skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be makimg several claims here, some more related to what I think is your main point than others:

1. Racists insist that we should examine all demographic factors when trying to identify who the criminals are

2. They shy away from the pure fact that violent crime is almost exclusively perpetuated by men.

3. There are no calls from them for a restriction on male immigration.

4. Using "but" and "yet" between 1 and 2 and 3 shows you believe that 2 and 3 delegitimize 1.

Regarding point 1, I think you are mostly correct, although not all racists would agree. ("Not all racists!")

Regarding point 2, I think you are certainly wrong insofar as there is no lack of admission. But I think your main point is really implied from 3 which is that racists only seem to focus on racial group differences rather than sex differences for violent crimes, which has been used as one of the major "scientific" justifications for racism while ignoring that the same argumemt when applied to men vs. women would show that women are better than men. And this is certainly an interesting point as you said.

Regarding 3 itself — and not your implied argument I expanded on above — it is also not exactly correct. Most racists would find female immigrants more favorable than male immigrants.

In any case, regarding your main point, I believe mosts racists would say that males "equal out" females in some way, for example that men created medicine, or would point out that at the very least society cannot continue without men from a biological point of view or some other explaination, and these explainations are not relevant wrt race.

All this said, I think the way you made this argument with its multiple subtly different claims is part of what generated so many responses. Not that that is inherntly bad.
Fantasy outcome: The crappy, life-sucking radio monopolies abandon AM, the cost of AM licenses nosedives and lower power, independent local stations pop up all over.
an 8 in a 7-segment LCD display looks like a capital B if you squint a little, I'm sure you can figure out what letters 0, 1, and 5 look like.
Implementing State Machines in Smalltalk, Trevor P. Hopkins, Technical Report UMCS-93-3-1, March 1993
[PDF] http://trevor-hopkins.com/downloads/UMCS-93-3-1.pdf
I'm highly dubious of any research that equates "went to a top tier university" with "is highly intelligent" as its only metric. Especially one that also says "but outside America that's not true".

Could it be that people who come from backgrounds that value attending a top tier school as a status symbol also come from backgrounds that (can afford to?) pursue a biollionare-making career? And that in countries where the billionaire class do not value top tier schools so highly, fewer billionaires went to top tier schools.

Could very easily be classic correlation.
Actually white females can come into being if the definition of white is expanded. Initial conceptions of whiteness didn't include Scottish and Irish people, and recently Richard Spencer said he thinks 80% of Italians are white. This would have been an unthinkable statement even in the 1970s.

White is a fluid category with no real objective basis. I recently saw a very amusing argument between an American, English and Polish troupe. The American said that Poland was a great example of a pure white ethnostate. The Englishman said the American was an idiot - Polish people were Slavic. The Polish nationalist said they were both idiots - Polish people are Polish, not Slavic nor White.

I challenge anyone to come up with an objective definition of whiteness.
yep its beautiful how this can be done, its basically just taking the mean of values of function derived from random values from a uniform distribution of points in a specific range. Once done many times, we can approximate the integration value. Because E[X] = integration (f(u)p(u)du), p(u) will be 1 as the number is derived from a uniform distribution in the range of u.
You can pay $40 up front for a "lifetime" license to one-sec. Clearspace's pricing seems egregious in comparison.
Is it really so far fetched to assume that the penalties will be low when the penalties have always been low?

This isn't GDPR violation penalty, it's the US
Everybody talks about the violence in BM but that's not its point. It's not an exploitation story designed to shock for the sheer fun of shocking.

To me it's a beautifully-written poetic exploration of a world without evil. For evil to exist there must be something else to compare it to. And there's nothing else in BM. It's just a mundane world of unceasing animal violence reduced to the quotidian. I imagine the inhabitants of WW II concentration camps might recognize such a world.

A world without evil is a much scarier place than one where the concept of evil needs to exist in order to contrast it with something else.
Small Visual Basic (sVB) is an educational programming language, created by Eng. Mohammad Hamdy as an evolved version of Microsoft Small Basic (SB). It is meant to be easier and more powerful at the same time, to introduce programming basics to kids and beginners of any age, provided that they can use the English keyboard on the Windows operating system.
You can say that:
Small Visual Basic = Small Basic + Visual Basic
but this in not the whole truth!
sVB is meant to be a middle stage in between SB and VB .NET, so, its syntax combines the best of SB, VB, and VB .NET languages!
It is also as easy as Windows Forms, but also has some advanced WPF graphical features!
Download the sVB installer:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ModernVB...

Read or download the free e-book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pCnB4_7pEBc_wT2u258MmutYCuX...
On the other hand, in comparison to a hypothetical alien species, humans might seem highly aligned after all.

Despite all our differences, there are at least some core values that I believe a majority of humans share. Even articulating these shared values in a way that is understood and respected by the AI is very difficult…
Speak for yourself. Bean dishes are delicious and I'd choose them over steak in most circumstances.
Polish charity gets phone bill thanks to stork (2018)
Great! I want to use SHA-2 git will all my new git repositories. Time to switch!
Exactly. Same reason why Jews are only Jews if their mother is Jewish.
You don't need special cores. One thing a lot of people do not seem to realize is compilers do not use the full instruction set. They use a subset and this subset is what has to be fast. Here are the common x86 instructions I remember when I debugged disassembled source code (1).

- mov (an instruction to load, store data)
- Basic arithmetic instructions (add, sub, div, mul, etc.)
- Bitwise operators (or, and, xor, shift, etc.)
- Compare (cmp)
- Branch (jz, jnz, j, ret, etc.)
- There was one weird instruction I would occasionally see. It was used to zero memory (I forget its name). My guess is the compiler used it because it was faster than running creating a loop which zeroed memory.

The point is, people seem to assume ALL instructions have to be fast. The only instructions which have to be fast are the ones the compilers are using. The rest just have to work.

Making the rarely used instructions work probably takes up a negligible amount of space on a typical core. Moving these instructions to a special core would not get you much but would make old software run slower (becuase of the context switch to the other core and/or a limited number of cores it could run on).

Note that I know AMD and Intel both have a lot of guidance for compiler writers.

(1) I debugged disabled code because I was debugging optimized code and it was the only way to reliable determine why a function crashed or malfunctioned.
Did you get bored of the discussion we were having?

By come into being I meant conceived. Like, egg meets sperm. But this is really a very big tangent.
Gassy only when introducing beans as a meaningful component to you diet. After a few weeks the gassiness disappears.
> In fact, from an I$ point-of-view, the tighter x86 encodings are a pretty good win — at least a few % on very long fetch sequences.

This is still what baffles me about RISC-V's G profile not requiring the compressed ISA. The performance benefits are quite dramatic for the (comparatively) limited complexity it adds considering G already includes atomics and floating point. I think Linux is eventually going to force the issue since it's 64-bit ABI is GC.
One thing I'm trying to explore is how AI can help accelerate scientific progress, so I spent the weekend hacking together a research assistant that summarizes the most relevant research papers from arxiv for a given query.

Right now it is only papers from the "cs.CL" category, but I do plan to expand on this a bit more (at least cover the whole cs corpus).

It's very rough :) But any feedback is welcome.
Tweet is from 2019. It this condition still in play?
This book made a lot more sense to me when it was explained as a Gnostic fable and the Judge as the Archon.
I mean that's great and all but the racist point on the invention of medicine is not only unverifiable, it also leads immediately to the observation that white men didn't invent agriculture, the wheel, philosophy, writing. If men can be excused because they did great things, then why not other categories of people?
Even if they didn't supply numbers, it would have been nice if they'd compared them against different competitors, instead of just saying they're not as good as the best in the business from Sony/Bose.

Those headphones cost a bit more, and not everyone springs for the "best in the business" models anyway. Are these comparable with an older model? How do they fare against the AirPods Max or top-of-the-line Beats? More data points would have made this article much more useful.
I was on Usenet at this time. It's hard, even though I lived through it, to really explain how different it was since the total "population" of Usenet was a very tiny fraction of the world (some sources say <1m people around this time). Now 5+ billion people have smartphones.

Many individual newsgroups would only have hundreds of active users. The reach was very wide geographically, but the demographics were very narrow and numbers of people were very small. Typically they were in big tech companies, and at academic institutions.

One related but vivid memory: in 1991 I was playing some text based MUD (multi-user dungeon) which I barely remember, but at certain moment, someone broke out of character and mentioned that the US had just invaded Iraq (during the Persian Gulf War). It seemed so bizarre yet foreshadowing of the changes to come, of the ways that our news would be shared on social media.
Some people actually find learning new things to be interesting and would therefore appreciate a comment giving them a new avenue of exploration to pursue.
Nearly 60% of indonesias population and most of its industry are on Java, the most densely populated island in the world. 150m+ people on a place the size of Pennsylvania or Mississippi. Its absolutely not easy to find space for solar at scale in such a space constrained environment it would really require some massive infrastructure to a solar farm in the sea or another island.

Singapore is a good comparison - a much richer country also space constrained they are only starting to develop renewables seriously now (solar farms in the sea etc.)

Less populous islands sure but its a small proportion and they tend to have less money to tackle these issues also
I'll try to find out how people could afford buying generators. Solar shouldn't be much more expensive but I can't find any prices online.
I'm working on the idea of features instead of prompts: https://inventai.xyz
I've had a pair of Sennheiser HD280s for at least a decade. Honestly, they don't need advances. They still work perfectly. The foam wore off the band, but I replaced it. For my application, batteries and bluetooth would cause a lot more problems than they solve. For my use case, they're basically perfect.
If they can't get you on the merits they will get you on the process.
This is exactly classic survivorship bias, right? It's the kind of thing that usually works for the hunter (or they'd have learned not to do it), and the bird surviving to be observed far away is a combination of rare circumstances...
Elephants and lions.
> There's something very human and intimate in the usage of it, despite modern clamshells obviously having better viewing angles and giving you a better posture. They feel very natural and intuitive, in the same way a pen and paper does.

There's also something more social about it, if you're using it to take notes while around other people. A screen pointed towards you is a private space; a screen visible to the room is more public (and less prone to distraction as a result because it's obvious to those around you if you're fooling around).

I use a TRS-80 Model 100 as a notetaking device for that reason. (Well, also because it's nearly incapable of doing anything that could distract me on the go!)
I’m sold, anyone want to share their favorite bean dishes?
Mine does because I considered that when I bought it.
Is the hit just a visceral one, though, or one that's well written for the right reasons?
I live in a high cost of living city. Texas has no capital gains tax, no income tax, and I don't own a property (obviously I see this through higher rent at $1450 for a 1x1. I pay the 8.25% sales tax and my highest income tax bracket is 23%. I am nowhere near 50%.
Rumour said long ago a smart trafficlight system deployed in Tasmania used an MVNO 2G data sim, said sim was not locked to the data service. People would bust open the trafficlight and steal the sim.

People were jacking the Kindle 2G sims for a while.

Closed User Groups end most of the risks here.
https://archive.ph/7AiqT

(2022)
> but once you know that the EV is negative, there's no good (mathematical) reason to participate.

Unless of course you know that the casino is willing to pay you out as part of their marketing budget (based on your ev to them); usually in the form of compensated room, food, and beverage, and sometimes even transportation. At that point your choice to participate becomes vacation planning for the mathematically literate.
I think there’s a significant difference between the user in being an adult that knows that Siri etc isn’t ‘real’ and is considerate enough of others to treat them with respect to say please and thank you, and a child. What do we teach a young boy if he learns that he doesn’t have to say please and thank you to a device that (almost universally up until now) speaks with a woman’s voice?
Pretty confident this is human-generated. Its definitely the author's usual writing style
>Clout-chasing past his prime egotistical manchild tries to maintain his relevance
Could someone please share a good resource for building a machine from scratch, for doing simple-ish training and running open-source models like Llama? I'd love to run some of these and even train them from scratch, and I'd love to use that as an excuse to drop $5k on a new machine...

Would love to run a bunch of models on the machine without dripping $$ to OpenAI, Modal or other providers...
High-protein diets induce gas. You can get the same effect eating meat.
Wolfram is a quack lol
The guys pressing buttons are REALLY confident going into this one.
Well sure. If one puts all their discretionary income and effort into a “pile” the vast majority would go to themselves/kin then others.
> white females can only come into being if there are white men to father them.

Incorrect. Read what I said again.
beans with beans
> but even with the fakes the majority of comments were in favor of keeping the Obama era net neutrality bylaws.

… no?

> The proceeding generated a record-breaking number of comments — more than 22 million — and nearly 18 million were fake, the attorney general’s office found.

81% of the comments were astroturf.
Hey are you planning to do it, if so would love to chat? I am quite intrigued by the wedding space (that's how I found this comment, searching for it)- would love to chat- (I am head of revenue at a startup in the bay, before that took another from 40 mil to 5.7B over the last 4 years)
Palm 2 vs. GPT-4 – why Google is having hard time catching up
Megabyte: Predicting Million-Byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers
You are missing the point. There are layers and the LLM is one layer (orchestration), but you can always have other semantic kernels with skills connected to other software (do stuff).
Same here. 30 years later I am still very shy about using my name online.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023371-sheet-pan-feta-w... - I like this one a lot during the winter.

For a weeks worth of lunches:

1. Pot of quinoa

2. 2 bunches of kale, torn up and steamed on top of the quinoa while it finishes cooking.

3. Stir in a can of pinto beans

4. Add a couple of shredded carrots

5. Pour in however much dressing you want. I use some store-bought Green Goddess flavored stuff.
I was surprised that Signal wasn't in the list of banned apps.
But according to the article this seems to be because they banned apps that let their uses remain anonymous. We know that that according to a FBI slide that was released about a year ago, that Signals do give who talks to who and when, although they can't read their users' messages.
higher rates of being the victims of homicide right?
I don't think its useful to refer to every symbolic structure that people employ to build machines as "math." There is more to Facebook and Midjourney than the equations used to represent their operation.
> After a few weeks the gassiness disappears.

As someone who has gone on long stints using beans as a primary protein source, this is simply not true IME. But it does depend on the types of beans and the cooking methods.

AIUI a major component of what determines gassiness is if there's a combination of fiber (especially soluble fiber) and starches/sugars which become locked up in that fiber so they pass through the small colon intact. This is a desirable situation from a health/weight-gain standpoint, since you've avoided absorbing those simple carbs. But it feeds the biome of the large intestine, producing gas.

Legumes tend to have those ingredients... there's no reason to expect it to stop occurring. Ex: 100g pinto beans contains 26.22g carbs of which 9g is dietary fiber, the remaining carbs is stuff your gut can likely use to make gas.
Anecdotally, I experienced the same thing the author mentioned: Specially Python developer's disdain for Java. At more than one local Python meetup there were numerous jabs thrown at Java, or jokes made at its expense, with the implication that Java was inferior to Python.

FWIW, I never experienced the inverse when talking to Java developers.
There was another post on Thursday related to this [1].

If the LLMs can communicate, then you can use that fact to prompt one to talk to the other and do kind of an indirect injection attack.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905876
DCP-o-matic – get any content cinema-ready – convert media to DCP
It’s an excellent book and movie. It’s not a horror film - but a subtle and post apocalyptic draining you of hope to the very end, in the most beautiful way possible in the ugliest of places. It’s a film for experiencing the stoicism and pain of futile fatherhood.
I don’t think making the LLM able to distinguish between privileged and unprivileged text is sufficient. Knowing some text is unprivileged is very useful metadata but it doesn't ensure that text still can’t influence the LLM to behave in violation of the instructions laid out by the privileged text.

For a recent example, consider the system prompt leak from Snapchat’s AI bot[0]. (Which still works right now). Snapchat’s AI clearly knows all the subsequent message it receives after initialization are untrusted user input, since for its use case all input is user input. Its system prompt tells it to never reveal the contents of its system prompt. But even then, knowing it’s receiving untrusted input, it still leaks the system prompt.

[0] https://imgur.io/YTOkJ0Y
The SQL stuff sounds cool, but Ecto is so expressive I don’t even need to resort to raw SQL like I do in other languages. Elixir typing can handle a subset of intersection type which is rather niche, and of course handles union types which are more prevalent. Genetics and inheritance are replaced with a more permissive style of polymorphism with Elixir behaviors and are also part of the typing system.

All languages have their own flavor, and their own pros and cons, and if the advanced types of Typescript work for you, then great! In my own experience, I have found Elixir and it’s typing capabilities to work well for me
I think this is a valid PoV IFF you believe the AI adds value. On the premise it's true, then ignoring it is a huge move.

The thing is, thats a big IFF. What if it turns out, the net outcome is net-negative, in reputation, in quality of response, and on effect on the bottom line?

I would expect Google to implement LLM/ML/GPT behind the scenes where it shows to have value. The intrusion into the sell cycle does not have to be there, for it to add value.

Selling it, implies believing it is a value in itself.

I think its still an open question. Its a great tool, but is google in the tool up selling business?
That instruction is not the recommended way.

To make it work, use a virtualenv, seriously always use a virtualenv. Then inside: pip install --editable ./

This has been the standard way to install packages since forever. Don’t know why author complicates it with lower level setuptools. This is the same message that deprecationwarning is giving btw.
I am no where near an expert on this subject, and this information is from a few months ago so maybe it's outdated, but people on Reddit[1] are claiming running the llama with 65B parameters would need like 20K+ of GPUs. A 40GB A100 looks like it's almost $8K on Amazon, and I'm sure you could do a lot with just one of those, but that's already beyond your $5K budget.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/11i4olx/d_...

I'll let others chime in but you could still probably build something really powerful within your budget that is able to run various AI tasks.
> Beans are protein-rich, sustainable, and delicious. Why doesn’t the US eat more of them?

Because they don’t actually have that much protein. Cooked black beans are about 9% protein and 25% carbohydrates, whereas chicken breast is about 30% protein and has virtually no carbohydrates.
Put the two together and have a feijoada
except that there seems to be no truth to the Marco Polo story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta#History
Look up almost any Indian recipe with lentils/legumes/pulses.

You can also sprout moong beans by soaking them in water overnight, draining them in the morning, and leaving them covered with a damp cloth in a dark area like the microwave for 24 to 48 hours.

Once sprouted to your desired level, you can just eat them, or make a sprouted moong bean salad with bell pepper, cucumber, tomato, lemon juice, black pepper, and salt.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30343086
Weird because I am split on this. I still game a lot but never got those feelings again that immersed me in the world. Sid Meiers Pirates in my C64 for example. the first CIV or Xcom. I still rack up significant game time but the immersion is less. This I attribute to me not being a kid anymore.

When I was a kid I gobbled up all movies, good, bad, ... Whatever I watched it all. Last decade I haven't watched that much movies anymore. I am in the middle if it is me not being a kid anymore or it is quality.

The difference is that I still put significant time in gaming although it doesn't make me immerse into it like I did as a Kid. Movies I just quit on most of them and watch a couple of good ones.

Maybe it is unfair. A good movie you watch once but even if in a year only 1 good game comes out you can still rack up a big amount of time ;)