skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its about not wanting to fight other people’s wars.

Republicans are a lot more interested in the militarization of the pacific and southern border.
One of the most disappointing things in American politics in the last ten to fifteen years has been watching the right cozy up to Putin.
Nvidia close to becoming first trillion-dollar chip firm after stellar forecast
https://archive.is/I8Loa
> After talking for a bit about pretty much all of the above, the interviewer asked "have you used dictionaries?"

Hahaha classic.

I was once in an interview (which I failed) and was asked a problem related to some sort of monotonic queue. I wrote the solution and was going through it, when the interviewer asked: 'what CS concept are you using in this solution'? I didn't really understand what he was asking for and in turn I asked for more clarification like 'Are you referring to the data structures I used? Or the technique (it was some sort of greedy)?' 'no'. After a couple of back-and-forth questions and answers, he finally tells me he was looking for me to say 'a state machine'. Seriously?
You can use https://github.com/twosigma/postgresql-contrib/blob/master/m... and write triggers to update your views or mark them as needing asynchronous refreshes. It's not as automatic as what you'd like, but it's a lot better than having to keep waiting.
Would be really cool in Spanish!
Par for the course for the super-rich.
Get Ready for Team America: AI Police
Yes but:

- it's harder to trust apkpure than aurora

- apkpure has a lot of ads

- apkpure has some outdated packages

- apkpure is missing packages
He also made this, which i think of often:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8&pp=ygUUemUgZnJhbms...

(brain crack)
I'm a different anti-war leftist, but IMO it's a lose-lose. This is more about mitigation than doing what's good. The MIC wins whether or not we support Ukraine - if Russia conquered Kyiv, you think the MIC wouldn't be ramping everything up in preparation for further invasions of NATO allies?

It's not like Ukraine is some socialist utopia I want preserved at all costs. But it's a free nation that's less fascist than Russia, and it deserves to exist, and more importantly the Ukrainian people deserve to exist. If Russia wins, we'll be looking at genocide on a huge scale (because we're actually currently dealing with genocide on a "small" scale). So, I'm more anti-genocide than I am anti-MIC, and I think it's a good thing we're helping Ukraine fight back against Russia.
Food is considered processed if it is not in its natural state. Some minimal processing is okay because sometimes things can't be eaten in their natural state. The more something is processed, generally the less healthy it is.
search.nixos.org also includes flakes that people PR into the index via GitHub at https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-search/issues

ps: $ nix search exists via experimental flags https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3...
Spate of Runway Near Misses Casts Shadow over Summer Travel
In the past 24 hours, close to 1 trillion dollars worth of payments have been settled on blockchains.

They eschew the need for intermediaries, like the numerous banks that recently imploded and locked depositors' funds away for who knows how long.

They eschew credit risk. Creditors cannot take your funds on an L1, even if they maliciously try.
https://archive.is/ZXJ9q
The Republicans keep saying that Biden improperly withdrew from Afghanistan.
To be simplistic about it: Republicans want to reduce spending, Democrats want to increase it.

So obviously Republicans would be against raising the debt ceiling, and just as obviously it's the fault of the Democrats that we need to raise it in the first place.

Does that help you understand better what people are thinking? And who they are blaming?
There's something to be said that we literally lost the war on covid and just kinda pretended that it ended, but I'm not sure what other option there was. If democrats pushed to keep fighting covid with gusto, it would not have been popular and would easily lead to Republicans running everything in the next decade.

History books will hopefully acknowledge just how terribly the entire world handled it.
They can be and very soon will be. Just look at their financials.
It is never really mentioned why adding an index upfront is such a burden?

I don't really understand how the downside of adding an index almost ever outweighs the potential downsides of not adding an index. I'm sure there are some cases, and that was what I was expecting to see in this article, but it just seems to boil down to being so lazy that he wants to avoid typing a few more characters.
I mean it's in the digital realm. Whats the difference between making 100 fake accounts and 100 real accounts?
I actually think it’s better than the current situation where the state can freeze your ability to transact at any time.
If Intel can figure out GPUs(admittedly a big if) nvda is fucked. AMD less so because they're still reliant on expensive TSMC fabs. There are tons of reasons to believe nvda will not retain its monopoly on the data center and they need to if they're going to 10x earnings which is what the current price is predicting.
I just got one of these too, displayed over a site running on my local machine. This is behavior I use open source software to avoid.

Of course, their attitude toward extensions on Android Firefox was a big red flag they'd strayed far from their roots, so I'm not exactly shocked.

Edit: reported it as a bug - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835158
This hits home. Manytime have I come to appreciate a library or technology only after delusionally attempting to create a 'better' version. Mid attempt I actually start to understand the problem space, at which point I humbly and thankfully start depending on said library or technology.
It does though. `nix search`.
1. Only once a year - at least according to the config instructions, which I tried to avoid "testing"

2. You run the risk of losing Google voice, if the main US account is switched to another country where they do not provide voice services
A person that wouldn't be belligerent in the first place if you didn't make it so?
By contrast, the transaction cost economics models make-or-buy decisions as rational choice between real, available alternatives, imposing the reality principle at choice time.

In my experience of collective decision-making, it's often the case that more aggressive, less-proven technologies are rejected as unproven or unrealistic, largely because no one wants the reputation in the group of having championed a mistake.

By contrast, people deciding alone often will take the more optimistic choice. In technology, that can mean that person/engineer who's now on the hook finds ways to make the new technology work (and avoid its flaws).

That translates to high-achieving organizations giving individuals the power to decide, but also holding them responsible for the consequences. Whether the "move fast, break things" permission to fail in service of learning new technologies and the problem domain actually works depends on some real capture of knowledge. Probably the job cuts in tech now (particularly at Twitter) are driven by realizing this "real capture" ain't happening.

So it's not enough to avoid the Nirvana fallacy. You also have to get past decision paralysis to learn, but show the lessons you learned are worth something to the company.
Why everybody (including this a16z dude) underestimates/not mentions:

1. quality of input data - for language models that are currently setup to be force-fed with any incoming data instead of real training (see 2.) this is the greatest gain you can get for your money - models can't distinguish between truth and nonsense, they're forced to follow training data auto-completion regardless of how stupid or sane it is

2. evaluation of input data by the model itself - self evaluating what is nonsense during training and what makes sense/is worthy of learning - based on so far gathered knowledge, dealing with biases in this area etc.

Current training methods equate things like first order logic with any kind of nonsense - having on its defense only quantity, not quality.

But there are many widely repeated things that are plainly wrong. Simplifying this thought - if there weren't, there would be no further progress in human kind. We constantly reexamine assumptions and come up with new theories leaving solid axioms untouched - why not teach this approach/hardcode it into LLMs?

Those two aspects seem to be problems with large gains, yet nobody seems to be discussing them.

Align training towards common/self sense, good/own judgement, not unconditional alignment towards input data.

If fine-tuning works, why not start training with first principles - dictionary, logic, base theories like sets, categories, encyclopedia of facts (omitting historic facts which are irrelevant at this stage) etc. - taking snapshots at each stage so others can fork their own training trees. Maybe even stop calling fine-tuning fine-tuning, just learning stages. Let researchers play with paths on those trees and evaluate them to find something more optimal, find optimal network sizes for each step, allow models to gradually grow in size etc.

To rephrase it a bit - we're saying that base models learned on large data work well when fine tuned - why not base models trained on first principles can continue to be trained on concepts that depend on previously learned first principles recursively are efficient - did anybody try?

As some concrete example - you want LLM to be good at math? Tokenize digits, teach it to do base-10 math, teach it to do addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, all known math basic operations/functions, then grow from that.

You want it to do good code completion? Teach it bnf, parsing, ast, interpreting, then code examples with simple output, then more complex code (github stuff).

Learning LLMs should start with teaching tiny model ASCII, numbers, basic ops on them, then slowly introducing words instead of symbols (is instead of =) etc., then forming basic phrases, then basic sentences, basic language grammar, etc. - everything in software 2.0 way - just throw in examples that have expected output and do back-propagation/gradient descent on it.

Training has to have a way of gradually growing model size in (ideally) optimal way.
And its not unjust for the state to seize inheritance in the name of equity? I think there are limits ... I'd like to give my children my wealth when I pass, but I am a modest person, not Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos. We pay tax on our income, things we buy, our property, our investments, etc - now we must fork over what is left to the state to divvy out? There's a reason only 6 people attended Paine's funeral - he was advocating for a Peoples Monarchy.
If people are surpassing GPT4 with finetuned Llama-7B, this is the end for NotOpenAI's parade
Anymore? You must be thinking of some alternative human timeline if you think this is in anyway new..
I can imagine this being true, but I think supervillain schemes like this don't actually work in real life. Both will just up becoming irrelevant, and the public internet will get a little shittier
Author mentioned that other car manufactures solved this issue. No need to mention Tesla specifically.
this is only kind of true. the 13900k supports 2 channels but for ddr5, each channel ends up being split into two smaller channels.
Congress controls expenditures already. The president is required make all appropriated funds available to the programs in question. Now technically the programs are allowed not to spend all the appropriated money, but that is up to those running that program, and as a general rule those programs will spend all the money, to within a rounding error. If the president were to issue orders to agencies to not spend all appropriated money on specific programs that would be considered "impoundment", which was prohibited by the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

Congress also largely controls revenue. The overwhelming majority of revenue is taxes. There is little that the president can do to significantly change the revenue received. [1] Since congress has left a deliberate deficit, the president is left with no choice but to issue more debt to make up that shortfall. But the debt ceiling would prevent that.

The classical thinking (for some reason) is that if the debt ceiling is hit, the president will be forced not to pay the interest on the debt, since the appropriations are mandatory. This is the view that sees the debt ceiling itself as questionably constitutional, viewing the act of appropriating more than expected revenues to be authorizing the issuance of debt. Unfortunately it is also a wrong view.

The correct view is that it is the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 that is unconstitutional, and that upon hitting the debt ceiling the President is obligated to impound appropriations as needed to avoid going over the debt ceiling. The result would probably be a partial government shutdown, similar to what happens when congress fails to pass an appropriation bill.

This, of course, only works if the revenue received still exceeds the required interest payments on the debt.

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Footnote:
[1] The treasury cannot even print more paper money, since that is up the federal Reserve for Federal Reserve Notes, and while U.S. Notes are technically still authorized, Congress has set a limit of $300,000,000 U.S. Notes. It could mint more coins and deposit them with fed, but manufacturing costs are appropriated funds, and it is not possible to mint enough normal coins with the appropriated amounts to make a dent. Many coins (including the penny, and the >$1 precious metal ones cost more to make then their face value). Hence why the trillion dollar coin proposal used a platinum coin, which is the only category where the Treasurer gets to pick the size design and face value.
The grandstanding on being a poor oppressed victim, being treated as bad as the worst political prisoners in history, is really something.

And the judge telling him to wrap it up!
I never quite understand this argument when I see it.

Is the idea that Thomas is actually a liberal and if he didn’t have wealthy conservative friends he would write and vote differently on these cases?
I have never had any problems with CONCURRENT index creations under significant load using Postgres, fwiw
Increased sales do not intrinsically require more engineers at most companies. It is possible for some companies to have required increasing engineering resources to cope with scale. But the vast majority of hiring was for people to work on future additional features to attract more customers. Zoom, Rec Room, DocuSign, and some other companies in that direct line of moving work and socializing online, yes. Facebook, Google, Salesforce, almost everyone? No.
The Transbay Tube and Immersed Tube Technique
One committed the country to the withdrawal the other executed the withdrawal.
Good thing corporations are no longer deeply involved in and profiting from war, right? Right?
Remember when these guys were the young upstarts, disrupting big business and scoring points for the little guy?

How bravely they have transitioned into collecting our eyeball scans and courageously hoarding billions of dollars while the planet withers away. Technology has changed the world.
Have you been away for the past three years?
I guess if you don't have any real ideas, you scan other people's retinas ("World"-Coin), appropriate other people's creations ("Open"-AI), insert yourself in the process and sell everything back to them.

In the end, you will have created nothing of value. A single Renoir painting is worth more than all this nonsense.

I wonder how the world worked in the 1990s without such luminaries. The answer is: better!
COVID harms people too, but more.
Create a problem with one company you found, then create a solution with another company you found.

What a nightmare this Sam Altman dude is
All the supposed "provocations" boil down to Ukraine doing whatever it can to avoid becoming a Russian colony again - which in Russian agitprop parlance is euphemistically termed "infringing on Russian geopolitical interests" or similar. There's no equivalence between the sides in Ukraine at all, even if US is also an empire and pursues its own imperial goals elsewhere.
It’s funny for someone to claim that we would give up our rights when you are begging the government to limit your choices instead of using your own free will to choose based on your priorities.

The EU is constantly taking away your right to choose which companies you want to use and it’s being celebrated
Debian-based systems are slightly confused with dpkg architecture returning amd64 and uname returning x86_64.
What I don't understand about this at all, and it's alluded to in the article mentioning black market orbs, how can some decentralized system with Iris scans prevent fraud?

Can't someone just get their hands on one of these orbs and start uploading fake unique ids to their network? Surely it can't be impossible to generate a fake iris scan.

The only way to make sure nobody is abusing this would be to have trusted employees verify you're a real person, in which case why don't just start a non-profit in Switzerland or wherever that just runs a database of scans, what do you need this coin for?
I think this can be translated pretty accurately as follows.

You may not have a reason to trust Cloudflare, a company that you have no contract with, and a company that you do not pay, and a company that blocks most of the internet to people using browsers/extensions to protect their privacy.

But if DoH is off, you are essentially trusting your hardware, and your ISP with which you have a paid contract.
I have to imagine that movie night at Stanford CS consists of Demolition Man, Judge Dredd and Robocop, followed by a hackathon where they try to build imitations of what they saw.
> You can flash the high beams which is good enough, IMO.

flashing high beams at night is a good way to set people off and wind up in a road rage incident. some people interpret that signal very aggressively and will retaliate.
I avoid driving anywhere near Tesla’s, especially tailing them. Phantom braking is not okay.
A not insignificant part comes from the fact that they can better parallelize instruction decoding because ARM is simpler and more regular than x86. x86's compressed variable length representation hurts it here. They try to make up for it but there's meaningful benefit from Apple's approach. The other bit is that ARM concurrency is better aligned with how HW wants to work/better able to optimize performance than x64 is (ability for acquire/release semantics vs sequential)

That being said, it's not like we're talking about deprecating that part of the instruction set which they really should do (i.e. build your application for x64.risc which tells the CPU the instruction set is going to be an alternate fixed-representation x64). Could maybe even have a special instruction where you can switch out of it temporarily so that you have back-compat with normal assembly to give software writers time to port.

I'm all in favor of this though. Getting rid of cruft that's more than 20 years old is well beyond time.
Where in hell can you create 8 billion accounts on any service in an hour!?
Bypass Validation Parts in AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes
I'm a huge Obama fan but Afghanistan was his biggest mistake. In fairness, he got sold a bill of goods by the Pentagon and with the economy in a shambles, he was somewhat distracted. The Republicans greeted anything he did with stubborn resistance with McConnell pledging to make him a one term President. McCain prevented him from closing Guantanamo.

But he was still Commander in Chief.
I mean, it is going to be 'feels like' because there is no qualification that sets apart the card tiers. The metric is more to do with the fact that as a gamer you could realistically upgrade every second generation to a mid-range card and be good playing AAA games until you have to repeat. The pandemic shortage completely destroyed that and made gamers realize how much they are at the mercy of a very specialized market -- which hasn't been a problem until desktop GPU chips became really useful for things besides gaming like crypto mining and AI.

Suddenly the gamers got put on the back burner and start paying the real market value for essentially magic tiny supercomputers used exclusively for entertainment by (comparatively) rich young men.

Oh, and gamers are notoriously belligerent about anything that involves choice, taste, or change to any of them, or critique of any of them. This is the community that would regularly bully, berate, and harass others because of a choice of hardware brand -- and call SWAT teams to grief other players.

This is not meant to be insulting or the minimize how much it sucks to have your hobby get made worse and sometimes impossible -- I am suffering to and it sucks, but I also acknowledge the truth of the matter. From the outside, all parties in the GPU drama look terrible.
Routers can intercept your Port53 queries and inject their own replies.
What's the point of research if it can't gain attention, how many people really understood or even know about some space magic, before interstellar kind of managed to ELI5. Research is meant for everyone, and in today's world you bring attention to it with catchy names.
I wonder if Google was named PageRank Algorithm runner, how many would've even used it.
>The vast majority of even backup data is legally required to either be readable in a very short amount of time (say one week) or is required to be deleted within 90 days. Neither of these are ideal for optical

Wouldn't an autoloader solve the the former, and a fire solve the latter?
It makes it clearly different from arm64 at least, which may be part of it.
a fellow longmonster!
For those affected, I just tested, and there was a Signal update available which successfully completed. Perhaps updates for existing / old users will continue to work? Fingers crossed
If you're in Rotterdam, the Dutch national Fotomuseum is truly excellent, the best photography-as-art museum in Europe I've seen (Prague's National Technical Museum https://www.ntm.cz/ is superior on the equipment side). Also the Wereldmuseum is excellent, showing a tiny portion of the huge number of state-owned artifacts of Dutch empire from far and wide. Many others are stored in an anonymous archive building to the east of town I have had cause to visit, and is truly impressive. Also, the nearby town of Dordrecht has a good local museum and historic wealth driven by tax and customs at a river confluence. https://www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/ https://www.wereldmuseum.nl/ The world is truly full of treasures!
Don’t forget arm64 which is now appearing.
"Drain the swamp" leftists are separate category to DSA members and almost nonexistent post-COVID (RFK JR. maybe). Is this beyond explanation why someone would do that?
There’s also The War Racket by Harry Browne (2004).
That's likely the price executives and shareholders would have wanted for the US. I wonder what leverage Trump held over Pfizer to get the $20 price. It's a genuine negotiating win from someone who considers just not paying your contractors to be good business and negotiating.
Why is Aurora more trustworthy?
>found a disturbing trend of brushing off customers complaining about dangerous Autopilot glitches while covering the company’s ass.

The article doesn't present any evidence or argument to support it's own thesis.

Everything in it sounds like my experience dealing with any corperation.
> ...or rallying to the defense of the Duchess of Sussex, a literal princess married to a family of billionaires

FWIW, nobody I know (either left-leaning or right-learning) cares about her at all. I'm curious where you're hearing this from.

> while kicking poor white workers in the teeth

How?

> the latter are suspicious that a man belongs in a woman's locker room.

Well, I'm glad that we can all agree that trans men are okay, then!
Exploring Chain-of-Thought Style Prompting for Text-to-SQL