skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parental neglect is a real problem, I have no doubt.

However.

13 million hungry children are 13 million hungry children. A government can't just blame their parents and avoid any responsibility; they still gotta feed them.

You don't get to just ignore the problem by pointing at all the food wasted in America either - the 13 million kids are still hungry.

Those children won't learn properly, they won't feel safe, they'll have lifelong problems. We'll all have problems because of their problems.

We'll end up paying for it as a society, in 13 million ways; far more than it would cost to just _feed them_.

And the point - if you remember - is the inequality of it all. There are neglectful wealthy parents, just as there are neglectful poor parents - but only the poor kids are going to school hungry. In a country of such incredible wealth!

If we spent as much money feeding the hungry as we did on interest alone for the "war on terror", we'd have the whole planet fed 7 times over. The money is there - but it's dangerously unequally distributed.
Federal officials told states to curb Colorado River use. How will it affect CA?
Then should there be a right to repair for software that is (embedded on) a medical device?
Ah, I thought he meant the text. I didn't even see those images.
> How many windows machines were infected in the early 2000's?

Yeah, that's a very bad analogy, it wasn't about side loading, even assuming that MS was able to vet every application out there, which nobody was technologically or had the resources to or wanted to, the infrastructure wasn't there, the OS security was worse than today and based on different assumptions entirely, the responsibility is still in the hands of the user, and, most of all, with good reason users pushed back on the all TPM/Trusted Computing thing.

So they did not want that feature and voted with their money, until they could not vote anymore, because smartphone ruined it for everyone except Google and Apple.

edit:

besides (obviously) RMS [1] being right and opposing to TC/TPM, this BBC article from 2005 [2] summarizes what even users there were not particularly tech savy thought about the topic

A couple of significant quotes

computing base is also used to make digital rights management systems more secure, this will give content providers a lot more control over what we can do with music, movies and books that we have bought from them

We need to ensure that trusted computing remains under the control of the users and is not used to take away the freedoms we enjoy today

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4360793.stm
And "woke" originally was used in a positive sense, but does it matter? Lots of terms change their meaning or get adopted because they are useful. Meritocracy is a useful shorthand for a system in which individual skill, effort and achievement are what matters for outcomes. If we didn't use that word we'd need another but what would it be?
I feel like minikanren matches pretty closely to what I wrote about regex and sql? The execution model really isn’t visible from the surface syntax.

And while you probably don’t embed it as a string, you do basically have a shim layer between the host language and the natural ways of expressing a logic program.

My point is something like “if you’re doing something like SQL or regex or minikanren, you have a claim to implementing your own language, but the normal case is just another API.”

There is a reason we’re talking about Oleg! He’s really unusual (in a good way).
Very cool and thanks for sharing. From practice and hearsay I had reason to expect that resonance at ~900MHz from standard FR4 stackup, but seeing it on the graph really clarifies.
I'm in pretty much the same boat re: calculus, but I think a lot of it has to do with problems just like this. For me, early in my experience with calculus I always looked for the "graph it out"/non-calculus solution. So problems like water leaking out of a bucket, rocket acceleration, and other integrals where the underlying process is in some way linear always fell to non-calculus-based analysis. And thus when I got to problems where actual calculus was required, my non-grounding in the basics pushed me toward rote memorization which (of course) didn't stick over years of non-utilization.
So many examples of bad definitions: German[1] electron charge[2] music notation[3]! But in the end, I think we have to largely give up the struggle against bad notation, of which spelling is just a part. If it really bothers us we can create our own notations and methods to translate between the old and new, but then you get splitting and fracturing. You can't play together. But if you invent such a notation, and make something beautiful with it, well, then you have a chance at fixing something.

1 - Don't get me started with German grammar, especially the way prepositions conjugate with the (arbitrary) gender of the noun, and the various types of prepositions reuse the same conjugations. It's clearly a language designed to detect foreign speakers and berate them.

2 - Why is electron charge negative? How many unnecessary minus signs has this poor choice caused?

3 - Or music notation vs piano keys - mapping keys to notes is needlessly complex, requiring both a flip and a rotation. (By far the best notation would be vertical, with frequency still increasing to the right in both forms - which takes into account right-hand dominance prevalence and musical taste that wants repetitive bass.) How many kids were and are turned off by this notational horror, and don't get into music at all simply because their (quite correct) aesthetics are immediately violated by arcane music notation?

Definitions don't require explanations because they already have the immense power of consensus.
Consensus is rare and precious and if you try to optimize the object, you must fight the entire consensus battle again, and for only marginal gains. Some weirdos (I use this term warmly) get pretty far though, like with tau and 2*pi.
It doesnt work but placebo is strong. If someone thinks it is working, while also learning in other ways, then its likely working.
this paper is not about drugs. Those patents already do have to disclose their formulas.
For that price I rather pay for a proper OS, with at least a 512SSD and hardware not constrained to Web API capabilities.
This is my plan, I'm super excited about this change.

I plan to sideload exactly 0 non-play-store apps except maybe dolphin or similar big-name open source things.

I DO plan to sideload two apps of my own (currently web apps but they suffer for being so, as opposed to being native), and while I know apple has given some ways previously to let you have "private" apps etc, they still require paying a ton of money AND you still have to get them approved by Apple!!

I was sad when I left android solely for the reason of sideloading apps, but given I'd used android for ages and only sideloaded two apps: dolphin and one of my own custom apps that I had stopped developing, I figured it wouldn't be a big deal. But I'm looking forward to this a lot now.
OF is particularly bad when we talk about mental health & moderation because most happens in enclosed spaces and your stalkers are also your customers. OF doesn't really seem to care either.

On PH most texting is public, comments usually have a positive attitude so I assume a lot of moderation is done. I don't think it compares well.

However i see we both share some important values :)
No, support for a war is anything that prolongs the war, no matter which side you're arming.

You're essentially saying "it's not support for the war if I'm (perceiving I am) making sure my team wins". I'm not faulting you for that, it's the most common position, but it is support for war.
We've been teaching kids to read for 200 years so why does anything need to be changed? Invest in more teachers not new fancy methods.
Ya the main problem with US education is lack of funding due to segregation. This should be the headline, not microanalysis of one specific symptom like reading comprehension.

I'm growing more concerned with each passing year that we're so distracted playing whack-a-mole with each of the thousand crises facing us that we've become blind to systems-level thinking.

When I was growing up in the 80s, we were taught that we lived in a meritocracy where anyone could be president someday, for example. Today I see that everyone has equal dignity, meaning that the sum of each individual's talents is the same. But some talents are rewarded more than others. Mainly the ability to generate profit, which has roots in othering, prejudice, maintaining the status quo, tax evasion, lobbying, corruption, but especially cheating.

That's what wokeism is about. Once one sees that it's not about individual talent, but the rigging of the system to prevent any disruption of the power of the status quo, it's impossible to unsee. So a phrase like "tax the rich" (to put an end to generational wealth inequality and heal the division) means to pull the plug on that power structure. But people misinterpret it through their own trauma, get triggered, and project against it as a perceived threat, because even the smallest benefit like one's gender or the color of their skin is conflated with their earning potential, because the system truly rewards injustice.
I'm a professor in a big university in western Europe. Students don't want to be led to thinking of the solution. They want the same exercises that they did during the tutorial, and they want to know in advance how to solve all the exercises. Any attempt to digress from this is met with vitreous eyes.
The article makes an interesting case for the possibility that South Korea's military dictatorship intentionally created low-fertility policies that can't be reversed. But reading the description of what's going on, I can't help be reminded of John B. Calhoun's work on the "behavioral sink" [1], where he basically created a utopia where rats had everything they needed for survival, they multiplied exponentially, but once they reached a certain critical population density, they ceased to be interested in reproduction and instead exhibited a bunch of socially pathological behaviors. Within 3 generations, no further rats were born.

South Korea is a densely populated country, as is Japan (another country often cited as having an aging, low-fertility population). And people tend to move out of dense metropolises like Manhattan or SF to have children. Maybe there's something inborn to humans that causes us to seek space and resources, and if those are not available, to not have kids?

[1] https://vocal.media/geeks/the-true-history-behind-the-secret...
To clarify, it’s not really about the launch pad, it’s about the facilities surrounding it. A flame trench redirects some or much of the exhaust through a channel that safely avoids the surrounding facilities. Lack of one means the exhaust goes out in all directions. But yeah I can’t imagine they haven’t considered this and planned for it, so we’ll see.
There's a potential that someone who's currently using some app without side-loading won't have the opportunity to keep using the app without side-loading as a result of a decision to allow side-loading. That means "this decision doesn't affect you, just keep using apps without side-loading" isn't a valid statement.

You're right that everyone will technically always have the choice not to side-load. Just like everyone technically has the choice to not own a phone in the first place. It's the "it doesn't affect you whatsoever" part I take issue with.
It's pretty easy to predict what would happen in practice if this policy proposal were adopted.

An entire category of bullshit jobs would be created to write "source code" that met the regulatory requirements but had little connection to the actual code deployed in production. This code would largely be derived from the claims, and, like much patent language, be crafted to be as vague and general as possible. Most of this work could be automated by ChatGPT, as no insight is required. Another class of bullshit jobs would be created to interpret and analyze the code, as it's outside the skill set of lawyers and examiners.

Any code published as part of a patent would immediately be anti-open source, as people actually creating things would be strongly discouraged from even looking at it, as doing so would support "willful infringement." The average level of code quality would be such that nobody would want to, anyway.

There's lots that could be done to make the patent system more beneficial to society (including, in my personal opinion, dropping software patents entirely), but I don't think a code requirement would be particularly helpful.
It's entirely possible for a distinction that contrasts a large majority with a small minority, or even an actually-existing totality with a hypothetical set of counterexamples, to be meaningful.
The only thing that Android doesn't do is zero out the advertizing ID unless the user gives explicit permission.

That's an OS thing on iOS though, not a user one.
Teachers can only do so much, it is really hard for them to make up for deficiencies at home. Kids have to learn to learn independently, again, an advantage that kids with a better home life have over those that don't.
If there are rules and they sometimes have exceptions or inconsistencies, that doesn't mean that there aren't any rules.

English is phonetic in that way. Sometimes the phonetics are applied with exception-cases and alternatives.
There is actually some case law about this. The car Elenore from gone in 60 seconds has its rights held by some organization that was going around suing people.

Some US district court ruled that cars could not be copyrighted (although this did reverse a previous decision).

I think the major distinction is that the car isn't actually a character in the film (and the previous decision was because the rights holders disingenuously indicated that the car was a character in the movie and the court didn't double check that this was in fact the case iirc).
I'm also not an expert by any means, but wouldn't this be used for free computation? like a CPU that can compute without consuming any power?

if anyone knows better I would like to know why or why not this is an possibility
OpenAI has been gobbling up Google AI talent for years now. The difference between ChatGPT and Bard is just comical. The part that you seem to be missing is that users will gladly jump ship if something better comes along and it's kind of coming, and people are already jumping ship. Google hit the ceiling, which is awesome, but now, there is nowhere for them to go except back down. They're an AD company fighting against tech companies, they will do everything to protect their cash cow while people continue to innovate and move way past keyword search.
Didn't Open Assistant just announce that they weren't releasing their model weights due to safety concerns? Seems like another "Open" AI initiative.
I was hoping you'd share your thoughts in this thread!

Have you incorporated any embedding model in your search engine?

FWIW, I personally enjoy using marginalia and like its current spartan + fast design.
Has anyone gotten this running in Colab?
Netflix viewers left 'traumatised' by ‘terrifying’ science fiction horror film
Apple would suffer during a default just like the rest of us. Intimidating the majority of voters and businesses is THE point of the debt ceiling stunt.
People confidently stating as fact stuff they know little or nothing about. Ask any competent linguist: English has a phonetic script. (Not a very good one, perhaps, but phonetic nonetheless.)
I don't know what kind it uses, but it's not phonetic, because the graphemes do not represent phonemes, despite your claims.

If English was truly phonetic, to name a few examples again: the pronunciation of "are" would most likely be a prefix of "area", since the graphemes for "are" are present in "area"; "read" and "read" would be read the same, since the graphemes for "read" and "read" are identical; the words "freak", "steak", and "break" would end with the same phonemes, since the graphemes for "eak" suffix are identical... and so on.
Except now it's even worse.

https://purplesec.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Malware-Infe...
It's the OS that ensures privacy, security and sandboxing, not the App Store.
The name certainly is confusing for newcomers...
Ah, sweet. Haven't looked at the Web API specs in a bit, but just remember working with video was a PITA. Thanks.
That's a good point, I realised as I was writing my original comment that I'm probably using very recent definitions of those terms. Historically, 'techno' probably was a more all encompassing term, so it's easy for me to discount all of the historical disagreements based on the current definitions. So, I'm sort of over-simplifying it just by using todays definitions
Are there any good options to get decent APY on Eur or USD deposits in Europe?
Money market account, which is different regulatory structure, but still insured.
Isn’t Goldman Sachs actually handling that money?
Correct, but I don't know if they've extended anything. When you say someone reads at the 12th grade level, it has never meant that they can superficially sound out every word, it means they can understand what the text is trying to say.
Because iAd was designed to preserve user privacy?

>A new report on Advertising Age has revealed what advertisers think of Apple's arrogance when it comes to its mobile advertising platform and its tight grip on user data. This attitude towards its ad business turns off advertisers and makes them turn elsewhere, perhaps other avenues such as Google, Yahoo, or Facebook that make life a lot easier for them.

"One person familiar with the situation exec said Apple's refusal to share data makes it the best-looking girl at the party, forced to wear a bag over her head," the AdAge report read.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/3568/20140222/apple-cares...
As a solo business-owner who will likely start hiring down the road, this thread is inspiring in a bad way.

It's crazy to see all these workers who value my time and my business more than they value themselves. Some guy said he worked 120 hours/week at Peloton, lmao. I'm calling bullshit on that one, but the premise remains - there are a non-trivial number of people willing to invest a lot more time and effort than what they're paid for, and for what? A socialwidget? A newtechgrift? The modern economy is bullshit jobs galore. You guys aren't even the cogs in the machine - you're the grease. You want to spend your would-be leisure time lubing up the machine?
> We've been teaching kids to read for 200 years so why does anything need to be changed?

We've been gathering and making food for much longer than 200 years, and we keep changing that, too.
Um, no. This is Russia's war. Supporting the war would mean arming Russia.

The west has two options: 1) support genocide by letting Russia systematically invade its neighbors (we've seen this story before and the outcome is not good), or 2) support Ukraine to such a degree that ongoing war is not sustainable and Russia calls off their expansionist plans.
Android and Crostini are only on some flagship devices.

And even in those, the lilliput SSD sizes make them hardly workable versus w regular laptop for the same price range.
Right but that's a small fig leaf for the people who get sued over this who very much are going beyond personal use. Circling back to it's fine to make a policy argument but dumb to flout the law.
Aren't mean things only mean when they're true? No one gets hurt by insults that aren't believable. Seems like a losing battle trying to make the world be 'nice'. As they say, 'touch grass'.
Did anyone watch that video and think "hilarious"?
The business equivalent of Zawinski's Law; every company attempts to expand until it offers financial services.
Nothing stops you from running your own instance for people who want to share the same ideas or want less stringent moderation. Freedom goes both ways: It includes others right to not want to deal with you. Just like Gab and Truth Social who both runs Mastodon have either wholly or mostly defederated.

And as it happens the reason most Mastodon instances are moderated the way they are is that their users demand it.
The very nature of how people search is changing. Personally, I'm LOVING phind.com, it hits all my buttons of what a modern AI inspired SE should be. IMHO someday soon, Google will just be the Youtube company. That will be their primary thing, and maybe that's good so they can make that better so it doesn't fail too.
> 1T GPT-4

The number of parameters used for GPT-4 is unknown.
Sure 20 people could be lying. It's unlikely, and they have no motive really. They were paid for their work already. He's the one trying to profit from their work.
It's too bad we don't in the US break down Black population statistics into those who are descendants of slaves vs. more recent immigrants - the differences in life outcomes would probably be significant, even at the same income level.
Law is about word-smithing, so apologies for this:

You patent an invention, not an idea. Section 112 says you have to identify the Best Mode of making your invention. Patents are also careful to say "in one embodiment, the invention..."

> you can't have a patent that only protects a particular implementation. That would be copyright.

Yes, you can. Claims are drafted to not be limiting, but it can happen.
AI, Nil, and Zero Trust Authenticity
Are you asking why doesn't it execv(2) addr2line deep within the libc malloc implementation? Because calling execv(2) within libraries is frowned upon.. ;-)

The leak report is being generated internally by malloc. It is then logged via utrace(2) when a process is traced through ktrace(1).

The kdump utility simply dumps the report, strvis(3) escaping any potentially unsafe characters. As this is untrusted user data, passing it as the input/args to another command is unwise. Also kdump(1) uses pledge(2) and cannot execute commands.
I would say that English has a greater level of orthographic depth than some other languages (but far less than, say, Thai).
I think you meant, ))))))))
In terms of financial incentives, it is regressive. Overdraft fees, late fees, fines for parking or not having insurance or not fixing that tail light, poorer performing credit cards, worse interest rates, etc.
I've only been reading ML stuff for a few months and I kind of understand what it's saying. This stuff isn't as complex as its made out to be.

It's just a bunch of black boxes AKA "pure functions".

BLIP2's ViT-L+Q-former AKA

//I give you a picture of a plate of lobster it will say "A plate of lobster".

getTextFromImage(image) -> Text

Vicuna-13B AKA

//I give you a prompt and you return completion ChatGPT style
getCompletionFromPrompt(text) -> Text

We want to take the output of the first one and then feed in a prompt to the LLM (Vicuna) that will help answer a question about the image. However the datatypes don't match. Lets add in a mapper.

getAnswerToQuestion(image, question) -> answer
text = getTextFromImage(image)
prompt = mapTextToPrompt(text)
return getCompletionForPrompt(prompt)

Now where did this mapTextToPrompt come from ?

This is the magic of ML. We can just "learn" this function from data. And they plugged in a "simple" layer and learned it from a few examples of (image , question) -> answer. This is what frameworks like Keras, Pytorch allow you to do. You can wire up these black boxes with some intermediate layers and pass in a bunch of data and voila you have a new model. This is called differentiable programming.

The thing is you don't need to convert to text and then map back into numbers to feed into the LLM. You skip that and use the numbers it outputs and multiply directly with an intermediate matrix.

getAnswerToQuestion(image, question) -> answer
text = getEmbeddingFromImage(image)
embedding = mapEmbeddingToInputEmbeddingForLLM(text)
return getCompletionForEmbedding(embedding)

Congratulations you now understood that sentence.