skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh. Come out with the hard truth, most expenditures we make are not fulfilling. The idea that we are spending money to gain something is a bullshit lie we convince ourselves of. Unfortunately non-tangible investments are the most terrifying expenditures. You physically have nothing to show for the money you no longer have and you question its validity and go so far as to course correct and buy something you can hold onto forever. What are these expenditures? Donations, endowments, and just using some of your means to give to someone who can benefit more than you could ever imagine. You know your neighbor who could use a night off, deliver dinner to them and their family. Your cousin who just got out on his own, deliver a weeks worth of essentials from Walmart. I could go on and on, but my personal way of expending my disposable income now a days is to do a free to sub-$100 favor for someone I know would appreciate help, but is too proud to ever ask for something that they weren’t deathly desperate of needing. You come off as an empathetic and generous human being and you don’t ever feel taken advantage of because you’re the one who initiated it.
Merlin is automatic and realtime. There does currently seem to be a bug with recordings. It will highlight the wrong bird in the set during playback even though it was correct when the live recording was made.
in case this wasn't clear, "fun" is a perfectly good reason IMHO.

However, is it actually true that people would frown on an electric scooter but not an EUC? They seem to have a pretty similar footprint. I see people zipping around on models that don't have any handlebars.
How does that work? The binary format embeds variants of the same program?
Context since this has now been fixed: the original title as submitted was "Have attention spans been declining? – Yes, 65%". The bit after the dash was erroneously added by the submitter and was not part of the article's actual title.
And they do crash only on US soil? Ridiculous
It's splitting the probability across all x_i equally, even when they're all massively negatively weighted.

This change would have all the probability going into the null option, in that case, basically.
yes, hes mentioned it before as a depression aid and recreationally at parties. Also previously mentioned Ambien and a little wine being "magic" and magic mushrooms supposedly. Everyone got their demons, take from it what you will.
The big missing item from the list: generators!

Using "yield" instead of "return" turns the function into a coroutine. This is useful in all sorts of cases and works very well with the itertools module of the standard library.

One of my favorite examples: a very concise snippet of code that generates all primes:

def primes():
ps = defaultdict(list)
for i in count(2):
if i not in ps:
yield i
ps[i**2].append(i)
else:
for n in ps[i]:
ps[i + (n if n == 2 else 2*n)].append(n)
del ps[i]
It's also handy that because its text based, generative AI can create the diagrams for you based off of a text description, which reduces the barrier to entry even more as you don't need to memorize the syntax to begin utilizing it.
You'd want the delay between first publication of X and the microcode update making its way into releases of OSes to be smallest, for various values of X (mention of a vulnerability, microcode patch, description of vulnerability, PoC). Making various OS releasers aware that a microcode patch that fixes a vulnerability will be published on a given date before that date decreases that for most values of X.
I'm genuinely convinced Nathan Fielder's "friendship" with Musk is just one very big long-game TV show he's working on.
I often pick up a book recommendation or other recommendation from here.

I read Blindsight by Peter Watts after a comment recently, and it has really stuck with me. It's a sci-fi book about contact with an interstellar intelligence.

It's free online.

https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

For me the real gems are usually just on-topic comment threads for topics I want to read about. It's incredible when a domain expert shows up to give us the nitty gritty, and it happens--all the time.

There's also always this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Yes. It was unexpected, but good. Not a complaint.
I work at a FAANG and it was absolutely astonishing to find out how often this happens.

You can make a long, impactful career by just being "the guy who adds log statements throughout the codebase and reasons through it", doing this at even a simplistic level has always shown me an astonishing fix to some long-standing issue.

n.b. It also attracts a ton of political fun. People's first order reaction is denial, and it only gets worse from there. Absolutely no one except 1-2 colleagues will see it as "oh we should fix that", and at least one person will make sure your boss' boss' boss is CCd on an email with a nice version of "no he's just insufficiently concerned about {concurrency, memory management, take your pick}" Just wait it out quietly when that happens, do not engage or complain. If nothing happens and you're never asked about it by leadership, but your peers ask, make plans to move onto another team.
Its not feasible to worry about the implications of every imaginary technology. Nuclear chain reactions were first theorized to exist a decade before the first bomb dropped. Should scientists have stopped exploring quantum mechanics in the 30s? Fear of the unknown shouldn’t be allowed to stop scientific progress.

We can deal with the implications of dangerous AI if and when it becomes a problem.
You realize that your 'hot take' is that persecuted people will gravitate to areas where they aren't persecuted.

It seems you are simply saying that there should be no refuge... Al least not 'amongst' society.
Thanks, that was one deep rabbit hole of a reply! I did not think things would be this complicated. I'm happy to hear some things for which I've intended to roll my own solution with my RPis already exist. I took my notes, I appreciate you!
Oh dang, you're right! I thought the recovery process made the free trial aspect clear, but it's not explicit enough if you bail without viewing the upgrade page. I've taken a note to improve the copy.
Seems a nice tool, I wonder if we can choose to apply some transformations instead of others..
Yep, fixed now. Thanks
This is not the context for which I wish to be remembered.
Looks awesome! Could you share your tech stack to build it?
I miss when websites had username only login. I get that password recovery is a thing, but I use a password manager.

Why do you need my email address?
I don't necessarily buy that. TikTok and a lot of content on Netflix, etc is cringe, or some kind of just "grub TV" or "trash TV" if you will. Doesn't stop humans from consuming anything to distract from what they need to be doing, maybe. Or what might be useful, more wholesome. To be sure, trash TV does have qualities, that make people watch them, not necessarily great ones though.
Not all of these return 204, some just return 200 with an "OK" or "success".

$ curl --verbose "https://detectportal.firefox.com"
< HTTP/2 200
success
If you look carefully at Frege’s original notations you’ll see that all logical connectives are simply if-then statements with the exception of ‘not’. Logic is just formalized cause and effect, partly inspired by Hume. Cause and effect seems to reflect some deep truth about the universe.
That's OK.
and you made an account just to say that?
I really like the BirdNET Android app for identifying birds
Upper-middle class people can't afford Ferraris or Lamborghinis. If you can afford either of those cars, which start in the six-figures, you are not middle class, you are very definitely upper class. You can't even get on the list to buy one of these cars without a bank account balance in the 7 figures.

Also...every major wireless company offers iPhones free or heavily discounted. iPhones aren't the luxury goods anymore, they're the cheap alternative.
Will only be used for what you signed up for, then the list will be destroyed. We're using an alternative to Google Analytics to keep people's privacy safe. We're a small company. And actually the biggest remote site on the internet is stealing their users' data INCLUDED in their privacy policy.
It depends how much it cares about "wall clock time", which of course LLMs don't at all, but robots would.

If it's an agent in a simulated world, then pausing the simulation doesn't affect it at all, so it won't really mind:
For me, I would like to see something on the page. It would be better to show available jobs or something, but then require a signup to see any information about the job. To me this just seams like someone made the website in an afternoon and is just hoping enough people gets in the wishlist to actually finish the product. I am not saying you all are doing that, I am just saying I would like to see a little bit more.
For monthly billing, pro is currently $65. But yeah you could be right. Anything in particular you base $99/mo on?
The Swainson's Thrush has such a beautiful, haunting song.
Well, relative peace within France.

With-out, France was involved in a lot of wars.
People are using Google Maps to cut down tailpipe pollution
meant to say "I'm not much of an astronomer*."

(too late to edit)
The app behind it is written with Ruby on Rails and is already finished.
Sure, but they should just fix the screen reader instead of working around it.
> If I was 20% taller I would be well over 7ft tall.

ok?

> and IMO it fits solar electricity production increases.

I think it's distracting more than anything. We can, at best, debate whether the distribution of power generation is similar to the distribution of height to get any usefulness of out of this.
+1 for realism, though! I mean, if we're going for ultra-realism, a female LLM should be rejecting/ignoring a large percentage of potential male customers.
This is the problem when North Americans, especially US-Americans, argue that their country "is metric" because the inch is defined as 2.54cm, and science and some engineering uses metric units.

People lack day-to-day familiarity with the units, so what should be obvious mistakes go unnoticed.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/32cb9851-4f5d-44ae-887f-e65f2af...
Sure thing. I'm using Vue.js, Vuetify, Chart.js, Firebase, Paddle, and GCP. Happy to field any questions if you've been wondering what any of those are like.
Oh missed your comment and posted essentially the same. These are all interesting changes, predication certainly, but the thing that actually got me the most excited was the press release comment about:

"The processor tracks these new instructions internally and fast-forwards register data between matching PUSH2 and POP2 instructions without going through memory."

I wonder if this implies that pushes don't have to commit to memory if they are popped soon enough? It has always bothered me that we have these huge physical register files but force all the spill and restore to go through memory because of silly anachronistic processor semantics. With a more flexible PUSH/POP semantics we could essentially get the register windows for free.
Seriously, why does everyone put "good faith" at the bottom of the list of possibilities?
Strategic Ambiguity?
Wow...a logo as a close icon.Musk is really smart...sometimes
He says this in the article: if you ever want to jam a multi-trillion-parameter model into a phone app or a Raspberry Pi, you must quantize. I've seen some quantization go from doubles to bytes (64 bits to 8) per weight, reducing the RAM requirement by 8x. A simple quantization (I'm sure there are much better ones) is to round everything the nearest 1/255th of your number range, then multiply by 255. So your resolution is (max-min)/255. You also store the min and max so you can reverse it, of course. Say you're trying to quantize these sets of numbers:

1. { -1.4, 0.8, 2.7, 7.3 } : With a range of 8.7, you have a resolution of 0.034. This set quantizes to { 0, 64, 120, 255 }.

2. { -1400, 800, 2700, 7300 } : Resolution 34.1, quantizing to the same as the above { 0, 64, 120, 255 }.

3. { -0.008, -0.001, 0.009, 0.019 } : resolution 0.000106. This set quantizes to { 0, 66, 161, 255 }.

3. { -1.4, 0.8, 2.7, 7329 } : Resolution 28.7. This set quantizes to {0, 0, 0, 255 }. Oops -- we can no longer tell most of our weights apart.

You can see how this quantization works really well when all the numbers are close together, regardless of their absolute scale. Major outliers completely mess up the entire system. You can make more and more complicated quantization algorithms, but those will always come with tradeoffs. The best option would be to tame your weights so that they are again close together.
Ah! Right! This is totally the lesson that had not yet been learned prior to this interaction.

It's wisdom I often forget about when politics comes up, but have no problem remembering when it's this kind of mysticism being discussed :)
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/a...

According to AMD's security bulletin, firmware updates for non-EPYC CPUs won't be released until the end of the year. What should users do until then, disable the chicken bit and take the performance hit?
you have a "high trust" and "wealthy" country -- good for you. Not everyone lives like that.

Here in the USA, tracking people for profit has exploded, and the benefit is not for the person being tracked.

I advocate cash for old reasons, and new reasons. Use high-tech payments if you like -- do not think they can be mandatory here in the USA.
I appreciate your perspective, but I must respectfully disagree. The primary contention here is the assumption that we have an absolute understanding of what consciousness, emotion, and sentience entail. Given that these concepts are primarily based on human experience and understanding, I believe we should maintain a degree of humility about our ability to fully understand or define them, particularly when it comes to other entities.

Firstly, I want to address your point on objectivity. True objectivity, particularly regarding consciousness, is a lofty goal that we may never fully achieve. Our perceptions and understanding are inherently limited and colored by our human experiences and biological constraints. We're attempting to understand a subjective phenomenon using subjective means, which inevitably muddies the waters.

Secondly, while you've mentioned certain prerequisites for consciousness, I'm not entirely convinced these are universally applicable. I'm particularly skeptical of the notion that 'continuity of learning' is a necessary condition. Many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease and anterograde amnesia (as famously experienced by patient HM), disrupt the continuity of learning. However, it would be a difficult argument to make that these individuals lack consciousness entirely. Their experience of the world may be different from the norm, but they still seem to possess self-awareness and emotions.

We must be cautious about creating restrictive parameters based on human-centric understanding to define complex phenomena such as consciousness. By doing so, we may inadvertently limit our ability to recognize these traits in diverse forms. (Cleaned up version by chatgpt, my original writing is in the response)
vids?
Why did yandex change to dzen BTW?
I think you could easily use it to drive a point home: It's designed to be a for life SaaS -- and you believe in that design so much that the first year of many to come is on you.
I have personally asked Elon if this was his intent with Hyperloop and he said no. I don't know what to say other than that.
Critiques of omission are the easiest ones to levy and are informationally asymmetric in that the person leveling them will typically have more information on the topic being omitted than the person being critiqued. Hopfield networks & Metaformers are largely irrelevant in the domain of potential transformer replacements for LLM. Unless they have been shown to be relevant in any way, I don't see why the paper need cite them (and thus build some recursive case that future papers must cite these papers).

I'll just say I'm glad that I'm not submitting papers to be reviewed any more :)
CPU designers know that some features are risky. Much like how web apps may often have "feature flags" that can be flipped on and off by operators in case a feature goes wrong, CPUs have "chicken bits" that control various performance enhancing tricks and exotic instructions. By flipping that bit you disable the optimization.
My original writing: I'm still not totally persuaded. Firstly I don't think we really can ever be objective regarding the consciousness of external beings. Secondly, I'm not convinced of any your stated requirements being required for consciousness.

Quick example against continuity of learning: many patients lose their short-term memory, e.g. Alzheimer's, patient HM (worth a Google). They only have short term memory but are still conscious.
I have never found that the case in iOS. Anything I click / do unexpectedly I can reliably repeat the steps 99% of the time, it's why I prefer iOS over Android with apps that can modify the OS.
(edited: cannot be verified)
As a Twitter-skeptic for nearly fifteen years now, the single useful feature of Twitter was as a "global PA system", not a means of discourse. It was a way for people to announce events that might have otherwise gone unnoticed, or engage in public PR battles with monopolies and oligarchies. Which is a threat to the kinds of people Musk wants to be.

Sure, sometimes those public announcements of events were "I hate minorities" or "yo look at my dick", but the platform was a global notice board that served a positive purpose in that narrow definition.
Or maybe it doesn’t really do anything to improve performance.
- none of these functionalities are "overlooked", this is pretty basic python
- for fibonacci you have a decorator for memoization (functools cache / lru_cache)
- you don't need to use parenthesis for a single line "if"
>Its interesting how many lower income people have iphones, Jordans, Teslas/Mustangs/Corvettes

Yeah all those food stampers buying Corvettes and Teslas is so annoying. Lolwut
When I said percentage-wise, I really meant percentage of Musk critics, not the percentage of twitter users. I have no idea what the demographic of twitter users actually looks like.

But I do often see people claiming that others who are upset by various things Musk has done as being motivated by "hating Musk" when it's pretty clear they're motivated by being angry at something Musk has done rather than some blind hate.
This got buried but I'm going to make the point for posterity's sake that "Sam's Club" charging teachers $20 to come into their stores to spend more of their own money to purchase supplies for their students is really just flat out disgusting.
We can't be that far from the facial recognition in stores/at registers building that same profile for cash customers :(
Are they out of their mind? This is not a "medium".
I made a new track for teaching swing
like "systematic"
AppSignal looks like but the price is a little steep for a small saas that is hosted on a single vps
In the US, it's "the Chuck Yeager voice" trope. The TVTropes entry is "Danger Deadpan" at https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DangerDeadpan described as:

> When a stereotypical airplane (or spaceship) pilot speaks over the radio, either to flight controllers on the ground or to his own passengers, he does so in a very soft, smooth register, just barely loud enough to pick up on the radio, probably with a faint American Southern accent (unless he's British, in which case it is an upper-class one). He uses radio jargon, even when he doesn't really need to. A true Danger Deadpan never loses his cool or changes his tone of voice under any circumstances whatsoever, a habit which is often Played for Laughs. ...

> In Real Life, this makes a lot of sense. Even if your plane's lost two engines and half a wing, the last thing you need is a bunch of scared people in the back of the plane panicking and raising hell; you can't be screaming "OH GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" over the radio. Not to mention the fact that if you stay calm and actually tell Mission Control what the problem is, you won't throw away what may be your last chance to actually work out how to fix it or at least get to the ground in one piece.

The "Real Life" section includes Yeager (with a long quote from The Right Stuff with an example of the voice) and Moody of BA Flight 9, plus many others, and comments:

> Yeager is the most known example and the book "The Right Stuff" made a nice legend, he probably isn't the first who started to talk that way. For example, Mark Gallai (a Soviet test pilot who started his career in the 1930s) recounts just this way of reporting over radio about as soon as radio was introduced on airplanes. Let's just repeat: when you need to report your condition to ground crew, you are going to speak calmly and clearly, no matter what's happening with your plane.
Being from the UK, having a plugin layer able to differentiate US from UK implications on finances would be extremely useful. But also as a fellow developer I hate to recommend a level of refactoring that might break you!
It's crazy how normalized powerful LLMs became this year. They still seem almost magical, but they're so accesible and commonplace they lost their novelty factor too fast.
I use it for real estate investing: templates for common guest messages (check in, check out, thank you for booking), links to insurance/mortgage/utilities, contractor logs, lease templates and completed contracts, etc.

It’s been immensely helpful; I’m sure there other ones that work well too but this one does everything I need.
> or if Twitter will still exist for another 10 or 20 years

Years? You are being generous here. I would rephrase that to 10 to 20 months at the rate he's destroying everything.
If you can find the specific flight in a log online somewhere, you might be able to find the pilot and bring some sort of legal action... if you're lucky, a lawyer might send a letter for the lolz if they offer you a settlement.
> (Wait a minute, Oppenheimer is three hours long? Sorry, ChrisN, but that's one's getting streamed in my living room, too.)

That's a smart decision. Oppenheimer was a good movie (I give it a B+), though very long, and the director (or editor?) gives the audience very few moments to take a breather. I'd have enjoyed it more if I knew I could pause to take a leak or fast forward through the boring part about the affair.
AOSP actually has handling when it detects a SIM MCC matching China: https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/main:...
Does anyone have a tl;dr?
I looked into your stats and found this article [1].

TL;DR young people delay marriage due to higher education and being stuck at their parents' home.

[1] https://ifstudies.org/blog/male-sexlessness-is-rising-but-no...
A decent article on their demise.
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8562007/streetcar-history-demis...
I think the general principle is that the less control you personally have over the means of transportation, the more liability rest with others, and therefore the more checklists, procedures, and redundancies there are in place to protect you.

Very safe: trains and subways, buses, passenger aircraft, rollercoasters, elevators

Very unsafe: personal automobiles, small aircraft
On linux distros, the package manager downloads different binaries based on your CPU. Skylake would be x86-64-v3, Zen 4 would be x86-64-v4, for example.

And there are different schemes for multiple architectures in the same program, like hwcaps.
Effort to curb police use of Google data stalls