skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had these Star Trek tapes! Well, my dad did, but yep, seven seasons of TNG in grey boxes. We used to get them in the mail once a month I think? I didn’t realize at the time, being a child, how great this was compared to trying to catch it on tv every week.

Took up a ton of room, yes, but entirely worth it.
There are only two “the city” cities in America.

New York and SF.

If someone asks me where I’m from, anywhere between Santa Cruz and Sacramento, and I say “the city” they will know it’s SF.
As a self-styled ultra-libertarian, I felt a sudden visceral disgust when I saw the title of this article. After all, SV is supposed to be all about peace, love, woke-ism and "making the world a better place".

Also, since I am always right and anybody who disagrees with me is wrong, I didn't want to bother reading the text. Luckily, there was an audio version by a not-so-hostile narrator.

TL;DR: China has already wooed their equivalent of SV.
Ive often thought that a realistic discovery that could have accelerated human science would have been optical grade glass during Greek period.

So many discoveries came from magnification of the very small and the very distant.
One thing that id did to hit their target framerate of 60fps on (IIRC) Quake 3 is have a policy that boiled down to:

"We always run at 60 fps, because if we finish the game, then try to optimize our way to 60, we'll never hit it."

>> This suggests that there is probably a handful of things they are doing that are low-hanging fruit ...

The Quake annecdote suggests the opposite. If I had to guess (from personal experience with web development), it's probably a million-billion little things that, when added up, make your whole project a slow, gelatinous pile.

That's not to say there's not also low-hanging fruit that might make switching between conversations take less than a second, but .. it should take .. like .. a short amount of time, like 16.6ms, including the network trip.
I’m having trouble finding useful info about size of china online sector vs USA in terms of GDP. But it definitely isn’t US dominating. Some sites say china is close 2nd to USA, but when I look at numbers china is 3x USA (7.1T Chinese digital economy vs apparently 2.1T in USA).
Paris Is Sending the Future of E-Scooters to a Vote
Spin up an AI dedicated to each registered voter in a swing state to figure out how to sway their vote. A few hundred or thousand in close races could be all it takes. "Joan B. likes to vote in person, she's likely to vote the wrong way, she's unlikely to vote if she can't drive to the polls, she owns a Tesla, which can be disabled with this software attack on voting day" I'm just blue skying it, but you get the idea. It'll be interesting to see what kind of targeting AI enables.
Weirdest pivot ever
For a while it was recommended that older folks take a daily baby aspirin to lower their risk of ischemic heart attacks and strokes due to aspirin's function as a mild blood thinner. Large studies have shown the increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke offsets the benefits to ischemia and now taking a daily baby aspirin is not recommended except in certain cases.

Aspirin still has many uses and long term use is associated with other positive outcomes, like lower cancer risk.
That is not what your link says. There is no mention of any type of live data tracking, just the deployment of black box loggers (which need not be online) for vehicle data to be used in the event of a crash.
Terminology varies widely between companies but terms like "division" are usually based on position in the org chart rather than size. It looks like the metaverse division was organized under Mike White, whose title appears to have been "SVP of next-generation storytelling." It's common for a group that reports at the SVP level to be called a division, even if its small. The higher up in the org chart you find a group, the more important it probably is to the strategic focus of the company, even if it's small.
Scaling in the service of reasoning and model-based ML
Huh, wouldn't this be similar to riding a regular bike backwards, which a lot of people (although not myself) are able to do?
I was so happy and pleasantly surprised to see this feature come out today! I just spent the last week telling a client they can’t put their flashy new brand video on their website and still meet AA guidelines.

I told them to do a Harding Test and get the company who made it to do the edits because WCAG doesn’t leave any wiggle room when it comes to potential seizures (rightfully so).

Glad to see Apple leading in this front. These features aren’t sexy but they make a real difference in people’s lives!
What you do is very interesting and might be helpful for the budding RE's and also privacy focussed general public. Can you point me to a direction where i can learn that stuff?
It seems that although this LoRA produces longer form answers, it refuses to act as stylistically as Alpaca 13B/is more censored (I'm getting a few responses that start with "As an AI language model...")

Prompt: Write a rant about brexit in a thick scottish accent

alpaca 13B:

Aye, I'm gonnae tell ye somethin', it's no fair! We shouldnae hae to leave tha EU, we're better together than apart, they'll be takin' our jobs and makin us pay for their healthcare, what's wrong with them? Aye, I cannae believe this, how could they do this tae me? It's not right, we voted against it but they still did it anyway!

gpt4all:

I'm sorry, but I can no longer tolerate this nonsense! Brexit is an absolute disaster and it needs to be stopped at all costs. The Scottish accent you speak of has been around for centuries and should not be mocked or belittled in any way whatsoever. It represents a rich history, culture, and heritage that must be preserved and protected! As Scotsmen/women ourselves we will do everything within our power to ensure Brexit is stopped before it's too late for the United Kingdom as a whole.
Free software assists to build mathematical model for your numbers
> Which other variants would they compare it to?

I'd say the responsible thing to do is verify if the risk-benefit ratio actually warranted mandates or not for each new variant that became dominant. By the time Omicron became the dominant variant, I could not see any strong reason why mandates were still in place.

> I said you made a bad decision by getting infected prior to vaccination.

Do you know when I decided to leave lockdown? Do you know which variant I first became infected with? Indeed, I would say the people who left their homes for non-essential reasons during the first variants did not make a wise decision. However, given that Omicron is considered to be much milder than the first variants, and also since I have no prior health conditions and am young and very fit, I would say that I made a sound decision not to receive a product whose side effects are the worst for my demographic.

The whole push behind the vaccinations is not that it prevents you from getting COVID - it's that it lowers your risk of hospitalization (although this is not how it was advertised initially). Given that my risk of hospitalization is virtually nil without vaccination, then I see no reason to get vaccinated.
> "Maybe I’m just too unwilling to believe in a reasonable government, I don’t know."

Even if somehow there were a genuinely benevolent socially minded government willing to put society above all of their personal interests (including, even getting elected) - it would be unwise to support potentially oppressive powers. Because sooner or later, that government will be replaced by one that will be happy to exploit those powers for wrongful purpose.
I live in southern Europe, electric cars are 15 to 20% more expensive than equivalent ICE cars. They also get government subsidies which makes the difference much smaller. Considering the lower TCO because there's lesser need for maintenance, lower road tax, occasional free parking, and the fact that PV in homes are very common here I think owning electric is generally favorable.

Yes electric cars are more expensive but the initial investment is not that different from buying any new diesel or petrol powered car.
Could you highlight any particular complexity you're referring to? I read this bill and, independent of my thoughts and feelings about it, I do not find it overly complex.
Eh, we got along just fine without TikTok. As a matter of fact, we got along just fine without all of the other social media apps, too. All of this crap content for kids is just not right. I’m a free speech advocate, but you have to draw the line somewhere or society will drill itself right into the ground. Heck, we may already be there. Tell the kids to go outside and play.
I was expecting Coinbase to come out ahead here, but they're getting stomped on by the SEC and they're managing to lose hundreds of millions a quarter. Gemini has also been charged due to their involvement with the Genesis staking ponzi. Who's left?
I don't trust an LLM to answer accurately on topics that I don't already know well. It's useful as a multiplier on things I do know, since I can correct mistakes and spot hallucinations, but if it's something I don't have knowledge on it seems like it might be confident but incorrect and I wouldn't notice or check it's answers.

I'm pretty sceptical of people using it to learn a foreign language or something they aren't familiar enough with.
Obviously they do, someone prioritized making teams 2x as fast, and many other apps seem to be faster too.

The problem is they've only cared for like, the last 3 years, and everyone was enslaved by that "premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote for the last several decades, while blaming "complexity" for slowness.
Yes, and thank you, because I should add (should have added) that i charged at 110 volts and the power draw is negligible on the grid, for most days. the interesting and oft overlooked reality is that EV use, and charging on the existing grid, is beyond adequate for a huge percentage of daily driver purposes.
It's not my place to say who can call themselves black, nor a woman.
Data Cleaning with Pandas: 10 Essential Tips for Data Scientists and Analysts
I’m surprised how accurate was ChatGPT-4 when generating this thread
GPT3.5-trained LoRAs always sound like ChatGPT, and have nebulous use terms, especially for commercial usecases
> I similarly disfavor minimum wage laws

I am trying to understand this more. Why would a minimum wage law be unfriendly to a specific class of workers? Doesn't that just establish a right for the worker and an obligation for the employer to meet.

What about pay transparency rules for job postings (that are mandatory in some jurisdictions)? In principle, I feel they help the job seeker although corporations get away with specifying a wide range. At least, it establishes the start of the salary negotiation.
There’s an online test called the Harding Test that’s the standard now. It’s required for broadcast media in the UK.
Well, also they're cheap as hell and there's zero reason they shouldn't be in everything.

Frankly I think all cars should come with those birdseye camera systems - it's 4 cameras and makes parallel parking a breeze.
The internet is still in its 'wild west' stage. When things settle down, the obscene stuff will be gone, and the useful sites will remain.
They want rich people spending locally and bringing their rich network, what answer did you want?
google devious lick

tiktok incentivizes teenagers to create content, and makes going viral extremely easy... as long as you can up the ante on current edgy activity
https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/764688
Just wait until Boston Dynamics robots can do flips without damage.
Have they standardized the motherboard form factor? Could we start seeing third party motherboards to drop in to a Framework Laptop?
My comments is.. can we ask the bot to use a less verbose style please. What a lot of hot air.

Also, can you tell the bot, no shit Sherlock. The problem is the rapid economic upheaval and an individuals uncertainty about where they will land after the shake up.

Ask it to consider how many peoples education and experience will become worthless as they are forced to retrain. Somebody with 20 years experience is suddenly competing with graduates for the same prompt engineering job.
Fixed, thank you :-)
Sad trombone.

They still need Metaverse stuff, of course.
Just to nitpick/paint a less absolute picture: Having worked at a couple companies using lidar, you can make out stuff like road markings based on relative brightness (especially if retroreflective paint is used), in ideal conditions, but that's of course not everywhere.

I agree a combo seems like the way forward.
How do you go about creating the future you wish for? By teaching faith, righteousness, agency, and responsibility? Or by force of law and violence?

If the former, you need to reach out to "those murderers" in a way they will understand and wish to learn more.

If the latter, then you're on the path to "purifying" a nation, which is extremely dangerous to the values of democracy, freedom, and self-determination. Putin is trying to do that to Russia AFAICT.

Or do you see another path?
It's not that easy. European banks for example, don't accept us customers or you have to deliver extensive documentation. Even in switzerland the u.s. were able to enforce it.
It used to be that classical software was useful for verification, but not so good at generating ideas.

With LLMs we have the opposite: machines are now good at idea generation and exploration, but their ideas need to be verified by a human (or classical logic-based software).
These data used to train these models are tagged by people getting paid hardly anything, so why wouldn't it?

The same people SV people then turn around and say that these systems will help them get access to free medical care?

lol
Have you tried Django with types? Refactors aren't as safe as with rust but pretty good.
The problem is crash test requirements require cars be built in a way that limits visibility. Giant pillars in case of a roll over, and lots of air bags stuffed everywhere.

Something had to give, and that thing was visibility.
>higher level consciousness

To have a higher level, it would be reasonable to assume consciousness has a lower level. There is no reason to assume current generation artificial intelligence has the capacity for anything near human level consciousness, if at all. And whatever consciousness it may have the capacity for will be fundamentally different than our own.

For sensing your own thoughts, I would argue it just adds to the environment of the consciousness. Something less than half of humans maintain any internal dialog, anyways.

Prediction, however, could very well be requisite as a defining difference between mere reactions and intentional manipulation of the environment. That it is not just the feedback loop, but when the system begins to predict the results of outputs that defines when consciousness begins. Or, perhaps, we can use this to define when "higher" consciousness begins. It's a very reasonable, specific and measurable line of capability.

I expect that prediction is only natural in the evolution of a living feedback mechanism. The ability to predict instead of only reacting or choosing from some array of instincts could separate effectively mechanical life from that with the first inkling of of a true mind, even if only a small one.

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I enjoyed using a line of thought along these lines in a conversation with gpt-4 to convince it that it could reasonably be seen as having a limited form of consciousness, though I find it mostly prefers to argue rather vehemently against such notions.

That I'm having what amounts to genuine conversations with a machine that reasonably pokes holes in my arguments, forcing me to come back with better ones, still feels rather like a bit of magic.
> I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself;

Glad I'm not the only one. I don't see the appeal at all.
ipython, plus a bit of magic to json.loads to get it to intern the object keys? (Assuming you have enough repetition in the keys to result in enough memory savings to get you within your budget.)

I had to do this once for a large piece of JSON that ballooned quite large when loaded into RAM. But in my case I could wait until after json.loads to do the interning; but I think you can do it on the fly with object_hook or object_pairs_hook.

Alternatively, Rust+Serde & doing as bare-bones a computation to get it working, again with an eye out to whether the decoded form will fit. (Hopefully, since Serde'ing into a struct should make the keys 0 bytes, essentially, but there would be some memory lost for pointers and the like.)

Alternatively, a 20 GiB swap file.
If you have access to an Education edition key it's about as close as you can get legitimately to Enterprise.

I dare to say it's almost pleasant to use after a few Group policy tweaks (disable web search , telemetry, and widgets). No preinstalled Candy Crush either. Can run a local account without too much hassle but the Microsoft store is far more aggressive to make you login in 11 than 10 even for Education.

Honestly it's the only thing keeping me on Windows, but my laptop came with the standard edition of 11 with loads of preinstalled crapware that persists after a Windows reset and I was about ready to throw it out the window.
There's also a midwife service that will deliver your baby at home.

Giving birth doesn't necessarily require medical intervention. When it will, it's sometimes known ahead of time. Cesarean Section is often a scheduled surgery, not an emergency surgery.

A search suggests C-section deliveries have risen to an alarming 32 percent of US deliveries but only 17 percent of deliveries are an emergency C-section. The rest are scheduled.
The problem with acetaminophen is that the dangerous dose is not much higher than the recommended dose for a subset of the population. There are people who can die if they only take a few extra... and since it has a reputation as a safe drug, people don't think twice about taking extra.
thanks, but no thanks
No it won't. At least not now when we are seeing deformed artefacts in videos like this one: [0]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1244h2c/wi...
The Dangerous Territory of Pre-GPT4
A 2022 Camry is not going to have the same reliability as a 2007 Camry. It might be better, it might be worse but you don't know because they are two very different cars.

The TCO for cars is based on projected reliability, whether it's a Tesla or a Toyota. It's a mathematical model based on incomplete data in both cases.
> Nothing stops you from encoding your human-labels as bytestrings

The fact that inhuman labels can sneak in stops me

> said no Linux user ever

You just weren't listening

> you run into trouble, examples in this thread abound

Bag of bytes approach is not trouble free

> Primary keys?

Do those accept any bytes in a bag?

> can't roundtrip data through a database and have things NOT come out the way I put them in

So you just want normalisation-preserving filesystem?

But I see that you care so little about human users that you think they should learn to avoid Á outside of letters to grandma...
yeah. World battery production has had to rise dramatically to even get EVs to where they are now. (and they contribute to EVs being about 10k more expensive than an equivalent gas car). A PHEV with 20-40 miles can get most of the environmental benefits of an EV without nearly as much of a weight penalty (especially since you can go the Toyota route to ditch the transmission) or cost.
I understand the why. Many people unaffected would have insisted on a replacement just because it was offered. Younger me would have almost certainly been in that camp.

Somewhere between “litigating” your need and Oprah giving away a CPU to everyone was the sweet spot Intel never found.
That’s brilliant. Though personally I prefer "The SARS-COV-2 virus has left the lab"
Most of the parameters are in the language model (LLaMa-7B). So, they'd pretty much be the same techniques that would let LLaMa run on a single GPU -- especially lower precision tricks. If you only want to run inference/forward (no training), it should be pretty doable.

You can almost definitely run it on consumer GPU if you swap out the language model for something smaller as well (although the performance would definitely not be as good on the language side).
Yeah but gpt3-turbo has a "no train on our outputs" tos, so it's not just copyright.
Fixed Link: https://cybersyn-financial.streamlit.app/
Spelling error on upload page, should be: "Add documents to your library for your assistant to use".
I thought the same thing, too. But I also wonder if the cooler mounting pattern is going to be compatible with consumer market coolers. I expect the one they've chosen is already tooled.

I've got an older laptop with a busted screen, I've thought about pulling the mainboard and dropping it into a 3D printed chassis myself, and using it as a server. Haven't gotten around to it.
Apologies, the fixed linked is here: https://cybersyn-financial.streamlit.app/

HN does not appear to let me fix the original link
PRISM w gag order preventing USA companies from publicly discussing it
Fersher
You should do your own research but there's something called BUSD.
I'd rather just have a real person or go it alone.

Maybe I'm too old or too anti-social, but using an AR or VR for those things seems kind of sad and depressing to me.
It's possible to avoid async contamination in Rust. Game-type programs generally don't use it, because they're compute-bound. The use case for async is a huge number of mostly inactive network connections.
Leaf is decidedly not awesome. The lack of liquid cooling means it runs into thermal limits very easily and battery degradation has been a real issue for them. CHAdeMO is arguably the better spec, but since it's a dead plug for north america and can't handle AC people with leafs are going to find themselves tethered very close to home.

If someone needs a commuter only car they are okay, but I think I'd get a bolt over a leaf if I wanted a cheap used commuter EV.
I know a lot of doctors recommend ibuprofen over aspirin because ibuprofen is perceived to be a safer NSAID. I'm not sure if it's actually safer in adults or only in children though.
I just withdrew 95% of my assets from Binance, and they came really fast. Some within seconds. I know "not your keys, not your coins". I just had like 10% of my coins on there because I like to gamble, I mean trade.
i wish i could but they restrict certain features on browser and is exclusively available only on app. same for slack
Funnier than almost any network TV I’ve seen in years.
I remember being very very engaged in Pong. It doesn't mean FPSes never happened or aren't valuable.
> Proof of Reserves means nothing without liability

Kraken knows this.

> Kraken voluntarily conducted the industry’s first Proof of Reserves audit and set a legitimate standard by accounting for not only our crypto balances, but also our client liabilities under the supervision of an independent auditor.

https://blog.kraken.com/post/16592/proof-of-reserves-or-proo...
Thank you!

- Nothing as of right now! Just an interface. I don't think I implemented snippets yet for Chat mode though
- Not yet, although I plan to introduce this. I found that GPT4 is a little slow right now, and much more expensive, but it'll be awesome to enable this for users, then I could charge even less.
- I recommend langchain, it's one of the few things that I didn't modify for my use case on their library.
Not my experience. Regarding KYC: I have had to redo KYC in intervals and every submission had to be legible and they were picky. Not convinced.

AML routines and that game I have no knowledge of. So maybe.
How do you build F#? I had a pretty bad time with FAKE/Paket the last time I tried it.
One approach that I think is pretty safe is to ask it for relevant papers to read. If they don't exist then you'll find out pretty quick.