skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been struggling with termux on Android 13 pixel 6 pro. Whenever I edit a picture with ffmpeg, it's invisible to the normal Photos app.
A celestial body with an atmosphere: Very easy to land but incredibly hard to take off from.

A celestial body with no atmosphere: Extremely easy to take off from, but very hard to actually land.
> Maybe someone like von der Leyen had a word with the current Italian government, which has caved on other issues as well.

Von der Leyen can have as many words with the current Italian government as she wants, but the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali is an independent administrative authority, and its current president got his mandate in 2020.
I was of the understanding that Lora was one flavor of adapters, but I am still learning so I may be wrong. I yet gotten too deep into other transformer adapters yet (still reading).
No, it's probability entered into an algorithm as a variable. This is not reasoning, this is probability, and there is no reasoning involved.

Go and program HomeAssistant (FOSS) with an automation using Bayes' theorem. Then proceed to laugh about all the fail states you encounter, thus realizing it is not reasoning, but probability. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-bayes-sensors-work...

It's quite literally known as Bayesian probability.
I haven't worked through these books so someone that has would know.
This is the reason. I used to screen recruits for clearances in the Marine Corps. The limits they pick for drug use are 100% based off what will affect recruiting numbers, and zero percent based on any kind of peer reviewed research. It’s massively disappointing.

To be fair they are trying to solve for edge cases along a long tail. Which is pretty hard, so it’s not surprising they’re using made up heuristics.
Two things come to mind:

1. There are non-constructive proofs, ie proofs that show that something exists, but do not provide an example (but rather derive a contradiction from the assumption that it doesn't exist, for example). Those are not really akin to running code. The Banach-Tarski paradox is a particularly striking example: You can decompose a ball into 5 pieces and reassemble them into 2 balls of the same size of the original.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarski_paradox

2. Don Knuth famously sent a colleague some code with the warning "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html
I thought that the sea caps were all going to melt, the polar bears would have no homes and the sea level was going to rise by like 50 feet.

I was also told that no one had ever predicted a global ice age, that was all conspiracy theory nonsense based on misinformation.

I'm not trying to even be snarky now I'm just wondering where the heck the prediction of an ice age is coming from?
https://sci-hub.ru/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
I think the phraseology that conveys this best is that records are worse at reproducing the original signal than digital.

But the result, while a less accurate reproduction, might aesthetically be more pleasing to some.

The only thing we can measure objectively is how accurate the reproduction is, and in that vinyl will always come second.
I also have a chronic yet unknown condition with a similar story as you, would you share privately your prompts?

Contact me at Drgpt@altmails.com
It's supposed to.
Several of the possibilities you raise here are disproven by real world data.

W.R.T. corals, claims of coral reefs being harmed by climate change have been discredited in recent years. Although scientists claimed for years that the corals were being severely harmed by emissions, 2022 had the highest coral cover in the GBR since records began in the mid 80s. It's confusing because the media reported several supposedly severe die-offs in the corals in the six years before 2022, but coral takes 5-10 years to regrow after a major die-off so those reports cannot have been correct.

Coral bleaching is caused by sudden changes in temperature, but most bleachings don't seem to cause die-offs and it's the speed of change that seems to trigger it, not so much the absolute temperature.

Sea level rise is small, constant over a much longer time period than the industrial era, and primarily caused by changes in the height of the land not the sea. That's why the Pacific islands that were supposedly in danger from climate change have actually grown over time, not shrunk.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1

Finally, the hockey stick graphs that are so famous are all scientifically fraudulent, being based on techniques like dropping any input data that doesn't yield hockey stick graphs.
Hurdle seems more software or process related than hardware no? Though on the hardware side seems like a company like Cerebras is making (or making available) interesting products that enable experimentation outside of the biggest players (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Msoft...)

Like the advent of Transformers, some smart dev could change how LLM's think. Self improvement could be built in as an optimization process. And if we don't "know" what might work, a platform could "guess" and try billions of combinations of possible improvements.
> no-one seems to take responsibility

No profit oriented corporation will ever take responsibility for downsides of their business that can be pushed onto others as externalities. The answer is to force them with regulations.

(This is the general rule, exceptions do exist like brands or product lines that cater to the niche of people especially conscious of a particular issue. The food sector is a good example. Note how those who do tend to create self-regulation with certifiable standards and that, strictly speaking, they can not externalise that specific issue so they don't)
I guess I’m challenging the assertion that mostly keyboard with mouse sprinkled in is more efficient than more heavily mouse oriented UIs. There is literature that suggests otherwise and that literature was not based off state of the art mouse and touch pad technologies.
I recommend trying out real gardening, akin to what the author's girlfriend was doing. (Also, she sounds like a cool person! As does the author.) The parallels between virtual gardening and physical gardening became a lot more viscerally true for me once I experienced physical gardening.

Here's my mini-story. SF has a bunch of community gardens but the waitlist for getting your own plot is comically long. 2-3 years. However, the community garden near me has a bunch of apple trees that are volunteer-maintained. I figured that would be a good way to scratch my gardening itch in the meantime. It's been great! The project leader has taught me a lot about maintaining trees. And I've really learned that weeding is a lifelong commitment. They will always come back, and it's a lot easier if you go out there regularly and pull up the small roots. Obvious, and I'm sure you've heard this idea before, but going through this personally with physical gardening really drives home the wisdom of this trite idea. I got lazy this winter due to all the storms and didn't go out there for a couple of months. There are FEET of weeds now. I've taken out 3 wheelbarrows of weeds and am still not done. Ironically I am not that great at keeping on virtual weeding either (fixing bugs regularly). But when I am out there weeding I have literally thought to myself a few times: "I really need to stay on top of my issues..." Also, there is a very interesting lesson to ponder through physical weeding: you do it because those weeds will compete with your tree for resources. Your tree grows less when there's weeds around it. Literal bugs will thrive in the weeds and eventually make their way up to your tree and damage your tree. I know that the makings are there for another visceral lesson but I don't quite feel that one deep in my bones yet... I guess I've been lucky to not have to work on projects with suffocating tech debt...
Database appears to have gone poof but somebody archived it beforehand: https://archive.ph/ffvTF
You could be right, but the way I read it is that those are things that everyone already knows, so there is no point in spelling them out.
> The legal letter contained an invoice for $979 in Euros, and demanded that Kneschke pay the amount within 14 days or the firm will take legal action.

I am not a lawyer, but I don’t know why they would do this unless they wanted to be sued by Kneschke.
I hate doctors and pharmaceutical companies as much as anyone, but those tests are serious business. There's a lot of very hard science and engineering involved in them

When they're cheap outside the USA, it often just means the companies aren't attempting to recoup any r&d costs outside the US
To be fair, its not that hard. If I ever see my GP nowadays, I come armed with a stack of research sufficient to convince them to refer me to a specialist. GP's are generalists at the end of the day.
I wrote Half-Life 2: Sandbox, which was the first implementation of LuaJIT in the Source Engine. Planimeter beat Team Garry by years because Garry Newman modified his implementation of Lua for Garry's Mod.

The examples of how to properly integrate Lua into a larger commercial engine have been reused by my team for over a decade and used by larger teams who are on Steam as well as hobbyists.

We wrote a game engine called Planimeter Game Engine 2D that's also over a decade old which has tons of reference code that's easily accessible for game engine engineers and game developers that has advanced concepts like high tolerance client-side prediction down to dial-up connections and a UI compositor with CSS 2.1 features.

My software firm Andrew McWatters and Co., has an internal codebase called myapp which is also many years old and serves as a base for delivering web services to clients leaning on experiences from dozens from businesses including some in finance and healthcare to deliver solutions compliant with federal standards.

Good software lasts longer than bad software because it's useful, and doesn't chase trends, it defines them or stands apart in ways no one else's software does.
I find it a bit weird that you’re publicly criticizing people for sharing poorly sourced claims…while not sharing any links to the supposed articles that were so bad.

Anyway, here’s a BBC article about oceans warming. “13.8C” appears in it. But it doesn’t claim oceans globally heated up by 13.8C. It says a specific area of the ocean was 13.8 C hotter than average in March, while making it clear that the oceans globally were nowhere near that much hotter than average. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65339934

P.S. I do think it's reasonable to be a little nervous about that 13.8C number--it's really enormous, and it is off the scale for that map that the Wired article shared. But that's not the same as what you said.
What part of my reply did not answer that question? I said it depends on the food
“Automakers think the problem is touch screens and not their software”

There, I fixed that headline for you
Interesting observation :) Yeah, the mechanism is at work in various ways already if you think of it.
This is simply not true.

Nyquist’s sampling theorem tells us that sound sampled at 44kHz will reproduce all frequencies in the range of human hearing. There is no “quantization”.

https://youtu.be/cIQ9IXSUzuM

Further the act of mastering and creating the record, and playback using a needle, will inevitably affect the sound somewhat. In the scenario you describe the music is likely to sound very good, but it will never be identical to a CD.
I don't host my own email and still my mails don't make it to gmail sometimes
University of Farmington: ICE arrested 250 students at fake university (2019)
No, I’m not claiming it will think like a human being, but that human thinking (despite the blind spots we know we have) is what we’ll try to replicate, and this will lead us to create something dangerous.

What you’re hinting at presupposes that an AGI will interpret knowledge in a way that is compatible with human values, and that we understand human values well enough to codify them into whatever it is that we manage to build. I’m sure we’ll try.

But it is this assumption that is at the center of the issue IMO, because assuming the machines will think like us is to assume we understand how we think.

What is far more likely is that it will appear to have human properties because we baked the appearance of human-ness into the code (see LLMs), but like the hallucinations and “lies” these LLMs are happy to spit out, an apparently human AGI will just get some things fundamentally wrong.

And when getting things wrong can have consequences in the physical world, they’re no longer just relatively harmless hallucinations.

Imagine an AGI with the temperament of Microsoft Tay.
That's also making a whole lot of assumptions.

There's no reason at all to think that an AGI would necessarily have any backdoors, let alone backdoors in common with any other AGI out there. Sure, if a particular group develops the only AGI system, they can put backdoors in, which will be common—but why do you think that there would only be one AGI system? Why would there not be one without any intentional backdoors?
> Nurse takes your history with a bunch of redundant questions they already have the answers to

If you’re a nurse and your job is to take histories, it’s better to take the history in the same way every time, systematically. This minimizes the chance of making mistakes.

Moreover the notes may be wrong, or you may give a different answer this time around. You might give an important detail this time around that you didn’t give the last several times, which actually turns out to be consequential.

It might seem like a waste of your time but it’s really not. Measure twice cut once.
I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at. It doesn’t seem hard for a top AI lab to get extremely detailed data regarding how top AI researchers perform research. It’s probably significantly easier than collecting data from experts in other fields.
Some of these are a bit more host a server for you or others to run. I wish this comparison also compared billing models a bit and any other value-adds.

The cool thing about replicate.com is that you can use someone else's public model and it's billed to the callee. For someone like me who is gluing models together for a hobbiest setting, it's been great.

For some image identification tasks, it's been pretty neat for me to be able to call https://replicate.com/andreasjansson/blip-2 which is someone else's already deployed model which was already pre-warmed by somebody or level of activity, and get results back. For me, I've been captioning images and putting them into OpenAI prompts.

I've also myself put out https://replicate.com/nelsonjchen/minigpt-4_vicuna-13b to see if maybe it's an improvement in captioning. Unfortunately, it takes like 15 minutes to spin up. That said, it's currently free for me to put up. If someone else wants to run it, they can wait/pay. And they only pay for the runtime and not setup. And if it were to get popular, it'll be naturally warm for everyone. For me, it was 6x the cost of https://replicate.com/andreasjansson/blip-2, and although my experiment did not produce something suitable or usable for me, maybe those caveats are appropriate for someone else's use case, and they can super-easily reuse my deployment on their dime without costing me any money.

Not to mention that replicate also put out some pretty alright APIs or libraries to call their service. It's been consistent.

All this ease of use does come with some caveats, replicate.com is pretty expensive for the raw calls.
Most kids achieve level, upright pitch at ages 2-3. It's the yaw and roll you have to worry about. Those are literally all over the place.
Paradigm shifts happen slowly, and then all at once.
I just shipped my hobby project - https://github.com/rounakdatta/my-best-of-reddit/. It is a Telegram bot which would send me all my upvoted posts and comments at EOD everyday.

It's a solution to a personal pain point - discovering and getting reminded of all the hilarious & extraordinary knowledge that I keep discovering on Reddit.
Thank you! I think you're right and I'm mistaken. I'm basing it off one time eating a gyros in a residential neighbourhood in Athens that had a delicious soft cheese in it that tasted like feta but was not it. Someone told me I had to get it fresh, and I could never find it in supermarkets. I figured the Greek were hiding the good stuff from us, but your explanation makes way more sense.

I'll try and find Myzithra or Anthotyro next time I'm in Greece!

Edit: it sounds dumb since it was just a gyros, but this gyros was so legendary I'm still thinking about it ten years later, and I've been to Greece multiple times since then, though never again to Athens.
Given that doctors are basically inefficient data analysts focused on a single domain, I imagine GPT can replace most of the need to consult a doctor until some physical action needs to be taken. I think an AI that monitors daily vitals and symptoms and reports to you anything that seems alarming might help people live longer and more healthy.
Solomonoff's invariance theorem
I don’t think it was called that, but maybe I read it as a retelling of sorts. It was a book probably from the sixties or seventies but it’s possible!
Ish. I didn't intend it as a "set all money in bank and live off interest." Rather, more like put 10% in a safe place where I know I will make 5% on it. Then, 30% in 10 gambles that may make bank again, kind of thing.

Realistically, no individual is managing billions without literally having staff accountants. Such that they can and will be more sophisticated. My assertion is in that sophistication will be pockets of "safe" assets. And I am further pushing that there are benefits to smaller caps on those safe assets
I've been using chatGPT daily for 6 months and it has never ended a conversation on me.
> The merchants of doubt dominate media.

Wrong. Literally, the merchants of oil dominate the media.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/02/14/poorly-defin...

A provost is an executive position over the academics of a university. A university president is the entire university, which has more fundraising, athletic, and other responsibilities.

In practice, because of the distributed nature of universities, it's a bit like a cat herder.
https://archive.ph/ffvTF
Understanding Carjacking
Brainstorming rare diseases and making diagnosis and providing treatment using medical science are different things.

If I ask GPT4 about some arcane math concept it’ll wax lyrical about how it has connections to 20 other areas of math. But it fails at simple arithmetic.
I did this one too get back into programming after a career change and it worked for me.
As mentioned I’m not an expert but what kind of distortions can there be in properly mastered 16 bit 44.1kHz PCM? I know there is distortion from quantisation but that’s a solved problem with dithering and noise shaping, no?

Clipping is just bad mastering, no?

I also find it hard to believe that vinyl will have less distortion as it’s analog where physical imperfections in the medium will affect the sound far more than in the case of digital mediums like CDs - with the latter it’s either a 1 or a 0; as long as wear and tear / damage doesn’t flip a 1 to a 0 or vice versa, you are good (and even if you do get a flip, ECC will normally fix it).

Vinyl also has it own set of restrictions with the frequencies it can reproduce and dynamic range since it’s all encode physically as tiny groves with bumps on the vinyl.
>This laptop actually has a pointing stick with three mouse buttons above the trackpad

Did not notice that, the trackpoint is my number 1 requirement for a laptop. The other is the ability to completely disable the track pad via BIOS. Many do not allow that anymore, but I usually can disable it using xinput.

And of course the # 2 requirement is no Nvidia anything :) If it has both Nvidia and Intel graphics, Nvidia must be able to be disabled using BIOS.
Machine Age
Can we get a (2012) added to the headline here?
Webfinger needs to be updated or replaced anyhow - it wasn’t specified in a static file hosting compatible way and expects a dynamic response or custom server rules. Not that bluesky helps here either.
I’m not sure, but there’s always a “whatabout x”, or “the US did y” reply early in the post lifetime.
Rich enough to have money that can be taken away, not rich enough to afford a specialist for tax evasion. People like this pay most of the tax.

And yes, all the reasons why "taxing X would actually be harmful for the economy" somehow magically do not apply to the small fish.
Some of those remaining 5% do like the vibrations, but I'm not sure that counts as listing.
Search Twitter latest for “invite bsky-“
With First Republic Bank being bought soon, any recommendations?
I'm looking specifically for their customer service like being able to email a banker and just the ability to reach out with any questions.

For instance, when I travel, I can email my banker and ask them to request a certain amount of foreign currency at a branch for me to pick up.

I'm a member of 3 credit unions and while they are general friendly service in person, they're not the same as First Republic.

I know my money is safe and I'll wait until the process is complete, but I'd like to have ideas when all my money is inevitably moved to Bank of America or some other massive bank.
I've given up on Android and smartphones ages ago. Today am a happy dumb phone user and intrigued only by the Pinetab 2, however I played with Termux on old devices and loved it; that was really close to having the real thing under the hood. Unfortunately my best tablet, a supposedly crappy no-name wifi-only one which was like a gift for buying something else but it's incredibly fast and much snappier than bigger ones, runs only Android 4.x (yeah, I know, that's pretty much retrocomputing:^) so it's not supported.
Vast.ai, Cloud GPU Rental
I had some doctors like that

To be fair, they were so heavily booked that they weren't taking new patients and you had to wait weeks or months for non-urgent visits

Also some of them went out of business..
Choosing and coping with boring work (1986)
> Are we just polluting LEO for the sake of a handful of Americans? I feel like in the US it's not even widely used...

It is quite popular in Ukraine. Granted, Ukraine is neither in Asia nor in Africa.
There's also a fairly popular JDBC driver for SQLite as well:

https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc

Mentioning that because from (very) rough memory, Excel can work with JDBC too.

So if the ODBC approach doesn't work for someone, there's potentially another thing they can try. :)
To add another anecdote to your question: the transformer became a part of the first context aware embedding model GPT-1. Not to say it couldn’t be done with another tool but it was first done with a transformer. Previous embedding models like word2vec, GloVe and fasttext were not contextually embedding and didn’t give you a language graph that would then go on to support a language model capable of “understanding” what you were saying or asking for.
https://ichionkai.co.jp/english4.html these seems to describe it.
A summary of the teaching method, which dates back to apparently 1991

https://ichionkai.co.jp/english4.html
The RFC seems to presuppose that there has been an initial trust setup (since it says the the client has a pass-phrase already). How do you setup that that initial pass-phrase without TOFU?
Clearly.

Explain it to me what will happen with the generated logo at an acquisition or due diligence.