skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a fan, OP.

No, reducing LLMs to just “statistical text predictor” is an absurdity; but so is leisurely stringing together observations from unstructured experimentation to form a “matter-of-fact” conclusion.

Read the ChatGPT paper and specifically hone in on “transformer” and “input processing” (paraphrased). It will give you a clearer picture of what it actually is, rather than appears to be.
You might be right. However I don't see anything wrong if I feel a will to destroy something and I resist it, so that no harm comes from my hatred.

Hatred by itself is not necessarily something to condemn. Therefore "hate speech" is a poor approximation of its commonly intended meaning, that is "speech aimed at acting (violently) against the object of one's hatred".
One of the suggestions was as a mounting point for metal or wooden poles. This suggested, to me at least use as a joint for scaffolding. The holes of differing sizes accommodating pole diameters suited to each purpose for a given scaffold.

On the outside the protrusions could have been used for tying ropes that secure the joint to the pole. Could have been very strong if also threaded inside the dodecahedrons as well. All reusable and modular. Alright, may be a total fantasy though.

The thing that nullifies this as an idea for me is it would be expected therefore to find absolutely thousands of them. I don't know enough about it, but I got the impression it's much less than that, and it'd seem brass would last better.
That makes me wonder, if it should be solved client side by translating server side colours to something different on the client, according to the user’s needs.
This was the hope one or two decades ago. But now that the dynamic has somewhat played out, it's become apparent that when "rockstar mathematicians" complete with rockstar charlatans, the charlatans win most people over. Reality has nuance and details that constrain the earnest actors, while the charlatans can fully focus on telling people what they want to hear.
Continue your quote - What's the very next line, in the same paragraph even?

> ... because the leaked documents have arrived in the form of photographs of printed documents, rather than original files, the possibility of forgery or alteration must be considered.

And you may have misread that other quote you posted: It's saying the documents "have the appearance of tampering."

They also questioned the authenticity multiple times, making it very clear that authenticity had not been confirmed:

> Though they resemble those described by the Times, we can not confirm their authenticity.

And again, further on:

> If the documents were partially faked, were they disseminated to help Russia advance its public relations goals, perhaps by minimizing their casualty numbers or inflating those of their foe? They certainly would not be fooling anyone at the Department of Defense, since they obviously have the original files on hand.

... Looks to me like they reported the news accurately, making no claims about authenticity whatsoever.

The only significant difference I can see between that article and CNN's reporting of the same day [0] is that Grayzone actually showed the documents.

0 - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/07/politics/ukraine-document...
The citrulline, arginine + potassium is a recent thing I'm trying out. I'm getting good results from it in the form of lower anxiety. I had an experience with potassium from a trip to Mexico.

They have this drink there called electrolit and I remember it making me feel super relaxed, to the point where flying in turbulence didn't bother me anymore (I'm a nervous flyer). The only thing that stood out was its potassium content clocking in at 7% d/v in one bottle...really hard to get those kinds of numbers from even a potassium supplement, which come in at 1% per pill in the US. I guess it's because overdosing on it can potentially be fatal and slow down your heart too much? But for someone taking a stimulant it might be really good.

Then the citrulline/arginine is meant to help w/ vasodilation, which I think is hampered by the drugs and presents itself in the form of cold extremities. It's a lot of stuff to take just to be able to function but for me the difference is night and day. Off of it, I've been expelled from every school I've ever attended, on it, I've published half a dozen scientific papers and made a career for myself, so I'm never stopping.

Long term though, my goals are to eliminate or reduce my dosage and supplements by training to get my resting heart rate down a few points. It's what I'm working on with my personal trainer and so far it's been working.
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Not sure why you used warp, it's not really recommended by anyone these days for Rust backends. Try Actix Web or Axum, both have decent documentation and even online courses on YouTube, which is how I mainly learned them.
Could be, using the holes. That would make the size difference an non issue but then why the ones without holes.
Wasn't there just a gas shortage in France and half a year ago in UK?

How constant and long lasting are your power outages there?

I mean no electricity for a week and all my food in the freezer is gone, no heating in winter due to pumps needing electricity and no water as well.

Sounds really bad over there then?
Funny, I find it easy enough to harass folks to join Signal.
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Perhaps fine-tuning is a better word? I am unsure what is the process that let an LLM switch from just a next word prediction tool to a chatbox. Instruction tuning?

The author basically chose some of the output based on set criteria. I think this can eventually be automated and embedded into the protein language model the same way ChatGPT now has guardrails and specific ways to answer questions, instead of following up with the most likely sentence, e.g.: asking it what is the capital of france get an output of another question about what is the capital of germany.
The law of leaky abstractions - as systems become more complex eventually you rely on more abstractions that try to hide complexity.

What makes it worse in the front-end framework world is that either:

1-Projects become convoluted with 3rd party libs to solve a problem

2-The framework maintainers eventually introduce APIs that aren't backwards compatible and existing ones stranded or deprecated
It is also true that humans in general cannot drive [without crashing].
Google for the UN Economist Network Report on the Attention Economy. There is a line there that says less than 1% of all content produced is actually consumed by ppl. And its shrinking.

When cost to broadcast for anyone on the net falls to 0 everything turns to shit.
>>In a few years we might have better codecs

This sounds like something could be done with a firmware update.
To be honest, I think I would just let this one go. Does your father, at 84, really need a new car anyway?
I legitimately might try this.
I think this is pretty much what they all do already? Seems like most manufacturers offer a "long range" version? Perhaps not 250 Vs 500, but certainly like 150 to 250 sort of order of magnitude

Take a look at http://ev-database.uk
I couldn’t convince my parents to get a plug-in hybrid Prius (to replace their old Prius) because it didn’t have a spare tire in the back. They ended up getting a hybrid Camry, which gets much, much worse mileage for their use case. It’s still pretty good in the grand scheme of things, but it was silly that they wouldn’t consider a car without a spare tire considering where they drive and that they have AAA.
I don’t know about this… If a game designer can articulate fun and what it means in the game, a test can assert the side effects of the system align with the game designer’s expectations.

Finding the fun, though…
You are just starting a flame war.
"Democratizing AI with PyTorch Foundation and ROCm™ support for PyTorch" (2023)
https://pytorch.org/blog/democratizing-ai-with-pytorch/ :

> AMD, along with key PyTorch codebase developers (including those at Meta AI), delivered a set of updates to the ROCm™ open software ecosystem that brings stable support for AMD Instinct™ accelerators as well as many Radeon™ GPUs. This now gives PyTorch developers the ability to build their next great AI solutions leveraging AMD GPU accelerators & ROCm. The support from PyTorch community in identifying gaps, prioritizing key updates, providing feedback for performance optimizing and supporting our journey from “Beta” to “Stable” was immensely helpful and we deeply appreciate the strong collaboration between the two teams at AMD and PyTorch. The move for ROCm support from “Beta” to “Stable” came in the PyTorch 1.12 release (June 2022)

> [...] PyTorch ecosystem libraries like TorchText (Text classification), TorchRec (libraries for recommender systems - RecSys), TorchVision (Computer Vision), TorchAudio (audio and signal processing) are fully supported since ROCm 5.1 and upstreamed with PyTorch 1.12.

> Key libraries provided with the ROCm software stack including MIOpen (Convolution models), RCCL (ROCm Collective Communications) and rocBLAS (BLAS for transformers) were further optimized to offer new potential efficiencies and higher performance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34399633 :

>> AMD ROcm supports Pytorch, TensorFlow, MlOpen, rocBLAS on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs: https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Deep_learning/Deep-learni...
Keep in mind that classical wisdom about posture is cooked-up nonsense. Remember that it was the same people who had women balancing bowls of water on their head and wearing corsets who came up with these ideas.

An actually good posture consists of two things: whatever feels comfortable, and changing your posture over the day.
In case you’re living under a rock, it already happened. Are they perfect and driving everywhere in every city? No… but here in SF it is not unusual to see cars with no one in them, they’re driving all over the city, at all times, in parking lots, through school zones, etc

Also you’re trying to discredit a well credentialed individual (who worked in automotive safety regulation) based upon age/gender and other irrelevant factors. I feel the need to call that out as toxic.
It is well-known, especially after the film came out, that NASA engineers and staff were consciously tempting fate when they scheduled the Apollo 13 launch for 13 minutes after the hour. Of course, up until that point in history, it was customary to omit the 13th floor in buildings and to omit the 1300 block in city street planning, among other things. So it was a rather "progressive" move for NASA to even suggest that they not skip directly from Apollo 12 to Apollo 14.

I do not rightly recall, but I believe that the film portrayed other ways they poked fun at superstition in a really callous and cavalier manner. So is it any surprise that they were rewarded with a disastrous and life-threatening mission? Hmm.
Decaf runs the risk of contamination by chemicals used in the decaffeinating process

It's not like they just grow beans without caffeine. This is simply a more processed food product. How risky that is depends on the process/quality/brand/etc. You're rolling dice as when consuming any other more processed food. YMMV
Is there a referenceable starting point regarding this point?
I resonate with this. I’m not a SWE, but still run the risk of spending too much time in theory and not vetting my work in the real world.

There is totally room for software in the real world, even in the sort of job where you take a shower at the end of the day. Perhaps an “applied sciences” approach is best. It isn’t that we don’t do the “computery stuff” (as my wife would say) but rather it is always best to focus on how that impacts the real world. Are we optimizing fertilizer and irrigation application to boost real crops for less input cost? Are we maximizing the customer experience for a painful process to make it “spooky easy” compared to the other ways of buying things we need.

Gum shoe software still has a chance to have a huge impact. There’s a chance that your skills or your field are not broken but perhaps the company is.
Kind of bending definitions to say svelte doesn't have any dependencies once compiled. Svelte itself is a dependency, and though complex and bundled there are svelte utilities included in the app that aren't code directly written by the user. Anecdotally, if also be very interested to see any example of a production Svelte project that doesn't pull in any other dependencies.

The article also calls out no build step, though it's not in the title. That's an important factor for the kind of project that isn't updated regularly and needs to work without any fuss after a year or two of going stale.

I'm a big fan of svelte by the way, been using it since pre-release 2.0 and still reach for it whenever I need a more complex state management or don't have the time to roll my own animation trigger utilities.
I thought about trying this exact same idea for my indoor bike. Posture is also key for cycling.
Yarn 3 is still better than npm these days due to PnP, if you choose to use that, but even if not, it's also much faster at installing node dependencies than npm.
> So many of the websites are just noise with crappy information.

What I hate the most about today's internet is how search engines allow blatant scrapers to feature so high in search results. So many times I Google for something to find Stack Overflow as the main search hits, and right next to it there are a couple of sites that copied Stack Overflow's questions verbatim. Once I googled for FLOSS projects I had on GitHub and lo and behold there were half a dozen obscure sites that also claim to host my project, with everything copied verbatim from git repo to project descriptions.
Looks like it's been upgraded in Ventura, here is the output from Monterey:

==== SUMMARY ====
Upload capacity: 5.983 Mbps
Download capacity: 116.813 Mbps
Upload flows: 20
Download flows: 16
Responsiveness: Medium (274 RPM)
Base RTT: 42
Start: 5/14/23, 12:15:20 PM
End: 5/14/23, 12:15:36 PM
OS Version: Version 12.6.5 (Build 21G531)

and it doesn't support the Private Relay option.
It is a dumb ponzi-like crypto scam that makes me suspicious of Altman, given he’s in charge of OpenAI, one of the most important technology companies currently.
Gas as in gas (that you heat your house with), or gas as in petroleum (that you put in your car)?

For both in the UK I don't think there were "shortages" where it wasn't available. Both just shoot up in price (like they always do at the merest hint of supply shortages or whalesale cost increases ..)
In the web-app/API dominated world of modern software development what advantages and tradeoffs would a CL have over Clojure?
Yeah, there are week long outages by accident or design every year. It may not hit you every year, but no one is immune. This year there was a 4+ day outage that hit Atherton, and you can imagine they have more political pull than virtually anywhere.

Food in the fridge goes bad, there is no HVAC (mostly an issue for AC, since it happens when it’s not that cold), but we have water.
Why does AMD or Intel not release a medium performant GPU with minimum 128gb of memory for a good consumer price. These models require lots of memory to 'single' pass an operation. Throughput could be bit slower.
A 1080 Nvidia with 256gb of memory would run all these models fast right?
Or am I forgetting something here.
human can't handle "ALL conditions ALL OF THE TIME" either

this is a false goal that doesn't exist in the real world

cars, planes, trains, all automation of any kind, all the code you ever wrote, nuclear power plants...all this and more operates with some fallibility that is deemed acceptable given the benefits

no one is excusing AV accidents that seem to defy common sense (randomly driving into barriers etc)...but humans fail in these ways too, every day
I'm most comfortable curled up like a shrimp and I'm absolutely certain that isn't good for me, so I'm not sure your statement is entirely true. :)
It made us click. I'd say the title was partly very successful.
The rollout beyond sf has been … slow. Which begs the question, how autonomous are autonomous vehicles? Is this a technology or an economics problem, or both?
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Original post by u/futurewham at https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/139fldv/ikea_an...
I understand that you may believe your ability to think is magic, but I assure you, you are also just a statistical predictor, and not magic. Thinking and cognition themselves, beyond the medium they happen within, are moving out of the realm of philosophy and into the realm of science now. It just so happens that quite a lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of not being as special and unique in this way anymore.
You should be standing, not sitting.
Sitting is quite detrimental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l5I4M8BMlE
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Coding and walkthrough for a simple Cortex-M bootloader. Part of a Youtube series on bare metal programming.
This isn't about willingness to reject patches though. It's about maintainers who are not even open to receiving them.
Or the speakers themselves, eventually
Which headphones do you have? It's not hard to replace the battery in most popular brands.
It’s a controversial fact. You try figuring out for yourself how you’re going to prove what Kevin Durant’s height actually is, and report back to us.

> prove your last statement that a significant amount of Wikipedia editors are influenced by political

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4228b090-8900-4a29-baa3-66...

> Based on empirical data drawn from a series of interviews and an exhaustive analysis of its cases between 2004 and 2020, this paper examines the ways in which the Arbitration Committee handles conduct-related disputes between editors, and the impact of social capital, summarily defined as the “capital captured through social relations” (Lin 2001, 19), on this process. My empirical material indicates that the Arbitration Committee not only examines the merits of the claims made by the disputants, but also and more crucially facilitates a social contest by considering the position of each disputant within the community of editors. Ultimately, the Arbitration Committee seeks to “cancel” these disputes in order to preserve Wikipedia’s social fabric.

Here you go, there’s some empirical evidence that proves it. This describes a _political process_ where controversies are resolved according to the _politics_ of Wikipedia editing. I am not talking strictly about something like democrats vs republicans, or whatever your own narrow view of politics entails, as I suspect you may have presumed.
Thank you so much! I will incorporate this to my sixel feature branch of a tui matrix client. Memes in the terminal!
This seems like as good place to ask as any: Kinect and similar cameras can do posture estimation. Anyone tried that for bad posture alerts?
It's true because advertisers and publishers measure "performance" (hence revenue/prices) based mostly on views & clicks. You will be amazed how many farms are in the open but hidden. And we're not talking on those stupid easy to catch traffic boosters, it's an entire industry behind.
So ever since lockdown I've pretty much spend like 18 hours a day on my bed: I sleep there and I do most of my work fromnthere, including meetings, debugging and mild coding. I only get up to eat and work out and if I'm typing a lot. Haven't noticed any issues till now. Let's see how my spine turns out!
That’s fine there’s more. Were we talking Buzzfeed? “How Facebook Failed To Prevent Stop The Steal” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/craigsilverman/facebook... “I have blood on my hands” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/craigsilverman/facebook...
"Why don't you push back against such a bizarre overreach?"

Well, gee, I'm just gonna run right out and riot over it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Is it not a criminal offense to lie to whatever the equivalent of the FAA is in your country if you're a pilot or otherwise under investigation for the equivalent crimes this YouTuber committed?

The context is important here: If I understand correctly, the pilot had to have a license issued by the FAA and should've been made aware of laws and penalties in the context of operating a plane. Operating a plane is not a right, it's a privilege. It's also in the public interest that there are strict regulations and investigators with the ability to look into these types of crimes.

The pilot ditched a plane and then tried to obstruct an investigation into the crime. He did commit several crimes and potentially endangered others. He tried to lie to cover it up. As a U.S. citizen who has a vested interest in not being hit by planes dropping out of the sky because the pilot decided to try to get more YouTube views - I'm not particularly offended that this is a crime.

The FAA investigator's job is to assess the cause of air accidents. That may involve interviewing a lot of people with a lot of incentive to lie -- pilots, executives of plane manufacturers who may have cut corners leading to accidents, air traffic controllers, engineers trying to avoid blame, etc. Lots of scenarios where the incentive to lie is high, the impact of a cover-up may be bad for society overall, and without penalties people would lie with impunity.

There should be guardrails around what they can ask. If he was convicted of lying about something totally unrelated to air safety, I might feel differently. This does not feel like an overreach to me.
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shrug, I'm older than her, so the age thing doesn't resonate with me

I appreciate her credentials, but I don't see why her statements are somehow unassailable

and I stick by my point that her history as a fighter pilot has no bearing

not sure where your "gender" point comes from? other than using the pronoun, I made no claims based on gender
Meh. I wouldn’t recommend anyone be arrogant and contemptuous about tech choices. That’s obviously counterproductive and often juvenile.

But helpful? Hell yes—we have an abundance of FLOSS riches today. And fact is, some packages are better designed than others. Trying to encourage use of the higher quality ones to minimize headaches is a good thing.
Can ChatGPT Help Rewrite Text?
I actually used Lisp to implement an early (1995) social media platform, which provided a low barrier to entry and allowed me to try things quickly, beating the averages for a few years.

http://shiny.link/QpGMwJ