skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a weird headline and dataset. It's not a very large model, esp for geospatial. And the data set is microscopic, not even 1k image tiles.

A typical geospatial UNET would be trained on any where from 10x to 100x this much data.

This is more like a toy dataset I would give an intern to play on. But to be clear, one would need much much much more data do do something interesting on. Likewise, there are a lot of data filtering and data processing considerations that come into play with satellites like clouds, ascension or descenion, averaging to try and get fewer clouds. Satellite and all remote sensing ML is tricky stuff.
It’s a very well-known Reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the...
New neurons cannot be created in an adult brain (only new synapses), so over the years it's a very slow process of brain atrophy where neurons that die for any reason cannot be replaced. That already makes indefinitely untenable in a messy living system, since many of the inportant bits can't regenerate.

And then neurodegenerative diseases are really hard bugs to fix, those are the fast brain atrophies where you get motor problems, amnesia, impaired cognition, dementia, and so forth.

Avoiding stroke and hypoxia is one thing, but keeping the cell and protein machinery running and self-healing forever without any deadly bugs is a tough ask. It's only optimized to reproduce, not to live forever
I hope they keep doing it, maybe it will lead to users understanding that they do not control or own the platform. Unfortunately the odds of that seem slim. Even when users get fed up and move, they tend to just move to another proprietary platform, without consideration or forward thought that maybe it's worthwhile to use support a platform where this cannot happen.
I don't understand the point of this experiment. You ask ChatGPT to generate some text, and it generates some text. Rather, that's what it's programmed to do and it generates text following from your prompt. What does your transcript demonstrate?

I also have to point out that even if you could build a ... human harness? (I'm not sure what that is exactly, but I'm sort of guessing) it would be a little mad to expect that ChatGPT could control it simply by saying what it does.

The ability to generate text when prompted is not enough to make an agent capable of autonomously interacting with the world.
I use a randomized PIN pad on my phone, and I've gotten quite used to it. I can enter my PIN almost as fast as I could on an unscrambled pad; it's definitely not hunting and pecking.
If you look at the demo video, the output is exactly the same for both cases, so I doubt it uses quantization.
95% means that on average only 1 in 20 keystroke will be wrong. Even if your password is very long (40-60) that means only 2-3 errors. Since more people are not machines their long password will be a combination of words like the famous "horsestaplebatterycorrect" example from xkcd.

Even if you flip a few letters from something like the above a human attacker will easily be able to fix it manually.

"horswstaplevatterucorrect" for example is still intelligible.
Meh. I think it's fine for them to take it, but they should have left a link up to his new account, and publicly thanked him for keeping an eye on this url for so long. Maybe throw in a 16 year credit towards free service or something. This just seems like a super easy opportunity to make fans. It reminds me of how Microsoft messed up with Mike Rowe soft at first.
Not ignoring calculus at all. But just because someone constructs an equation that correlates with results doesn’t mean a model is correct.
Touché. I guess I'm cautiously optimistic that it can scale (goodness we need good news), but you bring up plenty of valid points. Thanks for putting me in my place.
Whats up with the number of mind-numbingly stupid takes in this thread? Are you actually this dumb or is there some elaborate in-joke i missed? Just because LLMs can (poorly) come up with new words when you instruct them to doesn't mean they're actually "thinking" in novel concepts, its just another indirectly grounded label for existing concepts.
https://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/~retova/CSCTR/materials/CSCTR_07se...
As pointed out in the comments he didn't have 11M followers. @music was renamed to @musicfan and @twittermusic was renamed to @music. Both accounts kept all of their followers.
You're right. But fully lawfully - I can use non-connected hardware like old dedicated players (my Yamaha Blu-Ray player has no issues with BD discs from at least 2 regions) or PlayStation3 that I no longer need connected to LAN. And hey - unlike its successors - PS3 can play audio CDs, too!

Since these media formats are seemingly being phased-out, using older hardware for "legacy" media seems reasonable.

As for audio, I am lawfully allowed to rip CDs, so open hardware and open-source decoders (like FLAC) will work well when Apple starts doing some shitfuckery around my AIFF rips.
Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians
Wayland-Yutani? I can't seem to recall they did that? What film(s)?

My thoughts on the other hand immediately went to the heads in jars in Futurama.

https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Heads_in_Jars
Pretty sure mine would die of boredom long before.

What would you do without a body?
> What was said is that intelligent output from an LLM implies a "possibility" (keyword) of intelligence.

No it doesn't, because you can break down how they "learn" and generate output from their models, and thought or intelligence doesn't occur at any step of it.

It's like the first chess computer, which was actually a small guy hiding under the table. If you just show that to someone who treats it as a black box, sure, you might wonder if this machine understands chess. But if you put a little guy in there, you know for a fact that it doesn't.
It's happening already. "Trusted Computing" is only the start. Can you even buy a CPU that isn't filled with that shit? Or a motherboard where every last chip is open/fully documented and verifiable?
Some companies such as Toyota supposedly have 100 year business plans:

http://www.gongol.com/research/economics/100yearplans/
std::aligned_storage has been deprecated since C++23
And if you make them subject to "alternative minimum tax" where their stock based compensation is considered regular income for the year it is awarded based on the difference between the strike price and the market price, you "moderate" that process somewhat.

But if you're a politician and your donors are all rich elites who really hated that aspect of AMT you get repeal it for them: https://www.bowlesrice.com/tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-2018-change...
This is why I like how Bluesky handles it, you can use your own domain name. So I simply got @gilli.is, no reason for anyone ever to take that away from me.
Typical probes are rated for 600 volts (CAT III), so you'd have insulation rated for 600 volts between your fingers and 30,000 volts, which is kind of hazardous.

Here's a recent Twitter video showing what happens when you combine a flyback transformer and faulty insulation: https://twitter.com/zh1nu/status/1673487720780529664
I hope the bank claim the money back from your account since you don't control or own their "platform".
Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone
From what I understand of this, the danger comes from charge stored in large capacitors. So what is the longest that these capacitors can hold a significant charge if the crt is left disconnected from mains power? Hours/days/weeks? Is simply waiting long enough a reliable way to render a crt safe to work on?

(Irrespective of the answer to this, there is no chance at all that I would ever mess with crt circuitry. But I am curious.)
Don't miss his recent series "The Secret Life of Components" on YouTube giving advice for makers on what components work well for DIY based on his lifetime of building stuff. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyANYB0Xxb9OSp47p...
Through-hole components would be wave soldered not done by hand - so no, time and reliability have nothing to do with it.

Just about any manufacturer would be reworking boards that failed QA not throwing them away.
Build times of the Linux kernel with clang are dominated by the front end. 30 years of crufty headers is a lot to parse.

What we actually need is tooling to help recommend how to refactor or split headers in a way to reduce having to parse a ton of dead code.

Or even better, tooling that would generate one off headers per TU. I think it could be done.
Stock buyback is equivalent to paying a dividend. If stock buybacks are prevented, companies will continue to layoff and pay out dividends. It doesn't solve the root cause that employees don't have a seat at the decision-making table.

At a minimum, if corporation laws were modified such that every laid off employee must be issued 1 year worth of shares as a golden parachute, the incentives will all get aligned very quickly and employees will not be abruptly thrown away.
It's become tiresome, reading things that pretend this is not business as usual.
I got a really nasty shock from a capacitor in a flash (as in camera) that was powered down for weeks, back in the 90s.
Stock BuyBacks have nothing to do with long or short-term vision.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

- Anatole France
LeGuin's writing, fiction or otherwise, was perpetually juvenilia. But this was not unusual in her generation.
What kind of comparison is this? In most modern countries, banking isn't a platform in the same sense that Twitter is, and despite large issues over the last few decades, they are still regulated by the government(s) they operate in.
I'm speechless; I never thought I would feel this sad for a person whom I've never met, not even sent a message or an email. I don't even know his face, and yet, the impact of his work on my life is so immense that it feels like sailing at night, and then the lighthouse suddenly goes dark. RIP.
I haven't tried focusing a CRT with two focus knobs (horizontal and vertical?), but from my general experience with focusing a CRT oscilloscope and tuning VGA signal sharpness on CRT and LCD, one good way to focus is to create three B&W images of vertical stripes, horizontal stripes, and a checkerboard. When showing the vertical stripe image, tune horizontal focus until as much of the screen as possible is in-focus. Then repeat with the horizontal stripe image and vertical focus, then double-check on a checkerboard and regular desktop usage.
So it is completely ok?
That isn't strictly true. New neurons do get created in adult humans, in at least two regions of the brain, but probably more. There is even some evidence of cannabis potentially contributing to this process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_neurogenesis

EDIT: typo
Adult brain can grow new neurons, at least in hippocampus: https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/new-hippocampal-neurons-continu...
Totally agree and thank you for being so perceptive! It was swell to hear someone say aloud "academic culture of sharing and providing for public good". I think that's what humankind would be wise to aim and seek for: equality of all and caring for the welfare of the weakest.

University education does not need to be expensive. On the contrary, it can be free.
I just looked it up and groceries are a lower rate (1% instead of 4%) from the state but there are local sales taxes of 2-5% depending on city and county.

Prepared food like the food bar is full sales tax.
I've been slowly perusing the job market since May or so, and the number of remote jobs in the area I'm looking has certainly decreased. I wouldn't call it a U-turn either though... The opportunities are still orders of magnitude better than even 5 years ago. From that perspective, we're still way ahead (for those of us who want these opportunities, at least).
That's way too much of an increase? Surely two hundred percent increase in cognitive capacity is unbelievable. It would be extraordinary
I disagree with pretty much everything you say except this.

>Employees are merely, an often undesired, side-effect in the business of boosting stock prices.

Employees are worse than a side effect, they're a cost center to be avoided if possible. You want to achieve your goals with as few employees as possible.
Employees do work and that work is meant to be profitable. If it is, then great. More employees, more profit. If it isn't, they get cut. That's exactly what CEOs are responsible for determining.
Safer for police and safer for people too. Cameras don’t kill people.
I think the ship has sailed far past "fostering a friendly community."
Expect is still very popular! There are implementations for C, Python, and Perl at the least. And my expect scripts written years ago, still work...
Adding a gain knob to my keyboard, be right back.
This isn't really a surprise.

We've created a society that depends on growth. CEOs sign up for a job where they're responsible for growing a company, so they're obviously the type to value growth and want more for themsleves too – there's not a lot of CEOs who do it out of the goodness of their hearts. The investors, from the board down to individual nameless shareholders, all demand more money every quarter... even the employees want growth so their equity is worth more and they can get a raise.

I don't think most people are Gordon Gekko types... it's mostly normal people who depend on a 401k or a pension or their house to appreciate in value. Even just cost-of-living salary adjustments is a form of growth. That money has to come from somewhere.

There's no limit to the growth; there's no Good Enough. Nobody at Apple or Amazon has ever said "Hey, we did it, we won capitalism! Congrats!". There's always more to grow. There's literally no incentives for anyone, from employee to investor to CEO, to do anything but maximize growth. We don't celebrate companies that don't do layoffs, and the ones who do take a quick hit followed by a WSJ article the following quarter talking about how they hit their revenue goals.

It's a depressing treadmill that keeps speeding up. But my point is... this is a symptom of a much bigger mindset we have, mainly in America. We all read this and are upset, but we are propping it up indirectly... via stock portfolios, 401ks, pensions, salary, equity, etc. Growth is good! But unbridled, never-ending growth is exhausting.
I don't blame the developers for this at all. I consider myself strong with accessibility and yet at the last job I was intimidated to bring it up. There accessibility was an anti-pattern. At many places they are just struggling to put text to screen. At these places you need a billion lines of code in multiple frameworks to display "hello world". How can you blame the JavaScript developer when nobody knows what they are doing and everybody points fingers at each other?

This doesn't just apply to accessibility. It also applies to security, performance, and a variety of other things that never happen unless a law suit is coming or a major client stops paying.
> compensation is considered regular income for the year it is awarded based on the difference between the strike price and the market price

Isn't that exactly how it works? Your grant price just determines your number of your shares. When your shares vest they get taxed as regular income for the entirety of the vest amount.
I think there is a tremendous variety across all of us, in the abstractions we each have learned in order to “understand” our environments.

We can see common evidence of this in how every person we know differs in their general abilities across different problem areas.

But we are so used to that we are probably under aware of how differently we may all think.

Potential geniuses would be people whose internal abstractions are uncommon and happen to fit important under-solved problem areas.

If their uncommon insights are paired with healthy brain biology, a drive to identify and solve interesting problems, and some luck, we get a genius.
VR in the metaverse and/or controlling a robotic body in regular meatspace.
> Meanwhile in machine learning, people also made the switch to FP16, BF16 and INT8 largely because of the memory wall

FP16 doesn't work any faster than mixed precision on Nvidia or any other platform(I have benchmarked GPUs, CPUs and TPUs). For matrix multiplication, computation is still the bottleneck due to N^3 computation vs N^2 memory access.
The worker-owners should democratically decide what to do with their money.
Meta stock performance is not really attributable to layoffs.
This got me when I was in the middle of nowhere abroad airgapped. The file I wanted wasn't there.

Switched to OneDrive and android now. Keep offline works.
>Many markets do not function this way; e.g., the art market. Making more paintings more efficiently does not make you a better-known artist. In many cases, it actually hurts you.

Art is also a good argument for where this is a good argument. More art =/= more success, but the ability for an artist to quickly make good art == more success. Be it for iteration or production (especially 3d models). You still can't guarantee success, but if you can use less artists to make more art it tips the scales.
If this is your line, you should pull your cash out of traditional financial institutions immediately. It’s a nightmare on the inside.
Concurred but...

Let's imagine that shareholders agree on a 5 year return on capital plan. Now let's say some missteps/economic circumstances make revenue go down in the 4th year. The CEO will get heat from the investors. This is especially true if the board contains an investor representative who can vote the CEO out.

What choice does the CEO have at that time but to boost short term?

Look at the same story from an employee perspective. Imagine that employee worked for 4 years and the downturn arrives. They invested a lot of time of their precious life, much like the shareholders invested their precious money.

In the downturn, the CEO gets to make a choice and the choice ALWAYS is to boost the stock price for shareholders (and for themselves). Often, at the expense of employees.
https://archive.li/1TkDC
Hexadecimal is a number system that wasn't designed for any particular computation or conversion with anything but to fit efficiently in nibbles and bytes. You maybe conflating encodings like ASCII and EBCDIC as "designed" for mechanical conversion.

Firstly, how are you going to select whichever of the following is between 0..9 branchlessly and cheaply?

x0 = c - '0'
result = (x0 < 10) ? x0 : (c - 'A' + 10)

Answer: You're not.

Instead,

DELTA_CHECK and DELTA_REBASE aren't specified

M128I V // 16 hex chars as ASCII/Latin-1 bytes
M128I VM1, HASH_KEY, CHECK, T3, T5
UINT M

// 2. Subtract 1 from all character values

FOR I := 0 TO 15 DO
VM1[I; I8] = V[I; I8] - 1
DONE

// 3. Using a 4-bit shift and a mask, select the most significant 4 bits of each byte value.

FOR I := 0 TO 3 DO
HASH_KEY[I; U32] = (VM1[I; U32] >> 4) AND 0x0F0F0F0F
DONE

// 4. Do a vectorized table lookup using the most significant 4 bits, and add the result to the value. This inexpensive computation can detect any non-hexadecimal character: any such character would map to a byte value with the most significant bit set. We later branch out based on a movemask which detects these bytes.

FOR I := 0 TO 15 DO
IF HASH_KEY[I; I8] & 0x80 != 0 THEN
CHECK[I; I8] = VM1[I; I8]
ELSE
CHECK[I; I8] = VM1[I; I8] + DELTA_CHECK[(HASH_KEY[I; I8] & 0x0F); I8]
ENDIF
DONE

// 5. We do a similar computation, a vectorized table lookup using the most significant 4 bits, and add the result to the value, to map the character to a 4-bit value (between 0 and 16 [15 sic]).

FOR I := 0 TO 15 DO
IF HASH_KEY[I; I8] & 0x80 != 0 THEN
V[I; I8] = VM1[I; I8]
ELSE
V[I; I8] = VM1[I; I8] + DELTA_REBASE[(HASH_KEY[I; I8] & 0x0F); I8]
ENDIF
DONE

// [check MSB of each byte in CHECK for error]
FOR I := 0 TO 15 DO
IF (CHECK[I; U8] >> 7) != 0 THEN
ERROR
ENDIF
DONE

// 6. We use a multiply-add and a pack instruction to pack the 4-bit values, going from 16 bytes to 8 bytes.
// b = 0x0110_0110_0110_0110_0110_0110_0110_0110
FOR I := 0 TO 7 DO
// dst[i+15:i] := a[i+15:i+8]*b[i+15:i+8] + a[i+7:i]*b[i+7:i]
// dst[i+15:i] := a[i+15:i+8]*1 + a[i+7:i]*16
T3[I; I16] = MIN(V[2*I+1; U8] + (V[2*I; U8] << 4), 0xffff)
DONE

FOR I := 0 TO 7 DO
T5[I; U8] = MIN(T3[2*I; I16], 0xff)
T5[I+7; U8] = MIN(T3[2*I; I16], 0xff) // duplicate, thrown away in the final result
DONE

// 7. We write the 8 bytes to the output. [The later code ignores the top 8 bytes of t5]

Related:

Base32 and base16 vectorized decoding in simdzone

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/simdzone/issues/28

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/simdzone/issues/26
How do you spend 16 years building a username?
Teachers hate it. A kid with a one hour commute got less sleep, and is typically exhausted. This means poor educational performance and behavior problems.
On average 2-3 errors. However the real thing we want to look at is what is my chance of guessing right across ALL characters. For 1 it's 95%, for 2 it's 90.2%, and it gets worse from there. The formula for accuracy would be .95^c where c is the number of characters in the password. So the chance of getting EVERY key correct in a 40 character password is < 13% and < 5% for 60 characters.
Another AI startup grift, using GGML and closing it up to beg for VC cash.

Yet another AI wrapper company doing the same thing and jumping on the LLM hype train before it dries up.

If it is not open source and it is closed, it is immediately dead in the water.
> Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai was awarded compensation worth more than $225 million in 2022

I know this has been discussed here and 225MM is like the salary of 1000 employees making 200K for only one year, it is stock which is volatoile, that the salary of a CEO is impossible to measure, bla bla bla. But holy guacamole, whatever is the angle I look at it 225MM pear year does not make any f_ing sense to me and it is simply obscene for the 99.99% of the world population as would be enough to retire 5 or 6 generations of regular people.
The united states and many other cultures have turned their back on the semantic power of rhymes with a terrible impact.

“App = Crap”. Say it again. Say it 1000 times. If you are a product manager you should have it branded on your back.

I mean seriously, the Reddit app is crap. Whenever they want you to switch to an app for a web site you know it is crap. Why is usage of threads down 80%? Because you can only post with a crap. If the only way to post to threads was by blinking the turn signals of your car that would be better than making people use a crap.
>You can assign identified people to one of your contacts and use that for faceted search.

Now that is a use of the term faceted not yet seen. Wow.
We are only entitled to those part of the source code which is covered by copyleft licenses.

No, we're not. Even for code covered by copyleft licenses, we are only entitled to the source for which we have received a binary. However, once we have received those sources, we should be free to do with them whatever the license allows.

But that last part is what Red Hat is violating, and that's why some people have a deranged take, thank you very much: they use their sales contracts to specifically deny freedoms granted by copyleft licenses.
Same thing applies to Email, XMPP, Matrix, SIP, ActivityPub servers... nothing special about bluesky.
I see where you're coming from, you want the scientists to get paid rather than just whatever large corp manufactures the compound.

And I don't disagree with you, I think the scientists should get rewarded too. I just don't want access to technology that could help people to get held back by money, as it does with pharmaceuticals.
When you say remote within the EU, does this also include countries like Norway, Switzerland, and the UK?