skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not "cheap," zero and sometimes even negatively priced.

The problem is that there is no way of utilizing that electricity. It is excess electricity generated by unpredictable renewable energy. You might as well use that free and useless electricity to make something actually useful.
You should give it another try. It's improved a lot.
Web Workers are not parallel - they are only concurrent to the main context: think OS threads. Async JS is akin to using very lightweight simulated threads.

You will not necessarily utilize more CPU cores by spawning additional Web Workers because they are not inherenent parallel. The actual performance of Web Workers depend on how your browser and OS schedules threads.

They are OS threads despite the mountain of misinformation on the Internet about them implying that they are truly parallel. They are not.
I haven't done any productive work for about 5 years so doing something and failing would be an improvement.
+1 to “The People’s Tycoon”
Living in southern Brazil surpasses the rest of the country in terms of quality of life (especially safety) imo. As for living in Floripa, it's a pretty easy-going lifestyle, being that it's a capital that's also a subtropical island. Nightlife isn't as you'd expect compared to bigger cities, but the many beaches, beautiful landscapes and friendly people you meet here definitely make up for it. Honestly, I wouldn't live anywhere else for the time being.
The context of that description is LinkedIn, and it's an accurate way to describe interactions on LinkedIn. I get the point you're making about politics, but it's not what GP was talking about (IMO).
You're forgetting that not everyone wants such a thing on their balcony and that you'll need to find someone to manufacture all of that (other countries want their solar still, too; it doesn't help us to deny Australia years of solar panel production only to put many on cloudy north-facing German balconies).

I don't know what the acceptance percentage as well as a realistic manufacturing rate is at such an order size (probably pretty fast), but it sounds like you're assuming the answers are "near 100%" and "a few years".
Weights are data in the same way that instruction codes in memory is data.
We rewrote our product in Go from scratch
Ah good to know, although I am a bit wary of a license from Oracle that is not a standard open source one :-) (The FAQ says it is free also for commercial use, so I will investigate)
"All rumors are false until officially denied" - Nassim Taleb
Only if the URL links to a specific tweet. The feed, and users' post history requires a login.
Might be worth checking with your local library to see if they offer a Kanopy.com subscription.

The monthly show checkouts are somewhat limited (I think 10 a month) but their offerings are pretty large and generally family friendly or education based, even though they do have some more modern or topical movies or shows from time to time.
I'm not sure if I'd call this "ripping off". It is broken english, but in the US you are allowed to say "X compatible replacement part" and not be infringing:

https://aaronhall.com/online-retailer-may-use-manufacturers-...

This listing doesn't exactly pass all of the tests, but as a buyer I'm currently not confused.
One thing I don't see discussed enough is that, ok let's say the weights are unencumbered, and the source is under an OSI license: the point of open source licenses and free software was to expose the *human understandable* meaning of the final program.

That's why distributing binaries isn't allowed even though technically all of the functionality is present in the machine code. AI weights are basically binary blobs. We don't know what they mean, there is really no source code for them. The best we can do is various black box manipulations on them like LoRA, etc, similar to what we can do to a binary blob.
Oh, absolutely. Even amongst all of the large servers, which expect to allow federation with Threads, none of them intend to give Meta special treatment. If they can't keep their house in order, they will end up getting defederated.

That being said, the big question will be how open Threads is to the rest of the fediverse. It likely won't include the global federated feed, so the question will be how much Threads users end up interacting with the average Mastodon user. It might end up being we only see Threads users when they either manually know a user they want to follow, or Meta promotes content from folks like George Takei into Threads and we see trash comments on that.
Amazon runs advertisements with its shows now...it just does so under the channel name "FreeVee".
I never really thought of it that way. I guess people who scroll Reddit and Twitter all day are actually holding society together rather than wasting their lives. Thank you for your service.
But concurrency is just "single core parallelism" anyways, so this isn't really germane to the discussion.

JS has neither.
I can't really visualize complex shapes in 3D and so molecular graphics (like pymol) is really important to me. Even in other areas, like math shape viz (which I do for "fun") and various other 3D modelling, it's really key that I have a quick way of assembling things and rotating them around.
> There are some animations/transitions which get in the way for me.

I do hate those (but I hate all animations/transitions in desktop environments). You can turn them all off, though -- that's what I do.
This article is evidence? what?
https://bhoey.com/blog/

I try to write up helpful or interesting pieces I feel either aren't covered sufficiently elsewhere or for my own reference.

Covers a pretty wide array of technologies (software architecture, messaging systems, DBMSs, etc).

I generally try to target the intermediate level that often gets lost in the spectrum between surface-level intros or expert level deep dives. My hope is that someone gains an better understanding or discovers a new practical tool or approach that they can then use to better their life and career.
Shoshin and shoshinsha (beginner) are everyday words in Japanese, not special Zen terms.
Very nice thanks.
That can not be a word, it is too big. One pulse per word is the most there can be.
Nuclear powerplants convert thermal energy to electricity. Or they could just supply the thermal energy, with even better efficiency.

Your neighbors are making a SMR for that purpose https://www.teplator.cz/home/?lang=en
Because it wasn't normal.

The time I saw it, it wasn't at the seats like the other comments are suggesting. It was at the ticket line, an old couple who didn't understand why they had to pick a seat, or what the screen in front of them represented, or something like that. I don't remember how that was resolved but they did end up getting a ticket and going in. After seeing that I'm assuming there were people who didn't bother and went somewhere else.
Yeah I think that’s the reason it didn’t happen ;) not saying it’s impossible to make in less than 2kb, but it would have to be around 1kb to make it really worthwhile, so they could squeeze in more content.
I don't really think this is a "bravery debate" as defined in that article. And I do think a lot of people who might not read HN or be involved in online discussions get their information from "the news." So I do think it's relevant that they're couching things in terms of fears about sentient AI rather than pointing out how flawed algorithmic systems are already causing damage to people.
The biggest winner in all this will be Netflix. They’re the only profitable streaming service and we’ll see all these streamers consolidate and either sell their catalogs again or cut down on spending
I recommend listening to/ reading Alan Kay's works, especially for a idiosyncratic history of computing. You don't get many facts as is, but sophisticated interpretations of various disciplines, how to combine them, with a strong focus on history of technology (and other important ideas).
If you don't say this, someone somewhere on the internet will accuse you of thinking your news source is perfectly unbiased, even if you never said such a thing. It's a useful caveat just to try and defuse that kind of low signal argumentation.
While at a conference last year, I got COVID. My hotel refused to extend my stay, and wanted me to take an ambulance ride to another "COVID quarantine" hotel. I had a bad fever, was far away from my home and family, and didn't know what to do.

I had deleted all my social media accounts years ago, but on a whim, I created a new Twitter account and posted @ the hotel and the conference organizers, asking for help. Within 30 minutes, my hotel stay was extended and I was able to fly home five days later.

I wanted to share this story because I wanted to bring some positive perspective to the discussion about these platforms. I don't know if a government-built social media platform is a good idea, but I think there's merit to a discussion of a "public utility".
> MOATs wise, SDKs are very defensible as the cost of switching them is very high and unlike web3, AI is fully embraced & encouraged by big tech, which is driving the confidence & fomo amongst the medium & small tech players.

This isn't universally true of course; content rights and data privacy are to AI as securities and regulatory concerns are to crypto.
Fortunately, capitalism ensures you will have other choices besides Amazon.
Haha as I said. One example.

I never said that open-source couldn‘t exist I said it’s not substainable for a business.

I get it you like open source. But as shown open source businesses are generally not substanable.

Sure you have a tiny percentage that can make a living from open source. And of that tiny percentage they are employed by businesses that operate as closed source.

I think really, you‘re the on who needs to grow up. It’s quite pathetic to act like this.
LXD is fantastic software, makes spinning up VM-like containers extremely easy. I used it for several years before moving to proxmox for a more mature manageable solution.

Agree it would be vastly more popular and interesting if it didn't require snap.
> the movie/TV industry is built on false scarcity

What is the “false scarcity”?
Services like https://www.justwatch.com make it easier to track shows as they move from service to service, as well...
Funny, I wish there was a way to pay for streaming media without the shipping.
Problem number one: Who gets to comment on taxpayer-financed USGov social media? Citizens, immigrants, foreign nationals? And if you limit it to citizens, well you have to verify so it'd be linked to you social security, IRS, driver's license or some such. Does only the government get to see that information or is your account completely de-anonymized?

Problem number two: It'd have to be completely open-source code with transparent moderation, no behind-the-scenes games of amplifying, deamplifying, front-page access control, etc., as that's manipulation of free speech. If there were mechanisms for forming groups, you couldn't, say, ban neo-Nazi groups as that's an infringement of US free speech laws. A lot of people would protest, saying they don't want their tax dollars going to provide a platform for groups they dislike to congregate on.

Problem three: if social media is a public service like roads, electricity, water, or broadband (generally all nationalized services in more rational countries than the USA), you can't just cut people off because you don't like their views and opinions, no matter how unpleasant they are. If what they're saying or sharing is not explicitly illegal (and that's a relatively high bar, I think immediate incitement to violence is about it for speech, plus the usual video and image laws on child abuse etc.), how would you go about doing moderation or banning accounts?

I suppose a citizens/registered-immigrants-only non-anonymous government social media site running with completely transparent moderation (maybe users could democratically vote for moderators?) on a open-source platform would be somewhat interesting as people might self-moderate more, who knows?
Tell me you’ve not watched the talk...
I remember when people used to tell me this about wikipedia. Its just a bunch of random people on the internet editing each other without knowledge. It'll just create a mess and take longer than just looking it up in a highly curated encyclopedia.
The complexity described seems to be resting on the unestablished idea that weights are copyrightable in the first place. If they're not, then presumably "available weights", "ethical weights", and "open weights" are all the same: open weights. Either your weights are under NDA and presumably considered to be a trade secret, or they are public, and the words in your "license" mean absolutely nothing? That seems like a rather important point to bring up when discussing the licensing landscape for weights...
> I doubt the NYT is going to start publishing BS. Scientific journals like Nature also aren't going to start publishing BS because of LLMs.

Will they though? Leaving aside the NYT which I contend already publishes quite a bit of bull hockey. Here's how it goes.

Researcher: Provides outline of paper, GPT turn this into a scientific paper for me.

GPT: Turns it into a paper, but includes several not quite accurate statements, or hallucinates some information and facts, as well as fabricating just one or two citations.

Researcher: Gives it a once over, not a through review because that would defeat
the point of using an LLM to generate the content in the first place. Paper gets submitted.

Reviewer: Receives paper, throws it into GPT, "summarize this for me", GPT spits out a summary that looks mostly good, the reviewer skims over the actual paper, there are no glaring problems it gets published.

End result. We now have a paper with fabricated information stated as fact published in a reliable place, that then is cited and referenced, resulting in a degradation of quality of the information. This repeats and repeats and suddenly whole conferences are built on entirely hallucinated information.
OKL4 was shipped with 1.5 Billion mobile devices using Qualcomm chips

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20120211210405/http://www.ok-lab..., via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#Commerci...
When it comes to streaming content, the suits have all the data. It comes down to the simple formula of does this show keep and attract subscribers in sufficient numbers to make its production costs worthwhile.
The author of that article is simply wrong. I've seen this post more than once now and it is becoming a serious mistake on their part.

FYI, high energy density li-ion batteries existed since 2009: https://news.panasonic.com/global/press/en091218-2

There is hard contradictory evidence to the claims of that DoE article.
A typical household with say couple of newspapers and magazines, music and audio platforms, 2-3 sports and major streaming platforms in the U.S will be in the 300 range (see below)

I have only reasonably included couple of options in each category, you could mix and match preferences and use different providers or may get deals and it is part of combo with some other plan , however you will still be in this range.

- Streaming: ($121) (Prime, Apple have other uses bundled, Disney is undroppable if you have kids)

- Disney+ (ESPN, Hulu, Disney) - $20
- Netflix - $16
- Paramount+ - $12
- Max (HBO) - $20
- Peacock (NBC) - $10
- Apple Tv+ (via Apple One ) - $23
- Nebula - $5
- Amazon Prime $15

- Sports: ($33) ( or any other 2 sports )

- MLS - $13
- NBA - $20

- Music/Podcasts: ($50)

- Spotify(podcasts,list: $10
- YT music: $15
- Audible: 15

- Newspapers/ Magazines: ($65)

- NYTimes ( or main newspaper) : $16
- Bloomberg/FT ( or business daily): $25
- Economist/New Yorker (or other long form magazines): $20

Total: $269

On top you could be paying for

- any game network subscriptions like PlayStation Plus maybe $20-40
- one time purchases for movies/ games etc in addition to Prime, AppleTV+, Disney+ plans when they not included perhaps another $100 every month
- cable/internet/Mobile plans which are another ~ $200 easily
- Patreon/ podcasts or other creator specific subscriptions
- other personal productivity apps you may pay for (o365, Dropbox, email etc) maybe another $100

Final total: $700 / month on just subscriptions and licenses
But it doesn't work like that because these studies do not produce binary Good/Bad results. Researchers worry because they know that the results, however inconclusive/preliminary they might be, will be weaponized for political causes.
Could the barometer be run against the very first release of regex?
Almost like it might be a scam, odd
Why free? The USPS doesn't deliver mail for free, instead it charges for stamps.

There are people who think public transit should be free but others think that you're better off paying for it if it means there is more funding for a quality service. The last thing I'd want is a "free" service that sucks, I'd much rather pay for a quality service like Fastmail.
Of course weights are copyrightable. Otherwise nothing is copyrightable
working on a composable feature engineering abstraction for handling big pieces of FE pipelines: time travel, entity linkage, standardized interface, pluggable compute backends, and simplification of features with many tables
> AI also poses socio-ethical consequences that don’t exist on the same scale as computer software, necessitating more restrictions like behavioral use restrictions

There's plenty of software that has, or could have, similar restrictions. Consider software that allows you to plan vantage points for a shooting or estimate the impact of using explosives at various locations. And the government regulates all sorts of software for export/download because it has military use--everything from development tools to high performance chips that could be used to crunch numbers for a nuclear program, CAD software that can help you build (or destroy) a bridge, etc. The CPUs and GPUs themselves are regulated at certain performance levels, I think.

None of this is really new to AI.
> The entire tech industry is built on intellectual property.

The entire tech industry is built on free proyects, open source and collaboration. Modern tech is all about walled gardens and patent rent seeking because most modern tech leaders are awful.

See the always relevant xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/2347/
Why is it unestablished? Is a document not copyrightable based on its contents? Weights are just a different kind of a document.
No, but if my LLM were bad at math, I might say "humans are sometimes bad at math". One major missing element in current ML approaches is tool usage and how to decide when to use a tool vs not using one. It is an area that is currently being explored and expanded quickly.
How to Lie with Charts - https://www.amazon.com/How-Charts-Gerald-Everett-Jones/dp/14... or How to Lie with Stastitics - https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/03...

Always good reading, find at a library near you!
Or the choice to buy no tv content at all, a choice that our less-capitalist forefathers in the UK do not have !
This could be of interest: "GLaM: Efficient Scaling of Language Models with Mixture-of-Experts"[1]

Looking at OpenAI's recent introduction of ChatGPT's chat history and sharing features, it's plausible to suggest that the creation of a set of related documents (including chat interactions and documents sourced from plugins) could pave the way for "domain expert" models to participate in a group alongside "frozen" or "foundation" models. These domain expert models could be models that receive document content for inference.

I've conducted experiments where I sent document fragments (sourced from a vector search) in one query and combined it with another query without including the fragments. The results suggest that this approach can occasionally enhance the quality of the outcomes and seems to prevent the model from generating wildly inaccurate responses.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.06905.pdf
Are you for software patents?

I find it more palatable to be for copyright than for software patents.
I wrote about that overlap with entrepreneurship here: https://twitter.com/mizzao/status/1505529213612609536
Like flying a banner over Bezos house? Like The Expanse fans did.
I'm more thinking of Weird Al Yankovic's album "Running with Scissors" (1999).
StackRot (CVE-2023-3269): Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability
If it's only children protesting I have a hard time sympathizing with the protests. I feel that if something truly heinous happened then many French people would be protesting, not just children on TikTok.
My guess is that it isn't doing a lot of self-interaction. I've been using it for coding, and the replies feel much too coherent to be either:

1. expanded from an outline (2-stage process)

or

2. being chained between models

If it was multi-stage, I'd expect some chinese whispers-style drift, where the plot gets lost slightly between steps. The responses I'm getting from GPT4 are focused and specific.

Likewise, if the responses were getting chained between models, I'd expect visible seams in tone / content in between.

My guess for how they're architecturing it, if it is 8 models, is either:

1. Each response handled by 1 model

or

2. Some kind of voting / confidence system that switches between models on the fly
I don't think the captain was that incompetent; I was surprised after reading the article , how there was little in it to support the veiled attacks on the captain it started off with.

> I know many cases of incompetence in GA, but never in commercial aviation

You mean you have never heard of commercial aviation pilots making mistakes? This can't be right.
> Surveys show that vast number of people are working what they believe to be pointless jobs

Are survey conductors included in those stats?

> So no, people do not need to be creating value to be paid.

The fact that someone thinks their job is pointless done;t mean it isn't providing value to someone else.

> on stuff that should not be needed and helps no one,

Welcome to the real world where things are sub-optimal and people expend significant effort to keep things from falling apart.

> Ok technically it helps one incompetent person in the cto’s office who rose beyond their competency level feel important.

> Sounds like it is providing value to someone then?
If you're in the US, you can also just turn on the AQI layer in Google Maps. It uses data from Airnow and PurpleAir.

Out west, fireworks started a few wildfires and the air is bad again :( Peak Murica, let's shoot some explosives at nothing and see what burns lol

Edit: Wait, my bad, there isn't an identified link between these specific wildfires and yesterday's fireworks. That was just my own (biased) assumption.
Australia continues to creep me out. Really holding true to its prison island history.
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Yes, indeed. MUBI is the only one that, even though it’s kinda the costliest, doesn’t not make sense. I somehow like for its nature and the way it has so far stuck to it. “Good” cinema and no gimmicks and just for its target audience. Not sure whether they’re making money.