skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if I read a gigabyte from a file with the read call

`mmap` signals the kernel that you want to use the data someday. You `mmap` it, it automatically handles fetching and throwing unused bytes away.

`read` signals the kernel that you want to do something with the data now.

You `read` it, you need it in the memory now.

> why the kernel can't see that it's unused allocated memory

Only a in-process garbage collector would really know what part of your memory is unused. The kernel can't really know for sure.
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> But acarbose blocks starch metabolism so the bacteria in your tummy metabolize it and make you incredibly and unbearably flatulent.

Sounds like a perfect product for a prank supply store.
They exist and are called "airless tires". Tannus is one of the most popular brands:

https://tannusamerica.com/pages/tannus-airless-tires

They're solid foam and can't go flat. They're not very popular because they don't perform nearly as well as tires with tubes. They have a higher rolling resistance (ie, you have to pedal harder to go the same speed) and have a rougher ride.

Good quality tires don't puncture that often and, for most riders, are worth the trade off.
According to birds, we just emit a bunch of low pitched grunts and noise all day.
Reminds me of the investing classic Where Are the Customer’s Yachts?
Asus is usually one of the first out with new AMD APUs, so it makes sense that they would snag Phoenix so early.
The 3 is supposed to be short for three other letters. What are they?
It was a rental, so I'm not totally sure. I think they told me that there was a compartment that wasn't properly sealed?

Once you took sailing classes at the place, you could take one out. My first time out on my own I backwinded the jib, which knocked it down. Then my non-sailor friends grabbed for the top rail, turtling the boat. Eventually we got it back up and started bailing, but it kept getting lower in the water, so we all jumped out again. The back then pretty rapidly sank, leaving a foot of the mast and a foot of the bow above the water. That left us treading water two miles offshore on a quiet Wednesday afternoon.

As you might imagine, I haven't done a lot of sailing since.
That's the price the consumer pays.

The $60/MWh quoted above is the price the utility would buy electricity.

Much different prices.
Yes, my experience was very similar, and I did A/B test it. More details here—https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35432067

Summary:

* Test after starting to work out after a long gap—elevated AST ALT, consistent with the research papers.

* Test after pausing working out for 2 weeks—normal levels.

* Test after working out consistently for a few months so it's no longer after a gap—normal levels.
Great feature, thanks! It was much-awaited.
> If an engineer in Kenya for $50k does the same work and output as you, a $200k engineer in SF, can we now say you're being overpaid 4x what you're actually worth?

No. If GitLab thought the work was only worth $50k, they wouldn't pay anyone anywhere $200k for the job.

If they do pay $200k for the job anywhere, they must expect to receive more than $200k in return, and pocket the difference.
> What would do this better?

A mix of things, some of which already exist.

Obviously, cell phones can do it. They already do this for a lot of people.

NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards already exists as well, but the receivers should be more widespread. Putting them into cars and TV sets would be a good start, especially with GPS receivers to automatically figure out where they are and, therefore, which alerts to listen to.

https://www.weather.gov/nwr&ln_desc=NOAA+Weather+Radio/

Giving more funding to noncommercial radio stations, to guarantee they exist, for one thing, and have people in the booth all the time, for another. America doesn't have an analogue to the BBC so ensuring the local and regional public stations remain usable for this purpose is essential.
I did this for the doctor, and my pressure readings were much better at home, which should be no surprise. They asked me to bring in the machine to check it against their own measurements. It takes three readings a minute apart, and then does its calculations to produce the numbers. After the first cycle, the assistant wanted nothing to do with it, and started fiddling with the machine in annoyance to get it to do whatever she wanted. There was not even a discussion about it. There must have been many other sides of beef in the office that she had to hurry to poke and prod as fast as possible. And what do you know, I think that visit produced the highest blood pressure they had seen in me yet. I think that was the same visit I had to point out that their fridge with blood samples in it wasn't closed fully. The doctor made it a point to stop and ask me if something was bothering me that visit because my frustration at how bad US general practice had become was obvious.
It's not unreasonable to expect that a big enough model could learn some kind of useful feature space for bird vocalizations. You are essentially replacing a parsimonious quasi-parametric model (Gaussian process) with an enormous fully nonparametric one. Transformer units should be as well-suited for this as for any other sequence learning task.
That is a worry I have, but on the other hand, more pro RTR brands out there is more opportunities to win over customers.

I had a galago ultrapro 10 years ago. Loved it, loved system 76's support for it (they shipped everyone a replacement keyboard at no cost simply because they weren't happy with the one it launched with). The only part I didn't like was the plastic body which saw a lot of wear and tear. But the laptop is still working fine.

Now I have a framework. The first touchpad on mine had issues. Wasn't registering clicks unless I pressed really hard. They shipped me a replacement, I swapped it out myself and shipped them back the defective one at no cost to me.

I wish both companies the best, but yeah I do hope there is enough business out there for them both.
> is it any surprise that Xanax and Adderall are being limited?

That depends on who is doing the limiting — if the pharmacy corporations are self-limiting then I would understand they are limiting their potential exposure/liability to whatever risk level they are comfortable with. I’ll still be able to find my necessary drugs at another chain which doesn’t limit.

If the government is doing the limiting, then yes, that would be surprising. That seems to be the case here, and I think it’s a very inappropriate response — totally attacks the wrong part of the system.
> if you weren't already doing so as part of a larger motivation that is strong enough to override your existing behavioral patterns

How would you explain getting into the state of “already doing so as part of a larger motivation” in that case? The fact that people manage to get into that state undermines the premise of your challenge. If what you say is true, no one would rise to the level of “already doing”, which is an act that started at some point.

> In every case where I see someone change there's so many factors that went into it that just obviously would lead you to understand how it's intuitive that they would have done so.

This is called life. The causes and conditions of change are tautologically the reason that people change, yes. But is this a surprise?

If there is nothing to change or no reason to change, why would someone try?

By definition, if someone finds themselves in a position that would benefit from change, that falls under your “other things of the sort”.

The factors that lead to change are innumerable and different for each person. Some of the causes include exposure to new information. For me, I stumbled on some useful books like “Learned Optimism”, which details the history of the discovery of learned helplessness. It opened my eyes to some things about myself that I didn’t understand, and was one of many things that led to a change of mind.

Causes and conditions that lead to change include reading comment threads like this one. Exposing yourself to information that challenges your assumptions is another potent change agent.
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That's the price consumers pay, but not the cost of the utility's supply.
ADHD is an ADA-recognized disability. I doubt you’d support secret limits on mobility scooter orders because college kids sometimes steal golf carts. Why is this different?
At this point emergency alerts that go out to cell phones probably reach more people than radio.

That's separate from how well they work in remote areas (but that is getting better over time).
What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data?
It's actually a big difference. One feels downright euphoric, according to Desoxyn users. The other is a boring study drug.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...
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I immediately thought about Open Firmware as the bios competitor in SPARC and PowerPC. It’s been a few years since I’ve used it, the last time was trying to boot from USB on a 2005 iMac G5.
> It's not language. It's basically mimicking humans.

I owned a parrot for a few years. The speech she had was like a tape recorder, she could mostly only play back what she heard in an identical manner. But she was able to play back pieces of appropriate snippets in the right context to express herself to a level that I'd call it talking. It's not normal "speech", but if you gave an otherwise normal human with damaged speech centers in their brain a tape recorder it's very much like that.
It's fairly similar to a ROM patch in the video game space, which has mostly stood the test of time.
Try working on your personal projects in the morning or just don't work so close to exhaustion on your day job. Working on hard problems with high intensity could lead you to burn out and that would be terrible for your employee and your own health.
I, a non-ADHD person, do not have to put myself into situations where I have no choice but to do the thing I need to do. I simply see I need to do something and then do it. Does this strongly deviate from how I described a disability above? (the inability to do something without extra assistance or significant extra effort)
>Looking back it seemed incredibly easy and 'hand wavy' for the doc to just shut up the parent and schools and write up a prescription to 'solve the problem'

Exactly. The diagnosis is a tool for the system to give it a veneer of scientific legitimacy. There is no truth only power. In living memory, being gay was a diagnoseable disorder. In some countries political dissidents would be deemed insane and committed to institutions. Psychiatrists used to hand out lobotomies and electric shocks to anyone they felt like.
There's no reason to believe that LLMs are necessarily similar to humans. Just think of flight; both birds and planes can fly despite being very different. It's understandable that because humans are our main reference for intelligence that we see LLMs speaking language as a proof of similarity but there's no concrete reason to assume that.
> That is not "we can make it reproduce training images"

didn't say that, all I said is it's a deterministic lossy compression function of the inputs (unless randomness is deliberately introduced)

and as such it should be treated the same way as zlib or jpeg for copyright purposes
Wow, that is very interesting. Would you mind sharing the prompt you used to query the model?
>> Could figure out what it's expecting and emulate that of course.

Or patch it to skip that check.
Well, maybe 30 years rather than 20, but they do degrade.

See: https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2022/aging-gracefully-how...

"A major question in the solar energy industry is exactly how much we should expect solar modules to degrade each year...and when they will eventually degrade so much that they no longer produce adequate power...For modules built today, it is probably 30 years."
I've wondered if Adderall could be popular in part because it can lead to weight loss. This wouldn't be why people would go on the medication, but why they would hesitate going off it. I know some people continued smoking after they wanted to stop because they feared gaining weight when they did.
A passenger aircraft that flies around the world at Mach 9? Sure, why not
The biggest flaw in this line of reasoning is that these drugs aren't inherently calming or causing docility. They are pretty powerful stimulants!

It's quite obvious when a troublesome kid has been misdiagnosed: they act as you would expect a child on stimulants to act. The behavior changes are mostly only useful if the child does have adhd. A non-adhd problem child on amphetamines is a powerful source of chaos.
> purpose of providing the AskYourPdf web application

For the purpose of funding it as a free service by selling upload content or derived metrics :)
I assumed this was a service were I can upload my own data as actual measurements. But that does not seem to be the case?
At first a visor cover can be seen showing an orange-yellow mushroom cloud illustrating a nuclear explosion. However, when the video cuts and the commander turns to face the camera, the nuclear mushroom cloud cover is gone, presumably to avoid sending the wrong message to Russia

I guess now is the right time to send the wrong message to Russia /s
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Also... that is hideous.

I hate so sound so shallow, but that is a factor for portable devices, and much of the Zephyrus linup is more understated and less Decepticon.
"Short enough sample" is definitely key. With a small model like llama 13B, you can watch the output degrade in real time as it gets longer. When the only thing in its context is 1000 words of human prompt, the next LLM-predicted sentence will probably be acceptable. But by the time it's added a few hundred words of its own output to the context, it's going downhill fast.

Bigger models slow the rate of degradation, but that's it.
I assume you mean with subsidies and grants.
Honestly, when you speedup or slow down the playback to be in proportion to their size, all animals sort of sound the same. This goes for whales all the way up to birds. Whale sounds sped up are hilarious btw.
Again, the definition is clear. By the definition generalized in that way, any company building a proprietary system would be guilty of monopolistic behavior. If that's the case, then I guess it is a meaningless distinction anyways, and really not my worth much of my time to ponder either.
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You are arguing that because perfection was not achieved, it is a scam.

This is not a reasonable position.
Because Adderall is 100% pure speed. A handful of Adderalls is more fun than a bag of cocaine (which is going to be more like 5% purity and adulterated with god knows what).
They are building one in China

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsmilestone-for-chinas-ac...

https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/INPRO/df13/Presentations/011_...

Like Nuscale’s reactor is is a PWR with the steam generators built into the pressure vessel.

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Does it relate to your religious beliefs?
The main reason why solar farms are replaced before 20 years are up is because modern panels are much more efficient than they were 20 years ago. By replacing the panels you can get 2-4x as much power in the same footprint and using the same infrastructure.
GPT is pretty reliable at taking an existing body of text that fits entirely in a prompt and doing something with it--reword, translate, answer questions about it, so forth. Even expanding an outline into written sentences usually works great as long as the outline has all the detail.

It's really only when you let it introduce "facts" based on its body of training that it'll start going off the rails. If he's just running text through without checking the final results, that's really not wise, but the LLM is unlikely to start introducing novel facts or changing figures in response to a conservative request based entirely on the prompt text.

Using it as a writing aid the way he claims he is (not that I necessarily believe all his claims) is probably one of the more responsibles way to use GPT, honestly, because you have full opportunity and ability to vet the output. Hack together something that has all the right content, then make it readable with the AI engine the way you might with a human editor collaborating, while jointly making sure the editor doesn't change the actual facts of the content.

Whether or not he could be hacking anything of value together every 37 hours is another story.
That’s not the conclusion at all. The article says monkeys can understand and produce words (via signs). They can’t talk because they don’t have control of their larynx. They’re mute essentially.
If I'm getting up before 4:00, I try to be in bed no later than 9. Its rare I can force myself to get to sleep anytime before that.
Indeed, so will 3D rendering and other things. Besides the point though.
My personal favorite item related to this is various peoples that used slings would carve lead/stone ammo to make a high-pitch whistle as the bullets flew through the air.
I believe he just wants to do his bit by removing his activity from github towards lowering their dominance numbers in the space. I don't think he intends to stop those LLM code models.
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