skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the issue from the consumer point of view. For most people, it's too expensive to subscribe to more than a few (like less than 5) writers on Substack, and that excludes the newsletters that have the really high-expertised content (which tend to be quite expensive on a standalone basis, as one would expect). This makes sense for the writers, but as a consumer, it's very limited. I personally only read a few Substacks because I don't want to spend the money to subscribe to more than a few of them, given other subscription costs already being incurred elsewhere. No doubt many other potential readers are in a similar position.
Strongly agree, but the challenge is that it is not a hard and fast distinction within a single product/app. Take Snapchat for example (popular with the under 18 crowd). It is both a messaging tool to communicate with friends (great) and it also has a ton of other doom scroll/UGC feed services. I'm not sure what the break down in time and profits for the two services are, but I suspect that they make good money from the doom scroll stuff so it is hard for their executive leadership to be ethical on this issue.
I would personally be very supportive if the Government would take measures to protect people under 18 from feeds without restricting access to messaging. Such a law will require a bit of subtlety in how it works.
I'm always surprised by how often advice from extremely successful people tends to repeat itself, which tells me that there really is no "secret" to making it and living a great life that I don't already know.
There's also the projectively extended definition, where positive and negative infinity are defined to be the same thing. It has some nice properties like division by zero is defined, but you lose total ordering of course. In a way that's a good thing though because you don't have to worry about how "big" an infinity is: it's just a symbol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectively_extended_real_lin...
I don't know what I'm talking about, but ...
Has Musk actually paid all the money for his essentially (self) forced purchase? Is there additional that he'll be on the hook for?

From the outside, it sure looks like he's trying to destroy his own company. Which makes no sense, unless he can thereby profit or at least avoid some obligations.
Entrapment, and a sense that there is no path to a bright future. Both socially and economically.
Not road legal. Youd need the manufacturer to do all that paperwork+engineering.

People have imported cheap Chinese evs for farm or questionably legal neighborhood ev usage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...

* Offering an API is expensive, third party app users understandably cause a lot of server traffic

...

* To this end, Reddit is moving to a paid API model for apps. The goal is not to make this inherently a big profit center, but to cover both the costs of usage, as well as the opportunity costs of users not using the official app (lost ad viewing, etc.)

* They spoke to this being a more equitable API arrangement, where Reddit doesn't absorb the cost of third party app usage, and as such could have a more equitable footing with the first party app and not favoring one versus the other as as Reddit would no longer be losing money by having users use third party apps

* The API cost will be usage based, not a flat fee, and will not require Reddit Premium for users to use it, nor will it have ads in the feed. Goal is to be reasonable with pricing, not prohibitively expensive.

* Free usage of the API for apps like Apollo is not something they will offer, and thus me offering free usage of the app will likely be very difficult, Apollo will almost certainly have to move to an Apollo Ultra only (AKA subscription) model

...
Ask HN: Why is creating originals important for Apple TV+ but not Apple Music?
What's different about the two industries that makes creating originals important in one but not the other?
To be fair, the 737 NG fiasco that preceded it isn't well known and it's unknowable how many excess deaths it caused or will cause because there are planes flying around with substandard structural components.

https://christinenegroni.com/boeing-workers-warn-of-737-ng-s...
They present it as an article about transformers in general, not ones using Flash Attention. Anyway maybe they're presenting per token memory requirement instead of the requirement for the entire sequence at once.
All: this thread turned into a hellish flamewar and I've belatedly banned 8 (!) accounts who were doing it particularly badly. Please understand that if you break the site guidelines like that, we're going to seriously consider banning you—especially if you've made a habit of it or we've warned you before. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. I didn't look at which side any of these accounts were arguing for or against, because it doesn't matter and we don't care. Commenters here need to follow the site guidelines regardless of what their beliefs are, how right they are or feel they are, or how wrong others are or they feel they are.
Google employees label AI chatbot Bard ‘worse than useless’
> striving to meet their emissions-reduction goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. This is part of the reason Qantas has invested heavily in kick-starting Australia’s sustainable aviation fuel industry.

This is one of the most destructive frauds otherwise intelligent people are suckered into. It's based on the idiotic notion that a C atom from a biofuel results in "green" CO2 emissions.

The CO2 emitted is exactly the same, and in the same amounts.

Biofuels are destructive in that they cost double, and if done in mass quantity will require an enormous amount of agricultural land to produce.
Oh 4chan
That doesn't explain why rationals and reals are different. Rationals are a countable subset of the reals, to prove that you need to produce a method of enumerating them, not just say "they're a subset so they're smaller."

Lots of subsets of the reals are uncountable, most notably if the rationals are countable and you split the reals into rationals and irrationals, the irrationals have to be uncountable. Otherwise you'd be forced to say that the union of two countable sets could be uncountable, which isn't true (if you have two countable sets you can automatically produce an enumeration of the union).
A Massachusetts Town Leads a Way Out of the Housing Crisis
Why Does http://beclever.com redirect to Gmail?
Does anyone know the backstory?
Do you believe that a murder weapon is off limits if you get home before the police catches you? (It's a rethorical question)

The way I read this article, and it's tricky because the Daily Mail is expert at spinning things their way, is that they are proposing that any knives the police does not like might be seized and destroyed if your home is searched.

Found the actual proposal:

"Proposal 2: Power to seize and retain/destroy certain bladed articles held in private if the police are in private property lawfully and they have a reasonable belief that they will be used in serious crime." [1]

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/machetes-and-oth...
define "too late" ?
All the timescales are short for me: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades.

I am not joking. Now going to the gym is 'easier' vs 20 years ago, because an hour at the gym doesn't seem like much time.
The original 737s by Boeing were all-American masterpieces that had pretty great safety records considering the sheer number of miles flown and delivered airframes.

The 737-MAX, courtesy of Post McDonnel Douglas-Boeing merger [0], with code written by offshored 9$/h Indian coders was a complete disaster.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...
I would think that’s a profoundly intrusive way to treat 330 million citizens of a liberal democracy against whom you have discovered no reasonable suspicion and developed no probable cause. We have a fourth amendment for a reason and it’s to prevent evil tyrants from oppressing us.

Run whatever you want on your phone but this is a hard pass from me.
It's possible that long-term you are not constrained by a lack of submissions but instead by a lack of actual AI incidents, how would you tell the difference? Encouraging people to go on a hunt for borderline AI-related "incidents" to submit seems like a bad idea.
>the increased cost of that chip that even with 2 additional CPU cores doesn't quite beat the Pi 4

The 2 additional CPU cores throw me off. I don't know what chip you're talking about there.

>Not just because RISC-V's CPU is still not all there (but could be in another generation or two),

If you're thinking performance, Ventana's Veyron should be available in 2023H2 in server form.

While we don't know how competitive that will be, there's also Tenstorrent Ascalon (Jim Keller's team). That's releasing next year (2024), with performance competitive with (projected) Zen5.

There's no gap left to close at that point.

Of course, if the target is just a "Pi 4", the LM4A that's releasing the present month does already significantly outperform it.

Whereas the already available VisionFive2 (JH7110 SoC) lands somewhere between Raspberry Pi 3b+ and 4b CPU performance, with a GPU that's some 4x the throughput, and much faster RAM and I/O.

>The Raspberry Pi 4 fixed that problem in an unannounced hardware revision years ago. Revision 1.2 in 2020.

AIUI, what they fixed is a spec violation. They still require 5v at very high current.

This is e.g. in contrast to the VisionFive2, which will take any usb-pd phone charger and will negotiate 12v, yet will also work with one of these 5v rpi supplies.

>Also, be careful what you wish for. RISC-V, despite all the hype, is just an instruction set.

A high-quality RISC ISA you don't need to pay a license to use, and which has put serious efforts in having high-quality boot and platform specs in place before significant hardware availability.

>AKA 3 times as expensive as they need to be. Not good enough.

I get the feeling you have not looked at availability and pricing of Raspberry Pi products recently.

Where recently is quite generous.
I’ve recently downloading diffusion bee to my Mac for image generation with stable diffusion.

Excited for when I can do the same with the StableLM.
If we weren't pulling oil out of the ground from the sea floor then my old fishing haunts would be available to me today and people wouldn't be worried about stepping into BP-branded tar balls that routinely roll up onto the beaches. There's more to climate change than wind, solar, and tesla.
How did you run the benchmarking, zero-shot or few-shot? I think a fair comparison would be Llama-7B which got an average ~35% for 5-shot.
Parent is making the same point you are. It’s a surprise to the intermediate mathematician when the last bullet point turns out to be true.
Another perspective, wouldn’t it be reasonable to believe that the faster a technology is developed, the faster it will reach its theoretical upper limit of improvement (assuming there is one)?

To use your comparison as an example, mainframes took 40ish years to be replaced by personal computing and distributed systems. Whereas smartphones reached modern parity in 8-10 years since the original iPhone and have made more or less incremental changes since.

Granted those are hardware changes and this is software but I believe the point still stands.
Capitalism doesn't ask that question.
For city use sure, otherwise looks like a death-trap when compared with standard US vehicle sizes and mass...
This reminds me of https://pointerpointer.com/ which finds pictures with the right pointer instead of quotes with the right time.
IANAP, but a lot of the root cause analysis around the 737 max crashes was that they were sufficiently different and so should have required re-certification of pilots before being allowed to fly them. Due to the costs involved, Boeing made the ultimately fatal mistake of minimising these changes to airlines so that pilots didnt know what they were flying (insofar as some of the subsystems).
We are beyond fucked in terms of any effort to build local-first software.

Notably:

1. product people and interaction designers don't understand or care about the difference, which isn't strictly their fault, because

2. users don't understand (heck some even want a team of engineers making sure the DB doesn't drop their writes all day every day) and only care when the software can reasonably be used offline anyway, which means

3. standards, protocols, and platforms have baked in dependence on servers (oauth, tls, ip, mobile device native apis, the goddamned entire browser, etc.) for example, you can't do anything on iOS in the background unless you have a server sending the devices silent push notifications every 5 seconds ... also

4. true offline with anything more than 1 client is a distributed system and instantly hard, so

5. the entire tech community is not trained to build offline applications, we're trained to glue react UIs onto CRUD backends because thats how you 10x your SAAS revenue in valuation over 3 years.

I am lucky enough to have worked on a few products where we did have to care about offline and it still ended up being relegated to the realm of "obscure edge case", for all intents and purposes. So you end up continually justifying why you're spending resources on supporting these weirdos who don't have reliable internet connections.

Sigh.

/rant

These days, I do honestly think that some things just need to be online. The internet is meant to be a globally addressable network. You're not supposed to have these little islands of accidentally private because-we-ran-out-of-addresses-and-hacked-the-shit-out-of-the-protocol-(NAT) networks. You're not supposed to be afraid of someone sending port 22 on your laptop an ssh handshake because the crypto is good. The whole IP world is supposed to be zero trust. We dropped IPv6 scopes because they were a crazy idea for a different world where we all ran federated networks and whatever.

The real point of "local first" in our modern world is about data ownership. If we can do anything as a community to help move the needle and get to a better place, it's building applications where clients truly own the data and the server just provides convenience and redundancy. Give clients cryptographically strong identities. Use webauthn. Sign requests. Trust users with their own data. Help users be sovereign and we solve lots of privacy and centralization issues all at once.

/soapbox
As my understanding goes, Moon is very big and meteors are very small and aim/crash rarely. You can look at its surface and assume there is activity all the time but because of lack of atmosphere anything that touches the surface leaves footprints for thousands of years. Armstrong footprint is still there.
That only explains the poor mental health of terrible people with shitty beliefs though. What about people with parents who managed to socialize them well but yet are horribly depressed due to the environment being in shambles? The environment has always been mistreated by those who make more money from that mistreatment, from way before the Internet was a smidge of an idea.
To reply to the dead sibling comment:

Depositing a copy of a book to the LoC is already the (dated) default behavior for hard-copy published text. Even if it's not strictly required, it mostly works.

But as I said, perhaps you get a base 12 years protection just by publishing (the status quo, but shorter base term), and only register the source/ archive if protection beyond that is financially worthwhile.

DRM content that wants DMCA type protection (hopefully a more reasonably thought out protection) requires a single tested key in escrow per protected work, or doesn't get any circumvention or takedown protection.

The exact mechanisms and terms would need to be tweaked by format and maybe even market, but the idea is to create underlying aligned incentives, without unduly burdening casual creators who might not wish to opt-in.
I think they’ve just wanted to remain a distributor and licensor of music instead of trying to compete with record labels that could, then, refuse to license them more music for Apple Music.
> which Boeing doesn’t have, like the A220

What's hilarious is Boeing they almost killed the project.

Airbus was able to snag it for next to nothing, while Canadians were supposedly "hard at work" negotiating for NAFTA.
Capturing comets to cool the earth. Triggering volcanic eruptions to heat the earth
m4 is like that. Lots of templating languages are too. Code generation is useful and roughly what you end up with if the language isn't expressive enough, e.g. C or go. Is yours doing anything different to those?

What the lisp approach gives you is the macro has the parsed representation of the program available to inspect and manipulate. It doesn't have to expand to some fixed text, it can expand into different things based on the context of the call site.

Various languages have decided that syntactically distinguishing macros from functions is a good idea. Maybe the function is foo and a macro would be $foo. For what it's worth I think that's wrong-headed, and the proper fix is to have 'foo' represent some transform on its arguments, where it doesn't matter to the caller whether that is by macro or by function, but it's certainly popular.
It's the smoke from the annual forest fires of late summer and early fall throughout the West Coast. That smoke makes for really high individual 24-hour readings, plus ends up skewing the annual averages as well.
RadVac in the Boston area had an intranasal vaccine out by June of 2020. Not FDA approved/authorized, but quite a few people took it early on with little adverse consequences. About 6 months earlier than the first FDA authorized vaccines became available.

https://radvac.org/vaccine/
Pain? Like from them being too small or causing you to fall over or something?

I’ve used them, they’re fine. IIRC quite large. I don’t remember them being amazing, so the water pressure was probably just at the ‘acceptable’ level.

They have the usual drawbacks of shared showers - water and dirt creeping into the dry areas because people aren’t careful - so if I were designing a new luxury sleeping train car I’d try to get one per cabin, or maybe one per pair of cabins.
Seattle built a new terminal to accommodate the big jets for $1 billion. After completion, they discovered the jets won't fit.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/sea-t...
The charge that causes the issue can also be used to fix it

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/1...

It would be pretty sweet to have a decent scope on the far side of the moon.
When I was mentioning most people have only see one pre-1939 film, I was specifically thinking of Snow White.

While I do not deny that movies of that era are often highly influential on later films, they do not lend themselves to modern watchability, because of the technical limitations of the medium at the time. Snow White being a notable exception because it was the literal first of its kind, and Disney has successfully restored and rereleased it decade after decade.

Largely I'm a believer that the merits of the film itself will lead to its preservation and often restoration and that preservation just for the sake of preservation isn't all that valuable a use of a limited resource.
As someone who drinks a ton of whole milk (skimmed milk is for nancies), this sounds a bit off.

A glass of milk is the same serving size whether it's skimmed or whole milk. The latter has the same sugar and more fat.

Yoghurts seem to be more variable.
I've kept my wife (and therefore kids) in something else all the years I've been driving.

At least I'm enjoying myself by myself. If I have to push the car into a ditch and Uber, I will.
The SEC Comes for Bittrex Also First Republic, Schwab and Fox News
SEC Charges Investment Adviser Betterment for Misstatements
https://archive.is/FzvPX
> Major phone OS makers (all, what, 2 of them?) need to allow you to have at least 2 authentication paths - one when you are in a physically secure location, and one when your phone could be snooped or stolen. It's a fundamental need for phones.

I feel like this is being done with the hierarchy of how biometric unlocks work on the phones. Your most common logins can be biometric and are generally considered things that cannot be snooped or stolen though they may be coerced.

At least on iOS, it is generally easily possible to make sure that you only ever use biometric unlocks in public spaces and spaces you are worried about being snooped (spaces outside of your home).

It's also possible to be afraid of coercion and temporarily disable biometrics with a quick button press.

Presuming of course that you trust the biometric unlocks in the first place. But if you trust them, then that definitely gives you two authentication paths, one of which is harder to snoop/steal than the other.
There are many comments saying that one infinity can be larger than another because a bijective mapping can't be formed, but why does the presence of a mapping imply anything about the "size" of an infinity? For any infinite set, you could select unique values out of them indefinitely.

From my uninformed perspective, this seems like a co-opting of the word "size" to mean something different than its typical usage.
Please do elaborate your thoughts on immigration. We're listening.
"Alignment" is just a euphemism for "agrees with me", though. Humans aren't even aligned with each other. Demanding that AI models be "aligned" is essentially a demand that AI only be produced which agrees with your priors.
fun fact, this saturday is Sam's birthday
thx i will try it
5-shot prompting.
ah, yes. I want someone else to read all my docs in the name of AI.
Thank you, but no.
> "A lot of the time we're using the techniques to build aircraft carriers when what we really need is a bicycle: something simple, something personal, something that can take you where you need to go and that responds to you alone (and is a heck of a lot easier to maintain and operate)."

sounds like

"Linux is a semi-truck with 20 gears to operate. Windows is more like a car. TempleOS is a motorbike. If you lean over too far, you'll fall off. Don't do that."
https://flightsoftware.org/img/spacecraft.51afe3c2.jpg
This is how the world ends. By AI calling Cthulhu unintentionally.
Apple takes issue with it.
> Much of it wasnt meant to be relevant for decades

That doesn't matter though. I find silent movies interesting simply because of their age. It's a window into how people lived back then. Compare what's in the homes of the "average person" in a silent film to what you see in one of today's movies.
This is in response to Elon Musk suing Microsoft and OpenAI for using tweets to train GPT. There are already precedents, such as the Authors Guild vs. Google Books, where it was deemed fair use to use copyrighted works to build a searchable database.

Musk's objective is not to win the lawsuit, though. It is to create as many barriers and troubles for AI companies as possible so that he can catch up with his own technology
The article doesn't say that Ben-Hur was lost. It says that another movie, The Devil Dancer, by the same director was lost.
Quad/Tri jets made great sense when twin engine planes were limited by ETOPS regulations. [1] A 3+ engine jet could fly routes that twin engine planes could not, which meant the 3+ engine lower fuel economy wasn't a big deal. When twin engine jets could fly across the large bodies of water on routes previously served by quad/tri jets, the superior fuel economy of twin engine planes became a competitive advantage. 747s, a340s, and similar planes simply couldn't compete in routes efficiently served by twin engine planes. The a380 is a great plane for an airline like Emirates which primarily serves Dubai because there is a lot of tourism demand for long haul travel on a jet w/ huge passenger capacity. If you can keep an a380 full, it's a great plane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS