skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice this will get you acquainted with many of the methods used currently, as my small addition to the list of things you can learn.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/07/announcing-scann-efficient...
https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast...

Google released SCaNN a few years ago and back then it wasn't implemented in many tools like Milvus etc. Maybe it is now, it's been a few years since I needed a scalable vector db. I believe it's still state of the art, and they use a novel approach to quantization, which was the key intuition.

I didn't see it included in the PDF from a quick scan (hah!)
One of my favorites is “nonplussed,” because its evolution into two opposite things is both generational and split across British vs North American English.
Whittaker's point around minoritized groups is twofold. One, when non-white, non-men raised the alarm about LLMs previously, they got much less media coverage than Hinton, et al, are getting. Two, the harms of LLMs may fall broadly, but they will fall disproportionately on minoritized groups.

That should be uncontroversial, because in our society that's how the harms generally fall. E.g., if you look at the stats from the the recent economic troubles. Or if you look at Covid death rates. (Although there the numbers are more even because of the pro-disease political fashion among right-wing whites.)

There's a difference with a Rorschach test. That test is about investigating the unconscious through interpretation of random stimuli. But what's going on here isn't random at all. The preexisting pattern of societal bias not only means the harms will again fall on minoritized groups. But it also means the harms will be larger, because the first people sounding the alarm about these technologies weren't listened to because of their minoritized status. Whereas the people benefiting from the harms tend to be in more favored groups.
Isn't the issue that things fall out of context and then it starts hallucinating a lot more ? Sometimes it helps to just start a new prompt
He does no such thing. He points out that these cheaters were studying to be teachers, the very role that they were trying to cheat in the test.
Clearly we differ on how we feel about approaching people. I’d rather get a simple message. When people have to write things they tend to think more about what they want to say. And what you’re describing about the fly on the wall is still simply they aren’t communicating well if they aren’t including coworkers that may only be included for the benefit of learning how to handle situations. One way to handle that is to approach your boss and ask to be included in those situations because you’d like to learn how to respond. Your last line sums up how you feel about remote interactions nicely. I’m sorry, I just don’t find that your feelings about online rejections is a good enough reason to drive into an office.
In recent years it's very possible they either don't use a language where that syntax is ever required (python) or just use one of the foreach variants in pretty much every language.
I've spent some time last week reading about this ... pretty scary.

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

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/global-warming-led-c...

Peter Ward: “Oceans - What’s the Worst that Can Happen?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eM1aakTzMw
I can't tell whether this is an exercise in scifi-ish speculation, a la Julio Vernes, in which case is kinda interesting, or an attempt at seriously exploring possible near future, in which case I hate it.

There's a weak and strong version of what I feel is the core idea, "what if human communication becomes largely intermediated by machines".

The weak version is already here, as the article points out. We (at least we, chronically online people) already talk in memes and gifs quite a lot. And how AI will shape it is worth thinking about. I saw that happening on real time on TikTok with people using alternatives for words they feel get their content deprioritized, like suicide, murder, sex, etc. A literal AI model changing language.

The strong version, though, is purely star-trek/Asimov level of speculation. Let alone the same neighborhood, current technology is not even in the same country as that.

The article kinda mixes both things back and forth for a bit, and then fully dives into the scify version, which makes me wondering if the author genuinely believe they will see anything like this. If they do, boy will they be disappointed.

Now, assuming it's all fun scify speculation of a future we'll never see, but hey, might happen, I have some problems with the ideas, but I'll highlight two.

> Plenty of other species manage fine with simpler languages or no language at all.

No they don't. Only species doing well right now are the ones we breed or our parasites. We can potentially erase almost all non-microscopic life forms by accident, let alone if we really put our minds to it. Humans have effects on a geological scale, that's a very select group of species.

> And it is not clear to me that intelligence has much to do with the linguistic fabric of contemporary society.

Kinda see the above comment? I don't think we even have a concept of intelligence that isn't somehow based on language, even if that language is not necessarily some form of spoken language. We certain can't evaluate intelligence without it. And as far as I know, humans don't develop language without socialization.

Sure, you could envision a future where the machines do the socialization, but I think that would be a civilization that would be too fragile to exist for much long.
For me one of the most common issues is when I write a regex but I have some of the escapes the wrong way around etc. So I’m giving a valid regex, but it’s not matching what I tried to match. And then I have to change it around a couple of times before it works.

One reason for this is that different programs have different rules for what should be escaped when, when you write a regex. For example, I think grep is a bit different from vim in this regard
https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b 65k+ context window, open source, open weights
Destitute people or a carrier employee is bribed to activate the SIM cards without registration.

https://commsrisk.com/telco-corruption-fuels-simbox-frauds/
The cleaning office didn't requested to prank called either!
Most of the times I have worked in Amsterdam people did not go to work by bike or on foot. Most people came in by car, the second largest group used the train into Amsterdam and only a small part was able to walk or bike to work. Those were usually upper-management, people able to afford housing in Amsterdam and not living in the surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. For them it was still a 25 minute bike ride to the industrial estate that the office was in, so sometimes they would call an Uber to work.

Anecdotal though.
There’s an argument to be made that we should do a much better job of directing those neutrons to make tritium, since fission isn’t even something to discuss until we know how to make abundant tritium.
What is actually sad is that I can't watch Netflix using something like VLC.
Ask HN: Is managing user PII in analytics a pain point for anyone?
Dealing with personal identifiable information (PII) in analytics can be tricky, especially if you want to respect people's privacy and be compliant with all the recent privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA. Anonymizing and de-identifying the data can be good way to deal with this as it gives you a lot more flexibility to utilize the data freely, protecting business analysts from accidentally violating privacy policies; however, what do you do when you want to engage with cohorts of users that you found through anonymized and de-identified datasets? Is this a challenge that anyone else faces?

I'm trying to gauge interest for creating a PII management system that would provide a clear demarcation of roles for analyst and automated engagement platforms:

1. It would allow analysts and analytics platforms the ability to operate on anonymized datasets

2. It would provide role-based authorization for engagement platforms to query contact info from cohorts generated from anonymized datasets utilizing the information solely to send predefined, automated messages via email, text, snail mail, etc.

Does a system like this sound useful for anybody? I'd be especially interested to hear from someone with first hand experience in this area. Thanks.
the problem is I don't think there is interest in privatizing the station. I think it was floated at one point, but Axiom and Blue Origin seem to be more interested in building their own stations.

especially when the prospect of being able to launch the entire orbital mass of the ISS on two expendable Super Heavy/Starship rockets is on the horizon.

also I don't know how hard it is to change the stations orbit inclination, but when they went from being Space Station Freedom to the ISS the orbit was changed to allow the Russians to be able to launch to it. That drastically reduced the amount the Shuttle could carry to the ISS. From my understanding Axiom and Blue Origin are both planning to optimize for launch from North America.
Saudi universities entice top scientists to switch – sometimes with cash
Consumers are going to be told that they want giant-ass electric trucks and SUVs.
Car bomb in Russia wounds pro-war writer, kills driver
https://archive.is/rljC7
ChatGPT LangChain Example for Chatbot Q&A (With Faiss)
> the example of the king who builds a secret escape tunnel: What happens to the engineers who know about the tunnel? he asks, making the point that there will always be someone who knows your secrets.

Not always. When Genghis Khan died, Marco Polo's legend (not universally believed) says they got a bunch of slaves to bury him somewhere, then killed them all, and then the people who killed them were themselves killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_place_of_Genghis_Khan
Lmao neither of those things I mentioned really cost more than 50 million dollars.
Ukraine war: Russia accused of using phosphorus bombs in Bakhmut
Show HN: Hacker News ChatGPT Plugin
I recently received access to develop and use ChatGPT plugins, and embarked on a project to build a Hacker News integration as a learning exercise. My goal was to enable retrieval of content from HN to answer questions and produce insights in conversations with ChatGPT. I documented my journey in this blog post, which will hopefully be helpful to other plugin developers or anyone looking to learn more about embeddings.

You can try the experience even if you don't have plugin access on ChatGPT through the demo on hn.kix.in - it's a loose approximation but should give you a sense of what's possible. I've been having a lot of fun getting concise answers from the collective wisdom on HN for a wide range of topics!

In many ways this work is similar to the "ShowHN: AskHN" [1] demo shown here a few months ago by the folks at patterns.app. The main differences are in the real-time data integration (you can ask questions about articles submitted as recently as 15 minutes ago), integration with the ChatGPT plugin API, use of GPT-3.5-turbo instead of GPT-3 "davinci", and different approaches taken for embedding generation and semantic search.

The source code for everything is on Github [2], pull requests are most welcome.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897773
[2] https://github.com/anantn/hn-chatgpt-plugin
I used ChatGPT to build my first Chrome AI extension in one day
Ukraine says used US-made Patriot system to intercept Russian hypersonic missile
FL Studio lives off plugins that aren't free. Still, it's great that the producer edition is free forever, but one might need to pay them from time to time when falling in love with some new sound ;-)
I thought it will be fun to do this with this tech stack, and I didn't want to spend an entire week for a magnifier. It's also cool to see what you can build with a web stack!

I'm not sure why this would be so inefficient, as the screenshot is only taken once when the magnifier is activated. In fact, I don't think we care about efficiency at all for this kind of little tool.

But thanks a lot for the link, that's super interesting, and they included a "ExcludeFromCapture" which would have been very convenient! I'll have a look how if I can integrate this into a Tauri backend!
You should mention that this is your project by the way. You're pretending like it's not by writing they instead of we, while on your own website you state that you're co-founder of oio.
Public transit still needs bridges to cross bodies of water.
By definition poor countries overtaken by fossil fuels industrialization cannot use nuclear power - the technical knowledge is not there, and even if it were the corruption would result in destruction of the facility.

Power from the sun is the ultimate end goal in the tech tree. We've just skipped over the middle part because it turns out that even the smartest nuclear builds are still stupid and incapable of accounting for natural disasters or human elements.
Netflix requires DRM shitware.
Most restrooms around here have a trash can near the door and there are always a lot of paper towels in that trash from people using them to open the door (when it requires a pull action). When there isn’t a trash can, there will sometimes be a small pile of paper towels on the floor near the door like it’s people saying “where is the trash can?”
Intermittent energy. Doesn’t work well for manufacturing at all. Your argument, without nuclear, is an argument for natural gas and coal.

Industrials need steady power to function. Without nuclear, the world is going to just use natural gas. Coal for poorer countries. Solar and wind peppered in but not trusted for any base load and regionally limited.
I like the French language; I was once fluent (when I was 6).

So when I was sent on a course to do with computers in Paris, I said that my French was up to it. Wrong! My presence on the course was seriously disruptive, because French technical jargon (which I didn't learn at age 6) is unrecognisable to people who haven't learned that jargon in France (nobody else uses it).
Well this guy on Wikipedia, who clearly cares more then you do, for one. Dictionaries, style guides, people like Orwell, the French do have a ministry to maintain the language.

I've answered your question, now I have one for you: Did you even glance at the link?

I'm sorry, these epistemologically relativist arguments lead to utterly absurd conclusions. How does wikipedia work at all? How can we ever make judgements about anything?

It's bad Cartesianism. Just because we can't know something absolutely doesn't mean we can't know anything. Just because language changes doesn't mean there's no such thing as correct and incorrect usage.
These agreements involve book keeping and money also.
> when the did anyone start expecting a hamburger menu?

It's probably related to the rise in popularity of Bootstrap
First of all, he seems like a perfectly happy person, so I’m assuming saying he’s “sad” is attacking him personally because you don’t agree with him.. which is sad.

Second, comprised already means “consists of”. Unlike your example, heard, which is the past tense if hear. So “comprised of” essentially means “consists of of” which is nonsense. Hence why it’s better to say “comprises” rather than “comprised of”.
It’s not, and it can be very useful to the org. But I find it a huge pain in the ass.
Better yet make a Dockerfile
> if adaptations aren’t made before net-zero goals for EVs are met.

Of course. Why would we not make adaptations? The job of the grid is to adapt to consumer needs. They aren’t perfect, but it makes sense that they’ll adapt.

I wouldn’t count on consumers changing unless the grid does something simple like set prices to incentivize charging patterns.

I have a few electric companies near me. One just has flat rates. The other has nighttime rates that are much lower. I expect all power companies will end up like this. Or just grant low prices for “smart chargers” that auto charge based on when there’s excess capacity.

These types of articles seem funny to me as a form of “I haven’t eaten in the past 8 hours, if this trend continues I will starve to death in two days.”
Time-series chart of Daily Surface Sea Temps compared year-over-year from early 80s to previous day:

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

Edit: This is the same source used by the article.
Won't work for any externally-capitalized company.
What are "bumpers" in this context?
I don’t disagree that if this is your sole reason for picking a language it is not a great one. But it is a benefit nevertheless. And obviously we can express more complex rules in a full-on programming language.
Yes and no. As with the current example in Russia, dangerous governments are closely allied with the economic/industrial elite. Beckert's Empire of Cotton is a good look at the history of what he calls "war capitalism", where there's a close alliance and a lot of common effort between the nominally separate spheres of government and industry.
Roadmap of Blender Foundation supported projects for 2023 Q2
The people making money from it wouldn’t exist without people buying the verification codes. If you Google smspva or services like it and read forum posts about it the majority of discussion is about people using it to automate account registration.
I don't know what the issue is. Been happening more lately. Before would ask a lot and would manage, now often 4-5 prompts in seems to just answer without previous context
Well this is wildly wrong. Scales, arpeggios, etc. are taught not just for the theoretical understanding they help with but because they occur VERY frequently in actual pieces
I agree that MS and Google in particular have incredible adoption levers by integrating them with their existing services. But there will still be a huge, probably bigger, market for integrating AI with other apps. Think about Copilot, in principle not even MS has a moat there, other than restricting VS Code plugins. And that's not even talking about building your own counseling/... app.
Yes, that was my experience too. Everyone needed to pass a basic keyboard skills class the first year (or test out of it) regardless of their focus in performance, composition, teaching, etc.
Sodium has a melting point slightly below 100 degrees Celsius. Magnesium has a melting point of 650 Celsius. I don't know the exact temperature that sodium will have in the Natrium reactor, but in the French Phenix reactor it was about 560 Celsius. But that's the highest one. The temperature at the bottom of the sodium pool is most likely much lower. In any case, much, much lower than the "freezing" point of magnesium, which will particulate. So, I imagine it can be filtered by a sieve made of steel, not much different than the sieve in my kitchen to filter my tea.
implicitness examples: precedence, type coersion, overflow, polymorphism.

But I suppose (e.g.) precedence doesn't arise that often; it "should" be familiar from high-school algebra; it can be made explicit (with parentheses or successive assignments).
> Of course, but what is your point?

That you can't compare two requirements when the consequences for failing to meet them are so different. To make an iffy comparison, you don't need brakes on a skateboard just as much as you need brakes on a car, even if a skateboard would stop a bit faster with brakes.

Incidentally, a few remarks on some unrelated points that were brought up:

> Not through centralized planning but by making sure we have a market where we pay for people to provide what is needed.

And we're seeing how well it's going.

> How to make sure that everything that is needed in order to have sufficient production capacity in all scenarios is also built is not in the responsibility of TSOs.

No, but as coordinators of the grid, TSOs have a lot to say about the impact and viability of production choices. There's a reason why TSOs publish their own studies on this topic.

> much more so than the hypothetical issue of under-supply in 10-20 years that you raise for which the basic organisational mechanisms are in place

I don't remember raising that point. Long-term supply volume decisions are a political choice, on which TSOs have no unique insight.

> Finally: As to the idea that energy systems are optimized for reliability first, and that renewables threaten this somehow

You keep bringing renewables in the discussion, I really don't know why.
Really? I’d say “this post makes many good points”, “is comprised of” isn’t exactly in common usage these days.
Rapamycin: The unlucky history of the most powerful anti-aging drug
Supportive Tech Communities You Want to Be Part Of
Not a dishonest title. The word "bracket" refers to this sort of thing at least with tax brackets.
Note that this is not referring to the Game Engine Unity. It's just referring to #including .cpp files.
Starting to feel like the end, oceans would always go first.
Most of the time, you convert the image from gamma space to linear space, you do whatever you want to do, and then convert back.
On my case (firefox), it got most of the machine details wrong. It got it right that the window is maximized, but couldn't even get the corners of the display area correctly.
Ask HN: How does archive.today bypass paywalls?
I can understand how it does it for simple paywalls that can be bypassed using a user agent pretending to be Google.

But how does it work for firmer paywalls with, e.g. NYT?
it isnt just visual guidance. meta data, and geolocation statistics, are quickly analyzed to whittle down all other possibilities, until visual targeting takes over.
> Well, trait objects are absolutely dynamically-sized types, but in order to store them on the stack you'd need to stuff them behind a Sized pointer type.

I don't think the question here is about Sized vs. !Sized, but instead about the analyzability of the program's control flow. Aside from layout information, a trait object's vtable is literally just an array of function pointers. So since the target of the dynamic dispatch can only be computed at runtime, proving that it is never recursive can only be done with escape analysis of all trait objects, alongside all function pointers.

(Also, you're correct that Rust does not support directly recursive closures; you can use opaque types to get around the naming problem, but the compiler sees that the closure type becomes cyclic. At least one closure in the chain would have to use dynamic dispatch.)
I only think it did in the past though.
Not seeing how that’s inconsistent with evaluating when the user goes to the next field.
Do you have a source for that data? According to NOAA [0], that doesn't appear to be true for world average sea surface temp data. 2021 and 2022 data appear to be tracking fairly consistently.

[0]: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
Money is definitely not the bottleneck here.
GPT3 is dated so many open source models are competitive with it, but Vicuna 13b is supposed to be competitive with GPT4
I love these one-person crusades against present reality. Words mean whatever a critical mass of people want them to mean. For example, the usage of the present tense here:

"Composed of" and "consists of" are better alternatives.

is incorrect. It should read:

Composed of" and "consists of" were better alternatives.

This thread is literally a clout ATM machine for a group comprised of pedants.
What a ridiculous plan in the first place.

It hinges on:

1) Things going exactly as they do in the past.

2) The student being chosen.

3) The student remembering the keys.

4) The instructor not getting suspicious (it was brought up in the post)

5) The instructor never seeing the paper.

What do they even teach these kids, lol. Seems it would only ever work in a perfect world.