skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this ridiculous? I don't think the core of what he is saying (that tools affect how you think) is a matter of opinion. I can certainly see how people would disagree on his conclusion (therefore everyone must use the harder tools).

Tools that force you to hold a model of what's going on in your head and reason about its state require you to think completely differently than tools which hold the state or context for you outside of your head. Think about how different it feels to compose a message in your head, or with a pencil and paper, compared to using a word processor. You can even notice this effect by just typing text with your eyes closed as compared to staring at the screen as you type. The amount of context in your head affects how you think about things. At least for me, the tools I use greatly affect how much context I absorb into my head, and as a result what kind of theory generation and problem solving I can do, especially when a problem is hard enough that it requires several sessions of debugging.
% ollama run llama2-uncensored
>>> Generate a json object describing the most stunning part of the movie: "The Matrix"
{
"title": "The Matrix",
"director": "The Wachowskis",
"release_year": 1999,
"description": "Set in a dystopian future, The Matrix follows the story of Neo (Keanu Reeves), a computer hacker who is drawn into an underground war against machines that have enslaved humanity. Along with his allies Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Neo learns to harness the power of the Matrix, a virtual reality system designed to keep humans obedient and ignorant. With the help of a rogue program named Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), Neo discovers the true nature of the Matrix and sets out on a journey to free humankind from their digital prison.",
"stunning scenes": [
"bulletproof kung-fu fighting",
"bullet time",
"dream-like imagery",
"special effects",
]
}

edit: formatting
I didn't say that there is a better alternative. It's just... point of MLS is to build end-to-end secure messaging. Taking whatever party in the middle that deals with actual delivery out of "equation". For enterprise messaging it's very nice to have but must to have its history, searches and data exports ( for various legal needs, etc). MLS doesn't deal with this well. If at all. (unless it was recently changed)

Interoperability between different messaging system (is this what mimi is about ?) it's nice, but from perspective of enterprises it's not a must (for example ms lync or skype supported xmpp federation, but i never saw it enabled.). Because of security in various aspects. For example trust between servers of different organizations. Allowing accessing "some" external users "some" internal chats. Possibility of information leaking through those chats or in case that whatever access rules for external users were incorrectly defined.

So yes, MLS/MIMI could be nice for instant messaging, but it seems not too suitable for enterprise messaging.
Neat!

My practices have been a slow, minor realizations of non-duality.

You ever read the Neko no Myojutsu, or the Tengu’s Sermon on the Martial Arts?

In the meantime, I have been working on archery in the context of internal martial arts (yijinjing principles). I have no idea what that will look like, but it will be interesting to find out.

Among my goals are being able to walk and shoot, and shoot from different postures.
Too little, too late? Imagine getting recalls on a product you don't have the real version of.
It's no wonder they constantly re-invent the wheel with Android every year. They must be at a total loss of how to make anything novel with it.
Omg that's a long read but very informative
i once heard somewhere that the shapes aren't copyrightable so as long as you change the name you're good? but maybe not since they claim on that page to have used a similar free font (Nimbus Roman No.9 L) as the basis
>I think you are missing the part where there are very few interactions between individuals. Since the corporation was granted person hood, and the bulk of all interactions are really between consenting corporations, actual real humans are left out.

You can't use mental gymnastics to justify regulations. Corporations are just legal arrangements between individuals. There is a chain of voluntary interactions linking the shareholders to any action the corporation takes. To restrict corporate behavior is to restrict the right of people to coordinate their actions through legal arrangements like corporations.

>The corporation can do a number of things, like swamping the human with legal costs, non-stop lawsuits.

If powerful entities, whether people acting collectively as corporations, or just wealthy individuals, are able to do this, then that is a problem with the legal system, and the solution should be targeted at fixing that problem.

These problems should not be used as an excuse to create laws that violate the right to freely contract. In practice, these laws and the principles behind them end up being used by the same corporations that you've turned into your bogeyman, to massively exploit the population.
So many memories flooding back. We once had a party at Razorfish and I somehow got in touch with random downtown people who made weird alcohols. One of them was a woman who made legit absinthe from real wormwood back before absinthe was legal again, and the other one was a woman who made some sort of narcotic “milk” alcohol inspired by A Clockwork Orange. I’d be shocked if it wasn’t the same woman as this bar!
I shared this devs personal site yesterday. He has some cook work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36842516
It is an entire OS. Canonical has 500 so the number isn't surprising for a fully original, in development OS.

Does it feel like they have 400 people working on it given the PR? Nope. I'm a little surprised it's still in development.
Well Swift already builds on Windows, but obviously that does not come with much of what you might use to write a Mac app. The biggest holes to fill are those not covered by the open source version of Foundation (which thankfully, Apple is working on filling) and those left by the absence of AppKit/SwiftUI. So most of their hole-plugging is going to be centered around SwiftUI and whatever bits of AppKit beyond SwiftUI they may be using.

The SwiftUI API is mostly "just" a DSL built with result builders[0] and should be reproducible without too much trouble. The harder part is reimplementing all of the behavior concerning diffing, rendering, etc, and actually drawing the widgets. Last I knew, their plan is to use community built WinRT/WinUI Swift bindings (perhaps this[1]) as a starting point to marry native Windows widgets to their recreated API. It may be necessary to write some widgets from scratch though, because there are several types that WinUI currently lacks.

It's a gargantuan task they've taken on, but I'm watching intently because despite being the world's most popular platform, the native Windows dev story is currently pretty underwhelming.

[0]: https://www.swiftbysundell.com/articles/deep-dive-into-swift...
[1]: https://github.com/ericsink/SwiftWinRT
I’m not the one failing to reconsider positions on it.

If there is technology available to reduce expenses (and in the case of a strike… uncertainty and variability), a business would be shortsighted to not consider or invest in other options.
One of the highest stresses on passives and power components occurs when there is an inrush of current (di/dt) or a voltage spike (dv/dt), which can occur on power cycling or plug in. So it is not a myth that hard reboots can be stressful on older hardware, but there is a certain amount of red herring because power cycling is also when an aged or diseased component is likely to show failure due to hours of service.

Modern devices and standards are able, at a low cost, to implement ripple, transient, reverse voltage, inrush limiting and the like. So failures are more isolated.

Nowadays, with stuff like USB there is inrush limiting, reverse voltage protection, transient suppression and it costs very little to implement, so it's mostly going to be power supplies.
QUCS is a pretty awesome tool considering the price :)

I didn't realize that QUCS-S did EM simulation (section 3.1.6.2 in this article) and I'm curious what the features/limitations are. The killer feature in a tool like this for signal integrity applications would be support for IBIS or IBIS-AMI models for time donation simulation... There's a great FOSS simulator for AMI but it's not integrated with a schematic environment.

Considering how slowly EDA/simulation tools move combined with their insane cost, it's an area that's certainly ready for a FOSS tool to move in the way software tools have gone.
The two I can think off of the top of my head are Paul Hudson's web site https://www.hackingwithswift.com and the old Ray Wenderlich site which is now called Kodeco https://www.kodeco.com/home.

Another good resource is Standford's CS193p - Developing Applications for iOS using SwiftUI which is online at https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu.

Should be more than enough to get started.
Apple stock is still pricing an self-driving electric car.
But is you do trust it, very convenient.
Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
I did IT support for the CS department at university back in the 90's, and we had a professor who would email us once or twice a year asking us replace his monitor because it had gotten blurry.

We'd go in, wipe the thick layer of dust off the screen, and it'd be as good as new.
Making a real product and also plugins for popular products to get a taste of your product. This is a really cool strategy.
Isn't that implied by "dedicated instance" regardless of "lemmy"?
Cigna Sued over Algorithm Used to Deny Coverage to Thousands of Patients
Scirate [1] is an arxiv overlay with upvotes (called scites) and a comment section. The scite function does quite help a lot with bubbling up the better papers to the top. But I have never seen any serious discussion in the comments section - only clarifying questions, or missed citations.

[1] https://scirate.com/arxiv/quant-ph (go to previous day to see more scites)
At least they aren’t reinventing the entire OS… wait
No mention of aws is surprising
Wire was one of the driving forces behind MLS and they have an enterprise messaging product (client and server) that is also open-source. Presumably they will be migrating their product to MLS, now that the protocol has reached 1.0.
Except that it’s financially supported by AWS. If AWS is separated, they would not be able to keep owning the logistics chain for long.
https://archive.is/qrPJ5

The UK is on track to incur the highest debt interest costs in the developed world this year as persistently high inflation and an unusually large proportion of government bonds linked to price rises damage the public finances.

The Treasury will spend £110bn on debt interest in 2023, according to a forecast by Fitch. At 10.4 per cent of total government revenue, that would be the highest level of any high-income country — the first time the UK has topped the data set that goes back to 1995 — after an improvement by the previous leader Iceland.

more...
The value isn't in the browser engine, it's in the implementation and the user experience.

I don't love Arc -- I bounced off it pretty fast -- but it's not insane to think that a VC would see the reuse of the most common browser engine as a good thing, as it means less work on the part of the developers and more of a focus on what sets the browser apart.
Something is a little unclear to me. Does https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/amd-ucode/

amd-ucode 20230625.ee91452d-5

last updated 2023-07-25 11:48 UTC

Contains the microcode update that addresses this?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin... says that the fixed version is 2023-07-18, but the amd-ucode version in Arch is 20230625.. but it was last updated in 2023-07-25..

My guess is that this is still getting the 20230625 firmware, per the PKGBUILD at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/li...

Which contains those lines

_tag=20230625

source=("git+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...")

I suppose that it isn't up to date and thus Arch Linux is still vulnerable, right?

edit:

but actually there's two commits in the _backports array (which contains cherry-picked commits) that was last edited 20 hours ago

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/li...

Which is 0bc3126c9cfa0b8c761483215c25382f831a7c6f and b250b32ab1d044953af2dc5e790819a7703b7ee6

And b250b32ab1d044953af2dc5e790819a7703b7ee6 appears to be the commit I linked ealier at git.kernel.org so hopefully up-to-date Arch is not vulnerable to zenbleed
This seems like clickbait: “Here are two people who have had complications from taking a drug! You should be outraged!”

The individuals highlighted appear to have underlying conditions that were aggravated by drugs, but these drugs have been in the market for 15 years, they’re not exactly untested.
One of the best connector resources I've found: https://www.mattmillman.com/info/crimpconnectors/
When I’m developing usually I listen 24h news channels in background, to keep myself informed about the world.

Otherwise I listen my jazz bebop playlist: https://music.apple.com/it/playlist/jazz/pl.u-qxpMIJYRBl?l=e...
The FTC is competent, the problem is that they have decades of antitrust enforcement debt and a judicial system hell-bent on nullifying the underlying law. See https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/
He's probably talking about their Workspace package which is part of Zoho Suites (everything on zoho is very confusing and their website is like a maze, that's why I personally left the ecosystem but I digress).

Zoho Workspace replaces Google mail/drive/docs/calendar/sso/tasks/meet/etc.

Most concise overview I could find is their pricing matrix page:

https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html?src=float
There might be a widespread lack of PPE use by tradespeople.

Example: I was in Texas and watched this guy carve headstones without a respirator or hearing protection while covered head-to-toe in stone and cement dust. He was only wearing some dust goggles. He wasn't wearing gloves or steel toed boots either. I thought he was crazy and not long for this world.
I get that as the motivation 20 years ago, I just think it's irrelevant when I have a 4k monitor. I use a 2px border and a small line of text for a title at the top of parent nodes. I have seen the complaint that this reduces the accuracy of the area-representation, but it's a minor and very worthwhile tradeoff.
who doesn't love surprises
Many comments here seem to suggest that practically it is going to be impossible to classify text as Human generated versus AI generated -- given the many different ways in which such attempts can be foiled in a never ending game of cat-and-mouse.

If we accept this ...

The challenge I am foreseeing is this:

We are only at the very beginning of the AI revolution -- and if LLMs need to get more sophisticated and powerful in future they will need good-quality human-generated / curated training data at a scale that is likely impossible to do manual curation/cleansing/quality-checks on.

And there is no doubt that evey medium is going to get bombarded and spammed with AI-generated content in coming years.

How then, are we going to filter the data -- to separate the real data from AI generated noise -- to train future LLMs on -- and really push them to their potential.

This problem has been bugging me for a while and I commented here previously as well, tentatively calling it 'Data Pollution' for the lack of a better word.

Curious to hear other perspectives on this.
It was a mistake putting these agencies under the executive in the first place. Gives the president too much power by far. No reason they can't be run directly by congress.
i used this for my startup years ago, nice to see its still going strong
Do it, Lina. Do it, do it, do it.
> You can have secure monolith and insecure microkernel.

Superficially, that claim sounds reasonable, but I'd have a hard time substantiating it. There is exactly one secure microkernel ready for production use today, and zero secure monolithic kernels. There's not even a "here's how one could secure a monolithic kernel in principle" whitepaper.
> the new trains would scrape the platform edge and take damage.

The NYC subway, not to be bested, manages to do this even with the correct cars :-)[1]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/nycrail/comments/i4airc/whats_the_t...
Good point - I drink kombucha or tea everyday. That's an excessive consumption for most people.
I’m looking for an argument in any technical detail about how we go from beam-searching:

P(next_bpe_token|previous_bpe_tokens,rlhf_orderings,internet)

to Cyberdyne Systems Model T-100. That’s a bit of a cheeky oversimplification of a modern decoder, but the LLaMA2 code is there for anyone to read, it’s kinda that. It’s not GPT-4, there’s clearly some scale or some special sauce or both on the way from here to there, but it’s damned close.

LLMs aren’t even a particularly great example of “adversarial” AI: AlphaZero is a way better example of AI kicking the shit out of humans in a zero-sum scenario. If I wanted to scare people I’d be talking about the DeepMind stuff, not the OpenAI stuff.

But the real crux of my argument is that bad-faith arguments have a tendency to escape the control of those making them, and if a short-term advantage in the copyright treatment of model weights resulting from the commons is achieved by Yud posting about GPT and nuclear weapons in Time Magazine and scaring the living hell out of the lay public about a capricious digital deity in the process, that’s unlikely to be a genie that goes back in the bottle.

So I’d really like it if someone injected some: here’s how this could actually happen into the dialog.

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...
No relation suggested.
Anyone able to infer what volume or mass of this substance they're claiming to have produced? How many unit cells?
RNZ Editorial Audit has concluded with corrections issued on 49 of 1319 stories
X Twitter's Username Changed
> The idea of making it a problem for the lowest in society - who are also generally the lowest co2 emitters - is unfair.

It is a problem for the lowest in society even if they are the lowest emitters. They are the ones sweltering in the heat or freezing in the winters because of insufficient insulation, getting flooded out of their homes built too close to waterways, etc etc.

In this specific article they mention the lack of A/C in the vehicles as a major bargaining win.

Whether they are responsible for the emissions or not (and you and I agree on this point that they largely are not), the lowest in society, by virtue of being most impacted, need to use their large numbers to hold elites accountable and make change.
You could definitely have C's terrible strings, yes. But it is 2023 so that seems like aiming very low indeed
I'm not sure what the GP envisions but one thing you could use superconducting materials for that don't require a bunch of extra gear to operate is to store energy in loops of it. This may well allow for a relatively high storage density (but probably not nearly as high as chemical ways of storing that energy but with better efficiency, and for stationary applications density is less of a factor than for anything mobile) with near instant charge/discharge times. Kind of like a solid state version of a flywheel.

That in turn could power an energy revolution which has the potential to reduce carbon based fuel consumption dramatically.

That's SF right now, but there are pathways to very interesting futures unlocked by a material such as the one described in the paper, all of them subject to the usual caveats that it's a 'mere matter of engineering' and that it may prove to be far too costly in practice. And it wouldn't reverse climate change but it could help slow down the acceleration of climate change.
Makes sense. The further away the target question is from the GSS training distribution, the more it relies on the ChatGPT prior. I assume if you click 'Investigate Results', the confidence is 'low' and the most similar questions in the dataset are pretty far off
How did you produce the PDF without Word or LibreOffice?
You’re referring to Raph Levien’s work on Xi [0]. Not really just a vim clone. In Fuchsia, iirc, it would have been the basis of all text editing services. If nothing else, it seems to have popularized rope data structures [1] for newer text editors.

[0]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor

[1]: https://xi-editor.io/docs/rope_science_00.html
It redirects to bep.gov now, but a decade+ ago it was their preferred URL.

You can still find the URL in older press releases on treasury.gov, other US government sites, and older news sites, and all I meant is that it reads very a little naïve and "off brand" to me these as a modern reader:

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/20035137475911137
https://money.cnn.com/2003/09/16/pf/banking/marketing_new_money/index.htm
https://www.dailynebraskan.com/local-businesses-prepare-for-new-20-bill/article_6a2ea77f-60e4-52aa-8217-731a6cdf9114.html
For years, I never understood cryptocurrencies. I didn’t understand why mainstream press promoted startups managing billions run by “visionary” people (barely?) old enough to rent a car. I understood the technical aspects, just not how it was being promoted. I see now there was little to understand… It is simply an end-run around financial regulation, where the biggest visionaries are frauds, exchanges are ridiculously insecure, transactions are costly yet slow, and the primary use is illicit activities…

It’s the same thing lately with AI… Sure, it has slightly more merit than cryptocurrency, but it doesn’t do what people think it actually does — certainly not as well either.

AI is not sentient yet people write full paragraphs to it as if it were? They even expect such in response. This is LUNACY! This is a mass delusion! Real life is not a Star Trek TNG episode with a talking computer!

It’s not an accident either. Nobody wants to look like a fool when there is a lot of money at stake. So the fly by night snake oil salespeople thrive… Some technology will be developed by overly sincere people along the way, but that was never the real goal.
Wow, OpenAI pulling the plug on its AI Classifier tool really shows how tough it is to spot the difference between human and AI-generated text. It's a bummer that it didn't work out as planned, but hey, that's how we learn, right?
No way this happens in the next decade. This is something that will take the government a decade-plus to resolve. Just look at how long it took the government to break up AT&T.

We look at Microsoft and Internet Explorer as some kind of fast victory, and sure it was a gross monopolistic practice. However, Microsoft willingly caved due to Bill Gates personal embarrassment in the court room.

However, Amazon's entire business model works because it is or needs to be a monopoly. If they have to break up and share the pie, it will be devastating and so no way they don't fight and hold things up in courts.
> philosophy has such a meagre empirical record

So they re-hash the same arguments with an equal lack of data and come to the same conclusions with equally dubious applications.

It’s not so bad when it’s just randos posting in internet forums, but now we’re seeing people with real influence leaping from unfounded premises to untestable conclusions with unswerving confidence.
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