skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stamina isn't the word I would go for. It would be commitment. For those that have loads of stamina, it's the commitment to continuous creative encounters that leads to the perceived magic.

From "Courage to Create" by Rollo May:
"It is said that the novelist Thomas Wolfe, who was one of the highly creative figures of the American scene, that he was a "genius without talent." But he was so creative because he threw himself so completely in the material and the challenge of saying it-he was great because of the intensity of his encounter"

Apologies going philosophical, its the only way to debate such an answer-science has no real answers for this title we call "staff engineer"
Messing the brain to solve a problem caused by outer factors looks like a new iteration of lobotomy to me.
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This word is quickly becoming a part of the "does not mean anything" crew from its constant overuse and involvement in strawman-ing.
In what way is Roblox a scam? Remember that most people here know very little about it.
Might be better served with one of the lite10/lite11 type windows remixes with most of the fluff removed. Though not sure I'd remove UAC or Defender myself.. but would be roughly similar to XP in terms of overhead with an arguably nicer skin.
Actual speed traps cause rapid deceleration on purpose. There will suddenly be a speed limit sign that is very abrupt or very low or both.

A cop with a radar gun in a normal stretch of road with a reasonable speed limit is not a speed trap.

Though even for """speed traps""" that are just enforcement, if there is a big difference between the average speed and the speed limit then there's probably something wrong with the road design.
Yes you do. Agreeing with some moderation does not mean you must agree with all moderation.
I could never figure out the bunny jumping. And the eyeballs in mouth thing bothered me for a while, but people on the forums thought I was nuts. :(

That said, NS was prob my favorite multiplayer game of all time... After Age of Empires 2, OFC.

Combat is fine to fill the server with enough players for a normal NS game.
> or even just move the cursor while you're typing.

You can long press on the space bar and move the cursor around quite well, just a tip.

Apple is still orders of magnitudes better from a privacy perspective, and there is no photoscan-and-send-back-to-mothership anywhere. Hell, the whole point of that would have been to enable real e2e photo storage, while they also not hurt any laws (which is not clear on storing child porn on their servers, even if its encrypted).
A police raid involves the express threat of violence if you don't comply -- that's what the guns and battering rams are for.

A PI who's even vaguely trying to obey the law DEFINITELY does not expressly threaten you with violence, and won't allow any more than the barest implication either.
I don't think you know what assumption means. Let me help you out. He researched an asset so well he decided to purchase it without professional help. When it didnt go to plan he assumed the seller commited fraud. Based on that assumption he took them to court. He then reasearched his case so well that, by the sound of it, the judge laughed him out of the court with a personal anecdote. He then went to HN to bad mouth the judge assuming he is incompetant. So much reasearch. You sound like a professional accuser.
If these things come to pass it won't matter to most kids. They'll be too poor and resource starved to enjoy it just in time for the drought and famines.
It's always been cyclical. There have been many days, even weeks and months it seems, when I have seen little of interest (to me) on HN. Hide (option under posts) ones you aren't interested in, check out the second chance pool, post something you're interested in, or just go for a walk. In a month or two it'll shift to either a broader set of topics or maybe something of more interest to you again.
I don't get how someone could get really, really good at any sort of creative process without the benefit of encountering and engaging in criticism, of one's own works and of others'. Simply calling out what does and does not work, and why, is criticism and is super helpful for learning how to do things right.
A huge benefit of DDG for me is that I can use it in a private browser window and it just works without stupid popups getting in the way. In contrast Google is far less useable for a quick search. This alone is why I have DDG as default and I only drop back to Google when I'm struggling to find what I want. Most of the time DDG is fine for me.
But it is ok to be hungry. What’s the depression equivalent of having a completely, literally, full stomach?
The problem with 8bit at the moment is massive performance degradation with bitsandbytes. Recent improvements in 4bit inference mean that 8bit is now a massive laggard (although there’s no reason not to expect this to resolve).
It works like this:

First, convert the input text to a sequence of token numbers (2048 tokens with 50257 possible token values in GPT-3) by using a dictionary and for each token, create a vector with 1 at the token index and 0 elsewhere, transform it with a learned "embedding" matrix (50257x12288 in GPT-3) and sum it with a vector of sine and cosine functions with several different periodicities.

Then, for each layer, and each attention head (96 layers and 96 heads per layer in GPT-3), transform the input vector by query, key and value matrices (12288x128 in GPT-3) to obtain a query, key and value vector for each token. Then for each token, compute the dot product of its query vector with the key vectors of all previous tokens, scale by 1/sqrt of the vector dimension and normalize the results so they sum to 1 by using softmax (i.e. applying e^x and dividing by the sum), giving the attention coefficients; then, compute the attention head output by summing the value vectors of previous tokens weighted by the attention coefficients. Now, for each token, glue the outputs for all attention heads in the layer (each with its own key/query/value learned matrices), add the input and normalize (normalizing means that the vector values are biased and scaled so they have mean 0 and variance 1).

Next, for the feedforward layer, apply a learned matrix, add a learned vector and apply a ReLU (which is f(x) = x for positive x and f(x) = kx with k near 0 for negative x), and do that again (12288x49152 and 49152x12288 matrices in GPT-3, these actually account for around 70% of the parameters in GPT-3), then add the input before the feedforward layer and normalize.

Repeat the process for each layer, each with their own matrices, passing the output of the previous layer as input. Finally, apply the inverse of the initial embedding matrix and use softmax to get probabilities for the next token for each position. For training, train the network so that they are close to the actual next token in the text. For inference, output a next token according to the top K tokens in the probability distribution over a cutoff and repeat the whole thing to generate tokens until an end of text token is generated.
My dashcam was priced like a new iPhone but the recording quality is superb, licence plates of a car 10m away is clearly readable.
What you’re referring to is called a “short sale” and they are not uncommon during recessionary periods.
> ~33% of the population is far from a invisible class

For a variety of reasons, "buying a home leads individuals to participate substantially more in local elections, on average" [1]. Outside New York City, which unsurprisingly has solid tenant protections, American renters do not vote as frequently.

[1] https://andrewbenjaminhall.com/homeowner.pdf
Certainly not as quickly as a traditional saw, but I think noise level is the more important factor. They do have extensions for cutting through metal (steel) like this: https://www.amazon.com/Bosch-Starlock-Oscillating-Multi-Tool...
> I am so weak-willed that there is the horrific danger that I will start believing them

That's what "Manufacturing Consent" isn't it? That entire concept seems sound and passes the smell test. People see things repeatedly from authoritive-sounding people and they believe it (in the case of the book, by governments and their catspaws).

There is no reason a search and social bubble wouldn't wind up with a similar outcome.
Press on space bar for a time and you can move around. 3D touch was faster indeed, but it works good enough.
Im trying to say that potentially everyone needs to learn getting scammed to learn it.

One person might experience something as a young age and others later.

My assumption is now that crypto is in such a good place (money, rich, tech) that it finds so many people.

Yes crypto is good in scamming
Which is a major flaw, she’s too child-looking to piss off a judge.

If it were for the facts alone, she would have been serving.
That you should never tell the same lie twice.
I recently went through a round of rTMS and participated in a study that used EEG to attempt to find biomarkers for responders vs non-responders. This was largely based on previous findings that altered functional network activity in the brain (namely the default mode network) is correlated with depression in some people, and that EEG could relatively inexpensively detect functional network changes over the course of treatment. This study seems to follow a similar vein and I suspect we'll see more like it in the near future. I'm really glad to see more research being done with TMS - the particular protocol mentioned in this study (SAINT protocol) has had truly amazing success with 80-90% remission rate in already treatment-resistant individuals in a couple of studies. Even ECT, which is currently considered the most effective treatment for treatment-resistant depression, has only a 70-80% response/60% remission ("regular" rTMS is about 60% response/30% remission). The only problem is that SAINT requires fMRI which is expensive and complicated, on top of already expensive rTMS treatment. Hopefully as more research is done it'll become more accessible, personally it was very helpful for me in overcoming many years of intractable depression.
I would add the following two numbers if you're generating realtime text or speech for human consumption:

- Human Reading Speed (English): ~250 words per minute

- Human Speaking Speed (English): ~150 words per minute

Should be treated like the Doherty Threshold [1] for generative content.

[1] https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold/
> I can't trust myself to see things I disagree with, I am so weak-willed...

The thing is, this likely is true for him. Most people are not equipped to deal with the onslaught of aggressive memes from the internet. Unfortunately, this is an unsolved social problem, and "export my memetic censorship reflex to MEGACORP" is a pretty bad way of doing things.

I think a likely way of solving this problem (protecting not-especially-high-mental-horsepower people from getting BTFO by the internet, contracting transmissible psychological diseases and so on) is that religious organizations will start offering (voluntary, in first world countries) censorship services to their members. Your DNS queries or whatever will go through the Vatican/Synod/whatever central DNS server, which will prevent you from looking at porn sites. This would probably be a very socially positive outcome for the bottom 90-something percent of people on the "strength of memetic immune system" distribution.
My son, who is diagnosed with ADHD, anxiety, depression, and OCD, and who has been in talk therapy, on SSRIs, and other interventions for years, recently started LENS therapy, also called neurofeedback. (I'm on mobile device, otherwise I'd find the link.) It sounds a lot like a form of TMS.

He's had something like 7 sessions, each lasting maybe 15 minutes. The results are nothing short of astounding for our family. He's typically been... Extremely difficult to parent. After his LENS, lasting about a week, he is a pretty happy kid who participates in family and social life. His anxiety previously prevented him from engaging with friends for more than an hour. Just the other day, he was out at a birthday party for eight hours and still cheerful afterward.

I'm very hopeful that there is a long term, lasting effect for this kind of thing.
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In many of the burns which I've read about that get out of control, it's because the agency doing it (USFS, usually) had a plan to do it on that date and they didn't consider the actual conditions on the ground before they lit up.

Example: An Oregon sheriff arrested a USFS employee supervising a burn that got out of hand and torched private property. The FS was crying foul and saying it was an act of god, but there were warnings for burning that day because they conditions were so unfavorable (the county may have had an outright burn ban). The only reason the FS employee decided to burn is because that's what he was supposed to do that day. And he was legally okay, since it was federal property, but then it got onto private property next door...

For some reason the FS in particular has this problem. Most of them are alright people but the institution and culture needs serious reform.
The article is right, 8-bit (and especially 4-bit) is atypical for deep learning models and highly depends on the amount of parameters (larger model can handle more quantization) and can even depend on specific training hyperparameters (mainly dropout & weight decay which can induce sparsity)
[Author] Fair point. Adjusted the language.

Nonetheless people do tend to use 16 bit huggingface models, and if you do go to 8 bits and it's wrong, you're never quite sure if it's the quant or the model.
I'm a manager now and it was a lateral move from development, no salary increase. So yeah, sometimes managers earn around the same as the top people they manage.

Heck, I wouldn't mind earning less than some of the most brilliant ones. In fact I think I do earn less than someone that reports to me.
Would she pay rent?
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This article is somewhat of a backlash against the Boring technology idea, and then conflating it with extreme risk aversion, and suppression of languages that aren't on the top 10 of the Stackoverflow popularity chart.

I'd argue that Boring doesn't say that - it says be Boring in places that don't matter. If choosing an "interesting" language meets your needs, go for it and get everyone trained up, but maybe try to know the cost/benefit of that choice first.
Humans really are that simple. A lie, when repeated enough, can become truth.
Chinese state hackers are infecting TP-Link routers with malicious firmware
The WHO has a lot of blame itself for misinformation. And, I personally believe, a lot of conspiracy theories definitely caught fire from their mistakes.

https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898?lang=en

Also, as you can see in the replies, a lot of people called BS at the time, but who were they to question the official WHO line? Yes, the WHO later came around and came up with 6 feet instead of 1 meter, but those who called BS on the WHO's statement may have saved their lives.
> this is (no joke) why The Fed wants to engineer a recession

No it doesn’t. The Fed wants home values to go down. That can occur without job losses. (Which even now, largely aren’t occurring outside tech.)
Ive seen this referred to as “AI drift” before and I see it being a long term problem of data sets for training. As always, the quality of the data set determines the quality of the results. Models and data sets will be the arms race in the LLM world for a while to come, I think.
They did not say all
Depends on the algorithm... the ones used with http typically have less overhead for decompression than compression.

If you mean code minification, that can depend, but in general with tree shaking it shouldn't be slower, typically. The computer doesn't care if a variable is aa or myDescriptiveVariableName.
not sure, but the impact is all on IPv4 apparently
That's a fair point. It would be quite possible if the customers were willing to pay a lot more.

I worked on DigitalOcean's object storage for about a year not long ago. Makes sense that those of us who have been in this space would be interested in this article haha.
However, they are a class that is relatively easy to disenfranchise. In fact many already are since minorities who live in cities are far more likely to rent than the average suburban or rural voter and we already have plenty of systems in place to disenfranchise them.
I have fun story about this. Once I was trying to get data out of this one API that served XML. First I wrote a solution using regexes. Because of confusion elsewhere in the thread, I want to really clarify that I didn't parse the whole thing with one big regex. But neither were they use merely for tokenization. Somewhere in between. It had stuff like this (from memory may not actually be valid regex)

<someelement attribute1=\"([^"]+)\" attribute2=\"([^"]+)\"/>

It worked perfectly. Then I heard that parsing with regex was a bad thing and you should use a proper parser. It worked for a short time until I got an error about invalid xml. See one of the attributes contained a heart "<3" - this is actually not allowed in xml! It has to be escaped even in attributes. I went back to the regex solution, and it kept chugging along for years on their invalid xml.
That literally exactly what that person did.

I don't believe for a second that you actually don't believe that SpaceX is a success.

If SpaceX was controlled by anybody other then Musk calling it 'not a success' would be utterly ridiculous.
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This is a false equivalence only unless you are a moral nihilist.
Another example of people should always choose a router that can take open source firmware (Open WRT, DD WRT and FreshTomato) so that when the manufacturer gets bored of people not buying an update and just stops providing security patches.
Thermally, mobile phones are not rated or designed for constant work. They want to do stuff only like 1 out of every 10 seconds and are designed to dissipate heat that way. At least the way I understand it. Even if there was nothing being done to the raw frames from the sensor, which hasn't been the case for a while, it's likely the processor would have to do other stuff to manage the resources.
I cant give up DDG cause those shortcuts are just too damn good. !m and !ud
If “has killed someone” is a criteria for extreme regulation then fossil fuel and banking would be nationalized by now.
This somehow feels worse than suggesting drop shipping on Amazon is THE business to be in. Impressive.
Thanks for summarizing the article. Somehow I feel that internet arguments about economic systems tend to be one of the dullest things to spend my time reading. Everyone has a strong opinion, very few have facts, education or understanding of the vast complexities involved. In the end people just get heated over straw men arguments and terrible generalizations.
Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games
Smallville can be used to create NPCs with the same level of realism as human players without having to pre-program interactions. The agents store and retrieve past memories which they use to create plans so they can decide where to move, what to say, and how to react to observations. Agents are also capable of interacting with the world around them to change the state of objects on their own.

This project was intended to make it easy for anyone to create custom simulations and my attempt to recreate Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior. I’ve been working on Smallville for the past few weeks and hope other people also find it useful. Would love to hear any thoughts about the project and where I should take it from here.
That would take longer and create a destruction of property charge probably others as well.
I am not sure your comment adds anything other than what your gut says. This is simply a market with expectations, you can take it or leave it.

A completely different topic is the morality and the role of regulators in it.
If the Cinerama can be saved, so then can the LCM, one should hope. The LCM isn’t in the same kind of prime location the Cinerama is. I picture the terms to be different, no pre-existing 3rd party to hand things off to, and getting some of the key people back is going to be a challenge.
Stripe's John Collison lays out crypto strategy
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Calling censorship "moderation" doesn't make it not censorship.
Poasted with no ragrets.
Ruminants deplete the vegetation on the land, leading to erosion caused by wind and water, which gradually erodes the top layer of soil, leaving behind only large rocks.
This is really dreadful, in multiple ways. Hopefully this post gets removed.
There is a time value in getting information out quick without having to create new accounts and re-verifying your identity.

> the metadata isn't encrypted

I wouldn't trust this if I was Snowden, but I would trust this if I was a corporate whistleblower and wanted to get information out to jousnalists as soon as possible.
[Author] Completely disagree. Any analysis shows that you see perplexity reduction at 4 bits. Have a look at llama.cpp's results here:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp#quantization

4 bit has a perplexity score 0.13 or so higher.
https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-49/

> Network and Information Security as Overriding Legitimate Interest

> stopping ‘denial of service’ attacks

Storing logs with IPs is no problem at all.
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I just enabled Cloudflare web analytics on my site rather than try to figure out Google's new thing. All I care about is tracking visit trends and referrers, and that's actually way easier in Cloudflare's UI so I'm happy.

One nice thing about it is that there are some pages on my site that I never bothered to add Google Analytics to, but Cloudflare adds their tracker automatically to every page. It couldn't be easier, which is great as analytics is not something I want to spend any time on.
GA4 is a dumpster fire. Countdown timer to the forced switch from UA to GA4 -> https://thoughtmetric.io/topics/ga4-countdown-timer
Can somebody please explain how quantization below 8 bit works? Since a byte is the smallest addressable unit I think, is the dimensionality of the weights somehow reduced?
If I copy and paste the malicious URL into the terminal, or the browser’s location field, there’s no indication that it’s anything but what it appears to be.

Of course, there’s nothing unique about `.zip` other than that it’s a common file extension. Any TLD that makes for a convincing file extension could be used this way.
ELI5:
In neural networks we could take data numbers, multiply by a constant, add a constant, add them to each other, and then do the same to the results again and again. And you could learn the right constants using labeled data. But we couldn’t multiply data numbers against each other.
So in transformers you can. But you must multiply all numbers against all numbers in a specific sample, so it’s heavy.
It’s the other way around.

1 GPT4 token is equivalent to 50 GPT3.5 tokens.

1 token is equivalent to 0.75 words.
The bugs around Exact match and exclusion operators not working at all are what keeps me from using it as an actual substitute for Google or Bing.

Duck used to be great for only searching for what you asked for. But in the last few months, it's fallen into the Google trap of showing me things it thinks I want, and not what I asked for. And no method of punctuation seems to get around that.

At this point, the only reason I still use Duck is because the other option is Google.