skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, no. Net illegal migration has been negative since Obama's second term. It's basically an entirely made-up "crisis" and has been for a decade now.
Intel GNA has been in their last three gen CPUs, it is in many places already. I'm not sure if it is low power though.
It seems to me that few people today actually use extensions. They're hard to find in browsers (in Chrome you need to go through several clicks) and have warnings installing them. I'm always surprised to find that many non-technical people I know don't use any extensions at all. But that's probably intended, Google doesn't seem to like them anyway (esp Adblock).
YOLOGPT
Musk: Twitter Algorithm goes open source at noon Pacific Time
BWB is great. Why is this on the front page?
It's estimated to be net negative (more people leave illegally than enter illegally). It peaked late in George W Bush's 2nd term and has been falling steadily ever since, crossing the zero point some time during Obama's admin.

It's an entirely made-up "crisis", but a reliably effective one politically.
Entwined African and Asian genetic roots of medieval people of the Swahili coast
>> The whole protest was infiltrated by Government agents.

Oh man. One of my buddies who loved to watch Ancient Aliens and Alex Jones has been telling me this for about two decades now.

Saddam Hussein apparently died of diabetes a decade before we planted a body double of him too.

Wonder how much the actors posing as chucklefucks got paid to “stand back & stand by” at those hotels with their pickup truck arsenals.
Kind of a gross misuse of the term, isn't it?
This is a fascinating topic indeed. And the math behind polynomial approximation is not that deep or unapproachable. You just haven't found an explanation that works for you. Some time ago I tried to make one with a sine as an example: https://wordsandbuttons.online/sympy_makes_math_fun_again.ht...

It doesn't mention Taylor series anywhere but if you only make your system out of N differential equations, you'll get N members of the power series.
All of that might be objective. Not liking a lot what Republicans do does not mean you are unfairly biased.
It is not rolling release in the sense that any distro that uses that phrase to describe itself is, and it is not a beta version either.

Centos stream has versions, and it does not automatically switch from one to the other. This is no different from Ubuntu LTS.

And I don't think their QA is any worse than that of Ubuntu.

Ask yourself this, by your definition, what would CentOS stream have to change to no longer be rolling release, and what would Ubuntu LTS have to change to become rolling release?

Then ask yourself the same question about the beta point, what would CentOS steam have to change to no longer be beta and what would Ubuntu LTS have to change to become a beta?
I'd like him to make a more firm next step. He sometimes brings up some of the difficulties he has expressing things that would be simple in another language. I point this out. He understands that but still prefers to work in Scratch. One factor may be that he has a social network on Scratch.
Thank you. I enjoyed the video, and it did a great job of highlighting the visual features you achieved!
Same in Australia. The complexity increases if you have investment properties, or self manage tax, etc. But for the large majority of employees in the country you can simply log onto their website and effectively one-click confirm that your details are all correct, and that's it.
This. Any serious malfunction is likely shutting down your block on the order of months to for good.
Oh, and I have a free explanation too: https://wordsandbuttons.online/sympy_makes_math_fun_again.ht...
How to track the protests posing a risk to your company’s assets with Feedly AI
Those are two disconnected things. Turbotax and H&R Block lobbying to stop the IRS from having an auto-file system protects them, and doesn't change anything for the wealthy and big corporations who will continue to pay accountants to dodge taxes.
> The country ran just fine with 0% income taxes until 1913.

Sure, apart from that whole Civil War fracas in the mid-1800s and the ensuing decades of reconstruction.
I can't understand how something called "a language model" can evaluate some input text. ChatGPT4 seems like it understands the text of the first assistance and properly assesses that it wasn't actually a description of the trip.

Similarly, the other day I asked it to explain a hard-to-understand philosophy quote and it explained it properly (I believe).

Can someone explain how they do this? It seems magical.
I use Elster.
It would be really, really nice if we lived in a world where people new nuclear power mostly just means heating water (like many methods of power generation…)
Cohen was not crime lawyer. And any high-level lawyer will tell you that even them will not represent themselves in a criminal investigation nor are they immune from make false confessions under the pressure of the federal government.
LOL. He laments how billions are spent for nuclear reactor safety and then uses the casualty numbers based on those billions being spent [1], to calculate the casualty impact of building nuclear factories with more abandon and without such spending (as if the numbers would be the same).

Also hidden in the small print, the assumption that future accidents would be "no worse" that previous ones. Because, you know, that's a given or something.

Not to mention that even the numbers he uses for casualties from prior accidents and later cancers are doctored by governments who had accidents on their watch trying to look good, and by research funded and astroturfed by the nuclear industry to make itself look better.
Do I have to have an OPENAI_API_KEY to use this?
That explanation doesn't make me feel any better.

I'm not blaming Biden or a boogeyman army. It doesn't make sense at all that a revenue department purchases guns and ammunition. Does your company's accounting department train with weapons and purchase large amounts? Why does the US Government?

Let the IRS do money works, and any of the other armed departments do the shooting, I guess.
There might not be a "Z" token for some of these names. A made-up example is "Lukasz" might tokenize to ["Luk", "asz"], so the model doesn't have any notion of how words are actually spelled. I suspect that if the body of training data came with some instructions on spelling it would know how to do this better, but it seems unlikely that there would be a natural language description of how Polish (?) names are spelled in the training data.
Most likely scenario, people will just do the same jobs, with AI assistance.

Can you not already see this happening ?
It's also way subtler effect. You see faster what you expect to see. You hear faster what you expect to hear.
Backtracking for me was always a complex concept to grasp because the algorithm was difficult to understand. Now if you have no issues with backtracking, this post is not for you.

I managed to build a game that gamified algorithms by making one guess the appropriate line within any algorithm to create the next line of local variables within the function. This helped me tremendously in understanding backtracking algorithms.

Concretely, here is how YOU can benefit if you have difficulty with backtracking. To understand backtracking, you need to first understand the basics when it is applied to the following Leetcode problems: Subsets, Subsets 2, Permutations, Permutations 2, Combination Sum and Combination Sum 2.

To understand exactly how each of the solutions for each of these questions work, here is the link to the game for each of the solutions:

Subsets: https://lalgo.vercel.app/choose-line-game/642629fc683ace7304...

Subsets 2: https://lalgo.vercel.app/choose-line-game/64263356d9bba46019...

Permutations: https://lalgo.vercel.app/choose-line-game/642632bbd9bba46019...

Permutations 2: https://lalgo.vercel.app/choose-line-game/642634739c6dea4c18...

Combination Sum: https://lalgo.vercel.app/choose-line-game/642630e0dcf2cf1c4e...

Combination Sum 2: https://lalgo.vercel.app/choose-line-game/642633c39c6dea4c18...

Just select the correct line for the set of local variables you see, click through to the end several times and I guarantee you will understand backtracking fully by the end of it.
Ok, so when people say that they use ChatGPT for coding, they use it as a code snippet library? Here, a function that has been probably written million times before in some similar form, and a template for a simple web app.
I’ll just be quick.

Powerful international coalition is def plausible because

This isn’t steam. The mere existence of this technology poses a threat to all humans and their countries. There is no analogous tech, not even nukes

You’re the naive one. There is no future for us if AGI is unleashed. It’s candles or extinction.
Yeah, heating water with radioactive material. And then having to dispose toxic byproducts that can kill millions for thousands of years.
"Exponentials" in nature almost always turn out to be be sigmoid functions when looked at over their full range. Intelligence in particular seems very very likely to be a sigmoid function, since scaling tends to produce diminishing returns as inter-node communication needs increase, just like we saw with CPU parallelism.
Cohen and Stormy Danielle changed their stories. What they say is unreliable.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-stormy-daniels-admit...

https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/how-long-before-cohens-lawyer-...
True, my recommendation then does not apply to this topic.
I met a guy in Cornwall who told me there are locals who won't drink in the same pub as him because his grandfather was the local customs man.
This is as bad as it gets and something that should shame us all. But it has nothing to do with filing e-taxes.
A bulb gets a burst of power every 120Hz, so it would only use about .075 joules per cycle. Half the time is spent above 110v, and half is under 110v, so we need to store less than 1/240th of a second of power to have a perfect output and a perfect power factor.

Let's put a capacitor before the regulator to store that power, and design the regulator to compensate for how the voltage will vary over each cycle. Since we don't want to drain our capacitor entirely, let's spec it for .05 joules at 100v, which means 10µF.

Digikey says a 10µF 200v capacitor costs ten cents.

If there's flicker, I blame the voltage regulator or lack thereof, not the requirement of power efficiency.
> two populations have become so isolated that they essentially live in 2 different realities.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that "both" realities are equally valid. They are not, and that matters.

Reality matters, and you don't get to make up your own just because you're angry, numerous and armed.
Yes, you'll have to bring your own API keys
It couldn’t be Rwanda anyway - no group has enough of a majority. Rwanda had 84%/15%
I found this to be bizarre and out of touch. Sharing for the insight it provides about Feedly.
Phases, stages and lack of money are not synonymous with short term.
Better clean up the Linux kernel from Oracle contributions then, in case you are using it.

https://lwn.net/Articles/915435/
I was studying something similar in my MSc about the neurobiology of language. It's well known that reading circuits in the brain make predictions about which words come next - a sentence like "The jam on the motorway made traffic slow" doesn't elicit much activity, whereas "The jam on the motorway was sticky" does, because "motorway" makes it much more likely that "jam" was about slow traffic rather than the condiment. (There are perhaps some interesting parallels to LLMs there...) But we were looking in the visual cortex, way back before the brain is even perceiving words, and we were finding pre-activation of circuits even there depending on whether people were presented with real words (e.g. sheep) or non-words (e.g. brast).

I think there's a lot to be said for conceptualising the brain as a statistical machine - it makes a lot of sense in evolutionary terms. There's a great video introduction to that idea with Karl Friston from UCL here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIu_dJGyIQI
Norway is far from being the only that has oil but to me it seems it has / had the best management of this resource. From what I understand the money doesn't go to a few people / companies but a good part is used to prop up the economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway
>that can kill millions

Did the inverse square law stop working recently or do they all take turns touching it?
Are there really Microsoft accounts that were terminated out of the blue? I always had the feeling they acted a bit more responsibly around that than Google.
Thanks for the tip. That’s more or less where I’ve ended up with things. Initially I was obstinate to predictable deleterious result. Then I went through being compliant only to be hung out to dry for abiding when it didn’t work out. Then I went through a phase of trying to educate in hopes of them coming around to no avail. Now I just look for stronger signs of alignment right out of the gate before even bothering to spend the time engaging at all.
Depends who you ask and who is involved. I don't care one bit how much time you spend with your kids. However I do think it is a bit odd if you want to spend work time with your kids and expect your employer to be fine with that.

Yes, yes, I know your point is that you can spend the commuting time with your kids, but realistically how strict are you about your WFH office? Do you even have a dedicated office where you can go and your kids and wife won't bother you? For most my coworkers that is not a thing. They are working on the kitchen table or in their bedroom while the family goes about their lives around them. Constantly distracting them, constantly bothering them, and more annoyingly distracting and bother other people who are on the zoom call.

As I've said time and time again; life is about sacrifices. You can choose what sacrifices you are going to make, but you have to make some. To me it seems you can either sacrifice say ~1 hour per day of looking after you kids or you can sacrifice 10-20% of your pay check. Or you lower your commute time by moving closer to your office, which probably means moving into a smaller house/apartment, again a sacrifice.
At the Code Club for which I volunteer the next step is Python. We use the Raspberry Pi projects[1] which use the Tinker[2] repl.

[1] https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/about-me

[2] https://trinket.io/
Same vibes:

float Q_rsqrt( float number )
{
long i;
float x2, y;
const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

x2 = number * 0.5F;
y = number;
i = * ( long * ) &y; // evil floating point bit level hacking
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
y = * ( float * ) &i;
y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 1st iteration
// y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 2nd iteration, this can be removed
return y;
}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...
Either it's a lifeless recombination of text from the Internet, or an emergent understanding achieved through working with trillions of text tokens, despite lacking access to the full range of the human sensorium informing that text.

The jury is still out.
>To put my bias upfront, I’ve not found this to be very persuasive. From an epistemological point of view, “it can be dangerous” seems like insufficient grounds to worry

Epistomologically speaking "it can be dangerous" is the de facto basis of worrying about something.
> while dying constantly from things they cannot see (like air pollution from coal)

Air pollution from coal has many problems.

But invisibility is not one of those problems. You can see it.
I never understand why the "man in the street" with their zero knowledge will decide if which type of power plant is safe/sustainable/economical.
Imagine if they would be also allowed to tell your car mechanical what is wrong and how to fix that.
In that case you're basically offering a browser-based client. 'Locally' strongly suggests this is running entirely on the machine (vs. making API calls). Going to break a lot of hearts out there with the wording as it is.
> another is misplaced confidential documents.

No, the Special Counsel’s investigation is not just the documents issue, though that was the case most in the news at the time the Special Counsel was assigned both DoJ Trump-connected criminal investigations once Trump declared his candidacy for 2024.

The issues assigned to the Special Counsel were:

(1) “whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification ofthe Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021” (excluding charges already being prosecuted and future “prosecutions of individuals for offenses they committed while physically present on the Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021.”)

(2) the documents issue.
Depends on if you count the $2T cleanup cost for Fukushima as limited. After Fukushima about all plants in the west had to install independent core cooling because the regulators realized the risk was systemic, even though the cause was special.

A nuclear reactor in Sweden had a severe incident in 2006 when many of the "defense in depth" layers had been accidentally removed through freak occurrences and upgrades.

It is still impossible to get private third party insurance for a nuclear plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant#J...
It is important to point out the several unusual things that went right in this story:

1. Your decision makers recognized that the important number to pursue is "engaged users", not "number of emails in the list".

2. You have a large enough subscriber base so that Gmail/Outlook realize you're a good player. This wouldn't happen if you only sent a few thousand mails per week.

3. You have the technical expertise to properly maintain the list and the surrounding (unsubscribe, etc.) infrastructure. Usually the budget is allocated to _create_ the list/service and then assumed that it will continue working forever with 0 investment.

IF you can get these things right too you'll (eventually) have a similar experience. If you fail on any of them... you're screwed like everyone else is saying. Of course, having to send large volumes of email to ensure that "the big guys" treat you fairly is why many people running small/personal email servers complains about them.
> > The entire import system is broken

> What problem are you having with imports?

This is a Python function I wrote some years ago to import a module when given a path:

def module_from_path( name, path ):
### thx to https://stackoverflow.com/a/50395128/7568091 ###
### thx to https://stackoverflow.com/a/67692/7568091 ###
import importlib
import importlib.util
spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location( name, path )
module = importlib.util.module_from_spec( spec )
sys.modules[ spec.name ] = module
spec.loader.exec_module( module )
return importlib.import_module( name )

There are so many conspicuous things about it but to put it short, I should be able to just give a relative or absolute file path, call one method, and be done. Damn all those intermediate steps, and why do I have to name it?
> 90%*

> * According to a fun and non-scientific evaluation with GPT-4. Further rigorous evaluation is needed.

Come on... I love any effort related to LLM, but it's really disingenuous to claim high quality in the title and then immediately discredit it after click-through.
And yet, Obama has:

- ZERO indictments, unlike Trump

- ZERO impeachments, unlike Trump

Also none of Obama's lawyers have ever been tried + convicted of a crime either, unlike Trump.
> I live in Oregon and that's not true…

Argh, that makes it even worse!

> I say all of this as someone who has lost a lot of friends to the opioid crisis and has watched Portland's meth problem first hand.

Sorry to hear that. I’ve been fortunate not to have friends or family caught up in it, but we lost a neighbor last year.

I hope you’re right that things will get better.

In the meantime, it feels disingenuous to act like the impact so far has been positive for everyone, or like legalizing and hard-nose crap are the only options. I think it undermines trust and pits different parts of Portland against each other. It’s easy to get a laugh or an eye roll from my neighbors on the north side of town when I pass along some of the ”obvious” solutions my friends and colleagues from the west side have shared with me. Please consider our perspective: even if we double the police force and start addressing crime more promptly, our neighborhood is still worse off because we have more crime. Other parts of the city don’t seem to appreciate that.
The US system is incredibly complex. The federal government wields very little on-the-ground political power compared to states, but what power it does have is effected via tax policy.

It is as if the EU wanted to regulate mobile phone roaming charges by offering a tax rebate on your phone bill, which it then used to calculate a penalty that is added to the phone companies corporation tax bills. There is no federal EU tax bill passed on to citizens of course but if there were you might continue to have your payroll taxes go to your country’s government but you could then submit your phone bills to the federal EU government to get money back from any tax they levy on you. They’d have to levy it in the first place but to avoid unfairness they offset it against anything your state takes, first.

At the other end of the spectrum, some city funding is done via income taxes. That seems a lot more equitable than, say, the UK where you pay a rate based on the value of the building your landlord bought. Because it’s an income tax though, and because double taxation is anathema to any voter, it too must be used
to offset state and federal income tax.

In a way it would be a lot easier if each entity could just stick to one kind of tax. Maybe city funding via property tax, state funding via income tax, and federal funding via corporation tax. The power of federal government is restricted via the tenth amendment, so it’s always going to try to end run states rights via the only means it has — your tax form. That seems unlikely to change. Also I’m not sure my off-the-cuff idea of having the federal government answer only to corporations (via corporation tax) is a very good one, but it is a good example at least of how the machinations of taxation, if not the politics, might be easier if things were picked apart.
Flash did have raw TCP sockets support. It did have some security built in though. When you opened a socket, the flash player itself would first connect to the address and port you specified, send the string `<policy-file-request/>` and expect the server to respond with the contents of the crossdomain.xml file (the same kind used for HTTP requests from flash) allowing the app to connect. It would then close the connection, and, if it's satisfied with the cross-domain policy, reconnect again and hand this socket over to the app.
Wrong, gpt4 is very capable of writing “new” and complex code.

Also gpt4 >> gpt3.5 for coding.
Generally, traditional tube amplifier circuits are much more simple than modern solid-state designs. If a tube amp breaks, you are not just going to toss it. Most tube amplifier have schematics floating around for them on the internet so anyone who might be inclined can fix one. Additionally, some HiFi designs are fairly minimalist which makes them easier to understand. Swart amps are a good example of this.

I bought a busted JCM 800 combo for $20 when I was 18. I fixed it with a soldering iron, multimeter, a copy of the schematic from ampage.com, and Forrest Mims III electronics book from radioshack.
> What are you on about, who’s a war criminal

John Yoo, one of the principal architects of the Bush Administration’s campaign of torture as state policy in the War on Terror.