skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The retail price of renting the GPU includes, among other things, the cost of the power bill that the cloud service pays (or else they'd lose money.) The more efficient GPU will, all else the same, be cheaper to lease.
Zoning is typically for building. This would be closer to deed restrictions or “covenants, conditions and restrictions” (CCRs), which governs land use and transfer restrictions regardless of ownership.

https://localhousingsolutions.org/housing-policy-library/dee...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_(law)
Apple launches new concert discovery features on Apple Maps and Apple Music
Have a particular one to recommend?
I just saw this earlier this week: Proton just added Calendar search to the beta Android app[1], and it looks like they are working to bring it to other platforms.

[1] https://proton.me/support/calendar-search
Ok so you think its reasonable to call basically any society in the last 4000 years 'capitalism'?

I mean if you want to define the word that way, feel free, its just not how almost anybody else defines it. Not even Marx.
I certainly recognize that possibility; but I also realize that systems can be extremely useful, and have a great 'understanding' (for some definition of 'understanding') of linguistic and visual data, without any need for 'sentience', 'conscious', or any other completely ill-defined ideas anyone wants to throw around.

There are a few cases where overlaps in sensory cortex above visual, audio, and linguistic processing (the main systems every decent AI already has as inputs, which are a very small fraction of the brain) would be very helpful, but clearly not absolutely necessary, in improving the capability of a world model - for example, know that a metal container half full water will slosh differently than a full or empty one. That requires proprioception, motor skills, as well as visual inputs etc. So cases such as this will be slightly less performant, but they're typically not relevant for tasks we are interested in automating.
If he doesn't know they're recording then he isn't creating that situation.
I don't think I'd come across this blog post before but I'm a big fan of Joe Armstrong. Thanks for linking!
I worked as consultant at several of these big banks, and a few top end private equity firms. And what I learned was I would never want to work there full time. The whole culture of these places is really awful. And it comes from the top.
Thanks, I agree. Very nice.
Remember the paper where they admitted to having no "moat". This is basically them trying to build a "moat" through regulation. Since big-co are probably the only ones that can do any sort of license testing right now. It's essentially trying to have an "FDA" for AI and crowd out competitors before they emerge.
So instead they use wording that means nothing to 100% of people and require anyone to click through to the article to discover what they're talking about.
On a very fundamental level the LLM is a function from context to the next token but when you generate text there is a state as the context gets updated with what has been generated so far.
It's not clear to me where this data comes from - do spots that are unmarked have none, or are they unmeasured?
Well you certainly see the other side as terrorists. Pretty sure the other side sees you the same way.
all that and still no datetime support which is the most annoying thing missing in JSON imho
> Yes but it’s not a lie to say it was phased out in the 70s

I don't understand why you would write that, particularly after having read my comments and throwaway2037's comment on this thread. "This is a chemical that is currently produced in various forms by companies and used by people in 2023" and "it was phased out in the 1970s" would seem to be mutually contradictory facts. There's no "nuance" involved. I get that we're not giving you essay-length analysis here, but... I give up.

edit: the LMGTFY for "who makes trichloroethylene": https://www.thomasnet.com/products/trichloroethylene-8767360...
This is quite incredible

Could you imagine if MS had convinced the govt back in the day, to require a special license to build an operating system (this blocking Linux and everything open)?

It’s essentially what’s happening now,

Except it is OpenAI instead of MS, and it is AI instead of Linux

AI is the new Linux, they know it, and are trying desperately to stop it from happening
> That is vague enough to not be useful.

I mean that is the issue. There's nothing novel or insightful about this piece on ethics in the least. "Hand wave, hand wave, software engineers should be obliged to know about and actively mitigate all the downstream effects of their software, but only if it's evil". Yeah, okay, move along.
Corn does well on rocky and steep terrain.
The question is whether this just looks like taxi medallions or does anything to stop the harms you are talking about. I agree regulation has its place but in the form of regulating out the harms directly. I think this keeps those potential bad use cases and just eliminates competition for them.

For example - I can generate the content you are talking about in a licensed world from big companies or open ai, the difference is that they get a bigger cut from not having to compete with open source models.

To me, this really seems like regulatory capture dressed up as existential risk management.
Thank you. I ended up contacting the author who gave me permission quite quickly :)
Because the person pushing this panic never heard of those.
I don't do a whole lot of the kind of long-form journaling most people are taking about here, but I've been keeping a pair of bullet journals for several years now, one for home and one for work.

The home one helps me keep track of where I'm spending my time, and of habits I'm trying to acquire, so I can make adjustments when things get out of balance. It's also a good place to keep notes on things I'm studying or working on.

The work journal is where I log what I'm working on each day; it's also where I plan, brainstorm, solve problems, and record solutions. I've found it to be especially effective when I'm blocked/stumped/tired: I open the journal, and take stock of what I know and what I can do about. It's also a great place to record ideas for later.

I expect to continue doing this indefinitely.
Yes, but a DAW must do that dozens/hundreds of times more and is on screen for the entire lifetime of the program.

I stand by what I said: most plugins have nowhere near the complexity of a DAW. Some do! (Kontakt/Reakt, and so on) but the vast majority only have a small subset of what the DAW needs to display, and only need to do it for a limited number of channels, and only need to do it rarely.
John Wick made the High Table take a move back by cutting off a finger.
A lot of MacBooks are allegedly having their screens break from those tiny webs covers adding a bit of pressure to the screen when closed
It's clearly a matter of opinion.

I've dropped caffeine but still really like good coffee, so I'll occasionally go out and get a cup of decaf.
Netflix warns UK broadband firms of crackdown on password sharing
Wait this is a startup forum? I totally ignore the more business aspect of hacker news. I don't really care about YC that much, I would argue that Reddit has better discussions nowadays.
Yes. Order them by market capitalization specifically.

The important thing to know about the Russell indexes is that a lot of broad passive equity investors (think big index funds, massive pensions etc) basically just buy and hold the Russell indexes in massive quantity. The russell 2000 would be the weapon of choice for the "small cap" allocation for these investors.
Config file should be a database
I actually do hope you're right. I've been looking forward to an AI future my whole life and would prefer to not now be worrying about existential risk. It reminds me of when people started talking about how the LHC might create a blackhole and swallow the earth. But I have more confidence in the theories that convinced people it was nearly impossible to occur than what we're seeing now.

Everyone engages in motivated reasoning. The psychoanalysis you provide for Hinton could easily be spun in the opposite direction: a man who spent his entire adult life and will go down in history as "the godfather of" neural networks surely would prefer for that to have been a good thing. Which would then give him even more credibility. But these are just stories we tell about people. It's the arguments we should be focused on.

I don't think "how AI doom is supposed to happen" is all that big of a mystery. The question is simply: "is an intelligence explosion possible"? If the answer is no, then OK, let's move on. If the answer is "maybe", then all the chatter about AI alignment and safety should be taken seriously, because it's very difficult to know how safe a super intelligence would be.
Personally I struggle with the blurring of work and personal time so allowing myself up access personal social media, news, study materials makes it harder to say for sure when I've given my employer the amount of hours owed and can go do something else.

A lot of people don't have this issue, but I can't be the only one that does. I find strictly compartmentalising everything the only way to go.
Please limit our competitors, we want all the money$$$
Long term we’ll have falling population, but right now the people looking for a place to live already exist. Not sure what you expect them to do.
Towing the line even has a delightful play on words, where you are towing around the lines out of whatever leaders mouth.

Towing the line, like you are helping to pull along the message. And towing the line like you are carrying around the lines of the message. It's too good to give up for some oddly abstracted analogy about running a race.
Any company could come along and make a better product, but there is a huge barrier to entry in terms of the operating system side. Because of its ubiquitous nature, Android based systems have a bad reputation to many people. However, one of the greatest barriers to entry are the software patents (which in my mind should not exist).
LMGPTTFY

> Me: What is the etymology of "education"?
> ChatGPT: The word "education" comes from the Latin word "educare," which means "to bring up" or "to rear." "Educare" is derived from another Latin word, "educere," which means "to lead out" or "to draw out." The concept behind "education" is closely tied to the idea of drawing out or developing the inherent abilities, talents, and knowledge within an individual. Over time, the term "education" has come to encompass the process of teaching, training, and nurturing someone's intellectual, moral, and social growth.

> Me: What is the etymology of "indoctrination"?
> ChatGPT: The word "indoctrination" has its roots in the Latin language. It is derived from two Latin words: "in" and "doctrina."
> The prefix "in" in Latin often denotes "into" or "inward." The word "doctrina" in Latin means "teaching" or "instruction."
> When combined, "in" and "doctrina" form the Latin verb "indoctrinare," which means "to teach" or "to instruct." Over time, "indoctrination" has taken on a more specific connotation, referring to the process of imparting beliefs, ideas, or a particular ideology to someone, often in a forceful or uncritical manner.
> It's worth noting that while "education" generally refers to a broader process of learning and intellectual development, "indoctrination" carries the notion of teaching in a way that is heavily influenced by a specific agenda or set of beliefs.

Education is showing a customer the door, or if you like leading the horse to water. Indoctrination is frogmarching the prisoner, or drowning the horse.
Chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 (2019)
1. Are you familiar with the SEC requirements to trading and other bank regulations?

2. Are you aware of how many past SEC and bank regulation actions against JP Morgan and Chase?

Those two factors play heavily in the current tracking solutions and systems.
I think the 8 trillion parameters is accurate- Tangora is an N-gram model with a vocab size of 20,000 words and N = 3.

Parameters for an N-gram model = V^(N-1) * (V-1)
Plugging in V=20,000 words and N = 3 for Tangora, you'd get 7.9996E12.

Most of the parameters are likely zero or close to it because many 3-grams are possible but not likely to occur. (However the aggregate probability of all 3-grams is substantial and thus they have to be included.)
To be fair LLMs are predicting the next token. It's just that to get better and better predictions it needs to understand some level of reasoning and math. However it feels to me that a lot of this reasoning is brute forced from the training data. Like chatgpt gets some things wrong when adding two very large numbers. If it really knew the algorithm for adding two numbers it shouldn't be making them in the first place. I guess same goes for issues like hallucinations. We can keep pushing the envelope using this technique but I'm sure we will hit a limit somewhere
the main question is: how fast after how much learnings and optimizations that went into the 'naive' version of the application.

Just an example on how to declaring a couple of input float pointers in a fully optimized way, avoiding aliases and declaring it readonly (if I remember correctly, it's been a few years:

Fortran:

real(32), intent(in) :: foo, bar, baz

C:

const float *const restrict foo
const float *const restrict bar
const float *const restrict baz

of course what happens then is that people will do a typedef and hide it away... and then every application invents its own standards and becomes harder to interoperate on a common basis. in Fortran it's just baked in.

Another example: multidimensional arrays. In C/C++ it either doesn't exist, is not flat memory space (and thus for grid applications very slow), or is an external library (again restricting your interop with other scientific applications). In Fortran:

integer, parameter :: n = 10, m = 5
real(32), dimension(n, m) :: foo, bar, baz

Again, reasonably simple to understand, and it's already reasonably close to what you want - there are still ways to make it better like memory alignment, but I'd claim you're already at 80% of optimal as long as you understand memory layout and its impact on caching when accessing it (which is usually a very low hanging fruit, you just have to know which order to loop it over).
> ideas for companies, geographies, social spheres and such, where strong hierarchies and little politics and psychological-level human manipulation is part of the culture

Where there are humans, there is politics and psychological manipulation. In strong bureaucracies, this happens at the level of dictating what the rules are and how they should be interpreted, as well as in squabbling over titles and fiefdoms, instead of in each interaction around the actual work and resource allocation. So in some sense, it's actually worse!

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Unrelated to the observation above, I struggle squaring the idea of a pacifist that prefers hierarchies of dominance, since they're almost always founded on a thickly veiled threat of violence. (Even in a strict bureaucracy, you can hear the walls whisper "fill this form, or else...")
Local also solves any spotty connection issues. Your super amazing know everything about you assistant that stops working when you’re on a plane or subway or driving through the mountains is very less amazing. If they can solve it, local will end up being way way smoother of a daily experience.
I hate to admit it, but this is a valid point. I've used the undo/redo stack in Windows when moving files around and it can be very useful. Consistency of the UI is something I value and often fault microsoft for not having ;-) So undo the copy but they need to get it right - can't undo once the file changed.
Average Age of Cars on U.S. Roads Hits 12.5 Years, a Record High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49qfZn-j_Z4 from top of my head.
My go-to on this topic is Marcy Wheeler and she went a pretty epic Twitter tirade about how bad this report is:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1658213613390143523.html

It's ironic how many times Durham says the investigation should never have happened because they didn't do enough research and analysis. What does he think an investigation is?
I think it's the other way around, the Bitwig UI is what appears to be coded in Java.
There isn't a DFT directly, it's a more obvious statement here.
The circulant matrix (linear graph of words) always has the same eigenvectors and is diagonalized via DFT.

The PE in original Viswani is based on this, they just didn't put in all the details. So effectively the model gets hints from the PE that it's a linear graph because these are the eigenvectors.
Wouldn't there be another word for this effect? It's not that water per se is toxic, is that eventually if you have a lot, your body "overflows". Being toxic is not an intrinsic property of the element, but is being derived by its quantity.
"And IIIIiiiiiiieeeeeiiiiiee..."
Probably better to have someone else wait at an ATM ready to withdraw once they get a text message.
Assistive Access looks great! This is perfect for my grandfather with Parkinson's, who often struggles with his phone due to the deterioration of his motor skills.
https://archive.is/rPX1q
> Probably skip the sequels though. Certain aspects age very poorly.

Without spoiling it for me, why do you say that? I'm hearing good reviews from some of the others here.
You already couldn't do that on the self-serve plans (well, you might get away with a little bit of it, but it was a gamble). This change explicitly allows it if you're hosting the video on a CloudFlare service of some sort, other than just the CDN.
Ukraine is recognized by the UN as independent from Russia since 1945. It’s also not a stretch to consider NATO expansion as one of the primary motivators for the current conflict.

Of course there’s no justification for Nazi Germany’s expansion, but it’s not as simple as saying Axis Bad/Allies Good. The environment that led to Nazi Germany was, among other things, set in motion by US involvement in WWI.

All of this land dispute and conflict was not unfamiliar to the constitutional framers 150 years before all of that happened, which is why non-interventionism was an early ideal for the US. When you take a country to someone else’s war there will always be unintended consequences.

Edit to add: what legitimate claim to sovereignty does Taiwan have? Because they say so, it’s true? Try taking a piece of land you own and succeeding from the country where it resides and then tell us all how it goes.

I have no interest in supporting the PRC. I’m just trying to view things apolitically. What right does Taiwan have to be liberated from China more than Hong Kong or even areas that were never under any dispute? IMHO, Hong Kong had more right to independence, but that right was achieved through colonialism, not their own resistance. I’d love to see the PRC evaporate today, but that’s not the reality of the situation. And again, IMHO, the best way for Taiwan to achieve its independence is to become ungovernable and too politically and finically costly for China. That’s a tall order, but also something to think about when sending money to the PRC for every item that says Made in China on it.

Also edited to add: at what point would you consider political borders immutable? It’s far less common since 1945, but prior to that borders were pretty malleable. Should the US give Alaska back to Russia? Should Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Texas, etc. be their own independent systems again? Israel be dismantled and then mantled again as we go back through history restoring old borders until we are all nomadic, independent family tribes fighting for natural resources? Wasn’t the UN already set up to be the arbiter of these changes?
Large scale terraforming does not have a history of success and is broadly associated with authoritarian governments.
"Copyright infringement is not stealing, full stop. It is just that, an infringement on a commercial interest that the government grants."

This perspective is incredibly obtuse. You use the law (that you fundamentally reject) as a justification for a semantic debate that no one is having.

Whether you label it as infringement or theft, the impacts are identical. Regardless of the terminology, you are withholding a payment that is owed for something you've unlawfully taken.

Check your footing, your moral high ground is located in the Mariana Trench, alongside debtors and fraudsters.
I’ve been doing Erlang professionally for the last few months. I have to say, it’s a breath of fresh air after decades of Java/Scala/
/golang/. It’s unfortunate it isn’t more popular.

OTP and Erlang make it so easy to build distributed systems end to end. It makes my past professional efforts look like a shoddy amateurish joke. If you find yourself needing to build a distributed stateful service, Erlang/OTP should be the top choice.
Sounds like similar tech to the Kold-Draft machines in the US market.[1] During the height of the pandemic one of my neighborhood bars was selling bags of their cubes to stay afloat. Only good thing to come out of covid.

1: https://kold-draft.com/pages/why-kold-draft#technology
Huh, I'd never thought twice about that. What would native datetime support in JSON get you that a ISO 8601 string doesn't?
I've worked in a few codebases that tried to group things by feature. In my experience, it never really worked that well.

Usually there would either be poor isolation between them or they'd be so well isolated that I'd wonder why they were even in the same project. In the latter, they'd often be difficult to maintain because of a web of dependencies pulled in by the little isolated subfeatures.

I prefer the separation by type, tbh. It also has the upside that it naturally encourages the developer to follow the same patterns within that particular package.
That's quite an impressive workload!

If you're using our on-demand service and intend to terminate the machines once your work is completed, we currently have 2600 available GPUs. However, if you have an ongoing need for these machines, we also have reserved instances with additional stock, which brings our total capacity to an estimated 7000 GPUs as of today.

But of course these numbers could easily change in the future.
Republicans have made hostility to universities, or at least the non-engineering parts of them, a plank for as long I can remember. Recently, Ron DeSantis led a high-profile effort to take over the New College as part of his audition for President. Like everyone else, professors are capable of understanding that they have interests aligned with different political positions.
To be fair to the AI, overpopulation or rather overconsumption is a problem for humanity. If people think we can consume at current rates and have the resources to maintain our current standard of living (at least in a western sense) for even a hundred years, they’re delusional.
There are entire communities (mostly schools and universities) that use Twitter Dm's almost entirely for communication.

I'm not sure why either.
Most fast-charge algorithms generate an accurate estimation of the current battery capacity in order to terminate the charge cycle.

Presumably this figure is available to the driver, or at least to a diagnostic technician.
Congrats! Looks clean and works great on the mobile.