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>What I’ve actually seen is that use of Harmonium as an accompanying instrument is much more common across the spectrum (both north and south)

The harmonium has disappeared entirely from the carnatic concert stage actually.
> The talk was that the R&D divisions had multiple generations of innovative tech up their sleeves and if any competitor ever got close, well they'd just pop something out like from a vending machine to kick their ass.

It's amazing that this story just keeps popping up over and over. People also said this about Intel (nope, 10nm was a total wash and during that time AMD and ARM started eating their lunch) and Google (no, there is no secret Google lab with the "good AI", it's just Bard and it sucks compared to GPT-4).
Google certainly appear to be a bit behind, although it's hard to know what they have internally that they've chosen not to release.

It seems that Google have certainly been cautious about releasing this type of tech, but again hard to tell the exact mix of motivations - e.g. safety vs business risks. Almost all the authors of the Transformer paper have since left Google, and it seems a common theme is that they all thought Google was under-utilizing the tech - maybe just not knowing what to do with it as much as being worried about it ?

It seems things are now changing at Google, with the Brain + DeepMind merger and what appears to be a new productization focus. It seems competition may now be trumping safety concerns, even if they are still paying lip service to it!
I have a somewhat popular toot: https://tech.lgbt/@Kye/109982031390613361

10k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

100k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,000k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,300k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

I'm starting to think these people aren't real doctors.
I don't know enough about web stuff, but I wonder how much this depends on the system

I got past the second one, and oddly was able to 'sit still' in the middle while rearranging my fingers for a remarkably 'long' time (couple seconds or so, hard to guage)

For anyone smarter than me: I'm on Linux with Wayland and a 144Hz display, output should be synchronized if this plays a part
Wonder why Arvind didn't get the invite for IBM? I mean Watson has been around for quite some time...
The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more
Something like windscale would never be built again either. It was an air cooled research reactor designed to make weapon fuel, not power generation or anything useful for civilian purposes. As they learned, air cooling at that scale was a terrible idea and never used again.
i say this every time this is mentioned... all these thing are mostly to help advertisers and fight spam and reduce cost on their servers.

theres a million ways to provide this functionality without relying on vendor lock in. they are pretty much working as a mini certificate authority/vendor.

instead of vetting clients and giving them CAs, they just run your credit card for some hardware or subscription, and validate your login.
> "expectation that companies like yours must make sure their products are safe before making them available to the public."

Lets make a guess, they are going to say its dangerous and we need regulation to prevent competitio---terorrism.

Here is what you need to do instead, get some smart people from various agencies that are trustworthy, have them use the openAI playground and see what can be accomplished. Then show them that you can torrent facebooks LLM right now, and that its already on computers worldwide. The cat is out of the bag.

Then let them make policy decisions.

Hard to imagine this is anything other than a ploy for regulations and lobbying.
Not if you think of it as revealing the sender's message, not writing your own.
To get an idea where WebGPU is heading a couple of projects worth looking at.

- The Bevy game engine, using WebGPU on the backend. https://bevyengine.org/

- Wonnx, A WebGPU inference engine for running AI compute on the server or in the browser. https://github.com/webonnx/wonnx
I assume the "top" percentiles for most fields will have reported above average earnings. It would have been a more interesting article if they also looked at the pay for top 100 doctors, athletes, or other salaries positions as a point of comparison.
This is greatly reassuring.
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> Once IBM i was ported to PowerPC, the vertical microcode was mostly rewritten in C++

I heard once from someone who used to work for IBM, that although the most important parts of the “vertical microcode” were rewritten in C++, a lot of less important bits stayed in PL/MP (the PL/I dialect which compiled to the CISC IMPI native instruction set)-they just built a new PL/MP compiler which spat out POWER machine code instead of IMPI machine code-and so lots of PL/MP code is still there. And then there is also PL/MI, which is used for the higher level OS components which run above the “Licensed Internal Code”-it compiles to MI bytecode-and apparently that’s still around too. And still parts of the OS written in Modula 2. But brand new stuff, they prefer more mainstream languages such as C++
What happens if you lose all your hardware factors (eg if you have a home fire)? Are you just locked out of all your accounts with this approach?
Tour of North Korea’s “new town” in Pyongyang [video]
I feel like this will be counterproductive and the strike will only cause more shows to be written or outlined or storyboarded with GPT sooner. But I mean what can they do. Maybe this is their best try. First they came for the Writers' Guild...
I’ll wait to see if they have proper “sleep” mode such that they don’t keep draining batter while not in use, particularly when running Linux. This is something that baffles me about non Apple Laptops how they just refuse to catch up to such a great benefit.. (alongside the trackpad experience which I can may be live with).
Yaegi internals: the design of a Go interpreter
I can't imagine how anyone working for Amnesty International could not have realized what a terrible idea this is. It makes me lose a lot of respect for the organization, such bad judgement.
i’ve got passkeys enabled on github, cloudflare, google, twitter etc via apple’s passkey implementation (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphf538ea8d0/io...). they all implemented passkeys as an alternative to sms OTP. very easy to use, and should be better than sms, but still haven’t seen full on login using passkeys. if anyone knows of such a site i’m curios how they implemented it.
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I don't think you've used an LLM then.
And I always thought AMD was to blame for Vulkan, because they couldn't catch up with NVIDIA's OpenGL driver performance ;)
I'm struggling to understand how possibly inventing your own language -- one not even compatible with the Haskell eco-system -- was ever a good idea in production.
I feel like the movement could have overcome the "corporate talking point" by actually having an organized and focused goal.
In your example it should be

def add_ints(a: int, b: int) -> Tuple[int | None, bool].

I’m not a fan of the Tuple return type. This is how golang does things and while it works there I don’t like seeing this in Python code because the Tuple tells you nothing unless you follow this convention and you have to add the Tuple annotation on top of every return type making it harder to read. I don’t see a need for it here since you’re already returning an Optional[int] (int | None in Python 3.10+). You could also raise a TypeError. Also your type checker should catch this if a or b are not an int, so you might feel safe returning a+b at this point and having the return type be simply int.
Wasn't aware, thank you. Can't find anything in logs, is it still down for you?
Title should be changed to mention the fact that this is about the Ryzen mainboard.
I am puzzled by the lack of keyboard layouts for Switzerland (we have the cash to spend on such novelties!). Also, no DVORAK? Is this for hackers or not?

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English International $99
German $99
US English $99
French $99
British English $99
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Black ISO $109
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>maybe it is easier to go through actual verified information than to double check everything an AI says.

Wrong tool for the job. You don't ask it information questions. Ask it brainstorming questions.
Okay, but the alternative is users managing a separate password for every service, which is impossible to do securely without using a password-manager, and the password-manager is basically a weaker version of an external service like Google's.
>>the free market is basically not a thing anymore

I'd say this has little to do with COVID (beyond that it is a random event that decreased then re-increased demand), but the accumulated effect of decades of failing to enforce anti-trust law.

The most propserous times and bigges middle class ended with the Reagan administration, who in 1983, ordered the DOJ, FTC, and SEC to stop enforcing anti-trust laws dating back to the Sherman Act of 1890[0].

This massively destroyed small businesses and concentrated corporate power. E.g., the closer a store was to the Walmart location, the greater the likelihood it would close. Persky and his colleagues found that for every mile closer to the Walmart, 6 percent more stores closed. Close in around the store's location, between 35 and 60 percent of stores closed. [1]

Previously, anti-trust laws were enforced so aggressively that when Buster Brown and Kinney shoe companies wanted to merge in the 1960s the Supreme Court blocked the merger because the combined company would control about 5 percent of the US shoe market. Nike alone today controls around 20 percent of that market.[0]

Obviously, when anti-trust laws stop being enforced and massive corporations gain oligarchic market and pricing power, they can create inflation at will.

This power needs to be rebalanced.

Again, recognize, that the "free market" is ab absolute fiction — there is no such thing. Every market has rules and regulations, explicit and/or tacit. The only question is what are the regulations and who enforces them.

Absent sufficient regulation, the market dynamics will always end up with all power in the hands of a few major players. This is what is happening here. Looks like is is not the FED that can fix it, it is the SEC and DOJ.

[0] https://www.rawstory.com/amp/gop-party-of-business-265994473...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-09-14/radiating...
But it can lead to instability. There's a reason these are not documented.

Also, we know Chromium used some. There's a proprietary Chrome layer on top of it that might be using more under the hood. Unless someone decompiles there's no way of knowing (but considering how it broke Enterprise, wouldn't be surprised it was doing undocumented stuff under the hood).
Can you name some of the innovation happening in ICE vehicles? Just some terms I can search for would be appreciated. Thanks!
“Telling the truth” implies two things: that the actual effort needed is fixed, and that you know it. In practice I’ve found neither of those things to be anywhere close to true for large projects. Furthermore the pursuit of accuracy by doing finer and finer-grained estimates and then rolling them up can waste a lot of time because it provides fodder for bike shedding while missing the forest for the trees. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen this process lead to a total train wreck.

What works better is to be very clear on the big picture goals, do a speculative high level breakdown to inform an initial deadline and staffing commitment, but keep the precise scope flexible. Then get right into prototyping and building, attacking the areas of largest risk and refining the requirements as you go. You only should have fine-grained plans for the next 2-3 months with the rest of the roadmap intentionally being flexible, save for any key milestones that are needed to ensure progress to the high level goal.

Of course this requires deep expertise with cross-functional influence and bi-directional trust with management, but if you don’t have those things big projects are fucked regardless. In that case your best bet is hunkering down with some agile methodology as a shield while looking for a better job.
Regarding hiring difficulty, some say it's a feature rather than a bug. There are always good candidates. And good engineers can learn and be proficient in any language. Haskell is certainly not harder than C++.

I see some issues though.

Some niche languages enthusiasts can be very picky and reluctant to work on other languages, and would pick Haskell when a simple python script would be more appropriate.

People from Academia interested in Haskell may be good in PL theory, and writing compilers or static analysers, but may lack in other fields such as system programming, which incidentally is harder in Haskell too. So you also need to find devops, system guys and so on who can also be productive in Haskell, and those are more rare.
IDK, we don't seem lacking in metrics. For measuring the quality of LLMs at the core task of language modeling (which then gets applied to other tasks), the classic information theory metric of perplexity works; for evaluating how well they transfer to other tasks, we can (and do) use metrics of those specific tasks, like the tasks in SuperGLUE dataset. All reasonable LLM papers do evaluation on these metrics, and they don't really "make the metric the target", you really can't do much in the large model pretraining to target SuperGLUE specifically.
Granted I haven't used Chrome in years, but I find that firefox integrates remarkably well from phone to pc. The menu of open tabs on other devices is invaluable to me (although idk if Chrome has this too)
I prefer centigrade over Celsius because it's not named after a person. Also I wanted to be clear that it's a two degree drop, not 2°C.
I think this is being wrongly frame.

This functionality is actually needed in highly regulated industries like banking or government.

Which is, you need a way to secure how your employees are accessing information.

And when everything is moving to becoming a cloud document (or document hosted on the cloud), not being able to have control over the browser in which that information is viewed with is a huge threat vector.

So I totally understand why they have to ability to launch all links with Edge, and then Edge have built in privacy controls.

So if you're an organization that need these higher level security controls, this is actually what you want.

What the article doesn't make clear is, is Microsoft actually defaulting to this to all customers.
I'm not a linguist but I do know both languages (English and Spanish) fairly well, and my impression is that this is mostly a semantic argument, which is based around the way we conjugate a single word.

If you were very strict about only looking at the single word, English stays very simple (do=infinitive/present plural, does=present singular, doing=progressive, did=past, done=arguably not a tense because it's an adjective). If you look at it in this way, Spanish obviously has more tenses--they have six different variations of just the present tense, for example.

But that doesn't capture the whole story because English does have all those tenses, English just doesn't do it in one word. Notably, there's no future tense in the one-word variations, so nobody reasonably will argue that the above is all the tenses.

And that takes you to a complicated place because you can do multi-word variations in Spanish, too, and sometimes those are functionally the same (what's the difference between "voy a pagar" and "pagaré"?).

And if you start allowing for multiple-word tenses, then there's a virtually unlimited number of constructions possible, and any limitation you could place on this is completely subjective. For example, your link doesn't list "I will have had been doing" as a tense, but it's obviously a grammatically correct construction with a real use--the only reason for not including it is a subjective judgment that it's too uncommon.

And critically, you can do all of those in both languages, it's just a matter of how many words and how awkward/uncommon the construction will be. The different structures of the languages lead one toward preferring certain structures ("pagaré" over "voy a pagar" in Spanish, while one would likely say "I'll pay" in English because there's no one-word option). But to represent these as different tenses is pretty subjective and maybe a bit silly.

The one thing I'm aware of that Spanish can do that English can't is communicate formality with a conjugation, i.e. "tú" form versus "usted" form, but I'd argue that's not a tense, because "tense" seems to be about the the temporatlity of the verb and that's a modification to accommodate the formality of the subject of the sentence.
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Also mostly fair.

I think the catch is Open AI is risking turning "open" into a weasel word? That is, still science, but hardly open. Which is fine, but then don't call yourself open?
> The company is out of business

This is the issue.
Maybe you missed the part where I explain how PMs translate to time for business planning. Yes that is absolutely necessary.

And yes it is an abstraction, which is the whole point.

Human brains are extremely bad and inconsistent at estimating time, and much better at estimating effort. So you abstract and let them estimate in the terms they're better at. Not to mention, the abstraction means you average in unpredictable disruptions like illness, windows updates, and other events. Abstracted unit estimates are demonstrated to be much more accurate than (not-abstracted) time estimates.
> The answer to "how many hours is one point?" is "as long as it takes."

In principle the “how many hours to one point” question is answered by tracking and analysis of past sprints, where over time you develop an empirical measure of velocity, which gives you an idea both of the average time it takes to do a atory of a particular size, but also the size of the error bars when taking that average as an estimate.

Which can be useful for sanity checking things like sprint sizing, though the existence of the stat risks it becoming an optimization target in some orgs, either because management sees it and wants “line goes up” or for some other reasons (teams can do it to themselves, though management is more likely to.)
It's not about developer machines, it's about servers. There are are a lot of people who want to run the same OS, and even the same processor architecture, on their development and deployment machines. (I've almost always worked in a cross-compilation world, so this doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but whenever the topic of ARM or RISC-V machines comes up here, it gets a lot of attention.)
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> it's probably the CEOs of the top performing companies last year.

Citation needed. For Jefferies', one of those cited:

"Revenue Growth (Quarterly YoY) -8.35

Revenue Growth Rate (5Y) 8.06"

doesn't look stellar to me.
The entire crux of any discussion on Microsoft's behaviors hinges on one figure: What percentage of their Windows and Office revenues are coming from end users versus corporate sales? I mean, I think it's kind of obvious, but yet we still have arguments about why they would screw users with these sorts of decisions. It makes no sense to me. Further, (and deference to Tom Warren), but I would bet that a lot more IT admins are happy with this change than there are those who are angry.
It cannot.

Arbitrary side effects allowed by strict-by-default language without types constraining these ruin easeness of software development provided by Haskell.

When your Haskell program works and walks, add bangs and it will run. Lately I heard from my colleagues it will run even without bangs as ghc has improved.
> Also, no DVORAK? Is this for hackers or not?

I can't imagine they would sell enough DVORAK layout to make it worth it.
> the overhead of multiple files is gone

Unfortunately not. Gzip is applied per-file and multiple small zips aren’t as compressed as a single zip.

Additionally, you get a cascade of downloads if you have multiple levels of imports, so it will download a file, parse it, download the its dependencies, etc.

Now this may not be a big deal in some cases, but the overhead is still not gone.

Side note: server push is gone so there’s no way to avoid the cascade.

> minify - i don’t care since i gzip anyway

That’s not how it works. The two things are complementary. Minification can drop a lot of dead code and comments, gzipping alone won’t do that.
It's going to drink all the coffee because it's just like a human brain and needs the caffeine to function decently.

Turns out caffeine was all that was in the way of AGI.
Right! The fact that Arab-oil countries want to join BRICS and are starting to trade in Yuan instead of Dollars is also going to accelerate this.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/five-arab-states-plus...
Here are some stories of what it's actually used for: https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/12vhz1c/genuine_qu...
I think most problem sets would be hard to solve without use of dynamic programming, irrespective of recursion or not. But yes, recursion with memorisation/accumulation would be a good place to start.
Agreed. With some work, 13B runs on consumer hardware at this point. That redefines consumer to a 3090 (but hey, some depressed crypto guys are selling them. I recently got another GPU for my homelab this way).

30B is within reach, with compression techniques that seem to lose very little information of the overall network. Many argue that machine learning IS fundamentally a compression technique, but the topology of the trained network turns out to be more important. Assuming an appropriate activation function after this transformation.

No… definitely not your GPT4 replacement. However this is the kind of PoC I keep following… every… 18 hours or so? Amazing.
I haven't looked into it or tried it yet, but there is https://petals.ml/
I don't remember the exact quote and the origin, but it's along the lines of

"I wish had I known that the people fighting the power were actually just fighting for the power."
If you work on supercomputers they feel a lot less sexy. As the old quote goes "supercomputers are devices to turn compute bound problems into IO bound problems". So you spend a lot of time fighting IO. (And thinking about memory movements.)
The thing is that, there's no way to defend human rights without it being "political" and seen as partisan. There are always powerful political forces not wanting to recognize human rights violations as human rights violations, or they wouldn't need organized opposition in the first place.

I'm pretty sure Amnesty International has been accused of being a partisan political movement for as long as it's existed, by those who don't like what it's critisizing.