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The problems with floats are independent of the basis.

>1/10 just doesn't exist in that number system

And 1/3 doesn't exist for b=10.

I really have no idea what you are on about. The number system you want does not exist, it is a mathematical theorem, floats are the best approximation of real numbers and choosing b=10 is dumb outside of specific applications.

Decimal floating point fixes nothing it just moves around the issues where they less affect numbers in base 10. It is exactly as broken as base 2. You still violate basic identities in b=10, just different ones.

Again, the number system you want doesn't exist and it can't. You can never approximate the real numbers with constant bits, division and arithmetic consistency.
What do you mean another Inbox situation?
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I wish we could all pool money and buyout politicians in some tiny corner of the globe to pass laws that made all telemetry illegal for any device that entered their geography and allowed hefty fines for even basic data collection.
Good point on starting with the cheapest option to start just to see his needs/capabilities, thanks!
I get not being bothered enough to opt out.. but actively opting in? What's the motivation there?
If you’re someone who wants to fine-tune Llama 2 on Google Colab, I have a couple live coding streams I did this past week where I fine tune Llama on my own dataset

Here’s the stream - https://www.youtube.com/live/LitybCiLhSc?feature=share

One is with LoRa and the other QLoRa I also do a breakdown on each fine-tuning method. I wanted to make these since I myself have had issues running LLMs locally and Colab is the cheapest GPU I can find haha.
Yeah, this pissed me off too. I’m currently combing through iOS safari settings trying to find out how “allow videos to autoplay” was ever enabled (there is a setting for this in “accessibility” but doesn’t seem to fix this website at least so I’m still looking)
Saying cryptocurrency is 100% a scam is like saying fiat currencies are 100% a scam. There are scams that solicit unwanted transactions of either fiat or cryptocurrency. Some entire currencies (both fiat and crypto) might only exist to line the pockets of their issuers, and can be called a scam. Neither fiat nor cryptocurrency are "100% scam and useless" though.
It honestly seems to me that the core issue here is actually the same one found in digital voting technology - where is the vetting? There must be vetting at multiple levels of the process, or these use cases are negligent at best and malicious at worst.

"Our highly advanced computer technology has analyzed the voting results, and thrown out all of the results it has determined to be fraudulent. If your vote was thrown out due to the algorithm's fraud determination, you will be arrested for attempting to subvert democracy. What's that? You want to double check the computer? That's not necessary, because it's a computer after all, it doesn't make mistakes."

"Our highly advanced computer technology said with 100% certainty that you are the person responsible for this murder. You say you were on the other side of town at that time, and you claim to have witnesses. This is impossible, because our computer algorithm doesn't make mistakes, it's a computer after all. You are hereby sentenced to the death penalty, and the computer has recommended that you receive no appeal, since it has determined you to be guilty beyond any doubt."
Fair enough. I block the ads at the DNS level, but still get a placeholder white box on my phone. On Android Auto though I've never seen anything, although I'm sure its coming.
At home this isn't so bad. In the office, maybe not.
There are two impenetrable versions of English for me: Australian and cricket.

I've consigned myself to never reaching proficiency in either.
This gives only arguments that the crime ratings aren't precise enough for an exact ranking, but no argument that they don't provide largely reliable approximate information.
> I think there's a lot of nostalgia at play here

I don't think that's the case with latency, as we can measure that directly.

> There's a lot of ways in which modern computing is far nicer than it was in the past.

And resource consumption and latency isn't one of them.
Yep, lazy example, but even grammatically correct sentences are a lot. The idea though is for the passphrase to be something invoking a distinct image for the owner and I'm coming from a vacation. :)
I have an idea for you:

https://www.lakka.tv/ [0]

Endless hours of nostalgic fun, especially if you invite a colleague from the same generation.

[0] And many others like Batocera.org
As the article says: journalists take social media for gospel. They're totally addicted to twitter. That's an important source for trends and vox populi for them, and that's where all the commotion about Musk's reign comes from (and from the people that the journalists follow, because they'll lose their influence, and thus power and what comes with it).

The majority reads what these journalists write. If it seems reasonable, they'll accept it. When they're browbeaten, they'll also accept it, but with a grudge. But don't forget that there are different political, religous and cultural leanings in all media, so the majority is not uniform. Silent they are, though.
It probably does STUN but not TURN and relies on the actual data going through P2P, that's what most services that are free do and for a lot of orgs/cases it works pretty well.
> it creates a sense of complete and irreversible moral decay

or, it is just another reflection of the "complete and irreversible moral decay that permeates all of society". the decay of any civilization is predictable and irreversible, and not a pretty sight...
What are the economics of a bunch of random bots using up all their resources with sybil attacks?
An alternative UX for gmail that Google killed.
Classic problem. Was/is also a problem with UK speed cameras IIRC. I think it was Top Gear that figured out if you drive something like 500 mph then it wouldn't register you speeding.
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I don't know what I'd use one more machine for, but having the option certainly will be firmly in the "pro" column when considering whether to get a Framework laptop next time, because even if I don't find a use for it, it increases the chance it might be useful for someone else...
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AI is acting ‘pro-anorexia’ and tech companies aren’t stopping it
100%

Make no mistake, zoom will prevail in court or any legal proceedings that may come up around this for at least a few years if not indefinitely.

It would take an act of literally Congress or a court ruling that they can’t do this.

So, the only way to get into court and win on this is to have zoom “injure” someone (hard to prove), then that injured person has to have enough money to pay a law firm for lengthy trials with zoom including, to be sure, multiple higher court appeals.

Bottom line, for zoom to be prevented from doing any of this it’s going to cost probably in the millions of dollars of legal fees and fairly significant numbers of people who were injured by this before anything could start to happen to make something like this not possible.
Thats a great idea! His range would be about 1.5 miles (that's how far his moms house is from mine). Is that doable over radio?
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Between this and the "RTO or GTFO" story going around on Blind, my new conspiracy theory is there is some kind of power struggle going on at zoom leadership and the senior leadership team is intent on burning zoom to the ground.

https://vimeo.com/851503362
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I agree the hate was always there, but this was equally true even before any internets.
I don’t think it’s possible to do anything about that. Arresting all these people, or censoring their speech, or banning them from the internet is IMO less than ideal.

Still, before the modern internet infested with ads, there was no incentive for platforms to actively promote these polarizing views. The opposite was true, because network bandwidth costed them money.

Modern internet ecosystem does just that, at great scale. No longer these are small groups general population is unaware about and not interested in. The polarizing content is now actively promoted by both mainstream media, and huge social media platforms. It’s so profitable they can’t resist, and their shareholders don’t care about the externalities it causes to the general public.

These externalities of ad tech aren’t limited to political polarization. For social media, mental health is another major one. Teenagers are especially vulnerable, and it seems there’s strong correlation between mental health and social media use. Here’s some article about the topic: https://www.newportacademy.com/resources/well-being/effect-o...
> TOO MANY ADS CLUTTER THE MAP

...he complained, in an article on a website where 30% of vertical space is used by an autoplay video ad featuring an idiot asking me whether I'd eat "mustard Skittles".

Ironic.
Every part of Google needs to be split: Youtube, Gmail, Adwords, Drive/Office, Play Store, etc. Then next carve up Apple, then Facebook, then we need to FTC to stop approving dumb shit like Microsoft buying Activision.
Some very interesting discussion of outlier features and quantization: https://timdettmers.com/2022/08/17/llm-int8-and-emergent-fea...

* Outlier values are used to prune values.
* Transformers seem to undergo a "phase shift" in how outlier features are treated around 6.7B parameters. This could complicate research on removing them.

Maybe you and Tim Dettmers would have a lot to talk about :)
If you don't let your users upload a 3GB Shrek dvdrip as their password, do you even care about security?
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Who defines that, though? As an example, India's Aadhaar biometric ID was set to have a "constant FPIR."

False Positive Identification Rate grows as the enrolled database gets larger, but True Positive Identification Rate does not (it actually goes down a tiny bit, as some true matches get lost due to lower-accuracy initial search passes). Both FPIR and TPIR assume that the entire universe of possible people is enrolled - i.e. that you are in a "closed set." So what they're really telling you is what the error and success rates are given how many people are in the universe that you are trying to distinguish from each other.

But FPIR is a closed-set metric, that tells you how many false positives you will generate per search. If not everyone is enrolled, you have an open-set problem. And the rate users actually care about is Precision (True Matches / (True Matches + False Matches)). They want to know if the matches that come out of the system are correct.

So looking at rates, that's simply TPIR / (TPIR + FPIR), right? And TPIR is largely constant as N grows, right? So FPIR is the effective error rate, right? Pretty much the whole industry agreed, so Aadhaar dynamically changed its threshold during initial enrollment so that FPIR would stay constant and therefore Precision should stay constant.

** Pause here to see if you can spot the issue **

The intuition that should have screamed out at everyone is that comparisons are independent events and it would be really, really weird if the precision of any given returned match depended on how many of these events were independently happening in other computing threads. It shouldn't matter at all how many independent comparisons are happening. Because they're independent.

TPIR doesn't grow because it assumes everyone is enrolled. Which is definitionally not the case during ramp up. If you want to know how many True Matches the system will spit out, you need to multiply TPIR by probability of enrollment! The Precision is defined by how big of a population you are trying to distinguish, not how many of them are enrolled in the database. The database size is basically used to give you a prior that any given comparison is true; the simplest prior is 1/pop_size, which is the same a 1/db_size for a closed set. But not for an open one.

If the database grows by 10x, you get 10x the false matches because FPIR goes up and you get 10x the true matches because they are 10x more likely to be enrolled. In other words, 10x the matches with the same ratio of true to false. Instead, they lowered the threshold early in the lifecycle, making it more error-prone. This system cost more than $1B in a country where that's a big deal, and had a lot of eyes on it. Trust me, the "experts" were involved and a bunch of them had PhDs. Didn't help.
How do I update stuff in Google Maps? For OSM, its a case of opening Street Complete and tapping on things.

To add new features I have to use SCEE, which is more nerdy mainly because it involves using FDroid to install it. But I've no idea how to add, say a park bench to Google Maps.
By the same token (no pun intended), locking up such data in a closed (in many senses) LLM wouldn’t be a desirable outcome?
> It's similarly unclear why the material seems to always float at an angle. It seems to track the field lines in some way.

I've seen some people talking about the LK-99 samples only having these properties locally due to internal structure or something like that, could that not explain the angle if one part of the sample had more "pockets" of material with these properties than another part?
The smartest people are not obsessing over LK-99, actually
The first comment reacting to a post on HN sets the tone for the entire discussion.
i'm still scared of lithium battery house fires
> It prefers weird backroads with lots of turns instead of straight larger roads (and that's stupid)

Part of that could be driving style.

Getting to one nearby city really has two main routes for me—the single lane highway, or the backroads with a bunch of weird turns and stuff.

You hop on the highway and besides a couple of towns you pass through you more or less just space out for an hour and then you’re there. Your speed on the highway is pretty much fixed. There’s heavy enough traffic that even if you were to try and pass and drive aggressively you’re never really beating the map estimate. Often you come in a bit longer because it only takes one person doing 15-20 under the speed limit to just create a rolling roadblock.

The back roads, however, are basically empty. How fast you get there is pretty much up to you.

The highway is faster and less stressful for my wife. The back roads are faster and less stressful for me. I’m not even speeding much or driving aggressively. I’m just comfortable actually doing the speed limit through those areas and passing where necessary.
>Your backlog is someone else's opportunity

Yeah, I don’t care.

I don’t mean to be harsh, but if I have to justify spending my company’s money on this, this is definitely not something I’m going to say. This isn’t charity, and I’m looking for quality code.
Cool stream! Subbed!
Those Victorians need to go back to skew-el (it's hard to write their pronunciation of school...)
I assembled an Airbus A380-800 model. I had no prior experience in assembling models however I used to play Lego as a kid. This model took about 2 weeks to complete and I did it during my sabbatical. It was a bit harder than I thought it would be and I did unrecoverable mistakes when gluing and using the stickers but overall it was a great feeling to have it done. Now it has its dedicated space in the living room.

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And e-bikes are outpacing EVs:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-21/u-s-e-bik...
You might want to checkout the many subreddit dedicated to crypto. Same energy
I don't have a specific answer to your question but if you wanted to get some rough numbers based on your current visitors, create an A record and a different named AAAA record pointing to two images on your site, one being an IPv4 only image and one being an IPv6 only image. This assumes you still have IPv4 for now and are just contemplating dumping it.

ipv4only 1h in a x.x.x.x
ipv6only 1h in aaaa x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x

Then in your apex/root page lazy-load the two images ideally in a way that won't block rending the page if one of the images does not load. One image references the ipv4only domain name and the other image references the ip6only domain name. Both of those domains should be added as aliases to your main virtual host. People can also see visually which versions they can reach. Others here can probably suggest the best way to do this that will not affect the speed of your site. You can then parse your access logs to see who can load both, one or the other.
I live in the inner city in Saint Louis, MO, which isn't the richest or most green-friendly region, and there's multiple Teslas on my block. It's been an impressive shift over the last few years.
I imagined myself getting dragged through New York's legal system and that was all it took for me
This is sort of true, but it doesn't scale well. You quickly end up having a very verbose `ns` declaration at the top of every file as you try to extend your Clojure

To cut down on the noise, you can coalesce all your extensions into one `ns` but it's not technically feasible with `core` and needs to be done with another library:

https://clojureverse.org/t/how-do-you-write-library-wrappers...
My brother recently asked me a question that I didn’t have an answer to. In urban areas, most people park on the streets or in shared garages that have maybe 2 chargers for 100+ cars. Electric cars also take longer to charge. With the car electrification push, even with rapid charging, it seems like a real risk that chargers will become overwhelmed and have long wait times since you’d need ~5-10x as many chargers to handle the same amount at peak throughput. Swapping batteries seems like a no go. Is the expected solution to build waaay more chargers than we have fuel stations today? That’s setting aside the problem than many power grids can’t handle that many cars plugged in at once.

It seems like we’re massively ignoring the infrastructure problems of mass electrification. We should electrify, but I think the infrastructure piece is an overlooked unsexy undertaking that is often ignored by politicians because it’s too complicated and their constituents don’t complain about like they do with electric cars for that reason.
> Whenever I’m in a major metropolitan area, Google Maps seems to have an obsession with displaying as many hotels, bars, and clubs on the map as it can. This happens even when I haven’t searched for a single hotel or bar.

All this data they slurp up about me, and they can't even figure out that I checked into my hotel and slept in it last night, and am probably not looking for another nearby hotel today. Or that I never go to nightclubs, and probably won't be going to one today either. They say they collect data to improve their products, not just to sell it to advertisers. I believe they sell it to advertisers, I'm starting to suspect they don't use it to make better products at all.
A great way of introducing bias. Here we are.
He paid $44 billion for a platform that's just for jokes, and nothing else, is this what you're saying? You're calling him an idiot, then. I distinctly remember him saying the future of the world and free speech depends on Twitter and what not. Is it just for the jokes? This is what we use free speech about, this is what democracy depends on? Fucking around with jokes?

Why do autocratic regimes shut down Twitter in times of unrest? To reduce number of jokes? Why is say former President Trump being sued for promoting insurrection on Twitter? Don't they know it's just for jokes? The accounts of the war crimes in Ukraine that found outlet on Twitter, the news of weather events, earthquakes, crime, scientific news like the LK-99 superconductor candidate, it's all just jokes? The fact the stock price sharply went up when Musk said "I'm taking Tesla private" on Twitter, just jokes?

The only joke here... is you.

And as a matter of fact, Zuckerberg had explicitly asked Musk (not on Twitter, but "in real life") if he's serious about the fight, and he's said "he's dead serious". The problem with Musk being dead serious is that he tends to be dead serious about great many things, and then not deliver. That's not about Twitter, or about jokes. It's who Musk is. He's not reliable.
> As far as I'm concerned the problem with claims of great accuracy (100%? Surely you jest?)

The system ostensibly being modelled here is our ability or produce natural language, so the 100% accuracy referred to it's ability to produce syntactically and grammatically correct natural language sentences. This was not a claim that LLMs produce make accurate factual statements with near 100% accuracy. You have to specifically instruct or lead an LLM into violating syntactic and grammatical correctness.

> but then this observation is taken as evidence that the systems in question are doing something more than that; namely, that they are somehow modelling human perception

I think in the case of language this is more likely than not, because language was an invention of the human mind. Therefore the structure of natural language reveals some fundamental properties of the human brain.

Whether this also applies to vision is much less clear, not least because vision models are trained on 2D images and humans are embedded in a 3D space, and the contents of images are not products of the human brain the way language is. There is just no direct parity of reasoning here.

Edit: in some sense, cameras were designed to work well with human perception otherwise they'd have no utility to humans, so there is something about human perception that's revealed, but what's revealed is considerably weaker and more indirect than the natural language case.

You wrote a lot in your other replies and I will follow-up when I have access to more than just a phone and so can provide a more detailed argument and citations.
It's 100% safe from dictionary attacks. You can even make it grammatically correct. Just choose something like adjective-noun-adverb-transitive_verb-adjective-noun.

If you choose each of six words randomly from a list of the 2k most common words with that part of speech, you get 66 bits of entropy, which is slightly more entropy than a random 11 character alphanumeric password with upper and lower case, but vastly easier to remember, type, and say out loud if you need to tell someone.

Think of the words as just a view/rendering of a random bit string. You generate random numbers and then use that to index into your word lists to display those numbers. If you use an injective function for your view, you can choose it to have whatever "nice" (for humans) properties you want (e.g. grammatical validity), and no entropy will be lost (or gained).
It was a counter-example in the analytic/math sense, I was in no way suggesting that a sex worker is equivalent to a drug kingpin. Merely an example as to why your assertion that [calling the shots is incompatible with overall societal marginalization] is wrong.

Happy to not continue though, I think you struggle with good faith discussion and/or reading comprehension (:
By that logic it still wouldn't be Google Software.
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I sometimes think, what does the person showing up late, much like myself, think about this or that topic.
I switched to Apple maps awhile ago now.

I just find that the UI is nicer to use and look at and it seems to be more performant and smoother.

I haven't really had any problems getting to where I need to go using Apple Maps. Maybe it doesn't work well in some countries and places, but it seems to work perfectly fine where I need it to.