skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those "rent seekers" are the investors that provide you with capital to build something in the first place. They don't produce anything physical directly with their own hands, but if they don't provide the funds, then nobody else would either.

Read my comment again, I'm not calling company investors rent-seekers - I'm saying those who live off other's labour through their real estate are rent seekers.

It's pretty funny that 99% of "investors" do not invest a dime in actual companies that produce goods and services. Instead most invest in rental properties to leech of their fellow man or invest in land with the excitement that it will increase in value and that they can price-gouge somebody who might need it for something productive.

When I talk to everyday people, what are their dreams? It's not striking out on a business with their own great idea, it's not even investing in interesting ventures by others. The dream is always the same: Buy some rental property and live care-free on the rent that others pay. It's pathetic.
in javascript maybe
No its not an odd or even number; its infinity.
We can’t be critical of the datasets used for testing if we don’t know what’s in them.

The same applies to training data - it should be disclosed.
In what situation are you suggesting that the US treasury is going to offer you extra money?
> only so many miles of high-speed rail have positive ROI

I heard their rail service is in massive debt too. They overbuild it.
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I've been working with .NET C# for several years (10+) and I've also worked in
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I might be missing technologies but I can surely get there with any technical needs.
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Did you chime in to tell us you’ve yet to finish it?
That’s pretty funny too
Why go as far as self-hosting, they should be all open source and IT admins will be able to fix bugs themselves.

(Of course this is sarcasm, just the way you want it)
I'm following the discussions on GitHub as well as their PRs closely.

The primary bottleneck for now is compute.

They've recently made a big improvement to performance by introducing partial gpu acceleration if you compile with a gpu accelerated variant of BLAS. Either cublas (Nvidia) or CLBlast (slightly slower but supports almost everything: Nvidia, Apple, AMD, mobile, raspberry pi etc)
Scary 'Emergent' AI Abilities Are Just a 'Mirage', Stanford Study Says
> True, but unfamiliar and hard to learn combine to make it forbidding to newcomers.

> Case in point: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26398/how...

Though that's MVS, which probably should no be conflated with OS/400. The former is all kinds of trouble because it maintains compatibility with stuff from really old and limited systems, while the latter is quite a bit newer than UNIX so could have alien-advanced "science fiction" features.
Haskell in Production: Standard Chartered
Sorry would that be any C++, modern C++ (as described 10 years ago), modern C++ (as described 5 years ago), modern C++ (as described today), a special C++ subset known to MCU folks or something else?
much apreciated. thanks
I think if you assembled a list of elected MPs who have changed laws to suit them or lead directly to their profit (the PPE scandal, the recent scandal with Rishi Sunaks wife owning shares in a company the government officially endorsed, etc). You’d have a much longer list than the laws the crown has influenced.

I think if you made a list of how many laws and bills have been influenced by private lobbying and donations you’d have an inconceivably large list.

My point earlier is that the wealthy get their say, the monarchy as an institution hold the same amount of political power as the wealthy in the UK, but they do not hold direct political power.
why the hell will you be happy about duplicate work?
You can also find a way to give a score based on the number of words used and the percentage by which words are linked.
So that, even if it is solved by using only one word, there is still a urge to improve the score by thinking of more connected word.
> ML hasn't done anything new since the 80s

Schmidhuber, is it you?

But seriously, it's partially true most techniques we use today could be found initially envisaged in 90th ANN-related papers. I think Geoffrey Hinton summarized most of them well in his famous "Neural Networks for Machine Learning" lectures. Essentially, what is available today is compute resources unimaginable in 90th, so scaling up from a shallow 2-layered Multi Layer Perceptron to something like 96-layered deep architecture is possible only recently. We also found some of the tricks work better than others in practice when we scale up (like *ELU non-linearity, layer-norm, residual connections). What stays the same however is the general approach: training and validation sets, cross entropy loss, softmax, learnable parameters based on data-in/data-out training pairs, and differentiation chain rule. IMO this requires some innovative revision, especially generalization is still very weak in all architectures today.
There are some really nice lakes here in Düsseldorf that had to be closed to the public due to PFAS pollution. Makes me sad when I walk by them because they are beautiful, surrounded by trees, and there are still rope swings and such around, indicating to me that it used to be a great recreation spot.
How to Survive Your Project's First 100k Lines
I don't think the the dollar's position as the reserve currency does the U.S. any favors. It seems to me it's a resource curse - like oil in the gulf states. Nominally sitting on all that oil is good for them but it also stops them from doing anything else - because nothing else will ever be as productive as pumping oil out of the ground.

The U.S. on some level is literally making money. The consequences of making too much are felt by everyone in the world as opposed to just people in the U.S. If you can do that - why do anything else?
Here’s a paper that shows how a civilization could colonize the galaxy in under 300 million years:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04450.pdf

Here’s a YouTube visualization of the timeline:

https://youtu.be/hNMgtRf0GOg
I guess there is no way to play on mobile?
Are there any compute/memory resource quotas?

It's quite easy to almost lock up a computer by doing high intensity GPU work.
OT, but couldn't help but smirk at the top comment:

> I used to donate money every year to AI but will never do in future.

Took me a moment to parse AI as Amnesty International...
curl -io currl.io currl.io
I think most things you describe are just getting used to product difference / configuration options.

Clicking an email definitely marks it as read.
The calendar schedule not being revealed is a just a privacy option, each person must opt-in to share the exact meeting details.

Having used both gsuite and office I find that they both get job done fairly well
If you could isolate processes like that, sure.
So you are saying that the US bullies Cuba because of something that happened 60 years ago?
This is nation-wide to some 10 million customers.

For your alternative explanation to be true, it would require that all the 8 retail chains would have the exact same margin by natural, fair chance - and, cumulatively by fair chance, increment prices by exactly the same amount, at exactly the same time...

Better play the lottery.
Understanding and assimilation can lead to generating relations between disjoint sets of tokens.

For example, "squeeze a tube to cut water flow" and "put pressure on a deep wound to stop blood loss" can only be related, if not already in the training data, if there is understanding and intelligence.

The ability to do that is intelligence.

Otherwise, it's just a search and optimization problem.
> interest rates going up from historic lows.

> That’s profoundly bad risk management.

Well, yes. But it's also bad economic policy. The banking sector just happened to have adapted to a decade of low interest rates. Then during the Covid crisis of 2020 the FED pumped dollars like crazy into the markets [1] -- adding fuel to the fire. If you set bad incentives you'll harvest bad behavior. That is the tragedy of FED-style economic planning in a nutshell.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Are there any actual independent reviews of this from known trustworthy sources?

It just sounds too good to be true.
great, we are on the same page! `fallocate()` (or posix one) is called on large swades of file. 16MB default. Not too often to hurt performance. I wonder if zeroing the file with `fallocate()` will result in actual disk writes or is it ephemeral?
What Colour Are Odysseus’ Words? Traces of Synaesthesia in Homeric Scholarship
Ok, this must be a silly question but... What programming language/library is that?

I am used to R + ggplot2 and I am aware that are quite a variety of other tools out there. In this case I unable to identify which one he is using.
> what's the reason to not declare the pin statically as either or?

That for plenty uses cases, pins are not statically either or, but are switched at runtime. (and the article really fails IMHO by not showing that, because doing that while keeping compile-time checks is the hard part, and its limits would be really interesting)
Systemd Units vs. Docker Containers
A blind person is less able to prove they are intelligent in a multi-context, multi-challenge intelligence test than someone who is not blind
That's probably a truer insight to the current discourse than it might initially appear. I believe when people were trying to develop flight there were people on the sidelines pointing to the lack of flapping and feathers and saying it'll never work.
Great idea but how much for the picking nose add-on? :D
> Show me one of these big technology companies that doesn't act to benefit their shareholders?

The owners seems to be in a constant power struggle with executives and management. Also, future to be shareholder are ripped off by current.

I companies would focus on (long term) profitability many of their problems would be solved.
If we are comparing the impact, shouldn't it be adjusted for the size of the economy? The U.S. GDP was under $15T in 2008 and is over $23T today.
Really?

Why did someone downvote this very elucidative video?

Update: My posts on this thread are getting downvoted a lot, and I'm just stating facts! It seems I'm hitting a nerve... :D
> As anyone who remembers the Office 2.0 vs Office 6 update on Windows will remember

I think you're misremembering or mistyping the numbers, unless Wikipedia is wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Office
TBH, I'd probably make the same decision. But I don't know if I could ever really trust any information I got via such a connection though. Unless you had a secure connection to the site to use as a reference point, there's always the off chance you hit the right combination of "paypal" and "email address" or anything like an account number or some other thing that trips up the regexp/whatever to trick you into doing the wrong thing. You hope the alteration's as benign as injecting ads (hopefully they're not loud video ones), but that seems far from guaranteed since they're already modifying the page for their own financial gain.
Please, do not hijack the page scroll that way. It makes using the scroll-wheel really difficult, even unusable.
Your first mistake is to assume I'm American.
Your second is to blame hundreds of millions of people for engaging in self-destructing behaviour, when there are businesses out there whose sole purpose is to harass them with material meant to turn them into addicts.

Time to ask yourself if there are maybe systemic reasons why half of a country is stuffing themselves to death.
Maybe it uses a higher quality dataset
Well, I do always look both ways when crossing the one-way street where I live.

But not because of programming experience, but because of late-night Taxi drivers who drive like Doc Brown (https://youtu.be/vHake6w4Su0?t=17) and believe that "reverse" is some kind of cheat code that flips the direction of the road.

Also, cyclists.
Yes, you said that Microsoft is "just like any other public company" but "Except way more mercenary".

I'm saying that no, Microsoft is just like the others. They're all like that. All of them would hit below the belt if the risk/reward calculation is correct for shareholders.
1/0 is not defined. There is only lim(1/ε) when ε->0+ = +∞ and lim(1/ε) when ε->0- = -∞
It is marked as read when you are reading it. When you are switching to another mail, it displays it as read.

No need to manually mark it as read.

*EDIT*

Just noticed that there is a setting for this:

Under Options in the webmail you can switch this between:

* Mark as read as soon it has been choosen

* Mark as read after delay in seconds

* Mark as read after selection changes

* Do not mark as read automatically
In Teams, there is also an option to switch off notifications and another one to use Windows notifications.

Guess which ones of the two don't do shit.

Here's a hint: I'm using Teams via browser to get rid of notifications.
>If you think your traffic is not being monitored over Tor, then you have thought incorrectly.

Tor exit nodes can only monitor traffic for a very short period of time, you create a new circuit and pick an entirely new path through the network very often.

>This does not happen by default, meaning all of your traffic is mixed together. It doesn't matter that it migrates routes every so often.

Absolutely true, a solution to this is to use Whonix or Tails which automatically stream isolates all pre-installed programs, therefore correlation by circuit sharing is impossible. Unfortunately that does not work on a phone, but in the end, using Tor for this is no worse than a VPN.

>Exit nodes don't know where the traffic is coming from, until, of course, you accidentally access your personal domain name over HTTPS

This seems like a straw man. There's not many options to Tor. A VPN will know where you're coming from by default.
This youtube series shows a basic intro to some techniques with code, he also runs through a great flow chart to show you how it all works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9PBGVVOO4
How times change. To run the same experiment in the UK today you'd need a Home Office licence, a project licence, and on-site veterinary facilities.
Hello, we use email addressed only for sending emails related to CraftAI (when environemnt is built or to gain feedback for improvements), nothing else.
> They did a wonderful job with C# and .NET Core.

Ah yes, the ecosystems where features such as hot reloading would only be in paid offers unless the ecosystem didn't start to shout at them when their plans changed from "of course it's free" to "sorry, paid customers only".

> But you need to remember your org charts; the Edge and Windows 11 decision-makers are not the same people with the same incentives.

I couldn't care less about their org charts. That's just a way for employees to feel better about what their colleagues are doing, "but that's not what I do at the company, I'm doing great stuff".

Just like Googlers trying to convince themselves they're doing great stuff for the world because they happen to hack on FOSS stuff while their colleagues spend most of their days optimizing ads and siphoning as much data as they can from their users.
Some would say that's great as you get instant database integrated type checking. Some people actively look for that.
Sure, but one week it's a first run screen recommending Edge, the next it's pop ups when visiting Firefox download page from Edge, the next it's a notification icon about "Microsoft recommended" settings, then it's a notice before running the installer, etc. There is no rhyme or reason besides their business interest and no timeline besides "let's boil this frog"
How is this different from what RedPajamas is doing?

Also, most people don't mind running LLaMA 7B at home so much because of enforceability, but a lot of commercial businesses would love to run a 65b parameter model if possible and can't because the license is more meaningfully prohibitive in a business context. Open versions of the larger models are a lot more meaningful to society at this point.
Again, one more "failure" of attempting teaching Maths to programmers.

My expectation is always, teaching Maths without using any of Maths language (forget theorem, signature,...). Is this possible ? Yes.

Programmers use code, algorithm, data structure to run the code, and to understanding the theory, instead of understanding Maths language, which is most of the time, "hurt the brain"
Most of the datasets are available.

TriviaQA: https://huggingface.co/datasets/trivia_qa

HotPotQA: https://huggingface.co/datasets/hotpot_qa

Those two are used in most of the question-and-answer based metrics for LLMs in academic publications.

The same applies for other datasets used for other metrics. HuggingFace has most of if not everything of any relevance.
They don't explicitly say it, but if you browse the parent company site[1] the overall impression you get is "closed source / commercial". Based on job postings their browser is chromium based[2].

[1] https://thebrowser.company/

[2] https://jobs.lever.co/thebrowser-company/dffb486a-c581-43ca-...
Been using it for months for work and play and haven't looked back. It prevents accumulating tabs infinitely, and has a number of quality of life improvements that I now can't live without
The games industry's response to AI? Reverence and rage
Matrix and Mastodon servers.
I'm confused about what the goal of "AI" is anymore. Does anyone else feel similar?

Researches seem fixated to create something like "a really smart person or intellectual slave", LLMs make it seem like we're close to that I guess?

Is there not a whole lot more usefulness in solving actual problems with "AI" without the potential risks and baggage of creating, I don't know, is it super capable idiot savant?

The approach deep mind was taking before entering this sort of "talking computer" arms race seemed actually quite useful and less "disruptive". Things like AlphaFold are more inline with what I was hoping to see going forwards. Now I just don't really know what the the plan is?

Is it to one day be able to sit at your computer and say things like: "I want you to solve cancer" and "replace my secretary, she's too expensive", "build as many paper clips as possible but don't hurt anyone?", and expect that it will kind of do it? Do we expect that everyone will freely have access to these systems or just a few people? Is this sustainable and practical long term?

In one interview I saw, Ilya Sutskever has claimed every town, state and country will have sort of AI representative, and in another basically stating we might not have to work and become "enlightened beings". Why on earth do we need an AGI to become "enlightened beings", has this gentlemen never read any literature on "enlightenment"?

I'm really struggling to see how the type of world some of these researchers seem to be gunning for is actually ideal or even wise even if achievable, especially given the mounting levels of anxiety around LLMs and their implications. Are the ethics ever actually considered?

It seems like "building AGI" is kind of like, building a something (loosely defined) which could have a lot of negative unintended side effects, but for what now? Just intellectual curiosity ? Fulfilling a Sci-Fi fetish?

Personally, I think this is what has spooked Geoff Hinton, he has seen an acceleration toward something, but he realizes we have zero idea what to do when or if when we build the "something". He now realizes the military or bad actors will take advantage of these AGI(?) and he might be alive to have to see the consequences of that.
>Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
JavaScript and the library is Observable Plot

Link: https://observablehq.com/plot/
> In 2023, the changing interest rate environment caused good investments to become worth less than their original value.

They were not good investments
Maps open links in Firefox for me; Gmail by default in-process with webview, but that is disable-able in settings and then it opens links in the default browser. For the google search widget, I don't use it, but after a quick check yes, it does use webview too, but also has the option to open in browser.

I've not seen anything opening in Chrome for years, if ever.
Effective Uses of Driveway Moss
troubleshoot what ?
From what I've read, I don't think there was any sort of power plant around even for pretense.
The person who wrote this blog also wrote the very popular and famous D3 visualization library for Javascript. It also looks like this is javascript from the code.
Well done! You got me!
The manufacturers make the pilot training requirements in cooperation with the FAA.

https://www.faa.gov/foia/electronic_reading_room/boeing_read...

https://services.boeing.com/training-solutions/flight-traini...

"Pilot Error" is the most favored scapegoat in the aviation industry. It's always possible to say the problem occurred between "the keyboard and the floor", to use the analogous software catch phrase.

But that isn't good enough when the systems are supposed to be designed for trained humans to operation without making such errors. If operating the system is error prone, change the system.

In this case in particular, if the pilots were not trained well enough that was due to the fact that Boeing's initial training materials were inadequate.

I know that article wants to push the narrative that those pilots in particular were not good enough pilots to begin with, but that was not true before they flew the Max8. Flying the Max8 is what got them killed. Kinda weird that they had this supposedly inadequate skill set all along but it was only a deadly issue with the brand new plane. It may indeed be that Ethiopia needs to up their training discipline. And that's good to address. But it does nothing to absolve Boeing's part in those crashes.

https://www.businessinsider.com/boeings-ceo-on-why-737-max-p...

The FAA and Boeing have now established the new training requirements that should have been there from the start.

> "3. HIGHLIGHTS OF CHANGE
The purpose of this revision is to add training requirements for Maneuvering Characteristics
Augmentation System (MCAS), Autopilot Flight Director System (AFDS) enhancements,
and additional Special Emphasis Training. Appendices 2 and 3 reflect applicable table
updates from the Boeing 737-800 to the Boeing 737-8 and from the Boeing 737-8 to the
Boeing 737-800. Appendix 7 was added to delineate ground and flight training necessary to
operate the 737 MAX modified with Flight Control Computer (FCC) software version
P12.1.2."

Post incident Boeing is doing some double speaking for PR and CYA. But the investigation already proved out that they were dodging the training updates so they could get the plane to market sooner. And two things can be true at the same time as well. Accident investigations are meant to uncover ALL of the systemic and specific failures that led to the crash. And that's a really good thing.

But again, everything thing even Boeing is responsible for, was done to avoid costly extended certification requirements for the planes and time consuming re-certification of pilots.

If regulations are leading to this kind of behavior, it's not enough to even blame just Boeing. We need to make the right thing to do, the easiest thing to do. Maybe that's not possible here, but I don't really see anyone trying.