skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"As we have repeatedly emphasized, maintenance of the gold Standard means that the stock of money must be whatever is necessary to balance international payments. On the other hand, the real bills criterion sets no effective limit to the quantity of money."

-- Monetary History of the United States, pg 191, Friedman

Endemic inflation set in the next year.
Zoonotic diseases fill a ecosystem niche: they're an immune response against habitat loss. That makes them more or less weapons.

The questionable part is whether humans are attempting to use them as weapons, or if they're solely wielded by nature.
The vast majority of US homes use NM cable (romex) which is rated for 600v.

NEC 2020 edition, Article 334 Non-Metallic Sheathed Cable

334.104 Conductors.

The 600-volt insulated power conductors shall be sizes 14 AWG through 2 AWG copper conductors or sizes 12 AWG through 2 AWG aluminum or copper-clad aluminum conductors.
Neuralink is not the only horse in this race. Probably not even the favorite.

But its the most famous for sure.
OT & FWIW, page 47 of the Principia Discordia was the first time Norbert Weiner's name really strongly resonated with me: enclaves of stability. It wasn't a quote but an idea that chaos can beget enclaves of stability. Structure forming processes can emerge out of chaos & take hold. It was thrilling stuff for my adolescent mind. https://principiadiscordia.com/book/54.php

> The whirlpools that swirl in a direction opposed to the main current are called "enclaves". And one of them is life, especially human life, which in a universe moving inexorably towards chaos moves towards increased order.
So you can get information from multiple well researched sources. This is one of them. Don't expect anyone to do all the work.

"You're not publishing full investigative journalism articles on absolutely everything." is not a valid criticism of your article, or a reasonable criticism of the publisher.
The value of RTK is partially that they are stationary and can average out noise over time to get an accurate position estimate, but mostly that they're sending you their live signal measurements so you can cancel out biases common to receivers which are geographically co-located.
BCIs (and maybe genetic intelligence enhancement?) are needed to counterbalance the rise of AI, IMO.

If we are going to be bombarded with data, we need brains and interfaces that can keep up with it. Otherwise how can we even make intelligent AI related decisions and development.
It's quite possible that he actually lost it or isn't doing it for some other reason. If it's him and he genuinely doesn't care about proving it, no one will ever know. Either way, it's intriguing.
yes, this is why we're on the brink of WWIII. Allegedly Putin is outraged at the betrayal.
Model 3 currently has a $3000 discount to boost demand.
The article says that GLONASS time counts days from zero to 1461, then resets back to zero. This is 4 years if we think leap year is once 4 years. But it is not. Leap year is once 4 years, but each 100 years it is not, except each 400 years it is. This is on average 365.2425 days per year not 365.25 days per year. Is GLONASS not long term thinking ahead enough?
antinucleon lol

LLaMA is a memory-bound AI model, where the dominant factor in execution time is how fast the processor transfers weights from RAM to registers. LLaMA.cpp uses a misaligned memory pattern that's painful to the RAM I/O interface and requires many CPU instructions to re-align. It also has access to 1/2 the bandwidth of the GPU on Apple's highest-end chips, making GPU *theoretically* 2x faster without algorithm changes.

Funny how you announced it the exact day after I open-sourced a high-bandwidth 4-bit GEMV kernel for LLaMA. If anyone wants to see how to achieve 180+ GB/s on the M1/M2 Max, you can reproduce the methodology here:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1642#issuecommen...

I later explained the technique to write very optimized kernels for a specific quantization format. *It's very unlikely my code was copied verbatim*, but it was probably used as inspiration and/or a reference. I also disclosed a high-precision means of measuring bandwidth utilization, which is critical for designing such GPU kernels.
I believe there is a correction for the onboard satellite atomic clocks, which run faster than ground/ECI clocks due to a combination of special and general relativistic effects. The correction is a simple one - they just calibrate the clock with a small polynomial. IIRC nothing but the linear and constant terms are even required or used.
Thanks for the link. util.ts is also very helpful.

Also, heh, slurp()
I'm not sure what you're adding here because the context of what they said was "bioweapon lab." So the question is, was it a lab for weapons or not?
....you can fire people if they're being an asshole (at least in the US).

Humans are, generally speaking, fucking stupid. When they're in an organizational setting, especially when they don't want to be bothered with organizing, and have power, it's really common for people to just make "rules" about whatever minor inconvenience they perceive. You see it on workers rights subreddits a lot, one person pissed off the boss so they knee-jerk created whatever blanket rule to bludgeon everyone back into line, then everyone gets upset and it ultimately costs them more that it would have to just ignore the problem.

This is such a prominent phenomenon that it's the entire basis of running a goddamn insurgency.
Background Brief;

2002 Bali Bombings : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Bali_bombings

Indonesian National Police (POLRI) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Police

Australian Federal Police (AFP) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Federal_Police

Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Secret_Intelligence...

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Security_Intelligen...

Nokia 5110 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110

Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), formerly Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Signals_Directorate

International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Equipme...
I don't know if you meant it this way but you sound so classist with this garbage. Afraid of the non-techies coming in and being 'vile' and trashing things? You only want to share space with wealthy, upper class people, as if they're the only ones who know how to respect public space?

Are Uber and Lyft not also GA? Are their cars also trashed? Seems strange that you picked on public transit as if the "unwashed masses" can't also order an Uber.

The public transit in SF is definitely not vile or trashed. Sometimes there's a bit of litter on the ground. Not grimy seats. I've never seen it the way you describe it and I ride several times a week.
You can use socat.

It’s like nc on steroids. TLS, Unix sockets, and just about anything else that involves a digital cable connecting two streams of data.

When in doubt, just add more forking and socat!
> "I frankly don’t find it plausible that the work being done in a day or two during the interview process is valuable labor."

It's the hiring of an employee who will make wealth for the company over their employment period which is the financial benefit, not the work done on the day. But the work done on the day is still value - it's signals of the quality of the candidate which is something the company wants (and therefore values, and therefore should buy). Second, if someone arranges for your time and tells you to do some task they choose, they don't then get to say 'I can't get value from your work so I'm not going to pay you'", that's not how things work.

> "they also deliver compensation packages that essentially guarantee a wealthy, comfortable lifestyle."

And what about the people who spent a day on the interview and did not get hired? The company gets time, effort, signal information which benefits the company ("no hire" has value too), and the candidate gets their time and effort wasted. Imagine if you had two contractors do a task you set, then turned to one and said "I'm not using your work so I'm not paying for it", how well would that go down? "Fuck you, pay me"[1] I expect. It's not like going to a shop and not buying some things, it's like asking the shops to deliver things to you and then refusing to pay for delivery on things you don't buy because the shop had a chance of getting your business so they should be grateful. (Worse if the company is constantly interviewing just to keep the pipelines warm, without any interest in actively hiring anyone right now).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
The biggest problem you are going to have is marketing / getting someone to try your product. Trying to launch a new product is going to cost you more if you don't go the open source route.

Worrying about someone copying is natural but you quickly realize that's not your biggest issue. It's so hard to get marketshare/trust that open source becomes an easier sell. If I could get everyone in the world to self host my product I would be a billionaire.

You can make money by:
You can sell specialized versions, addons, create a two way marketplace, sell merch, ask for donations, offer support, sell adspace on docs, sponsorship, donations, books, put on conferences, certifications, sell tutoring and of course sell support. What a lot of people do is become an expert and consult off of the popularity.

If I had little money or a weak marketing plan I would open source. You can always sell a pro plan just remember to identify who will pay and make a version for them specifically.

Open sourcing slows down development to keep the tradeoffs in mind
Best Products: Almost Amazon?
Prior to the 1990’s, an extremely popular retail business model was the “catalog showroom” store. Best Products, Service Merchandise and many others were great places to buy higher value products (furniture, jewelry, stereos, tv’s, equipment, etc.) at a discount price. Shoppers would wander the store, see what was available or on sale, and then place an in-store order for pickup on the way out-similar to IKEA. One business advantage to this model was lower “shrinkage,” ie. loss from theft. An advantage to the customer was service: products were promptly delivered on exit via conveyor belt and then loaded into the customer’s vehicle at the curb. Most of the staff worked in the warehouse adjacent to the showroom.

If catalog showrooms like Best had just survived the 90’s, then they would have easily made the transition to online with local delivery warehouses. Amazon may have never existed…
A quick intro to TrueTime, one of the key components of Google's Spanner
> Now, can somebody tell me why banking regulations don't apply to my airline miles? After all, I've earned them and they are theoretically worth USD, so shouldn't they be protected?

Are airline miles theoretically worth USD? Afaik, they exchange for flights on a X points = Y class flight basis, not on a dollar basis. Yes, you can usually buy more miles for USD, but price to buy isn't price to sell.
Your reference point is stationary, yes. But not your Rover units.

For RTK to be really useful for surveying a site, you need both the stationary reference unit and the Rovers.
I think you're getting hung up on semantics. It's perfectly fine to call certified products "safe" in a casual sense, and the process of certification is proving that status to a third party.

Again, I wouldn't find these objectionable statements in casual conversation, even as someone who participates in the mess that is certification.
A.I is gonna change the job market so deeply I wouldn't worry much. It's futile to worry, we simply don't know what's coming we only know it will change everything.
That looks very similar. Any idea what the differences are?
It's a landing page. The other 99.999% of research papers around the world don't have landing pages for a reason.
In the US? Please list some oil subsidies. The only real subsidies oil companies get are the ability to write off certain costs, mostly the capex related to drilling unproductive wells (“dry hole costs”). Hardly a subsidy.
GNU poke: an extensible editor for structured binary data
I actually think dysfunction in SF is not a result of European individualism. The situation is not best explained by individual vs collective rights. Rather, I think the dysfunction is deliberate and the politicians who control the city are part of a party and belief that repudiates anything European.

For example, the city of SF will come down on you like a ton of bricks if you are not from the correct demographic. There is a lawsuit where white police officers are suing the city for denying them promotions and a system of racial discrimination. What about their individual rights? Another example is how the city and state protect homeless encampments but make it difficult for regular people to build homes or other buildings. Or how homeless people and drug addicts attack and harass regular people and the city does nothing about it but it was up in arms when a former fire chief allegedly attacked a homeless person.

Individualism isn't broadly accepted, rather it seems the homeless have more rights than anyone else. This isn't individualism and shows that there is a ideology driving the dysfunction.
When I was 10 years old or so I went on a random mac forum and posted that I was Steve Jobs and I had decided that Apple computers were worthless and everyone should just buy a PC. This has a similar feel to me (and I mostly use Macs today).
But why would Ukraine be engineering bioweapons targeting themselves?
I'd argue there is nothing worth encrypting that John Doe could communicate. Anything important in this world is best left only to people you trust. What is John Doe gonna do for you?
A 3k price drop shows they only need a little bit of a demand boost, especially since the discount is only on inventory cars. Highland will be a massive demand bump for them, since it being new likely pushes some Y purchasers to the 3.
Do people actually take cold showers? I would pass out. I've almost passed out from accidentally turning the water on cold just for a second lol
Reading both sides is itself a bit of a fallacy. Most problems don't fit neatly into two 'sides'. For example, take gun control -- typically associated with the liberal wing of the democratic party, and opposed by most of the republican party. The leftist wing of American politics, however, is often opposed to gun control. Organizations like the Socialist Rifle Association and John Brown Gun Club and Pink Pistols.

In the case of environmental review, there's also a multitude of different perspectives with different objectives. From indigenous groups whose land was (typically) stolen, to anti-oil activists, to pro-business democrats (like Biden/Clinton) who want to keep profits rolling at the expense of pristine wildlands, to the various concerns of the right. I know plenty of republican folks who are religiously compelled to take care of the earth and oppose oil drilling. I know plenty of republicans who believe that anthropogenic climate change is "impossible".

Quite frankly, it's not wrong to read a few viewpoints, or read only the viewpoints you agree with and just acknowledge there are other viewpoints. Just don't get lost in believing your viewpoint is the only reasoned one.
One of the more astonishing pieces of propaganda coming from the Fed is the idea that 2% inflation is some sort of "good for the economy" thing. Astonishing in that people buy it hook, line and sinker.

What it is is a 2% annual tax on the economy. Even worse, your illusory inflation "gains" on assets then get taxed, too.

The only thing it is good for is the politicians.
> "The TSC ticks at 2800 MHz, and 2800 * 10*6 * 1042.5 days almost equals 0x380000000000000, which has too many zeros not to be a coincidence.""

i think they said that wrong
Road deaths are the biggest killer of people aged 9 to 29, taking about 1.35M lives annually. That's roughly on par with USA Coronavirus deaths for the entire pandemic.

If autonomous driving can considerably reduce that road death number, I'd say it's a worthwhile endeavour.
Dropping prices doesn’t even have to be about demand. Lot of rivals like Lucid and Rivian struggling mightily in this market. You can pinch them out. You also may just want to share production efficiency gains with the customer for the same reason.
For bandwidth-bound problems like large language models, you could also solve it with properly written CPU kernels (Mojo) and usage of the AMX accelerators for compute-intensive parts.

I'd be more interested if they had a GPU port of Stable Diffusion, which is really compute-intensive. That's where the GPU has a major advantage over CPU, on lower-end chips like M1/M2 and M1/M2 Pro.

> specialized for CPU

Mojo's SIMD execution model should map directly to GPUs. Instead of writing shaders thinking about a single GPU thread, you access the assembly ISA directly, thinking about an entire warp/simdgroup. That's how I think when writing SIMD-group matrix kernels anyway.
“That’s a part of the sickness in America, that you have to think in terms of who wins, who loses, who’s good, who’s bad, who’s best, who’s worst. I don’t like to think that way. Everybody has their own value in different ways, and I don’t like to think who’s the best at this. I mean, what’s the point of it?”
― Marlon Brando
> If you think it's a black box to the Tesla drivers, how is it not a black box to the Waymo customers in the back seat of these cars?

The general public (as a vehicle occupant) only interacts with a Waymo vehicle as a passenger with no vehicle control responsibilities.

That is in stark contrast from the integral human-machine relationship that exists in a Tesla vehicle.

> If you mean to the teams, you cannot assume that Waymo's systems are any less of a black box than Tesla's systems.

True.

Waymo's internal processes are a Black Box to me (and anyone external to Waymo) because we are not read into their systems safety lifecycle, whatever it may be.

Hopefully and presumably, Waymo is maintaining a Safety Management System (SMS) with their test operators and other internal teams, as they have claimed in the past.

Of course, since there is little-to-no regulatory oversight of this in the US (at the moment, perhaps)... Waymo's "word" is really the only thing the public has to go by.

That is not acceptable, in my view, in constructing a novel transportation system that ultimately relies on public trust to be economically viable... but that is the regulatory reality right now.

In the case of Tesla, it is definitive that they are not maintaining a SMS, in large part, because Tesla's (untrained) customers utilizing the system cannot be sufficiently read into a lifecycle. There is simply no way to do that without maintaining a highly-controlled, continuous relationship with the test operator.

For example, the "release notes" (sprinkled with some Tweets from Musk) that Tesla issues with some of the FSD Beta updates are simply too puny relative to the complexity of not only the vehicle system, but the larger complexity of the roadway.

> And even then, they're not much of a black box at all, besides the actual object detection, as both Waymo and Tesla still have most decision-making in regular logic-based code, not machine learning algorithms; and when they do, such as with "do I need to get over now to make the next turn", it's still fed back into the "business logic" that decides what to do and thus logged and audited when it's sent back to HQ.

As I stated elsewhere, these are physical safety-critical systems where the totality of the systems safety components cannot be expressed in software alone.

Remote vehicle telemetry is valuable of course, but as a tool to serve the validation process... not the validation process itself.

Vehicle telemetry cannot be a complete accounting of all of the interacting systems safety components involved here.

For that, like all other safety-critical systems, one needs exhaustive, controlled and physical validation.
Even just comparing sensors, the mediocre cameras Tesla uses are absolutely pathetic compared to the ability of a human eye. And I'm guessing it'll be some years yet before we have some kind of parity there. Not to mention the computing power to process the data.
The same Propublica that decided to treat unrealized gains as income and then ran a plainly ludicrous story about how the rich were paying a true tax rate of 0.1%?
About problems to solve, maybe not American ones, how well do these cars avoid potholes, especially the new ones that develop after heavy rain on worn out roads?

I mean, I'll be happy if massive adoption of driverless cars will materialize the money to regularly maintain the pavement of all roads but I don't believe it.
That's why in the EU they have introduced requirements for electric cars to make artificial sounds. Sometimes one of them drives past and it sounds like a spaceship from a sci fi movie lol.
I used to think so, but they badly embarrassed themselves on a COVID origin story a few months ago. They relied on a single source who claimed to have unique expertise in translating ambiguous Chinese Communist Party language. Most commentators with knowledge of Chinese language and politics criticized his interpretations heavily. A decent review of the events is here: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/31/2022/pro-publica-scram...

This review is also very helpful for understanding the specific mistakes, and perhaps even bad faith misrepresentations, that their source made: https://fallows.substack.com/p/on-that-propublica-chinese-la...

In one particularly disturbing case, their translator stopped midway through a sentence, omitting the remaining half of the sentence which completely changes the interpretation.

ProPublica's editor note on the criticism said they asked for independent translations, but contains no support for their article except that the translators found their translation "plausible". The lack of detail is to me pretty telling. https://www.propublica.org/article/editors-note-a-review-of-...
Isn’t your distinction just a choice though? You’re saying, if I am reading correctly, that the upper class is restricted to those who don’t work / care for external validation and instead choose to live a life of leisure.
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Made a GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 Tokenizer
It’s generally accepted to mean the use of neural networks which Tesla is obviously using. Good luck even identifying a stop sign with “complex business logic” or “if/else”
For anyone curious: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/27/1159748990/supreme-court-cfpb

Decisions will likely come out in 2024.
Any language where you can define the type for its own AST is homoiconic, isn't it? So what is the big deal?
My sibling has DBS for turrets. Turns out a side affect they warn you about is that you might forget how to swim. The neurologists strongly recommended caution when in the water.
For the longest time I haven't been able to find a tokenizer online similar to the one for GPT-3 for other models. So I made one and put it up online for free for anyone.

It's built on top of the tiktoken library and is basically just a lambda function in the backend.

You could just download the library directly but I hope this saves someone time if they need the token ids for logit bias.
> the question is about their ability to verify a factual assertion.

No, the question is about their inclination to critically examine a claim made by their side.
You mean people think in some sort of embedded signal in their brains that they then turn into language? That's a crazy idea. I wonder if these machine learning bozos will ever think to use something like that rather than just copying language.
How did you manage to obtain Steve Jobs' real email? That seems to be the case. Whether it involved stealing the password, hijacking the domain, or something similar, the fact remains that he sent it from the real email.
Your NNT must be seriously huge here