skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve always been fascinated by personality, and spent a decent amount of time in and out of school studying it.

One thing that gets me about the way this author talks is it’s condescending. As though he’s an enlightened observer staring down over his spectacles at this type of person. (Like the final quote about cult leaders being mundane or boring…) Sorry to say, but that person you’re talking down on is probably way more clever and motivated than you are. He’s putting you in the bucket not the other way around!

But the thing that fascinates me is how personalities evolved in general. Like why do people have these set ways of being?

The apparent answer is that personalities evolved as a symbiotic trait. If I have a few people in my village: one’s an asshole to defend from enemies, one’s passionate and emotional to rear children, one’s a narcissist who wants to unite and lead us (under him), one’s a thinker who will improve our hunting and killing tools, and a few people just don’t think that much and view life as hard and are willing to “just go along with things”…

Before you know it we have a mini society. A village of people who work together automatically bc it’s just who they are and it works for (most of) them

So the question is: are cult leaders actually something that thousands of years ago was a benefit? Has society changed so that now they just don’t fit like they otherwise would in a healthy village? Or do parasitic personalities also evolve that have always been a detriment to the rest of us?
Cult leader behavior: belief that no field of study matters until one's own attention is turned to it :)
Lower wattage allows more GPUs per system. For distributed training, that’s allows 8 GPUs per system which would otherwise be very difficult with retail GPUs.

And GPU-GPU interconnects are important for this type of training so putting as many GPUs as possible close together is necessary.
does the cockroachdb cloud report not periodically benchmark all these networks?
> Have-to-drop-out is often a bad game mechanic

Tell that to Fortnite and other battle-royale games.

> And there's that game where two players take turns hitting each other in the face until one gives up or is too battered to continue — I don't know what it's called.

Hilarious!
Until they instituted an un-occupancy tax, many of those units weren't even rented. Local Vancouver businesses were getting killed by big buildings that should have lots of tenants being ghost towns. It reminded me of a mostly empty Beijing apartment building.
I have silk liner socks for hiking (wool over silk is the best combination for avoiding blisters), they're tumble dry low but that's what we always use anyway--I don't treat them any differently than anything else. (Yes, appearance doesn't matter one bit--nobody's ever going to see them. However, they have no marks despite the fact they obviously get a lot of sweat.)

My wife also has some silk that likewise is done tumble dry low without being an issue.
lol - who are "these" people?
Accelerating LLM Serving with Speculative Inference and Token Tree Verification
SpecInfer is a system that accelerates generative LLM serving with speculative inference and token tree verification. The key idea is to use an LLM as a token tree verifier instead of an incremental decoder. We show that this reduces LLM inference latency by 2.8x.
For the "ask" phase, I feel like that the chat interface makes sense as the first step for the adjust phase because ChatGPT is a LLM, which works seamlessly with any natural language prompts.

But it's a bad interface for most applications. It took me out of context on the work I'm doing and forces me to describe what I am working towards in natural language. I will still use it now because it is a big step forward from Googling. But I think the bigger challenge (which brings the much better experience) lies in how we could deeply integrate the iterative creation process with ChatGPT into the app workflow itself.
I was confused reading this. Is the author talking about literal suicide cult leaders like Jones, Koresh, and Applewhite, or "cult of personality" types like Jobs and Elon?
It's possible that all of our big ideas are just us being along for the ride with broad historical and social trends. -me, a rationalist

Great. So how does this help me reason better?
Also this weekend there's a festival in Lodi not too far away! https://www.goldenstatepinball.org/
Spheres have less surface area which reduce the watering down of the drink.

Edit: though I would bet that’s less of a factor than the initial temperature of the ice and the liquor.
Super popular here in Seattle. I was talking with a friend the other day about how to start a small metal venue in the area and their advice was to teach dogs to like metal because there's no way you compete with a dog lounge on revenue.
I suspect it is similar to how Netflix does it.

Reward producers:
- that produces the first thing that makes an inactive customer active again
- that produce something that is consumed by those who don't consume much else on the platform
- that complements existing content rather than being more of the same

However it's less about producers being rewarded for their success. Especially if the content is developed in-house and the decision is driven by market research.

It's easy to be saturated within a genre. Most games take quite a while to finish. If people stop playing on your service it's not because they finished all the games there. It's because they are bored with the offering, i.e. the diversity of the offering.
Do you have a link to the tweets? I'm not reading through that
Agreed- it's currently 502'ing though
That’s not the case. It is significantly faster, at least for deep learning workloads. Check out Lambda Lab’s benchmarks.
"Was this text generated by ChatGPT?" seems like a relevant question ...

-- For each of the students.

-- For someone in the Computer Science department.

-- A different prompt tool (like Bard even)

I hope this terrible form of evaluation & judgement doesn't affect our legal system.
This is still happening to me on my main video workstation running 19H2. I'm really hoping to avoid a reinstall.
How to Summarize Books Using ChatGPT
Datalab: A Linter for ML Datasets
I considered buying a pinball machine in my 20's. An older, wiser guy I knew told me,

"Do you like working on small gadgets and tinkering with lots of rubber bands and motors and solenoids?"
"Not really, but I love playing pinball."
"Don't buy a pinball machine."

Now that I've got a basement and am reasonably stable, the itch is coming back.
This is great. And while here I realized how cool Replit has become. Anyone here has any experience using replit professionally?
Hmm. If you trained an LLM on all the feedback a Senator receives from constituents, that could be pretty effective.

Of course, once word gets out that that's what's going on, it will turn into a contest of which side of an issue can spam the Senator's office harder...
Also, I wanted to add that I see two big obstacles that are difficult to overcome unless we fundamentally change how the current generative AI works:

1. Generative AI is inherently non-deterministic. We have no guarantee if the final product it generates works 100% based on the provided prompt.

2. Generative AI is inherently out-of-date. There are limited improvements on very specific apps that allows an interface for AI to grab its updated information. But its difficult to imagine us having a new iteration of GPT daily or even monthly
There are similar pinball museums in Seattle, Las Vegas, and probably many other cities.
intelligence is what allows one to understand phrases and then construct meaning from it. e.g. the paper is yellow.

That's one, out of many, definitions of "intelligence". But there's no particular reason to insist that that is the definition of intelligence in any universal, objective sense. Especially in terms of talking about "artificial intelligence" where plenty of people involved in the field will allow that the goal is not necessarily to exactly replicate human intelligence, but rather simply to achieve behavior that matches "intelligent behavior" regardless of the mechanism behind it.
I switched my personal machines over to Linux after Microsoft doubled down on forced restarts. Sometimes I keep windows open to resume in the morning, sometimes I want to leave games or projects open and running for long periods of time, and I’ll get around to updates during my own personal maintenance window. When Microsoft started overriding that in increasingly opinionated ways, I made the switch.

The point being, I appreciate having computers around that do what I tell them, instead of having to do what the computer tells me.
I didn't wrote that ADTs are the same as boolean, only that optional types (Maybe/Option) are the same.

For 2 reasons:

1. the 2-case, so it will be harder to refactor once you add additional cases

2. they're missing domain/context/intent (Why value is missing?)

So, Maybe/Option is an improvement over null/nil and boolean flags, and ADTs/FSMs are improvement over Maybe-s.
and without GPUs, mind you. And a lot of that trickery probably came down to: let's write everything in assembly. Fruity Loops was absurdly fast in the early 2000s and was written in Delphi and assembly, IIRC.

In 2023 DAWs should not be that difficult to make fast. It's a solved problem. Multi-channel audio processing is one thing that modern CPUs should not even break a sweat at. I believe this article has uncovered the basics that have made every DAW complex from the beginning, but seems to be focused on efficiency with your bog standard off-the-shell GUI library. That's the mistake, IMO. None of the DAWs I know of use, for example, standard GTK. Even the ones that do use a GUI toolkit use it minimally, for the file pickers and configuration. Not as the primary interface for the DAW itself. You need to go lower level and remove the layers of cruft. I mean hell, adding language bindings on top of everything is going to add yet another layer of inefficiency.
There is also a barcade near me that has a model I like (and is probably advantageous to them for staffing). It is a pour-your-own beer/wine/cider bar, so it isn't a full bar. But the RFID wristbands they give you for the pour-your-own also work on the arcade machines which is pretty slick.
The Harvard football teammates whose lives were upended by CTE
> We are also actively working on a visual editor that lets users drag and drop widgets. Such capabilities are difficult or impossible to achieve with imperative APIs

I don't think you have ever used an imperative API, have you?

I used VB, then Delphi, then C++ builder and now use Lazarus, and there's no declarative equivalent that is easier or faster than those.
> Even in a relatively simple modern storage stack, say a single NVMe Flash device on a local PCIe controller, the question 'are these exact bits irrevocably committed to the media?' is pretty much impossible to answer without an NDA with the disk manufacturer and a hefty dose of proprietary IOCTLs (and even then, I would not bet my life on it).

This would limit throughput quite a bit and might significantly shorten the lifespan of the disk, but you could put the disk on a separate power supply that the computer could control. Don't consider data as written until you've power cycled the disk and been able to read that data back. :-)
> Yes, the barcade business model works. Mostly as a bar. Most often the machines are owned and operated by an outside contractor or dedicated hobbyist (who knows how to fix them.)

To expand on this a bit, the actual maintainer of the machine is probably the most important factor of the quality of the barcade, at least if you're the type of person who cares about rulesets for games and will be irritated if something doesn't work because of a broken sensor. I like enthusiast owned/operated places because the owner who's actually playing the games will notice problems and fix them, as opposed to bars where any problems with the machine will either be broken until the maintainer gets around to it on their scheduled route, or possibly the problems never get reported at all. One possibly useful proxy for this is seeing where your local leagues play - in general they're more likely to be in places with well-maintained machines.

For San Francisco:

- Outer Orbit is my favorite place, even though they've recently removed a couple machines for more seating (more evidence that the bar/restaurant is the money maker). The owners met playing pinball, are heavily involved in the local scene, and do the maintenance themselves, so the machines tend to be in great shape. Decent Hawaiian food and a quite good beer list.

- Free Gold Watch is the place everyone always recommends because it has the most machines. My feeling is that they don't keep up on maintenance well enough because I always have trouble with tables always having enough small things broken about it that it's impossible to advance some modes. (On pretty much any modern machine every lane/ramp/hole is probably going to be required for some mode or another, so a single broken sensor breaks the entire game if you're trying for wizard mode.) It's definitely the place to go for the arcade experience with a lot of machines to choose from.

- the Alamo theater actually has a reasonably decent room upstairs from the bar, across the hall from the theaters. Doesn't seem to get rotated much and I'm not convinced it's maintained regularly, but it doesn't get much traffic so it doesn't seem like stuff breaks quickly there. A lot of people seem surprised when I mention it's there.

- Gestalt always has machines in decent shape, but the bar itself might close any month now.

- Emporium/Musee Mecanique - I don't go to them often, but they're both more generalist arcades, so they'll have a few machines at varying maintenance levels.

I'm not sure how often https://pinballmap.com/ gets updated or how its coverage is outside the SF Bay Area, but it looks pretty accurate for me.
The counter argument is hijacking: these accounts are more prone to be stolen and used for spam and impersonation.
I learned about that from the game Pokemon Pinball!

I never usually last long enough in real games to learn what I'm supposed to do to make progress.
In the late 90's /2000 Kevin Warwick was saying AI is is going to be increasingly problematic, and was considered something of a buffoon by academia (or some of), now they are all on the bandwagon.

Cybernetics at Reading did a lot of Neural Network stuff, less Symbolic due to the Cybernetics philosophy.
Yah, but one really stands out.
Highly recommend CS61A. Can't say enough good things about it.
Did you try this for the fingerprint reader, out of curiosity? https://github.com/uunicorn/python-validity/blob/master/pyth...

I don't have a Lenovo, I have a Dell, but while tinkering to get the fingerprint reader on my machine working, I had come across this (and I understand it works for Lenovo).
The US hanged and imprisoned Japanese soldiers who did it to US soldiers from in WW2 according to the wiki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#:~:text=Waterb....
It is true, both in the ideal mathematical sense, and also in the IEEE sense under the totally obvious implementation that most programmers would write without any special care:

function rand(endpoint = 1) {
return endpoint * Math.random();
}

Here rand(rand()) would evaluate to literally the same number as rand() * rand() given the same state of the underlying generator. Someone who follows this chain of reasoning is perfectly correct to consider it intuitively obvious.

And rand() * rand() is a great form for analysis, since it allows us to take advantage of E[XY] = E[X]E[Y] for independent X, Y to compute the mean very quickly.

Clearly you followed a different chain of reasoning, and that’s fine; maybe you have a much more complicated generator in mind that takes more care to ensure ideal rounding at the limits of floating-point precision, and that’s fine too. But let’s not admonish anyone for making correct statements.
He's just acknowledging that is what Congress is worried about. He's not just going to say "no I don't think it's possible that it can do harm" when they ask him if AI can do harm. If he was the kind of guy who would say that, he wouldn't have won whatever machiavelli hunger game power struggle to be CEO of the company. What I'm saying is that he is using his powers of social and emotional intelligence, he's not necessarily being sincere when he says these things to Congress, and at some level they don't want him to be or expect him to be sincere in that way.
I'm not sure this answers OP's question.
You've made quite the generalization based on one example of a real time MMO. I still acknowledge the artistry behind it in the case of DayZ, and it's even more interesting within the context of Kojima's career.
Really the forced obsolescence needs to stop. There is 0 reason why everyone needs a new OS every year. Its not like anything fundamental to computing has changed in the past two decades since the advent of 64-bit PCs and SMP.

Sure, you might need some new drivers for USB+1 or a GPU, but for machines that run the same hardware there really isn't a reason that something like a XHCI driver shouldn't be able to work on every single version of windows since 2000 if MS cared enough (and linux is even more shameful).

Frankly OS vendors have gotten away with murder for far to long, and if we are going to start mandating lifecycles then the OS vendors shouldn't be the limiting factor (AKA 20+ year OS lifecycles should be mandatory) rather HW efficiency perf or just plain failure rates should be the limiting factor.

AKA Your an OS vendor and there is a security bug, your on the hook for fixing it until every single piece of HW it was sold with has reached its useful end of life. Telling people oh you have to upgrade to the version that requires 10x the system resource to run a sprinkler system (or whatever) and requires a new PC is good for business selling HW but bad for literally every other person on the planet.
The article needlessly mentions the Murzuk-Djado Basin and the Arabian Basin as having "little hope of recharging", when the very study it cites shows that the Murzuk-Djado basin as being less stressed than the California basin it talks about. I hate how American Exceptionalism always creeps its way into everything regardless how benign the topic seems. It's like she's trying to say "hey, we've got it bad but at least we're not as backwards as those mOsLeM countries".

here's the study for those interested:
https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/16/a-third-of-the-worlds-bigges...
It was like this, right? https://youtu.be/-DKCFjm0DvE
I suppose a they may have written a service to query Google and there may be a CDN
caching responses from that, which can be argued as not being a permanent datastore which I believe Google may be more likely have a problem with. It could also depend on the fact whether Google is willing to send a cease and desist over this.

However, I am no lawyer, so take it with a grain of salt.
The thermos wall is an insulator, unlike the tray.
Putin's unstoppable superweapon blasted by defense system
The thing that baffles me is we're still stuck in these form factors that are mostly made for

a) standing b) in a group of 1 or 2

The cabinets don't have to look like this anymore. We don't need a CRT, we don't need the full size cabinets.

Seems like a real opportunity to design a more bar-friendly option, tables with multiple monitors that operate like the old desktop/seated machines or similarly.

Standing is fine but after awhile people don't want to smoosh next to each other and stand in front of a crappy screen. But most of these places are too attached to the retro aspect, imo.
I made a collection of 40 questions to ask at the job interview (role agnostic)
Feedback/additional ideas welcome!
Be careful of WAL mode. There are specific limitations.

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p3535-gaffney.pdf

“To accelerate searching the WAL, SQLite creates a WAL index in shared memory. This improves the performance of read transactions, but the use of shared memory requires that all readers must be on the same machine [and OS instance]. Thus, WAL mode does not work on a network filesystem.”

“It is not possible to change the page size after entering WAL mode.”

“In addition, WAL mode comes with the added complexity of checkpoint operations and additional files to store the WAL and the WAL index.”

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_attach.html

SQLite does not guarantee ACID consistency with ATTACH DATABASE in WAL mode.

“Transactions involving multiple attached databases are atomic, assuming that the main database is not ":memory:" and the journal_mode is not WAL. If the main database is ":memory:" or if the journal_mode is WAL, then transactions continue to be atomic within each individual database file. But if the host computer crashes in the middle of a COMMIT where two or more database files are updated, some of those files might get the changes where others might not.”
Deadly mushroom poison might now have an antidote – with help from CRISPR
I really don't feel like I'm going "far afield" here. When I think "Magneto" the first things that come to mind are "X-men" and "old" and "wheelchair". AFAIK I literally have never seen any info saying he is Jewish until today. And according to the commenter below this detail of Magento was invented in 2008, well after many of the movies were made.
> Ah yes, the American...

I'm British...
>Reading, however, is a skill taught to all schoolchildren, and taken further in college.

Is it, though? The world-at-large since time immemorial has trended towards shorter attention spans and shorter bits of literature, less reading.

I would even posit most people hate reading with the fury of a thousand suns. RTFM isn't a stereotype for no reason.
not sure why you wouldn't have redundancy across all parts of the patriot system
well of course that people can be made to fully believe in things that are demonstrably false. That's like no big deal today as we see it everywhere, but back in 1987 when
"Dianetics" was on TV all the time including a whole list of completely false claims, I needed some help to understand exactly what that was about and how indeed maybe I didn't need to throw my life away at the local Scientology center as that book would have you believe. As a young absolute literalist, I needed some help to learn that people can be made to think basically anything, so if someone is claiming to you, "I can levitate - no really, I can float around the room" - they are likely incorrect (yet still saying those words that are easily disproven).
The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD
The numbers and interest could change significantly if desalinization membranes could target multi-stage high-volume applications. Or using overland solar tunnels: roofed with solar arrays, the bottom of which would be cooled to condense the evaporation from the water.
UP Coffee Roasters / UP Cafe
I hated that one, cause it wasn't game box but disk case, and in game I'd just picked up a disk and spent forever trying to figure out how to look at the case before looking up the answer.
An app working with Android 6 does not mean it's been available since Android 6. That app was released in 2019.
Yeah I mean it's pretty obvious that WaPo political operatives just dug this unknown detail up in an attempt to smear Musk as an anti-Semite, because that's easier than actually trying to argue with his claims via fact and reason.