skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're not a banana republic and actually have laws governing what the central back can do, and they can't block transfers without a warrant. Any private banking solution would be subject to same kind of laws.
You’re heavily limited in terms of transfers also. I need to split my rent over several payments over several days using zelle. It really sucks compared to something like SEPA
www.atlas-finance.io
Suits me. Us programmers being such a negative bunch, surely we can easily build a checklist of bad code attributes and then just call any code with few ticks on the list "good code". Does it need to be much more complicated than that?
The Dark Forest of R&D and Capital Deployment in AI
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Must_Be_Jelly_(%27Cause_J...
I don't think anyone is still using 16th century Spanish economic policy.
It's very hard to define what is and is not "related to language" and this is kind of a fundamental question that seemed to get a lot of attention in the 20th century. Maybe these language models can help shine some light on that.

According to OpenAI, GPT-4 scores 4 on AP Calculus BC, 5 on AP Statistics, 4 on AP Chemistry, 4 on AP Physics 2. But is mathematical/logical reasoning largely a language task? I don't really know. I feel pretty confident saying that riding a bike is not a language task, but logical reasoning, I'm not so sure.
>The West . . . has nowhere near the manufacturing capacity as China alone.

That's not true.

It is not even true of low-end manufacturing because on the low end, the critical input is energy, and the US has much lower energy costs than China because China must import most of its energy.
Mockaroo: Generate realistic test data in CSV, JSON, SQL, and Excel formats
This is a perfect example of why I think it’s “usually” better. Still, the word “user” is there in this case. It could be a lot worse:

us.map(u => u.lastName);

Maybe that’s too close to the word “us”, meaning you and I. We can do better:

u_s.map(u => u.lastName);

But then is that an abbreviation of something with the initials “U” and “S”? We can do better:

users.map(u => u.lastName);

Point being that including the word on the line is what provides the clarity.

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And a bonus option for the truly maniacal:

you_guys.map(your => your.lastName);
To be fair this looks like an open source project that aims to be download and go some day, not something there today
With memory they are. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04589
What’s the easiest way to add documents to the models, so that they could be included in responses?
Ah, I wasn't aware of that--thank you for the clarification.
No one is denying utility. Warrantless searches and govt surveillance is useful, few people want them.
Anything procedurally generated is antithetical to professional font design. Fonts at different sizes are carefully fine-tuned exactly for the reasons that you mentioned, i.e., small features at larger sizes start looking wrong.
> I’ve come to understand that most people won’t ever really appreciate it for the effort you put in.

I've had several people comment on the quality of my code. For a FOSS project. Of a command-line tool that nobody cares about.

People notice.

But yeah, this article is too much fluff because people don't see it that way.

Half of the people who commented on my code mentioned the snarky comments I wrote.
> Yet another wonderful gift given to the world by cigarette smokers

Probably it was the tobacco companies lobbying for this.
I remember rendering few ray traced balls over night on Amiga, good times.
> but the moment I try and focus it disappears in a snap

I can conjure up images in my mind, but they’re usually not vivid and can be quite fragile. I’m not sure how normal this is.
doesn't ot have to be opt in? you need to give consent. you can't gove consent until they've told you what cookies there are and click a button. if you don't click those can't be added if you're in the eu
> the idea that by doing something for yourself you're stealing someone else's labor opportunity

This is the mindset of "rugged individualism"

Which has nothing to offer society (in which you live) for a way to live. You are mortally bound to need and care for others. Choosing not to does not absolve you of the responsibility, it's simply lacking the character necessary to provide for your own care via supporting, fixing, building a functional cooperative society.
Good physicist - yes, no question.

Head of the program that implemented a conceptual design, yes, no question.

> he was the conceptual designer for the bomb itself.

Very questionable.

It took multiple attempts by the MAUD committee to convince both US DoD and US physicists that an atomic bomb was even possible let alone feasible (ie practical to build (just) and affordable (just)).

After ignoring several letters, including one from Einstein, it took a personal visit from the Australian physicist Mark Oliphant to campaign at the DoD and to then walk Oppenheimer through the Frisch–Peierls memorandum (students of Oliphant) and convince Oppenheimer to run the calculations on a compressed spherical ball of uranium isotopes (seperated by a process developed by Oliphant) himself.

It's a rarely taught and oft forgotten piece of nuclear history that the impetus and conceptual design for the Manhatten project originated from non US citizens outside of the USofA.
Broken English in scientific papers are, if anything, a problem. I have a brother-in-law who doesn't speak English, but gets his papers translated into English to publish. There is no way for him to really know if they precise, accurate, and correct; as the person who knows his own research the best, he simply cannot review the paper.

As it might be possible for us to eventually improve our machine translation, it might be more valuable to keep his papers in Japanese.
Some lawyers need to discover eslint.
When can citizens cut out the upcharging bank middlemen so that we can get out of debt faster?
This is a huge but common misunderstanding.

Every time a bank makes a loan, the dollars are "created out of thin air", and slowly "destroyed" as the loan is repaid.
To a point LLMs can help with this. Additionally software has played a part in this for many years but nobody is getting convicted for possessing media that hasn’t had its contents validated and graded by a human.
So the whole thing had no point other than making life hard for organisations with actual principles, like Debian. And he wonders why people get pissed off.
I think it is still basically a bribe. Like all video game journalists and influences they will receive early copies to make their content. Video game studios don't actually give them money, but early access is what allows these people to make money by having their videos up before the release of the game. If you don't say nice things about them then they stop doing this and your income is cut off.

As far as I'm concerned these reviews are effectively worthless so I don't know how they stay in business.
Replace [butter churner] with [coal miner] or [auto worker] and in fact that's what happened to thousands of people who were cast to the wind when entire industries shut down.

They lost their homes and health care and died earlier than they had to, leaving nothing but broken families and communities.
An A.I. supercomputer whirs to life, powered by giant computer chips
>“Non-native English speakers constitute almost 95% of the world’s population,” Amano says. “If we don’t support those 95%, I’m sure we can’t solve many global challenges.”

Is 95% an accurate number? What percentage are not native speakers, but have near native fluency? I've been to Iceland and Denmark and everyone I spoke to in those places could speak English with near native fluency. I remember meeting one guy in a tiny village in northern Iceland. He sounded like a completely native American English speaker. It turned out that he had never even left his village to travel to Reykjavik, but still had me fooled into thinking that surely he had spent significant amount of time in America.
Esperanto just creates the same language barrier for everyone.

English is an easy language to learn. I'm ESL and it's no big deal.
Bitcoin Depot to Ring Nasdaq Opening Bell on July 24, 2023
Banks use Bank Secrecy Act as a cover to debank people. When you complain, banks retort that you agreed to their terms and conditions. Add machine learning and/AI to this mix: debank people because their algorithms flagged them as risky. Just as c-level executives use code language to talk to their yes-men to execute unethical and/or illegal activities. Now replace yes-men and code-language, with maching learning/AI; viola, perfect way to debank without any evidence of unethical doings.
Hi,

By 'add documents', can I assume you are asking about embeddings? Ollama doesn't yet support embeddings. We are looking into how we can support this in the future.
He makes a good point. Don’t ask me what it is though.
Walmart supported FedNow when it was in development. I'd bet they want to save those credit card fees they currently pay for people buying their groceries with them.
I grew up (as a white American kid in Virginia) often adding a slice of American cheese to instant ramen, and I can confirm that it’s delicious.
I love the idea of a Modelfile but wonder if it can be setup to also retrieve information from other systems and insert them into the LLM’s context window via a prompt. This gives LLMs information beyond what was provided in their training data, which is necessary for almost every enterprise use case. Examples include data from current web pages, data from SaaS apps like Confluence or Salesforce, and data from documents like sales contracts and PDFs.

See https://github.com/psychic-api/rag-stack for an example. Note that most of the above verbiage also comes from there!
Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico
It's not so much it isn't your job, but wouldn't you want to help someone in desperate need for a job, especially if you would benefit (in some form of incentive) from it too?
Thanks for mentioning this!
They started a car company from scratch, it's not an easy feat.

The build quality isn't at par with the rest of the manufacturers, but the drivetrain and batteries are by far the best.

(disclaimer: I own a Ford Mach-e and tried all the Teslas)
That could very well be... I remember many a late night run to the airport to help resolve some crisis back in the 80s/90s, to keep them canceled checks flying.
I think the author didn't procrastinate enough: the math equations, the plots and the figure legends are so late 20th century.
For tech and science, english must be used as lingua franca/default.

This has nothing to do with any property of english or it's speakers, it is simply the path of least resistance for everyone involved. Due to media and existing materials, english (even badly worded/spoken) is much easier to pick up than most languages and opens up the most opportunities to the most people.

Learning Chinese is for example is much more difficult for most non-chinese with no added benefit unless they travel to china or work for a chinese company.

Perhaps if english was renamed to internationalese it would make things easier and more palatable.
I'm not sure I'd put geology on the same level as say physics. Similarly I wouldn't put astronomy and astrophysics at the same level. This is not to say that there aren't many problems that can be solved by amateurs, but that the utility is quite disproportionate. I also wouldn't say that soft sciences aren't "real", but rather that they have higher rates of error due to the lack of precision and mathematical theory.

But I also wouldn't say that you need a degree to contribute to any of the hard sciences. The formal education's utilities mainly lie in guidance, structure, connections, and probably most importantly, the ability to dedicate your full time to your education. Being able to ask someone for help is a significant accelerator. All the math you need to get through a bachelor's, and generally even a masters, is available via 20+ year old textbooks. The PhD is a lot of self study too, and a lot of isolation. But at that point you should have a reasonable idea of direction, although getting lost is common and not necessarily a bad thing. It's probably becoming much easier to do this too given that not only are lectures and piratable textbooks are online, but so are the whole educational structure of a degree, which prevents the amateur from getting lost.

Honestly, I think one of the biggest leaps our species will make will happen when we reach post scarcity. Either we'll be glued to the screens or we'll all have the freedom to pursue our passions. Having the ability to dedicate all your time to your education, art, or whatever without worry about your basic needs is quite liberating (even more than school). Maybe even a large social split between the groups. But only time will tell.
I can't see this as the injustice the article makes it out to be. Not standardizing on a single language would just cause more problems. If it wasn't English it would be something else.
Sub-pixel distance transform
Available at archive.orgvas text and audio:

https://archive.org/details/the-making-of-the-atomic-bomb-by...

https://archive.org/details/MakingOfTheAtomicBomb/
HF, like a Lancia.
But you're trying to build a damn good shopping cart, which is the product.

The code analogy here would be nerding out on how to use a hammer in spectacular ways, but not really do anything interesting with it.

You can still really love your tools, but you shouldn't focus on them as much as what you're building with them.
That metadata is usually put around the end of the file for compatibility reasons, but one can use ffmpeg's `-movflags faststart` option to move it to the beginning (very common in files that are meant to be served on the web).
4.5% of the American population sounds like an _extremely_ significant number of people tbh
I haven't seen prediction contacts that can be resolved at 50% before. It seems like that throws off the interpretation of the probability.
From the Fed's perspective it would be mostly changes to business processes to allow this to happen. Making it just work for end-users would could work in exactly the same way non-central bank digital currencies currently work, as in 3rd party institutions manage customer interfaces.
Oh absolutely this sucks. Just not sure Anytype is any better. It doesn't support sharing, for example. Logseq + SyncThing just works on Android, you simply point both at the same folder. Presumably that's impossible on iPhone.
Yes and no. To a certain extent there is brain familiarity with letter shape, but screen resolution plays a role. Sans fonts are simply more legible on low-resolution displays.
Best books, courses to learn fundamental concepts on Operating Systems?
I've to get FE exam to get licensed as an engineer in Nepal. I want to learn everything properly because I feel I didn't learn to the extent that I could in college. My first hitlist is operating system and Database Management System as these two are also little bit used in my job(Linuxadmin and db admin job)

What's the best book about operating system? In college I read tanenbaum and hated every pages of it because it didn't go to much handholding that I wanted. I want handholding in book that assumes I've no preriquisites while teaching. I don't need to make an operating system. Just clear my fundamentals and become an operating system knowledgeable person. Likewise I read computer networks by stallings and I was quite meh about it. The book was good in pieces and definitely better writing than tanenbaum but I'm not exactly impressed.

I've tried the book "Linux with Operating system concepts" and didn't find it good. I'm a hands on person nowadays so would love a book that has good exercises.

The other book is by Galvin. But silber something also wrote this and I didn't like his DBMS book.

There was 1 good book when I was in college I don't remember. if it was 3 easy pieces or something. It had dinosaurs in it. Probably galvin book.

Anyway, recommend me? I will also purchase a competitive exam practice questions book for GATE which is the highest tough exam for engineering computer science.

About courses, I found NPTEL courses from top IITs too tough to understand. Are there any new online courses in the market at the moment. I studied operating system in college in around 2020.

Please recommend and help me in my journey. I also have purchased a course from Prateek jain academy which is well over 50+ hrs but I am failing to see any value in it.

https://bctengineeringnotes.blogspot.com/2019/04/operating-system.html

These are the concepts that I want to study.
> No, we don't need that, because nobody from the "peanut gallery" (meaning people who are interested in science but don't have a good understanding of our best current theories) has ever, in the history of science, come up with an idea worth pursuing.

That's clearly not true (as you'd expect from such a broad absolute) and it's apparent in the countless scientists who were inspired to pursue research because of ideas taken from art or science fiction.

Even really fringe ideas about things like ghosts, telepathy, or remote viewing, have been considered ideas worth pursuing by scientists and all kinds of paranormal concepts have been widely studied as a result.

Not only has the "peanut gallery" come up with some amazing possibilities, but some of their concepts have later turned out to be surprisingly right (for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka:_A_Prose_Poem#Influence...)

You might also count as peanut gallery types scientists whose interests were mainly in one area, but who came up with some amazing ideas in others. For example, Alfred Wegener was a meteorologist who had studied physics and astronomy but first got the idea for plate tectonics just by noticing how well continents seemed to fit like jigsaw puzzle pieces. When he eventually put the idea forward geologists rejected it.
I struggle to imagine a fixed image or object on demand, but when falling asleep or in certain situations its like something gets unplugged and then everything becomes way more vivid and detailed to the point of becoming a flood.

I've often wondered if artists can naturally get into that state much more easily.
There’s probably a distinction between speaking/writing as a fluent and idiomatically interesting well-versed native writer and competent prose for a paper—which is fine for most purposes; an editor will fix you up. Most native speakers aren’t great writers either. Trust me. It’s a lot of my job these days.
Data Journalism Through the Lens of the FinCEN Files
Jeremy Springer-Vine, the Data Editor, BuzzFeed News talks about the data efforts that underpinned the FinCEN Files.

I wonder if this was today, if they would have used AI data-scraping to get structured data out of the PDFs.
> Unless you want savings limits and expiry dates on your money.

Why is this something that's not already possible under the current settlement regime and is uniquely possible and likely to happen with a CBDC?
It’s no more tragedy of the commons than any other priced in offering a company does.

Don’t take advantage of “free delivery” because you buy in store? You’re paying for it anyways.

Don’t care about the ability to return for full refund because you changed your mind? You’re paying for it anyways.

Don’t care about the ability to link your washer to your Wi-Fi and use an app to see if your laundry is done? You’re paying for it anyways.
Credit cards are pretty common here in AU; I don't care so much about the fraud protection, but up to 55 day interest free periods are common (if the bill is paid in full each month) and so the cards literally save me money because I earn interest on savings and/or don't pay interest on mortgage vs having to pay everything immediately.

Rewards on top are an added bonus.
Interesting although not too surprising when I think about it: as they point out, in the moment perception is sort of lacking in detail too. There's a certain amount of attentional or working memory capacity, so you're not really capturing all of reality even in the moment, it's probably more like you're focusing and defocusing and refocusing on different details depending on demand, in a sort of real-time series of adjustments.

For example, if someone asks you "what color is the ball?" even if it is in a room in front of you you might not necessarily process it unless asked, in which case you visually search to find out.

In this sense, imagined worlds could be really vivid, because even the most vivid reality is only incompletely processed in the moment (reality will always be more vivid for lots of reasons nonetheless).

This also made me wonder about dreams, in that many similar issues related to details and certain kinds of processes seem to surface there. It's pretty common, for example, for my dreams to kind of "short circuit" and for me to wake up when someone in my dream asks me a question like "what color was that ball?" It becomes evident that that detail wasn't there, and I'm sort of filling it in after the fact.
Nobody considers a theatrical movie an unbiased review of the products the fictional characters are using.

Half the comments in here are some version of "what we can't review board games now?!?!1" when that's the opposite of the case. The problem is that "content creators" don't want to disclose what they're legally required to.
It absolutely can!

I'm not saying that you should disregard your code, just that it's not what you should put at the top of your list.

You can build amazing products with amazing code, and they will often raise each other up.

A great example is Redis, that codebase taught me how to write C code, and I also use Redis everywhere.
A slice of american cheese in instant ramen gives it some body and adds a bit of extra fattiness that's often missing. At least in flavorful, spicy ramen it really doesn't add much cheese flavor. Try it out.
TSMC Postpones Mass Production at Arizona Fab to 2025
I’m impressed that IBM is actually doing their due diligence.
> Esperanto just creates the same language barrier for everyone.

Yes, that's kind of what I was getting at; I think everyone should go through the same hurdles instead of creating a huge advantage for about ~400 million people while the remaining 7.6 billion people have to do extra work.

If we chose a language that isn't really spoken natively, then in theory we could create a system that doesn't give an inherent advantage to any one group.

Obviously that can't be strictly true in practice; a language like Esperanto would give advantages to people more used to European languages, and other conlangs or abandoned languages would have other issues.

> English is an easy language to learn. I'm ESL and it's no big deal.

Is that true? I've always heard that English is a hard language to learn.
I'm not the one you replied to, so I don't know what they mean specifically about the "tradition of Sun", but

Bryan worked at Sun where he helped create DTrace.

After the Oracle acquisition, he left to join Joyent as VP of Engineering and then CTO. Steve was COO of Joyent. And I have heard similar comparisons between Joyent and Sun.
The author isn’t arguing against English as a lingua franca, but it seems to me suggesting that there should be more accommodations for those who aren’t native English speakers because they are at a distinct disadvantage.
I bet it works wonderfully. American cheese is essentially salty cheddar that melts real nice. That's why it's the best cheese for a hamburger.
It's not realistically Turing complete. It assumes infinite precision.