skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For almost every product out there, a "better" version is available that is not the most common one. This is simple economics: the improvements you describe are not free, which is why they are not mass produced. If people judged that these improvements that you describe are worth it to them, they would pay. The fact you could buy such a keyboard demonstrates that conformity or convergence or whatever you want to call it did not inhibit you from getting what you want.

Where I think you get it wrong is to assume that everyone has your level of interest or applies the same logic as you to every item in their lives. Hell, I'm sure you don't. So if you are happy eating from suboptimal mass-produced forks which are just SO much worse than these $500 custom-made ergonomical marvels that the average man just simply doesn't know about... welcome to the peasant club.
Would you mind expanding on this? I'm curious about the "+ language tool" part. Which tool?
The Reddit user tested at one point by completely removing/whiting-out areas of the image, to remove any possible detail to upscale. And it still manages to create the same sort high detail upscaled image.
Looking more and more like a linux desktop distro that (poorly) ripped off most of its ideas from OS X.
Yeah, Gary was actually wrong about that one, you can actually hear objections from the audience:

1. [] + {} is actually the string '[object Object]' not an object per say, {} is the object and [] + casts it to string.

2. {} + [] depends on runtimes. In firefox the first {} is actually an empty statement, not an object Object.fromEntries([]) + [] is always the string "[Object object]" just like [] + {}. In node you can do this {} {} + [] or even {1 + 1} + [] for the desired 0. Effectively it is the same as +[]

3. {} + {} is the same. The first {} is an empty statement
Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35363095 - March 2023 (107 comments)
This is basically the plot to Terminator 2.
I own 4 printers and looking at adding a 5th. I got my first 3d printer in 2015 because I needed to make things for my quadcopter. That morphed to making things for everyone in my quadcopter racing club. Then it became souvenirs and collectibles for conferences I attend.

My biggest issue is the speed of which my printers print. As printers are getting faster, I won't need as many.
What if you are operating in an internet-denied application? A remote radio sensing system with a low bandwidth back channel or an airplane cabin, just to name two.
Kudos - this is a very nice blog post - "real" engineering ;)
It's actually not. The MK4 competes with Bambu P1P which is cheaper, and the X1 Carbon Combo should be compared to a MK4 with an enclosure and a MMU3 and then Bambu comes out on top again.
Does this permit out of band code execution, or does it require google or similar pre-cache any code to be executed? The latter is still a significant benefit over the former, as it guarantees non-targeted code deployment (at least if you trust the App Store)

Edit: and revocation.
Numpy is fast when the code is vectorized. The code they are benchmarking against was not vectorized. They wanted to calculated the distances of n points against a given point and find out which points are closer than a threshold (max_dist). Instead of vectorizing the whole operation, the python code was just calling numpy in a loop to find the distance of two points.

Just that small change already gives 10x faster performance without ever leaving python/numpy land.
The issue is one of defaults and changing and influencing the greater behaviors of society as a whole.
" and now the threat of AI."

Probably the icing on the cake for me, looking like no job prospect and potential for serious consequences ranging from mass scale disinformation to extinction.

We need to get our priorities straight as a species.
Mr. Warner (for himself, Mr. Thune, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Moran, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Sullivan, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Collins, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Romney, and Mrs. Capito) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
One word - hype !

That being said, once we really reach the AGI level - I suppose it will be like this - very sudden.
Please don't. Any of us who want to can question an LLM directly; auto-generated responses clutter things up the way copy and pasting a set of search engine results or a spreadsheet would.
No, it is very productive. From this principle, one can derive many important properties of an optimal legal system, most notably that laws should be technology-neutral. If a law needs to be changed every ten years, then it is not a very well-designed law.
OP fully rewrote the example program in rust, by also moving the entire data structures there. This would mean that any interaction with these ndarrays could be possible only on the rust side, hence any other code that uses them must be rewritten, unless there’s some porting of rust ndarrays to python numpy ndarrays
So it's fentanyl residue spilling from actual fentanyl-for-sale, into other product?

If so, that's a very clear explanation I actually haven't seen stated so simply before.
Meta explores ban on political ads in Europe
However, Musk thinks (or at least claims to think) that AI alignment is an urgent problem while Altman does not.
Polars and DuckDB have replaced Pandas for me for the most part.
Agreed this is not discussed often - in a doom scenario, a quick death for everyone might be the best case
This is basically what Python was first designed for and as evidenced by the article still excels at
Or you know, about not having a superiority complex, a huge opressive legal and prison system, a history of slavery softened into seggregation and systemic racism until well into the 20th century and surpassing anything in Europe and close only to South Africa, a habbit of invading and bombing other countries, sanctioned torture, a huge surveillance mechanism, a century old history of wars and meddling with other governments, the only country dropping nuclear bombs, a big user of chemical weapons on other countries, and so on. And we haven't even got into religious nuts and gun fanatics, crime levels, police shootings, and so on.

Because your "good" side doesn't look that good on those fronts either...
I got a fountain pen years ago, and it almost wanted me to draw in cursive. I didn't recognize it before I got an iPad with the pen and started to use it a bit to write with, because it too wanted me to write in a connected way.

Of course an inanimate object doesn't want anything, but it felt way more natural to write connected.

On the other hand, no matter what type of pen or pencil I use, it does not feel natural to write connected, so I don't.

My conclusion based on this is that cursive is something we do, because it made sense once, but we didn't know why, so we never stopped when it no longer made sense.
> Yes, I get that it's convenient for maintainers. But it kinda sucks for users (at least for me), which is why I avoid using software packaged that way.

My browser, mail client, rss reader, music player, video player, image viewer, steam, ... all have been working incredibly well as Flatpaks. I also get free sandboxing for all of them, so for example Steam and its games, don't have access to my ssh and gpg keys or documents.

The only applications which don't work that well with Flatpak are things like my IDE or file manager.
How is this unprecedented? It's not legal for a U.S. person to do business with a North Korea company.

If North Korea had social network companies, or someone in North Korea wanted to start one, they are already banned.
It doesn’t change your point all that much but the Unabomber gave literal warnings about his plans. That is how his manifesto was published, which was ironically about the risk of technological takeover.
diff --git a/poly_match_v1.py b/poly_match_v1.py
index 675c88a..4293a46 100644
--- a/poly_match_v1.py
+++ b/poly_match_v1.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
from functools import cached_property
+from itertools import compress
from typing import List, Tuple
import numpy as np
from dataclasses import dataclass
@@ -56,11 +57,8 @@ def generate_example() -> Tuple[List[Polygon], List[np.array]]:
def find_close_polygons(
polygon_subset: List[Polygon], point: np.array, max_dist: float
) -> List[Polygon]:
- close_polygons = []
- for poly in polygon_subset:
- if np.linalg.norm(poly.center - point) < max_dist:
- close_polygons.append(poly)
-
+ dist = np.linalg.norm([poly.center for poly in polygon_subset] - point, axis=1)
+ close_polygons = list(compress(polygon_subset, dist < max_dist))
return close_polygons

10x faster than the original, without resorting to native code, and without substantial increase in complexity of code base.
Sure it seems like a possible scenario but if it's a great filter it will have to do that every time and never survive to spread to the stars. If it does spread to the stars it will potentially conquer the galaxy quite quickly.
The Chinese govt doesn't control the U.S. tech press, or the political extremists, thats for sure.
“determine, direct, or decide important matters” is what makes this specific. This is no different than the traditional definition of “controlling interest”. The meaning of “controlling” in this context has a long legal precedent that is not overridden by this bill.

Edit: as a concrete example, I do not have a majority share in the company I work for but legally I have a “controlling interest” because I am an executive as well as owning shares. I know this because that is how I am required to fill out financial declarations.
It only takes one player to not fully grok the optimal situation and thus defect.
Pandas author: “Ten things I hate about Pandas” (2017)
I think you mean you upscaled their reality to your own :)
Mississippi tornado shines light on danger of storm chasing in the dark
Unabomber Anti-Technology Manifesto (1995) [pdf]
which will inevitably be the case because it is fundamentally not human

That doesn't follow at all. Fallacies of composition tend to be misleading.
950 color is kind of mad and arbitrary decision though. Why tailwind has color 50 and 950, but does not have 850? It is so common to have some `bg-gray-900` button on `bg-gray-800` background, and no way to slightly highlight the button (not to the level of background).
I agree that the average person who owned a camera wouldn't have done this as a matter of course.

Honestly I was thinking more of the "portrait studios", rather than the home-shooter. Though I guess in teh early days of cameras there were a lot of people who did their own development at home, in ad-hoc darkrooms. Maybe they didn't edit so much, but it was within their means, and I'm sure it was more commonly done than we'd suspect.
Yes, what did you expect? That he shares his internal code base with the world just to silence people who can’t generalize?
I haven't had issues with the deregistering on either of my iPads (both first and second generation pencil) but I did notice that I started to write in cursive. Which for whatever reason the iPad cannot recognize as text.
gas station? whip its and morning glory seeds and nutmeg? nothing getting sold in gas station is like an oxy. come on...
Holding a minority of common stock does not give you the power to “determine, direct, or decide important matters” so no, it would not cover that.
Better World Books
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOTZe07eHA
Are you suggesting to legalize fentanyl so it can be purchased over the counter like aspirin?
How inefficient is this system, actually? I doubt one homeless man in seattle can cost 2 times as much as I earn per year. What are you spending all these dollars on? A free visit to a prostitute every week? Oh, I forgot, thats illegal in the US...
But to qualify as a great filter it has to always do that and never modify the solar system enough for us to notice.
4chan is not a single board -in fact, other boards are on a separate domain named 4channel-, the article primarily focuses on a specific board, /pol/, among few others. Rest of boards are normal discussion in different domains and niches, while the discussions there can get derailed and side way sometimes, it still better overall in my opinion than the the ones that hook you to brownie points and likes/upvotes, since it creates that echo chamber community in addition to the usual censorship in other social platforms.
Lol, really, a long covid disability crisis in 3 years? Gee, I wonder where the kids are getting all this unrealistic doom and gloom from.
I don’t disagree with the “AI will upend the world so we have to prepare”, it’s the “AI will kill everyone” that I have issue with.

And your mob boss example is a good reason why: it doesn’t extrapolate that much. There is no case where a mob boss, or a disabled Hitler for that matter, can kill everyone and ends humanity.
China, Brazil strike deal to ditch dollar for trade
The most important part of the article seems to be that this Python code is taking "an avg of 293.41ms per iteration":

def find_close_polygons(
polygon_subset: List[Polygon], point: np.array, max_dist: float
) -> List[Polygon]:
close_polygons = []
for poly in polygon_subset:
if np.linalg.norm(poly.center - point) < max_dist:
close_polygons.append(poly)

return close_polygons

And after replacing it with this Rust code, it is taking "an avg of 23.44ms per iteration":

use pyo3::prelude::*;
use ndarray_linalg::Norm;
use numpy::PyReadonlyArray1;

#[pyfunction]
fn find_close_polygons(
py: Python<'_>,
polygons: Vec<PyObject>,
point: PyReadonlyArray1<f64>,
max_dist: f64,
) -> PyResult<Vec<PyObject>> {
let mut close_polygons = vec![];
let point = point.as_array();
for poly in polygons {
let center = poly
.getattr(py, "center")?
.extract::<PyReadonlyArray1<f64>>(py)?
.as_array()
.to_owned();

if (center - point).norm() < max_dist {
close_polygons.push(poly)
}
}

Ok(close_polygons)
}

Why is the Rust version 13x faster than the Python version?
Telltail: Universal Clipboard for Text
Hi folks!

Telltail [1] lets you copy text from one device onto another. If you've used or ever known about Apple's Universal Clipboard, it is quite like that. It uses Tailscale [2] to achieve this.

I must tell you that setting it up requires you to have some familiarity with the terminal (which already comes installed on your computer).

I've written a blog post about it which you can find here [3]. The instructions to install it are here [4].

It is a personal project of mine and is not affiliated to or promoted by any org.

[1]: https://github.com/ajitid/telltail-center

[2]: https://tailscale.com

[3]: https://hemarkable.com/prose/telltail

[4]: https://guide-on.gitbook.io/telltail
More ads too? The world definitely needs more wasted screen space
> we are in a world of mutually assured cooperation.

That argument has been made many times before since WW1 to argue that war between major powers is impossible. It has never proven true yet.
Just do their best to comply the EU law so they can keep operating?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-ceo-eus-vestager-c...
Section 2-3: COVERED HOLDING.—The term “covered holding”—

(A) means […] a controlling holding held, directly or indirectly, in an ICTS covered holding entity by— …

“Controlling holding” is defined in section 2-2

Edit: section 2-2
(2) CONTROLLING HOLDING.—The term “controlling holding” 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.
"Feed (2002) is a young adult dystopian novel of the cyberpunk subgenre written by M. T. Anderson. The novel focuses on issues such as corporate power, consumerism, information technology, data mining, and environmental decay, with a sometimes sardonic, sometimes somber tone.

From the first-person perspective of a teen boy, the book takes place in a near-futuristic American culture completely dominated by advertising and corporate exploitation, corresponding to the enormous popularity of internetworking brain implants."
He's doing an apple's to apples comparison in his head: Rapists get a headline sentence of 20 years, so VPN users getting the same sentence is insane.
> “Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate because of Biden’s open border,” the Republican National Committee tweeted, in February. Texas Governor Greg Abbott cited the rise in youth fentanyl deaths as a justification for building a state-funded border wall.

lol politicized everything. clueless people making statements, nothing good will ever happen. what can you do but laugh at this point to cope?
Is this sarcasm? If you don't think the three groups you mention are willing and able to throw money at a system that will considerably extend their reach then you have some catching up to do. If I had a budget to run influence operations I could go hog wild with $8000/month.
Does every homeless in Seattle is a fentanyl addict ?
Python is a rough language to be productive in. It's a great scratchpad, but dynamic typing, exceptions/poor error handling, and a horrifying deployment and dependency system make me reach for something like Go in any case where I need something to be even vaguely reliable.

The more ML I do, the more disappointed I get.
AI Safety: A Technical and Ethnographic Overview
David Sacks on programmer to manager career trend (2.5 min video)
What was that quote... "Provably unfriendly natural intelligence wants to build unprovably friendly artificial intelligence"
The most relevant reported benchmark results are on https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03874

They compare it against PaLM and Minerva, both of which are fine tuned on math datasets.

It outperforms both at roughly the same parameter count (eg Llama 65B vs Palm and Minerva 62B) but unclear how much of this is due to encoding vs the many other differences.

It is useful to see that the performance increase is clearly not due to fine turning though.
> To get this to work we need a far smarter entity with no physical limitations to still want us around...

Why would an AI based on LLMs as we see today "want" or "not want" anything? It doesn't have the capacity to "want". We seem to imagine that "wanting" is something that will just emerge somehow, but I've seen no logical explanation for how that might work... I mean, we don't need to fully understand how the LLM works to see that there's some pathway to being able to achieve what it's currently achieving, which is impressive, but what sort of pathway could ever lead to a machine that basically has "feelings" (without feelings, I don't see how anything could have wishes at all)??
I keep a diary. But it's hard to record every day, just the most memorable moment or important moment in life.
It's much easier and more accurate to time your python scripts with `time python script.py`. Cool write up.
“Controlling interest” and “controlling holding” are well worn financial concepts with long legal precedent that are not open to creative interpretation. These principles are how the feds evaluate insider trading and such.
In retrospect I should have realized the corner I was painting myself here. If I'm right, you just paid bargain basement prices for an algorithm that can replace an expensive 2B parameter ML process. But, if I had offered what the bet is actually worth, it would look like I was trying to price people out of ever taking me up on it. Well, shit.
The person you replied to specifically said prison is half the cost of alternative services to drug addicts. Your refutation would be worth something if you had figures, as they have subsequently posted a link to back up their position.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210122120744/https://www.sfchr...
All the more reason to not rely on the cloud provider itself as your security vendor, I suppose...
I still find blackboard + chalk to be a heinous combination. Is this just because my grade school used cheap low-grade chalk?

I do have a weird physiological reaction to 'fffffffff' friction sounds. A hard cheap pencil against cheap paper, making a similar raspy sound as chalk-on-blackboard, with cause me to reflexively (and uncontrollably) suck my lips in tight, as if protecting my teeth from the vibrations. Back in school, after a long homework assignment, my lips would get swollen from doing this. It doesn't happen with pen, doesn't happen with smooth pencils or soft paper. Apparently I'm not the only one with this weird thing.
Hey I thought exactly that 15 years ago when wine got a major update. I never looked back :)
As above, Section 2-3: COVERED HOLDING.
—The term “covered holding”—
(A) means […] a controlling holding held, directly or indirectly, in an ICTS covered holding entity by— …

“Controlling holding” is defined in section 2-2

Edit: here you go

(2) CONTROLLING HOLDING.—The term “controlling holding” 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.
Because being a teenage girl was already hard, and now to be a good liberal teenage white girl you are supposed be some kind of self-loathing culture warrior as well. As opposed to, you know, enjoying life and being kind to the people you interact with.
On one hand, I'm not a photographer, I don't want to be a photographer, and I don't want to spend 30 minutes trying to get everything lined up and everyone looking in the right direction and not blinking or sneezing or whatever. I just want a decent picture that captures people being happy doing a thing.

On the other hand, maybe the world needs more reminders that most people are pretty mundane, hardly able to get more than 2 people looking in the same direction for long enough to snap a shutter, just trying to get through life.
> Why not?

My view is that a government which works for its citizens should by default be open and transparent about what it is doing and why. There may be exceptions, but they should be minimized and justified.

FOIA is a rare piece of legislation that doesn't benefit either party or the bureaucracy but does broadly benefit the public. The bipartisan effort to nullify it feels like testing the waters for future FOIA carve-outs to insulate lawmakers from their constituents.
S-risks: The worst existential risks, and how to prevent them (2017)
Python itself warns you nowadays too, it will print out

<dis>:1: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="?

Some more weird/fun stuff about that: If you throw that code into one file instead of a repl, `x is 257` will be True. If you instead instantiate `x = 257` in a different file, and import it, `x is 257` be False again. In a repl if you run them on the same line it ends up as True!

>>> x = 257
>>> print(x is 257)
False
>>> y = 257; print(y is 257)
True

If they're in the same file (or same line in a repl), the integer literals are loaded into the `co_consts` object during the initial parse to bytecode, and so they refer to the same object. This only works for integer literals and simple statements that can be optimized to literals by python (e.g. it also works for `x = 257+1; print(x is 258)`

>>> dis.dis('y = 257+1; print(y is 258)')
1 0 LOAD_CONST 0 (258)
2 STORE_NAME 0 (y)
4 LOAD_NAME 1 (print)
6 LOAD_NAME 0 (y)
8 LOAD_CONST 0 (258)
10 IS_OP 0
12 CALL_FUNCTION 1
14 POP_TOP
16 LOAD_CONST 1 (None)
18 RETURN_VALUE
Today, there is a Python package for everything. The ecosystem is possibly best in class for having a library available that will do X. You cannot separate the language from the ecosystem. Being better, faster, and stronger means little if I have to write all of my own supporting libraries.

Also, few scientific programmers have any notion of what C or Fortran is under the hood. Most are happy to stand on the shoulders of giants and do work with their specialized datasets. Which for the vast majority of researchers are not big data. If the one-time calculation takes 12 seconds instead of 0.1 seconds is not a problem worth optimizing.
Easy, macOS and ChromeOS docks.