skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot easier to work with rat neurons. TL;DR a bit like "why use Postgres when you could be using Oracle?" ... or something, just thought of that because process overhead really does lead to safety and compliance audits

Opinion that's years out of date:

* The biosafety level is lower (all human tissue is automatically BSL2 or BSL2+ because it might have HIV and stuff)
* The best neural cultures (neurons + supporting cells) come from actual tissue, there aren't good stable immortal cell lines for neural cells. So this generally means fetal cells which for human tissue involves a boatload of process and bureaucracy. Fetal rats, *comparatively* have little bureaucracy.
* iPSC cells (Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / "stem cells harvested from adults") can generate neural cells but it's several stages removed, and still more process overhead if it's human tissue
* It's better to harvest actual brain tissue than grow them from progenitor lines. You can grab partially or fully differentiated cells by dissecting them out of specific locations (i.e. hippocampal neurons, dopaminergic neurons, ...). Forcing a population of progenitor cells to develop into what you want is a massive pain / still an "unsolved problem" in the sense that you can't buy a grow-a-brain kit. (NOT facetious, most labs that aren't dirt poor use kits as much as possible and it is TOTALLY worth it)
What exactly is the purpose of your comment? There's an entire section dedicated to open source models and how they're essential for progress.
It should be.

As soon as video data is in packets, it should be routable over a network like any other data.

Give up the custom connectors, custom cables, etc.

Need a wireless display? No worries, we can route the data over wifi too.

Need 5 displays? Thats what an ethernet switch is for. Screen mirroring? We have multicast.

Need a KVM? Well you can probably write a few scripts to change which computer your screen gets it data feed from.

I believe this hasn't happened simply because audio/video people like going to conferences to design their own standards every year, keep their licensing royalties, keep their closed club - a software-only solution over any IP network isn't going to fly.
Implementing Semantic Cache to Reduce LLM Cost and Latency
It's obvious they use data from github and other places. I am talking about extra 0.00..1% very high quality data they (likely)created.
I wish they would bring SOCOM back.
> a convenient distraction from these unquestionably real issues we will face, maybe even a deliberate part of helping it happen?

Oh certainly. Not for any higher purpose, but remember that OpenAI lost its shit and threatened to leave the moment the EU wanted to look into actually regulating the risks of their product. The driver is money, and little else.

AI people like Sam Altman want a very specific kind of "AI regulation" - a mostly toothless one meant to address the hypothetical of a Skynet (which is honestly still pretty far out there) rather than the more realistic problems that come from their product.

Things like IP law (these LLMs rely on scraping lots of copyrighted data), profiling people (in an age where privacy is important to a lot of people), medical malpractice (I remember someone saying they fed a patient dossier into ChatGPT on this site... Dear Lord I hope that person got shafted by HIPAA) are all genuine problems/risks with LLMs that don't come from the models themselves but from the people using them. Thats the real danger and OpenAI wants absolutely no regulation in that area because it could hurt their bottom line.

Hence why they also almost all tend to follow the beliefs of Elezier Yudkowsky, whose entire life is basically to claim Rokos Basilisk is totally happening and the only option is to give him (and his friends) lots of money to ensure it so you won't be tortured by the AI for not bringing it about.

Crowing about evil AIs is a useful distraction because it plays well populistically (Skynet, Matrix, HAL 9000 are all good examples of "AI out of control" in the public consciousness) and it gives them easy backing from people who don't understand how these things work. The EU wasn't impressed and the AI act they passed addresses some actually meaningful concerns. It remains to see if US Congress/Senate will address it at all or if their business interests reign supreme.
Fortran, COBOL because they're tied into big money

then there's

A successful religion (I consider them software running on human hardware)
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657540
Apparently (at least according to Claude), it's calculating these on the fly using an algorithm:

> How many digits of pi do you know?

> I don't actually have the full digits of pi stored. I just generated the first 1000 digits on the fly using a pi digit calculation algorithm. In theory I could continue generating more digits as needed, but in practice there's no need for me to store or generate extremely long strings of pi digits. The first few digits are sufficient for most purposes.
You certainly can stage regions. The author is complaining of a bug - not one I've seen and possibly some sort of interaction with another package he's using. Magit's author is awesome so maybe worth raising a github issue... and donating!
"Printers bad hurr durr" is like a face tattoo saying "I'm a moron." There are absolutely great printers available for $100-200 that will print without complaint from any device without any driver installation. You're either too ignorant to find them or too stupid to care.
Many of the assumptions in this article appears incorrect.

>> How do you keep the Internet from reaching “the limit”? The most obvious way is to increase bandwidth by laying more fiber.

There is no shortage of installed fiber. The majority of installed optical cables have multiple fibers (e.g. 12, 48, 96 etc), the majority of which are usually dark. Only 2 (or even 1) fibers in a cable are needed to carry an Ethernet network. It is (generally) not that we need to lay more fiber, it is (generally) that we need to light more fibers in a cable by provisioning additional electronics at each end of the cable - assuming the existing optical fiber(s) are running anywhere near the nonlinear Shannon limit.
Probably in the long-term the two build-mode will be merged and there will only be a "nogil" build-mode.

Which doesn't mean there will be no GIL. Contrary to popular belief the goal of PEP 703 is not to remove the GIL, but only to be able to disable at runtime if you need free threading, so it is an opt-in feature.

In the interim, it seems that Conda have volonteered to build the extensions that are frequently used in the scientific community.
Some parts of Internet callout culture target persons who have posted fiction or other material the other party finds objectionable. AO3 deems itself an archive with no restrictions on the types of content users can upload so one can expect graphic violent/sexual content that wouldn't reach the mainstream.

My guess is someone or a group of people found part of the writing AO3 users upload offensive and wanted to loudly protest. There has been some precedent in AO3 being targeted for "vulgar" content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott_against_Xiao_Zhan_Inci...
It came across gratuitously rude to the Washington Post and neurodivergent people.
It's not an OS problem, that's how DP is supposed to work and that's in fact stupid
What do you mean? It's mentioned in the article.
And if you just want to go by the pixel data, look into "perceptual hashing". https://github.com/rivo/duplo works quite well for me, even when dealing with watermarks or slight colour correction / sharpening. You could even go further and improve your success rate with Neural Hash or something similar.
If this were true, then people would be running datacenter networking over HDMI.

Data is data - there is no benefit to designing two entirely different transport mechanisms for video vs other data.

You could argue that video data has a deadline to meet - but ethernet already has lots of mechanisms for QoS and bandwidth reservations to make sure that someones torrents don't interrupt something latency sensitive. Sure, they aren't widely supported over the internet, but between your PC and your display - they can be engineered to work properly.
Yup, and it actually wasn't working until fairly recently (maybe a few months ago? I was keeping an eye on it for a while).

But yeah, it's even fully integrated into NixOS options now. You can set up a default install with one line: https://search.nixos.org/options?query=photoprism
You still have cstdio, which is perfectly cromulent.

There's also a format-like thing using integers surrounded by curly braces, but it's horrific and I'm afraid to copy-paste it here.
Technically macOS does support MST. But it only supports it to stitch together for a single display. It does not support daisy chaining two displays.

Thankfully, every Mac for the last 7 years has Thunderbolt3 at least, so getting dual-4K-display from a single port/cable is still very doable, you just need a TB3 to dual DisplayPort or HDMI adapter.
I was not advocating for the immediate complete removal; I acknowledged that this may be too disruptive.

I was simply reminding people what direction we should go in, and what the stakes are. Reducing copyright terms is a great solution, and yes something between 2 and 12 years is probably the right number to aim for as a first step. I agree with the above commenter that 20 is far too long, because 20-year-old material is slipping into irrelevance in many cases.

It's also good to remember that the only reason we have copyright (in the US, where "moral rights" are not a thing) is to stimulate the creation of more work. So we need to think about what configuration of copyright law actually stimulates more work, and we need to be willing to experiment.
If you just need a nice print: fmtlib is a really nice c++23 style implementation without needing c++23 compiler support. Highly recommend it. It’s simple. It’s fast.
> Previous to this, math never had opinions about Taylor Swift songs.

Nor do they now, of course.
If I want to use this brave new keras with torch.compile, what does that look like?
> Artificial Intelligence is moving fast

We wish. AI is hardware-limited and hardware is not moving fast. We are very, very far from matching raw compute power of the human brain. Robots are even more limited compared to human body.
If someone from Anthropic reads this, I'm desperately trying to get access to the API :)
elon musk said he gave 50 million dollars to get OpenAI started, wanting it to be non-profit and open-source, and they kinda betrayed him. i wonder if he would consider doing it again but making sure the organization stayed open-source and non-profit.
So you have to take care of routing etc.

I see how it works, and I completely agree that to start out, so going from PoC to first business implementation, a monolith is the way to go (unless the goal from the start is 100 million concurrent users I guess).

But after that initial phase, does it really matter if you use one or the other? You can overengineer both and make them a timesink, or you can keep both simple. I do agree on things like network latency adding up, but being able to completely isolate business logic seems like a nice gain. But Im also not talking about real micro level (i.e. auth login and registration being different services), but more macro (i.e. security is one, printing another(pdf,csv,word etc), BI another one
I get the same feeling regarding many features on C#, F#, Java, Python, Typescript, Scala, Kotlin, Swift.

Don't forget it isn't only the language, the various implementations, standard library, breaking changes, and major 3rd party libraries.

So I embrace complexity, as the alternative is being stuck with something like Go.
No, that's not what I'm comparing. First, my ICE cars are hardly "sucky". They work great and get me, my family, and all of our stuff where we need to go safely, reliably, and affordably. Second, we're talking about road trips here so generally at least 4 days at a time. Any many of us do several such trips per year. Talk to any parent who has children involved in travel club sports.
I get fed up waiting, even for a few seconds, and go to another site.

I wonder, are they tracking that? Doubtful.
It's not so much about formal logic, but general predictability.

even with formally composable languages like JavaScript, a semblance of unpredictability — akin to the "faerie logic" metaphor — still persists

And they're ridiculed for it, and as you state, we design around them or replace such systems entirely.

making continual interaction with them unavoidable

Technology is never unavoidable or "inevitable". We can choose not to use it, or when to use it.

The notion that we can pass a set of code or words through them once and expect a flawless result is simply illogical.

Yet that is what we expect when we put these systems into production use, especially when many proposed use cases are user-facing and subject to injection attacks.

Whether it be the writing of adcopy, the processing of loan applications, or generating code, mistakes in these tasks have very real consequences.
As did every Cocoa app on macOS.
And to this day Elon slanders OpenAI for taking profit.

It’s strange because their corporate structure is highly unique. They generate fixed returns on investments, so investors can’t make that much money. Also, the profit-generating division is wholly owned and controlled by the nonprofit. I don’t understand why Elon and others have so many problems with this.
Do you happen to know what the model of the motherboard was? I've never heard of a receptacle that accepts both HDMI and DP
AMD’s RX 7000 support Display port 2.0 and were released 2 months later then Nvidia’s Ada.
Afaik DP 2.0 has been finished in 2019(!).
If you make it cool, the Google will send you emails complaining that text is too small for touch devices.

I can't get over how cool windows 95-7 looks today, so ergonomic and obvious to use. And it's so simple because it so optimized to use psychophysics in the most computationally efficient way.

Pretty much anything today makes me puke. Turning off the animations in any smartphone instantly makes it 2x faster. I wish i could turn off all the flat CSS of the world
first time (that i notice) that a link to such a conversation does not lead to twitter but to some other microbloging/social media site.
Imo pure functional might not be a good idea if you really care about performance a lot. Immutable data structures can corner you into suboptimal decisions sometimes.
Depends how good Sony's lawyers are. Theoretically the courts could offer an injunction preventing sale of the CoD until it is also available on whatever equivalent Playstation type system there is.
>Think about it. Do you genuinely belief you would score as accurately on a multiplication arithmetic test taken in base 8 ?

No, but I believe this is a different question. I think the more relevant question is whether a human can (even with the caveat of needing more time to reason about it). The larger question for a LLM is whether it can answer it at all and interpret why, without additional training data.

The paper seems to point that the ability of LLM to transfer is related to proximity to the default case. E.g., if default is base 10, is better at base 9 than base 2. I would interpret that as indicating more simple pattern recognition than deductive reasoning. The implication being that real transference is more dependent on the latter.
That doesn’t sound too surprising since isn’t that model trained on data from 2021? It may have very little information about Ted Lasso. But to your larger point, I personally don’t think I would derive all my complacency from an example like that simply because models can be trained on highly relevant data if that’s what it takes. Plain-vanilla chatGPT probably can’t take over the job of every entry-level office worker, but specific models can probably be trained individually to be a medical receptionist, health insurance coder, auto insurance claims representative, welfare caseworker, Ted Lasso analyst, etc. In that way, it’s really not that different than a ditzy, green but highly teachable 18-year-old in terms of its potential to take over a lot of jobs. I don’t have a solution/opinion/comment on how that will play out, just making that observation.
At first glance it looks/feels a lot more like Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander than StarCraft. Very robot focused. A sense that Armada and Cortex are very balanced. StarCraft has a more asymmetrical set of factions, where their strengths, economies, units, etc. at least feel more distinct.
Today's systems need 1000x more memory, but are you getting 1000x more functionality? Hardly.

Maybe though. There's some pretty sci-fi stuff on my 16GB machine. Just photos alone – it stores tens of thousands of high-resolution photos, reads all the text in them, recognises people's faces and objects, and lets me search and browse the entire database instantly just by typing in a single word from someone's t-shirt in a picture I took two decades ago. And it's all completely transparently synchronised across multiple devices and with globally-available cloud storage.

I think sometimes people underestimate the pretty amazing capabilities of modern software and hardware. That's not to say that there isn't a lot of waste in many ways, and that many modern apps can be sluggish. But I think this stance is often pretty dismissive.
Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor iOS Users
I'm sure they calculated that it's better they cannibalize their own product vs. letting others do it...
No, the point of supporting audio and video on the same cable is for people plugging their DVD player into their TV.
Everybody around me who would find utility with them has non-normal usage patterns (birth control, PCOS, hysterectomy) so there is a pretty high variance in my observations (across individuals and time) and I don't need to actively seek more samples. I just make sure there is a box of tampons around and borrow one to use for wound care when I need one and replace the empty box when requested.
you just bury these and play games with p. just like distributed consensus, there is no perfect storage medium. 1 bit flip a week too much for you? add secded. secded on memory. interleaving to spread out correlated errors. etc.

at some point you run in the probability of the earth being coincident with the sun and you call it good.

none of viewstamp replication, paxos, or raft deal with storage errors.

where it does get interesting is that in the low p spectrum can you can subvert the correctness of these protocols by fuzzing them. and then you get into byzantine protocols.
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Which is a fundamental flaw in science.

Most of AI academics have spent their career theorizing complex algorithms or complex explanations of intelligence.

But the engineers have built large enough Neural Networks to give us data points that show intelligence is emergent out of relatively simple components.

Unsurprisingly, the people who believed they were the smartest were the least likely to explore the possibility that human intelligence isn't general, but specialized.

Echos of the academics building heliocentric models of the universe centuries ago.
Grandparent jumped the gun a bit, but the CMA sees the writing on the wall and agreed to negotiate this morning.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23791149/microsoft-activi...
Keras has a cleaner API compared to base PyTorch, especially if you want to use the Sequential construction as demoed in the post.
> The internet was a terrible place, it still is but the bad places have gotten much smaller

I never said it was "good" or "bad" I said it would have been more vapid and silo'd, which as you seem to have conflated, that has certainly happened. That's fine but the fact you can't disable a censor on out of an API you pay for as an adult is a poor choice by these companys regardless of how much "bad" stuff we get exposed to on places we visit online.
Can we shut up about the covid? How often do we get pandemics like this to "get it right"? Of course we did mistakes and more
I work in renewable energy, and have started to get my hands on electrical work here and there—this is a serious space of opportunity for people starting their careers.

Not every job needs to be (nor can be) a desk job, and with the advent of AI tools, you'll still have many hands-one roles in the field. Much of the difficulty of getting solar and home battery storage (like Powerwall) is because there is such a shortage of electricians.
Electricity is free in your country?
Linux's culture abhors everything required to be a great desktop OS and I don't think that will change any time soon.

For the average person, they don't care what a window manager is or pulse/alsa/jack or whatever. They just want a singular consistent experience that "just works", whatever software they install, whatever hardware they plug in. And the Linux community is obsessed with the complete opposite of this.

Apparently a lot of the systemd pushback was because it was making everything "too similar and compatible with each other". Now isn't that just laughable; that's what most people want!
Memos: A lightweight, self-hosted memo hub
Very similar to how BigTable[1] works under the hood which was built ~20 years ago.

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
It’s portable.
Plumber in the midwest I use for some properties just let me know their new rate is $160/hour. My electrician is booked months out. I had to trench 24-30" deep and lay 4" schedule 40 non metallic conduit (PVC) ~120 feet myself to upgrade the service entrance at a new property.
I have a portable external monitor that is powered and gets video via a single USB C port which I assume is using DP. It also does audio over the cable.
I'm honestly so hyped for the Vision Pro. I'm really considering buying one but the $3500 price tag is a huge barrier. Can anyone speak to if they think this product line will last? The price is so big and the style is so not-Apple I'm having a hard time believing it will be a big enough success to warrant Apple continuing to iterate. But if they do iterate, obviously the next generations will likely be cheaper and less clunky.
You chose timescale because you can swap it out for Postgres? Why not start with Postgres then? Is there anything timescale provides that is beneficial over Postgres?
In the US, the share of power being generated by coal has fallen from 50% in 2005 to 20% in 2022. (In absolute terms, which is what really matters in an emissions context, it's fallen from 2T kwh to 0.75.) To phase out existing infrastructure just takes incentives and time (and 18 years isn't even that much time on the scale of infrastructure investments). The same can happen to methane infrastructure, especially since non-fossil alternatives are far more viable than they were when coal began to be phased out.
I have never once used hdmi audio for anything but an a/v type experience. Monitor speakers are generally garbage, monitors generally don't support bluetooth for audio connectivity, their headphone jacks are often in hard to reach places, and I have yet to find on that supports a microphone. Just easier to go directly to the machine for audio.
A fairer comparison would show Word 9x on a 4K, high-DPI monitor, which would be very difficult to read.
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