skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point. But, to be honest, what portion of the crowd take it in this way? Instead if taking a selfie and moving on to the next hotspot? Somehow from this crowd I usually hear reviews of restaurants and hotels rather than out-of-body transcendental experiences like yours.

I agree such experiences are awesome. But IMO 1) you've to prepare yourself for such trip and get yourself immersed in that context (be it historical or cultural) 2) have a proper setting to get into mood. Which is quite a task in peak season in many hotspots... At the same time, you don't need top-tier hotspots for that. Once you're prepared, there're lots and lots of places off the beaten path that are likely to offer better overall experience than top-tier places.

IMO there're the good parts for immersive experiences. But, unfortunately, the crowds seem to apply very consumerist fast travel approach. It just became too cheap (frequently by externalising the costs) and many people don't take it seriously.
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Extraction from https://github.com/libprima/prima

“There do exist "translations" of Powell's Fortran 77 code into other languages. For example, NLopt contains a C version of COBYLA, NEWUOA, and BOBYQA, but the C code in NLopt is translated from the Fortran 77 code straightforwardly, if not automatically by f2c, and hence inherits the style, structure, and probably bugs of the original Fortran 77 implementation.”

See also https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt/issues/501 , where the author of NLopt talks.
Not all of them. AlphaStar for StarCraft was largely supervised learning, to mimic top human players. Once it was sufficiently mimicking existing replays, then it switched to Reinforcement Learning.

That's why you see it do "nonsensical" things like destroying the "unbuildable plates" at the bottom of its natural ramp. This 100% wouldn't happen if it had only learned through self-play.
For a sufficiently large business, efficiency = sense
All those animals need to eat. Most crop farming is done to feed livestock rather than humans. That's a lot of wasted land use which could be habitat for wild ecosystems if we just cut down our meat consumption.
You should read some of the papers referred to in the above comments before making that assertion.
It may take a while to realize the overall structure of the argument, how the category theory is used, and how this is directly applicable to LLMs, but if you are in ML it should be obvious.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15544
Is JSON5 a thing people use? I see it's from 2012 but it's the first I've heard of it. It looks fairly sensible; I'd take it for trailing commas alone. And comments!
Ngl, I do spend most of my time here hiding AI/ML/LLM/neural/diffusion/prompt/arxiv articles.
> apps

Make websites not apps.
My 84 year old mother does remarkably well with her suite of Apple products. However, it would be nice to simplify some things. She only calls or chats with a limited number of people. Reworking the phone and messenger apps to use large pictures of the people would be a benefit. Something similar for the camera / photos app would be great as well.
Nutrient density in food has decreased due to the switch to synthetic fertilizers used by intensive farming practices. Man-made fertilizers contain only the big three (phosphorus, potassium, and nitrogen) nutrients, leading to the slow depletion of micronutrients in the soil. Without an abundance of those other elements, plants cannot incorporate them and the resulting crops will lack them. As a result, modern industrial food contains a fraction of the micronutrients as compared to the same food from a century past, and there has not been a widespread effort to fix the problem.
https://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/35/7/4009

http://www.l-a-k-e.org/blog/2013/10/csx-groundwater-contamin...
Deep Learning Normalization Methods (2021)
wow that's fantastic! i spent a good time playing with it. so simple yet so satisfying!
You've never had a tool that is potentially better than you or better than all humans at all tasks. If you can't see why that is different then idk what to say.
How is this at all an answer to @jayd16's question?

The number of phones Google has sold is completely irrelevant to the fact that they too do local ai and have hardware on device for processing it.
It is also quite small, though... hardly open ocean, and almost isolated by the Straits of Hormuz (?) from the ocean, so probably not much affected by deep sea currents, no?
I feel the the quality of HN discussions been downtrending, and recent months have personally felt disengaged. I’ve been wondering how much of this being the current tech market being a brain / time drain. I would have thought there would be a renaissance of startups and projects with layoffs and all, but maybe it’s far too early to tell
Yes I did, because recruiters could not stop bombarding me with emails about new job opportunity.
State of Node.js Performance 2023
The compiler is going to need a Unicode library anyways.

It's true that checking that some string is in some canonical form (say, NFC) is easier than normalizing it. In fact, it's even easier to check that some string is in NFD than it is to check that it's in NFC because NFC is defined in terms of NFD. That's not enough to justify not doing form-insensitive string matching in the compiler and forcing a pre-compilation normalization step.

Also, you'd only want symbols normalized, not string literals (since one might need a string literal that is not in a canonical form, or not in NFC). Thus the pre-compilation normalization step would have to be language-aware, so it might as well be part of the compiler and not a separate step.
Path of least resistance. Copy/paste from Stack overflow and it is done.
Who needs China's Social Credit system if we can build a better one ourselves?
Monitoring the Cloud Landscape
Please explain how Stochastic Parrots can perform chain of reasoning and answer out of distribution questions from exams like the GRE or Bar.
DOJ charges former Apple engineer with theft for China
There seems to be a crazy amount of chemical waste all over the metro Denver area. I don't live in Lowry, but I play hockey maybe once every 1 to 2 months at Big Bear Ice Arena, which is in that neighborhood.

There's also the Rocky Flats nuclear site, the chemical plant in Lakewood, and also the wildlife "refuge" north of the city.

Seems somewhat ironic given Colorado's reputation for pristine natural beauty.
Comments in JSON? Why isn’t this everywhere?
On vast.ai I rent 3090s for $0.12 an hour. Nothing comes close in price.
This interesting (and I might personally add destructive) thing is happening in the romance genre where authors are going back and doctoring up all their prose from the 90s and 00s to address "consent issues" as the current cultural zeitgeist understands consent. It's not that I'm not okay with people's definition of consent changing and with writing new works to be acceptable under the new definition. And I even quite like well-integrated examples of affirmative consent in romantic literature, because a good author can weave it in ever so subtly and naturally when working with a blank slate. But this need to go back and "fix" the older works really kills me. If I could buy the older edition from the publisher that would be one thing, but in the age of digital publishing the new edition just clobbers the older ones, sometimes forcibly in your library or collection. I think there's value to being able to read literature from the 90s and understand what that time period was like, culturally. Or even works set historically back in previous centuries. I think it's important to be able to read old works and critique them, etc. I would even go as far as to say that it's okay to write modern works that lack strict adherence to affirmative consent so that they can be critiqued regardless (this might make them unpopular to the masses as pleasure reading, but it makes them interesting as social commentary). It really breaks the illusion for me when you're reading a scene from an older work and you encounter a section that was clearly doctored, or which just doesn't fit with the time period the story is set in. It's just not realistic in any way and I don't think it benefits the catalog of writing we have today to expect that authors go back and "fix" their work from 20 years ago that's suddenly become controversial by today's standards.
Trust. That's an interesting word.

Personally, I don't trust corporations. Their motive is always money.
Erdoğan beat the odds: Turkey’s election in charts
Yeah. It’s been my experience, the longer the comment, the predictably more unhinged and/or pedantic it becomes.
>Why is it so hard to hear this perspective?

Because it's wrong and smart people know that.
A newly-discovered security flaw allows someone to inject prompts by altering the text of a YouTube video transcript.
Just drop the “Open” part and rename it to CorpAI at this point since it’s anything but.
The fact that it sometimes fails simple algorithms for large numbers but shows good performance in other complex algorithms with simple inputs seems to me that something on a fundamental level is still insufficient
Type validation for one. The reduced chance that a client has put some backwards format in there like MM-DD-YYYY (or DD-MM-YYYY for that matter) or just an invalid date completely.

You might as well ask what native numeric or boolean support offer over just jamming stuff in a string in an agreed format. Some might argue that dates are a compound value so differ from atomic types like a number, but they are wrong IMO as a datetime can be treated as a simple numeric¹ with the compound display being just that – a display issue.

Others will point out that JS doesn't have a native date/datetime/time type, but JSON is used for a lot more that persisting JS structures at this point.

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[1] caveat: this stops being true if you have a time portion with a timezone property
Drama much? People need somewhere to live! Where?

Change is inherent in a situation where you have however many billion people we have now. We are a dynamic system, and a huge one.
Nvidia is somewhat encumbered by their need to optimize for raster performance. Ideally, all those transistors should be going toward tensor cores. Apple has never really taken the gaming market seriously. If they wanted to, they could ship their next M3 chip with identical GPU performance and use all that new 3nm die space for AI accelerators.
I view it as long-form autocomplete.
Add 12.5 to 2023 and you get just over the magic number of 2035.
I don't see how that supports the argument. What does being a technocrat have to do with being "populist" or poll-driven? I'd see these things as opposed. And I think that Clinton and the New Democrats rather dramatically reshaped the Democratic Party in ways we're all still living with.
The time our Linux systems spend on integer to text and back conversions
Please drink a verification can.

Also:

> Now, all smart TVs come with ads. But you still pay for the TV.

Here's the crazy other solution: let me pay for the TV and don't put ads on it. But I guess milking those who can't set up a simple DNS ad blocker (you wouldn't believe how many people don't even use a browser ad-blocking extension) is too pretty of a penny.
The criticism is valid, but also a little lame.

The author takes on a ridiculing tone, painting Curtis as having big ideas but being too naive and infantile to actually develop them, a 16 year old raging at the shadowy elites, it's the system man, puts on RATM. That's the whole content of the critique, especially the first 3/4.

Which is fine, I can see that. And yet. Curtis _does_ have big ideas, just chooses to develop them in an impressionistic manner. He's an artist in a way, a polemicist maybe, philosopher certainly.

The writer is (for now) facing one of his betters, yet intuitively senses something is off, awash in a slight sense of superiority. The way this usually arises is because he's likely saturated by Curtis work, and has "cracked the code", the stylistic choices, the narrative structure. The veil has fallen, and now, as a God, he only sees the void. But that's because he's fully internalized Curtis' message, there's nothing new for him there anymore.
Big battery boost and a boatload of tweaks define Framework’s latest laptop
The salt extraction pools can reduce the salinity to the salinity level of the input water. The amount of effort needed increases as you approach the salinity level of the input so it isn't practical to achieve the exact same salinity level as the input water. In this case the proposed input water is from the Mediterranean which is not too salty for life.

I'm not sure how much more salty the sea can be while still having a reasonable ecosystem and an also not sure what ratio of extraction pools to sea surface area would be needed to achieve that so I don't know if it is actually practical.
I don’t understand the need to control AI tech, no matter how advanced, in any way what-so-ever.

It is a tool. If I use a tool for illegal purposes I have broken the law. I can be held accountable for having broken the law. If the laws are deficient, make the laws stronger and punish people for wrong deed, regardless of the tool at hand.

This is a naked attempt to build a regulatory moat while capitalizing on fear of the unknown and ignorance. It’s attempting to regulate research into something that has no external ability to cause harm without the use of a principal directing it.

I can see a day (perhaps) when AIs have some form of independent autonomy, or even display agency and sentience, when we can revisit. Other issues come into play as well, such as the morality of owning a sentience and what that entails. But that is way down the road. And even further if Microsoft’s proxy closes the doors on anyone but Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
The original wide GBA, as well as the first run of the SP had a reflective screen, and would look wonderful in direct sunlight. It’s only the second gen of the SP which had a backlight (rather than a front light) and could not perform in the sun.
Using fsync() to flush data to disk is, generally speaking, the wrong way to do things. fsync() is like using a piece of wood to hammer a nail into the ground. It'll work under very limited circumstances, but will fail horribly to do the heavy lifting required in other cases. fsync()'s semantics are complex and poorly defined, doubly so if multiple threads or processes are involved. Who gets the i/o error for a failed write? Nobody knows! fsync() is probably one of the worst APIs warts in Linux/Unix.

Developers competent in matters of storage generally use other methods / APIs like open()ing a file with O_SYNC and then checking the results of write() or pwrite() which will clearly identify when data is or is not successfully written to disk. If you want more performance, use async writes and it'll perform just fine. Seeing fsync() in code is a sign that the code has a bad smell and probably needs to be thoroughly reviewed.
Unless the model is hooked up to a text-to-speech module it doesn't speak any English at all.

Signed,
A frustrated auditory scientist.
>> Code, most code, will eventually turn into some sort of sanitised applied maths corpus
>> Think about code development in such as mature state.

I agree with you. That end state is of course all open source. Anyone not working toward that state is making money (understandably) as the higher priority.

I'm still not sure why businesses do so much proprietary customization as opposed to working in an upstream OSS project. I suppose the OSS foundation in those cases isn't solid enough yet.
I'd assume there are also plenty of non-foreign actors pissed off about their jobs. They wouldn't call it work if it wasn't work.
I recommend the talk The Soul of Erlang and Elixir by Sasa Juric.

https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE

The thing that Erlang and Elixir have different is the BEAM VM and its support of concurrent processes at the VM level. So there are some things that they can do that Akka can't. For example, the scheduler is preemptive and keeps processes alive even though there may be rogue processes pegging the CPU.
Don’t bother. Your preferred style will go out of fashion just like the previous ones all have. Chasing this is low value busy work.
Actually OP is clearly, ironically, parroting the stochastic parrot idea that LLMs are incapable of anything other than basic token prediction and dismissing any of their other emergent abilities.
what is the difference between this and an authoritarian state? honest question
Oh wow, what an uninformed opinion. Not surprising, sadly, given that so many in tech are so one-dimensional.

Perhaps a course in art history would help you understand that visual art has never been solely about image reproduction. Even cave paintings were allegorical. My goodness.
Wallets tend to have two main features: A) generate random private keys and B) given some private key, sign a transaction and broadcast this message to the network.

Pen, paper, and some dice (and a bit of work) can generate a private key for step A, which you can input into a hardware wallet, and which would have prevented the problem in the OP.

It’s also possible to write your own wallet software or use a “trusted” tool (eg: openssl or node) to create a private key, rather than rely on a random app or device off eBay to generate it for you.

The B) part is harder to do with pen and paper or an off-the-shelf tool as it involves a fair bit of protocol specific math—but it’s also harder to target in a hardware wallet supply chain attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea
Cloudflare is Yelp 2.0
I'm sad that we've lost the battle with calling these things AI. LLMs aren't AI, and I don't think they're even a path towards AI.
Hi Fabien, I apologize for the vague description earlier. The machine in question is a mouth scanner used for taking digital impressions of the mouth (you can find more information about it here: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/984589O/3m-true-definiti...). The machine itself works fine - it powers on and allows you to scan mouths. However, the issue arises when attempting to transfer the scanned results to a PC. It seems that the machine is no longer supported by 3M, as my dad was informed when he contacted them. Consequently, we are unable to use it, suspecting that it somehow relies on a connection to 3M.

Now, my question is related to finding resources or methods to simulate or monitor the machine's external connections when uploading the results to a PC."
They don’t mention the potential contribution of cars becoming more reliable over time. I would expect that that’s part of it though I don’t doubt that the shorter term factors that the article focuses on have dominated recently.
But only to sue you when you are doing nasty things, that are against the license and they get wind about it. Regardless of that it doesn't work to backward-identify you, it was necessary to the legal aspect of their side of the license to have restricted access. Else this licence simply wouldn't work.
GitHub repo of the project: https://github.com/libprima/prima
> They're not actually giving away service that others charge thousands of dollars a month for, for free. If they were, most of those others would be out of business.

Well, It’s just that at a certain scale and business seriousness you will pay to guarantee certain levels of service which is why CF isn’t putting everything out of business. But CF’s “unguaranteed tier” is still high tier services for free.
The Adolescence of P-1 (1977)
What it gets you is not having to deal with breakage when someone doesn't know the difference between ISO8601 and RFC3339 or, in fact, `date` strings. Shuffle all that mess off down the stack to where someone else has made one decision, once, rather than having to relitigate it every time.
I have a pet at home, having another spoiled one like sour dough is too much for me
I've been using Tutanota since 2019. Very good, constantly improved product. Inexpensive. Solid security. Open source. I keep waiting for their drive and note-taking apps.
Absolutely bizarre opinion, friend.
That's great, you just explained why ADTs are superior to booleans. My question was why are ADTs the same as booleans?
GPT is so far from threatening “every single person who writes words for a living” anyway. Unless you’re writing generic SEO filler content. Not sure who is claiming that but they don’t understand how it works if they do exist at scale.

Writing has always been a low paid shrinking job well before AI. Besides a tiny group of writers at the big firms. I took a journalism course for fun at UofT in my spare time and the professors had nothing but horror stories for trying to make a job out of writing (ie getting a NYT bestseller and getting $1 cheques in the mail). They basically told the students to only do it as a hobby unless you have some engaged niche audience. Which is more about the writer being interesting rather than the generic writing process.
Hetzner's Handling of an Abuse Case
Maybe when that happens you need a new infotainment system.
Objects are a useful idea. Object Orientation is a terrible, terrible idea.

Functions + data (immutable when practical) is all you need for 90%+ of programming, and you should only reach for objects when necessary to manage some well-encapsulated but tricky state. Your default orientation should certainly not be towards objects.
I just use lnav.
'If you have some data and continuously update it with a function, we usually call that data state. That's what happens when you keep adding tokens to the output. The "story so far" is the state of an LLM-based AI.'

You're conflating UX and LLM.
> a neural network's neuron doesn't share much with a human brain's neuron

True, it's just binary logic gates, but it's a lot of them and if they can simulate pretty much anything why should intelligence be magically exempt?

> Absolutely nothing says our current approach is the right one to mimic a human brain

Just like nothing says it's the wrong one. I don't think those regulation suggestions are a good idea at all (and say a lot about a company called OpenAI), but that doesn't mean we should treat it like the NFT hype.
Can I put an instance to sleep and just pay for the storage ?Could not find the info on your site.

Also for Windows instance, what do people use to connect. RDP seems slow. My primary use case is software development trying to learn CUDA programing.
I think they mean that almost 2600 are literally available right now for you to rent - or if you requested them, then you would get them right now, and then there would - for a while - be 0 that are available, because you have them all.
Simply don't fill it to the brim, allowing room for expansion.