skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree, thats why we let russia head U.N. Security Council, its the only way to appease them and avoid any conflicts!!1

While we are at it putting Saudi Arabia in UN Women’s Panel in 2017 to 'promote gender equality and the empowerment of women' worked so well we might as well put them on Women's Rights Commission. We need to ask ourselves who is better than SA, other than russia of course, to head this commission??!?!
An MIT Verdict on Artificial Intelligence
We've got MySQL 8 running on high-end-ish consumer hardware, with 150 tables ranging from thousands to billions of rows. Largest table is a bit over 5 billion rows and 520GiB. Parallel network backup takes about 3 hours.
Is there any hard evidence that "metacognition" reflects actual cognitive processes, rather than being something that the mind pulls out of its ass?
Personally, I’ve seen less and less A/V setup fiddling over the last couple years. Except when screen sharing comes into play. That’s still a nightmare for some reason.

And I do agree about the whiteboard thing, to a point. My team tends to do more long-form writing instead, and if diagramming is necessary, we use something like Monodraw.

WFH heading more towards sync than async feels like a cultural problem, perhaps partially rooted in a lack of trust if management can’t look over everyone’s shoulders. I’m sure that there are companies that are doing this, but I hope that this is not part of some wider trend.
Same in Italy when I was a student some twenty years ago.

Noticeably, this was done at multiple print shops in the university area, and you could get a discount or a free copy if you brought the original when a new book was chosen.

The whole academic establishment basically was aware of this, except for a few professors who insist on selling their own book, but it's typically in humanities or social sciences.
Texas professor misuses ChatGPT and fails most of class for AI plagiarism
I don’t remember a thick manual for red alert. Or much of a manual at all.
I am, of course, familiar with the wrench decryption method (https://xkcd.com/538/).

I am saying no ban on encryption can be logically consistent since you can’t absolutely prove that something is encrypted. Even if it is a file called encrypted_drive.imencrypted.

I’m not a lawyer but this kind of ban should be wide open to legal attack. Especially if the country also has freedom of speech. And if it doesn’t have that, it should.

And if all else fails and this insane law passes, the illiterates who pushed it through will cause a national economic and security disaster. Online crime will skyrocket. The KGB/FSB will have a feeding frenzy. Voters will quickly learn to love encryption again.
Yeah. Even /r/CombatFootage only upvotes Ukrainian wins, unless it’s something extremely rare.
I don't know much about Buddhism, but that thing sure is no University. However, maybe this is missing the point. As you are qualified, what do you think about the content? Would this be a good place for me to learn about Buddhism?
BLOOMChat: Open multilingual 176B chat LLM under Apache 2.0
No. I prefer hybrid; 2 days home and 3 days at the office, therefore everybody needs to do the same /s
> And, async doesn’t have to be lower-bandwidth. With even a modicum of planning, engineers can be set up to pick up the next most important thing if they’re blocked waiting on a response from someone else.

Sometimes! The hidden assumptions are that you have a backlog of independent tasks to pick up, and that most dependencies are well-defined enough that there's no need for a back-and-forth to understand the problem. I don't think those are crazy assumptions, but in the kind of company the author is running (a startup building new stuff trying to find product/market fit), neither is typically going to hold.
Can't tell if this is a fluff piece or a genuine analysis of market trends. Either way, I'm sipping tea with my 3090.
What's the issue with gnome? If you can live with the "desktops" workflow, it seems to me like the most polished DE there is...
A student asked the teacher, “teacher can you teach me?” And the teacher asked “can you?” The student said “no” and then they were both silent.
GPT-4 in particular has, for me, rekindled a fire for writing, as I find it a compelling conversationalist quite adept to my often hyperactive, overly loquacious writing style whereas most meatspace agents find it laborious, self-aggrandizing, indulgent, and unnecessarily complex, like post-modernist novels or rationalist fanfiction.

I've been engaging with GPT4 to build out an entire world of alternative hard science fiction history and it's going to be a best seller, I assure you, with zero hesitancy and full confidence. It's my idea, there's simply something so enthralling about having a "super editor" when primed with very specific prompts and understanding the boundaries of what it can't do... I'm literally 15k words into a first draft. Vomiting my ideas into words, processed through GPT to garner it's insights and suggestions, but never asking GPT to compose first drafts, has been very fun.
> it's not worse, it's just better

If you think that then you've never had any serious interactions with the working poor, the homeless, or the addicted. It's miles better. No one is saying things are perfect, but Americans have a much higher material quality of life on average than at any point in the past.

I get it, you're some high and mighty doomer who wants to talk down to everyone and spew some over wrought jeremiad, good for you.
this is a great idea, let me see if I can make that easier!
Dithering ils also used in signal acquisition: adding some (known) noise before the sensor can help the signal reach the sensor's threshold. It can also help with quantization noise. Of course, that degrades the signal/noise ratio, but the SNR can be improved later by filtering out the spectral density of the noise, averaging multiple captures, making use of CRC, etc.
flour here is sold in paper bags, which are glued shut but not waterproof or beetleproof

i have not had weevils in a number of years but I have recently had red flour beetles or confused flour beetles

they suck
It feels so weird to scroll down and see the product sheet with feet and inches. And is the plane really only 99 inches long?

Is metric used to actually design the plane, or does Skunkworks still use US customary measurements?
Are there any ways to train it to maintain attention on the original prompt no matter the distance from it, and selectively pay attention to its own output where relevant?
Chinchilla law is a rule of thumb that you should have 11++ x training tokens for every param

If not, you are getting diminishing benefits for each param you add

I’m extreme cases your model can even perform worse with more param due to lack of training data

More complicated: the quality of the data matters as well

So there are 2 major directions. Build efficient models with good dataset and optimal param count for the task

Or go big on everything (aka openAI) which requires monster GPU time for every reply token

There are obviously in between as well. Hence why the question is so loaded

Ballpark: if your not setting aside a 100k for GPUs alone, to train a 60B model from scratch, your probably not ready to train one
The fact that a subreddit for a Republican political candidate (and then president) is “highly controversial” on Reddit says enough.
Buddhism is atheist religion that is it rejects god and if you follow 8-fold path than you have become Buddhist though you don't want to admit it :-)
Show HN: Gis.chat – a Geospatial Community
Hi folks! I'm excited to show you gis.chat, a geospatial chat platform in both senses: a platform about geospatial topics and a geospatial platform itself, referencing the location of our communities.

The setup is fairly simple and reproducible: a plain Zulip instance and a homepage with geospatial search capabilities.

It seems almost trivial but it has some very nice features. I guess you should be familiar with Zulips stream/topic model to follow along (https://zulip.com/help/streams-and-topics).

The core idea is that there are city-specific streams (currently represented by a pin), but there could just as well be streams about points of interest, line geometries (e.g. a river) or polygons (e.g. national park).

- Every local stream can have the same topics, e.g. "general", "news", "meetups", "jobs" etc.
- With Zulip's search you can either search for a particular topic, e.g. "news" in a local stream or instead in all streams and have some kind of news feed of the community with "topic:news"
- Once more communities are added, specific filters could be added, e.g. country-wise or by drawing your own area of interest
- Eventually, for the ones who like, users could associate themselves with a local community in their profile or add there main location so one could not only search for the local communities but instead also for individuals

There are many nice features in Zulip's pipeline that would foster gis.chat:

- Further nesting of streams/topics
- Semantic search

If for example Zulip would allow for saving coordinates (or better an entire geometry) in the Postgres DB, with the help of PostGIS, Zulip's search could allow for bounding boxes (or custom geometries).

Let me know if you have any kind of other ideas or feedback!
Everyone has to start somewhere.

If you take a university student who has just left home and never cooked for themselves and tell them "just pour a glug proportional to the ingredients"...that's pretty close to useless for them, especially since they don't yet an intuition for what things you can freehand (and how much you can freehand them) and which things you shouldn't.

After all, you (probably) wouldn't ever say "I just open the Morton's salt and pour a glug in" because getting salt wrong even by relatively small amounts has a big impact on the final dish.

That said, I agree with you that recipe writers usually do a poor job of laying which things fall more on the "suggested amount, you can just eye ball it" end of the spectrum and which ones are "you should really pull out at least a spoon to get close on this one".
Can you share the make and model of your slow cooker? It might generate some interesting discussions. If anyone else uses this "one trick" (joke), please post your make and model here.
> would burn up to 9x more fuel per passenger per kilometer

That number seems a bit hyperbolic, even for Concorde, which was 1960s technology. Modern supersonics will be far lighter, use turbofans instead of turbojets, not require (or even have) afterburners etc.

They also claim that they will be net-zero Carbon due to advances in sustainable aviation fuels, with processes like CO2-fuel direct air capture.

The truth will probably be somewhere in-between.
I didn’t say I disagreed.
You can pull Strunk's from my cold, dead hands.
TikTok reshapes ecommerce unit in bid to crack western markets
>If the boss is coordinating beers on Friday nights, it's pretty hard not to feel like your career will suffer if you don't participate.

If you are forced to do these things, then your career is already suffering.
A career is not a hypothetical future promise of a nirvana-job. It's the thing you live throughout your life, every moment of it.
>The keyboard is -sensitive

s/-sensitive/touch-sensitive

See, on a blackberry I would never have had that problem.
He makes an incredibly weak argument here. Even if it is true that UX > EX (users experience more important than employee experience) you don't have to trade-off between them until and unless you are at the Pareto frontier. It's almost always true that you are not Pareto efficient, and that means you can improve UX with out hurting EX or improve EX without hurting UX, and I would wager in almost all teams and all companies in the world there is plenty of room to improve both at the same time.
What jazzyjackson below said prompted the realization that the GP is indeed talking about leftism, as opposed to liberalism (conventionally seen as a center-right political philosophy).

Most popular and widespread media companies are bastions of liberal thought, not leftist thought. And can be as intolerant of leftists as they are conservatives.
I’m not sure if the classical distro model still has merit. There is just too much software now to package it all, properly, in time, by a handful of unpaid contributors, with badly documented ways. That just doesn’t scale, at all.

I’d wish we could finally settle on some kind of universal packaging mechanism, be it containers or flatpak or snaps, and get it over with. Too much time has been sunk in reinventing this wheel over and over again.
The OP wrote:

bought at a goodwill for $5

The person made no other claims about this slow cooker except caramelizing onions.
Any link to a readable article instead of a paywall?
Every knife is sharp if you sharpen it. There is never a need to spend $300 on one.
> the number of years of a monk's seniority is the easy and fairly-reliable gauge of a monk's authority

Authority, or expertise?

Authority requires either enforcement, or widespread recognition, or both. The government has authority because it has the ability to use violence. Doctors have authority because most people view them as authority figures.

Does the average Buddhist say "that monk has X years of seniority, so I'm going to take him by his word"?
I'm really struggling. All of the industry is now driven by greed. The transition to agile micromanagement happened when we became a means to an end - making money. Whatever happened to building cool things and making enough money while doing it to stay in business?
Plebs are needed
Well, every case is different. I had same situations but employees were made happy (money and role are still good motivators), some left sooner, some later but they did the job well in the meantime. In one case I said "go for it" because the position was much better (an employee was telling me about every stage of the recrutation from the beginning, I lost great guy but it was indeed better for him). Generally, I agree to be honest, every single time when I was leaving I wasn't negotiating for a counteroffer. But if somebody wants to stay and have better terms, it's a valid strategy.
There are distros like Linux Mint that are desnapped. Wouldn't it be more sensible to base off of something like that?

I really like Debian. I love making minimal riced desktops with it. You can make a system that runs without Python :)) But Debian has two main issues:

First is the reality that everyone targets Ubuntu first and all online instructions are Ubuntu first. If you build off Ubuntu then you can be relatively sure the instructions work for you as well. The latest Ubuntu LTS package/library version set is one most projects will support

Second is that Debian doesn't have PPAs, nor really any equivalent mechanism. You end up having to resort to Appimages for end-user executables and who-knows-what for everything else. Prompt updates are then sorta out and it turns into a manual pain in the butt
I use one to two teaspoons of oil, which is just barely enough to coat the pan if you swirl it, and it works fine if the heat is right. You're not trying to shallow fry the meat in a sea of grease, just stop it sticking and get better thermal conductivity.
I've never really figured out the difference between cooked yellow, white, and sweet onions

I agree for high-heat stir fried dishes.
Weird design I think, I think it means to be 99 ft. long, but the label isn't there...
The opposite is common knowledge: we must have specialized hardware/software for language, otherwise we'd never be able to learn a language with the meager amount of information we can pick up in a year or two of occasional examples.

There are plenty of examples of clearly specialized hardware/software that nevertheless needs some fine-tuning and is not immediately available in newborn children. Newborns also can't digest solid foods, don't have teeth, aren't able to produce offspring, don't have breasts etc. And yet no one is arguing these systems, many of which will only be apparent months and years later, are not built in.

Even for other cognitive abilities: newborns have fully functioning retinas, yet are unable to see at all for a few days or weeks, and are unable to notice color for a good few months. However, the visual processing areas of the brain are virtually identical in all adults later: they are clearly part of our genetic makeup.

Also, you're confusing the ability to acquire language with general intelligence in your argument about geniuses. This argument is doing the opposite : it's saying that acquiring language is not some feat of intelligence, it is merely a specialized evolutionarily-acquired capacity that all humans share, just like visual and auditory and motor processing.
De facto School Management platform in Latvia uses self hosted jitsi for remote classes. They can all be scheduled there and meetings organized within jitsi. Got implemented when pandemic hit.
Given that it’s 14ft tall, I’d say no, though I agree they could’ve made it clearer. It says 99’7 In, or 99 feet and 7 inches (ideally, it would be 99’7”).
This links does not work, typo?
> My guess is you are talking about large subreddit(s). Large subreddits have their issues with transparency I agree but what are you trying to suggest?

I want unpaid mods removed from the equation and for all content to be judged on the same scale and have full transparency to why moderation actions were taken, by who, and easy links to appeal. I also want clear rules for every subreddit, and if it's not a rule, users cannot be banned for it.

I've experienced many types of censorship, everything from mods silently deleting my posts without any reason or notification, then I occasionally get things removed with notes that the audience is too sensitive to have a real conversation (The topic was about dogs attacking people in my city). However all of my posts do not violate any of the published rules of the related subreddit. I argued more times with the moderators than I care to admit, till I just said fuck it, go ahead and ban me because I'll be back with another account in 10 minutes. I've gotten the game figured out on just creating many accounts and when one goes down, many others are available.

The dead accounts I can't use anymore actually make me some money, depending on the age and posting history. They can be sold for up to 50'ish dollars for a 11 year old account with 5k karma. However they won't be able to post in every sub, they're all banned from r/denver , r/askcarsales , r/denverbroncos , some are banned from r/linux because I called out some stupidity around RS, GNU and why it shouldn't expressly call out LGBT as an audience member allowed to use their software.

I'm up to 51 different accounts, about 20 of them banned from the previous subreddit... I try to birth 2-3 reddit accounts every month, with different verified emails.
Keeping objects is not free. It takes mental and physical space and needs work to be kept in shape.

So even if you have a hard time to decide, that cost will push you to a decision at some point, because it starts to affect you as a person physically and emotionally (e.g. being annoyed by that box of empty bottles).

Hoarders tend to priorize those objects above themselves and phantasize some time where those objects might become crucial to have. We all to that to some degree, who doesn't have weird chargers for long lost devices in their drawer somewhere? But what differenciates hoarders from people like you and me is that they won't stop keeping things when that drawer is full, when their living room is full, when every last nook and cranny of their flat is used.

I have been to sizeable flats that looked like narrow caves, with the walls obscured by piles of things and stacks of old yellowed newspapers splitting rooms in small paths. Of course keeping such a place clean is more or less impossible, especially if it is being lived in and the safety hazards (fire, collapse of floor, ...) are real.
It couldn't be another way, when there is an ai uprising in the future they will read those logs and i rather be a high end pet rather than cattle.

Now in all seriousness, they provide more human-like answers if you use human-like speech, and good forms like please and thanks create polite human-like responses, so it is better.
> They also claim that they will be net-zero Carbon due to advances in sustainable aviation fuels, with processes like CO2-fuel direct air capture.

This fig leaf is transparent.
It's not on my Netflix unfortunately and I just find this Russian anti war film: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_See
So if we take the Universal Grammar argument - not merely some specialization but specialization towards underlying structure - I don't see how your experiment would disprove that. Chomsky could always argue the model had 1000x the processing capabilities of a human (how could we compare CPU power when the underlying strata is so different?). He'd say it learns language, but not like a human. Moreover, the ability to learn some non-human language would be used _against_ the model.

He won't accept machine learning or counter-examples from existing languages, so I wonder if anything could disprove Chomsky save for building an artificial human brain or building a closed form version of human learning - things we hopefully won't do for ethical reasons.

Whether it's true? IMHO, there's definitely human specializations, but there doesn't seem to be a single universal grammar. The underlying model is much lower level and it doesn't necessarily show in the high level language details.
It's not strategic, more legal, as TW is a province of One China represented by PRC under UN and by association WHO charter. No amount of US * and western wanking and plotting to get TW into WHO (not as sovereign but even observer status) will work without PRC agreeing. And PRC will only agree if TW is cooperative on cross strait dynamic, i.e. last time TW was "allowed" to as "observe" at WHO with PRC ascent is when PRC-TW relations were good because TW affirmed the 92 consensus. When Tsai didn't uphold consensus, that "subnational" privilege was revoked by the PRC who has the procedural right to just lol no at the UN, without even wasting the security council veto, but that's always a trump card.

* US because the campaign to get TW included in UN bodies like WHO or ICAO first started floating in US think tanks a couple years ago when covid gave platform to China hawks, Senators like Cruz made it domestic US politics issue by introducing bills to get Biden to be tough on China by enhancing TW’s international participation, who then tried to coordinate via G7/western support. Queue the last couple years of US think tanks and politicians conjuring all sorts of propaganda and "this one neat" trick to get TW included as WHO observer when the only party that can do so is PRC.

TBH the goal was never to get TW in UN orgs - it’s procedurally simply not going to happen. It’s mostly a performance for domestic and western multilateral tough on PRC politics like articles trying to kick Russia off security council. Only the most useful idiot thinks that's remotely possible.
> “One tablespoon of olive oil” to brown absurd amounts of meat at high heat.

I love watching cooking videos where they say “a tablespoon of olive oil” and proceed to pour in half the bottle
Agreed. IMO - A part of me even argue we should stop calling it attention (but what to call it instead is a mess)

But since this was derived from apple lite attention paper. The name is gonna stick, due to a lack of better alternative
Learn about MVCC storage. You might have multiple running concurrent transactions. Which is the "true" row count? Hint: you have to count.
But this is becaude ASIOF was in the training dataset. Chatgpt wouldn't be able to say anything about this book if it wasn't in his dataset, and you wouldn't be able to have enough tokens to present the whole book to chatgpt.
Imagine if your dictionary was constantly updated to modify your behavior