skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Our own hope is that, through AI, we can eventually approximate a 1:1 teacher:student ratio for every student in CS50, as by providing them with software-based tools that, 24/7, can support their learning at a pace and in a style that works best for them individually,”

Is the goal to improve students learning or to reduce cost? The article does not even mention it. And I think that it is important to state the goal to know if the technology succeeds or fails. Too many "new technologies" are promoted by salesmen that move posts as soon as it fails and claim victory for things that nobody asked for.
doesn’t your example make clear the existence and nature of free will?

it’s obvious in its absence
Current Xbox controller is just fine, but I feel it stopped evolution. I want to see any evolution for controller, like trackpad for aim on Steam Controller.
How worried are top AI experts about the threat posed by large language models
My experience was that those kinds of back covers would always come loose over time and/or after they were removed a few times they never fit properly again.
Why 2050 ? They are already today neuter about climate. /s
You’re very perceptive! That’s a great sledge (put down, for non-Aussies). I had the same fear. But thankfully our customers rescued me from that delusion! :)
You ideally want both exponential back off plus some random delay (to prevent thundering herd).
Those changes won't kick in until at least 2027, but even then, it's very questionable how feasible it is, considering there aren't enough teachers to cover the demand even at these exorbitant end-user prices.
The history behind the development of SMW : https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3543873.3585579
not the ad hominem lol
> That's your problem then, don't you think?

No need to play the man or be belittling.

Point still stands that the EU smartphone market is so little that any regulation isn't hurting them. Regulation on car repairability definitely would, hence why you stil need to visit the BMW dealer if you want to change the 12-volt battery or activate your heated seats. The EU will not likely do anything about that.
Guffaw! Snort!
Now, THAT is refeshing.
Funny how this is posted after the post about Second Life. I'm not entirely sure how it works, but I think Tilia is a sort of money processor for Second Life, which allows users to exchange their virtual currency for real world USD.
"Ukrainian volunteers fighting the Soviets"

That's not the only thing they were doing. [0]

"like Azov Brigade"

I'd recommend a book by a Canadian journalist collaborating with Bellingcat on the subject of Azov and other Ukrainian nationalists. [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Divisi...

[1] http://cup.columbia.edu/book/from-the-fires-of-war/978383821...
> I would set traps to ensure that they are doing that. ;)

You won‘t have to. Students are extraordinarily skilled at fining endless pitfalls on their own.
Microsoft admits Xbox “lost the console wars”
Why shouldn’t I assert my preferences?
Those phones were not water resistant. While maybe not important to some, to others it is
I think lots of people would keep their (plain text markdown) notes in Drive instead of using yet another tool / app / service for that. Besides, having
unencrypted text files at your disposal (for... I don't know... peeking into?) would be an absolute win.
Those tabs are not that easy to pull by hand. Very easy to break and then you're forced to pry out the battery, which is less safe than if it didn't need prying.

I know the glue is unnecessary because every time I've replaced a battery, I didn't glue the new one back in, and my phone performed fine.
I mean, I'd agree. Most people do not operate at scale, and prematurely optimizing for a scale that most people will never reach is a bad idea.

However if we're talking about Wikipedia, any scaling concerns at all basically make it a non-starter.
I’m sure you know this, but for readers who don’t, it’s much more complex than “last defined wins with a few override options”. Based on “specificity”, rules based on the selector used.

Some examples:

1. #mydiv overrides .mydiv - IDs are more specific than classes

2. .outerdiv .innerdiv overrides .innerdiv - nested selectors are more specific

3. .mydiv overrides div - classes are more specific than elements

And a lot of other rules.

I can’t imagine I’d want this level of complexity in config files.
A neat special case of "hope is not a strategy" from SRE-land!
The wp article does mention gigaset and https://www.shiftphones.com/ but not Fairphone nor https://www.carbonmobile.com/ who as with shift and gigaset are building manufacturing in Germany (mostly north east). Shift has a plant in China and just does finishing in Germany. But that's a given, I believe. Can't source all things in one country. Or?
If the title is correct, a welcoming trend for someone like me trying to apply the advancement in robotics/embodied agent. The bigger the model (generally) the more data required is a constraint very hard to satisfy on a hardware with other requirements (energy consumption, inference speed, memory limitations), not to mention the data collection that is order of magnitude more tedious compares to image and texts
Simple: if you make your documents in Markdown, you won't be making them in Google Docs. Stuff made in Google Docs is sticky, increases your dependence on Google, and importantly has a valuable network effect due to their collaboration features. It is in Google's best interest to encourage you to rely on their proprietary services instead of offering you alternatives that allow you to switch provider easily.

Additionally, the "people who know what Markdown is but also like trusting Google with their files" demographic is vanishingly small and not who Drive is targeting at all.
> The invasion of Ukraine enjoys popular support inside Russia - around 70%.

You should not take this number seriously. It has been greatly exaggerated by russian propaganda. At the same time there is no independent reliable polling in russia at this time. Also, Russians are reluctant to share their real views due to harsh criminal+administrative penalties for "spreading fakes about the army". The war vividly exposed all the corruption, grift, lawlessness, inefficiencies in russia on a huge scale. But people are anemic and resined to their fate. 20 years of putin took the wind out of their sails.
There's already Google Keep for notes.
Is my model of the world that different to that of an LLM?

Well, one major way you’re different from an LLM is that you’re alive. You’re capable of learning continuously as you go about your day and interact with the world. LLMs are “dead” in the sense that they’re trained once and frozen, to be used from then on in the exact same state of their initial training.
By becoming an first party OS developer, it doesn't need to have rootkit.
A feeling is an embedding?
Are there any good examples of projects that do this really well?
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0237...

> (11) This Regulation should apply to all categories of batteries placed on the market or put into service within the Union, regardless of whether they were produced in the Union or imported. It should apply regardless of whether a battery is incorporated into appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles or otherwise added to products or whether a battery is placed on the market or put into service within the Union on its own. This Regulation should apply regardless of whether a battery is specifically designed for a product or is of general use and regardless of whether it is incorporated into a product or is supplied together with or separately from a product in which it is to be used. Placing on the market is considered to take place when the battery has been made available for the first time on the Union market, by being supplied by the manufacturer or importer for distribution, consumption or use in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge. Thus, batteries placed in stock in the Union by distributors, including retailers, wholesalers and sales divisions of manufacturers, before the date of application of relevant requirements of this Regulation do not need to meet those requirements.
I guess when the 13 and 14 was added it was essentially a pay increase in some negotiation? And stuck around? However, if the company has more money in some point of the year, it makes sense for them to pay more wage at that time.
It's interesting that you mention it. I'm interested ocean sailing simply becuase it gives me something to actually focus on and do. I feel that if I'm not actively struggling against nature I have too much brain spurious brain activity.
We have present day nightmares to think about, thank you.
Imagine an array bool[100] initialized with false. Set every (100/N) elements to true, where 0 < N <= 100. Associate that array with the %N statement. Give it also a counter, incremented each time the statement is encountered. Execute statement when array[counter % 100] == true, skip otherwise.

I think this fits the specification, isn't a perverse interpretation, and clearly isn't a meaningful PRNG either.
A flight track of the presidential plane departing the usual airport in Moscow, and switching off its transponder 100km later.
Tech giants could be fined billions in fake news crackdown
Sony's purchases were generally smaller individual studios that didn't have big libraries of existing established IPs?

There doesn't seem to be many examples of them buying studios to take existing cross platform megahits exclusive.

Edit: They apparently bought Bungie recently? Wikipedia kinda doesn't include it in their list of PlayStation studios in a normal fashion so I missed it. I suppose that is buying a big IP in Destiny (in reaction to the MS-AB takeover?), although that's basically a 1 game studio (next to no-one is really going to care about Myth or Marathon), so it's still a fair bit smaller than the sort of stuff proposed with MS and A-B.
i fully agree with this.
i usually say, "how do you know someone is a parent? they will ** tell you!"
Imagine what Feynman could have produced if he had used LSD correctly! He could have been as productive as Jack Kerouac!
> we’re all scratching our heads

The point is not for me and you to scratch our heads; the point is for the guys in the White House to scratch their heads.

> It might be domestic political theatre

It's not domestic; it's international political theatre.

> for Macron’s benefit

It's for Putin's benefit; it sends a "negotiate with me as others might be worse" signal to the West. Macron is not a beneficiary; he's a target audience.

Having said all that to explain my point, the whole point might be wrong.
Still the best MMO in my opinion, there is no better mage combat in any other games
It's physiological rather than philosophical. Auditory stimuli are sensed through your ear and tactile through the somatosensory system (in humans). There's some crossover in the frequencies both can detect.

There's also some potential crossover in how these may be perceived. For example, experiments which show you may in fact be able to 'hear' through your fingers; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06855-8.
Skydivers carry reserves though, free-soloists eschew safety equipment.
I use that since day one, I love it as a product. But still, this is not about notes, it's about supporting a simple, text-based file format.
The show needs to seem convincing, so they add some "special effects."
FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks
It's not so much off-putting as just covering up for the fact that the explanation above is pedagogically bad.

I had to open both snippets in two tabs so I could flip between them and spot all the actual differences, which is that 1) the listener creation was moved out of the go-routine, 2) the port was changed to auto, and 3) the sleep call was removed.

Making the server support multiple instances at same time is a distraction, because you could do the same with the old code. The trick here is that creating the listening socket in the original thread means you can also use auto-port assignment and then fetch the port from the returned object.

This would be unnecessary if you queried for a free port first, so perhaps the point here is that an atomic port reserve-and-listen system also prevents race conditions over the port number.

These are all good angles that could be naturally woven into the explanation. Instead you get furries discussing moldy bread, which doesn't tell you anything, but I suppose makes both reader and writer feel like they got something out of it.

Personally, I feel like the post is cheating by suggesting "in order to synchronize a server and a client, just create the server inside the client!" ... ummm. If you could do that, you wouldn't have a synchronization problem in the first place.
EDIT: I realise I was mistaken about the OP. He is not an undergarduate student, as I initially thought. His substack profile says he is a professional engineer and consultant. So his complete cluelessness about computer science fundamentals is not the result of inexperience, and his article is nothing more than an attempt to jump on the current bandwagon of LLM hype rather than an attempt to make sense of things. I thought I was helping a CS grad learn something! What an idiot I am! Fuck. φτου γαμώ την Παναγία μου.

[Earlier text of my comment left in the interest of something or other]

It is, but it's published in the proceedings of the ICML, which means it's been peer reviewed.

The OP has checked out (I guess all this computer scienc-y stuff is boring on a weekend), but even a peer-reviewed article is not enough to cause us to let go of good, old-fashioned computer science. The article basically invents its own language and then proceeds to map transformers to it, to claim that transformers can learn various kinds of programs. It's not convincing.

In any case, learning to sort lists by neural nets is not something new, or unique to transformers, and there's pretty clear understanding of how it works. I explain why it doesn't constitute learning an algorithm in my comment above. The RASP paper doesn't change that. I mean, Recurrent Neural Nets have a known equivalence to FSMs but even they cannot learn algorithms but only approximate them. The OP wrote his article in an obvious effort to understand why GPT is "not an n-gram" even if it behaves like an n-gram model (well, it's a language model, it doesn't matter what it's trained on) so I'm guessing he can appreciate the need for clarity in explaining empirical results and he probably will want to think further on what, exactly, his experiment has shown. I hope my little comment above will help him do that.
FlightPHP does the trick.
Arguably, “the specified percent chance of being executed each time” implies that the choice taken each time must not be predictable and thus must be truly random.
How can he promise that, given that it's a walled garden and they can't publish anything without Sony's approval?
Thank you - I’ll check it out
Thank you I’ll check it out
'Additionally, the "people who know what Markdown is but also like trusting Google with their files" demographic is vanishingly small and not who Drive is targeting at all.' <--this 200%
LLMs can be deterministic too at temperature 0
I found the Obsidian mobile app to be really flaky. Unreliable sync and it didn’t feel at all like a native app (on iOS at least).
Harvard is one a few institutions that's effectively not resource constrained. I believe them when they say this
This is how we wind up with three implementations of a “Windows-style Registry” while also having all the other management modes; local dotfiles,system dotfiles, all of /etc and whatever is allowed under /opt.

Be smarter about package management and this is a non-issue; checksums, install-time dumps of file modifications, and the like.

It’s why tools like CFEngine and the rest were invented, and I’m upset this is still an issue for people like OP twenty years later.
It’s a tricky one in this age of “free”. I’d ironically pay for them to allow my agency and privacy, I’m probably not _most_ people though.
Was that 3.5 or 4? Just curious.
Not only that, but past a certain complexity of the config, programs should have a way to dump their runtime config to the command line. Yes, I am talking to you, server daemons that take configs from 2-3 different rc-file locations, hardcoded defaults, envvars, the moon phase and the current market value of dried parsnips.

If you don't have a way to simply tell me what your current config is, then you have no earthly right to run it.
Joplin isn't that easy to setup for family. It also doesn't work like that for Dropbox, it links to a specific app folder on your own account. I'm also not sure about distributed editing it would result in a lot of conflict notes that you manually must fix.

Just use Notion or Google Drive folder with docs if you don't have too many notes.
Sounds like an addiction, which is never good.
Harvard only charges tuition to those who can afford it. You don't pay a dime if your parents make under $85k.

https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works
There is little maths to show off "AI skills", then there are many scammers.

If there is so much money, which is where the "absurd" is, better target people with validated maths PHDs. Moreover, those researchers will need access to super computers in order to test at scale their work (because it all about stability at scale), and that's a limiting parameter.

Additionally, "AI" is just a set of empirical algorithms attempting to mimic human cognition. The trick is to find mathematical stability (production, training, etc) for large scale simulated connectomes: I am still surprised there is still not a "sleep" regime for those articial connectomes, which we know is critical for brain stability, maybe it is a part of the new "training" regimes.

I am still waiting for the educational material which will let people picture a connectome based on the latest "transformers". Because, in the end, nobody understands anything about this, it is beyond us. It will be hard to tell apart the scammers looking to steal fundings from the others.
I feel no standards for config files is probably the biggest reason app containers got traction with advanced home users. Save your docker containers nuke your server install move to a new distro and reimport back the app container.
I’m surprised this is the calculus even though it makes sense as you’ve stated it.

Sweden could do well to plan on building out wind power that’s surplus to their needs (as could many other places), solely because it can be exported if you’re long term over-capacity for what you need.

Storage is the big hurdle, but there’s a lot of novel options here. Concrete batteries are a fairly simple example of creative ways to store energy and I’m sure there’s better options than just planning on more rare Earth metals.

larger scale hydrogen extraction maybe? (I don’t know much about this just throwing it out there).
If your lights don't dim when overclocking, are you truly overclocking?
$8 USD ($12 AUD) seems incredibly expensive just to sync your markdown notes around. That’s three times the price of my entire iCloud services (which apps other than Obsidian sync with fine, but Obsidian has all sorts of issues with it).
I used to use the 1st gen Discovery at a previous job and it had plenty of rough edges, and it was also less capable as an oscilloscope than the Saleae, but it also showed a lot of potential.

I haven't tried the 3rd gen but it does look very promising if you're building a hardware home lab on a tight budget and can't afford or don't want multiple dedicated devices cluttering your working area.

At the advertised MSRP of $380, as a do-it-all device, it's unbeatable.
Or simply use a filesystem that allows snapshots.
If it works out that the first party has to ship a harmful release to everyone and they can only supply that release through a second party in source code form then we are way ahead of the case where there is only one party. A conspiracy involving multiple entities is much harder to get away with than a unilateral action.
I think a word other than narcissist could describe the inner voice. I feel this word choice is pejorative and probably not even accurate description for what is going on.
GPT-4 answer:
The weight of an object is determined by its mass, regardless of whether it floats or sinks. So, when you ask which is heavier, a small passenger ferry or a two metric ton heavy rock, it all comes down to the actual mass of the ferry.

A two metric ton rock weighs two metric tons by definition (or 2000 kilograms). However, a small passenger ferry, while it may look small compared to large ferries or ships, can weigh much more than two metric tons. Even a small passenger ferry can weigh dozens or even hundreds of tons, due to the mass of the hull, the engine, and other equipment on board.

So, without specific information about the ferry's mass, it's safe to assume that a "small" passenger ferry is likely heavier than a two metric ton rock. However, if the ferry is particularly small and lightweight, or the term "ferry" is being used to describe a very small watercraft (like a raft or dinghy), it's possible for it to be lighter. You would need the specific weight of the ferry to give a definitive answer.
Google Drive is a perfect example of today's Google. "Good enough -- just barely".

It could be a very fast, efficient file browser with lots of format previews. It's not.

Doing basic "file manager" things such as viewing/extracting files from a .zip, editing a plain-text file, or viewing markdown… all those are just "too complicated" for a small indie company like Google.

Drive is incredibly powerful, and yet it's just awful compared to what it could be. If someone one day makes a "better web UI" for Drive with better functionality, but that still uses google drive in the backend, damn I want in.
This is how they sold it: E2E. Could not reason with those people.

What I am saying is that people tend to slap the E2E label on pretty much anything without understanding what it really means.
There's another factor: hunger is proportional to weight via leptin resistance. If you have normal genes and can get to a slightly underweight state, then you should have improved leptin sensitivity and eat slightly less. I noticed this factor as my grandfather lost weight, ate less, and it became a vicious cycle where he struggled to maintain weight. Also as I gained weight, I became hungrier and hungrier. I'm on Wegovy now.
I'm not an Electron hater but I really want notes apps to feel as responsive as possible.
Do you have a reason to dislike it? It it because its a colloquialism/ambiguity or because you consider “shit” to be a naughty word?
I tried all three of those and found something to dislike about each of them, haha. Just picky, I guess.
QQ is made by the same company as WeChat. It was like the last gen IM, with a desktop focused application and an accompanying social media (QQ Space, so you know what the inspiration was). They are still used nowadays but in a much more niche.
Doctor convicted of twelve counts of illegally prescribing opioids
> Do you have any evidence that contradicts that claim?

Empirical evidence? Yes I do.

The brain commands an entity that has to exist and function in the context of objective reality. Being unable to verify it's internal state against that, would have been negatively selected some time ago, because stating: "I'm sure that rumbling cave bear with those big sharp teeth is a peaceful herbivore" won't change the objective reality that the caveman is about to become dinner.

How that works in detail is, to the best of my knowledge, still the subject of research in the realm of neurobiology.
Can you do this as a non-root user?
What do you use for syncing notes?
A seatbelt wearing is very similar to sitting in a the seat of a car. Using ropes is very different from no ropes. Rope failure is probably more common than seatbelt failure so the safety margin difference may not be as great.