skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure - I won't argue that I emotionally understand and relate much more strongly to the pain and suffering of animals that are biologically similar to me.

I also agree that minimizing that pain is a reasonable goal, and worth taking steps to do at most every point we can afford to (and realistically - we are fairly rich as a species, we could be doing better).

I don't particularly agree that forgoing meat consumption entirely is the right call - although reducing it likely is (especially if you live in the US).

I also don't think that just because you happen to be eating a plant, you're off the hook - I think monoculture production and certain farming practices (see: palm oil) are causing suffering on similar scales.

In my opinion - we should be trusting large conglomerates less with our foods (whether they're plant or animal) and doing more production locally. Acknowledging and respecting where the food you eat comes from is a huge step up from where many folks are right now.
Free dogfood!
But some of those problems are millions of times worse than others. Solving the trivial ones constitutes some sort of theatre.
Here's a little thought experiment.

Let's say a new government organization makes a rule "You'll get fined if you make a red ball for playing catch"

You think about it for a while, and decide to make a red Hecatohedron for playing catch. You start playing catch with it and if it's ok. The new government org doesn't reply and eventually fines you.

Is that government organization being opaque?
Start here: https://mastodon.help/

The key to Mastodon isn't to follow other people but to follow hashtags so they are in your news feed, and to use hashtags everywhere in your posts and comments so other people can find them.
Machines can work 24/7, don't get sick, don't get lazy, don't need training, don't need to be fed, etc.

Even in a world where slave labor was cheaper, machines were obviously better. Fewer people could produce the same output no matter how you look at it.
A short while back I joined the ranks of the unemployed. With my newfound free time I began looking for day projects to keep me busy and stress less while looking for my next job opportunity. This is one of my recent afternoon projects that I felt like showing off. It's also my first ever hacker news post!

While I am aware that Cartomancy might not really fit in around here, this project involved mixing some emergent LLM/AI technology (GPT3.5) that interested me greatly, with a minimalistic Next.js frontend and a simple Flask backend. Nothing too fancy.

I figured it might be fun for a few laughs or a quick break from your day-job.

Hate it? Love it? See room for improvements?

Let me know what you think!
If you do create an app with SQLPage, I would love to get your feedback, here on contact at ophir dot dev. And if you do not manage to create what you wanted, I would love to get that feedback too !
Since you seem knowledgeable about the topic and have explained it quite well, I'd like to ask a follow-up question.

Could you summarize how this "zeroth order" gradient approximation works? In simple terms, how do we go from a measurement of the forward-pass output error (loss), to knowing in which direction to nudge each parameter to approach a minimum?

Is it some kind of swarm optimization (not sure if it's the right term), where the local neighborhood in parameter space is sampled to approximate the gradient?

If that is the case, it's not just that more passes are required due to bad gradient approximations, but they also need multiple passes to get each approximate gradient (presumably many of them due to the high dimensionality).
Do you pay cash at Starbucks?
Let me be more specific. There were a lot of bugs specifically related to non-4k page size architectures. Arm doesn't dictate the page size so most of the Arm systems out there have defaulted to 4k pages. The Asahi wiki has a partial list of userspace programs that were (or still are) buggy and broken because they made simplifying assumptions about how different architectures work[0].

Maintainers of other non-x86 architecture have said that this is improving things for them[1].

[0]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Broken-Software
[1]: https://www.talospace.com/2022/03/asahi-linux-gives-hope-for...
I had the good luck to be able to semi-retire in my early 20's. It sucked. I was constantly stressed, constantly anxious. The smaller my problems became, the larger the apparatus my mind would form to deal with them. I went back to school, got a full time job, and am now much happier.

Anecdotally, I've seen men in my life go from healthy, vigorous working men to shells of their former selves in retirement. It's as if retirement aged them fifteen years in two real years.

If you idle your car, it causes more damage to the engine than if you drive it.
MKBHD mentioned you could connect the battery pack to another another battery pack.

Making their own battery pack essentially a dongle instead of just having a USB-C adapter for their cable is so Apple it hurts.
> How much more isolating does VR tech need to be?

As isolating as it needs to be to extract max revenue. Your fine-tuned proclivities profile will be one more thing to lock you onto the platform, and an opportunity for product placement/ ads. Marketers would love to have their brand associated with happy thoughts (and happy thoughts only).
They are genuine questions. You want to stop all animal slaughter and insects are animals so we need to stop killing insects but I have no idea if that's achievable.

It would be really interesting if you could.
No, it took 60 researchers (geneticists, archaeologists, radiocarbon dating specialists) to collect and analyze the data involved in drawing a fairly sweeping conclusion involving a wide array of evidence from a large portion of the continent. They all deserve credit for their contributions, even if they didn't directly contribute in an authorial sense.
there are some pretty convincing videos and photos of UFOs out there, the problem is when they are good enough to look real people call them fakes.
As a German I am a bit saddened that you are coming to defend some of the most murderous tools of mass annihilation.

Zyklon A (the predecessor product) was banned after the first world war due to its use as a weapon in the war.

And Bruno Tesch - the inventor of Zyklon B - was executed in 1946 for knowingly selling the product to the SS for use on humans (at least according to Wikipedia).

In essence, the people in Germany knew very well what their leadership was doing and they supported it. Too few were ever held accountable.

This is not about vengeance (there isn't such a concept in the modern justice systems, right?). It is about accountability for your own atrocities. Germans grow up learning this in the hope it can prevent another event like the Holocaust.

This kind of accountability extends to everyone. Even scientists in the trenches who participate developing those technologies that might be misused.
It's the same memory footprint as inference. It's not that fast, and the paper mentions some optimizations that could still be done.
That's it? That's nothing. Totally worth weakening your alliance and power projection for that.
If you have a “large” SRAM that can be accessed in one cycle, that just means your processor is slow and/or consumes more energy than it should.
What about dolphins and mammals?
The Good Place captured this problem very well.

For a long time I’ve wrestled with a deep-seated but welcome, albeit persistent, unease with food.

As a species we have and continue to inflict dramatic suffering and harm upon the non-human species on our planet. We do this variably to our own enrichment, or sometimes entertainment, but a lot of it is also to our own long-term detriment.

Even making the “good choice” comes with “bad points”. I tend not to go to seafood restaurants because I don’t want to give them money. I accept an invitation to Red Lobster because a family member wants to get a bite. I order a salad, horrified by my surroundings, and find it has shrimp in it.

I love the taste of shrimp, but I no longer eat it because I don’t know how it was handled. Humanely? Did the shrimp this shrimp came from suffer eyestalk ablation? I don’t know.

So I could pick it off to the side and waste it, or I could eat it so it didn’t die in vein.
You can't be inside a singularity because that's a point, but we are inside (surrounded on all sides by) an event horizon.
s/greenfield C program/greenfield program/

s/from C localization.*$/from C./
I think GP meant: how do you go from watching the obfuscated video to going, "To see the message I need to use mix=frames=36 with the following weights..."
I'd love to get your feedback if you use it ! Both positive and negative.
I thought US bases are there to keep Germans in check, not to defend them...
Sweatpants and a tshirt require zero brainspace to wear.
like I wrote, the staking program has a different evaluation and my post was not about that. we agree that any asset can be transferred in a way that is a securities transaction.
> Every culture has one, I'm sure. I'll be that guy today. Every industrialized country should have decades worth of dried food stockpiled for every person.

The Mormons come closest-- they stockpile for a year. They're a good resource when you need a shopping list for the next pandemic:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/03/ran...

Decades is too long. Nothing lasts forever, even if it's the container itself degrading. You get rat infestation, rot, botulism, etc.
I have a great home theater that I love to use. But there are lots of times when it'd be nice to have a similar experience while in bed or traveling.
> You're eliminating all the nuance.

OK I'll put some nuance.

My nuanced view is that many of the real AI boffins like Ilya Sutskever know that the 'stack more layers' LLM approach to AI is going to unlock superhuman cognitive capabilities. This puts them in a difficult spot for a few reasons. 1) it has never happened before 2) they aren't media experts 3) they believe it for complicated 'rhetorically weak' reasons 4) it might have a big impact on society.

So that is one faction of the 'AI might be something to watch out for' guys. There are other factions. Another one is like the Yudkowsky 'AI doomers'. Separately there are factions of AI grifters and accelerationists. Finally there are ones like this article, which are the large corporations which are obviously taking whatever opportunistic argument benefits them and their investors. Sam Altman is CEO of a billion dollar corporation so of course he will be in that group.

So that is my actual nuanced view, and I don't think the article is helpful. It conflates all of this nuance into 'AI panic' and it makes the non sequitur observation that billion dollar companies will make whatever public statement benefits them.
Some cryptocurrencies may or may not be securities. Gary Gensler himself has said that Bitcoin is not a security.
Configuring your project to use mergeable libraries
Is there an alternative that offers longer?

Apple do seem to be shortening a bit, but as an app developer, we generally support iOS 2 versions behind unless there’s a particularly good feature we want to add to our workflow.

I don’t see much of interest to us in 17, I’m surprised there weren’t any major updates to arkit considering the announcement of Vision Pro
As silly as begging the question of how sentience is accurately defined, such that this definition can be trivially dismissed as inaccurate?
Proton is a wrapper/tweaks to wine, right? Thus x86-64 windows games can run on x86-64 linux. Thus the steam deck and many happy linux gamers. Apparently it's good enough to run a large majority of steam games, I believe I remember something like 90+% of the top 50 games on steam.

I don't think it helps at all with running x86-64 code on arm.
Since never. It'll be a cold day in hell before I tip for something I had to truck my ass over to go pick up and bring back myself. This "etiquette expert," whatever the fuck invented job that is, can kiss my ass.
As far as I can tell they have frequently used the names of famous scientists, such as Kepler, Fermi, Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, Ampere, and Ada Lovelace. This has existed long before Hopper.
Default. This is what it looks like for me when I load the page: https://i.imgur.com/ed1ETWK.jpg

This is what it looks like when I click on a post: https://i.imgur.com/wqNAofO.png

This is on an iPhone 14, iOS 16.
It'd be tough. Private websites are not required to comply to the ADA to the same extent as government domains or public-facing businesses. Maybe a case could be raised after their IPO.
The reason why crabs and lobsters are sold alive is that their quality deteriorate extremely quickly once they are dead (30 minutes and they start smelling funky and tasting weird)

I've quite a bit of experience on the subject. I've caught and cooked crabs and lobsters since I was a teen.

I generally don't trust the quality of pre-cooked crustaceans.

And while I agree that it is best to reduce the overall suffering of animals, I don't think that boiling is the worst part. They die in less than two seconds.
It's not, but I find it distasteful when people are feeling sad for the crab being boiled, while children are dying of hunger in Yemen because of politicians and their enablers. If we can't figure out the first it'll be impossible to figure out the second. Similar to how you can't neglect your own kids and take care of the neighbor's at the same time.
This will kill all major streamer events, like the OTK live show they had in Las Vegas last week or the Streamer Awards. I also find it strange how YouTube has no problem with it but somehow Twitch makes a big deal about it.

If anyone is curious about the production quality of those shows:

The Streamer Awards 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnoiaRk7eqM&t=1830s

OTK Elevated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1fdisLMwIc&t=1202s
Are you familiar with the concept of news.....
People lie to Congress all the time without any consequences. That depends more on the political necessity of having a scapegoat/figure to tar and feather than the actual law.
It's standard practice for me to watch films w/ subtitles as the sound (as the article suggests) is all F-up.

I take my films seriously and my Mrs just bought ticket to 'Oppenheimer'. First question out of my mouth was "Is it in IMAX"? No, but it was on sale! Ugh. I re-iterated that Nolan produces movies for IMAX [0] with very good sound systems. Apparently only 30 theaters WORLDWIDE [1] are capable of showing that film in the correct format! Fingers crossed, it will be somewhat acceptable.

Inevitable with all of Nolan's films, I re-watch them at home with subtitles because I need to know wtf is going on. (Tenet was next to impossible without them).

[0] "Christopher Nolan explains best ways to watch a movie, which theater seats to pick" https://www.mywabashvalley.com/news/national-news/christophe...

[1] "Oppenheimer: IMAX 70mm Screening at Only 30 Theaters Worldwide" https://ymcinema.com/2023/06/05/oppenheimer-imax-70mm-screen...
Oh no, a slippery slope of compassion! To wit, the long title of the bill:

"An Act to make provision for an Animal Sentience Committee with functions relating to the effect of government policy on the welfare of animals as sentient beings."

Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem?
That's not how it works. They say what a security is. It's not their job to be babysit. Corps wishing to play in this field are expected to understand the basic foundations.
Very interesting read. I had to chuckle a bit that they exclude C++ examples because the C++ type system doesn't even pretend to guarantee the behavior of the program is defined.
In the future humanity might meet beings much more intelligent than us and they might not be kind to us, believing our level of sentience to be lowly, similar to how we discount these animals.
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Compute is the latency for LLMs :)

And in general, your inference code will be compiled to a CPU/Architecture target - so you can know ahead of time what instructions you'll have access to when writing your code for that target.

For example in the case of AWS Lambda, you can choose graviton2 (ARM with NEON), or x86_64 (AVX). The trick is that for some processors such as Xeon3+ there is AVX 512, and others you will top out at AVX 256. You might be able to figure out what exact instruction set your serverless target supports.
And what if it's Saudi Arabian's laws about women? (I wonder what their laws in regards to abortion are).

I think the countries are free to make the laws, and investors are free to choose to invest their money in opressive theocracies or not...
The bases are in West Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_ins...

Are you saying they were trying to keep the West Germans in check after WW2? Nothing else going on in the area at the time (and arguably still), towards the east? Topkek
But if we compare California to Florida/Texas, for example, we can at least say pretty conclusively though that the effect wasn't strong enough to overcome climate differences or whatever other confounding variables might be involved. So while we can't say for sure they aren't effective at all, we can place a limit on how effective they are based on the data, and as far as I'm aware, that points to them being marginal at best. They certainly aren't, in themselves, any kind of panacea for stopping a pandemic--that much has been proven.
Apple has the entire top of the market. The amount of money transacted on iOS is probably 90% of the mobile market. Been that way at every company I've ever worked for. They mandate use of their app store, take a cut of app purchases, in-app purchases, require you build and develop on their workstations and pay a fee to install software on your own phone. They have a long history of monopolism or attempted monopolism when it comes to things like music, podcast and ebooks as well. They have >60% of the podcast listening audience as well.
or, equivalently "breadth of accurate and passion knowledge"
When did JavaScript go from <script src=“ ”> to require(“ ”)?
there are APIs to check that
AMD drivers are fine if you only care about gaming. There's the occasional idiocy like the default fan curve for my graphics card refusing to run higher than 70% so that the card will cook itself if you actually use it and hard crash your system or the driver, but eh.

The real problem is that ROCm is a fucking joke, pathetic, half assed, pretend project. Nobody with power in AMD seems to care that nobody can learn machine learning on their hardware to push it in other places, or that their GPUs that they have recently spent all this time boasting about their higher VRAM which is literally useless unless you want to play poorly optimized AAA titles ported from the PS5.

People say it works but you basically have to be one of the engineers who wrote it to prove that. Good luck getting it to work with Windows, or any hardware that wasn't purpose built for a cluster partner. It's so stupid. Maybe they genuinely intended to make a real CUDA competitor but noticed the ways that nVidia then had to artificially segment their market through dumb decisions (the VRAM) and bios hacks that didn't work and just gave up on that path.
i think it would be super interesting to do a study where we compared the effects of moderate/high-dose psychedelics to some other substance that had comparable subjective effects. but (a) i don't think such a control substance actually exists
and (b) i strongly suspect that you'd see the same benefits to both groups - and then what conclusion do you draw from that?
Those products elsewhere would also be unregistered securities.
So... you are disagreeing with your source? It very clearly says "incorrect."

I happen to agree with you and disagree with the source -- "Kyoto man" is perfectly fine in my opinion.
Even if I were to agree with your interpretation (and I absolutely do not), this is still plain jane mass copyright infringement. The submitters have given reddit a sublicense to publish their content, not random 3rd parties.
Under that definition, a language learning model is sentient.
Do 1password/fastmail have functionality built in for this or do you just manually generate your emails based off a wildcard?
What about conditional form elements, modal dialogs with static text, or collapsible menus?

I understand the benefits, then again if interacting with these elements requires calling the backend then the cost is quite high.
Pretty sure a lot of mammals pass that test
Don’t forget chip shortages. That’s all centralized up through Nvidia, TSMC, and ASML
I've just been browsing, eg., https://github.com/robot-rumble/logic/blob/master/lang-runne...

via https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython/blob/main/jit/src/l...

Have a look at real-world rust repos that are more than simple application code.

Personally, I feel like I'm being visually assaulted.
Can you imagine how much Apple would charge for branded boobs?
If the domain name is reactflow, then i would try.
As long as you make a claim which depends on that answer for support, it absolutely is your job, and whatever axe you mean to grind here doesn't seem so far to be helping do that job.
I think this is an interesting doc, but the argument that global properties can be guaranteed by a type system is false, so there will trivially be counterexamples of type systems.

In fact, for any extensional type theory, we have the interesting result that type inhabitation is undecideable. Further, when looking at intersection types, there's also a theory saying they're undecideable, and many more edge cases which I can't remember. So the result is that we have a lot of "patching" in compilers or runtimes that try to fill some of these holes, but that's to be expected.
Enabling DNSSEC Signing for Pagerduty.com
I'm kinda appalled that many professors have jumped on the GPT bandwagon so quickly, claiming it should be part of the standard curriculum and how we should have it as the foundation of academic programs, going forward. I don't really understand their lack of critical thinking on the use of this unproven tech, at all. Makes me really doubt their competence as an educator and an academic.
Those elements don’t appear to exist on earth. If we found them we’d be able to identify them.
import sys
def c(j,t):
sys.stdout.write(j('.')('P'))
return t
(lambda z:lambda y:z(z(y(lambda p:lambda n:(lambda s:lambda z:z(lambda x:
lambda y:y)(lambda d:p(s)(y(s))(d)))(lambda x:lambda a:lambda s:lambda p:
p(a)(lambda y:s(n(x))(y))))(lambda c:lambda a:lambda s:z(lambda y:s(c)(y)
))))(y(lambda p:lambda b:lambda t:t(c(b,p)))))(lambda s:lambda p:p(lambda
x:lambda y:x)(s))(lambda f:(lambda q:q(q))(lambda x:f(lambda y:x(x)(y))))

Guess the pattern of Ps in the output (probably need to redirect stderr to /dev/null)
When you solve part of a problem, and it is minuscule in scope, you have still solved part of the problem. Why let that demotivate you from wanting so solve more of the problem?
Just saw this at The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-...
The questions you raise are very interesting. My question would be, where does the default hyperparameter configuration come from? Additionally, does there exist one hyperparameter configuration that performs well on all tasks?
Rolling Stone would know a thing or two about false accusations.
No, but many physical avatar do. Especially if the avatar is fair skinned and/or experiences a lot of sun light ;-)