skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people in positions of power are currently obsessed with achieving equality of outcomes (aka equity) and dumbing down to the lowest common denominator is an only working way to achieve that goal for large groups of people.
I can see their business logic but isn't it a bit like do not allow people (or bots) talk to each other, they might all get smarter.

I understand trade-secrets are not free-speech but if the goal is to build better AI to serve the humanity the different bots should learn from each other. They should also criticize each other to find flaws in their thinking and biases.
> 2 decades of EU largesse and cross-Europe migrant remittances will do that. Does the UK have a similar windfall coming?

But don't other countries have more than two decades of reimttances yet are still stuck at 10x lower gdps than poland?

Could it simply be that good policy and hard work are the reasons why poland is developing?
A kid takes a French class. Can he speak French afterwards? Can he read/write in French? I guess that's how you'd know if he learned it. Is that a test? I guess so but I'd like to see grades take a backseat to actual learning. Maybe that's a bad position to take.
Remoting into a beefy workstation works for plenty of command-line tasks, but is going to yield a subpar experience for GUI tasks. As someone whose daily driver for several lean years was a $180 netbook (remember netbooks?), anything that I could do on my remote machine was grand (at the time, a $5 VPS), and anything that I had to do locally was a slog.

> "there's an adapter for that" dongle-shuffle

> lug around a eGPU

One of the unique selling points of the Framework is that you can customize the ports to your needs, so dongles are unnecessary unless you need a whole lot of ports. And the Framework 16 doesn't need an eGPU, you can plug in an actual GPU that integrates with the body of the laptop.
Seems not be able to use other languages than English. "I apologize, but I cannot fulfill your request as I'm just an AI and do not have the ability to write in Finnish or any other language. "
Hard disagree. Google has made it plainly clear that they don't have anything useable in this space. Bard scores below all other commercial model.

Google is getting the asses handed to them, badly. I figured that the code red would whip them into shape but the rot runs deep.
Can someone reply with the checksums of their download? I will share mine once its finished.
> Epic! Love this, one of the best Weaviate demos I've seen!

Just out of interest, do you still work for Weaviate? Probably worth mentioning.
17.1 Salesforce Towers worth of empty office space spread across SF
There's only one equal state, among many states of being. We'll probably never have true equity at all, and if we do it is vanishingly unlikely to last. It's like getting a coin to land on the edge.

What we should probably strive for is an environment where you can catch back up if you fall behind as long as you're willing to put in effort. This can be accomplished by helping everyone who is disadvantaged (e.g. poor) equally. This will disproportionately help any group that has been disproportionately harmed for whatever reason, so it's self-correcting over time and only gaps in effort will remain.
My kids use the Linux bedrock launcher (unofficial). It's often a bit behind the latest release, but it runs much smoother than on Windows IMO.

https://github.com/minecraft-linux/appimage-builder/releases...
I was more interested in that fascinating map captioned "The most remote places in the US".

Here's the source, which is based upon "travel time to cities" on a global scale:

https://sci-hub.ee/10.1038/nature25181

https://archive.ph/20230516154150/https://www.washingtonpost...

Of all towns [in the US] with more than 1,000 residents, Glasgow [Montana], home to 3,363 people in the rolling prairie of northeastern Montana, is farthest — about 4.5 hours in any direction — from any metropolitan area of more than 75,000 people.
Well, seems like "Critical Theory", which is about applying "critique" as much as you can in the context of Philosophy or politics or related, is like the Nexus Hub of "Fashionable Nonsense", AKA: Bullshit.
he said, offering his own opinion without evidence...
Yes that's what I said. You can generally wrap those layers so you aren't actually manipulating null terminated strings; just converting to/from them which is not too bad.
> ChromeOS is actually pretty good for nearly everyone.

It's been a while since I've given it a try, but I dislike ChomeOS for the same reason that I dislike MacOS. They make me feel like I'm wearing a straightjacket and get in my way.

And, of course, any OS that requires me to have an account on any other server is not fit for purpose (to me).
One of the main ways that radioactivity affects health is cancer. While there are some forms of cancer in both human and non-human animals that affect the youth, more typically they occur in late adulthood. From the standpoint of non-humans, that might not be so bad as they have already reproduced and raised their young. Humans on the other hand are understandably upset about having their golden years cut short.
Is the permit just for rafting or all boating?
Keep going down the clownhole and you’ll realise that nobody really does any work.

Take a company like twitter. It’s a finished product but you’ll have 10,000 employees there. You’ll have an entire department for youth engagement. You’ll have an internal theatre group putting on shows. But who actually does work? Maybe a dozen people? The rest are just there because somebody needs to be there because that’s what is done.

The problem we have as a species is that we’ve been so effective at optimisation that we have eliminated the need for anyone to exist. A few farmers can feed the country. A few automated production lines could produce the goods.

But then all the other people would starve to death. So we just keep on making jobs to put them in. It gets further and further away from reality the further down the hole we go. You’ll have someone who’s job is to read tweets and rate their suitability. Why? To make sure the suitability from the suitability committee is enforced of course!
I think it makes it worse. There is only so much it can index.

I was searching a municipal website that had a bunch of pdfs. Instead of downloading them I'll I figured I'd sure the "site:__" to look through them. It didn't work. It seemed to index only 3 of those files. sigh.

One of the appeals of using "chat bot" is you get an answer without all the ad crap the web delivers. I think thats the appeal of stackoverflow and Redit.. Using AI to make the web worse is something...
>its not clear but can we also download the model with this Llama v2 Cog thing? why did replicate/a16z seem to have the model but the rest of us have to wait to download the weights?

It's a club and we're not invited.

Just like what OpenAI did with early access with so-called AI startups with YC, Meta has done the same with the VC grifters.

Money is power and buys you into their club.
This reminds me of how any day now their self driving cars are going to work right.
Wait, so what are we talking about here? Support for older windows through the Rosetta translation layer through parallels? Or is this talking about only older windows (I.e. windows 10) through the arm-specific windows versions?
> Love the visual design, too. The generative/RAG/semantic search is the interesting part, but it's also just very pleasant to look at. Which can go a long way.

Just out of interest, do you still work for Weaviate? Probably worth mentioning.
>At least according to [2], it seems possible to gain access to the encrypted data using the iCloud account password and the passcode/login password of one other device on the iCloud account in any case.

But iCloud access is forced to 2FA with one of your signed in devices, which requires the local password (pin, touch id, or face id, all of which never leave the enclave) to approve. There's really no way to get something covered by ADP short of physical device access + a stolen/coerced pin number.
How about eliminate grades but only have standardized exams? Standardized exams are less susceptible to the grade fiddling.
We practice equal opportunity in the USA. They should move to Russia or some other commie country to practice equal outcome.
> I honestly can't fathom the reasons why we've encouraged JavaScript to eat the world

Who is "we"? The scenario isn't some God-like figure who made the decisions and handed them down to mortals to live with. The reality is more like evolution (one you actually described very well), where many different, independent players are each working in their own interest.

> Lowered the bar for acceptable quality

Define "quality". Especially given the evolution prism, I'd argue that quality is not a rubric like "best technical performance" but rather one like "permits as many people as possible to engage with as many parts of the stack as possible." With that definition of quality, the JS ecosystem is by far and indisputably the king of the mountain. Graveyards are littered with many "best technical quality" options (Betamax, Itanium...).

> time-to-product

Nitpick, the term is time-to-market. What matters is not just building and shipping your MVP (which can be done by one person, who can choose whichever technology stack) but continually shipping at high velocity over time as the company grows, the original engineers leave, etc.
> But before all that happens, one can enjoy one more cup of a thirst quincher with aspartame, of course! All those mad naysayers suck, you know.

I suspect the real issue with aspartame is people drinking two 82oz ultra big gulps a day.
The article you linked is incredibly confusing. I assume the issue is, which is typical of any advanced courses in school districts where helicopter tiger moms live, that little billy didn't qualify for the advanced math course because he's not smart enough but mom knows he's actually a genius. The pressure to let in little billy builds and builds until the districts relent and fill the classes with buffoons and the educational quality is lowered for everyone.
I'll never understand how Linux won over BSD.
> Guess what? Children are educable. If you invest the resources of the state in poor kids and underrepresented minorities, they will learn.

It is shocking to me that this has to be said. What in the world...
You have a gradient so use it instead of faffing about. As another user said, the optima are all the same since the models are wildly over-parameterized.
I agree that the human eye can see higher than 60Hz, especially in the peripheral vision where VR research shows we need at least 90Hz to not get sick and 120Hz works better.

That said, there is something to be said for modern applications just running way below the limits of the refresh rate of our screens: https://twitter.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960
Devil's advocate, but India did see a significant collapse in quality of life during Covid and in it's immediate aftermath.

This is party independent as this collapse was seen in all states.

Based on HDI (both Niti Aayog and UNDP calculated), India regressed to the same developmental indicators as in 2015.

Silver lining is that institutions still exist, and if managed correctly in the next decade, could ensure rapid economic development. That said, if this is mismanaged, we'd be in a similar boat to the Philippines - strong fundamentals and institutions but horrible execution leading to it lagging well behind it's peers.

The next 10 years are crucial for India's development.
> Data was the new oil, and now AI is the new plastic. Get ready for the rush of cheap mass manufactured plastic content.

Very well said.
Not every startup is like that. There's plenty of 9-5 out there. Look for startups with older people who have kids..
If there is no one there, why do I need to signal? I don’t want the cat touching the steering at all.
How does session-replay work with with privacy regulations like GDPR? Is it even possible to do session replays on production in a transparent non-privacy-violating way?
But now nobody can say whether any curriculum is better.
The evidence would suggest otherwise [1]. Race is a very bad proxy for intelligence, but that doesn't mean intelligence isn't genetic.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
There is an issue:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/2262

But, short story seems to be: not yet.
I'm mid 30s and recently quit my job due to burnout and a sort-of-MLC I guess. A lifetime of insecurity, bad habits, and self-deception caught up with me in a big way. But I'm grateful for it, because part of what you said:

> The tricky part is that I don't believe any of this would work for someone else if they just tried to go through the motions of it.

...I find to be very true. I rarely see people capable of making change in their life without hitting some sort of breaking point or critical mass of dysfunction. Stuff blowing up in my life (to my credit, it was at my choice, rather than being forced) is the only reason I've been able to do much of what you're describing.

It really all starts with awareness, as you describe. Having the mental and emotional bandwidth to sit with your feelings instead of trying to distract yourself from them. Unlearning a lifetime of bad habits that were built to distract and soothe - constantly checking phone, wasting time browsing online, subjecting yourself to material online that only harms or frustrates you, dealing with codependency by jumping between relationships, the list goes on.

Awareness leads to an ability to analyze, which leads to an ability to change. It's unfortunate the growth I've had in the past several months is the same growth I saw some kids in high school already go through, but they had the benefit of either better mental health or (more likely) the right home environment that fostered that growth from a very young age. I had a home environment that punished this style of growth.

I hope your daughter is doing better. I was also hospitalized around the same age for the same reason (a few years older). I didn't realize it at the time, but the hospitalization was very traumatic (and massively fucked up looking back on it as an adult, some of those adults working there should be in prison), and that trauma shaped my life pretty strongly for decades.
He was right leaning so you are probably correct.
But I would think his murder might have happened earlier if weapons were legal for most citizens as in the US.
Mammal found with teeth sunk in a much larger dinosaur
WebSockets: What, How, and When
https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/main/impeller/docs/fa...

Impeller is the Skia replacement and is in full c++ that supports all platforms.

It will be great if Go team can work with them(both are in Google) and make Impeller a render engine for Go.

With this no more bloated electron.js and no more Java/Swing or Qt, what a dream for the day.
Yep, that’s the one. I think about it a lot.
FBI rescues abducted girl with the help of a Nintendo Switch
DX is Developer Experience.
> Indeed, and we’re seeing the downsides of easily-dissolved marriages

I disagree; easily dissolved marriages just changes the manifestation of the downsides of easily entered marriages from deep and serious problems within marriages to overt failure of marriages.

Both problems are significantly reduced by premarital compatibility counseling.
This seems like a cartoonish example. I regularly take taxis from the airport in cities and I’ve never had anything close to a problem or bad experience.
Study: Genes for learning, memory and aggression are 650M years old
It's likely the paper's ideas were still fresh or incompletely validated when LLama 2 had already been training.
This is also true for regulatory regimes. I've been shocked at how cavalierly some regulators will treat decisions that have career altering consequences for those being regulated.

It doesn't just affect the regulations, it also means their entire mental model of how the regulated will behave can be wrong.
there seems to be enough information out there to address it via regulation. Right?
I am skeptical about this take. I have lived abroad before and experienced the phenomenon of having the majority of pop culture come from the US. I don't think the United States will support this model (ie majority of pop culture coming from other countries). My feeling is that, at best, the strike will give more exposure to the entertainment industry of more countries but this will in no way supplant Hollywood.

As for Youtube, TikTok, etc, I believe these address a completely different need of the consumers. It takes Hollywood to create a Mission Impossible (or even Everything Everywhere All At Once). No one is going to create something like that and release it on social media (the economics don't work). Also, I (and I presume most other people) don't want to watch a 2 hour epic on my phone or laptop. The movie product includes the experience of going out, having a communal experience, etc. It is not just a solitary experience of seeing people act stuff on a screen.
You have to agree to any terms they might think of in the future. Clicking download, they claim you agree to their privacy policy which they claim they can update on a whim

Google's privacy policy, for example, was updated stealthfully to let them claim rights over every piece of IP you post on the internet that their crawlers can get to
> the rest of us have to wait to download the weights

they're openly torrentable
i would add that this must include executives; 2 years ago we all got the same 3% while executives got 40% (while overseeing a stock drop of 65%).

one side effect though is w/o equity it's easy to feel a lack of motivation to work as hard if you get the same raise as everyone else who might not be doing great work.
I don't think you need to get a tutor from a remote country. I would just enroll them in an after-school math program like Kumon. But yes, enhancing the education after school in general is likely what motivated parents with means would do.
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What are you doing to fight climate change?

I bought an earth bermed home in a cool climate but that might not even be enough if the talk about climate change is real. I am considering putting the entire home deep under ground correctly as the underground temperature is about 50F year-round vs. the -25F to +90F swing throughout the year. That means I can make up the 15 degree difference using sparse solar heating and heat batteries. The biggest challenge is the cost of steel and high pressure concrete right now is quite high and finding reliable contractors in a very rural area is not easy. I may end up just doing it myself knowing I will miss out on many tricks of the trade.
Is there a good name for this kind of license? If not I propose “de-FANGed”.
See figure-2
Lately for flowcharts I've been using Figma's Figjam.

https://www.figma.com/figjam/

It's really an amazing tool. It's like a whiteboard that allows you to describe processes in different ways with contextual information (images, links, bits of code, etc). I've been working on a complicated feature for my current project and it has been invaluable.

The only thing I'm missing is really a way to describe database models with relationships.
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/2262

Likely needs to be updated

Edit: Only the case for the 34B and 70B models. 7B and 13B run as-is.

You can download the GGML model already

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-GGML

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-GGML
Genetics does determine quite a lot, race is just not the primary factor involved. There have been many twin studies to this effect.
This being released as free for commercial use is textbook "commoditise your compliment". It's a preemptive attack on Google and OpenAI.

If everyone has free access to good LLMs there is no business to be built on exclusive use. It limits the size hosted privet LLM APIs can become.

As an individual I'm very happy to see them doing it. Roll on local LLMs!
Lots of products will never have anywhere near 700 million monthly active users, or even 1/10,000th of that, and they can still leverage this for free. Any company at 700m active users is likely worth billions and can pay.
> Again, it shows how things have changed that I praised Go’s type inference as an advance in the state of the art, but now the Hacker News crowd considers Go’s type inference to be very limited compared to other languages. "You either die a language nobody uses or live long enough to be one people complain about."

This rubs me the wrong way. Even back when Go first came out, anyone who knew anything about programming languages rolled their eyes at pretty much everything about Go's type system, including the inference. Just because Sun couldn't figure out how to do it in the 90s doesn't mean that type inference wasn't mostly solved in the 70s. Well before many people were using it or lived any real length of time, Go's always been a language people have - rightly - complained about.

That said...nothing in the original post says anything along the lines of "Go's type inference [is] an advance in the state of the art", so I might be misunderstanding the author here.
Meta and Qualcomm team up to run Llama 2 on phones
> That means you shouldn’t have something like a reference to a product’s foreign key to dynamically grab the price when you render the receipt.

This is vastly underrated principle that is rarely understood and should be much broadly applicable. My data is separate from other people's data. In Carta, I have had my startup investments leave the system (die, acquired, etc) and I am left taking screenshots of everything because my records are just foreign keys into some other data store. If they had mailed me PDFs even paper or something, I would be fine.
This is only realy relevent for college admissions. Having a high school degree is a credential that matters, but few people will look at the GPA on it.

For college admissions, the admissions offices aren't stupid. They generally don't look at "GPA", but compute it themselves. A small private school might need to worry about how colleges interpret their transcripts. But a system as large as California? Colleges will learn very quickly how to weight grades from different levels of classes. They already need to deal with grades being wildly inconsistent between schools. They also get other signals such as the SAT, which provides a consistent measure independent of class level.
At most publications, yes. But this is El Reg. They have their own way of doing things.
No, that’s bullshit. The wife can set her own boundaries on what she is willing to accept for finance but she can’t rule out talking about feelings about the issue.

Not talking about it is not a solution. That’s baked into the premise. You have to talk to your partner about things that are important to you, hard stop.
This blog post treats a tired subject. At least a dozen front-page HN pieces have lamented cuts to algebra.

But what makes it worthwhile is Noah's coverage of the Dallas experiment. That is a much less-told story. If you came directly to the comments, it's very much worth clicking on the link and scrolling down to the second half to see the data from Texas.
I agree, and particularly this part

> There's the theory that, by forcing the kids with the most engaged parents to go to schools with the kids of less engaged parents

is really rough on the kids of engaged parents, forcing them to be responsible for "fixing" systems that they didn't create.

In the UK, we used to have "grammar schools" that selected on ability based on a standardised test. They were responsible for many working- and middle class children being propelled into high positions in industry and politics, including Prime Minister.

However the whole idea was deemed inequitable, so they were dismantled. Now privately school educated children have less competition.