skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Central planning usually causes shortages of everything including food. Famines are a routine occurrence under communism.

https://victimsofcommunism.org/curriculum-chapter-2/
Interesting, a bit above my knowledge level.

In terms of performance it still doesn't compete with anything modern in the West.

Looks like they moved from MIPS to their own ISA.

Also, Loongson produced a radiation hardened 100 MHz CPU that was used in the BeiDou satellite.
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I like the Matrix format, "@user:domain.tld"
I got 0 engagement with hundreds of real followers by the end, but the situation got worse every year with a tangible nosedive in the new era. This was a carefully curated following where I blocked and reported every bot that showed up. The problem is Twitter.
There's a level of friction that is too much for some.

I'm attempting to soften that friction when I launch my PaaS

My concern over bots and misuse is a concern. I'm thinking of crippling the free service to allow full functionality but limiting it's use to really tiny files.
I had a teacher at the university a very long time ago (well before even advanced AI computer vision was a thing, around the time DeepBlue beat Kasparov) and when he talked about AI and the future he warned us to take note that as long as machines cannot do something, we keep saying that you need to be intelligent to do it and as long as machines can do it we say that no intelligence is needed (because machines can do it). And as a result we may never admit that AI is actually intelligent or at least not until it's much better than us.

On a side note, I think the idea behind the first part of the phenomenon, i.e. that we think you need intelligence (and probably general intelligence) to do most things that machines cannot is that that is the way we do it. So until we could build machines that could calculate (say multiply and divide) we though you needed actual intelligence because we didn't know any other way and that is how we did it. (I remember that calculating and calculators were an actual example in that lesson.) Same thing for chess. And yes, we were right to say that you don't need general intelligence for neither chess nor calculating because we could come up with relatively simple algorithms.

But people a few years ago started to say this about go. And I do remember that after DeepBlue beating Kasparov everybody was like "yeah, but you need intelligence for go because that's a game with vastly more possible moves". And in a sense this is what we saw, because AlphaGo was indeed a kidn of AI, but still people started saying that you don't need intelligence to win go - as long as you are a machine.

Now people started to make up shit about how GPT is just generating text and that's not intelligent (some people, obviously ignorant laypeople, even say that it's just copy pasting text together and other nonsense). Despite that the freaking thing passes high level exams aimed at people. (Of course, you can say that it's still not a sign of intelligence, because the exams do not measure that, we know people are more or less intelligent, the exam measures knowledge, but the amazing thing here is not the knowledge part but being able to answer the questions aimed at people.)
This worked well for the one sample query I tried. Running unlimited GPT-4 API calls (plus search API calls maybe?) for people sounds expensive.

What is your monetization strategy for this tool?
Probably meant "IoT cameras".

Though apparently the "Internet of Cows" is something.
Whaaaaa. How? I need to check again.
> it means that bitcoin is ultimately not, as is often claimed, protected by mathematics or physics or even economics, but rather by the social cohesion, cooperation, and (dare I say it?) trustworthiness of the mining community

This isn't a dig. Bitcoin's value does come from the community and authority of the chain.

If it were just math, you could fork Bitcoin and have a competing currency that had the exact same code as Bitcoin. It wouldn't have any value because miners, exchanges, and users wouldn't believe it did. They believe in Bitcoin because it's been around a long time (it's Lindy) and the community around it has proven very resilient to all sorts of different kinds of attacks over the years.
Immense amounts. Christian monasticism in particular was responsible for the loss of the vast majority of classical texts in the late roman and early medieval periods. It was only by the ~12th century that the image of the "wisdom-loving monk copying the classics" truly existed, in the almost a millennium prior they were almost always zealots bent on destruction of non-christian heritage.
You’re confusing the football program for the athletic program as a whole. If you scroll down in the link I posted you’ll see every other athletic program at UCLA is indeed running at a significant loss. Football is the only profitable one.

With respect to the brain damage, he spent much longer in the professional setting than college, it’s more likely the damage came from there. I don’t think colleges should be in the business of restricting what students should be allowed to explore based on the possibility they might choose a career where brain damage may occur. And if they did, Engineering should be the first to go. Just think of all the brain damage resulting from professionals engineers of the military industrial complex!
Under .NET's async await model, switching also generally only occurs when blocking IO is initiated (or blocking on a timer, etc). You cf course add your own yield points, but it is not frequently necessary. That is mostly limited to CPU/memory bound operations, as any IO bound operations would have the potential to yield.

However, something important to remember is that UI frameworks generally require most or all UI interaction to occur on one logical thread. This is because making all the UI code safe for calling from multiple threads would require tons of work, and likely require one massive lock that serializes most ui compontent method calls, or tons of smaller locks. And that is just for the minimum of safety. UI work has tons of implicit state.

User level logic would also likely need additional locking, since even if each method call to a control is thread safe, if you want to perform some kind of conditional action that does not already have some dedicated method, that would pose a problem without some form of synchronization code.

One advantage of the async-await approach in UI scenarios (where continuations always get run on the UI Thread) is that you know that between two awaits, no other code will be running on the UI thread, so can avoid synchronization code. You know if you read a value from a control and then conditional call a method on it, you don't need to worry about racing with another thread. Now whenever an "await" occurs, potentially arbitrary other UI code may have run in the interim, so you may need to reverify the state of things. But this is still much simpler to handle than possibly being preempted at any time, or having another thread literally changing things in parallel.

Green thread based approaches like Virtual Threads do avoid much of the complexity of async-await, but they often do lose those sorts of advantages. Even if the green thread approach has guarantees about the yield points (e.g. only has cooperative yields which only occur when certain specific methods are called), you still lose the ability to locally reason about where those yield points may occur, since any function/method call could potentially call one of those yielding functions, or call something that calls one of them, etc. The only way to regain that info is to "color" the functions again, which was the whole thing peple are trying to avoid with green threads in the first place.
There is still progress to be made in boosting public awareness about the unique harm derived from AI-generated propaganda. For example, several mainstream news outlets circulated the fake photos of Trump without overlaying a watermark of any kind to mitigate the potential harm that arises from the images being amplified without context – the threats these technologies pose is orders-of-magnitude greater in areas with less robust information spaces. In different information environments, such as those devoid of confidence in institutions, false evidence could have lasting repercussions before being disproven or even questioned.

How is confidence in institutions going to be helpful? There is nobody above the temptation to abuse this power. The lesson from all "trusted" institutions over recent years should be there are no trusted institutions.

AI is going to lead in societal unexpected consequences. Much of those I've elaborated in more detail here - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
I think what you're advocating for is getting rid of automatic dynamic loading, which is certainly a take.

> go pure ELF64 (no main())

What does "pure" ELF64 even mean? No dependency on libc?

ELF is just an object file format. It doesn't imply anything about how the loader behaves or what features an ELF loader must have, or how that object relates to other ELF objects.
> there may be something up with your situation besides the smoke alarms themselves

Completely agree and it’s very frustrating. My guess is humidity, as hot nights seem to be when they go off.
I don't think AI is bringing anything that is not on the table in terms of the basic structure of propaganda. Seeing 10% of the specific propaganda you see on the internet in numbers of 10s of news, and seeing it on 100s but still at 10% doesn't really change something. The means of production is evolving fast. I would agree to that. But there is always one secret sauce that we usually don't produce under competition that gives propaganda an edge. Think about the feeling of sincerity between traditional and social media. Nobody was sure 360p videos, 140 character tweets, etc. would replace the traditional media. People found sincere feelings combined with quick dopamine in it. Same thing here, it's not the means to an end that brings the real change. Although it is catalyzing a substantial change for sure.
This article is the perfect intersection of cryptography theory, cryptography practice, and software archeology. Great work!
IBM Simon was the first in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon

I had a Sony Ericsson p900 a few years before the iPhone, it had a small keyboard you’d usually flip out of the way to get a full screen touch display: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P900
You will never, ever see a mainstream western news org demonize the US the way they do to Russia and China routinely.

Are they the exact same? No, but they're not so different when you zoom out. You don't need explicit censorship when you can manufacture consent at the hiring and promotion stages.
I have a TV, but only because the previous owner left it attached to the wall. It's easier to not take down than it is to take down and donate. I've never turned it on.
> The very definition of truthy. Sounds good, even without a shred of evidence to back it up.

This is comical. It's not even a real dispute to assert most truck owners don't use any of the truck functions. Owning a truck in the US is more of a status symbol than anything.

> I guess. The home cook might be inclined to buy an absurdly priced knife. The pro and competent home cooks both will reach for a basic Victorinox knife for everyday use.

You unintentionally make my point again.

> Most work trucks are driven around town. There's a niche for people who travel hundreds of miles in a day, but it's not the most common use case at all.

For a work truck, loaded with gear and whatever in the back, the Lightning is objectively a poor choice. It's range is awful, and no working truck is going to acceptably sit at the local Walmart for 3 hours charging mid-day either.

The Lightning is for a very particular type of truck buyer - the ones that don't actually need a truck but want a truck.

There's nothing wrong with that... but recognizing there's different types of buyers and products in the market should not be controversial.
He... he really thought that he was buying reality, I guess?
It does mean it's inaccurate because state affiliated is already a specific term to describe editorial control. I don't know how else to put it to you, maybe an example.

You can publish a podcast or article or whatever on NPR right now about how much you hate the current administration and want them replaced. You cannot do that with state affiliated media, if CGTN tomorrow did the same, the state has the direct ability to take action against that by firing people, changing management, altering funding, etc. That's if they even get past initial filters!

To argue that "state affiliation" is meaningless by handwaving it as "anyone providing money to a media org has some amount of editorial control" is bad faith.
I'm a principal engineer in a consultancy and can fully associate with this viewpoint.

The org wide work but not org wide alignment rings very true and it occupies much of my free work time trying to solve.
Eliminating the root causes of crime is a noble goal. Of course you can treat both the root cause and the symptoms, but if you want to get at the root cause, you have to know what the root cause is.

Of course nothing complex has a single root cause. The main one I'm seeing though is extremely addictive drugs, specifically Meth and Fentanyl. A certain percentage of people, if they try these drugs, will become hopelessly addicted until they are living on the street stealing to buy more drugs. SF seems unwilling to do anything to disrupt this cycle.
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And so what that it's implausible and quite possible unattainable as well? We may never get there, but getting there was never the point - the point is to be better than we were yesterday, and the day before, and so on.

Our present is equally implausible.
If you call being Western "rich minority", which is technically true, sure.

I grew up poor in the UK. Poor people in the UK generally have houses and cars unless they're in big cities.

The majority of the people in the society I live in drive cars, live in houses and eat meat.

I could choose to do without these things. I don't because like, I don't need to.

Climate change will not be solved by me moving into a tiny flat. It will be solved by the UK figuring out how not to use natural gas to heat my house.

In 40 years my kids will likely own houses and drive cars too. Unless they choose not to. I'd love them regardless, but would be a bit upset if they were to turn out to be far-left extremists.
Given what I know of battery technology that seems like a plausible requirement. Why wouldn’t the phone and charger communicate?
Do you have data to back up the statement “many people use it quite a bit” (where it refers to VR)?
> I have met researchers of AI at credible universities who believe this kind of thing, completely oblivious to how ChatGPT or other models actually work.

Either they are not AI researchers or you can't evaluate them, because it is impossible they don't know how GPT works if they work in AI.

GPT works better when it runs in a loop, as an agent, and when it has tools. Maybe this is what triggered the enthusiasm.
What is strange about that?
I didn't assume that you wanted to have a conversation with religious people; you said so and I believed you.

>If you don't call out the hypocrites, how would they ever know they are wrong?

If you're not actually trying to convince them they're wrong, you can't use that to justify uncivility.

I get that being polite is less important than preventing someone from leveraging the government to restrict others' freedoms. But if everyone defects from social norms, we'll be in the exact same place on those issues while being collectively worse off.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=Greed+is+good!+Greed+works!

Edit: Quoted from memory of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_(1987_film)
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> take a short position on a portfolio of financial stocks before launching the attack

This is subject to detection and reversal. FX, credit and rates, on the other hand, could be massively exploited in a risk-on trade.
Not when all their followers were gained the first week.

Please show me the celebrity/business/politician with even a quarter as many retweets or likes as their follower count.

It doesn't happen. It's an open secret they all buy their followers. They call it 'growth hacking' or 'fake it till you make it'- I call it bullshit.

There are firms that do nothing but increase follower count.

Simply do an internet search for 'where to buy twitter followers'. It's pretty sad its literally that simple.
Yeah, after reading a few dozen comments on some papers I completely agree... the lack of substance is so clear and consistent it's highly suspicious.

The concept is interesting enough, but uh. If they're filling it with bot comments to make it look less empty to passers-by, they're optimizing for catching people not paying attention, while apparently targeting people interested in deep attention (who will immediately turn away from this).
Honestly curious, what are the companies generating (or close to/on track) these levels of revenue (which they would have otherwise)?
Depends on your needs. The raspberry pi may have poor stock right now, but when available they are cheap, low power, and have excellent documentation. I’m designing an open source autonomous farming robot and we’ve been using the Raspberry Pi CM4 as the main computer on the motherboard for a while now. It’s perfect for us. I feel like x86 would be a mess. The I/O on the CM4 is extremely important to us, and on the custom motherboard I designed we’re using every available pin of the CM4 to communicate to serial, SPI, I2C, and GPIO peripherals on the motherboard.

> Locking yourself into a very specific chip platform of a single manufacturer, just for running linux and a web server

Ah, yeah, I am very much not doing this and I’m surprised you didn’t start your comment with this stipulation. I use raspberry pi for robotics where the standardized documentation and abundant I/O are extremely helpful.
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The next question is m1 or m2, and the impact of the various number of gpu units between pro, max, ultra skews. I'm really tempted to buy a "refurbished m1 studio" with 128gb because I think the ram is the key. Have not seen any benchmarks with diff # of gpus/aka diff skews.
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I guess I don't often google things that have zero bearing on my life. I'm not even sure if the Metaverse exists, or is it some kind of proposal? I keep waiting around for it to matter enough that I have no choice but to know something about it (as has happened with a dozen other technologies since the metaverse was announced, with no special effort on my part).
Can you come up with a question that definitely isn't answered on social media while you are in a high pressure situation?
> short the coin

Unacceptable counterparty risk and scale limits.
That’s much longer and raises more questions (what is large and small, does this gradually or discretely appear.)
One of my favorite Civ VI quotes:

> "I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical." - Arthur C Clarke
What you're thinking of is called Nationalization, and they do not like it here.
My various smart TVs have all have a Picture Off function. It's a menu button and third down from the top on the current Sony TV. I suspect this feature is far more widely distributed than anyone realizes, and this app is certainly a valid response to that.

Samsung - All Settings, General, Accessibility, then Picture Off; or Bixby "Picture Off On" (heh).

Sony - Remote button Quick Settings (gear), then Picture Off.

Vizio - Remote menu button, Timers, then Blank Screen.

LG - Full settings, Energy saving, then Turn screen off (I think?); or voice command "Turn screen off".

etc. But these are all atrociously unusable. I would say I don't even know what they were thinking, except I'm certain it's "if we give people a button to turn off the screen, they'll call tech support after they turn off the screen" — which, having worked in tech support, is completely valid.

It'd be nice if the HDMI CEC folks would add a command "turn screen off but maintain audio playback/passthrough", but as of HDMI CEC 1.4b, they assume that all streams are video, and so provide (and mandate) the Display On commands when a source is active.
There is a difference between consciousness and free will, though. There may be no such thing as free will and it's all a trick to us, but I mean, there's still a "me" here that experiences things. I can't be sure there's a "you" there, since your consciousness is entirely outside of anything I can perceive, but I can _assume_ it, since it makes sense that we share so much, we'd share that property, too.

It gets really tricky with machines. We share _nothing_ with them, but what about when they start sharing properties with us that we associate with consciousness? I don't have any good answers for that.
I agree with your perception. There are many within the US that simply have a different window of what they find to be acceptable sources, topics, and opinions to entertain. The word 'balanced' implies a sort of central tendency, which can vary depending on what someone finds worthy of consideration.
This was ridiculous but she did successfully appeal her conviction.
Statistically speaking - people who have brilliant innovative ideas that result in successful businesses are exceedingly rare and those ideas often come from experiences outside of the main line of work by combining ideas from disparate disciplines to have a true breakthrough. We as a society really need to disabuse ourselves of the idea that those ideas are likely to cluster on a small set of individuals that continue to crank them out. We've developed such an extreme cult of personality around the rich and it's pretty baffling to see when, if you actually sit down to talk to people - we're all pretty brilliant.

Companies that get big and then score repeated out of the park hits do so by attracting and nurturing talent[1] - they don't do so by having one brilliant star that shines eternal.

1. And that is a really good and honestly rare talent in the modern marketplace - it can be hard to let creativity thrive.
Wow.

> The Big Bud 747 weighs in at 135,000 pounds fully ballasted and its 1,000-gallon fuel tank topped off.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=E...

That's a >$3,200 fill-up (give or take volume pricing, with your own larger container). And I thought driving a class A motorhome with a 150 gallon tank hurt to fill up!
I mostly agree with this -- the converged value will be ~1% of the initial hype. 1% of hype is still massive.

After the noise has calmed, I feel generative AI, at its core, will enhance information search and summarization; lookup and compression. That itself will have massive value. It will differentiate roles that require net new thinking from those that require regurgitation.
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How much prison time does a person "deserve" for publicly injecting themselves with a chemical? How many more jails or prisons should we build to hold them? How much prison time do they "deserve" for doing it again? What percentage of the unhoused population should we continuously churn through the system? For the criminal justice system to contain this, I suspect you would have to create a large internment system which would something like double the size of U.S. incarceration.

As I see it, the system is not failing for a lack of cruelty. But because there is a sizable population who have nothing left to lose.