skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That however is unfortunately true for quotes from many of history's dark figures, be it Hitler, Stalin or Nero.
"Some sources have suggested that Murray's experiments were part of Project MKUltra" doesn't really seem like strong evidence.
Makes sense. Who knew there was space for another video sharing platform, but out of the blue came TikTok and gave a radical new twist to the good old video sharing, and created a new market.
>hey will be replaced by newer content creators/community participants

I'm not sure why inserting discussion of content creation here. Totally irrelevant. Nor is it about participation, its about moderating.

>The problem with the Digg comparision is that the internet is a vastly different place today both from a legislative and a payment processing point of view. I would venture a guess that the legal and financial barriers to entry are and will continue to prevent anyone from making the next Reddit; or the next Twitter, for that matter.

Funny I never gave digg or reddit any payment information.
host and domain changed, and a redirect was setup
Maybe a stupid question, but I'm curious what he's been up to in the decades since in prison. A brain like his doesn't stop working just because he's in jail, does it? I'm not sure what kind of terms he had, was he allowed to read? to write?
Possibly, but what about the license of Linux? Surely nvidia.ko (being a derived work of both the GPL-licensed Linux kernel and the proprietary NVIDIA kernel object files) is non-distributable? Otherwise why does every other distribution faff around with akmods/DKMS, etc?
Do the companies that want people to return to "the office" actually offer offices (with at least doors that close, and preferably windows that open) to those who bother to make the commute?
The lowest temperature isn't always the one that results in working code! This was shown in the original Codex paper:

> When evaluating pass@k, it is important to optimize sampling temperature for the particular value of k. In Figure 5, we plot pass@k against the number of samples k and the sampling temperature. We find that higher temperatures are optimal for larger k, because the resulting set of samples has higher diversity, and the metric rewards only whether the model generates any correct solution.

> In particular, for a 679M parameter model, the optimal temperature for pass@1 is T∗ = 0.2 and the optimal temperature for pass@100 is T∗ = 0.8. With these temperatures, we find that pass@1 and pass@100 scale smoothly as a function of model size (Figure 6).

So even with pass@1 (likelihood of getting the right answer in 1 attempt) you don't use T=0, so there will be slight variations in the output each time.
Great Advice,

I recently began mine and posted first video on it

If you want to check it out
https://youtu.be/PU75M0QkwTQ
Seems like a mistaken title. The limitations are so significant, it can't be called autonomous driving.
Yes, but is there any evidence this is actually happening? Not that they announced it might a year ago.
Lying? No, I never said that, their version of ChatGPT (3.5 which is older) or Copilot (the Codex model it uses is much older) might very well be hallucinating wrong answers, sure. But my claim was that the newer models such as GPT 4 work well for certain classes of problems, so no, it's not "obviously false" that they don't work, which is what you claimed. Does GPT 4 get stuff wrong too sometimes? Sure, I never claimed they're perfect either, but unlike people in this thread, it has worked well generally for me based on my experience, but if you want to discount my experience and only listen to other people who confirm your beliefs, you do you.
I saw Charles Manson and a few others on the MKUltra Wikipedia page but they use phrases like "alleged", "according to author...". Without an idea of the sample size of people subjected to experimentation it's still inconclusive.
The article's conclusion actually specifically calls out that

> This is because when one decides to follow DCA is implicitly expecting that the market to fall in the recent future. However, our experience - at least as far S&P 500 is concerned - tells us that this is not what happens.

Which is basically saying that the S&P 500 always goes up in the long run.
Like I said, cynical/jaded internet commenter - I don't need Mick Gordon's dynamic compositions, I just need some background music for my game that's good enough.

And no you can't do this already:

const musicSpeed = inFightSequence ? 'intense' : 'chill';
const musicPrompt = `drum and bass beat with ${musicSpeed} percussions`;
playMusic(musicPrompt);
Combining Debian with Nix or Guix is a fairly excellent way to go. Stable OS base, selective bleeding-edge apps (or hell, multiple runtime versions that would otherwise conflict). Win-win.
I disagree that key changes in popular music are a great measure of complexity. For many years a key change near the end of the song was an easy way to give the sense of a climax. The article your link is based on gives a good summary of it:

> The act of shifting a song’s key up either a half step or a whole step (i.e. one or two notes on the keyboard) near the end of the song, was the most popular key change for decades. In fact, 52 percent of key changes found in number one hits between 1958 and 1990 employ this change. You can hear it on “My Girl,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” and “Livin’ on a Prayer,” among many others.

To me, this just reflects one set of songwriters' cliches being replaced by another. Not necessarily better or worse.
Not to say there should be only centralized solutions, but there are tradeoffs. The case against decentralization is that moderation and resisting network attacks can be non-trivial amounts of work. Many newspapers shut down their forums for lack of being able to form a quality level of conversation forum without a massive amount of work. In the case of reddit, a subreddit could share the work of building common moderation strategies and tools, increasing the quality accessible. Ironically, reddit killing their third-party api, kills some of their centralization advantages in this respect.

Sharing common work is possible in decentralized forums, but only with somewhat standardized interfaces. Of which activity-pub and mastodon et al are sort of just on the starting path. Every forum choosing among a myriad of forum interfaces makes other subdomains of the same solution harder to coordinate and mature vs centralized.
This is a rear guard action, in a few months - little more, tech will do an end run.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/01/18/sopa-me...
[1] (2) (A) “Autonomous vehicle” means any vehicle equipped with autonomous technology that has been integrated into that vehicle that meets the definition of Level 3, Level 4, or Level 5

[2] (c) The manufacturer has in place and has provided the department with evidence of the manufacturer's
ability to respond to a judgment or judgments for damages for personal injury, death, or property
damage arising from the operation of autonomous vehicles on public roads

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

[2] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/adopted-regulatory-text-p...

> FWIW, this is mostly spin anyway. Liability isn't generally something that is granted, it's either there or not.

Mercedes is releasing an L3 product in a jurisdiction where operation of L3 products is insured by the manufacturer. That is substantially different than "someone could sue them and maybe maybe maybe win"

> The reason that "Tesla is liable for accidents" doesn't make news is... that there are vanishingly few AP/FSD accidents.

There have been 736 known AP/FSD crashes and 17 deaths. The reason that "Tesla is liable for accidents" doesn't make news is that they aren't legally liable for their level 2 system under existing AV regulation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/theres-been-a-whopping-...
I agree that implementing autodiff is nice exercise to grasp the whole stack. But its a ladder that has to be thrown away after you climbed it. In other words, write that autodiff for yourself, and then use production grade ML solution where you won't ever write backward pass by hand.

The APL paper doesn't have implementation of autodiff, rather 90s style hand derivations.
Supports!= has
I don't understand this view. Heavily commercialised music has almost never been all that great anyway. Except very occasionally. Most of it is LCD garbage. Maybe the garbage has become even more garbage, I don't know. But why judge an art form by the boring average.

There's so much great new music being made every year, new genres and ideas, etc. Film music seems better than ever recently. Especially for TV series. Lots of new styles emerging there too, see Mac Quayle for instance.

The really good, modern music was almost always on the fringes, and there's more of it now than ever before.

There might also be more garbage, but there's no need to listen to it.
As fast as processors are these days I don't see this as a valid complaint (especially with how inexpensive machines powered by the Apple M1 are these days).
> while this thing is being trained on everyone's music.

haha, did you conceptualize music ex nihilo?
Road user fees don't even cover half of the cost of roads let alone make up for all the negative externalities.
Cut my teeth writing CCL for several years at Cerner. It has its rough points, but I learned a lot of valuable SQL optimization experience.

Looking back I can see why post-processing SQL query results using a procedural section at least gives you an escape hatch to do business reports or other iterative tasks.

I don't miss it, but I can see why CCL was designed and written at the time.
The Intel Mac Pro supported third party GPUs and there were Thunderbolt based officially supported GPUs for later Intel Macs. Apple made a big deal about them. This was after their transition to Metal
I vacillate between excitement for the future and fear that people like Kaczynski are right (not the violence, obviously). It often does feel as though the direction of technological progress is independent of what is best for the wellbeing of humanity.
either Trump, the only elected official of the executive branch has the highest authority over the executive branch or the archivist has a higher authority than him? if the latter is true, then effectively your third branch is no longer run by a president.
The documents where created by his administration. He can have a copy as much as you can have a copy of your business record or tax returns.
Further every dictator in existence was claiming to rule under the authority of the law, and claimed arrest opposition candidates under such authority. Resorting to arresting your opposition rings hallow to anyone with some shred of common sense.
As someone deep into elevator music, I am very excited to try this model.
Industrial Society and its Future is the only work anyone ever mentions, especially where Kaczynsci's anti-leftist politics are concerned.
> The Tesla is trying not to block an intersection where a light is green

What light? There is none if you're talking about t=995.
In the article the compression doesn’t make sense

If you are only sending one word, and the recipient already needs to know the word, then you only need 1 bit, essentially just signaling that you are saying that specific word

If you want a richer vocabulary, you could create an index of about 300k words (from the English dictionary), shared between the parties

Then to send any word you only need to send one number, and in binary it would have between 1 and at most 19 bits, for any word in the index (2^19 is around 500k)

That’s without even sorting the index by frequency of appearance/usage

27 bits for just one word seems wasteful
I've met several people that seriously think that C89 is the peak of programming languages and that C99 just brings misfeatures (like, allowing variable declarations in middle of basic blocks according to them)
"Unbiased", lol.

> Additionally, Trump, according to the indictment, did not cooperate when asked to hand over the documents, while Hillary did. I’m not going to belabor this point, as it’s not a big piece of the indictment, but it is a glaring difference.

That is probably the main difference between an indictment and not. Just because it occupies a small part of the text, it's not relevant??

> It’s also important to note that Biden both revoked Trump’s access to national security briefings and pulled his clearance shortly after taking office, which was wholly unprecedented.

Hmm, what else might have happened around this time that was "wholly unprecedented"?

There's plenty of other bullshit in this piece.
Not just banks, many large enterprises have such requirements. Keep all personal data inside the EU, it's just easier for them to mitigate risks that way.

But all three major clouds offer several European data centers so it's really not such a big deal.
we must take a look to this previous problem of "self-knowledge of the own knowledge". It is interesting because, far from how it looks, it is not related with the subject of determinism. With or without determinism, we cannot know the causes of our thinking from outside, because knowing that implies know the causes of that same thinking, which means to say that we can know "more than we know", and that is impossible.
> [M]ost people don't care about decentralization but they do care about the effects it brings.

I’ve tried pointing those out as bluntly as possible as an experiment. As in “well, surprise, locked-in crap with impenetrable failure modes locks you in and is impenetrable when it fails, you signed up for that”.

People didn’t appreciate it, as I expected, but they did seem to recognize the truth of it. That is, the response was along the lines of being forced to use the thing to communicate with some person or institution, not of liking it or thinking it’s not at fault.

I don’t know how one would use this to organize an IM revolt (Riot? sorry), but there does seem to be at least some fuel for it even among people who are not outright IT professionals.

> RCS messaging is a great example which I think most people would use over alternatives like WhatsApp and iMessage [...].

RCS might make a slight amount of sense in a culture that still uses SMS / texts in non-negligible amounts, but that’s basically North America and Japan AFAIU? And I prefer that territory shrink, not grow, as I’m very much not thrilled by the idea of handing back over detailed control over IM—even just billing, not content—to phone carriers. Whatever the country, they have extensive history proving they can and will screw you for decades unless you can leave, and it will take everybody leaving for them to stop.
This works really well for me too. I built a task tracker tool (tasktxt.com) that has built-in timers for each task so you choose a task, then press "start" and now you feel more committed to doing that one particular task. It helps me focus on one task at a time.
This is what I do, except I sometimes list a few things because I know I need to do more than just one thing in the near future
I literally went through the same making my first video.

Had to do a lot of retakes but thanks for the tips. I won’t be able to invest in a mic yet but I’m okay using my apple headphones once I gain some traction I’ll be buying a new mic
K. made the rational observation that no one would pay attention to him unless he did something drastic to force it. He'd just be a forgotten loner who scribbled in notebooks.

A politician might kill or harm many more people in the course of pursuing their objectives but they'll always have the story on their side provided they win.

K. had to understand that the achievement of his objective, publishing the manifesto, would likely lead to his capture, but he did it anyway. He sacrificed himself in the end.

If you believed you had information that would save the planet but you had to kill some innocent people to make it known? Utilitarians would say yes because saving billions of innocent lives is more important.

K. probably saw himself as someone taking revenge on an evil system that had harmed him. He's one of the more fascinating characters of modern history in that he was so effective in attaining his goals with violence.
I was a project engineer in a hydrogen fuel cell research lab for a few years.

To add to this, hydrogen also:

- is the smallest molecule; as such is very difficult to contain

- embrittles and degrades most steels

- is ignited by a miniscule amount of energy, such as static sparks

- has a terribly rapid flame front, which means big boom when it does ignite

Everyone has seen the consequences of pilot lights going out while owners are on vacation. House fills with natural gas, fridge compressor kicks on, ignites gas, house explodes. A house filled with hydrogen would not only destroy the house containing it, but the houses next to it as well, and it would be much more likely to ignite due to its much lower ignition energy.

I do not trust contractors to install hydrogen piping, and I do not trust homeowners to maintain their hydrogen sensors. I would NEVER live in a building that had hydrogen stored (as in a vehicle tank) or piped inside. There are simply too many ways for that scenario to go wrong, and if it does go wrong, it goes wrong in a very bad way.
That's of course true in the abstract and general, but I'm not talking about that. A lot of the criticism in Denmark has been quite quantifiable: things like increased number of clicks to perform similar tasks, and instances of losing work and being forced to start over if you, say, picked the wrong option early in a process, increased number of steps for no benefit. And also the presence of many steps and decisions that relate to billing, which of course should not need to be made here, since no bills are ever written. A bunch of things that add up to more time spent on things that the old systems made simple.

But from Epic and the higher-ups (who have to defend their expensive acquisition), it's always the same reply even to the most concrete of criticism: you just don't like change! At some point it really moved beyond just a bad excuse and became victim blaming.

(Please know that the context here - and I think in our neighbouring countries as well - is not that there was no automation, rather there were a set of mostly functional solutions in each region that were replaced by a single top-down mandated country-wide system. There was a book published recently about the process that led to the implementation of Epic's system from which I did not get the impression that this was based on merit as much politics.)
> London has it relatively easy; the only layer of government above it is the national one.

Is that actually true? I mean, are there no vestiges of England, Scotland and Wales in the UK?
the people you describe aren't buying $7k desktops
Comparing the OpenCL GeekBench score is unfair. "More popular"? I don't really think so.
Anyway of course it's going to be slower than a machine with more then two times its number of cores.
Will this support OBS being the conferencing/recording point such that one can have multiple video remotes in a live-streamed video (like StreamYard but open source and not browser-based)?
I tested the new game porting kit on a Mac mini M2 and was surprised I was able to run Cyberpunk 2077 and it was running really well, I can imagine that more powerful M processors will be awesome, so the argument of games might go away soon
So the article comes up with the grand firework of a thought of

> Make something that people want

I still find this kinda complicated to follow in practice. Make something that you want. What you need, day to day at best. You longed it for long, searched all the possibilities and it just doesn't exist yet. It helps with motivation, and you know the basics to start from. Other people/the market can then help steer it in the right direction.
I thought this was interesting, because I saw an article in the NYT today with the subhead:

> The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress is beloved in Hollywood. In supporting her husband’s campaign, is she normalizing his often dangerous ideas?

It also made me think of this Chesterton quote:
"Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller."

I've noticed more and more this idea that ideas can somehow be dangerous, which strikes me as a rather dangerous idea. It's pretty-commonly held around parts like here that ideas are useless sans execution.
Do you think ideas can be dangerous? To me, OP makes a lot of sense in that the only dangerous idea is that ideas can be dangerous.
History has been short on the internet. I don't think one or two examples proves much of anything.
Yes members of government who routinely break the law and those who further those efforts are engaged in criminal enterprise.

Yes of course the inability of the legal system to deal with it is a deep problem.

My argument is that people who break the law are criminals. It’s not a subtle point I’m making here.

The only point of confusion seems to be your surprise to discover that people with power commit crimes openly and with impunity.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtL6kbYiP-w
> Stallman for example would rather have poorer functionality than compromise his personal (extremist) ethical principles.

Stallman is open to pragmatism now and again. For example, on this very topic:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.en.html

> We can envision a future in which our personal fabricators can make chips, and our robots can assemble and solder them together with transformers, switches, keys, displays, fans and so on. In that future we will all make our own computers (and fabricators and robots), and we will all be able to take advantage of modified designs made by those who know hardware. The arguments for rejecting nonfree software will then apply to nonfree hardware designs too.

> That future is years away, at least. In the meantime, there is no need to reject hardware with nonfree designs on principle.
Chinese GPU Maker MetaX Emerges with Xisi N100, Gaming Card Coming Soon
It was a board / profile site called Lipstick and Cigarettes

Here's a non-functioning grab of it... you can kinda get a sense of how juvenile and stupid it was (though fun).

https://web.archive.org/web/20020419114342/http://www.lipsti...
Seeing the RISC-V instructions implemented in the emulator like that, it comes to my mind that RISC-V is really a reduced instruction set CPU.

When compared to AVR 16-bit RISC instruction set, RISC-V looks so much simpler. (You may be indirectly familiar with AVR architecture by the household name "Arduino".)

The intriguing part is that AVR is just a microcontroller, while RISC-V is intended to be a full-blown CPU.
I think it's really neat, but I also kind of go "meh". I've been into generative music stuff for a long time, but whenever I get to the end of the project I go "meh", and I don't really feel any different about this.

As I've watched the evolution of music generation with LLMs I feel like I just keep hearing drivel at greater fidelity. If you like it then by all means listen to it, but this is average or below. In some ways I think I prefer the more chaotic less coherent predecessors. They're a bit more interesting to my ear.

And as other posters have said: that doesn't really sound like Aphex Twin to me at all.
I bought an m series device to replace my windows desktop mostly for efficiency reasons. It saves me hundreds a year in electricity costs at the moment (quite literally, I calculated it beforehand and checked real usage afterwards). It also means my office is now silent and cool. It’s a big QoL improvement for me.
If Ted's ideas lead to the destruction of human lives, I think invoking the victims' experience is a valid point in the discussion.