skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes stuff sluggish though. I have a laptop that does that. A full minute after it's at the desktop, it can't even render the mouse cursor smoothly, it's so busy doing stuff in the background.

I'd rather wait until its responsive than have this.
A recent interview with Shang-Yi Chiang, former Vice President of R&D at TSMC (also held positions at TI, HP, and SMIC) had insightful commentary on the speed of bringing up a new node.

"We all take two years to develop one generation, how come you guys can do it in one or one-and-a-half year?" And they asked if some of your customer transfer technology to you or what not? And I told him, "No," I told him that, "That's not true." I think he probably implied we steal technology from customer, the way he talk.

And I say, "I'll tell you why." I said that, "When we develop one node, basically you have some learning cycles. First, you do some simulation. And you have some idea, then you run wafers to prove that. So, you run a group of wafers according to simulation and you have some splits. The wafer runs through the fab, they come out and you measure them, you analyze them, and you try to improve and you run this again. This again, you run. So, this is learning cycle." At that time, "It takes about six learning cycle, roughly, to complete one generation." Of course, you had some short loops and not just one. I said that, "My R&D wafer in the fab run much faster than yours, because my R&D engineer works three shifts and you only work one shift. So, your R&D wafer move eight hours a day, my work/move 24-hours a day. So, my wafers go three times faster, even if you are twice smarter than me, I still beat you up." <laughter>

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10279267...
Why not language? We could then ask them how they feel rather than just assuming. People themselves usually prefer receiving informed, accurate sympathy rather than sympathy based on crude assumptions.

And physiology alone seems unlikely to tell us how they “feel” about it.

Perhaps they are so amazed by the technology that they couldn’t care less about the flicker :)
I don't think a country charging fees to bless a word makes a profession more or less real.
Say Hi to SoFi. It’s Suing to Force You to Repay Student Loans Faster
I personally do not think Software engineering is a thing. There are opinions on how to structure Software even within same language and framework and there's little objective procedure to rate one way better that the other and there's one, that kind of performance gains usually are negligible.

But prompt engineering? Based on what knowledge exactly?
> They can make it hard to interface with the traditional fianqncial system but they really can’t stop crypto wallets from being used can they?

Same way they can't really, with 100% precision, stop people from buying or selling fentanyl. But I don't think that says much here, does it?
I responded to a comment that used the term "ad hominem" wrongly. A dictionary could explain proper usage of that term better than I could so I don't bother
Are they making money? That's all that matters
That's correct. There are labor laws but definitely no general concept of worker rights. It's a free market -- they can fire you at any time, and you can quit at any time. Generally speaking, the idea of injecting "rights" into a free, voluntary exchange of money for labor isn't a very American idea.

In American thought, rights are generally thought of as protections from government control/abuse. Right to free speech, association, religion, movement, etc. While when it comes to private negotiating with an employer or employee or landlord or tenant, "rights" aren't really an applicable concept. Although freedom from discrimination in protected categories (e.g. sex, race, religion) is a newer right that's now become fairly generally accepted in both the workplace and housing.

I'm not arguing this is god or bad, just that it's a different way of thinking from many European countries.
I assume he means that models will be fine-tuned (or otherwise steered) by developers to have submissive behavior.
I believe the article is claiming that the feature "blue eyes" has a single organism bottleneck (or origin) in the past. If this were also true for the feature complex "human", that would be very surprising. If all that is being claimed here is that humans all have at least one common ancestor among many non-common ancestors, then sure that is trivially very likely. It is also nothing like what is being claimed about blue eyes IIUC...
> has 100% battery health

Better than my brand new laptop that came at around 90%.
That's something I've realised after reading these comments - that the goal of the project isn't to be 100% unbiased.

To be even 90% unbiased is 90% better than a sensationalist source.

I'm sure we can get very close to 100% as LLMs progress and if more talented people contribute to the project.
Weird take, my dude. The article doesn't have anything to do with dominance and submission as a sexual kink (except perhaps as a tongue in cheek joke). Besides, like no one cares about that shit anymore and it hardly even constitutes deviant behavior in the contemporary world.

No. The article is pretty forthright in describing a relatively straightforward view on the part of LeCun that nature is primarily about dominance and submission and that human culture has inherited that structure as an inevitability. I'd argue that this is _at least_ simple minded and somewhat short changes both nature and culture.

Given that AI is supposed to change the face of the world in the next few decades, I'd prefer if its luminaries weren't so simpleminded.
I noticed now the headlines are people getting shot doing random reasonably innocent things.

- fetching a ball from a yard.

- pulling into a drive way

- opening the wrong car door because it looked like yours
So in Ireland, supermarket meat is cheap, but usually higher in fat and "wetter". Still decent meat, but you are paying for water IME.

At the butcher I pay only slightly more, I know exactly which farm it came from, I know where it was slaughtered and processed, and I can ask for specific cuts/amounts, so less wastage.

Its also much higher quality and not as "wet", so its much nicer to cook with (and I'm not paying for water weight).

I've saved a metric shitload on my monthly food shopping by using the butchers and greengrocers in my area instead of the supermarkets.
While this can be true, I'd be careful before making any inferences here.
For example, there's good research [1] on how FSB uses the fact that Telegram metadata is in the open to run counter-insurgency on occupied territories. This is likely among FSB's highest priorities - but there's no evidence that they have used some level of insider access or control (or at least that they are willing to burn it even on Ukraine).

Second, Telegram not being blocked is hardly an argument. Neither are Signal, WhatsApp or YouTube for example. Are all of these also controlled by the FSB? And the general embrace of z-propagandists is likely due the fact that Telegram is extremely popular all over post-Soviet space. As far as I know, pro-Ukrainian people use Telegram just as much, and just as much as a news source.

None of this is to say that Telegram is a good choice for a reasonably secure messenger or is trustworthy at all (and [1] lists some very convincing reasons for why it is not so). But "may be run by the feds" is a strong claim, and so far it is not supported by evidence.

[1] https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/russia-is-spying-on-telegr...
I don't think NLP-based sentiment analysis qualifies as thinking.
> NVIDIA and Apple will tell TSMC what logic gates go where (or often at an even higher level—specifying certain SRAM blocks going here or there).

That's not quite how design works; it's much much more detailed. At the end of the day, TSMC's customers send them a "GDS" file that is a complete physical representation of the die they want manufactured. It describes every top-to-bottom later of the manufacturing process. (TSMC will take the GDS layers and split them up or combine them or do other operations, depending on some process details, but the customer will also check and sign off on that).

It's not just telling TSMC where to put standard cells or SRAM. And while TSMC does offer their own standard cells and SRAM, customers can and often do design and use their own. Analog/RF design is even more detailed, since that's done at an individual transistor level.

TSMC is mainly in the business of design and selling a manufacturing process for making transistors not logic gates.
It’s quite apples and oranges.
the negative press around this launch is pretty odd. It was actually a huge milestone for the company. Move fast and break things used to be cool. But now people don’t like Elon and Zuck or ruffling anyone’s feathers.
It's better to assume all files are potentially links that must be explicitly copied before any destructive operation. Software should be designed to always produce new copies by default and overwrite files only when explicitly requested.
Woke people love kink!
Mars is also built in to Google Maps now: https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/
I recall that some Scandinavian countries base fine amounts for traffic violations like speeding according to income.
Another take I’ve heard is that lighter eyes allow you to see the dark ring around the iris (limbic rings), which apparently fades as you age, becoming progressively lighter, forming a sort of proxy for age.
Except how profitable is Google's cloud? It lost 480 million last quarter.

AWS made 5.2B last quarter.

Google is selling at cloud at a loss to gain market share while it's biggest competitor is raking in profit. Sure, you can burn money and gain market share. But would anyone pick Google for a long term partner on any product? I sure as hell wouldn't. They have a tendency to simply discard products left and right. The support is non existent. Why tie yourself to such an unreliable partner?
I think this would fly well on LinkedIn since there are many people who are interested in startups.

Just takes a while to figure out how to play linkedin and to get a following there
then again, they may not
And how she had already been raped enough to have multiple children by the time she was 15.
Bytebeating with Gawk
lunar lobster introduces the option to put snaps on hold
No they're not, remember that EoL Chromebooks don't even get Chrome update anymore.

On other OSes, Chrome gets updated for more than a decade.
Do you enjoy having a sense of smell that powerful?
An AI learns by looking at the world the same way my camcorder does when I take it to a movie theater and point it at the screen.
Of course. But people will only read the headline.
If every good thing, even if imperfect, is mocked as “greenwashing,” corporations will stop doing them entirely. Nobody wants a green energy movement that acts as an exaggerated Inquisition.
Are there not automated prompts to "I received a different item from what I ordered"?

Amazon should be happy to credit those returns because you get a free used item, and they take the money back from the fraudulent vendor.
A few years ago, the package I received contained a bottle of water instead of the phone I ordered. Amazon promptly refunded me and I was quite pleased, because I was a bit concerned by how I would sound to the customer service representative telling this story
I find the other archive produces more readable pages.

This one still has the banner but it's glued to the end of the page.

https://archive.ph/5EQSa
I guess you can read something without it needing to be “blocked”, if you don’t like the contents. If it’s a crap article, people will work it out.
I wonder if Yann is aware of the fact that many, many leaders maintain dominance over groups stronger than them by sowing division among those groups.

Pretty obvious thing to miss, don't you think?
One thing to keep in mind is that some teas (as in made from Camellia Sinensis leaves) are processed using a pan/ceramic firing or steaming step to stop the leaves from oxidizing. I'm not sure how hot it gets but there is a heating step that might affect the viability of some pathogens.

It makes sense that herbal teas might be more susceptible to pathogen contamination if they don't go through that.

Of course there's plenty of steps along the way to contaminate tea, and chemical contaminants are different. But boiling water isn't the only heating step for some teas.

Having said that, I generally just use boiling or near boiling water for all my tea. I've tried all sorts of combinations of temps with many many different varieties of tea and have decided that the tea variety, amount used per serving, and length of steeping make much more of a difference than the temperature. I also think I just like bold-flavored tea (I do like bitter flavors quite a bit, and have been known to seek them out even when I was too young to really be aware of a pattern with it).
I may be wrong, but it seemed to me Amazon's customer support, historically, has been as bad as anywhere else, but, there was a high-level decision to offer refunds / small compensation payments by default.
Yeah most smartphones don't even come close to 4 years. And many other laptops don't get any BIOS/Firmware updates pretty much right after launch.
AI = Ennui
Apples policy is 7 years according to the article.
It is however no longer receiving updates

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/some-macs-are-gettin...

As the article points out, Google's promise of 8 years of updates is actually longer than the average mac receives.
Ah, that sounds plausible. I read "website purchases" as "online purchases"; it didn't occur to me they might be talking about buying actual websites.
Because most of these books are actually generated?
Behavioral modernity happened over 40,000 years ago, and probably over 50,000 years ago. We can see Chauvet cave paintings, Venus figurines and other evidence of behavioral modernity. The whole world of art-creating humans lived in non-hierarchical hunter gather bands until 10,000 years ago. Deep in the Amazon some still live like this, although a few centuries back many in North America and much of the world lived like this. Even a few hundred kilometers north of Stockholm. The initial hierarchical structures 10,000 years ago only covered a limited area.

If hierarchy and class division is an innate biological thing, why did humans not live like this through most of biological modernity?
All of the Justices appointed by Trump - which pushed the majority towards the conservative - were selected from a list created by the Federalist Society[0] specifically for their conservative ideology, which by definition includes opposition to Roe v. Wade.

Given how strongly conservatives hold to the belief that the US has been corrupted by federalism, secularism and progressivism, it isn't at all surprising that justices would lie during confirmation, since they believe they're serving a higher cause. In fact, Democrats are accusing them of doing exactly that[0] by claiming "settled precedent" for Roe V. Wade, which they later overturned. Of course, it's not difficult to find arguments to the contrary, the polarized optics of American politics being what it is. I'm sure Team Red has a list of examples of nominees by the Democrats who they claim did the same thing, but that doesn't disprove the thesis.

[0]https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/how-the-federali...

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/06/28/did-sup...

[2]https://www.heritage.org/life/commentary/the-justices-didnt-...

>I refuse to believe that anyone would lie to become a judge. It's flat out unamerican.

On the contrary, it's perfectly American. American politics is and always has been rotten to the core.
AI’s weird and uncanny mistakes reveal the gaps in how I perceive intelligence
Don't forget Vic.

It's somewhat amazing how many failed, some nearly sociopathic, almost-CEOs Google had.
The creation of Google Photos was basically an act of mutiny by David Lieb.

He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. Eventually resorting to back-channeling to Larry in order to get him to champion the project.

He tells the story in an episode of the podcast "The Social Radars."

Pretty good listen.
I think it because a significant fraction of my career has been spent fixing db-concurrency-related mistakes for people once they hit scale :-).

I’m not talking about using cascade - this applies perfectly well to use of on delete restrict. FKs are more or less the only standard way to reliably keep relationships between tables correct without raising up the isolation level (at least, in most dbs) or doing explicit locking schemes that would be slower than the implicit locking that foreign keys perform.
Don't follow #cats or #politics or #lunch. :)

I care a lot about some random person's astronomy pictures. They're fun to look at. And some random person's programming content, or history or geology content... Good stuff.

You can seriously curate your own feed on Mastodon.
> But it's incorrect to say that they pass every test.

Interesting! So there is published evidence, that it cannot pass novel Winograd schemas? Could you please provide me with the sources? I would like to have a look at the prompts. From my experience you can make GPT-4 pass novel Winograd Tests by giving GPT-4 additional context.
You pay your bank a lot more than you pay Amazon, on a margin basis.
Uhh… dang?

It’s pretty crazy to see this here. Feels like what happened to 4chan in the early to mid 2010s has finally befallen hn.
If we sped time up, would either of these belts accrete into another planet? Or are they generally stable for some reason?

Ie. can Ceres clear its orbit of asteroids?
> The preference of people over birds is not a good sign. Usually means he wasn't well socialized or even misimprinted. Breeders do that intentionally because people want people-focused parrots. But it's not good for them.

How are you deciding what is "good" for a parrot?

A preference for humans is certainly not natural for a parrot. However, I don't think there's anything natural about the way most humans live their lives, and I quite like modern technology. Perhaps parrots similarly appreciate being in a safe environment with loving caretakers. (Or perhaps they don't—but I don't see how we could know either way.)

Put another way, I'm not convinced that living in the wilderness and having to scrounge for food and avoid predators is necessarily a better life than living with a loving human who cares for you. Both are certainly imperfect in different ways, but unfortunately we can't ask the parrots which one they would prefer.
This is a prime example of a motte-and-bailey:

The motte:

- when consensus or even majority is the norm, [the mediocre] have the power

- [to outlaw the outliers] is in the interest of the mediocre

The bailey:

- most people are mediocre

You're defending the bailey but that's not what I was attacking. I very much stated that "[m]ost people are mediocre at any given thing by definition", which is what you're falling back to here as if I disagreed with that.

To paraphrase, your argument was that "the mediocre" share a group interest and that group interest is to suppress ("outlaw") those who are exceptional. Instead of further qualifying that, you refer to it as human nature. You also state that consensus-seeking or "majority rule" enables this suppression. Based on your framing this is not only a thing that happens but also a bad thing.

The logical but unstated conclusion is that any form of democracy or consensus-based rule is bad because it kneecaps exceptional people in their ability to be exceptional. This is why I referred to the Great Man myth, which states that historical advances are the accomplishments of singular exceptional people rather than material realities and social dynamics.

Again, the crux of your argument hinges on "the mediocre" being a meaningful group that has shared interests and that these interests involve suppressing "outliers". You have demonstrated zero evidence for either of these claims.
It’s “engineering” the same way we joke about “social engineering.” Both are ways of using language to subtly manipulate another. But the term should be understood as tongue-in-cheek and I’d run from anyone trying to sell you something to do with it.
Still getting updates for my OG Gen 1 Lenovo X1 Carbon from 2012... i7/8/256 config.

It still works too, solid as.
I ordered AC from amazon and received an older version. The whole ordeal was interesting, to say the least. I've written about it here: https://pgpt.substack.com/p/how-amazon-deceives-its-customer...

The main point is that these companies can waste hours or even days of your time while automating everything on their end. Hence, they are incentivized to make profitable "accidents" and hope you're not stubborn.
> At the end of the chat session, this internal state is not persisted (but could be recreated from the produced conversation as it is deterministic)

You're mistaken about internal state in a chat session. It loses all state after each response. There is internal state for a moment during a single response, but it's not persisted once it's done. Between messages, it has no memory of previous messages in your conversation.

The way it's implemented is by the seemingly silly/expensive method of pre-pending the conversation history to your request to the LLM. The "internal state" is usually stored on your local machine.
I'm not saying these birds can't be happy. Some certainly aren't resocializeable, and there's nothing wrong with keeping them as happy as possible regardless.

One of the most objective criterion for animal welfare is how much of their natural behavior they can fulfill. People don't talk like birds, don't act like birds. Only parrots of pretty much the same species can fulfill some things. I'm not even talking about mating and all the behavior around that, more like everything else.
Hi Mimisole the platform is multitenant with each app isolated in its workpsace, with profile and permissions sets you can specify user permissions up to the field level.

We haven't implemented the batch data import functionality yet but the only limitation we will have is the batch size. You can insert data one at a time for now.

We are currently in beta. you can try to create a small example Backoffice app on the platform to try out what we offer and if it suits you.

if you need any help setting up your workspace or have any questions we are on discord.
Say that to dogs, who have co-evolved with humans over thousands of years to a level that not only do they look completely different from wolves, but they can happily digest food that a wolf cannot.

Dogs like to be with people. Even free-roaming street dogs will usually live in close proximity to people. A well-cared for household dog or cat is one of the most happy, pampered beings who ever lived, often cared for at a level akin to human children.

Absolutist anti-pet thinking is how PETA ends up euthanizing 97% of the pets it receives at its shelter.
Pretty sure 8 year old Macs are still getting the latest OS and prior versions still get security patches so probably not.
Basically LeCun didn’t use the word “natural”, he just described that hierarchy exists (a descriptive statement). The other guy plugs in the word “natural”, and claims that LeCun is believing in a “natural” hierarchy (a prescriptive statement).

The article is dense, and not in a good way. “Evolution-ordained” blah blah blah, really?