's free card, except that I use it to book travel, so the cash back goes farther.

I'll look into the CapitalOne SavorOne that somebody else mentioned, but generally I don't look forward to spending hours of my life comparing nearly-identical credit cards, so I was glad to get some real answers this time!
I didn’t see mention of pollution, but that seems like an obvious one to me if health care and diet gaps have closed.
I don’t even know what “reels” is. TikTok clone?

And, yeah, I can see the apprehension regarding the new account.
I see a bullet point saying Varies is for "random or non-constant state"
There are so many possible things that could confound this - wealth, ethnicity (for example most East and South Asian immigrants are coming to cities), I don't envy the statisticians that had to tease this apart.
> Intuition might suggest that the number you start with affects the number you end up with

End up with...? That's a weird way to phrase it. The algorithm can run infinitely. The number you start with does affect the sequence. They should have omitted that paragraph all together.
Why are global population differences not sufficient? Is there an a priori reason to expect a different distribution of genetic factors in cities versus rural areas that feed city migrations?
Exactly. "Resident" is either a citizens or a permanent resident.

This is why I also gave the numbers for number of new citizens vs new new migration. We can see from that that roughly 97.5% of permanent residents become citizens.
Kinda, but it's also because China closed the fertilizer exports, and Russia invaded Ukraine and the west is actively boycotting russian fertilizer exports.
It would depend on what that officer knew to be his 'rules of engagement', but also he a police officer and so it would be legal. They murder people regularly for far less reason than this without legal consequences. And, because of qualified immunity, even when what they do crosses into illegality, they still face no consequences. The POTUS need not be involved, police can and do violate constitutional rights all on their own.
I love the idea of beeper, but worried about the reliability of the bridges. This is super cool and give me a bunch of ideas though. Also hoping Sunbird has some other way to solve this problem.
Exactly. We've already seen the damage that foreign manipulation can cause when they're exploiting the cracks of FB, Twitter, etc. It doesn't take much imagination to think about what the art of the possible is when you can control the system itself.
Una Raspberry Pi para controlar objetos con el pensamiento: la promesa de la nue
I wanted to say that, basically, life is so easy now compared to previous generations. In the West, we have mostly all that we need. As a result of human psychology, our brains seem to create "non-problems" in order to occupy themselves, or at least the mass media are exceedingly good at this...
Una Raspberry Pi para controlar objetos con el pensamiento: la promesa de la nueva interfaz cerebro-computadora a la Neuralink de Elon Musk
Mmm the President has to consider medium to long term geopolitical consequences that would be detrimental to US, which is what we were talking about, and not just do blustery responses.
In this prompt, you’ll be asked to share your approach to collaboration and code management.
The author starts their piece off by calling all of software rotten citing their experience as a professional dev for 3.5 years. This is the first sentence of it.
Colossal-AI: open-source ChatGPT option with RLHF based on LLaMA model
One point I'd like to make:

> but it should be taking a serious look at what happened in Italy. The Azzurri have failed to qualify for the last two World Cups because they have populated their league with more foreign talent than ever.

Italian soccer has always had foreign players. It was the best league in the world in the late 80's through the 90's. They had great Italian players mixed with incredible foreign talent.

I think a bigger problem is Italian coaches are notorious for not trusting young players, and in return the younger players growth is stunted. Italian soccer also doesn't have the same outside investment that the premier league in England has. The best coaches are working in England. Clubs are investing a lot in youth development, because there is just so much many in the English game.

I do actually agree with a lot of what he wrote about the number of qualified coaches. That has to change for sure.
Because on average you'll pay the same in repairs or replacement compared to a more recent car. You got lucky, and that's ok. But the prices aren't completely made up. Your BMW costs a lot less, because the expected average time it will survive is low. Anecdote != data and all that.

On the other hand, having an ex-demo car from a dealer meant no silly markup and when the transmission fell apart after 4 years, I got it replaced for free instead of paying thousands to an independent shop. There are pros and cons.

(And yes, completely new cars have silly markup, but used ones with low mileage don't)
To be fair nearly all those comments gave arguments about what the law ought be, not about what it actually was. Those two things shouldn't be confused regardless of who is arguing them.
I’m equally sure that wherever the line is placed in law, companies will often elect to run right up to, but not over, the line. This will often be worse for employees than just getting it over with.
> GPT-4’s predecessor, GPT-3, was trained on forty-five terabytes of text data

Is this correct? I've seen varying reports of the training set size.
If anyone knows, is this classic video the reason the wasm “assembly” format is called ‘.wat’? I always suspected/assumed it was
> Even if it succeeded, it kept changing the output by doing ops which I never mentioned in the prompt (like reordering and merging duplicated values to a single key)

That's something I don't see mentioned enough; if you change the input to a LLM, that may potentially change the probabilities of all the output tokens. Most of us would be surprised if we told a junior developer to fix a bug in a specific module, and they submitted a PR which modified literally every file in the source tree, but that's entirely plausible with a LLM. Asking it to "fix" one thing may change/break completely unrelated things.
Again, repeating the myth that BPE is the reason for GPT being bad at math doesn't make it true. (Nor does labeling it a myth make it false.) It hasn't been demonstrated that this is the reason. And it's not merely a pedantic point – this is an interesting look into why models behave the way they do.

To get us both on the same page, let's restate the arguments.

- Your position is that in a hypothetical world where a GPT-3 was trained without BPE, yet somehow still managed to maintain the same context window as BPE (i.e. around three to five pages of text), it would be superior at math, because it can see the individual digits.

- My position is that it can still see the same context window, and the context window is all that matters. Regardless of whether you tokenize it using OpenAI BPE or LLaMA BPE or digit level, model performance isn't tied to it. What matters is parameter count, training time, and dataset.

If you were to pit the two models against each other, given the same dataset and same amount of training, the BPE model would likely perform significantly better at math. The larger the model, the more it can do, and the better the performance at any individual task. And the BPE model would perform better because the compression allows it to learn at a faster rate -- i.e. the same amount of training computation spent on the BPE'd model gives you much more impact than computation spent on the byte level model.

In other words, the larger context window is the whole point. You get 2048 tokens. If you make it 2048 bytes, then you get a very limited view of the input text, which harms overall performance. But if you train it on specifically math problems, then of course it'll achieve superior performance, and not simply because it has an unscrambled view of the digits.

As I said before, this is like saying that JPG compression is harmful to our understanding of an image. But it's clearly not. The JPG may be composed of wavelets, but what matters is the overall signal -- and that signal is what GPT is being trained on (the understanding of language), not the individual characters.

This also explains why tokenization doesn't seem to affect performance across languages that much. Russian tokenizes into many more characters than English, yet GPT can still achieve pretty good performance on it. This isn't because the characters are scrambled, but rather because it's seen many more examples of English than Russian.
They actually fixed the channels' threaded UI so it defaults to an expanded, start a topic type posting interface and made the thread list not look like Skype anymore, so people should actually start using it correctly.
I'd love to know more about this. Is this all done 'offline', fine tuning one of the existing open models? Or is everything being sent to an OpenAI API?
> The worst trick our ego can play on us, is to demand that we know everything. Let’s discipline ourselves until it’s easy to say, I don’t know. And let’s keep out of discussions when they’re on subjects outside of our recognized sphere. Our lack of real knowledge and experience is bound to display itself, and bring resentment from those who are really qualified to speak. Let’s slap our ego down whenever it starts laying claim to knowledge that’s too various.

Growing up, all my self worth was tied to knowing everything. Several years ago I decided to work on that by publicly admitting to not knowing something every day for a month.

It turned out to be one of the best personal growth exercises I've done and led to a lot of professional success. It's actually quite emotionally freeing.

It also turns out that many of the people whose feathers get ruffled if they think their spot in the intellectual pecking order is being threatened will bend over backwards to help you if approached as a mentor. They don't think you're an idiot for asking, they generally love helping (assuming you are actually competent and not asking about basic shit every day).
I also assumed the lidar is a complete placebo having owned the P1P and seeing how well it prints with PLA plus looking at available lidar sensors and their accuracy but maybe it does work?
Would love to get a teardown on what components it uses but couldn't find anything online some months ago.
Just do what my company does, and delete all Teams chats in 24 hours! So secure! So protective! So useful, when you need to refer to what was told you last week, before you understood you needed it.
You are missing the point or twisting it to put your political view above another. Go back to the start of the thread and try again
Agreed. I did feel they didn't modify that particular test as much as I thought they would / should.
I agree. But I think do think they use a tiered approach: they have an uncensored model at the very bottom, to which the queries go to first. And then there's the "clean" model, and (for lack of a better explanation) the two outputs are then "XOR"d to get the clean public version.