skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moving towards a plant-based diet would mean needing less land as we wouldn't be raising as many animals for meat. The greenhouse idea is cool, but it'd be very resource intensive.

So, while we can definitely get creative with land use, we also need to consider the costs and environmental impacts.
This paradigm applies for much more than just answering questions - I've found the in-context learning capabilities to be very relevant as well. For example, you can query a vector database and input that information into an LLM and ask it to make a prediction across the input data.

https://zilliz.com/blog/ChatGPT-VectorDB-Prompt-as-code
The Texas grid that broke down was all natural gas [0]. Coal kills millions a year, not even through warming, but through pollution [1]. There is no equivalence.

[0]: https://www.eenews.net/articles/investigation-texas-failed-t...

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/09/fossil-f...
You get similar properties/challenges in lots of multi consumer storage scenarios. I learned lots of similar lessons working on CDNs when it comes to object distribution and access rates.

If youre interested go search for some of the published work from "Coho Data", they had some great usenix presentations IIRC. This was the previous company Andy Warfield was at and they had an emphasis on effective tracking & prediction of IO workloads across very large datasets.
This is another way to pretend to listen but force everyone back to the office
I have a work friend that constantly complains that his fuel economy isn't what he expects in his hybrid toyota.
It has taken me long time to get through to him that fuel economy varies based on activities and environment... (cold weather/running the heater/mountain driving/towing items etc)

I don't know why but he seems to be outraged that something as simple as running the heater in the car in winter will alter the fuel economy of the car.
You're not addressing the massive abuse of the commons this still represents. If artists don't have the right to tell you to fuck off for using their work in training data, they're less likely to publicly show that work, which hurts them because they become less visible and hurts the AI because the training data gets worse.
I was vegetarian for over 7 years, and I have since switched to a carnivore diet. I have had no issues so far, and I have lost 13 lbs. and packed on more lean muscle.

On the dark side of things, alpha-gal is not found in primate and human and human meat, so along with the cordyceps zombie apocalypse, it's not looking good for humans ;)
I think the author sees Rust as a language which, even if it's not beyond the mind of a single person yet, trends in that direction. He puts it pretty fairly in a recent blog post[1]:

> Rust does something very practical: it says what properties it will enforce, but doesn’t say how. That is, you know references have to uphold the law of exclusivity, but how the compiler achieves this is subject to change. So the borrow checker is allowed to evolve over time, in the direction of accepting more programs and becoming more ergonomic while retaining safety.

> The upside is that most of the time you can use Rust without thinking about lifetimes or the borrow chchecker. The downside is that the borrow checker is hard to spec (it’s basically “whatever rustc does now”) which makes is hard to have multiple implementations of Rust. Some people argue that’s fine or a good thing because multiple implementations waste effort. This argument has merit, but I think languages being specification-defined is a good thing from a stability perspective. It’s what they call a tradeoff.

[1]: https://borretti.me/article/type-systems-memory-safety#rust
I'm not a sales guy (I'm on the tech side), but our intro offer cannot be beat, if you can read into those lines. =) Please contact me and tell me what you're looking for and I'll see what we can do for you.
I don't feel frustrated. I am just applying game theory to explain potential motivations from an untrustworthy source.
People should be paid for their labor.
>Yes, most hydraulic systems today have been replaced by electric power steering, which uses electronic sensors to determine how much assist to apply via an electric motor.

one small nit to pick

many modern electric power steering systems are still hydraulic by nature. It's sometimes the case that the electric motor is driving fluid to enact the resistance change. Many cars that use Bosch electronics/driving-aids still work this way, electro-hydraulic pumps in a feedback loop with pressure sensors/steering angle sensors/IMUs/vehicle dynamics sensors (speed/angle/yaw/etc).

That said, fluid-less electronic-exclusive systems now exist and are in common-use, so you're not wrong at all -- just pointing out that there are many ways to skin that cat.
If I have one I can't help but write, I'll add in a 1 line "TLDR" or "Executive Summary" at the top, then have details below. I do spend some effort to be funny or at least amusing in the long writing. Not sure how successful that effort is.

Even better is when someone writes a "help please" email that is long and has the answer to their problem in the original email (in a log message or something) and then it gets escalated and ends up with 50 emails "adding thus and so department/person" and then I get it, and read the first message, and can answer the problem.
my least favorite rainbow
A few days ago, someone was walking along the Bay Bridge (between SF and the East Bay) shooting a gun at random cars. IIRC the cars were stuck in traffic, so avoidance was no use.

In that situation, would you feel safer with or without a gun?

Maybe safer because you could quickly immobilize the shooter?

Maybe less safe because you'd feel an obligation to attempt an intervention, but doing so could draw attention (and draw fire)?
Are you sure about that math?

A billion seconds at a billion requests per second is already 2^60 items. You'd only need a few billion seconds to have a 50:50 collision chance with 128 random bits, and even less with a real UUID that only has 122 random bits.

You'd hit 1% odds of collision after less than a decade.

If you actually want to go for a billion years, you need to expand that UUID by 50%.
I think if AI art damages the commons to an extreme extent, there's a real possibility that AI companies pay artists to make whatever the fuck they want to keep the training data coming.
That's pretty cool, thanks for sharing!
Subway tuna lawsuit has been dismissed
Exactly. Especially when there's some hustle behind lying to people. Phony medical advice is the classic one here. People do it to sell their sugar pills or do some Peter Popoff style healing touch hustle.

Some scams, like MLM, encourage massive volumes of this bullshit to be created and disseminated.

The democracy of information does not lead to an increased accuracy based on whatever information spreads the most. The internet is a multi-decade long global proof of this. There's a reason that classrooms have 1 teacher and say 24 students - only 4% of that room is to be trusted with the material.

To know if something is true, you need to eventually have some kind of external confirmation. Karl Popper wrote a lot about this. These chat systems can make predictions about the existing corpus but it can't like roll around town and do actual science to confirm things.

If all truth must be derived from self-contained systems than you have to make sure your self-contained system isn't bullshit.

A game for instance, can have its own rules and consistencies and things can be rationalized through the game. But how much that maps to a reality cannot be concluded strictly from inside the game.

For instance, if you want expertise in masonry and construction you need to make sure you aren't just feeding your AI Tetris and SimCity.
As someone looking after 4 cats atm I can tell you they lie if they think they can get something for it.

They'll meow to me as if they haven't been fed in the morning when my partner has already fed them.

If my partner isn't around I'll then look to see if there's evidence of her having already fed them.

They'd happily pretend to be super hungry just to get a second helping.
To be honest it was a hack i did in a day instead of doing my real job because it was less boring, a week after the chat bot was online, I was not really on the support side (i automate stuff). I probably gave the bypass to 6 persons, documented it but i'm pretty sure no one on my team really knew it was there because i left a month later (and also, only one person from the original team was still there.

The real issue (it's also a response to the comment with management and no human interaction) was that our onboarding was shit. Not only our tools for our clients, but also our internal onboarding (i did work on that too in even if it wasn't my job, because i lost weeks in useless processes, to avoid new hires the same pain).

Make a tutorial for your tools. Two even. A long-winded one, and one with only the commandlines , executables and scripts.
Original paper: http://journal.kci.go.kr/jkcgct/archive/articleView?artiId=A...

Translation: https://www.docdroid.net/UiUrs8c/kci-fi002955269-1-pdf

Translation source: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1684700783852556288

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Just the 15 minutes. He kept evading the questions, and the only "interesting" thing he said was pure science-fiction speculation.

For example, his description of the holographic principle is what you'd get if you asked a high school student to make up a cool sounding story based on the phrase alone. It reminded me of a scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion, where one of the Angels "projects" a 3D shadow.

To put it mildly: "That's not how any of that works, at all."

The holographic principle is an observation from theoretical physics that it's possible to reframe the laws of physics over a volume of space as a different set of mathematics on the surface. This is akin to the Fourier transform, it's just reprojecting the mathematics, not people! It's not a teleporter between parallel universes!

For anyone interested: the concept arose from how black holes grow. If a black hole grows twice as heavy, then instead of its volume becoming twice as big (like you'd expect), its surface area doubles instead. Holographic theory is based on this and says that everything in a volume of space can be simulated with a "hologram" on the surface of that space -- you don't need a x^3 simulation, an x^2 one will do. The idea is that there is a lot of redundancy in mostly empty space. Physics doesn't "allow" arbitrary things to go on in there, so the redundancy can be squeezed out by doing all of the maths on the surface, which is less redundant.

Black holes are maximally packed with physical information, so their surface is completely non-redundant, and hence must grow in proportion to their mass. As you add more stuff, you need more surface, and hence the event horizon expands outwards, providing more surface area.
What is directfs? The linked webpage doesn't say
HN needs a secondary meta discussion board to extract most of the non-news discussions so there's a venue for these kind of convos. Maybe StackExchange would kindly step up with an "HN overflow"? ;)
Right:
https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Nftables_f...

"The netdev family is different from the others in that it is used to create base chains attached to a single network interface. Such base chains see all network traffic on the specified interface, with no assumptions about L2 or L3 protocols. Therefore you can filter ARP traffic from here. There is no legacy x_tables equivalent to the netdev family."
They probably could use the LLM to do a lot of things:

Imagine sanity checking old answers for new versions of language or Library. Adding probabilistic merit to new user answers. Asking the question asker to review machine generated answers in troubleshooting questions with little traction.

Obviously, enshittiffication is at work in how these social0-esque sites try to use tech.
Just gonna leave this here for the spelunkers…

https://www.dopefish.com/fishinfo.html
If you want to play with Ruby metaprogramming, this [0] is a fun exercise.

The listed "solutions" are also more fun. At least one metaprograms the test harness itself. Is that "cheating"? Hm.

[0] http://rubyquiz.com/quiz67.html
A block is a namespace that has an entry point, and optionally a return value and arguments.

There is no need to distinguish between functions, modules classes, lambdas, or whatever.

Hence, no need to distinguish their start or ending with keywords, as long as you can determine their scope.

Brackets determine scope, and unlike indentation or words, that is all they are used for.
Glad that our thesis resonated with you! Let us know how the tests go and also please feel free to reach out to us anytime. We would love to collaborate with you during the implementation process and see how best we can help. Would be great feedback for us too!
New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages
Or at least do as portable as possible. Just copy and paste a folder, and `dot net run` will be amazing....
It seems a third paper was just found an hour ago.

Original paper: http://journal.kci.go.kr/jkcgct/archive/articleView?artiId=A...

Translation: https://www.docdroid.net/UiUrs8c/kci-fi002955269-1-pdf

Translation source: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1684700783852556288

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I have to do this every time I go to Salt Lake City. I’ve been to Denver a lot and I’m so used to the mountains being to the west, but in SLC they’re east of the city. I am always 180 degrees off until I really think and re-orient. It’s exactly as he described… take my mental map and rotate
And then when the police come not know who the actual perpetrator is and/or worry about somebody who thinks they are the “good guy with a gun” shooting and hitting an innocent bystander?

But you noticed on the other hand that I am focused on what I believe is the statistical futility of carrying a gun and not focused on having one in your car or home?

If someone came into my home where I’m laying next to my wife - the only other person who should be in my home - and my alarm went off that’s a completely different scenario. While I can suspect someone in public is meant to do my harm, I’m going to assume anyone who breaks into my house is trying to do me harm and I don’t have to worry about either police or the Justice system not believing me.
Sorry, can you explain how this related to the hypothesis?
Just because it is a probability doesn't mean that it's strictly the probability derived from frequency in your training corpus. If you just used that as your model, it would not be nearly as good. Things like reasoning, a world model, and other heuristics can be used to generate said probabilities internally.

All that being said, who is to say that humans aren't just looking at probabilities when they think?
> DXGI flip presentation model doesn’t add input lag anymore

This is only true in certain situations. For non-fullscreen windows it requires that your GPU driver support a feature called "Multiplane Overlay" which is not supported on Nvidia cards before RTX 20 series (probably not older AMD cards either though I'm not sure). A lot of people have disabled it because they've experienced bugs like flickering or stability issues. And a lot of random features will also disable it without notice, like monitor rotation or 10-bit color.
only thing I use brave for is bypassing youtube ads on ios
You can get close with a Cognito Identity Pool that exchanges your user's keys for AWS credentials associated with an IAM role that has access to the resources you want to read/write on their behalf. Pretty standard pattern.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/co...

edit: I think I misread your comment. I understood it as your app wanting to delegate access to a user's data to the client, but it seems like you want the user to delegate access to their own data to your app? Different use-cases.
Or it means they cut and pasted the algorithm and don’t understand it.
Even if it was 100% produced from coal, an EV still pollutes less because emissions are easier to reduce at a plant than in a vehicle.
I'll talk to a chatbot if it can shortcut what customer service can do without asking a million obvious questions or making me wait.

~30% I've used it, Amazon's customer service chatbot handles issues like missing orders quickly. What it doesn't handle are more complex inquiries like getting a refund on Alexa celebrity voices.
Or just “random sample conditioned on the prompt.” How did we get to the point where we started calling random samples hallucinations.
That's not what I said. Since you're going to engage in bad faith we'll end here. As you say, have a nice day.
Finally the government is doing something good; paying chip manufacturers so I can get paid a million dollars a year to use O(n^2) algorithms everywhere!
I found this [1]

"We recently landed support for directfs feature in runsc. This is a filesystem optimization feature. It enables the sandbox to access the container filesystem directly (without having to go through the gofer). This should improve performance for filesystem heavy workloads.

You can enable this feature by adding `--directfs` flag to the runtime configuration. The runtime configuration is in `/etc/docker/daemon.json` if you are using Docker. This feature is also supported properly on k8s.

We are looking for early adopters of this feature. You can file bugs or send feedback using this link. We look forward to hearing from you!

NOTE: This is completely orthogonal to the "Root Filesystem Overlay Feature" introduced earlier. You can stack these optimizations together for max performance."

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/gvisor-users/c/v-ODHzCrIjE/m/pqI...
How are Modern Copyright laws helping authors, artists, and actors in those cases?
The Political Process Game on Steam
> Nothing wrong with that, but it's not earth-shaking.

Just turn the volume up!
Yes. Someone else in this thread put it well, emotions are a signal honed over billions of years, passing down whatever it means to thrive from generation to generation. Under the hood, we're processing information, activating DNA, creating proteins, and sending signals back in response. Listening to that voice and discerning what it's telling you, it's a sense that's trying to ensure you thrive.
It's shocking to me how many people in tech feel completely entitled to intellectual property that took someone years to master a skill to make. But talk about releasing a proprietary codebase and suddenly they want the lawyers involved because that actually threatens their livelihood.
We're building this at https://puter.com
> I think it is, relativley speaking, rude to release insecure networked software

And if you believe that, you're wrong
Let people work whatever schedule they want, as long as the work is getting done.

Obviously certain jobs like retail can’t just have people “not working”, but you can coordinate shifts. Or if there’s a scheduled period of time like with construction that’s different (though the construction guys and gals can help decide the schedule). And obviously even in tech jobs people need to communicate, present, have meetings, etc.

But other than that, actually talk to people to see what schedule, within the necessary constraints, works best for them. It’s their productivity which helps your company (of course if their schedule is 1 day a week then they’re not being productive; but if an employee does the same amount of work in <36 hours and is ok getting paid for only <36 hours, it’s a win-win).
I think it's a gVisor-specific concept. The page says:

> Directfs is a new filesystem access mode that uses these primitives to expose the container filesystem to the sandbox in a secure manner.

So, it's likely this is not a filesystem, but just an implementation detail.
Or everything is just a list.
The timeframe doesn’t matter. What matters is that C++ triumphed not because it was a better language, but because it was sold better. It had better advertising.
Then you get there and find out it hallucinated and ordered you the cheesesteak eggrolls. But this is okay because you love cheesesteak eggrolls and come on... truffle oil? Really?
I think the suggested process is to ingest all of the code base into a vector database and provide prompts and APIs for the model to search and focus on relevant areas while developing a feature, which is analogous (identical, even) to how a human would approach the process - with long term and short term memory and applying general and specific experience.
Eh, UUID’s are usually not truly global anyway; so you’d need a collision in the context of a single region, cell, user, resource, etc. for it to matter.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg0818 : supplement can be found here. Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages
As much as Bloomberg (the guy and company) creep me out, this is impressive.
Story time: I briefly worked in a school that, incredibly, didn't have a working bell system. Since this is obviously idiotic, I decided to hack something together. I got a vacuum cleaner from the thrift shop, an old keyboard for free from the Geek Squad at Best Buy, and hooked a solid state relay up to one of the LEDs to drive the vacuum cleaner (credit to Cryptonomicon for the idea, just with a louder outcome). Copious duck tape connected the vacuum cleaner hose to the blow side of the vacuum.

For the other end of that hose I built a single organ pipe out of 1/4" plywood. It turns out it's pretty straightforward to make a single pipe that isn't tuned to any note, nevermind a whole set. Going down the Internet rabbit hole on organ pipes was a great relief from the general insanity of working in a school.

Unfortunately, I left that position before I finished the software. Probably because instead of using a cron job, I started with writing a lexer and parser for a custom config file.

TL;DR: if you just want to make some noise, it's not hard. Build one pipe, build a whole rank, and go wild from there! You needn't bother with the software simulation from TFA if you just want to hack and annoy your neighbors.
They do have an option; they can choose to not publish their work. By digitizing your creation, you are creating a version of your work that can be distributed at practically-free prices with little effort. If that undermines or undervalues the art you make enough, you can choose not to share it.

Even Open Source advocates don't really have the right to stop companies from using Open code. The license discourages it, but everyone from Tesla to Nintendo has been caught violating it's terms. Publishing stuff on the open web has always had consequences, unfortunately.
The circular is out of date. Having helped people register for for GPay and Paytm business accounts, I know for a fact that this is no longer true.
Washington Post is the obvious one - owned by Jeff Bezos and there are indications it changed its editorial stance to be more pro-billionaire since he took it over. It's not exactly charity if the owner uses it to influence government tax policy to your benefit ;)
So did I. It was not all clear what she was trying to say.

It wasnt even clear she was attacking Catholicism. Seemed she was mad at John Paul II.

I kind of assume it was about women’s ordination, although I don’t know where that idea came from.
Yep as soon as query per second matters, and cost per query... Definitely going through that on some work now, where we use GPT4 on subset and rest on GPT3 or tuned. Only slow user-facing and other low-volume / high-latency goes to GPT4..