skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've played around with assigning it the task of phonetically transliterating English into other writing systems. It does a good job on things like Cyrillic, Greek, and Japanese phonetic characters where there is a large corpus to work from and handle scenarios where 1:1 phonetic equivalence isn't available. Curiously it also does a passable job converting to long obsolete manyōgana (kanji used purely phonetically) despite there being no real corpus to learn from.
About as old as my daily laptops :)

All things considered, my mid 2000's scion gets 30mpg and I barely use it in the summer. Great car, fits lots of stuff in the back and the 100mm X 4 bolt pattern gets me a cheap wheel platform to swap out winter and summer wheels (Killer feature for the midwest).
> thanks

I like the experimentation. There are lots of clones of worked based on GPT/LLVM. But it's exciting times and this looks like an interesting tool as well as base to look at. Thanks for building and sharing it.
> so yes, this is an anti-vaccine position.

Or, at the very least, it is a deeply selfish one.
Project Starline: Google Shrinks 3D Videoconferencing Tech Down to Flatscreen
Asbestos isn't even properly banned in US despite of universal knowledge of it being harmful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos#United_States
Every five years we have someone say we won't have glaciers in five years.

The more I see these kinds of sensationalist fearmongering, the more I am content to not give a damn.
Very profitable business. I remember Paypal doing the same in 2008-2010 (I stopped using them after they locked acc and stole some hundreds dollars).
Mine is almost 25 as well. When I read stories like this [1] from 3 days about Toyota leaking car location data and videos, it reinforces my desire to have as few computer chips in my car as possible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35919133
I hope you're right. I worry that we'll get it done, though. I hope it turns out that energy requirements and the difficulty in scaling are enough that it gives us time to figure out how to align them properly.

One big question in my mind is, we can clearly train narrow AIs that are WAY more capable than us in that narrow area. We started with calculators, then on to chess engines, Go, Starcraft, and right now we're at GPT-4. How is GPT-4 better than humans, and how is it lacking?

Ways it's better: it's much faster, has perfect English grammar, understands many languages at a passable level but not perfectly, has much more knowledge.

Ways it's about the same: it can code pretty well, can solve math problems pretty well. Has the theory of mind of about a 9-year old in tests, I think? It can learn from examples (that one is pretty big, in my opinion!). It can pass a lot of tests that many people can't -- some of this is due to having a lot of book knowledge baked in, but it definitely is capable of some reasoning.

Ways it's worse: it has trouble counting, confabulates, gets distracted. (note that humans also get distracted and confabulate sometimes. We are definitely better at counting, though).

Also, there are some areas that humans handle that GPT-4 just can't do. By itself, it can't talk, can't process music, has no body but if it did it probably would not have any motor control to speak of.

I think we should be wary of is to be hyper-focused on the ways that GPT-4 falls down. It's easy to point at those areas and laugh, while shrugging off the things that it excels at. There's never going to be an AGI that's equivalent to a human -- by the time it's a least as good as a human at everything, it will be beyond us in most ways.

So I expect that if the trend of the past 5 years continues but slows down to half speed, we'll almost certainly have an AGI on our hands sometime around 2030. I think there's a decent chance it'll be superintelligent. Bill Gates says most people overestimate what they can do in 1 year and underestimate what they can do in 10 years, and I think that holds true for humanity as well.

By 2040 or 2050? I really hope we've either solved alignment or collectively decided that this tech is way too dangerous to use and managed to enforce a ban.
It's still marginally more wasteful because there's more supply in the used market and with enough of the same decision in aggregate, the used market would go from using phones until they're 5 years old to using them until they're 4 years old, because that's what people could afford with $100. Like if there's so much supply in used market because most people buy new, then there's a lot more people who don't prioritize reselling their used item at all because it's only worth $20 (at the extreme)
I'm going to old onto my old ICE car as long as I can. It has almost no electronics it has no over the air update system and I own it and have full control over it.

It seems every new car out there is a smart, electrified out the wahzoo abomination that needs regular updates. I work enough in software to know I want as little software as possible in my vehicle.
> and it's not going to do anyone (besides exploitative employers) any good to have them paid even less

I disagree, on the basis that a poorly-paid job is better than no job at all in the long run for the employee.

A price floor causes a surplus, in this case of labor, meaning unemployed people; the people for whom the economic value of their labor is less than the minimum wage. You can call this free-market dogma if you'd like, but it's a well-established phenomenon.

The second-order effect is that those unemployed people become less and less employable over time, since they lose out on the experience, skill-learning, and relationship-building that they would have gotten on the job, poorly-paid though it may have been. They become further less competitive than the lucky ones who made the cut above minimum wage and were employed, and runs the risk of being a permanently unemployable underclass.

Countries like Norway and Singapore do quite well with no legally-mandated minimum wage.
I'm not sure if your indestructible 8mpg truck example was facetious, but you've actually, very accurately, described the Grumman Long-Life Vehicle - also known as the truck that delivers mail in most of the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV.
"extremely high levels of organic fluorine, a marker of ‘forever chemicals’"

I hate this kind of garbage research.

Florine can be used in lots of things, without actually checking there is absolutely no way they can claim it's PFAS.
"Market-making" doesn't involve "beating the market", it means providing a service for fees.

(That said, you need similar trading skills, otherwise the people "beating the market" will rip you off.)
What are some the popular patterns to avoid in javascript that get you good performance? Or phrased another way, what are the changes to make today that would likely have the most performance impact in a js codebase?
A problem which will solve itself in mortality stats in the future.

An economist minded colleague said if you want to reduce end of life costs in healthcare then encourage smokers over 45 to puff more not less and remove the problem faster.
0. I am mostly a hardware guy. Process automation, ATE, manufacturing, and product and process compliance. Banging out code ranges from 10% to 50% of each job.

1. My experience and skill set is not that common. Most EEs and MEs have eschewed this field because it has, outside of FAANG-type companies, paid less.

2. If you go the formal accreditation route, getting up to speed in EMC/Product Compliance/Corporate Conformity, depending on the industry sector, is approx 4 to 7 years.

3. Most of my original client contacts came from attending various IEEE Society symposiums. New business contacts are through former/current clients.
It has an interface and two implementations, UNIX and Windows.
They're status symbols. As with most things in life, the quality isn't necessarily reflected by the price. "A fool and their money" et cetera. Cash circulating is a good thing, and provides jobs, even if the products they make are objectively not any better than x.
Half of Citadel beats the market, the other half are market makers who just make markets and make a steady income from doing so.
There will probably still be a handful of '80s-'00s cars running in 2050+. There are some bulletproof Toyotas and Hondas out there.

You might have to replace the frame every few decades as it rusts, but that is possible with body-on-frame construction. They're also simple enough to be maintainable and repairable until their ECUs croak - maybe even then, with something like speeduino.

If you want, you can still pick up a cheap one from a dry, warm area and make your own car of Theseus. It's not cheaper than running a new car after the initial purchase price, of course.
Yes, the article mentions this further down.
I'm not sure about this model specifically, but training with 4-bit quantization has been a thing with LLaMA for a while now, although the setup involves manual hacks of various libraries.
I've been using and writing Makefiles for over a decade and, ironically, my least favorite experiences with it are in the ecosystems (C and C++) it's ostensibly intended for.

When using it for Python or multi-language projects (especially ones with lots of code generation or intermediate outputs), it's a joy: it's very satisfying to be able to write dependency patterns and relations and have the machine satisfy and parallelize them.
Temporal is a different ecosystem (and a much more ambitious solution), but one of the principles is the same: users want a platform that solves scalability issues and lets them focus on biz logic and customer value.
Market making itself is a market, and people compete on cost and speed
What's the story for multiple devices being triggered by a single utterance of the wake word?

I have a Alexa or Google device in nearly every room so that '[wake word] lights [on|off]' or whatever does the right thing for that space. Alexa devices are pretty good about processing from the 'right' device when multiple are triggered. Google, not-so-much.

(Also a gap in both platforms is that they don't pass along the triggering device information)
I think that makes some sense. Thanks.
Linus Tech Tips had a good video about six months ago where they dived into the sheer amount of storage YouTube needs since they now allow 4k uploads, and the costs associated with this.

Is it the most? Not sure, but it is certainly a large number.
Phase I trial. "Is it safe". Not "does it work". That's Phase II. Phase III is "does it work at scale".
Demon Core: How the Third Nuclear Bomb [ ] Killed [ ] American Scientists (2018)
> that sounds like a person simply updating their views in response to new evidence-new to them even if much older to many others

It's an awkward journey to have in public. I'll step off the gangway with a personal example: I did not know much about abortion a few years ago. I had misguided assumptions and changed (or more accurately, developed any) views as I learned. It would have been totally inappropriate for me to express scepticism about anything in any direction publicly before having done the research. A better answer is "I don't know."
Not sure why this is being downvoted. If someone told me in 2019 that, to keep my job, I’d have to take some vaccine as a young healthy guy for something that has almost no chance of killing me, I’d laugh it off too.

Too much money in big pharma for them to not push for in order to “save lives”
> In 1483, there was so little published entertainment that plot twists were unnecessary.

Well, history repeats itself with the self-published kindle stuff.

Some of the reviews even have a vocabulary, like OP MC (over-powered main character) etc
Cost of replacement battery less than it’s worth used when we looked for a Tesla model s.
EV’s keep getting more environmentally friendly as for example the electricity used to manufacture them come from low carbon sources.

Recycling a X year ICE means ~26 - X year of pollution savings, but you also get ~X years of normal EV usage. Aka your not paying the full cost of an EV just for a few years of savings, your paying a fraction of an EV for that fraction in savings.

Assuming the best case of say high mileage and 100% wind/solar power the savings could be quite significant.
If you have really good EQ and want to increase your EQ then management or sales is a good path to pursue.
I checked out this show on yr recommendation. I usually much prefer British tv to US American tv but on this occasion I found the British show vastly inferior. I found Coupling to be crass, unfunny and tedious. I also didn't find it doing what was the subject of discussion here - bringing multiple story lines together in an amusing and clever way.
Just like Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.

Edit: you can downvote but this is literally what Madoff did – he had a market making business and an investment business. I'm not saying that Citadel is a scam at all, just commenting on the business structure.
> I work enough in software to know I want as little software as possible in my vehicle.

The old joke about how the only piece of technology software engineers keep in their homes is a 15-year-old printer, and a loaded gun next to it in case it starts making any funny noises ;-)
Evaluated this recently for my company.

Pros

1. Cedar is great and very expressive and fits many many use case.

Cons

1. The price. Was too expensive for our scale

2. As another commenter has pointed, Cedar/AVP expects you to send all the contextual data as part of the Authz request. It only persists the policy.

3. There is no concept of role based lookup. E.g I cannot query who has what access
Exactly! And good tests would be of the type "should accept RequestWithZ under circumstance Y" and in many cases you'll be able to say "Oh, circumstance Y hasn't been current for like 2 years now, we can delete this code!"
Interestingly, I can't get information about this whole case in general in bing chat. Keep getting answers like; "Sorry! That’s on me, I can’t give a response to that right now. What else can I help you with?"
This is what I meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Kettering#Flxible,_...
The bivalent booster was pretty much on target in late 2022 and the beginning of 2023, and if it had been anywhere near as effective as the original two-dose series, I would have expected rather better results than this:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/pdfs/mm7148e1-H.pdf Table 3

These are somewhat less unimpressive (IMO) numbers here:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/pdfs/mm7205e1-H.pdf

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2215471

I don’t think one can draw a conclusion as to what exactly is wrong. IMO it’s too bad that Novavax flubbed their vaccine rollout so badly — it would have given valuable comparison data.
It would have been better if you submitted the main article that this Substack post leads to:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/silicon-val...
I live in one of four US states where you must be 18 to get married. Most other states have "parental consent" laws that allow you to get married at age 16.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/11/01/child-mar...

Not to mention like every big rocker had a teenage girlfriend in the 1970s.
I had looked at this

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183481/united-states-pop...
Also profit: just get all their money.
> An indestructible 8 mpg truck will definitely be more polluting than an EV using solar electricity that lasts 30 years.

I suppose it depends on how many miles that indestructible truck drives, but I presume on the first day of the 31st year, the moment you buy a new EV to replace the old one, the environmental impact flips the other way? Surely everything that goes into manufacturing a new car is dirty enough to offset that 8 mpg.
How did you self publish?
IIRC Paul McCartney grew up listening to his father play pop tunes in a room full of guests and family members. It was a rich musical environment. As Paul got older, he started playing pop songs for the guests just like his father. It's interesting to learn that this was a common social activity back then.
Who is pulling ahead?
When you sell something the price goes down. This trickles all the way down the line, and at the end of the line some marginal product (car or phone in your example) switches from "valuable enough to use" into "it's cheap enough to be trash now".
Reminds me of an article I read about some people who were unhappy in their careers as doctors. Basically, they had such strong willpower that they were able to force themselves to do all the years of hard work and studying to become doctors while over riding all of their feelings of not liking the profession. Basically, they were victims of their ability to over ride their feelings to achieve any goal they had set.
Especially now that governments don’t want to aid people financially that got harmed by the vaccines, since getting a vaccine was voluntarily [0].

It’s not like governments stated that the vaccines are both safe and effective and indirectly put pressure on people to get the vaccine, after all.

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[0]: https://www-geenstijl-nl.translate.goog/5170466/ja-ja/?_x_tr...
It's funny but React/Node/Electron apps will suddenly become minimalist once everyone and his brother start adding a neural model to his app that consumes 10GB of V/RAM.
Can you link to some examples of such frames?
Because people don't like needles.

Because the logistics is easier if you are trying to vaccinate the world.

Because you could dose yourself at home, maybe a daily microdose after brushing your teeth or a yearly round for the family when you change your smoke detector batteries.
Paid piece by citadel?
Not the OP but good to know. How does 4 compare to Bard?
Loss in real wages is down nearly 4% under this president, hence less money for a new(er) car.
I wasn't aware those are getting 8 - 10mpg in city, wow. Ya, I'm glad they're replacing those soon.

This link referenced a study where hybrids take the equivalent of 325 gallons to produce[0]. This one is 474 for ICE[1] Let's say an EV is 500 - 1,000 gallons of gasoline energy then.

One year of those Grumman LLV on the road, 1,500 gallons at 12k miles/yr is easily out-polluting the entire production and use of an EV replacement.

[0]https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/green-life/2013/10/ask-mr-...

[1]https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-much-energy-to-build-a-car/
that seems like an over simplification. however I do have an aversion to "MBA types" skimming over complicated concepts with the blanket "nerdy mathematics" techniques.
That's from 2014, the world was a very different place. It'll likely change again too. Predicting population is difficult.
“Octane Render,” a non-fiction comic about artists experiencing AI Art
the covid vaccines were fast-tracked by the fda and iirc biodistribution studies were sidelined early on and the LNPs ended up accumulating in the uterus of women

mrna vaccines are a promising technology but LNPs being modeled after viral membranes do pose general dangers to the body as the full evolutionary dance of their development is something we may never know. seeing as membranes are, naturally, older than the receptors that have extended their functions, any contributions to 'tricking' host immune systems may have nasty effects at larger scales than would normally be given by natural infection. how they affect various molecular pathways can pose a multitudes of threats.

there have already been widespread discussions on this topic and many others by appropriate experts in a wide variety of professions, you can find some here:

https://lakaruppropet.se/international-conference-pandemic-s...
Way to get your daily steps in…
Denmark's mystery tremors caused by acoustic waves from unknown source
The components that fail most often in gas-powered cars are timing belts, alternators, brake pads, radiators, gearboxes. Electric vehicles don't have any of these (well, they have brake pads, but they don't use them). There's reason to suspect that EVs should last much longer, on average, than ICE vehicles. The only component that EVs have that ICEs don't is the battery, and the cells, while in high demand, are dead simple. They're all just standard li-ion 18650s wired together.

Which is to say, who needs to buy a new EV? Refurbish your old one by changing the battery once a decade, and once in a while your suspension will need replaced.
jury nullification is a thing, something the court tries to convince you that it isn't.
The key parts

We recently learned that encrypted copies of Bitbucket’s SSH host keys were included in a data breach of a third-party credential management vendor. The SSH protocol uses host keys to establish the identity of a trusted server for every SSH connection, like when a git pull establishes a SSH connection to Bitbucket Cloud.

In response, Bitbucket issued two new SSH host keys today and will be replacing the current host keys on June 20, 2023. Please review this blog and complete the applicable steps outlined below as soon as possible.

I'm not a security expert, but isn't it concerning that their SSH host private key was even accessible this way? (In a "third-party credential management vendor")
> I think a lot of people were increasingly on edge before the pandemic, and the isolation really didn't help them with their mental health.

This is my take as well. I personally viewed it as a challenge and a stress test for my own mental health, and tried my best to make life easier for myself and others. I suppose I was lucky, as my life didn’t change and I didn’t stop working. As an introvert, it felt like a holiday of sorts, with less car noise and more clean air days to enjoy. I’m not going to lie, I felt like the guy in the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last", and made great inroads with my reading list. I think the people who faired worse were extroverts who weren’t all that comfortable with being alone, isolated, or limited by where they could go and do, and were faced with existential issues that they had never really confronted before.
Fasten: An open-source, self-hosted, family electronic medical record aggregator
it's not... it's competing in the market for profits. citadel makes plenty of money from trading, separate from fee-based business
Now I’m curious. What happened to federated wiki?

I owe Ward stuff.
What is the point of your response, in your own words
100%. And buying a bike and using it as much as possible is a million times better.

You can't build your way out of congestion, and you can't buy your way out of car pollution.
Very difficult for sure.
The Forever Labor Shortage
No, I don't think mfg'ing is anywhere close to dirty enough to offset how bad 8mpg is for any reasonable mileage.

I've seen links for 500 gallons gasoline for car production, let's say safely 1,000 for an EV.

8mpg at 12k miles/year is 1,500 gallons, and over 30 years, 45k gallons of gasoline.

An EV will be produced at 1k and then for the foreseeable future be charged with excess solar energy during the day mostly. That doesn't seem close.
That is vague enough to not be useful.

But couldn’t “doing something” be a license change going forward. Seems like a reasonable application of ethics.

I don’t see a huge issue here.
> Gun control

Sometimes the US truly is exceptional -- name another country that has more guns than people and, critically, enshrines private ownership of guns in its constitution.
Simplifying the tax code would go a long way. We don't need to go all the way towards some flat consumption tax, simply eliminating tax deductions, credits, and write-offs would make calculating a person's tax burden much easier.
I never realized that those vehicles get 8 mpg, but it makes sense because they are always making stops and possibly turning off and on again.