skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I love Firefox, let's not lie about the state of affairs: "We are joining a company that develops one of the most popular browsers in the world in Firefox with a lineage that dates back to the origins of the internet." no you are not, Firefox is nowhere near one of the most popular browsers. It's essentially a non-player in the browser space, and while the people working for Mozilla are still meaningfully contributing to standards bodies, the browser itself is basically irrelevant in the global market. I wish it wasn't, but the good old days of "we beat IE" are long gone, and FF did not step up to Chrome, nor to the Chromification of the rest of the browser landscape. It just threw ideas at the wall in the hopes that something would end up being a revenue stream while Firefox languished. Quantum was the right move, except they should have kept making moves. You don't win by being "pretty decent", you win by doing things people didn't realize they needed their browser to do, and doing all the things they do know they need to do better than the competition. It's been drastically down hill since Chris Beard left.
> Mortgage interest is tax deductible

Since 2017, not really, due to tax law changes. Cap of $10k but that includes state taxes paid also.
Could have been from the same company that makes the cameras.
AR/VR needs display tech.
Google would defund Mozilla in an instant
The factory pattern in Java exists because a type / a class is not a "first-class" concept. You can't pass around a class so that it gets constructed at some other point. Python (which I believe inherits from Smalltalk) has a different object system, which makes the factory pattern irrelevant.
Better Title: IBM announces scheduled bankruptcy in roughly ~3-5 years
Dark matter's identity could be hiding in distorted 'Einstein rings'
If you can afford to park a car in NYC, you can afford Air Tags.
It's only starting to feel intentional, eh?
While it may not be a result of coordinated and direct pressure, like a secret ban on promoting non-partisan popular causes or something... I don't believe for a minute that our cultish, deadlocked political landscape is just an emergent phenomenon resulting from good faith participation in our system. It's the result of powerful people and institutions throwing around their weight, buying allies and generating propaganda, in order to dominate and shape said system.
Good for checked luggage or bags you might leave behind somewhere.
> Functionally it could be done, but what is to be gained? The time and effort required is in competition with other things one can do with their time, so there has to be a value proposition.

For one, someone can care about others' well-being. If Alice is of the firm opinion that binge-drinking is bad for one's health, then does she have nothing to gain in trying to convince her good friend Bob that he should stop binge-drinking? Is the whole concept of giving advice an illusion?

Or in politics. If you believe that a certain oppressive tyrant ought to be overthrown, then would you not try to convince other people of this, so that you can form a large enough conspiracy to carry out that goal?

(For other political movements, simply replace "an oppressive tyrant" with some abstract idea, e.g., car ownership, or monopolies, or whatever. That might seem silly, but humans are not creatures of pure reason, and nothing's stopping people from valuing any arbitrary thing.)

Or for personal gain. If a candidate for some political office runs a campaign telling everyone why they should vote for him, then is he really doing that for the sole purpose of probing for reasons why he shouldn't be voted into office?

Or just for fun. Are there not people who simply love to hear the sound of their own voice, as the saying goes?

I don't deny that people sometimes express opinions that they don't hold strongly, but you seem to be suggesting that there is never (or hardly ever) any good reason to express an opinion that one does hold. There are all sorts of situations, especially in politics, where someone thinks it would be better if others were of the same opinion.
Is that the case here, that Paul Christiano has no priors or model?
I was going to ask about translations but I’ve realized that I don’t want them. I want to enjoy the mystery and wonder.
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I assume the "LoJack Inside" window sticker is the main technology you really want? Suggest the thief go steal a different car?
Carlos Castaneda is at his most interesting when he wrestles with "what's outside of the universe" paradoxes since his informants seem like they're able to not only hold mutually exclusive concepts but exist in a relationship between them. They'd have an internally consistent idea about what's North of the North Pole and could explain it to you in terms you might understand.

He's given me quite a bit to think about in regard to NULL and the assumptions I make around the concept, which is fascinating in itself because his books are hot garbage.
Correct, it does, however, make it extremely hard to find many willing to argue against status quo though.
The issue is the way it's defined and the language in the law.

What defines "drag"? As that legislation is currently written, it can be interpreted to be someone simply appearing in public.

That aside, though, I don't see how banning things like drag queen storytime (which has happened locally here) are somehow a ban on sexualized events. How is that sexualized?
I’m all for tools to empower deliberate creation. An end to end AI generated movie, while intriguing to see what it might think up, falls flat to me. What is the point of watching it other than fascination. There is no conscious decision, direction. Merely a recycled reflection of past input.
I say programs are digraphs and any compiler/compiler-ish library which represents them as serialized textual statements (other than as the final backend output) is just doing it all wrong.
Laid Off on a Visa?
Weird thing is that when I got my mortgage, I had two credit cards (for airline points) and the broker was like “oh if you’re happy to close them you’ll be able to borrow more”, so we did the application based on that, but then the bank just didn’t ask me to… I still have them, years later…
I’m skeptical about scaling this approach to accomplish real work.

Could Mercury OS be used to write the HTML pages describing Mercury Os? What about the UX design? What about coding for it?

It seems that for anything non trivial like this the whole métaphore collapses.
Don't worry, content moderation for most services, will be performed by GPTs in max 2 years. Pretty sure GPT-4 already exceeds human labellers on average for simple moderation tasks (ie facebook comments, not say reddit communities with fine nuance).

The only moderation workers left, will be for the AI companies, and the efficiency here is train once-use multiple times.

If you are going to outsource that function to some other country, might as well outsource it to GPT, cheaper faster better, with no ethical concerns or bad press.

So those workers don't have to experience those traumas again! They do however have to experience the trauma of unemployment.
So be careful what you wish for.
Do any of the "serverless"/saas model hosting services perform optimizations such as quantization or input micro-batching?
... one which they also made a nice little profit of. $150M in the non-voting stock they bought in 1997 turned into $550M in 2003 when they sold most of it.
> The real problem is that lots of kids have terrible parents and nothing can be done about that.

"Great teacher inspires inner city kids" is literally a movie trope predicated on the idea that society can, in fact, do something about that. The trope is an over-simplification of the situation but we know for a fact that when society steps in, the children of "bad parents" do much better than they would otherwise. Society in turn benefits just as much, if not more so.

> The basic idea is that if you take criminals out of lawful society and put them in prison, they might someday learn that lawful society is worth participating in

Prison systems in most countries are typically designed to reinforce the disillusion and lack of belonging that landed many of the prisoners there in the first place. In their current form they actively work against incentivising people that society is worth contributing to.

To put it another way, we take people that society has generally treated like shit and treat them like worse shit. After a few years of this we turn around with a "surprised pikachu" face when those people don't end their sentence as model members of society.

People become criminals, for the most part, they're not born that way. Dealing with criminality means dealing with the situations that give rise to it. When people's needs are met and they believe they're being treated fairly, they are much less likely to engage in acts of criminality. A society that constantly broadcasts extreme displays of wealth at those living in precarity invites only discord and strife.
If you're a thief you could theoretically find the AirTags with the help of this article right? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227
Would you rather the internet just keep decaying as major corps like google do everything they can to make search impossible unless it’s through a funnel where you end up paying one of their advertisers?

At this point nations screwing with google is just cathartic. They deserve zero sympathy.
I feel it is important to call out the one’s credit score is not a measure of creditworthiness. It is a measure of an individual’s potential profitability to a creditor.

These two are not the same thing.
Do you see folks continuing to build on top of three.js? It looks like Rust game engines like Bevy and Fyrox are set to deliver comprehensive functionality to the browser over WASM/WebGPU.
I’m all for tools. I must of misinterpreted your post
Maybe there should be an amendment to the bill to prevent 80+ year olds from single handedly launching them - that seems like a more clear and present danger.
> The only difference between a leaker and whistleblower is whether you agree with their motives and reasoning.

Well that depends. A lot of times "leakers" have no motives with respect to ethics, or weak ones. Like people who leak features for products for fun, or to thumb their nose at their employer.
Another vote for vast.ai, has been around quite a while and I've been using them for shell access to bare metal machines stuffed with GPUs, always had a decent experience.
Might be luck of the draw, but my experience with Android has been similar to OP. Each of my (at the time top of the line) Samsung phones stopped working due to various reasons after a time period ranging from just under an year, to a couple of years.

In comparison, my secondhand iPhone 3G worked for several years—until I left it in a plane by mistake. My iPhone 7plus I used for ~7 years; in fact I still use it, along with my new iPhone 13.
Okay, but I never told Firefox my location, so what’s it doing that geoip can’t?
On par? Depends which year you're targeting and perhaps what applications. If you mean on par with current year then it'll be a long time before that happens because AMD and Intel are able to run power-hungry while ARM and RISC-V try to use less power.
I don't see that "Enable Navigation" button unless I block all Javascript for the site, but with Javascript blocked it obviously won't work.
I've had a cross-platform issue for ELEVEN YEARS with Firefox randomly not copying text into the clipboard, even when I 'cut' it-- i.e. the text disappears on cut but paste pastes whatever was in the clipboard before. I cannot be the only person with this problem. And yet the bug persists, and invariably someone pops in and tells me it's down to the extensions I have installed, despite not having any of the same extensions now that I did in 2012.

As a user, Firefox feels like hobby project, but at least it's not a Google product.
I'd never really considered it before, but people replacing a large portion of their media consumption with self-made media could buttress, if not accelerate the echo chamber effect.
Well I tried it. It didn't answer any of my questions. I wasn't trying to trick it. Any of the GPTs would have answered at least the last one.

Pi:

Hey there, great to meet you. I’m Pi, your personal AI.

My goal is to be useful, friendly and fun. Ask me for advice, for answers, or let’s talk about whatever’s on your mind.

How can I help?

me:

what are the top ten wikipedia articles submitted to hacker news

pi:

I don’t have access to that information, unfortunately. I wish I could help!

me:

summarize the weather forecast for today in omaha nebraska

pi:

I’d love to help, but unfortunately my database is only updated occasionally, so I don’t have access to the most up-to-date weather forecasts. I’m sorry!

me:

Please write a Shakespearean sonnet about a tiger. Be sure to use the correct rhyme scheme, meter, and stanza formatting.

pi:

Alas, I cannot write poetry in the style of the great bard, William Shakespeare. My skills are focused on more simple prose, and thus, I am not capable of producing anything as lyrical or complex as a sonnet. Sorry to disappoint!
Tech industry that's often using models developed by academics, you mean. OTOH you can point to plenty of companies that exist to get a round of investor money, pay founders, then to just dissolve. There's a balance between having a world where everyone is phacking and one where everyone is trying to fleece investors to buy their junk startup so they can get the hell out of it.
Silly question, but what happens to the device once it has been retrieved? Is it recycled for another employee, re-sold to a systems refurbisher, etc.?

In theory, the terminus (as far as your company is concerned) should determine the retrieval mechanism.
Almost like if you read the followups, those few power mods created multiple alt accounts in the wake of the post.

But keep acting super weird about this, I guess.
TSMC Targets N2 Production for 2025
Ukrainian farmer comes up with novel way to demine his fields [video]
Best use-case by far. I was traveling internationally, and the airline left my luggage back in Europe. The airline had no idea where my bags were but, I was able to tell them exactly which terminal my bags got loaded onto. (where they lost signal) They looked up which flight departed that terminal at that time and were then able to route my bags to my final location and I had them within 24 hours.
man, it makes me sooo uncomfortable to read the defense attorney shitting on this guy because he had taken some coke, and tested positive for having had taken ketamine at some point... yeah, "that's how it works", but it just feels different when it's talking about the dead, who can no longer speak for themselves, rather than someone still among the living.

sure, the odds he did something untoward are probably slightly higher in the Bayesian sense than the baseline, but come on, this is such crap: "What happens when people take drugs? Generally, they act like drug people, and what drug people act like is not themselves, not happy-go-lucky...". an insult to anyone who has popped any amount of party drugs, and an insult to the intelligence of everyone. blegh.

and "Bob Lee's system is like the Walgreens of recreational drugs"... that is such bullshit. i guess being a defense attorney is not for me.
Thanks, I just semi-retired from DoD.
It's closed so others don't catch up quicker or add those optimizations upstream? Then they have no moat.
Can you write here an irrational number, not in the form of a letter or a formula?

For me a "decimal number" is a number represented in base 10. Which is why I was asking. I even googled and there is no real definition.
> we'll fight the big guys

I'd be more convinced of this if they weren't actively collaborating with the big guys.
Wow, looks like there's a ton of choices here I haven't looked at. For iterate.world we use replicate but just added kandinsky from runpod. Thinking about switching everything to runpod because it's 5-10x cheaper and we only use models that they have anyway.

There's one I won't share that's is now defunct but you could use any diffuser's compatible project on Hugging Face, which was such a cool feature. I wish someone (cheap) would implement this!

edit: just looked at banana.dev in this thread, their templates look closest to the HuggingFace integration though I don't think they have webhooks.
One of the big practical problems in automotive tracking for anti-theft reasons is concealment. Some thieves know to check for common, especially factory-fit trackers, and so will take precautionary actions like storing vehicles under metal cover until they can disable the tracker. How effective this is depends on the tracker and the thief's knowledge level, but there is a cat-and-mouse game here where you want to prevent the thief knowing a tracker is fitted.

With AirTags this is rather difficult because of the anti-stalking feature, but on the upside they are easy to conceal places so you will get a time window of good functionality. With more conventional GPS trackers a good way to install them is often under the dashboard plastics below the windshield, which offers a clear sky view and is a fair amount of work to get to in a lot of vehicles. Of course the labor on that installation method drives up price so it's not unusual for them to be somewhere far less discrete like in the engine compartment with an external antenna or glued to the bottom of the rear deck in sedans.
> There was nothing new introduced by Python that other languages took from it which shows that there is nothing groundbreaking about it.

Not strictly true, Python's approach to readability (syntax) inspired languages like Kotlin, GDScript, to name a couple.

But the bigger picture is that Python has spawned prominent frameworks/DSLs in virtually every domain, so to suggest that it is a dead-end of innovation is not quite correct.
> Meta clown cars

Metaverse is merely premature. AI is the bigger and more general tech wave, but Metaverse will start to crest in 5 years or so.

Think about all the immersive, interactive fiction powered by LLMs and AI. That's just scratching the service of what's possible.

Games, movies, narrative, and social will converge.
4 Dell monitors on my desk were made in China.
Maybe this will make CUE popular. It’s similar to JSON, but the idea of schema and values are put together through unification, or you could say narrowing constraints. CUE would handle taking all of those values individually, then combining them into something concrete, incomplete, or erroring out.
Lol with the quality of work coming out of IBM these days, they should just replace every one
I was so confused at your glowing review until the redemption of the last sentence.
Indeed, and your comment led me to find additional issues with my port of _mm_madd_epi16.

I agree it would perhaps be possible to find better semantics for SIMD that kinda gloss over all the differences. That would be cleaner but require a lot of names. Well I suppose that's what Highway does, isn't it?
That was pretty common in Spain 50 years ago. One of the reasons was to show off the capitalism was better than communism.
Isn't that equal to 157/50?
> People's first reaction will be, "yep, seen this before, fuck that"

And that would be the right one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Maybe we should be using a market system for our monthly salaries and a contract system for our weekly groceries to undue some of the burden the status quo saddles upon us?
> And then infinitely later

There can be no 'and then' after infinitely later.

I don't see why stepwise is important but that must be the key to Cantor's proof.

If he gives me 1.1 1.2 1.3 and I pair with 1 2 3, then he gives me 1.11 and I pair with 4, that seems fine as far as counting is concerned.

The ordering could be entirely random, I don't see how it makes a difference. There will always be enough integers to match.

Is it that my black box metaphor is cheating by coercing a truly 'parallel' generation of decimals into a linear operation? But even then, if I'm getting exponentially bigger chunks of new decimals, I can provide equally large chunks of integers... so it still doesn't make sense to me. Infinity is infinity and you cannot count it.
This may not have worked well for this specific PD for whatever reason, but Flock is already solving 5% of all US crime today. That’s pretty amazing.
In over 20 years, I only ran into this with one startup. The founder ran out of money... twice. He was a nice guy so I gave him the benefit of the doubt this wouldn't happen again. Big mistake. It did... a few short months later.

The company was eventually "acquired" for pennies-on-the-dollar in a fire sale. Early investors got nothing. Of course, like many failed "acquisitions", this is seen as a success on his LinkedIn page.
It's quack.exe all over again.
I genuinely don't know what you mean by "blind probability" or "surface-level probability", but in case you don't know, how transformer models work is after tokenization and embeddings are calculated each attention head in the model calculates "self-attention" which is the relationship between all tokens in the current context of the model and passes its results either to another layer of attention heads or to the decoder layer of the model. This typically uses a temperature parameter to control randomness in the output by affecting the probability distribution of tokens in the vocabulary when producing output. I'm not sure whether this counts as "blind" or "surface-level" but that's the probability in GPT models. If you want to learn more, here's Vaswani et al 2017 - the seminal paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf
They already have a great bug bounty program! In addition, they also regularly raise money from the community to pay security and crypto researchers to audit the protocols and codebase.
as a 1337 pwn3r the TPMs are fine

source: just trust me bro
Incorrect information. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/08/fac...
Thank you for the really clear and complete description of "ControLogit"s and your approach in clownfish!