skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be due to a few reasons:

If you have no idea what sex could be like with anyone else, you're less likely to be disappointed. If you accidentally find out, there's trouble ahead. Analogy: New Orleans parents thought their schools were great, until all the students got sent to Houston in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.

If you are the type to do what you are told and bear with it, the strictures of marriage are easier to bear. Especially if you thrive on having rules that constrain your life. Then, the people who won't try to have sex with anyone (or just don't care about sex) will match up with people happy in a Mormon marriage.
I had a similar experience modernising a 20-year-old custom ERP with tens of thousands of users. We found external integrations, extensions, and customisations had grown like mushrooms in the dark.
The Cohen paper is great. Simple, accessible, pleasant results. I implemented it as an option for Dungeon Crawl which, to my knowledge, is used in Crypt.
What causes profit inflation? Companies are certainly greedy. But usually they can’t raise prices because people can’t pay.

Now people can pay, at least for now.
He's not a writer, he's a professor in linguistics. He almost singlehandedly pushed the field towards a more technical analysis and formalisation of grammar suitable for automatic language parsing and translation.

If he isn't retired already, it's only out of personal choice, and not because he's desperate for a job.
What do you think about UI that gives density customization like Gmail?
How do you feel about UI that gives you settings to control the layout (Gmail), vs having a more opinionated single layout (Instagram)?
>Even at that level, why ban a book?

Huge chunks of western countries have banned books (with criminal penalties) for almost a hundred years now.
> As I understand, what they are doing is removing non age appropiate books from elementary and middle school libraries, some of which include LGBTQ content.

That's the same thing.

Defining a book as "age inappropriate" because it talkes about sexuality means that talking about sexuality is age inappropriate.

But taking about sexuality is critical for the healthy development of an LGBTQ+ child! How else can they understand, or even put into words, what they themselves are going through?

Teachers can show children Schindler's List, but can't talk to them about sex. That's the reality we are discussing here.
Do you believe it is more harm than good to require verifiable warnings on dangerous products?
I think you just need to educate yourself a bit about the space.
These models are very small (the large version is only 1B parameters) so should run on a 4GB gaming GPU.
MSM > 2023 Socials.

*MSM not MSN
So this is just envy?
Everything: full JSON CRDT, rich-text CRDT, specification, Reactive RPC, UI toolkit, hosted solution.

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How would this even work? Sorry in advance, since I'm not well-versed in encryption, but wouldn't HTTPS also fall under end-to-end communication? What about for military purposes? How would enforcement of this work? Like would they just require that What's App and the like not use end-to-end, or fully just block all encrypted packets on the ISP side? If not, couldn't someone just program an app to do the same, or download APKs of Signal or a similar app? This strikes me as being completely bone-headed.
Network Instrumentation and TCP File Descriptor Hijacking
Like cancer, we are (allegedly) killing our host environment.
And you don’t think Wikipedia has that level of impact?
If smarts follow a normal distribution, then someone 5x smarter than your average Joe is exponentially more rare. Supply and demand would suggest their compensation increase wouldn't merely be linear.
> Brain is essentially a biological Turing-complete processing unit

How do you know that?

Some would answer, "well, everything in the physical universe can be simulated by a Turing machine, so also the brain" but that would be begging the question.
The curious case of a ghost in CI
> The Open Buddhist University is an unaccredited, digital resource run by Khemarato Bhikkhu since 2020.

> It is based on his personal library on Google Drive which he shared with his friends after his ordination in Thailand in 2019.

Also:

> Khemarato Bhikkhu [...] is a former software engineer from Silicon Valley.
> Nobody would just let it go in peace without those prior agreements signed in 1990

The Declaration of State Soveriegnty of Ukraine isn’t an agreement signed by Ukraine, it was domestic legislation of the Ukraine SSR regarding its future plans at the time, more than a year before the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was passed.
The boss still interrupted all the time. We just had phones on our desks.
Slack (and all of the alike - Basecamp, HipChat, FlowDock, MS Teams, etc.) is the death of productivity. At least with email, there was a delay.

Work notifications for code and chat groups cause so much friggin noise.
It’s possible to feel really bad.

What does it feel like to age 10 years? I don’t know. I’ve done it many times but don’t measure the difference and I wouldn’t know what it feels like to be 10 years younger either.
Here's a sheet I came across today...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/11o6o3f/how_to_...

Granted, it's talking about quantized models, which use less memory. But you can see the 30B models taking 36 GB at 8-bit, and at least 20 GB at 4-bit.

The page even lists the recommended cards.

But as others have pointed out, you may get more bang "renting" as in purchasing cloud instances able to run these workloads. Buying a system costs about as much as buying instance time for one year. Theoretically, if you only run sporadic workloads when you're playing around it would cost less. If you're training... that's a different story.
> "Wages affect prices and prices affect wages," Powell said

Ah, the old wage-price spiral theory of inflation, which is total bunk because it doesn't explain the increase in the money supply.

Inflation follows the increase in the money supply due to money creation by the Fed. It's in Powell's best interest to deny this.
Probably a law, any externally observable behaviour of sufficiently important system becomes it's defacto API.
fun laws - the Gell-Mann amnesia effect / Knoll's law of media accuracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
Interesting. The example about resource allocation in education is instructive. The decision to allocate resources to G&T students at the expense of others is fundamentally a political decision. Those allocations can be influenced, changed, or even undone at that level. We could decide to allocate those particular finite resources to "lesser" students (see quotes) with a view to leveling-up. Let them all find their level later; but school isn't the place to put our thumbs on the scale. The best will always do better, without any emphasis.
Right, but using OAuth doesn't mean using Google, Microsoft or Facebook for everything. It's common cause it's convenient, but has issues like you say.

Someone running a Discourse forum could very well run say Ory[1] to have their own OAuth2 authentication service, if they wanted. Hopefully things like this will get a bit tighter integrated than it currently is.

[1]: https://www.ory.sh/run-oauth2-server-open-source-api-securit...
Who is it specifically that pushes for this? It has to boil down to specific people/companies/organisations.

Who, and why do they want it?
Several times, but in each case the person was a perfect fit for a specific position. That’s key. It was more a question of introducing the two parties rather than selling their merits.
> Ah it’s Ukrainian leaders fault that they were invaded and had their territory annexed?

Let me remind you what happened in 2014. The Ukrainian leaders of the successful armed coup did pass a bill to prohibit official use of minority languages on the eastern part of the country (dominated by Russian-speaking population) on a Sunday morning of February 23, 2014. It happened a day after their legitimately elected president (recognised by OSCE and PACE) had to flee the country. It was clearly a period of political crisis and no one was supposed to work and enact any legislation on that weekend day in the first place. No one was supposed to pass a bill of that significance without extended debates and a referendum specifically. But the coup leaders decided to move forward with it nonetheless. Russian troops legally stationed in Crimea took over the peninsula 4 days after that punitive act of the Ukraine government against its own russian-speaking population of the eastern part of the country. The reinforcement from Russia were only sent 6 days after the event, as the Kiyv regime decided to escalate. So yeah, that was utter barbarism on behalf of the coup leaders of Ukraine.
> Looking at individual country impacts on dangerous heat levels, researchers found that current emissions from 1.2 average US citizens condemn a future human to live in extreme heat.

This is a terrible sentence that encrypts their intended point.

“Current emissions” do not have the agency implied by “condemn”. One might get the impression that the “1.2 average US citizens” are doing the condemning, but the average US citizen does not have enough agency to move the needle one way or the other.

The government (supposedly, a sovereign power concerned with its own continued existence) ought to regulate the corporations (supposedly, rational agents concerned with their own continued existence) that are contributing almost all US emissions. Those two are the ones doing the condemning.
I didn't say "all" I said "usually". Making up things and then arguing against them is the strawman logical fallacy.
But a JSON CRDT is in a sense a string with a particular grammar... However, my intuition ends here.
You could probably model the operations on a particular document structure at a higher level and try to find a simpler domain where it's easier handling logical merges, but it sounds like something that quicky becomes too complex
Since you're calling me illiterate and being rude, I'll point out that I am specifically saying that fewer people are poor and falling into homelessness.

And I have know some addicts, including some who were periodically homeless who would swear to you that they were happy that way, and maybe they were in those moments. But it never lasts, and I think anyone who has spent time around addicts would know that.

> Case in point, you just spouted more metrics to me that have to do with the well being of the economy not the well being of the average person.

Rising median household income is very relevant to the average person. Decline in the amount the average American spends on food, clothing, and debt is also very relevant. And I think increasing lifespans are quite relevant to the average person as well.

> And while we're at it I should ask - have you ever had to deal with a dead-end job with subpar pay?

I waited tables in a country club, worked in a cafe for a few years, and I worked at a terrible rental car company for awhile. I once saw my assistant manager throw someone through a plate glass window while shouting a slur I wouldn't type. In fact while I worked at the cafe my alcoholic friend's junkie boyfriend was living alternatively in a park and in a storage unit. He said he preferred that to my "shitty job" and responsibilities, but he looked pretty fucking miserable from where I sat then and now. I also know a lot of people living in pretty abject rural poverty, and can say for certain that they struggle less than their parents did in similar situations.

So I guess I'm coming to this with a lot of economic information, some personal experience, and just understanding that its plenty fucking stupid to say being homeless is better than have a home and a job.
This is awesome to hear!

And if you're doing implicit methods, then you may be interested to hear that today's release of Diffrax now includes IMEX solvers! Sil3, KenCarp3, KenCarp4, KenCarp5.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36960816/
Context is the rest of the sentence:

> and polish on the app for free forever

But even "bug fixes" are sometimes not cleaning up your own issues; for example, macOS updates regularly will break apps. It's like paying someone to lay down a lawn for you and expecting the grass will never need cutting.
I was super excited at this, but digging through the release [0] one can see the following [1]. While using Bible translations is indeed better than nothing, I don't think the stylistic choices in the Bible are representative of how people actually speak the language, in any of the languages I can speak (i.e. that I am able to evaluate personally).

Religious recordings tend to be liturgical, so even the pronunciation might be different to the everyday language. They do address something related, although more from a vocabulary perspective to my understanding [2].

So one of their stated goals, to enable people to talk to AI in their preferred language [3], might be closer but certainly a stretch to achieve with their chosen dataset.

[0]: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/05/ai-massively-multilingual-...

[1]: > These translations have publicly available audio recordings of people reading these texts in different languages. As part of the MMS project, we created a dataset of readings of the New Testament in more than 1,100 languages, which provided on average 32 hours of data per language. By considering unlabeled recordings of various other Christian religious readings, we increased the number of languages available to more than 4,000. While this data is from a specific domain and is often read by male speakers, our analysis shows that our models perform equally well for male and female voices. And while the content of the audio recordings is religious, our analysis shows that this doesn’t bias the model to produce more religious language.

[2]: > And while the content of the audio recordings is religious, our analysis shows that this doesn’t bias the model to produce more religious language.

[3]: > This kind of technology could be used for VR and AR applications in a person’s preferred language and that can understand everyone’s voice.
The one distinction I would add with neural networks is that it's not just a recursive tree traversal that one would get when evaluating an arithmetic statement, but an actual graph: a computation node can have gradients from multiple sources (e.g. if a skip connection is added), so each node needs to keep accumulated state around that can be updated by arbitrary callers.

Of course, optimized autograd / autodiff is more parallelized than node-based message passing, but it's a useful model to start with.
Hey! Author of diamond types and the (linked) editing traces repository here. Would it be possible to make & share an editing trace or two from your application? Even a single user editing trace would be super helpful - like a big list of which objects were replaced by what values, in order.

I really want json based CRDTs to be fast, but one of the problems we have optimising this stuff is that there aren’t a lot of real world data traces around to use as baselines for benchmarking. I don’t know which parts of automerge are slow, and without that knowledge I can’t make them fast. If we have some data from your application, most upcoming json based CRDTs will almost certainly work well for your use case.

If you’re up for it, flick me an email or just open a PR on https://github.com/josephg/editing-traces
> The standard rebuttal seems to be "are corporations greedier today than five years ago" and the likely answer seems to be no.

Does a dog become more greedy for food on the table when you turn your back?

A "no" answer doesn't disprove the theory because the theory is only arguing (among other things) that companies are taking advantage of an opportunity that didn't exist 5 years ago, which is consumer expectations of rising prices.
If I understand your back of the envelope estimate, you believe he had a 650% return on investment. It seems far more likely that some of your assumptions are wrong.

Regardless, assume this guy had couple of million pounds — building the flats is a productive use of the capital. We know that because he sold them at a profit. That means buyers valued the output more than the cost of the inputs. That is good.

(I understand that markets are not perfect, and monopolists, monopsonists and rent seekers can make profits without creating value, and I agree that is bad. But the fact that an enterprise is profitable is not a bad thing.)
I mean, Wikimedia has about 250-300 employees and what they pay their CEO is about what Facebook and Google pay a senior SWE. They seem to run pretty lean to me.

Firing everyone and moving to a cheap country doesn't seem feasible, and they already are apparently moving a lot of their hiring to Germany.

I don't really see what's outrageous here?

> Obviously it's become a gravy train .

Oh come on - their CEO manages 250 people and gets paid what a SWE with 3 years of experience gets paid down the street. Their engineers are paid like a third of what they could be making at Amazon. Nobody is doing this for the money.

EDIT: As a comparison for people unaware of the cost of living in SF, a bus driver makes about 80k a year. A senior SWE at Wikimedia makes about 120k, according to levels.fyi.
Summary:
To build a better book club get rid of the "reading books" part.
Absolute must have! In a former life I was a trader and the Bloomberg terminal has some very dense displays which are all stunning. Far too many sites and apps use very padded cards and sections which make for a very poor “data/ink ratio” [1]. Allowing the user to density the display with settings options fixes it.

[1] https://jtr13.github.io/cc19/tuftes-principles-of-data-ink.h...
About halfway there's a picture of a lady enjoying a nice open fridge :)
You literally just named the actual examples.
If the average temperature were 0°C there would be no life on earth because all the water would be frozen. No humans, at any rate.

If the average temperature were above 40°C there, again, would be no life on this earth, because proteins start coagulating at about that temperature, weird vent hole creatures at the bottom of the oceans exempted.

A temperature change of 1.5°C is a big change in the context of temperatures that support life, let alone temperatures that allow humans to have the foods and outdoor fun that we’ve enjoyed this past few hundred thousand years.
So just add 5 seconds of latency?
Show HN: Blotter – An interactive, never ending music video
One day I was listening to a playlist and wished there could be some cool visuals to go along with it.

Blotter is a proof of concept I hacked together that does a bit of audio recognition combined with a few generative AI models (both text and img) to create visuals that are relevant to the song.

The video stream is generated in real time at 24fps - you can try it yourself by requesting visuals in the Twitch chat using the "!v" command!

Right now it's mostly a fun hack project, but I am tinkering with new model architectures for higher fidelity video as well as an interactive tool so people can make videos with their own audio files.

I'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions, thanks!
>It has access to a lot of information that most humans don't have memorized.

It's not just about knowledge.

Lots of papers showing strong reasoning across various reasoning types. Couple papers demonstrating the development of world models too.

>It's a better search engine than most humans. And it can format that information into natural language.

Not how this works. They aren't search engines. and their performance equity with people isn't relegated to knowledge tasks alone.

>But can it drive a car? If given an incentive to not confabulate and the knowledge that its statements are being verified, can it achieve that as consistently as the median human?

Can a blind man drive a car ? a man with no hands ?

>If you start by giving it a simple instruction with stark consequences for not following it, can it continue to register the importance of that instruction even after you give it a lot more text to read?

Lol yes

>Experts are just ordinary people with specific information. You're giving the specific information to the AI, aren't you? It's in the training data.

No. Experts are people with above average aptitude for any given domain. It's not just about knowledge. many people try and fail to become experts in any given domain.

>That's because there is no difference between them. Super intelligence is achievable just by making general intelligence faster.

That's not how intelligence works. Dumb thinking sped up is just more dumb thinking but faster.
Yes, a number of times. All I've done is have a chat with the person with hiring authority in the team or department and tell them my honest assessment of their skillset and what it's like to work with them. I usually toss in a couple of lines connecting their experience with the position. Something like "they've been working on X for a few years, and that isn't far from your team's work on Y. They could hit the ground running." I also make sure to mention any relevant weaknesses.

Then I ask if the person can contact them directly. If they say yes, I give my friend or colleague their contact info.

I never lie or embellish the truth when I do this. If I don't think they'd be excellent in the role, I don't recommend them, period. If they're hired on my recommendation and turn out to suck, that will reflect poorly on me.

I also don't hand over their resume or CV. That's up to them to do. All I'm doing is introducing them to the hiring person. They have to take it the rest of the way.
FDA cleared is more/less meaningless vs. FDA approved.

Pulse ox and HRM such as Apple Watch and the cheapy blue and white finger readers are ubiquitous and not absurdly inaccurate (usually).
That was blamed on corporate greed many times.
Can Beer Convince Americans to Drink Recycled Wastewater?
Following the RDF model, every node and edge of a graph can be represented as:

subject -> predicate -> object;

Example: `<bob> <isa> <person>` (from this RDF primer [1]).

Sharding data that follows this model sounds easy?
Any sort of rule and/or hashing over the triples could be used to send triples to arbitrary servers.

1: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-primer/#section-triple
Both are fantastical and naive. Billions are used on shaping voting decisions in plain sight/text.
The US textbook industry that is. UK univesities often don't have required textbooks for courses at all (instead you get things like PDF notes being provided directly to students, and often with printed copies subsidised too), and where they do older editions are almost always acceptable (unless it's a course in a subject that moves very quickly where the older edition would genuinely be outdated), and there will usually be some copies available in the library too.

I believe it is like this everywhere in Europe.
I don't see why not. You'd open the socket on line 124 as a SOCK_DGRAM, 0 rather than what it is now for TCP. For an echo server, for instance, you wouldn't listen on the socket or accept requests; instead, you'd use io_uring_prep_recvmsg and use the prepended msghdr to send the identical packet back out with io_uring_prep_sendmsg.

At least, that's my untested understanding.
> I was having some fun recently just seeing how fast we can allocate large chunks of memory.

How did you measure that? What was fastest? I'd imagine sbrk is faster than mmap, but I haven't checked. If you're on Linux, then doing a virtual memory allocation will not cause the memory to have physical representation. Did you populate the pages through looping? Or did you use MAP_POPULATE?

I saw that madvise was going to get MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) in the Linux kernel mailing lists back in 2021, but I haven't seen it on the kernels that I use (5.4, 5.15)
"No", in other words.