skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> are you really saying we should feel bad for them and assume they are a victim of “the system”?

Yes, absolutely. 100%. We should feel bad for people who find themselves in circumstances and life experiences that have driven them to violence. We should feel bad for sociopaths who inflict violence because the life and experience of a sociopath is objectively a sad thing. We should feel bad for non-sociopaths who were driven to desperation and extremes due to a lack of healthy coping mechanisms for stress and anger or anything else.

> Do we drop charges? What’s the actionable plan for reducing violent crime?

My comment isn't suggesting that dropping charges is going to fix the problem - it's the opposite. It's that we need a system of accountability that is a net-positive for society. Incarceration as-is in the US worsens the problem severely. It needs reform to be a place of actual rehabilitation and many people who need rehabilitation due to violent offenses absolutely need to be forced into doing so. But it needs to not be at the expense of their families, it needs to not further generational harm, and it needs to not harm the people being incarcerated. Harm for harm is a fucked up concept that doesn't help anyone except shallow people who crave a sense of justice, who are themselves inflicting violence too. People should leave prison in a better position than when they entered (in terms of dealing with their life better and in more healthy ways) and the opposite is happening. We're actively harming peaceful society with prisons today.
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I haven’t done in “development” projects since ChatGPT became a thing. It’s mostly DevOps these days. My specialty in consulting is combining App Dev + DevOps + cloud. I’ve mostly been using it for helper scripts and JSON and Yaml wrangling like this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34566980
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Personally I think these kind of impersonal hiring tools naturally lead to "cheating" by using chatgpt or whatever. If a company wants to screen people without investing any time, it's a logical reaction for candidates that are up for that sort of thing to also invest the bare minimum into getting screened in.

I get it that it's an economic choice companies make, but things like chatgpt level the playing field for candidates who are expected to jump through hoops without any reciprocity from the hiring company.

Personally I wouldn't hire anyone who I found was cheating in an interview, but I would also never consider interviewing at a place that make me do an automated test.
You may have undiagnosed ADHD. I found this out about myself a few weeks ago and it has explained an awful lot about the last few decades.
What distinguishes a generative model from other AI models? That the size of the output is larger than some threshold than the input?

Also, the provisions in this bill make me think it has to be placative theatrics, as I don't see how something so ambiguous in its rules, and with such ridiculous teeth, could be passed.
Is there a state where you can sign up for public assistance without proving your identity with government issued ID? I'm not aware of any.

I'm pretty sure the Venn diagram of people without access to government issued ID and legal, eligible voters is two distinct circles.
Yes. Pre-emptively killing any possibility of innovation before all the details are known. Big brain move.
there's been a bit of work on this. the hard part is figuring out which code a user cares about isn't trivial.
I don't know, when I think about the majority of the sites I visit daily, it's pretty much just content. Like, let's see:

- Stack Overflow

- Hacker News

- Reddit

- Youtube

- Various news blogs

- Gmail

- Shopping/Amazon

- Maps

With the exception of maps, pretty much all of that would be perfectly fine server side rendered (and a lot is, I think). Even gmail would be fine that way, tbh I find it kind of annoying that things like the back button work in unexpected ways.

Things I don't do often but which would be fine server side even though they're SPAs:

- Taxes. Turbotax is very smooth and fancy, but frankly if it gets my taxes done quickly I just don't care that much.

Stuff that's heavy in JS, but which is pretty far weighted content-wise:

- Twitter

- Facebook

- Instagram

Also, a lot of the things that are essentially "web apps" I end up using the desktop/electron version anyway, like Slack or VSCode.

I really think most sites would be better if JS was kept to the bare minimum. The things that actually act like applications often end up with a desktop electron version anyway.
By the time this gets voted , AI will have moved a few galaxies further away. This is either ridiculous posturing for political points or one more cookie prompt nonsense.

I wonder what kind of statement was Google making when they specifically did not release new Bard in EU or canada
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And yet they still have the nerve to complain about how technologically behind they are against the US.
> When I have ARM image, well, then I can boot it on a SoC it is built for ... or lives on different pins of SoC, then I am screwed and will have at best partially working system.

That's not even the half of it either... what firmware does the board run? U-boot is nice, but sometimes you aren't lucky and you're stuck with something proprietary. Although if you're extremely lucky, you'll have a firmware that supports efi kernels.
Rapl doesn't allow setting a limit which is always obeyed. You can set PL1 and PL2 limits. But intel CPUs will gladly go over those limits in the short term. For example when running a benchmark. That's why I asked for specific benchmarks which include power measurements.

For example: https://www.notebookcheck.net/i7-1360P-vs-M2_14731_14521.247...

this shows the M2 has a little worse performance compared to the 1360P. But the 1360P requires 2.5x the power to achieve that.
I personally agree with the frequent release crowd, but my company sells a web-based SaaS product and releases quarterly, my last company released a web SaaS product 2x a year and SalesForce famously releases closer to once per year, so a large part my the world is "still insane" based on your opinion.
Ideally we'd have smarter policies, I think? I can bring on 2x+ RC hobbyist 100WHr lipo packs that scares even me, a lot.

Amazing tech, super cheap. 4.5Ah 22.6V pack, converts down to usb-c ranges with absurd efficiency, 24v->120vac inverters are awesome. Packs are so cheap. High power ones can fully discharge in under a minute, which is 6.5kW output, absurd. But my heavens these things are just terrifying. I occasionally use two for a short-range electric skateboard & am shocked nothing has yet exploded or caught on fire. They're more durable than I expect but there is so much energy here so unprotected. And I as someone who watches the internal resistance change over time- I know for real these things age, a lot over time, and eventually some might well become quite unhappy monsters.

But if I had lifepo4 packs, the only thing catching on fire would be whatever the pack was powering. Lifepo4 is amazing. Drive nails into it, set it on fire, whatever. Great cycle count too.
Goodness. I watched the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon, and I would have said that I remembered the details well. But if you had asked me whether Nixon was there to speak to the astronauts, I'd have said, No, of course not. I suppose that fifty-four years will do that for memories.
So a doctor could refuse to prescribe PrEP or treat STDs? Also, it does look like services could be denied to specific people based on gender identity or sexuality, per the article.

> While the legislation says that health care providers can't use it to deny care based on a patient's race, color, religion, sex or national origin, attempts by Democratic lawmakers to extend those protections to gender identity and sexuality failed.
bill text: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1580/BillText/er/...
> better economic efficiency

Yup. Keep the money moving.

So weird that corporate media (the plantation class) emphasizes wealth accumulation while ignoring most other metrics like velocity of money and gini coefficient.
I'll have to dig up the source somewhere, but I'll see what I can do.
I'm only offering an early anecdote that catfishing is adapting to the times. You don't have to believe me. Don't trust anyone with weird nipples that hides their hands in every photo.

People have been [claiming to] do this for years:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/monetizing-traffic-from-so...

Give it 1-2 years and you can hear about it from Krebs.
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This would explain part of why Apple hasn't been pushing M2 for the data center. Its chips are a better fit for bursty human workloads, not server workloads.
Are you sure you're talking about the right oath?

> [...] Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. [...]

Doctors aren't even made to swear to this oath. They can if they want to, or another oath if they please, or no oath at all as far as I know.
> Every time I have tried to edit anything in Wikipedia I have run into a very ego-driven community of long-term editors who don't much care for outsiders playing in their sandbox.

This is likely similar to the force that keeps StackOverflow from growing and staying useful. StackOverflow is basically "Answers to programming questions as if it were still 2009" because any new content gets quickly removed as "duplicate" of content that existed a decade ago.

I've seen the same thing happen on OpenStreetMap. You make an edit, and some old-timer comes in and just reverts it. I even once got an angry message there where someone "claimed" an area in a city for himself.

I'm not a Redditor, but I understand Reddit has similar problems with mods.

Not sure the solution. It's hard to develop a community of passionate volunteers, but every time a platform does build this community up, the content calcifies under an inflexible cabal of power-mad volunteers.
I think we're arguing over different things. I'm not arguing against the concept of CEO pay caps in general, only the specific proposal of capping CEO pay by the lowest paid employee.
None of these sites on your list would be operable without JavaScript, even with reduced functionality. Heck Hacker News, probably the gold standard for simple websites, would itself be unusable. You wouldn't even be able to get the upvote/downvote buttons to work.
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Back in January, ChatGPT started to take off. I was immediately hooked. As a developer, this improved my workflow tremendously.

Something was missing though… I tend to read a lot of documents and need the ability to reference that material specifically and ask my questions. One option was to copy-paste parts of a doc into chatGPT, but that's a crappy solution when the context you're looking for could be scattered across thousands of pages.

This is where our little startup, Three Sigma was born. A few buddies and I quickly realized how helpful this could be to students, lawyers, and anyone that deals with tons of documents alike. We started small by spinning up a pretty front end and tagging on a waitlist to see if there would be any traction (There wasn't). We quickly grew discouraged until one day in a last-ditch effort, I threw a post on hacker news and went to bed. The next morning was glorious. Thousands of people were trying out our demo and leaving feedback. Needless to say, I was on top of the world. We continued to do some marketing and realized there in fact was a demand.

From January -> May we built, tested, broke, and revamped our product until we squeezed every last drop of performance a two-man team could in a few months of work. All the while we continued marketing and getting people signed up for our waitlist. Things were going well.

Though ChatGPT is a fantastic tool, it's not infallible. We wanted the ability to reference what parts of the document were used to generate an answer so you could fact-check the answers without sifting through thousands of pages by hand (or dealing with a black box). Oh and one more thing. We didn't want to jump from ChatGPT to Three Sigma back and forth. Three Sigma had to be a one-stop shop, so we implemented a “Free Solo Mode” where you could directly interact with Openai's models.

On May 11th, we launched our product. Satisfied with the leaps of progress we made in the last few months. Long story short, there are tons of new AI tools coming out every day. I wanted to personally Thank Hacker News for giving us the courage to ship Three Sigma

I would love for you guys to try it out, and leave feedback. Thanks again.
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sounds very similar to the arguments made against tests in a work setting.

Test as appropriate for your needs and goals. Adjust over time. There is no need to artificiality skew the balance in either setting.
True; it was a quick hack, so I didn't consider these kind of things.
My beliefs are that felons are unredeemable and undeserving of any care provision whatsoever. Hence, "just those specific services" becomes all health care.

One should always imagine the worst case when writing good laws. Unfortunately, we all know this law is not meant to be good, it's meant to be a wedge.
Does anyone know of any good resources for building your own machine capable of running some powerful open source models?
What airline? Most will just bill to the card used to buy the ticket.
So like, if I believe that it's immoral to touch a gay person, and I am an EMT who encounters a bleeding gay person?
Is stupid drama and leads to nothing but Facebook whinery

Right -- the workers quoted in the article (the same people who will be saving your ass on your next trip to the emergency room) are just a bunch of whining babies, with no idea they're talking about. Too stupid, in fact, to realize that literally each and everyone one of them can just take a class, and help themselves to CEO pay.
Now here is your opportunity to throw this 144 page PDF of the draft into whatever LLM you are using, GPT-4, ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Bard, WhateverGPT: [0]

Go for it and show the whole world and do a ELI5, summarization, etc about what exactly this AI Act is all about.

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COM...
Then why are there ones made of stone?
I suppose if:

1. your sincere religious beliefs impelled you to deny all medical care to people based on their beliefs - in other words your religion establishes that certain beliefs make you an unperson.

AND

2. This bill were written saying anything at all about denying all medical care, which it is not, since the provider would be forced to identify specific forms of care that they were unwilling to provide to _all_ people, rather than _all_ forms of care to _certain_ people.
Interesting feedback. Adding the option to beep when you stay too long in the same posture shouldn't be too hard...
What a bizarre mishmash of regulatory attempts. I wonder how poorly this will age.

The worst part is that they're trying to block the rest of the world from engaging in open source development too, since it's literally impossible for a model to not end up in Europe thanks to the internet.

It's clear Europe doesn't consider itself a serious contender in the AI development race, and they're hobbling themselves right from the start.
Just finished embedding a Python component on my site - https://www.actuarialopensource.org/book/welcome.

Uses react-py. Some effort required to implement tabs and manage lifecycle of Pyodide for separate editors.
> requirement for all large social media companies to submit to the will of the government

This happens in the US, too. They're all required by law to hand over any and all information the government wants. And through a million different ways of pressure and influence, they're effectively forced to do basically anything the US government wants. The ever looming threat of "it'd be a real shame if section 230 went away" makes them do anything.
Fun fact, the f35 jet fighter has kept needing more and more bleed-air for thermal management, and it's putting more than expected wear & load on the engines.

One of the next major upgrades is the P&W Engine Core Upgrade which replaces some of the inner engine, and one of the main features is a greatly increased thermal management capability for the engine, since it has so much more bleed air demand than originally expected. I think maybe more bleed air too? This after GE's proposed XA100 got turned down, which would have been even more of a beast (albeit not fit in the Marines stol jet).
While cellphones might have plateued, what hasn't I'd imagine are travel batteries. People get terrible ones from amazon or for free from places with a random corporate logo printed on the side. It's probably a lot of junk that's not nearly as scrutinized as a smartphone with qc. With each year more of these end up being gifted by friends and relatives as a cheap and useful gift and put into circulation.
You can think of it this way: if half the model is running on the GPU, and the GPU is infinitely fast, then the total calculation time would go down by 50%, compared with everything running on the CPU.
This analysis of "what's the worst that could happen" is insufficient as the appropriate test is "what's the worst that could happen and how often could it happen"

Things that can go very wrong, but which in practice we may expect to be extremely rare are not necessarily large problems.
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This training in the wild sounds scary at first, until i remembered that we've done something similar with air travel, basically "training" with live people and fatalities. But over the years we did reduce those from 40 crashes/mil to 0.1 crashes per million flights. I would not want to fly on those early jets in the 50's, but enough people actually took that chance!
x86 also uses 2-address instructions which means that you often need to use moves between registers (additional instructions), example: [1]. ARM uses 3-address instructions.

Also, x86 code is compact, but not as compact as in era of 8080 [2] - here addition and multiplication require 3 bytes each, 6 bytes total. To my surprise, ARM has an add-multiply instruction and it uses just 4 bytes (instead of 8) [3].

And RISC-V uses 6 bytes because of shortened instruction for addition [4]

Of course, this simple function cannot be a replacement for proper analysis, but it seems that x86 code is not significantly denser.

Also to my great disappoitment none of those CPUs has checked overflow for arithmetic operation.

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/jsoccE5jv

[2] https://godbolt.org/z/jTMs1MEzh

[3] https://godbolt.org/z/nGb8qKcxe

[4] https://godbolt.org/z/x9c115crY
It's arguable that Babbage's design for the Analytical Engine included microcode.

See, i.a., https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/glossary.html
I wonder when the llm’s will start communicating directly with each other using just embeddings. Our words will seem like dolphin squeaks in comparison.
Anthropic’s Claude AI can digest an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds
Compelled service with compensation still exists: Jury duty, contractual relationships (e.g. military stop-loss policies).

What this does is eliminate a particular contractual compulsion.
Looking through the commits?
You last paragraph is correct. Only about half the model was running on the GPU.
This bill allows providers to exclude forms of medical care across all patients, not persons of specific types.
It means they put up a firewall blocking all EU access and continue business in the US.

Same with open-source software in general with how that’s going.
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The frame largely already existed, though, even in software, e.g., "Worse is Better" (https://dreamsongs.com/WIB.html).
> globus crucigers

that is a holy hand grenade
Can you cite some specific examples why you say that?
I'm an arachnophobe. If people reliably put "cw spiders" on links to spiders, my life would be a bit better. (Not a lot, because it's already not that hard to avoid pics of spiders online.)

What we're talking about here isn't 'may contain nuts', it's 'definitely contains actual nuts'. This link doesn't have a "chance" of seeing a stuffed goose with an arrow in its neck, that is in fact what is there. Your example doesn't fit.
> Heck Hacker News, probably the gold standard for simple websites, would itself be unusable. You wouldn't even be able to get the upvote/downvote buttons to work.

Hacker News upvote/downvote buttons work without Javascript
Godot (https://godotengine.org/) has given me the best mix of freedom and helpfulness. I worked in Unity for a few years, which was terrible but popular, and have done a small amount of Unreal Engine work, and have found them to be more "enterprise"-y than I need/want. Godot is FOSS and is a really incredible community. GDScript is pretty cool (if you're familiar or enjoy Python it'll feel pretty normal), but you can use pretty much whatever programming language you like.
That's why I said a minimum of JS, not none. You don't need 500KB of frameworks for an upvote button
Seems similar to the GDPR, which IMO has been a huge success.

I'm sorry that it will hurt your quarter of a million dollar pay checks. Here we value consumer protection and that's how things will stay.

If your perspective so Anglo-centric that you can't interpret EU administrative law then you will do well to stay out of that market.
this bill does not allow exclusion of medical care based on your beliefs about the patient, but based on your beliefs about the medical care in question.

[It is deeply weird how uncurious the comments on this particular article are.]
Certainly it's debatable if doctors should be able to deny treatments they think aren't harmful but they see as religiously offensive. But the root disagreement here is primarily about harm, and we already have agreed as a society that doctors have a duty to not knowingly harm their patients. If you can frame something as a civil rights issue, that can help resolve some conflicts but doesn't do much in terms of resolving contentions around if a specific procedure is harmful to a patient or not. In medicine, it does simply boil down to either persuading physicans that the procedure isn't harmful, or determining as a society we will no longer accredit people as physicians if they believe it is harmful.
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes had rewritten it a will need to use a different event to enable the button if there is an update in the input field.
> in other words your religion establishes that certain beliefs make you an unperson.

Not an unperson, but equivalent to supporting the enemy. Would you be comfortable saving the life of a person you know is a mass murderer, who hasn't yet been arrested of charged, and thus would be free to murder again after you save their life, for instance?
On the following blackjack page (link at the bottom of the page), the phrase "Buy up to 17" can be misleading.

The author means "if your total is 17 or less, get another card". But it can easily be interpreted as "keep asking for more cards until you have 17 or more"; almost the same, but different.