skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8 bit (and 4 bit?) quantization is low hanging fruit, assuming its not already running in 8 bit.

An 8GB requirement kinda sounds like they have already quantized the model though.
I have no reason to think 200 nations nationalising AI are going to be any safer than 200 companies, even if the companies are the hubristic archetype beloved by Hollywood scripts.

PopeGPT debating آیت الله-GPT about theology could be interesting; but do you want to wake up to the news that советский-GPT is running a successful propaganda war in the USA and now the American Communist Party is likely to win the next presidential election? That ChatKimJongUn is successfully boosting the industrial capacity of the North despite sanctions?

That's why international agreements are also relevant, even if you don't share Yudkowsky's fear of alignment failures paper-clipping everyone.
I'm not sure that's a valid statement on either count. There is plenty of work being done to bolster GANs with diffusion, in an attempt to take GANs where they couldn't before. Here's one such example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02262

You might've been more correct to say that diffusion surpassed prior generative models, but the adversarial element doesn't even compare to diffusion at all. The adversarial element would be more accurately seen as a trade-off for standard RLHF/Human-in-the-Loop models.

I will bet money that GANs bolstered with diffusion will far outperform a standalone diffusion model.
States such as Vermont have banned billboards.
Mike Reiss took the sub trip to the Titanic in the summer of 2022, and in his podcast he says his wife didn't go with him because she failed a Covid test right before. It's unclear whether it was her decision or OceanGate's decision to play it safe. Reiss notes that during Covid, his wife had traveled to every continent without catching it until now, so she wasn't extremely paranoid. If OceanGate denied her, then it means they were worried more about the health risk of Covid in late 2022 than having to (partially) refund her $250k ticket.

I don't think Covid is by any means "just the flu", but I definitely think the risk of dying from it is significantly less than a visit to the Titanic.

https://twitter.com/MikeReissWriter/status/15450925299718184...

https://bleav.com/shows/what-am-i-doing-here-with-mike-reiss...
> which chat room do I type some obscure message into to prove I read the rules in order for a bot to approve me and wait 15 minutes before getting into a welcome chat room where I now need to introduce myself?

This phase was really irritating, but luckily discord realised that was needed as a feature so made a first-party feature where you accept the rules / TOS for a given server.

The bots also got better, so usually you just need to respond with an emoji for automatic role assignment in discords where that matters too.
That's not the same as controlling for vitamin d because people's blood levels vary wildly even with supplementation. To control for vitamin d level you would need to blood test for it and supplement until the blood level is between 20 ng/ml and 50 ng/ml, ideally around 30. Depending on how they were supplementing blood levels could be way too low still (especially for obese people) or way too high with likely different effects on the outcome here.
I don't really want my wisecracking with my friends published forever, so WAI?
If this is decentralized/federated than they should make a bigger deal of that on the page, and if it's not, well, no thanks.
I’m happy with Hover. Best praise I can give is I don’t have to think about it except at renew time. They don’t bother me with irrelevant stuff or try to upsell me their other offerings.

If I recall, they have an optional (free?) service where you can give them your credentials from your old service and they’ll do the transfer for you. I have never tried it.

https://hover.com/
Flarum and nodeBB are other open source forum software projects that are also adding ActivityPub federation support, and they are all aware of each other and intend to focus on interoperability when it comes to AP extended functionality.
If the majority of farm animals get their feed from grazing, then replacing them as sources of nutrients with mechanically harvested plants might come out even.

As I understand it though, the vast majority of cattle are currently being fed mechanically harvested plants, so they can be cut out of the nutrient pathway without any need to increase suffering by the way of mechanical harvest.
I think the fact that the author somehow thinks that Greek letters are prettier and easier to understand hints at an enormous bias.

Many people would not know their names, most people are probably unfamiliar to Greek letters beyond beta or gamma, with some exceptions for pi, which has the dubious property of being confusingly ambiguous if the constant is meant or a simple high-brow variation on a variable named p.

It's my conviction that there are a lot of things in computing that are made harder than they necessarily need to be by bad naming and chief amongst them is the insistence on borrowing mathematical notations and jargon.

In my mind, it is mostly a question of elitism and exclusion.
> Red Hat’s user interface agreements indicate that re-publishing sources acquired through the customer portal would be a violation of those agreements.

A bunch of the software in the customer portal is GPL, which says:

"Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."
Perhaps the GP is referring to the display name. You get one user name but you can change how you are displayed per server. Nitro users can change the icon, too.
In slightly longer layman's terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlKIjLWq-Y

Snopes did recently confirm that this video is in fact accurate.
Twas always thus, and is beautifully described by John Berger in his book nd tv series Ways of Seeing. In, I think, 1974? Well worth your youtube time.
Bold to make a prediction like that. But I think perhaps the author doesn't understand Kubernetes as much -- you can run Webassembly as the runtime for Kubernetes, and get the other things Kubernetes provide, such as self-healing. It's because Kubernetes is not built monolithically, and things like the runtime or kubelet can be replaced with something else.

https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/01/28/webassembly-on-ku...
That's kind of a big if. We're assuming the users are happy, but from what I've seen having to rely on Patreon or other external apps is making users unhappy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachydactyly_type_D
Or just

x = x mod 10
y = y mod 10
I view it as relevant, but not as they probably intended...

Personally I think a $250K luxury service falls pretty firmly into the realm of buyer beware.

This isn't some student loan for a degree in fortune telling an 18 year old was scammed into, you have to have some real wealth to consider doing this and have a responsibility to do your own research before you go diving 12,000 feet in the ocean.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65967464?ns_mc...:

> We have just had an update from dive expert David Mearns, who says the debris includes "a landing frame and a rear cover from the submersible".

> Mearns is a friend of passengers aboard the Titan.

> Mearns has told the BBC that the president of the Explorers Club (which is connected to the diving and rescue community), provided this new information.
I've never met anyone like this, but imagine if you will someone who can't procrastinate. Not someone who doesn't want to, but someone actually unable to leave something until tomorrow.

I think that would raise questions about their wellbeing and health. That seems like they have lost a healthy part of normal function.
> The "perpetual union" text was in the Articles of Confederation, not the Constitution, which of course replaced the AoC.

The constitution explicitly says that it's aim is to perfect the (perpetual) union that was established in the articles. The SCOTUS viewed that as clear evidence that the framers intended the union to be indissoluble.

> after secession and the war, thus ex-post-facto.

Ex-post-facto means a law that makes an act illegal that was previously legal.

In this case, that is not what happened. The legality of unilateral succession wasn't fully clear until the supreme court ruled. There was no new law created, just an official confirmation that Lincoln's position was indeed what the framers had intended and what the law had been all along.

You are trying to change the meaning of "ex-post-facto" to one that would apply to pretty much every SCOTUS decision ever and render the term meaningless.

The confederate states could have taken a case to the supreme court to challenge Lincoln's position. Perhaps the precedent would have been different if they had.

The confederate states could also have waited for Lincoln to invade or even blockade before resorting to violence.

Trying to paint the confederate states as a victim is simply inaccurate. They chose the path of violence and the entire country paid the price for their desire to maintain slavery. An institution that was not only highly immoral, but also one that was doomed and that would have put them at odds with the rest of the world within half a century.
> They become so by colonizing and stealing other's resources.

Pretty sure all of the former colonies are independent nations by now, and have been for more than a generation.

> Then the map projections that are convenient for them, are imposed upon the rest of humanity.

Excuse me? Who is imposing what on whom now, and how?

Last time I checked, everyone is free to use whatever map projection they want, centered on whatever point of the globe they want. Or they can use an actual globe.

> has the side-benefit for them of presenting said countries as larger than they are, and thus being one more way to subconsciously hammer onto everybody their superiority at that level too...

Yeah, pretty sure I don't perceive Antarctica as some kind of superior super-nation. Or greenland, although I gotta say, it's a really cool place, especially during summer.
Look up "normalization of deviance".

Perversely, a bunch of near-disasters can reduce people's concern and make them less likely to demand fixes because "it did that last time too and everything turned out okay" is a powerful rationalization.
> If they don't want private subs, then convert them to public and turn that feature off.

I can understand the sentiment, however users of Reddit employ private subreddits for a variety of reasons. Top of the list is in order to facilitate safe discussions, secure from prying eyes. For Reddit Inc it is a benefit, since it encourages moderator groups and communities to remain within the platform. e.g.

> r/ArmyofScience

> A private community for the comment moderators of /r/science to organize and discussion moderation of the subreddit.

If such private communities were forced open, it would require moderator groups, or those other private communities, to join the exodus to other platforms.

There are also some more personal collections on the site, without a doubt. Switching those to public would constitute a huge violation the trust which users have placed in Reddit and only further erode the company's image within communities that make their home on the site as well as with the public at large.

Lastly, there are over 3 million subreddits in existence [0], so even changing this manually would be a sizeable task.

[0] https://www.businessdit.com/how-many-subreddits-are-there/
In the US these days, I think it's fair to consider military contractors as part of "the military".
APIs I am familiar with differ, primarily, on the size of the data and additional features (formats supported, timeliness, etc).
Vue 3 is kind of dead. Almost no features in the last year. Look at the GitHub repo, little activity, mostly maintenance stuff.

I suspect author (Evan) lost interest, given the Vue 2/3 situation (similar to Python 2/3) and the lost battle against React.
I don't have much faith that there are people who value true "free speech" these days. I think the term "free speech" is just a rallying cry to allow what I want to say and prevent others from saying things that contradict my views.

Elon "free speech" Musk recently announced that "cis" is a slur on Twitter but that "deadnaming" trans people isn't, but this is very much an opinion derived from a specific world view and now he is imposing that across the board. Okay, sure, that is his right, he owns the place. But please drop the "free speech" talk when really you just want to elevate your preferred viewpoint over alternatives.
One thing I miss the most from Xcode is the ability to double-click on any delimiter pair ([...], (...), <...>, {...}) to select all text between those delimiters.

I filed an issue against VSCode to get this implemented, but it never got enough upvotes..

Maybe posting about it here is my chance to get it done? :-P

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/85587
>Inhalants, petrol, glue, nitrous oxide. Whatever is available.

Relevant:

TIL that "petrol sniffing" to get high is a big problem among Australian aborigines. Opal, a special gasoline, is sold in aborigine areas to discourage sniffing; although it requires a government subsidy, doing so saves money compared to the cost of treating petrol sniffing. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6mtqb9/til_th...>
It doesn't help that the US allows a great deal of advertising that is completely misleading and/or inaccurate. Many terms means absolutely nothing when used in advertising and can be used by anyone, but are clearly designed to entice people to buy crap.
Society's perspective isn't just marketing. Alcohol engages the brain's reward center much less effectively / directly than heroin, so it is objectively less problematic. However, alcohol's prevalence means it has many more negative effects. I'd put sugar in a similar category.
The things that bit me with svelte's reactive statements is that they are run at the end of componenent initialization (but they are part of it, unlike onMount's arg)

Now I always keep my reactive statements below my regular js statements, to remember.

Also I think it would have been clearer to call onMount, afterMount
> This assumes a level of rational, clear-headed thinking in face of an unanticipated lethal situation.

What I wonder is how long before someone realizes they've passed the point of resurfacing alive and happen to have the man responsible for this, trapped in what's now a deep-sea cage-match to the death.

If it's lights out either way with high confidence, one of these paths is far more interesting.
> From an engineering standpoint, Titan didn't have any safety features at all.

This isn't quite true. It had multiple redundant ways to drop ballast, for example.

What I would say from what I was able to find out (and with some familiarity of safety engineering processes from work; I make cars) is that it's safety-concept was very spotty. It had solutions to some problems, but also large gaps in the safety concept. Safety was not addressed in holistic fashion.

It's interesting to compare this with solutions found in other subs. For example, Titan had four different ways to drop ballast, but from the list I saw, all of them required manual intervention by a non-incapacitated crew and electronics to be working.

On Cameron's Deepsea Challenger--by another rich guy who funded a vanity dive, and relying on homebrew innovations in material science--ballast was held by corrosible wire that would be corroded by seawater in a set time, so the sub would eventually surface automatically. Ballast drop was also triggerable remotely by an acoustic signal, more reliable than radio. The available info is pretty bad, but Titan may not have had those solutions in place.

I'm very much out of my depth (no pun intended) on naval/submarine engineering, and I'm hoping for someone with better knowledge to extend that comparison somewhere.
It will result in me missing mostly garbage content, occasionally quality content, in exchange for other content which is quality that isn't missed. It's not like I just decided one day to avoid content in this fashion, you waste enough time and energy on low quality content and you eventually learn ways to notice and avoid it.

> revealing yourself as more than a bit bigoted

A man was once asked by a journalist whether or not he was a "racist". His response was as follows, "I've thought about that a lot, and I've concluded that it doesn't matter."
I'm going insane trying to work for other people.

I think it's about time to try a business.
That’s what they wanted to charge - Reddit only makes $0.13/user/mo, so their cost must be less than that (or else Reddit has much bigger problems), so let’s say $0.05/user/mo. Apollo has 2 million users, so $1.2 million per year.

Moreover, at that cost, less than a dollar per user per year, Apollo could have instituted a $1/year subscription. But instead Reddit wanted over $100 per user per year, two orders of magnitude more than the cost.
Fullack. Is it based on Matrix and federates with it? If no, no thanks.
You can't just have a phone that works at those depths
Look, if you're going to make a claim about LLMs and Human minds being intrinsically different, you're going to have to lay out a testable hypothesis.

Saying "LLMs will never be able to solve programming problems with variable renaming" would be a testable hypothesis. "LLMs cannot reason about recursion" would be a testable hypothesis.

Something like "LLMs can act as if they understand but they don't truly understand" is NOT a testable hypothesis. Neither is "LLMs are different because we possess qualia and they don't". In order for these to be actually saying something, you would need to bring them to conclusions. "LLMs can act as if they understand but they don't truly understand AND THEREFORE TESTABLE CLAIM X SHOULD BE TRUE"

But without a testable conclusion, these statements do not describe the world in any meaningful way! They are what you accuse LLMs of producing - words strung together that seem like they have meaning!
> Is Red Hat trying to kill downstream clones?

> We cannot speak to Red Hat’s intentions, and can only point to the things they have said publicly. We have had an incredible working relationship with Red Hat through the life of AlmaLinux OS and we hope to see that continue.

Reading between the lines, it sounds like they have a similar relationship to Red Hat that I do: tons of great folks who still work there and weren't burned by the IBM acquisition... but officially it doesn't seem like community downstreams that filled in the role CentOS used to play have a good relationship with Red Hat.

Otherwise this change (which some people are saying is fine, just poorly communicated) would've been announced with time for the community to adapt to it, rather than being announced in a blog post a week or two after the technical/process change was made!
It was not FUD. It’s not faster than carefully mutating the DOM, but back then, almost no one was “carefully mutating the DOM” all the time. It was a shit-show of ad hoc re-rendering strategies that often re-rendered excessively because no one has time to do it carefully for every case. For most common use cases, VDOM had great performance with little cognitive overhead.
New Tool: Mess with DNS
Maybe they shouldn't call it Svelte 4 then. Major version in semver are usually breaking.
Are there reasons the meat cannot be fortified with them?

I found one source talking about nutrient problems, which talks about B12 and iron, and suggests adding them to the nutrient mix. https://www.burdockgroup.com/the-nutritional-challenges-of-c...
In my experience, that's exactly how this plays out every single time.

Dev: Can we have a function to clear a map?

Go: No, it's easy enough to write the 5 lines of code to just do it yourself every time.

Dev: Okay, I don't see why I should have to write those 5 lines every time but fine. Isn't looping over everything going to be slower than just… having a function that can empty the internals?

Go: We've implemented a compiler optimization to detect this and rewrite it to the faster code it would have been if it we were to implement it.

Dev: Isn't that… way harder than just writing the method? Anyway, I noticed this solution doesn't actually always work because of this edge case.

Go: Just handle the edge case every time then.

Dev: That's the point. I can't.

And around and around we go.
I am a bit mystified at your apparent belief that the military has any obligation to proactively tell anybody anything, or find it shocking that a military would ever hide things from anybody, to the point that you would attack people claiming that they might do so.

Are you aware that there is, in fact, a such thing as "classified" information? If you'll pardon me linking to that hotbed of conspiratorial thinking, the Cornell Law School, here's some of the basic, completely open, law covering such things: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/798

Where on Earth do you get the idea that everyone in the world is operating in a regime where they tell you everything you want to know simply because you want to know it?

You are operating at personally dangerous levels of naivety, like, levels that are going to cost you money when you fall for a big scam because you thought someone was just informing you of a great money-making opportunity, as everyone always does when they find a way to make money. Or worse. You're light years beyond "rejecting conspiracy theories", you're operating on a Theory of Mind that has no visible correspondence to the real world. This is not how the world works. People and organizations do not rush to reveal everything they are, everything they can do, everything they know, to everybody, all the time, for free, simply because it would be really nice, and the military least of all!
Seeing the world from the hills: A study of the United Wa State Army