skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Andy Halford, chief financial officer at Standard Chartered, told Reuters he thought people would ultimately prioritise security over interest payouts."

Security my ass when deposits effectively evaporate given inflation rate all while banks rake up the profits.
ETL tools target that specific use case, versus Temporal workflows are much more general purpose—for any backend code you want to run reliably. I wrote some more about this here: https://community.temporal.io/t/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-o...
Some people are addicted to drugs, others are addicted to controlling other people's lives.
Openai moat is the upcoming first party integration with ms office.
I can't think of any entity that I'd trust to do it safely. I'm far from convinced that it's even possible to do it safely.
> That doesn't quite work

How exactly does the fundamental difference between knowledge and intelligence "not work"? Humans have the ability to learn algorithms, therefore the algorithm being used by an AI (i.e. its intelligence) to apply knowledge from its data set "doesn't work"? I'm having difficulty following your thought process here.
>but it does nothing about consistency of framerate.

It does quite a bit. e.g.:

If your refresh rate is 60Hz, that's some 16.6ms per frame.

If the frame takes 16.7ms and thus isn't ready by the deadline, you get either tearing (very visible, annoying, experience breaking) or your frame takes 33.3ms, which is a lot of Jitter.

Jitter between 16.6ms and 33.3ms or tearing, are both much worse than 16.7ms you could get with freesync, which is just some 100µs of jitter.

Even at 120Hz, the barely miss deadline case would be half the jitter, but still 8ms vs 50µs. And the tearing alternative is still every bit as horrible.
OpenAI doesn't need a moat and it's fine that they don't have one. From their charter:

> We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.

This was from 2018 and they've taken large strides away from their originally stated mission. Overall, though, they should be happy to have made progress in what they set out to do.
Submarines use red lights for the same reason that they make great night lights (and were used in old photography dark rooms): human night vision isn't disrupted by red light so red lights can be kept minimally dim and be more than enough to see by.

Admittedly for submarines light pollution can be life-or-death (because you don't want an enemy submarine to spot you) and it's a little less critical in cities already full of light pollution at all hours.
Original journal article (apparently not linked to in the Bloomberg piece):

Association between cannabis use disorder and schizophrenia stronger in young males than in females (May 4 2023)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici...

Interestingly, the journal article doesn't bother to mention how cannabis use disorder (CUD) is defined; however, Bloomberg's description "frequent use despite negative consequences" is essentially that of the DSM, and so is presumably what they're using.

That is - not based any particular rate of consumption (which is of course difficult to measure reliably, especially in prohibitionist countries like Denmark). But "continued use despite negative consequences".

And that seems to be the crux of the matter: what the article is saying, basically, is that "people who continue to use despite negative consequences ... continue to suffer negative consequences." Which is rather different from: "Heavy use, by itself, brings these consequences."
"The danger of this type of ML is not that it will take jobs (it definitely will, and already is), but why it will take jobs. It will take jobs not because the computer is replacing the thinking of one worker. It will take jobs because the computer is using the thinking of a million other workers – how can any one worker compete with that?"

A question I see glossed over whenever the formative machine learning is discussed, How much of those "million other workers" thinking is accurate, effective and wise?

The author's point about copyright infringement makes it almost impossible for the creators of formative machine learning tech to publish their sources so how could you ever know.
There definitely is. LLaMA is not licensed for commercial use. It's impractical to prosecute 1,000 people tinkering on their laptops, but if Meta discovered that Amazon was using LLaMA for commercial purposes, it would be nuclear war.
This is just all about recurring revenue from clueless people.
In the USA SEMA needs to be supported before we lose even more control.
https://www.sema.org/
The name Harry Potter is trademarked[1], and I'm pretty sure they'd go after this site for using Daniel Radcliff's promo pic without permission, particularly since this is a commercial effort.

[1] - https://secureyourtrademark.com/blog/harry-potter-trademarks...
It's not working (Joel Haver)
Probably not if you have the skills to write cutting edge AI.

I think lots of young people would rather live there, but when you have a high value skill, things like 'affordable housing' aren't a big deal when you make 250k/yr vs 90k.
Was it ever, really, free, though? you and I were never, really, the customer, ultimately
Czech Koruna. Every bank there offers it now. But the currency is losing against EUR right now (after it gained a lot in the past year).
>what the correlation of cannabis use to active shooter incidents is?

Holy reefer madness! I'd bet it's probably a lot lower than the correlation between alcohol and drunk fights, murders and spousal abuse. Yet society seems to be perfectly willing to tolerate it.
C++ has struct & typedef and things work quite naturally. It always seemed like an obvious thing to bring to C, but I'm not sure about the nuances of the rules governing this.
It's not even evil. It's just the plain fact that corporations choose a business model that means they do not care to negotiate with individual consumers on contract terms.

Then you have several layers of products (software titles in this case) being stacked one on top of another, until the renter isn't even the consumer of the product.

Virtually none of these places are using anything that allows them to one-off a lease for a grouchy asshole. But if renters really demanded that and wanted to pay for it, I guess there could be an onsite lawyer willing and able to vet those modifications and put the lease through. But in a day and age where every whiny Starbucks barista complains that they can't afford the 4000sqft studio apartment of their dreams, I doubt they want to pay the extra premium that would result from individualized lease contracts.

It's the banality of "you're not important enough to spend the time on". No one's being loaded into cattle cars.
They were all hopped up on lead and sitting too close to televisions.
15mg is pretty high (LOL) to start. I take edibles daily, mostly as a sleep aid but occasionally recreationally, and have been at it for a couple years, and my tolerance has crept up a bit in that time (damnit), and I'm a big dude, and still, 15mg is like the top of what I ever take. 15mg gets me really high. 8-12mg is where I try to stay most of the time, and that used to be ~5mg.

You don't have to eat the whole edible. The higher-dose ones are a lot cheaper per mg, and I just split 'em.

[EDIT] Oh but you are correct that ones with more of the other compounds from MJ can have very different effects. I never, ever get giggly on straight THC gummies (mostly just tired) but will on some full-spectrum (that is, that went through a process that focused on extracting more than just THC) gummies or vapes. That's the stuff I stick to if I'm aiming for recreational use—for sleepy time, straight THC is fine, though I have found that full spectrum indica extracts can have a better effect on that front at lower THC doses (but availability's spotty and they're more expensive, so I don't usually bother to track down the Good Stuff)
> It feels like the board has said, “We don’t care about the company or it’s future, just the price of our stock.”

Again, why is tech (in this day and age) expected to be different than big tobacco or big pharma? It's about money at the end of the day. Period.
> Now I wonder what the correlation of cannabis use to active shooter incidents is?

Uh, is it even reasonable to try and find these correlations? We could probably say that the vast majority of mass shootings were conducted by somebody who had previously used ibuprofen or drank alcohol. Is that meaningful or even useful information?
Harry said: As a fictional character, I am not aware of any recent developments regarding Ms. Rowling's actions towards fanfiction. However, I believe that fanfiction can be a wonderful way for fans to express their love for a story or characters, and I appreciate the creativity and passion that goes into writing it.
Would you rather investors and executives got to keep all that money everyone spends on non particularly useful employees?
This specific change seems to impact the JVM the runtime, not Java the language. Which is great for people like me, who heavily rely on JVM but couldn't care less about Java.
Well, if you have physical access, you can always do basically anything. I'm sure you can easily mess up a lot of industrial equipment with your bare hands.

However, let's say that the said industrial equipment is stored in a security box, with tamper-resistant screws, and you are on camera. It's a lot harder to tamper with then, compared to just plugging in a flash drive and rebooting the Pi into USB boot; at least in theory. Ditto for helping to prevent persistent remote attacks.
i think we've already approached an asymptote on thc in modern cannabis at like 30% max. people are instead moving towards ingesting concentrates (dabbing) pure/live extracts or rosins.

you say "likely lead to a competitive race" as though that hasn't already been going on for the last decade or more. it's happening now, and has been happening for a long time. it makes sense for everyone to produce a higher yielding plant. it's more efficient, less biomass waste, less physical footprint required, etc.

a lot of medical cannabis patients require very high doses of THC. if you are a caregiver who can only grow X crops per year, legally, you want them to produce as much as possible. this sort of regulation is just bonkers. let people live. let the experiment play out. stop regulating out of fear.
> The document is only the opinion of a Google employee, not the entire firm

The title makes it seem like this is some official Google memo. The company has 150K employees and 300K different opinions on things. Can't go chasing down each one and giving it importance.
I think recreational cannabis users are well aware of potency.

The general, non-using public I (and the commenter above) were talking about.
I completely disagree with you fundamentally as I don't believe in God, but I find your argument more coherent than most of the other arguments over why AI isn't (or even cannot be) conscious or sentient. If there is no supernatural, then consciousness must be created using natural laws and therefore something that ultimately it is possible, somehow, to recreate again using the natural laws.

I think determinism is another debate entirely, and I believe most scientists consider the universe not deterministic but instead probabilistic, but honestly the distinction doesn't seem that important to me for this discussion.

Further (and non-scientifically), if we can never quite crack an observably sentient AI, I'd probably start coming round more to the idea that maybe humans were created by a god. However, at this point, it seems like we're starting to climb up the sentience ladder without any obvious impassable rungs so far.
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Just like in the Muggle world, the causes of death for wizards can be various. Some die due to natural causes, like old age or illnesses, while others may lose their lives in accidents or battles. The wizarding world is also fraught with danger, with dark wizards and magical creatures posing a threat to the community. However, the most feared and notorious cause of death in the wizarding world is probably the Killing Curse, which can be used by powerful dark wizards and witches to instantly kill their enemies.

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In addition to what other comments have said. The huge proliferation of national parks and mind blowing beauty tends to attract people who are into those things.

This also reduces the amount of private land, making rural living more difficult and expensive. Conservatives tend to live in rural areas which weighs the political landscape towards liberals when 43% of the land is publicly owned. Compare that to Texas which is 4.2% publicly owned.
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Researchers Use A.I. To Decode Words from Brain Scans
Almost all of our intelligence is embodied "animal intelligence" that can perceive, navigate, manipulate, adapt, survive, and reproduce -- online, in real time, in the presence of noise, without backpropagation. This doesn't come from formal education but "self-supervised learning" or experience.
It's one big club, and you're not in it.
PacWest, Western Alliance stocks plunge as US regional banking woes worsen
Do you have a link to a decent tutorial for someone to do what you're describing in the last paragraph?
Fresh GDPR ruling says even 'minor anxiety' could mean payouts for EU folks
Oh nice, I didn't know about the OTP memory. That's useful. Thanks!
That's all well and good. I suspect their investors have a pretty different idea about their positioning tho.
I know a lot of people whose entire political stance is "I hate the Tories, but not much as I hate labour". I wouldn't be so sure of Tories losing the next election either.
Yes definitely, I didn't mean to imply therefore US stocks are the better choice, only that US fixed income isn't some straightforward escape hatch for Europeans.
Do you rephrase my comment reductively because you're okay with corporations monetizing children via addictive dark patterns, in defiance of recommendations from child psychologists? or
What Facebook did to the community and their leaked torrent accelerated everything.
> to that degree

An important qualifier! I get the impression that probably 95% of consumer deposits in the US either earn zero interest or some comically low rate like 0.00121% that all of the big banks offer on their savings, Interest Checking, and even "money market" accounts. And they also exploit people with monthly fees that can only be waived with minimum balances or by jumping through hoops like debit card usage. And "using other ATM" fees from 2 banks at once usually.

But apparently it could be worse with transaction fees and negative interest!

I feel like the few in the US who are savvy about personal finance have found the banks/CUs (i won't list them to avoid sounding promotional) that don't do any of the above. It doesn't say in the article where they are seeing these outflows actually go. I wonder if Europe also has good banking options that not everyone is aware of.
Yes, most US citizens don't have the opportunity to vote directly against policies like these. And which party is against this policy?
> What VCS would you use if it was all up to you?

Almost 100% of game devs use Perforce. Git is a non-option.

BigTech all use highly custom source control systems. They have some nice properties.

My stance isn’t that we should use something other than Git per se. It’s that Git is a local maxima, and it kinda sucks. And I think the industry would be healthier if people agreed Git sucks.

Features I care about:

* Terabyte scale sparse checkouts
* Ten terabyte scale full checkout
* Petabyte scale history
* Lossless history.
* Automatic cloud/remote backups of every commit
* Trivial for low-tech people to use (Perforce achieves this)
* Cross-branch file locking for non-mergeable assets

Things I don’t care about:

* Distributed. Defacto centralized with forking is all I need.
* Rewriting history. Linux needs it, I don’t.

There are of course lots of things I do like about Git. It’d be good if Git and Perforce had some competition. There’s a market opportunity for it imho.
Its cool to see there was only a passing mention of rules/regulations in the article and most focus on Open Source work.

I can get behind a government who funds open source software, hard to imagine a better ROI.

Speaking of which, can we get funding for FreeCAD? Outside of AI, having CAD software that doesnt change pricing every year has been monumental for me being able to start a design engineering business. I didn't have 10k to spend on a 2-3 year development cycle as a little guy, not to mention the value it would provide medium and large players to not be under Dassault's boot.
Wasn't java targeted at embedded? AFAIR at some point it was marketed that it will be in every washing machine, fridge.

There a was HotJava browser, weren't servers just a small part of its target?
I'm not a nuclear engineer and have no relevant training, and from my layperson's position am not immediately able to see what's wrong here. Would you mind expanding on what's wrong with the paper from your perspective?

I don't know how to weight your remark about the qualifications of the authors. I would expect that PNAS used reviewers with sufficient expertise in the field.
Advanced Protection is nice but practically a non starter or very difficult in a lot of situations, e.g if you're travelling and all of your security keys get stolen and your backup security key is half way across the globe, you'll wish you had 2FA backup codes then.
I've had this (cough) "opportunity" in my Tesla for as long as I can remember. (Dual-motor Model 3, it's well-known that it's mostly software differences to make it the performance version.)

Guess what: My Tesla is fast enough. I don't feel any need to pay more money to make it go faster.

(I'm not going to whine about rent-seeking or how I own it and I should be able to do what I want with it. Instead, I'm going to point out that:)

Market forces will always push costs down and performance up. If a car company decides to artificially cripple their car so that you feel forced to pay extra; another car company is going to see that as a golden opportunity to undercut. Market forces will make sure that cars are "fast enough" at base price, because only timid drivers want an artificially slow car.

(And, yes, my Tesla does have an option to make the car artificially slow.)
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I expect a car manufacturer to do extensive real world testing in all possible conditions- heat, traffic, etc. before selling it. A spaceship needs to work perfectly the first time, the actual use is also the only real world test of the prototype. It’s also a much harder problem… cars are much simpler and well understood “mature” tech where we have over a century of real world experience on what type of failures are possible and how to mitigate them.
Most of the code isn't specific to a model. It happens that LLaMA is approximately the best LLM currently available to the public to run on their own hardware, so that's what people are doing. But as soon as anyone publishes a better one, people will use that, using largely the same code, and there is no reason it couldn't be open source.

I'm also curious what the copyright status of these models even is, given the "algorithmic output isn't copyrightable" thing and that the models themselves are essentially the algorithmic output of a machine learning algorithm on third party data. What right does Meta have to impose restrictions on the use of that data against people who downloaded it from The Pirate Bay? Wouldn't it be the same model if someone just ran the same algorithm on the same public data?

(Not that that isn't an impediment to people who don't want to risk the legal expenses of setting a precedent, which models explicitly in the public domain would resolve.)
I worked for a global company that maintained it's own "cloud" of VMs that we'd use for development purposes.

They were entirely unusable.

Opening a relatively small file in notepad could take multiple minutes. OS click and typing response times were measured in seconds.

Despite wasting thousands of developer hours each year, they refused to upgrade their data center. Probably because doing so would have been a major budget fight that requires an executive to actually advocate for something instead of making their characteristic animalistic grunts of agreement.

For better or worse I haven't seen the same issue with cloud expenditure. It seems to be perceived as a necessary expense, rather than the engineering department getting ideas above their station.
There is more to translation of text to AST than parsing and lexing. There are semantic checks.

In addition, most languages are not CFG and require nested contexts.

"#{"\tThis is some #{'damn'} string".to_upper_case + " hello"}\n"

Also, there are lexerless parsers such as derivative parsing that can be combined together and don't produce a stream of tokens.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2034773.2034801

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.04695.pdf
Just a little bit to the south.
Have they operated at anywhere close to 4000 per hour?
Analogue could support a SNAC type adapter with the Dock (I highly doubt it, those USB ports are almost definitely wired directly to a real USB chip). Users could develop a cart slot adapter (someone has, he's just lazy and hasn't finished it), but this won't work with any OS features, just the cores themselves.
LLaMA leaked intentionally?
Interesting. My dad developed schizophrenia in his twenties and had been smoking a lot of marijuana. I have always wondered if the smoking triggers something in him. I will always wonder.
> In all seriousness - everyone assumes what they hear/read is 100% accurate and factual until it's about a topic they know something about. Then... we know the truth.

And to bring it back around to AI, I've noticed a lot of people taking ChatGPT's responses as gospel but if you ask it about something you're knowledgeable in you can very easily catch it making stuff up and passing it off as fact.
this is a temporary state. Open source alternatives are already available and more are being trained.