skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not their only goal btw. Besides repairability, they also source from sustainable mines/suppliers (so far as reasonably possible, given that virtually nobody else creates demand for such a thing) with normal wages and such. And recycling is a thing but I'm less read up on what they do there.

I still agree that they made a product nobody asked for just so they could get rid of the 3.5mm jack in their latest smartphone, until today that is (first time I see someone ask for fair earbuds!), but I do want to give them credit for their overall mission beyond just repairability.
to test the skill of a stonesmith
I think that medical professionals should be paid to administer treatment to human beings, regardless of the situation.

It is a human. They should be all treated the same unless the patient requests.

To do anything else is immoral rot.

What next, denial of treatment to someone you don't like? Or someone who committed a crime?

Sorry, I don't treat shoplifters, your cancer is God telling you that you did wrong

America has gone loony.
>> Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base...

That's a qualifier for what follows it. Seems true enough to me. If there are enough developers to notice bugs, they will probably be found and fixed quickly.
> When I have x86 image of Windows/Linux, I can boot it on any x86 processor.

Where this gets absurd is modern Debian supports i686 and up. You should be able to get a 27-year-old Pentium Pro to boot the same image as a Raptor Lake CPU.
see also: https://courses.grainger.illinois.edu/ece448/sp2021/slides/l...

There's some good baseline material on HMMs in Russell & Norvig [1] (the chapter on "Probabilistic Reasoning over Time") as well as Rabiner's HMM tutorial

[1] https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
[2] https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/rabiner.pdf
And hopefully some tongs to move the devices into the bag while still molten.

I'm perversely curious how bad the smoke issue is when this happens on planes. Honestly fucked up, but I actually don't think the fire is really that much of an issue, is almost no real threat. You bet your ass the plane, the seats, the carpet, the bulkheads are non-flammable. There's no real threat here, from what I can tell. Other than the harm of a major smoke release. I know there's a ton of air systems on planes... It's be so interesting to see a video of an extreme battery detonation test on a plane, to see how the smoke & air systems handle it.
They have no model on par with GPT-4.
Efficient for what, though? It's certainly faster for rote recording of information, but I learn complex information in less time when I hand-write it out. Also, you have to be really well-practiced in LaTeX math packages to type arbitrary math well. Hand-writing math is much more straightforward with limited learning time.
Not sure it’s worth responding to this other than saying it’s disgusting to even pretend this is equivalent to slavery.
I just want to point out that more people using X doesn’t necessarily make X better. More people using the web today it’s just that, more people using it.

As for what measure, things are probably worse from a privacy/tracking stand point and also from a user centralization stand point. At least in my opinion.
It sounds like Atom could have found a home in phones.
Wireguard that 1) connects multiple houses across the world into one transparent network with each node serving a local DNS with Adguard for 64-bit or Pinhole on 32-bit-only ones; 2) provides private passthrough VPN that turns on automatically whenever I'm not on a home network.
I mean games these days are hundreds of gigabytes each. If you archive the not most popular TV shows and movies that can really add up. Especially 4k.
I posit that pg's initial business plan for Viaweb from 1995 anticipated CI/CD.
http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html

IMO, CATB was never good.
What we talk about when we talk about…
I did an international flight to a country that had spotty power and it was a 3+ week trip.

So naturally I grabbed my kids firetablet 5000 mah battery packs (x2), my iPhone charger, personal and work laptop, and a couple sets of AirPods.

Needless to say my backpack was heavy. One airline (Asiana) wanted to weigh my carryon and told me it was too heavy. I told them I had reservations checking lithium batteries to a non pressurized cabin. I offered to pay a fee but could t really just toss the laptops etc (the bulk of the weight).

Eventually they let it slide because of the batteries but for a second I thought I was gonna be stuck in a terminal or be forced to Chuck a MacBook or something in the trash (and let be serious, the work machine goes first)
Doctors literally do this all the time. This is part of what it means to be a doctor. ER surgeons don't get to know whether the patient is a "good guy or a bad guy" before they save the patient's life.

And this bill doesn't change that long-established approach to medicine.
I agree, but it would probably require to use LLMs to filter or augment the raw text. They can afford it.
Donations don't pay the authors and editors.
I am looking forwards to seeing what happens when every insurance company operating in Florida suddenly gets a new religion that just so happens to conflict with paying out any money. I think there's ample precedent in most insurance company's actions to "determine such beliefs by reference to the entities’ governing documents; any published ethical, moral, or religious guidelines or directives; mission statements; constitutions; articles ofincorporation; bylaws; policies; or regulations".
> "Enthusiast" undersells for sure, but is still a true statement.

It's like calling Steve Jobs "a computing enthusiast" — it's ridiculous by omission (unless Palmer's Wikipedia entry is wrong). Clearly he was designing for the mass market, and in his roles as creator and designer was a proxy for that market.
A hacker audience (as the Hacker in Hacker News) likely has different criteria for a headset to be good such as

- not being locked down

- compatible with GNU/Linux and/or *BSD

- open source firmware which can easily be flashed by an own build

- publicly available documentation of the interface (e.g. USB bytestream)

- ideally: openly documented schematics

- ...

I don't believe that Apple's headset will deliver on these criteria.

Thus: Don't adopt the opinion of some influencer if there is a given likelihood that he judges a product based on different criteria than you.
It's literally impossible to block Europeans from getting access to these models, since bypassing geographic restrictions is trivial.

Will Github add an option to limit repo access in certain regions?

If this passes, will devs be banned from using GitHub for the development of open source models?
Frankly I’m very skeptical of the language of the bill. I can’t really think of a specific medical procedure that can be broadly blanket banned on religious grounds that doesn’t come off as extreme or discriminatory: even if one is against abortion, helping to expel a dead fetus is the exact same medical procedure. Even if one is against hormone replacement therapy for trans people, the process of assisting low-testosterone men or menopausal women is the same prescriptions.

I could imagine a doctor who would find circumcision ok but is against gender affirming surgery for minors. But like, idk, what’s the legal difference here that isnt discriminatory?
Bhagvad Geeta?
3 years of using prettier and I still curse it daily for not letting me have more than 1 empty line to delineate related sections of code in large files for readability.
Discrimination based on race, gender, socio-economic class, age, ... is illegal in the UK, EU, and I think the US (or at least California).

Does that help? It's not exactly the same obviously, and I don't mean to imply that, caste system has (or retains) much stronger cultural roots.

I do think the idea, Indophile though I am, that India was itching to get away from it, as though it was entirely imposed upon it, is a bit rich. As I understand, it was somewhat formalised by Britishers, for censa and whatever else, but the foundations are ancient.
Here's "jailbreak detection", in the NeMo-Guardrails project from Nvidia:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/blob/327da8a42d5f8...

I.e. they ask the llm if the prompt will break the llm. (I believe that more data /some evaluation on how well this performs is intended to be released. Probably fair to call this stuff "not battle tested".)
>The x86 decoders consume a reasonable amount of power

this article states otherwise, so how is it?
Why is that btw? When I first heard of noise cancelling a few years ago, I figured electrons travel faster than sound waves (by a few orders of magnitude), so they'd just have a mic on the outside and speakers on the inside, amplifier in between and connect plus and minus the wrong way around to create an inverse signal. No chips with delay needed, just an analog signal going directly from mic to speaker. Shouldn't that cancel literally all sound?

Apparently they, instead, all use some software solution that mainly works for constant noises. I don't understand why
The whole article reads like it was paraphrased by somebody who doesn't actually know anything about the subject.
I was under the impression that a few versions ago, links got a "ping" feature. Having an upvote icon become a link with a "/#" href would keep it from refreshing, and the ping would send data about the vote.

I'm not entirely sure that sort of feature requires javascript at all.
His email was @aol.com, ha, typical...

I remember seeing his website in the olden times, where he put up pics of cars and parties from Monaco/Cote d'Azur. And when the NZ police raided him on behest of the FBI, it seems he got actual hero status. It makes me wonder if crime does pay after all...
Fairphone 4 doesn't have a 3.5 mm jack beacuse reasons. So much for sustainability.
> I honestly don't think OSS is a big factor business-wise

Lots of companies are evaluating fine-tuning strategies for <60B LLMs. Such models can be efficient, private, cheaper and adapted to the use case. They may not be generalists like GPT-4, but you need them for scaling up usage on high volume calls on the same task if you don't want to have to pay a fortune to OpenAI, or for processing confidential information such as in medical, B2B and other cases. Not to mention the fear that OpenAI might snoop on their private data and use it in their corpus.
AI Drug Discovery Is a $50B Opportunity for Big Pharma
Combinatory Logic (2020)
https://archive.is/9JkAc
Sure smartphones may have plateaued, but that doesn't mean they quality of them is stable either. Low cost foreign brands are popular because they're now good enough for many consumers.

But on your point: I have received 3 of the travel batteries you've described as promotional/corporate gifts. They're all junk, and their housing is weak. While I've never used any of them, it wouldn't be such a stretch for me to charge one up as a "back up" battery when I go travelling. (Obviously now I won't.)
I'm sorry, we don't insure anyone who isn't straight, Christian, has a criminal record or who are in a mixed race marriage.

Policy invalid. Request denied. Good luck.
Automated and impersonal assessment will be met with automated and impersonal submissions. Simple as.
> It's literally impossible to block Europeans from getting access to these models, since bypassing geographic restrictions is trivial

I think that doesn’t matter because the strength of the lock is generally irrelevant legally.

Weak DRM is still a copyright violation to break in the US; and breaking a rusted 50-year-old lock on an item that doesn’t belong to you is still illegal.

I would hope that EU courts would recognize that anyone importing that software gets liability.
The baggage compartments of modern jet aircraft are pressurized
Apple doesn't see value in going after the server market.
Of course if there's one thing neural networks are good at it's passing the Turing test with whatever goal post moving people keep coming up with.

... which is to say Neural networks are very, very good at being a social network. This hasn't really been explored so far, but it will be. And neural networks have one advantage not even parents will be able to match, never mind friends, colleagues or teachers: they're available, 24/7, 365/365 every year of your life. They never move, never take vacation, never ...

And this is before we do more with them. They can be made to be 100% reliable, to never place their own self-interest over yours, always be nice, or if you prefer that, never be nice. Etc.
Apple Silicon chips aren’t for sale outside Apple, and Apple hasn’t made any products relevant to data centers since they terminated the Xserve line as part of the PowerPC -> Intel transition.
Everything's downstream from the incentives. What kind of users do you attract by making your website faster/more efficient? People who can't afford a new phone, and whiny boomer nerds. Both of those demographics are more trouble than they're worth.
Fair enough.

For me, if I spend too much time at home, I rapidly lose interest in everything.

I've had 1.5 hour commutes and they sucked. Far less than WFH does for me, or worse, going into the office to then see people doing Zoom calls from their bedrooms. Literally even just seeing that makes me feel down.
The person speculated that it might be from skin oils, which would make sense to me more than natural degradation across the timespan of a few years of doing literally nothing to them. But yeah, I don't actually know.
Indeed. I'm a rover driver & arm operator on Curiosity and there have been a few sandy patches where things were a little ... touch and go. I often think: what if I made a bad call, and my drive ended the mission? Even with a mission that's been operating for more than 10 years, it would be awful: there are hundreds of people involved, including scientists who have been planning investigations for the rover to conduct along our journey over the next few years. I would feel terrible if it was my fault that we never got to their research site of interest.

But then I remember: I'm not an airline pilot. I'm not a surgeon. Yes, my decisions matter, but this is not the highest-stakes job out there, not by a long shot.
Say I wanted to rank my own personal collection of songs by retention/engagement— are there any open source libraries or crisp descriptions of algorithms/statistical models that one could use?
Words are ordered differently in other languages, but it's an extremely rare language where it's standard to put the object before the subject.

Wikipedia says that 96% of studied human languages, covering over 99% of the population, have the subject before the object [0].

So it may not be an absolute, but there does seem to be something fundamental about subject-object being the more natural order.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93verb%E2%80%93o...
I sort of disagree that LLMs don’t have the same pitfalls. LLMs aren’t recording everything they are trained with, like humans, the training data affects a general behavioural model. When answering, they aren’t looking up information.

As for being “primed”, I think the difference between training, fine tuning, and prompting, is the closest equivalent. They may have been trained with anti-scam information, but they probably haven’t been fine tuned to deal with scams, and then haven’t been prompted to look out for them. A human who isn’t expecting a scam in a given conversation is much less likely to notice it than one who is asked to find the scam.

Lastly, scams often work by essentially pattern matching behaviour to things we want to do. Like taking advantage of peoples willingness to help. I suspect LLMs would be far more susceptible to this sort of thing because you only have to effectively pattern match one thing: language. If the language of the scam triggers the same “thought” patterns as the language of a legitimate conversation, then it’ll work.

To avoid all of this I think will require explicit instruction in fine tuning or prompts, but so does everything, and if we train for everything then we’re back to square one with relative priorities.
Worse is better is a discussion on system design. Both parties represented in worse better are implicitly cathedrals: both are singular actors, both with the same value system even (Simple, Correct, Consistent, Complete).

None of this embodies the Bazaar to me. The spirit of diversity, chance, chaos, & above all the pluralism: the ability to get Perl style post-modern in approaches, is largely absent from the WIB discussion.

The Bazaar is multisystem, multi-agent, in a way that most people building software don't tangle with. It's fundamentally different if you can encompass much more than yourself, than any one effort.

The Cathedral & The Bazaar is a book that should make these kinds of distinctions in thinking abundantly apparent. Few of us can ever really experience or witness the Bazaar. It's too vast. The book gives us an impressive tale, where we can begin to see wide exploration & reasoning occuring far beyond the scales that even the biggest boldest widest orgs on the planet can see.
Contract is written to establish an understanding between two parties. Every now and then a dispute happens, and that is handled by a judge. The judge has no opinion in the matter except what is explicitly stated. And then goes on to the explicit intent to help with resolving the dispute.

Now here comes a single person with an intent to exploit service meant for another customer. And it happens quite often: "is there anything in the TOS that considers this particular use as against its terms?" The user makes a determination that it does not and proceeds to sign up. After excessive use, the provider determines this kind of use is not something it can help with and changes the terms.

> you write contract that benefits the other party more than yourself? well, tough shit

That is the abusers perspective. And he knows well that whatever he is doing is not kosher. It's like going to home depot with a generous return policy and abusing their policy. How long do you expect that to go on? Home depot changes its policy for seasonal equipment that it needs to be returned within a set time. The abusers expected this.
Fisher did not “produce” the UK left, he was an outspoken critic of Labor. Actual politicians these days rarely take notice of philosophers.

His main work, Capitalist Realism, was about the post-Cold war condition in which any alternative to Capitalism seems defeated before it gets off the ground—your comment is a splendid example of this phenomenon.
You seem to be very sensitive to the idea of people watching out for each other. Maybe you should start watching out for others so you can get rid of your sensitivity.
I have to imagine you're more capable of having a serious philosophical discussion than this sounds.

There is a huge difference between offering to treat only those whom you like, and offering to do only the types of procedures you believe are "good".

We have rightly outlawed the former for many categories of supposed goodness/badness. But forcing people to start performing new treatments that are the societal cause du jour that would not previously have been part of their job description is quite arguably federalized slavery. The goalposts will never stop shifting, so either swear eternal and unwavering fealty to the state or go find a different job?

It's quite rich when a forum of techies who mostly can find a well-paying job doing almost nothing of lasting value for anyone can find time to judge medical professionals who improve people's health on a daily basis because of a difference of opinion about the job description of those healthcare professionals.
Things certainly happened very quickly in that period -- it's staggering to think that 1997 was only four years after the web began to percolate, and C&B I think got its lift because it happened when Netscape decided to open source their browser.

It's definitely hard to work out a chronology when things are piling one after the other, and also there wasn't the same consistency of knowledge propagation. It was still very hard to find out new things online.

Thanks for the thanks!
> You’re complaining they’re not so left wing they’re pro Russia.

Where did I do that?

> they seem to be doing the right thing cos both extremes are pissed off with them.

That's not the test of what's right, actually.
One of my favorite things about generative art is digging into what it got right and what it got wrong.

So far, the public ones are often like a first-year student's impression of X -- it nails some aspects (symmetry, color palette, or framing), but others completely elude it (object-object relativity like "zippers go on clothes, not skin" or intentionality behind object choice).

What's fascinating now is which things are picked up on (e.g. 70s) and which are ignored (e.g. specific IKEA furniture design style).

And then how that's reinterpreted by viewers -- "Looks great!" vs "Misses A & B!"

Which to me makes the whole system an autoecoder for ignorant people (in the not-knowing, not pejorative sense).

If Midjourney can create an image that will be attractive to people who don't know furniture design, and 90% of people don't know furniture design, it works for meme purposes.
I mean to be flippant so can `wc -l` but seriously it also matters how capable is the LLM
This only works if you use HTTP... so the submitted link just doesn't work.
Godot.

C++ and SDL2 will get you a window, events, sound and other low level stuff, and you can get support for PNGs and fonts easier by including some of nothings/stb libraries[0] (rather than the equivalent SDL libs.) Maybe toss in Lua/LuaJIT for good measure. That will scratch a lot of itches.

But IMHO it's better in the long run to just pick up Godot and save yourself months of unnecessary effort. Otherwise if you're like me you'll wind up in the weeds with nothing to show for it but a tilemap class you've rewritten a dozen times.

[0]https://github.com/nothings/stb
Why Dad’s Side of the Family Tends to Miss Out
https://archive.is/TJxKL

https://archive.today/TJxKL
Most medical schools apply modern versions, most of which do not forbid abortion and are more secular than the original Greek oath.

> As of 1993, only 14% of medical oaths prohibited euthanasia, and only 8% prohibited abortion
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Modern_vers...

It is not rare to have people colloquially call these other forms of "the" oath many M.D. swear to the hippocratic oaths in my experience.
interesting you bring up jury duty and military service, both of which have longstanding religious conscience exemptions.
I believe it defaults to on, at least on most systems designed to run Windows
There's the notion of "What hat am I wearing". If you are a CTO or whatever but just want to talk tech with your people, put on the "tech enthusiast" hat & take off the "I run this shit" hat. The roles we assume are fluid & sometimes our most defining aspects are not the best descriptions of our current speaking role, especially if everyone already knows it's Steve Jobs/Palmer Luckey.

What hat do you think Palmer was wearing here?
Crime?
Will this work with the leaked models or Alpaca?
> I get the order of the words mixed up to the other language.

I'm trying to piece whether this would be anicdotal evidence for or against the previous statement of

> All brains work that way.

Since there are many ways this could be occuring, would you say that you are ...
• putting the 2nd language in the order of your native language (or opposite)
• putting word order in active voice (or passive) regardless of which language you are speaking
• or putting the words in the order of whichever language has been dominate at the time. Like if you are somewhere where you mostly have been speaking Language A, and suddenly switch to Language B, you accidentally use Language A grammar