skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your conclusion: “using ideas from text compression for text classification tasks is an interesting idea and may lead to other interesting research.”

Would you say this idea is interesting enough for you personally to research it further?
That is not open source. That is OSI's proprietary definition that postdates the notion of open source by almost a decade, and represents the third attempt by corporate america to appropriate free software for their own interests. Open source has always meant that the source is available. I would advise you learn about what open source[1] actually is and ignore the corporate trolls who continue to try to rewrite history and the dictionary to their benefit.

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[1] https://www.arp242.net/open-source.html
Thank you for explaining this perspective. There’s for sure a balance here between playful education and actual, invested debate. I was leaning too much on the latter, but the former is just as valuable.
Fascinating article. Looks encouraging. The size of the turbine and the capacity claimed is staggering. Is anyone aware of any materials that explainn how one distributes turbines over a farm to maximize yield? Can a tribune of this scale alter localized flow to require specific distribution patterns?
I like "fabrication" because it correctly implies the data is being pulled from somewhere and assembled. It does not put a judgment on the initial data, nor on the assembled product.

It can take on a positive or negative meaning, depending on the context.

"ChatGPT fabricated an answer that was technically correct, but misleading," or "ChatGPT was able to fabricate an innovative solution that had eluded us."

Edit: And of course, everyone's favorite, "ChatGPT found guilty of fabricating case citations."

https://www.techspot.com/news/98860-chatgpt-found-guilty-fab...
> "thermodynamics"

Isn't part of that 'the law of conservation of energy'?
the quality of analog phone calls hung on the quality of the equipment, mostly the cables (and distance), whereas the quality of voip (or volte for that matter) depends mostly on the quality of the codec used.

ime both can be shitty or "crystal clear" but i totally agree that having a cell phone call today, with worse quality than an cross-continent analog connection in the 80s is very depressing
Sounds like us used to linux working on solaris. Process got stuck and we were too lazy to look up the PID. So we just called “killall procname”. Machine immediately went dead.
When the sysadmin came over we learned that killall does something different on solaris and we should never use it again.
If we want a shift to walking, we need cities to plant around 100x the number of trees they have.

Ever walk through an old, mature neighbourhood? Usually there are tons of people on the sidewalks, and a primary reason is that there are mature trees providing plenty of shade.

Then try walking in a new neighbourhood with barely any shade. It is awful.
Re langchain:

> we were able to accomplish most of our needs with a relatively small volume of Python code that we wrote ourselves

Every single time someone posts a trip report building something on LLMs I love to ctrl+f to the part where they tried and abandoned langchain.
Fair point that is useful, but the majority of people never steelman anything, a significant amount of people will even refuse to steelman anything on moral grounds. Strawmanning on the other hand…
The mechanism is designed (or at least should be designed) so that if anything breaks the blades rotate to the no power position. There is a lot of engineering and redundancy that i'm only partially aware of.
>but give them a dignified existence and they will immediately care about the world they live in.

What does "a dignified existence" mean as it relates to climate change?
Generally for EVs it matters where the electricity comes from. (From memory), coal fired electricity has a EV break even at 110k miles, hydro power break even is down at 20k. (I'm on a phone, but can try to dig out the article that looked at this exact question - it also mentioned that a lot of places where we get rare minerals for the batteries are run by warlords which use child labor.. so it is not all roses)
neither did i but the speed was mesmerizing
Tech companies got access to our tax data
>So what is "capturing value" other than rent?

Offering better products and services than your competition.

>Yes that's fine, I guess you are anyways not very interested in community

Where does it say I can't care as much about the community despite me getting a better paying job? In fact, me getting a better paying job helps my community because I'll spend the extra money there at shops, bars, cafes and barbers.

You're clutching at straws at this point embarrassing yourself further.

>Good. But don't complain once you wake up in a dystopian, oligarchic nightmare.

Damn, I didn't know Austria and Poland are distopic nightmares.

>The US is clearly leading in the money metric and yet most metrics much more associated with human welfare (such as lifespan) are trending down

No, Switzerland and Luxemburg are leading the money metric and yet are far from living nightmares.

You keep trying to die on this whataboutism hill by brining in the US in the discussion at every point even though I never mentioned it once.

>I guess either it's ChatGPT here or you are very deep in copium-territory...

Guess breathing in all the lignite Feinstaub got to you good, huh?
In EU they do.
The blade is usually manufactured as a single fiberglass piece. With how big this thing is I imagine it's manufactured somewhere directly at the shore, and just lifted onto a boat directly from the factory.

The base is segments (shaped like calamari rings), which are big but usually can be transported by road, but the big ones probably can't pass under bridges.
I think John Mearsheimer summed it up quite well. Australia doesn't really have a choice. They don't really know what will happen if they go against China, but there are a lot of precedents on what happens to countries that go against the US. I guess the general consensus is to not risk that.

The Aukus deal is completely crazy. Australia is paying the US to build their own shipyards in the hopes that they get the right to share OLD submarines with the UK.

> “Now some people say there’s an alternative: you can go with China,” said Mearsheimer. “You have a choice here: you can go with China rather the United States. There’s two things I’ll say about that. Number one, if you go with China, you want to understand you are our enemy. You are then deciding to become an enemy of the United States. Because again, we’re talking about an intense security competition.”

> “You’re either with us or against us,” he continued. “And if you’re trading extensively with China, and you’re friendly with China, you’re undermining the United States in this security competition. You’re feeding the beast, from our perspective. And that is not going to make us happy. And when we are not happy you do not want to underestimate how nasty we can be. Just ask Fidel Castro.”

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/03/14/on-war-with-china-au...
TIL that giving innovations away to the bourgeoisie is 'powerful'. This is obviously some bizarre sado-masochistic definition of 'powerful' I was not previously familiar with involving whips, chains, and dragons.
I walk everywhere and never think about this. There are going to be times you need tog et from A to B without being in an environment perfectly designed for aesthetics or convenience the whole way. Where I live, is something is very poorly designed (eg the path with two unnecessary 90-degree turns joining a crossing to the main path), people just wear a trail across the grass which shows the optimal route.
I agree with the official website on the benefits and won't take the time to restate the same info here
Sorry, I was too terse—I was just observing that it was a combination of policy and UX that combined to create a good CX. You’re right that it’s not necessarily the chat UX that led to the good experience, but it also was not purely policy.
I remember walking on the sidewalk in one of the busiest city sections of downtown Gangnam when I was stopped by a guard. On the street, other guards were stopping traffic. Mind you, this street is as busy as any in Manhattan. Then a secret gate opened as a $400k+ Mercedes Maybach slowly backed out. The entire block of pedestrians and traffic was inconvenienced for 10 minutes for this ordeal. I was told by my Korean friend that the Samsung Chairman lives there.
I wonder if the researchers think they're doing all of us a favor by hiding their 'adversarial prompt'? Or if they have some reason for thinking that RHLF can't mitigate this 'attack'?
>My solar roof had the same issue initially, and electricians really thought it was generating more then the rating of the inverters, until I fixed it (software controlled).

What was the software fix? Was there some config that wasn't set correctly?
IRCCloud and The Lounge do it natively. Maybe KiwiIRC too.
We just need to hook it up to a flux capacitor and the next typhoon will give us time travel.
You are using about 1200 kWh per year? That seems quite low.

My desktop computer (2017 27" iMac), router, network switch, a Thunderbolt drive enclosure with 3 SSD drives, and a Hue hub averages 80 watts. That's 700 kWh per year right there.

If I'm quick in the shower I'm done in 3 minutes, using around 6 gallons of hot water. It takes 740 watts to heat 6 gallons of water from the temperature it comes out of my well to my shower temperature and I shower at least daily, so if my electric water heater was 100% efficient and its insulation was so good that there was no loss of heat from the tank to surrounding air that would be another 270 kWh per year.

My electric clothes dryer is 5600 W. That takes about an to dry a week's worth of clothes. That's another 290 kWh per year.

So that's brought me to 1280 kWh per year for just some modest computing, a short daily hot shower, and drying my clothes after washing.

Add in a 50 watt fan to circulate air in the house, running 12 hours a day. That's another 220 kWh.

How are you getting by on 1200 kWh per year?
Not with known computing methods
Freshpaint (YC S19) is hiring engineers to safeguard health data
>The obvious question

>Astute readers will have already wondered: why do you build kernels with CONFIG_BPFILTER=y if bpfilter does not currently contain any functionality?

>Well, that’s a question for Ubuntu

So... why does Ubuntu include bpfilter?
The whole point of the cyberdeck was that it was a way to see VR in your minds eye rather than with a screen. Hence the no screen. I always thought the decks themselves would be rather boring looking - the keyboard would just be a black rectangle. Only Case could like the aesthetic in any way that was meaningful, which was why Armitage had to have his approval. To anyone else it just looks like a plastic brick.
Agree and disagree with the article. Was an intern at a local governance, Americans with disabilities act (ADA) office for a year. It was a city with history, and not a very good city planning at the start. Yes, need to compliance, reality is, it is very hard. Like you built everything on top of a single MySQL and then facing the scalability challenge so you will need to re-shard every other 6 months - and worse, as re-architecture a city faces much more complex problems.
that in-meatspace ar/vr devices would be unavoidably nerdy was a trope since at least Snow Crash: “gargoyles” weren’t exactly well regarded.
Can you explain this to me?

For example, my local supermarket is a 8 minute walk from my house. Driving there would take about 5 minutes, due to one way streets etc, so including the hassle of parking etc it takes about as long. Driving there seems positively insane to me, except if I’m shopping for a party or something and need to fill the trunk. Are you saying that Americans would choose the car here? Or that in America it’s a 5 minute drive vs a 25 minute walk?

Cause tbh in the latter case I’d pick the car too, despite my Dutch habits.*

I guess what I’m trying to ask is, are you sure it’s American psyche and not, mostly, the town layout as this article suggests?

*) okok I’m Dutch so I’d bike but I kept that out to stick with the wall vs car topic
Bear in mind that most residential roofs (of any sort) only last 10-20 years anyhow.
Advertisers? Sponsoring baby content makers, baby athletes, baby celebrities... babies with six packs wearing designer diapers, riding their hipster e-strollers. Shit's dystopian, man.
Having an informed opinion isn't bias in the negative connotation implied
Hmm...

French Revolution - 1789.

English Revolution - 1649.

So the English cut off their Monarch's head before the French did. But we then invited the Monarch's back after not liking the republic of the "Lord Protector".

Admittedly the English state, not the later British state, but anyway...
I use them from time to time. I'm not working on large codebases with collaborators, just my dotfiles and CSS and stuff. If I was auditing other people's code I don't think I'd want proportional fonts, simply because in code every character matters.
OpenAI has blocked numerous jailbreaks (despite claiming their model is unchanged). How hard would it be for them to plug this. Also, what’s the nature of this attack? It’s really unspecific in the article.
Genetic basis for facultative parthenogenesis in Drosophila
What are you using for a chatbot? I have been using drift but that is more just always on support. It is draining
So, removing the GIL will slow down Python, at least initially. Speed gains from multi-threading won't come if you don't change your code, unless you happen to use a library that becomes multi-threaded (in which case you have to start worrying about callbacks).

> It seems like it could be a great outcome for developers.

For the ones that use certain libraries, not for those that have to build them.
No questions from me. Just want to say: Thank you for doing all this work!
This is way too similar to Mojo (language) by Modular. At least at some level conceptually. All in a good way.

I think - the performance gains are coming from the Python syntax being transliterated to an LFortran intermediate representation (much like Numba converts code to LLVM IR).

Any calls to CPython libraries are made using a special decorator, which might be doing interop using the CPython API. My guess is, this will come with a performance penalty. More so if you’re using Numpy or Scipy, as you’ll be going through several layers of abstractions and hand-offs.

This is because Numba, Pythran and JAX (in a way) get around this by reimplementing a subset of Numba/Scipy/other core libraries. Any call to a supported function is dynamically rerouted to the native reimplementation during JIT/AOT compilation.

I’d be interested in seeing how far LPython can tolerate regular Python code, with a ton of CPython interop and class use.

In any case, glad to see more competition. Not to take anything from the authors - this is a massive effort on their part and achieves some impressive results. Mojo has VP money behind it - AFAIK, this is a pure volunteer driven effort, and I’m grateful to the authors for doing it!
Globally, not just US. The US has been heavily feminized since the first half of the 20th century. It makes sense that the age gap would decrease about 1 generation after legal suffrage. Thats my point, in societies where breeding is valued, you have larger age gaps. In societies where breeding is not valued, or perhaps more accurately, where careers take a front seat, the age gap diminishes.
Well, duh, any decentralized network is actually a bunch of little actors that don't have the responsiveness of the big boys.

What would be surprising is if it didn't have some CSAM. You can't have a decentralized, privacy-focused system without getting some CSAM showing up.
Insignificant on many levels. If we should care for that we should stop all fossil fuel consumption right now, stop eating meat, and most importantly, stop putting glass windows into our cute buildings.

Why are these questions always in wind turbine posts before anything els?
> I then had all the dollar TVs moved to an area at the back of the store and had a new wall constructed to surround this area that could only be entered through a tiny, two-foot-tall door.

> Finally, in between the door and the TVs, I added a live alligator, which would hopefully force customers who made it this far to reconsider their decision to take advantage of the great offer.

https://youtu.be/XbC0-tuYE2o?t=128
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954306
Most people in the US live in an urban area, where urban solutions work. Only a small minority live in a rural area, though many living in suburbs like to pretend they are in a rural area.
Nobody put a gun to their head and made them share their work. If they get indignant that people profited off of their backs then maybe sharing of the work was the wrong approach.

If they wanted to profit from their ideas, they could have started with selling the product from the start.
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
Most people know exactly the value of their time and the opportunity cost is in things like food and shelter. Wealthy people don't work for a living so their time isn't obviously valuable at all, have their wealth tied up in stocks and so can't predict their returns, and aren't materially affected by gaining or losing even billions of dollars.

Most people don't fly private because they can't afford it. Duh.

(And when we're dealing with real people, not homo economicus, it's clear that working 100 hours a week and hiring staff to do everything else would be miserable even if it made financial sense.)

EDIT: Replaced "poor people" with "most people".
"‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less.’

‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean different things–that’s all.’

‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master–that’s all’"

-- Humpty Dumpty to Alice, _Through the Looking Glass_

See https://www.arp242.net/open-source.html for an actual historical definition of open source, free of corporate propaganda.
> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses

Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge for crumbs to get stuck in! I just can't enjoy this app unless it's in a square form factor and a crease in the center!"
So are people, yet we are afraid of nuclear power…
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The precise link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh#Artistic_brea.... The anchor in the URL got removed while posting.
Trying to find the article now. I am pretty sure that they were not misunderstanding the dynamics of speed debate, and kids were actually using the gish gallop.
Related, sentdex did a video and implementation on it as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkdWzvMOPuo
Perhaps! But in this case it wasn't an opinion that could cause embarrassment or cancellation.
really wish it was just illegal to bake that in. I have no interest in subsidizing people with no patience/ idea of when they actually want something.
Ok apple’s screen time is moderately broken. But why is no one talking about the absolute dumpster fire that is Google Family Link which is, by far, the most infuriating software product I’ve used in the last decade? I’ll spare HN the rant.
It’s not pseudoscience, it’s a very heavily studied phenomenon. It may be the first time you’re encountering it, though, so probably seems weird.

https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/files/2019/03/Why-is-age-so-...

> We review voluminous evidence for mate preferences for age and the substantial and varied behavioral sequelae of those preferences. These include (a) in actual marriage decisions, men choose younger wives, and women choose older husbands, on average in all of the dozens of cultures studied; …

This piece states it as a known fact:

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-55834-001

> Women have evolved to seek an older mate, however, research has shown negative opinions toward these relationships if the age-gap is significant. …
It's been totally OK to love corporations for about two decades running... ever since some clown told everyone that they should provide them with free labor (which is their idea of what 'free software' really means).
Python can do maybe 1 percent of all that. (Hell, Python has real trouble not shitting itself and dying after a "pip install", you can definitely forget about seamless native code compilation.)
Cos some people care about birds?

How does eating meat factor into this?
> Every single recommendation you see on Netflix is powered by machine learning and has for a long long time.

Huh, I would have thought it was some guy sitting down once a month and picking 5 random things that don't match any of my preferences based on what I get.
Screen Time supports lots more than an all-or-nothing approach, which was a better choice for our family.
“our research shows that even if you have a big trillion parameter closed-source model, people can still attack it by looking at freely available, smaller and simpler open-sourced models and learning how to attack those.”
It's completely irrelevant to the situation.
Could go with "rex", as in "re-X" but pronounced with one syllable.
The Writers’ Strike over AI Is Bigger Than Hollywood
> It should be all or nothing if the reason is free speech, no?

No. Free speech isn't really all or nothing on a societal level, like most things in the real world. Sane limitations on free speech are a well-trodden concept; calls to action for violence and shouting fire are good examples.

Whether or not those limitations are applied ethically everywhere is a whole different topic, though.
For me, no. Mainly because "text classification" is a pretty limited application and one I don't plan to spend much time on. For NLP tasks that require a deeper "understanding", I don't see how compression algorithms can help much (at least directly).