skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At 1.5C the Greenland Ice Sheet can't sustain itself. It will take a long time to disappear, but disappearance becomes inevitable.

A bunch of coral reefs die at 1.5C. Not just die back and bleach, but dead-dead.

Shifts in the location of equatorial rains, which are especially important in agriculture in poor countries.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0705414105

That starts to happen at 1.5C and becomes really inevitable at 2C. The goal was to hold it to 1.5C to mitigate the worst of the damage.

Note that this is referring to when it gets above 1.5C every year. This paper doesn't predict that. It predicts that one year will be above 1.5C. That, in and of itself, is less relevant, except that it arrived a good decade or more sooner than expected. Which means that the consequences of permanently hitting 1.5C will also happen sooner.
He was the chief financial officer. His job was to decide where to keep cash. So he would have that authority.
Yea, DuckDB is a slam dunk when you have a relatively static dataset - object storage is your durable primary SSOT, and ephemeral VMs running duckdb pointed at the object storage parquet files are your scalable stateless replicas - but the story gets trickier in the face of frequent ongoing writes / inserts. ClickHouse handles that scenario well, but I suspect the MotherDuck folks have answers for that in mind :)
Personally I just use a UK VPN whenever I want to use Bard, since it's not locked by account but IP
Data point: I pay ~$0.40/kWh in SF Bay Area.
To host packages metadata?
What "bill to make it safe" are you referring to? Do track tech inspections usually have a speed limit requirement?
I’m sure it depends on the subroutine.

Reference BLAS is of course Fortran but nobody would actually use it. Some other good BLAS are (in order of historical to cutting edge), ATLAS, OpenBLAS, and then BLIS. They all mostly use C and assembly.

BLIS makes a good BLAS. It almost keeps up with MKL, according to the nice plots on their GitHub.

https://github.com/flame/blis/blob/master/docs/Performance.m...

They use C mostly, because the magic is in the GEMM (and possibly TRSM) kernels, which you are going to write in assembly anyway.

Intel also released oneDNN open source, which has an awful lot of BLAS-like functionality. No Fortran in there.

MKL is older than all these libraries of course (maybe not ATLAS, I’m not sure actually), and has a lot of other functionality (sparse stuff, FFTs), so I’m sure it has more Fortran! But it would be atypical compared to the rest of the BLAS implementations, if, like, their DGEMM was Fortran.
In-n-Out burgers are smaller though, so I usually get two whereas I'll only have one at Five Guys.

Still, Five Guys is a bit over the top expensive so I rarely go there.
Beta decay energies can be as low as 10ish KeV and static discharge can be in the 10 KV range, is it possible there's just crosstalk?
> I've been using Windows XP VMs without activation, or even a prompt to activate.

If you go into properties, does it show XP isn't activated? IIRC, early XP releases didn't nag from the tray. I've also seen some Dell installs that auto activated after pulling the key from BIOS.
This is a good point, but the distinction isn't computational/human, it is something like deducible from current knowledge vs requires physical interactions/experiments with the world.

You don't necessarily need humans for the latter. Robotics will enable a whole lot of physical interaction. We are pretty close to a fully-automatable definition wet-lab for example.
Ask HN: Montana banned TikTok. Is that ez to do on a state by state basis?
Those places still exist out in bushwick / east williamsburg. If you hang out with the right people, or go to the right facebook groups you'll find them.

The living or working arrangements are often illegal, so they aren't visible in the "above-ground" market (Zillow, Streeteasy, IRL ads, etc.), but they're still there.
I've been thinking a lot about how the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island effect of the sprawl of cities including the eastern seaboard of America could perhaps be effecting climate change.

The idea occurred to me after recently watching Twister and thinking why aren't we seeing more of these storms that I remember as a child were more frequent in the news.
I think LLMs do emulate human minds, there's too much similarity of emergent behaviors and quirks for that not being the case, they just don't emulate everything our brains do. We have other systems that take the results of our LLM-like circuits and do filtering and symbolic processing on top of it, and those are the parts we're missing to get to AGI.

I don't think it's necessarily going to be trivial to get there either.
tcl is heavily used in electronic design tools (e.g. Vivado).
Product Quantization
Nice to see this being shared again! I'm the author, let me know if you have any questions! :)
Url changed from https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/18/reality-pro-headset/, which points to this.
I used the world’s first augmented reality laptop
https://archive.ph/dQaoh
yeah but you can haphazardly hang fiber off of telephone poles in Romania
No one thinks the system is perfect. What I don't understand is why there is an expectation that it should be perfect. We don't expect criminal law to be perfect, why is it that we expect perfection here? I'm not saying we shouldn't improve, but I think this flows from what you are saying.
If it's good enough for republicans and Russians, surely this is the truth
I wonder why Meta keeps publishing their models for free. They don't seem to be doing much with their own research. What's the benefit for them then?
CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs
> They're a good rejoinder to Musk's recent farcical argument that since most blue-collar workers cannot work remotely, it's immoral for white-collar workers to resist Return-To-Office mandates.

One of the dumbest things he’s ever said (and that’s saying something). Most people can’t fly private either but it doesn’t seem to stop him.
I found "Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications" to be a pretty good read. See https://milancurcic.com/book/

Also https://fortran-lang.org/en/ is a good hub to find more information, packages, etc.
There are still ways to use the IE engine on current Windows, aside from Edge's IE mode. Namely, there's the WebBrowser ActiveX control, which uses the IE engine on all Windows versions.

Easily embeddable in a .NET app: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/co...
> In other words: in finite fields there's no restriction on the evaluation points

What about prime-power order? Does it also hold?
>The field just moves so fast. It's a lot of work to keep up. Easy-to-digest explanations like this are underrated.

This is really the truth. I can't possibly understand how people in this field who are talented can still keep up. I have a binder full of seminal papers that I have to cull to make room for more recent and relevant research every few months. I feel there is a lot of potential in simplifying the details of the mechanisms that drive a lot of it, but nobody has time to stop, consolidate the information and publish it. And if they did, it would just be another outdated textbook in a few years.
Doesn't really match with observation. Maybe between now and the heat death of the universe things will go to shit, but locally the earth has been on a generally upward trajectory the last 4 billion years, with complex life forming etc. No reason to think that everything living now has to experience the long run march to complete randomness.
Wow, this is refreshing. To your point - the underpinning technology (regression based function approximation) holds more importance than general and adaptable intelligence. It holds more importance than something that is going to, or is capable of, "escaping the box and killing us all."

"Emergent behavior", when it's not just a mirage or poor word choice of wishful researchers (that it does things previous models did not do, iirc, very poor word choice - https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004) and if it even could exist, is only a side effect of the regression based function approximation to generate a structure that encapsulates all substantive chains of words in this case (a model).

I understand, to an extent, why people have lost their minds around this topic. Anthropomorphism is one hell of a drug for humans. But we're getting a bit too detached from fundamentals when we're arguing for regulation and restriction of this important technology.

The result is a model. A specialized intelligence. A non-adaptable intelligence, outside of its corpus. Outside of the data that it "fits." An approximated function, a human language calculator. It can't translate whale song, or an extraterrestrial language, though it may opine on how to do so.

To say nothing of other applications of the underpinning technology, as well.

It's exciting that it exists, but disappointing for potential restrictions of the underlying because of the tendency to anthropomorphize.
Correct. However, enough of us do to render your claim that Five Guys is "3x as expensive as any other chain" entirely factually incorrect. And the situation's basically the same in any UK city big enough to have a few Five Guys.
they do that because survival, but I'm not sure we want to give that kind of motivation to our artificial intelligence algorithms
Absolutely.

People freaking out about politics in sci-fi do not seem to know much about the history of the genre.

Perhaps a good example is the original Star Trek, which depicts an utopian society where there is no money and beings from all across the universe live and work together in harmony.

It was shot in the sixties.

And nowadays it is controversial to have a gay couple in the latest movie sequel.
I have no clue where the data for Spain comes from, in June 2022 the average price for the regulated market was 0.291347 €/kWh[0], that's ignoring the free market rates which are what 70% of Spaniards use (and they are cheaper when the market is volatile, like last year).

[0]: https://www.ocu.org/vivienda-y-energia/gas-luz/informe/preci...
Legally speaking, Theft implies both the act of taking, and intent to deprive the owner.

Presumably he’s going to claim he intended to be the hero who doubled their runway with a clever trick, in which case “diverting” is the appropriate word.
Honestly, any time I hear "join our Discord", for information that could easily be posted on the website, or on their Twitter, I think that Discord is the modern version of "subscribe to my newsletter", aka creating a captive audience that you can market a future product to.
> While we’ve seen continued growth, it hasn’t been at the pace we planned.

Hopefully the internal message had more details than this vague blanket statement that means absolutely nothing.
It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s well-known that Microsoft’s “M$ <3 Linux” campaign is propaganda. It’s classic anti-competitive Microsoft behavior that started with IE in the 90s.
You couldn't get Slackware or SuSE to install ... ever? or recently?
that is missing the point.

people want to use windows XP in order to run old software that doesn't run on newer systems. (or because they are nostalgic, but those are not helped with linux, so we can ignore them)

a modern linux distribution is way more likely to run old linux and windows software than a modern windows version.

hence that's why the world needs linux, because it doesn't have the problems that windows upgrades have.

you may argue that new linux distributions don't have old libraries either, which is true, but getting older libraries to install and run is way easier than on windows. and it's possible to put an old linux binary (even one for which there is no source) into an environment and make it workable on a modern linux distribution, and with things like flatpak it is also possible to make such an environment easily installable for a non-technical end user.
getting old windows binaries to run is even easier because that's exactly how wine works.
Our state pension is paid out of contributions made over a lifetime, it isn't remotely close to a good deal...if it is so good, would you have all your contributions paid into the state pension? No.

Brexit? Zero cost. Corruption? Zero cost. It is amazing that the state is giving massive handouts to people in work, and they still complain that things are terrible. We are giving thousands of pounds per year to people on more than 3x the median salary, and your response is: more money please. We are spending £200bn/year on healthcare, fully universal..."why am I having to pay taxes for this? Things are so bad".

Okay...if you were on £50k, would you support the govt making thousands a year in transfers from you to people on £200k?

One reason why economic policy is so bad in the UK is that people genuinely cannot conceive of economic policy being made for anyone but them: planning, govt finance, monetary policy...every area, it is really quite excruciating.
LLMs can be useful tools for conducting scientific research, in much the way that ordinary computer programs, or desk calculators, or slide rules are useful for conducting scientific research.

I meant that (insofar as I am aware) they are not useful as models that we can study to understand the nature of human intelligence.
> what I really take issue with is that taking a photograph entitles one to copyright protection, when the image is directly created by a machine (the camera), while all the photographer does is point the camera and click.

I hire photographers on a regular basis for corporate jobs and have a lot of respect for their skills. They are definitely not just “pointing and clicking.”

It’s about composing, setting the right light, arranging the scene, making your model be comfortable, capturing the right moment, and knowing the technology including processing a picture after it is made.

When they are good, it feels effortless. But it certainly isn’t.
I'm not being negative, but I find it funny that this human readible serialization format has a name which is much less human readable than many other names.
Yeah probably not. If you prefer really snappy controls and fluidity then games like RDR2 or elden ring or souls like games are not for you. That being said, in general, these games are not games that are generally considered to have bad controls.
Speaking as someone who spent an hour last week fruitlessly looking for pancetta that wasn't factory packaged in plastic, you raise a good point!
I can't even pronounce the name, how am I going to read it?
"I asked ChatGPT to prove that 1 + 1 = 3 and it happily spat out a proof."

I bet there are LOADS of proofs of that in the training data.
Did you just write "ez" instead of "easy"?
Does a rock falling down a hill perform computation?
Sometimes not even bothering to rent them out. It's the capital gains game!
It isn't. I would try leaving London. Almost all the chains you have mentioned do not exist outside London.
> when we've already hit 1.2C warming,

And the world hasn't ended, as it was broadcast to all of us when they were mentioning the 1.5C warming. We'll manage.
Disagree. Actually disagree twice. The company had approved a treasury policy (apparently written by the CFO) that said cash had to be in t-bills or similar (therefore not unbacked stablecoin). But the policy is orthogonal to access control to the cash. You can have a CFO who decides where to put cash, but still require two officers to approve any transfer > $1M (for example). This neatly takes care of the problem where your CFO is a criminal, or has to pay ransom for his kidnapped wife, etc.
> Are poor people that desperate that they consider getting shot for groceries?

The liability and reputational cost of a store security guard injuring a shoplifter, or even getting injured themselves is so high that they might not even be allowed to physically intervene. Naturally, knowledge of this spreads.
Honestly it would be great if PWAs worked better. It feels like it has been a half implemented solution. Not all features of Safari work inside a PWA, and it's unclear if you can now get push notifications. Having some access to device level features like you get with native through custom JS APIs would also be a huge win.

My understanding is that this might have been what Apple originally planned to do. However, the popularity of the App Store, IAP revenue, and the focus on services disincentivized them from pushing this route further.
> while all the photographer does is point the camera and click.

In this, and almost every case, there is much more to it than that, especially in a controlled setting where the photographer is setting the background. Exposure, depth of field, framing, etc.
"Although new expression, meaning, or message may be relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character, it is not, without more, dispositive of the first factor."

In other words, just adding new expression, meaning, or message to a work does not, in and of itself, create a transformational use.

That's a troublesome ruling (to me, at least).
>Could be preloaded with games from the era

So, only Microsoft published ones then. You realise that right?

You can buy and play Windows XP era games on Steam and run them just great on Windows 10/11.

FEAR is a great one, released in 2005, still looks and plays amazing.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/21090/FEAR/

So I have no idea what you mean :)
And their "what's next?" links to a project that relies on langchain[0].

[0] https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT
It says it's activated. I think this is because I was using one of those Windows XP compatibility isos that Microsoft made available for download a long time ago (as far as I remember).
If you just wait for Apple to copy their competition and give the apps away for free, you don't need to deal with the spammy app store!
It even comes bundled with simulation software:

"Gemini Mini is a conditionally portable, entry-level 2-cubit system... The device has built-in CASTOR software, allowing it to simulate the operation of 8 qubits."

Not sure what benefit you get from using real qubits vs just simulating them, even for educational purposes.
This is seriously featured on page 1 of https://stackexchange.com/.
I recall installing linux wasn't the difficult part, it's getting your peripherals to work after that.
Good point, I’d forgotten about that weird bit of the band.

I wish we would simplify the tax and NI system into one set of bands, but that’ll never happen.
If Microsoft would rather have people pirate Windows than use another OS, then why did they add product activation at all?
You could probably compute the prime factors of 15 with one.
iirc, Zuckerberg did not think up the concept for the like button - which was one of the huge drivers for engagement on the site.

Having said that, I think Zuckerberg was a hacker. He made a few small web apps and one took off. His success shouldn't mean he is not a hacker.
Those 5/6 example are not that complicated and are quite common (plus they didn't share why they chose those exact examples and not others!!!) , thus there utility and if they want to make them vialable to others they should make them independently in clear way and not to write "long article" to hide those example and entangled with their MS tools.

Sorry but this give bad name to what "pure research" should act like (it's smells like marketing from miles).

There are so much red flags (also here in the comments & the "surprised conclusions") - open your eyes and be more critical thinker.
The project was originally codenamed "s3box" and then changed for obvious reasons haha. I think Drew picked the name "Magic Pocket"
> but prices being a function of supply and demand is always the case regardless of how many buyers and sellers there are.

Well technically.. but if we're talking about certain inelastic markets a minimal adjustment in supply can result in a significant increase in price (well it's the other way around to be fair).

Monopolies and oligopolies do and did exist. If the government can increase supply by finding ways to increase competition that's great. If that fails price controls are a less optimal solution, sure. But they can still work perfectly fine in some cases (as long as the producer is allowed to keep some surplus there is not financial reason to reduce supply). In non-temporary cases were it would be justifiable in my opinion:

"sustainable businesses get driven out of business, misallocation of resources due to erroneous price signals hampering future investment in that field, etc."

are not actual issues because none of that is happening anyway, the producer has no incentives to invest anything into future improvements all the funds get absorbed by it's shareholds or the administrative apparatus.

Or in some other cases it might make more sense for the government to do all that itself through targeted subsidies or concessions (.e.g. should consumers be charged fair market prices for public transport?)
OCR for Insurance Eligibility Checks
I was being told that in 2005/2006. Lucky for me I didn't care.. I just wanted to study something to do with computers rather than biology or physics.
> why aren't we seeing more of these storms that I remember as a child were more frequent in the news

https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/monthly-and-annual...

Number of tornados per year has been increasing, on average. Just because you aren't paying attention doesn't mean it's not happening.
In Spain (not sure in other countries) there's a bid every day for the prices the next day. Solar, eolic and nuclear bid at zero (they sell all they produce), then it comes hydro, and after that gas. At some hours of the day prices are low: tomorrow we will pay 8 cents in the central hours, probably the hydro will set the price, and 20 cents at 20:00, when gas will be needed. More than 80% of the electricity will be zero CO2.

If you program your heavy consume, you can average less than 10 cents.

The iberian exception, that is limiting the gas price, isn't needed since the beginning on 2023, because the market gas price is below what triggers the limiting.
Are they scam apps, though? If they use any GPT model or API they're real apps.

Just because OpenAI didn't make an app first doesn't mean they're the only ones that can create apps for interfacing with GPT networks.
> How does it make sense to surrender your authentication credentials to a subscription service?

You're paying for cloud sync. 1Password don't get your credentials, they're encrypted client-side, and 1Password doesn't see your master password.

If you don't want to pay for the service, that's fine, there are plenty of local-only alternatives for which you can presumably build your own syncing solution, but it's disingenuous to say that it doesn't "make sense" when you misrepresent a product which a lot of people obviously feel is worth the price - including me.
Embezzlement. The word you're looking for is embezzlement.
ANNs in the 90s were nothing like this. They were not even like this a few years ago. And neither were HMMs. There is an emergent human quality to them because they have approached our abilities; the comparison is tenable, whereas before it was not.
I don’t think that’s why, I’ve never heard of that ever happening
> This is why most photo print shops won't let you print images that they suspect to be copyrighted, even if you just plan to use it in your own home.

That's genuinely shocking to me, is that an American thing? Never heard of such a restriction here (in Ireland).
We use Kvrocks[0] at work. It is Redis on disk, powered by "RocksDB" (hence the name) and compatible with most of the Redis clients since it respects the Redis protocol. It was incubated by Apache earlier this year.

It works great and the development is really active.

[0]: https://kvrocks.apache.org
Thanks - I will
Price discrimination