skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swarm of bees delays a Delta flight by three hours
true, but it was the first great one. i remember struggling with altavista until google blew everything out of the water.
Shoulda coulda woulda......governments are incapable of properly regulating due to self interests
Wait.. are they using mouse eyes as a camera?
Many reviewers and even me looking at only a marginal improvement between the MacBook Air M1 vs M2 where you can get the MacBook Air M1 at a $200 discount at many places I would recommend the M1. The only real Mac I would recommend with an M2 is the Mac Mini. With the MacBook Pros 14.2 and 16.2 the only thing you can really get as a benefit is with 96GB of RAM which will allow you do to things like running LLMs locally or general productivity or professional video and movie editing and that's only really for the extreme high end.
> I consider a lot of other things like type safety and ergonomics of the language before I think about compile speed if at all

I believe the good compile speed is hinting at having shorter feedback loops in your workflow, and how it can significantly boost your productivity

It's something you'll do often and can have hidden costs. Especially with cases when it takes half an hour to build a software.
While in college, I wrote a program that did this. I thought I needed precise derivatives for a curve fitting program, so I wrote one that evaluated an expression and all of its derivatives, all at once. This was typical noobie chutzpah. First, I converted an infix expression into its postfix form using a textbook algorithm. Then I applied all of the differentiation rules to the postfix expression, including L'Hospital's rule.

Was it correct? All I know is that I couldn't kill it.
200M is enough to last any person intergenerationally along with their children and grandchildren. Not disagreeing with you, just a point of emphasis.
It's still analogous to credit. Many people will feel like they owe you if you do it.
That 'hands a bit sweaty' affects the outcome way more than you'd think. I've had a seriously unpleasant nip from a mere 24VDC (while drenched in sweat) and only a mild tingle from 90VDC (in an air conditioned office).

In this case I'd guess he's got some decent calluses and any leakage current isn't going through any nerves. Also he's only touching it lightly so won't be making very good contact.
The purpose of a system is what it does, design intent does not matter
I spent several years in my early 20s as a daily smoker, but at some point in the last few years, I crossed some sort of line, and I seemingly can't smoke at all anymore without winding up anxious as hell. Ultimately this led to me just totally giving the stuff up, which isn't the worst outcome. I still miss certain aspects of it, but after consistently having bad experiences for a while, it seems that I'm just better off without it.

I don't really drink either, so my vices now are limited to vaping and a very occasional small dose of mushrooms.

/shrug, worse problems to have I guess.
And I learned what I said from my wife. What part do you disagree with?
They plan to have 10GW of hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030, among other storage investments. Assuming they meet that and build 10GW worth of dispatchable storage annually starting in 2028 they should be able to shut down their current ~40GW of coal and ~40GW of gas by 2038.
This is true (and sort of the point of PaLM - it was an experiment on truly huge model sizes). But also Llama 65B is very efficient for its size: it generally outperforms models twice as large on most benchmarks.
I feel like you're being purposefully obtuse to not be able to say the human experience is fundamentally different than a bat's experience, even if it's difficult to articulate a bat's unique experience in a human language.

Edit: let me expound on that, as I'm not just being difficult. What does this questioning actually get you? The question of how a bat experiences the world vice a human gives me a meaningful thought experiment about what is consciousness and what the limits of our perceptions are. Asking whether or not the words are meaningful gives me nothing because the meaning of the article is so intuitively clear. In other words, questioning whether the words have meaning leads to a less meaningful experience vice using my intuition to understand the meaning to my interpretation.
Cybernetics wasn't a coherent field but an opinionated soup of loosely related ideas. It never went away in a sense, it just stopped being called cybernetics; good ideas blended into other fields, bad ideas were forgotten.
If diversity was the goal that’s achieved by open source. Apparently the White House had yet to see Google leaked memo about that.

This is about projecting leadership and relevancy to centrists they need to win in 2024. “Look, we saved your jobs!”
you completely didn't read what I wrote, you are not following along. you are wrong.

read it again, if you reserve a private piece of real estate for yourself, whether by leasing it or buying it, you pay the same rent every month. Buying a house does not save you rent.

The rent that you think you are not paying is rent that somebody else would be paying you. Not receiving that is the same as getting it and paying it back out.
From 2020.

TL;DR: A flawed, not evil tax

> In sum, the property tax is a stable, adequate, and reliable revenue source, but it also raises equity and transparency concerns.

> Unfortunately, Idaho’s Rep. Monks’ proposal to ban the property tax and hike the state sales tax rate to 11 percent (by far the highest in the nation) to offset revenue losses would double down on regressivity...

Of course, if your world is owning things, a tax on things owned seems unfair. If your world is paying for things, a tax on payments seems unfair. And if your world is receiving income, a tax on income seems unfair.
Do you think it's any better in "the East"? It's not a 'western' problem/.

Singapore has become so expensive for non-multi-millionaire foreigners to live in that many are now forced to leave.

70-100% rent increase in a year. Starting from already a several thousand dollar base.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/housing-rent-price...
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-tenant-slapped-75-rent-0...
I’m holding out hope for an NTSB-style investigation report by CISA that is a giant website with 1000s of pages of analyst notes and digital forensic evidence and shows exactly how they found out what they did as it happened.

For all the the $100mil’s that have been spent over the course of this cyber Pearl Harbor event, there should be something monumental added to the public record that every comp sci and cybersecurity student or pro can learn from for the next 50 years.

Data from these big attacks shouldn’t be limited the rarefied few folks who are lucky enough to take a $9000 SANS SEC541 course or work on a CIRT team for a Fortune-100 company whose sausage is among those roasted by the the fire.
Compare to ozone, how effective SCWO is ?
I was. Were you?
Surprised this isn't getting more attention. For startups this is a pretty huge win. "Free forever" is a very compelling value prop. I'm interested to see how much they improve this over time to get to feature parity with competing products.
We lose on every sale, but make it up in volume
That would basically kill the entire rental market and force everyone who wants to move to a new place buy a place instead of having the option to rent which would make changing jobs super painful.

I moved across the country after college for a job and my brother has done that like 5 times changing jobs. Buying and selling a place is a huge pain and has an extremely high transaction cost compared to renting.
Upon a second reading I can see more specificity due to the focus on "advertising". I still think that unpacking what is good and what is bad advertising is a difficult line to draw.

Statements like "manipulating children is bad" are kinda worthless statements. They are simply inflammatory. We need to speak more precisely and with more clarity in order to elevate each other's understanding. We cannot simply make simple statements for decades and expect things to progress in any meaningful way. The conversation itself needs to change.
apparently "a little" calculus is too much for me.

or people are still trying to find good ways to teach it.
but just think of the income that's going to be generated from films and games incorporating these tunnels into their stories!

actually, I'm not even kidding.
I think a lot of people have unrealistic expectations of the tech-- they think they can get exactly what they want if they are articulate enough in describing it with words

Who's fault is this though? The hype is absolutely hysterical.
Terrible advice, the important thing here is they are retired and are holding almost all equities. That needs to be addressed immediately with less risky assets and then a withdrawal plan. After that is designed you can start thinking about giving what you don't need/want away.
I believe the tech industry needs a special segment of Accessibility catering to the elderly

We are not taking responsibility for the unusable UX we are applying to cars, home appliances, phones, consumer devices, televisions, etc.

Mechanical and even electronic devices have an intuitive direct-feedback UI. Flip on an old iron and it heats up.

Modern devices are multi-modal, with soft-touch keys and modal LCD displays. Some buttons are long-press (variable input).

And don't get me started on cars. Total chaos.
>People will not pay for a restricted model when free, unrestricted alternatives are comparable in quality.

tell that to lichess
I think that is what he said, but about the hard part with vi as opposed to my comment about why emacs would be easier: "...vi’s compound command structure and the awkward access to data in BSD queues..." in other words vi's commands are printing characters, and you have to consume a few before you know what to do, rather than direct, modeless execution, which is painful due to lookahead issues in the input buffer. Then the rest are examples. At least that's how it reads to me.

The link you posted didn't work for me but this did: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
Cap’n Picard:

“You are seeing this ship, all of us, from a unique perspective - from a child's point of view. It must seem terribly unfair and restrictive to you. As adults, we don't always stop to consider how everything we say and do shapes the impressions of young people, but if you're judging us, as a people, by the way we treat our children - and I think there can be no better criterion - then you must understand how deeply we care for them. When our children are young, they don't understand what might be dangerous. Our rules are to keep them from harm, real or imagined, and that's part of the continuity of our Human species. When Clara grows up, she will make rules for her children, to protect them - as we protect her.”

ST TNG - Imaginary Friend
Rendezvousing with another orbiting object requires a Hohmann[1] or bi-elliptic[2] transfer maneuver in order to "catch up" to the target object. This requires multiple engine burns, and thus lots of delta-v.

If the two objects are in different orbital inclinations, an orbital inclination change[3] maneuver is also required. This requires very long, possibly multiple engine burns, and thus lots of delta-v.

In short, "glomming" a station onto another requires quite literally astronomical amounts of delta-v. It's not that launching new stations into orbit is cheap, it's that moving objects in orbit is astronomically expensive as to be downright impractical or even impossible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-elliptic_transfer

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_inclination_change
Unless you have anyone competent running the DNS config, or have a ticketing workflow of any kind, and I can't figure out what you think a DNS record with a onetime validation token could do if left unmanaged beyond some adversary discovery.
I agree with purpleflame's sentiment though. Clearly they'd just boost it to a higher orbit if the fuel mass they need to lift for that is smaller than the mass they expect to later salvage from it, so apparently it's not worth it, but it's rather surprising and seems like a waste even if it's, economically, not
This isn’t a case where you have to wait until after the damage is done though. Making a blanket regulation of “you can’t sell a physical good that has its capabilities artificially limited to create price brackets”, or something similar, would work in advance of people trying to sell such products in the US market.
With horrible hacks in the reference - search for InputElementDiv and InputElementRegExp if you want to read more about it.

It's not so bad in practice, since you only need to look at the previous token to decide whether a / should be parsed as a division or regular expression, once you've excluded the possibility for // and /* comments.

Comments are also why the empty regular expression in JavaScript must be written as /(?:)/
And for an example of the camera placement examples, check out the subreddit r/praisethecameraman (I think it’s called), sometimes shows the camera crew and rig and how they work their magic to pull off cool effects.
you read that whole paragraph and assumed this prediction didn't involve consumers using fine tuned models despite lora being explicitly mentioned?

-EQ moment

edit: its about the combination of those methods making models accessible on consumer hardware
"Any winning idea ported into Google's products on short notice."

Imagine for a moment, in a different universe, in a different galaxy, another planet is ostensibly a mirror image of Earth, evolving along the same trajectory. However on this hypothetical planet, anything is possible. This has resulted in some interesting differences.

The No Google License

Neither Google, its subsidiaries, business partners nor its academic collaborators may use this software. Under no circumstance may this software be directly or indirectly used to further Google's business or other objectives.

If 100s or 1000s or more people on planet X started adopting this license for their open source projects, then of course it won't stop Google from copying them or even using the code as is. But it would muddy the waters with 100s or 1000s or more potential lawsuits. Why would any company risk it.

There is nothing stopping anyone writing software for which they have no intention of charging license fees. It's done all the time these days. There is also nothing stopping anyone from prohibiting certain companies from using it, or prohibiting certain uses.

I recall in the early days of the web when "shareware" licenses often tried to distinguish commercial from non-commercial use. Commercial use would presumably incur higher fees. Non-commercial use was either free or low cost. I always wondered, "How is the author going to discover if XYZ, LLC is using his software?" (This is before telemetry was common.) The license seemed unworkable, but that did not stop me from using the software. I was never afraid that I would be mistaken for a commercial user and the author would come knocking asking me to agree to a commercial license. I doubt I was the only one bold enough to use software with licenses prohibiting commercial use.

Even a "No Microsoft License" would make Github more interesting. One could pick some random usage. Microsoft may not this software for X. Would this make MSFT's plans more complicated. Try it and see what happens. Only way to know for sure.

Instead, MSFT is currently trying to out the plaintiffs in the Doe v Github case, over MSFT's usage of other peoples' code who put their stuff on Github, and as the Court gets ready to decide the issue, it's becoming clear IMO that if these individual are named, these brave individuals will lose their jobs and be blackballed from ever working in software again.

The No Internet Advertising License

This software may not be used to create or support internet advertising services for commercial gain.
What’s insane to me is that, I just looked up all their biggest competitors in each category

Netflix was 8.18B the same quarter.
Spotify was 3.17
Peloton was 0.8
Dropbox was 0.6

Edit: people pointed out the App Store might be included too. Which I see google play at something like 10B last quarter

That means Apple is doing the same in services as all their biggest competitors combined for stuff that comes under services.

I’m sure I’m leaving off stuff , like there are probably better services to pick in each, but still truly insane numbers.

Even crazier because outside of Apple TV+, I barely ever hear people using Apple services. TV+still doesn’t have the content quantity and range to compete with Netflix either.
The thing Googlers conveniently leave out is that this multiplier effect that is seen almost nowhere else is not due to super human brilliance, it's build on the backs on all the rest of us. Our information. Our content. Typically provided for free or forcefully soaked up by surveillance tactics.

You're the operator of a machine that exploits on a planetary scale. You might be awesome at operating this machine, but you don't supply the actual value that leads to those billions.
He wasn't assigned to identify "autistic children" specifically for extermination. Hans Asperger was a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists in Nazi Germany (post-Anschluss Austria in his case) were expected to evaluate all of their patients for potential extermination, children included. Some psychiatrists refused to cooperate with the regime, at great personal cost to themselves. Other psychiatrists signed up to become enthusiastic members of the Nazi Party. Asperger chose a middle path – he chose not to join the NSDAP, but he joined some of their affiliated organisations; he chose to cooperate with the regime, and be supportive of it–not in an overly enthusiastic way, but with sufficient enthusiasm to ensure his Nazi superiors would not stand in the way of his career advancement.

He did successfully argue that some more intelligent children should be spared, on the grounds they had unique skills which could be valuable to the regime. However, less intelligent children, he was happy to refer to be murdered (in most cases without the knowledge or consent of their parents). He wasn't evil in the way in which many devout Nazis were, just in the more banal way of the many who collaborated in the regime's crimes out of personal self-interest, or through coming to believe its propaganda.
DONT sign up to this with your real details, there is quite literally a public endpoint to list all users along with their information

https://marqt.org/api/v1/makers/
Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss
Oof. This will not be the last time that decision causes a problem.
Most Lottery Winners Go Broke, Right?
Just gotta find the perfect balance between the two
I think you're right about discoverability being a key property differentiating Passkeys from WebAuthn credentials, I got that one wrong. I think the other ones would be it's likely syncable across devices, and likely requires some type of user verification.

You're probably right that if an authenticator is supporting discoverability it no longer makes sense to store the encrypted private key with the RP. It's still allowable though[0].

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/#credential-id
Is this just a pretentious version of the OG four loco
You build up enough bags and you can keep a supply in the car. They're also useful for other tasks.

My biggest problem is feeling awkward when I take a bag from store X into store Y.
There's one critical difference, which is that only chartered banks within the Federal Reserve system can take advantage of the federal funds rate, whereas anyone (including individuals) can buy T-bills.

The Fed, for various reasons, implicitly disallow this type of narrow bank. Several people have tried but the Fed always denied their application to join the system.
> I can write integrations for what my app needs in less than an hour myself,

Or just ask ChatGPT to do it...

Joking aside, I think 'npm "left-pad"' describes it perfectly.
PSA: With regard to psychosis, there's a big difference between high THC cannabis and high CBD cannabis.

Huge.

If you are one of the many who comment with confidence on this issue, but are not aware of the distinction, please consider looking into it.
Fed up with Python setup and packaging? Try a shot of Rye
The internet is more real and significant than what's outside most people's homes.
That doesn't work either, it just redirects back to the 429'd page on chaos.social. It's because the admins of the site put this up temporarily to deal with HN load.
Is the assumption that GPU power and advancements in AI will not get to a reasonable price point in the near future? Because it seems to me that advances in computation have not slowed down at all since it started.
I think this and somewhat related approaches (eg, the Alpaca approach of generating RLHF data from chatGPT and training a smaller model with it) are really interesting.

If we think of intelligence as the ability to reverse entropy (as in being able to compress information into the smallest representation) there's this weird conceptual idea where a strong enough model is able to transfer its knowledge like this without wandering off track and teaching the wrong things.

It'd be interesting to have formal benchmarks of this ability because I think it is closely related to things people care about in the generative space. For example H2O recently introduced a nice new LLM with a good license. But informally in my testing is seems to hallucinate much worse than Llama derived models - for example it my testing it hallucinated that "Crown Prince Harry" (!) married Phillip Mountbatten (!!)[1].

I suspect but can't prove that a model like this would be much worse at distilling than a Llama based model of the same size.

Testing this knowledge transfer would be really instructive I think.

[1] https://twitter.com/nlothian/status/1653267700288987138
Most people will be using passkeys stored by Google or Apple's password manager services, in which case the device is an authenticator for the password manager, not the passkey. I think GP is saying they would trust password managers with passkeys less than with credentials because passkeys won't be usable without access to the password manager, and will be difficult-to-impossible to recover and to move between services.
I wonder if that’ll be the case for AI?
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Gnosis Issue #31 "Russia and Eastern Europe" ; Issue #43 "Love, Sacred and Profane" ; Issue #21 "Holy War" .. all have some Blavatsky / Theosophy content. There may be a complete issue on Theosophy, and certainly book reviews on the topic, in other issues as well.
They're not errors.

These are token prediction models. Their token predictions are accurate, insofar as the probabilities of those tokens in those sequences being representative of the kind of thing they were trained on.

Is it plausible that a document exists that explains that George Washington was actually an amateur magician? How is a GPT model to know that that is not the document it is predicting the next tokens for? Why wouldn't it explain that he used to perform for children's parties, and do tricks involving making doves and rabbits appear?