skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is a bad precedent to allow.

Woah. Doing bad science isn't illegal, and making it so would be quite chilling. It's common in many fields to be quite imprecise about data used in the work, and entirely uncommon in many for data to be externally reproducible.

Legislation restricting research isn't the right way to improve science and is unlikely to achieve the intended effect for many reasons, including that it's easier and safer to just not touch the impacted area. In some domains this causes whole areas to go unstudied or understudied, e.g. because it runs into IRB and just isn't worth doing... but at least the rules demanding IRB approval are intended to keep people from suffering grave harm and even those are less strong than blanket regulation (they're rules tied to federal funding, not research in the abstract).
I don't think it is that simple as claiming a 50% loss for the business you have things like inflation and depreciation of the business assets (such as the drilling equipment) which makes it a lot more murky.
Protecting jobs and moving europe back to the dark ages :)
>MPT-1b-RedPajama-200b-dolly is a 1.3 billion parameter decoder-only transformer pre-trained on the RedPajama dataset and subsequently fine-tuned on the Databricks Dolly instruction dataset.

> The model was pre-trained for 200B tokens (batch size 2200, sequence length 2048). It was trained on the following data mix:

67% RedPajama Common Crawl
15% C4
4.5% RedPajama GitHub
4.5% RedPajama Wikipedia
4.5% RedPajama Books
2.5% RedPajama Arxiv
2% RedPajama StackExchange

Any benchmarks on model performance?
Your argument equally applies to people, since we collectively cause all of the environmental problems you mention.

Are you consistent? Do you admire people? Do you find it distastful if others do?
> People think the oil business is all about drilling. In reality it's first about reserves

While this is true traditionally, shale is a different ballgame. A lot of the money spent in these shale plays is gone forever.

If you spend $8 million to drill a well and expect to make a 20% ROR at $70 oil, you're going to have a bad time when the price of WTI collapses to $40. And these shale wells have such fast decline rates that 10 years later they'll be making 1/100th of their initial rates. You either make your money fast, or take a big loss on the chin.

The major price decline beginning in 2014 and the huge hit during the pandemic (oil prices went negative, remember!) has made shale a major loser for investors. And plenty of the reserves companies booked had to be written off, either because of overly optimistic price requirements or inflated production estimates. Just look at Apache's Alpine High fiasco.
Can you share a picture of the kind of thing you're talking about? I find it hard to imagine a sea that looks like red wine. Also, red wine is red.
Wow, that's a great guide!

I didn't read it in-depth yet, but I think I had a previous implementation that worked very similarly to theirs.

The problem with variable names is that they actually matter for some of the collaborative editor features I hope to implement in the future. There are certain assumptions I can't make quite yet, and so am keeping my options open :)
Nevertheless, it’s going to be rendered as an HTML document by the browser (with an invalid doctype) — the web server told it to!
Learnings from integrating JMX metrics from Java apps into time series databases
Does this not even build for anyone else?
I can’t disagree more. I hesitate to hitch my cart to Rust, but rewriting all the old memory unsafe code is an inevitable need. This status quo of just patching things up every time an exploit appears is farcical when we have the tools to address these problems today.
Huge HyperCard fan here, this is a very happy discovery indeed! It captures the spirit of HyperCard -- stacks, images/sounds, etc. -- but the icing on the cake is that Python replaces HyperTalk and the entire Python ecosystem is at your disposal. That's incredible. I'm salivating.

The built-in Reference Guide is fantastic, too. Will definitely be keeping an eye on this project.
India has beaten down patents on seeds/genotypes.

Lays tried to sue a few potatoe farmers, when they saw they were destined to lose the case they withdrew it, Gov't realizing they weren't going to get the case law to fix the issue decided to just outright invalidate a bunch of the patents.
Ironic how so many of the kids currently pushing "Web 3.0" as crypto and NFT scams weren't even alive when "Web 3.0" as XHTML and Semantic Web were a big thing.

My web goes to 11.
Waiting for i915 working with aarch64.
Convicted monopolist [Microsoft] prevented from re-offending
I remember the Almond days. Back then they were up against Vera which, IMO, was the clear leader. Then the guys from SmartThings happened to come out with their product which I saw at a MinneStar event. I asked one of the founders after the preso what their perspective on cloud connected services was and the guy couldn't believe I had an opinion on a home automation system that couldn't operate without cloud services. They're were clearly going after a much simpler consumer market and looking to sell out, of which they did. But it was a disaster for anyone that was used to the configurability and flexibility of Vera. Then Vera started to lose focus and HomeSeer seemed to come up as a viable replacement, along with the early days of HomeAssistant. It's interesting that HA is only getting better while all the rest are slowly dying off. HomeSeer v4 is still pretty rough transition from v3. I only hope HA stays the course and continues to hold their high standards. It's such a phenomenal project. From simple to complex automation, it is truly a great work of open source.
He also misunderstands disease care. If there were no gatekeepers, medical Care would be dominated by worse doctors than we have now.

I think we can summarize it as a false dichotomy.
The multiplier.

Feeling good.
I'm genuinely sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, this forum looks to attract a certain kind of people, and those people find it easy to hide uncouth comments under the guise of "curious discussion".

It doesn't help that moderation is almost non-existent, aside from when VC's get put under blast, or when . Asking for sources for ridiculous comments (eg: Dropbox laid off people in order of performance) gets flagged, then removed, but off-topic humor in bad taste remains.
> ChatGPT would be required to disclose copyright material ...Such an obligation would give publishers and content creators a new weapon to seek a share of profits

If somebody figures out how to do fine-grained profit sharing based on having created something that the AI references... that would be very cool. I love discovering the solution to a niche and difficult-to-describe problem, but I hate the extra work necessary to leave breadcrumbs for DenverCoder9 to find it 20 years later.

If I could leave the matchmaking to an AI and get paid $0.25 when it's finally helpful to that person I don't know... Well I'd probably wouldn't make much money, but it would give me warm fuzzy feelings.
It sounds like a special interest group for Quaker web designers.
If you like this kind of stuff then you might like Ink gin which changes colour when you add tonic. (https://www.inkgin.com/ - no commercial connection here, I've just enjoyed some of their products. :)
There is also CodyCapybara (7B finetuned on code competitions), the "uncensored" Vicuna, OpenAssistant 13B (which is said to be very good), various non English tunes, medalpaca... the release pace maddening.
I couldn't take jt anymore, so I redid it again: https://www.zackproser.com/blog/maintaining-this-site-no-lon...
How/what goes into "number of parameter" selection? Why 1.3b? Why not more? Why not less?
I'm also a container user and for the most part it works great, but there are downsides where you can't use certain functionality that's only currently exposed on HAOS (like the new SkyConnect stuff... they said it's coming for container users but I think any feature like that is going to take a little longer).
Citing sources isn’t usually called for unless trying to present something as one’s own work — man on the street questions generally don’t rise to that standard. They also lack a profit motive.

Citing sources is also, traditionally, a key method of separating the work you built upon from the work you yourself derived/created/expanded. If one does not cite their sources, there is no way to establish if the presented work is their own, or copy+pasting someone else’s.
Between this and Elon saying that AI needs to be paused for discussion is super harmful.

People forget that if you pause it. People are not going to stop. Does the world want Russia and China to continue investing and developing while the west discusses what the scope of ai should be allowed to do? Because they sure as hell won’t be stopping to discuss anything.
In most cases[1], when you update a tuple in Postgres, a new tuple is put somewhere else in the same heap, with different visibility information, "xmin", "xmax". The old tuple remains where it is. Index pointers to it likewise remain unchanged, but a new entry is added for the new tuple. The old version gains an updated "xmax" field indicating that version was deleted at a certain logical point.

Later on, VACUUM has to plow through everything and check the oldest running transaction to see whether the tuple can be "frozen" (old enough to be seen by every transaction, and not yet deleted) or the space reclaimed as usable (deleted and visible to nothing). Index tuples likewise must be pruned at this time.

In systems with an UNDO log, the tuple is mutated in place and the contents of the old version placed into a sequential structure. In the case where the transaction commits, and no existing concurrent repeatable read level transactions exist, the old version in the sequential structure can be freed, rather than forcing the system to fish around doing garbage collection at some later time to obsolete the data. This could be considered "optimized for commit" instead of the memorable "optimized for rollback."

On the read side, however, you need special code to fish around in UNDO (since the copy in the heap is uncommitted data at least momentarily) and ROLLBACK needs to apply the UNDO material back to the heap. Postgres gets to avoid all that, at the cost of VACUUM.

[1] The exception is "HOT" (heap only tuple) chains, which if you squint look a tiny bit UNDO-y. https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/hot-updates-in-postgr...
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I only half-way agree.

Science has a self-correcting mechanism which, when it works correctly, makes it a strong-link problem. The problem is that the self-correcting mechanism is fragile. Because it is fragile, keeping the self-correcting mechanism going is a weak-link problem.

Thus, for example, the fact that psychology never tried to replicate studies and trusted other studies meant that the self-correcting mechanism was broken. Making a bunch of psychologists try to replicate and then discover that a bunch of what they thought was science really wasn't, REALLY MATTERED.

But peer review to stop bad papers from being published is not part of the self-correcting mechanism. That intervention doesn't matter.

Fraud exists on a boundary. In the real world, fraudulent research helped keep billions flowing to investigating a bad theory about Alzheimer's. And helped the fraudulent researcher get promoted - all the way to President of Stanford University! At Stanford he has accelerated a destruction of both campus culture, and free speech standards, thinks to the same attitudes that set him along the path to being a fraudster in the first place. (Sadly, he's still there. And the cultural changes seem likely to ruin Stanford as key factor strengthening startup culture in Silicon Valley.) That's pretty strong evidence that fraud should be taken seriously, and isn't just an issue around the edges.

But most fraud doesn't come with such consequences. And if the self-correcting mechanisms of science are working well, fraud gets found and corrected without long-term damage.

So it is important to make sure that there are feedback loops to catch and eliminate fraud and fraudsters. We should actively protect the strength and value of those feedback loops. Because when they work, they police science and help make it into a strong-link problem.
"Pseudoscience" is not a neutral term, it's a pejorative. Pejoratives in internet comments are edgy to begin with, and pejoratives without explanation are name-calling, in the sense that we use the term.

That's the logic, and I don't think there need to exist previous examples for it to be valid—it's surely possible for something to be valid the first time it happens—but FWIW, I found these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32286303 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29553488 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29037237 (Oct 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28379692 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27809832 (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27636047 (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25975353 (Jan 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21685942 (Dec 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21455081 (Nov 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18804177 (Jan 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18249487 (Oct 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17645647 (July 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15997545 (Dec 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11421256 (April 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466297 (Oct 2015)
2000 acres is not a small farm period. For context the price per acre where I live (centre of Quebec, Canada) is 15k$. So 30M$ for 2k acres, it's an industrial farm that need employees (at least one or two if it's a highly automated crop) and can afford the price of brand new John deer. You can even afford a Combine harvester at that size. Our farm is around 120 acres and we definitely cannot.
when do you ever have to do one query per array of items? genuinely curious
Tell me again that dirtycow wasn't used in the field.
"not what's happening here", meant to say.
I was listening to a talk from a leading nanoparticle researcher. He basically said that making new nanoparticles and characterising them is great for writing papers but they all fail actual testing as therapeutic delivery devices. In oncology there are kinda only two nanoparticle therapies - Abraxane, which is a well known chemotherapy drug bound to albumin; liposomal doxorubicin, an encapsulated form of another well known chemotherapy drug. They have been around a while and they are not exactly game changing, extending survival a modest amount at best. Nanoparticles are overrated from where I sit, as are University press releases.

On the other hand, antibody based therapies are amazing revolutionary drugs in oncology. Chief among them is Keytruda which has improved the lives of so many patients and has $2billion in sales every month and rising. Most recently, sticking chemotherapy drugs or radioisotopes on the end of antibodies (or smaller antibody like proteins) has shown great results as a delivery vehicle. Are these ‘nanoparticles’? No, just actual drugs that work.
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They've no more "reproduced" his copyrighted content, than a student studying photography or other art did, when they saw the picture online and made a mental note to imitate aspects of what they thought made the content interesting. That's the cold, hard reality of the situation. At least, that's how I would argue it as the defense lawyer.

People don't seem to be getting quite yet what 'artificial intelligence' intrinsically really means.

But they will.
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Without quantifying the amount this statement is meaningless.

How much value is being protected or gained, and at what cost?
> Good that also journalists picked this story. Now, I am not entirely satisfied Qualcomm's answers

Yeah, their answers are pretty bullshit. The pattern they seem to go for is "no we're not doing X, that'd be crazy, we're just <50 words for X>"

I especially liked the section starting with:

> A former mobile industry executive familiar with Qualcomm technology told The Register that characterizing AMSS as "a covert operating system" is "total nonsense."

And then it goes on to two paragraphs spelling out that it definitely _is_ a covert operating system, but uses different words.
That's an even stronger argument for you staying off the road.

Your sputtering anger and rage makes you an even less safe driver.
In talking to friends that attempted to monetize their youtube, they found that works that were extremely popular and impactful (yet not millions of views viral) earned practically nothing and they were demoralized and discouraged from bothering to produce more.
Can we just forget gunpowder and go back to tercios? That was when wars were fought by men, with skill and honor and bravery!
If you read OPs article, they imply that a lot of cigarettes addictive quality is due to the MAO inhibitors, not the nicotine
LLMs can’t create true statements about events not described in their training data, but that’s no reason to assume that they won’t be increasingly prominent on the internet. Advertisement views pay the same whether they are next to true information or merely true-sounding information.
Looks extremely fun. Coming from nix background, content addressability of stuff is a huge win. Looking forward to be able to play with this.
“Enhance!”[0] may no longer qualify as comedy, but this[1] will never fail to entertain ;-)

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
All R&D is lost before it pays off.
Carbon chauvinism should be ethics violation.
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Weird to see this here. However, I happen to be a minidisc user/collector and really enjoy the format. I make a mix tape nearly every week. I know how archaic this is, but I find the process and the results to be very gratifying.
I created a basic similar app for my own use because I wanted to have an idea what people are conversing in russian in online lobbies. WPF, Tesseract OCR and Microsoft's translation API.

https://streamable.com/ykng5u

A fun side project that I do end up using a bit. Gonna bind the capture to some hotkey so I can use it without changing app focus. Most annoying problem though is that Tesseract OCR often gets confused when you make it read combined latin+cyrillic letters and the font isn't something Tesseract prefers. Especially when there's something behind the text. Kind of disappointed that the most popular API often has a lot worse results than a human would just transcribing the letters.

Wouldn't be surprised if OCR software would leap soon due to a product similar to Whisper.

Comes to mind that the best possible app that does this would be kind of like the old "word lens" iPhone application but on all screens, meaning it would replace text from the raw screen input with text of another language, while keeping the appearance/color/scale/rotation of the original text. This would free it from needing to be built-in to whatever UI library is producing the text, and would work on recorded video too. Immediate latency/performance problems come to mind though but could be a fun thing to try.
And yes downvote me but maybe think about whether spending more money going to first-party sites is actually serving you?
"If someone has it, it’s generally attached to a persona with various drivers and flaws, "

this stereotype needs to die. I have never found any correlation between being talented and passionate and being jerk. Quite the opposite. Most talented people are easy to work with but you should be able to keep up. Most jerks just think they are talented but aren't and have to be jerks to keep up appearances.
interesting to frame problems as strong/weak link, is kinda useful for thinking about certain things.

- - -

citing Nobel laureate's take on "if I'm working today I won't..." is not too convinsing

>In my day you could get a faculty job with 0 postdoc papers

can't imagine how that would work today, the world changes why science as a social activity that has costs can be immune to the change?

Too bad while bad music and bad novels only take up some shelf space and make searching a little harder, science projects costs $$$ and so the real Q is how to distribute $, current approach is not that good and gatekeeps some good stuff out, but what's the alternative?
That's why there's Cryptomator
They are very different app stores. Only android is still in the world where a tablet app is a phone app zoomed in.
Look at the Microsoft Store. It's one storefront - you buy Minecraft for Xbox online, you can download it on PC and Xbox alike. It is a single marketplace, despite hosting mutually exclusive platforms. The App Store's situation is nearly identical - all of these platforms share a kernel and a common API base (much like the PC/Xbox relation). The App Store just has a different set of arbitrary boundaries that seem to be re-drawn every time they receive anticompetitive scrutiny.

Put another way - how would accepting this as-is help regulators proceed? It's a finely-tuned joke, and if it didn't come with the olive branch of "illegal content moderation" then it wouldn't have been taken with a straight face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6ClX-y2AE

This is the announcement video. its about an hour long but much of it is very interesting.

"Adminless windows" sounds very interesting.
Yes. Postgres such a reliable and known quantity that IMO it should be the default choice for just about anything.

Don't misunderstand me. There are plenty of times when something else is the right choice. I'm just saying, when I have a say in the matter, folks need to clear that bar -- "tell me why tool xyz is going to be so much better than postgres for this use case that it justifies the overhead of adding another piece of software infrastructure."

Like, you want to add a document database? Obviously Mongo, Elasticsearch, etc are "best of breed." But Postgres is pretty capable and this team is already good at it. Are we ever going to have so many documents that e.g. Elasticsearch's mostly-effortless horizontal scaling even comes into play? If you don't ever see yourself scaling past 1,000 documents then adding a new piece of infra is a total joke. I see that kind of thing all the time. I can't tell if developers truly do not understand scale, or if they simply do not give a f--- and simply want to play with shiny new toys and enrich their resumes.

I mean, I've literally had devops guys telling me we need a Redis cluster even though we were only storing a few kilobytes of data, that was read dozens of times daily with zero plans to scale. That could have been a f'in Postgres table. Devops guy defended that choice hard even when pressed by mgmt to reduce AWS spend. WTF?
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In Brave Browser, it does that automatically when you switch to the private mode.

It lands you on Brave Search instead of what you have set for your regular sessions.

Fine by me.
It's more like ChatGPT won't replace most Graphical-UIs. Obviously, human is much more capable at processing visual information, so even in the era of LLMs (which is yet to come) we still have to rely heavily on good GUIs. Nothing controversial here I guess.

On the other hand, GPT will bring a lot changes to the non-graphical portion of UI. We can definitely expect better voice interfaces, and we might be able to replace complicated menu bars with command prompt backed by LLM. Perhaps, we can even have a central "start" prompt that allows us to browse through all features of apps and combine them in smart ways. Who knows.