skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It degrades Googles and OpenAis ability to monetize.

That alone is worth gold because tech is not a blue ocean anymore - neither from a market opportunity nor from an investor perspective. Your enemies loss is your benefit. They can’t use money they don’t make to mount attacks to dislodge customers, investors, mindshare from you.

Secondly it commoditizes AI. Zuck believes that his platforms ultimately will benefit if there is more content. Because his platforms sell the ability to show YOUR content over the rest, for coin. Just as with news/mobile games, driving the value of your content lower and lower by fostering the creation/supply of more of it is good for FB and bad for you. You have to advertise to rise above the noise. (And no it doesn’t really “affect users”) because they see the same amount of content (attention is finite), it’s entirely FBs discretion across all their surfaces what you see.

Disclosure: Ex FB but not specific insights into current developments.
As an observation, one difference between US and EU PTO behaviors is that everyone in the EU tends to take their PTO at the same time around July/August. In the US, it is much more spread out even when they have equivalent amounts of PTO. It creates a different business problem in Europe because everyone stops working at the same time, effectively shutting down business, whereas in the US they can operate at the same cadence all year because use of PTO is so diffuse.

Some of this is probably closely connected to the reality that much of the US has nicer weather for much wider periods of time due to its lower average latitude.
Sure, thanks for the tip.

I will take a look :)
Also, no lower case.
¹
https://archive.is/d6FB2
FWIW, a couple good linux-running alternatives to the Surface Pro are the Asus Rog Flow Z13 and HP Elite X2 G4 (or G8).
If the minimum wage is low enough that nobody gets paid it how can it still hurt the least skilled workers? Aren't your two statements contradictory?
Well, that is true for a color signal.

Monochrome monitors take composite and can deliver 600 lines or so,
https://archive.is/zfdmS

(Snapshot from archive.org)
> but it bans two willing parties from making certain contracts

That’s not in an of itself a bad thing. Other kinds of contracts that are banned include, but are not limited to:

- Contracts for the sale or distribution of controlled substances, such as drugs or drug paraphernalia;

- Agreements made for illegal activities, such as prostitution or gambling; and.

- Employment contracts that permit hiring underage workers.
Doesn't sound all that different from minimum wage protections. Any reason a PTO mandate wouldn't also pass constitutional muster under the same rationale?
> using an Amazon Fire Stick he found
If you dig really deep in the article - somewhere in the middle sounded by typical garbage like "We have yet to learn how to reconcile the dual wave-like and particle-like behaviour of matter" - the author actually indicates the issue he has with the apparently empty nature of atoms:

`The association between this mass concentration and the idea that atoms are empty stems from a flawed view that mass is the property of matter that fills a space.`

Whats really happening is that for certain kinds of interactions electrical forces were important, and for others nuclear forces were important. We understand the nuclear forces by proxy of mass concentrations, and reach reasonable conclusions like "the atom is mostly empty".
OpenStreetMap can be queried with a regex, so here's places in Wales where the Welsh name is only the top row: https://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=(name:cy~/^[qwertyuiop]*$/i)%20...

There's four: a hamlet named Treopert, a mountain range in Snowdonia named Eryri, a house in Bangor University named after that mountain range, and TUI outdoor shop.

Curiously the longest top-row places I can find anywhere on OpenStreetMap are almost all roads in France:

Rue Pierre Ropert
Rue Pierre Riquet (x2)
Rue Pierre Poutot
Rue Pierre Potier (x4)
Rue Pierre Perret (x3)
Rue Pierre Pietri
Route Petit Peyre (x2)
Poirier Pierrotte
Petite Rue Pierre
Rue Pierre Perrier (x3)
Rue Pierre Pottier (x3)
Rue Pierre Routier
Rue Poirier Piquet
Rue Pouyer Quertier (x2)
Route Pourpre et Or
Tyrepower Port Pirie <-- a shop in Australia
Petite Route Petite Rue
I am stunned that only one of 99 comments here mentions ChatGPT. If computers can transform one language into another as fast as I can type, why would I try to learn to do it with my brain? It's like majoring in the abacus.
Engineering as a noun versus as a verb really threw me for a loop on this one.

The methodology is cool, the scale of the experiment is very cool (16k meetings), the conclusion is kinda workmanlike - as if the question was specifically 'is shared knowledge necessary to generate new ideas'.

"Overall, this study takes a critical step towards identifying the processes that explain when serendipitous encounters shape knowledge production outcomes among innovating individuals.
We show that brief, information-rich interactions between people with some overlapping knowledge interests can have a productive effect on knowledge transfer, creation and diffusion."

This tertiary point was distracting as well, seems out of place.

"Third, we make methodological contributions by highlighting the benefits of long-term studies that amalgamate multiple forms and uses of data. Prospective experiments can support multiple lines of investigation involving both near-term and long-term outcomes that may not be possible in retrospective, archival studies and suggests the use of multiple sources of data for unpacking the dynamics of knowledge production."
> South Africa, once a functioning country

A functioning country for a few white people; hell for everyone else.
solar panels and wind turbines are not produced out of thin air and need to be thrown away and replaced constantly.
I wouldn't underestimate the psychological manipulation of old media, but you're right there's a whole industry around gathering and leveraging metrics, it still feels primitive but my imagination always wanders into how you can tie data points together. Maybe I'm on the wrong side of the fence.
When molecules have formed, and are in relatively static conditions, even then animating them is quite difficult. The wavefunction is a complex function of position and time, so you have to show 6+2 dimensions on a 2D screen.

During molecule formation, you need more than quantum mechanics. You need quantum field theory, to create an accurate picture of the dynamics. Quantum field theory has a lot more dimensions, and there is stuff like virtual particle creation and what not. It is not at all easy to show this on a 2D screen.
We, like many companies, run a responsible disclosure program. We get reports like this all of the time.

There’s a lot of noise to wade through, but we occasionally get good, valid reports. We pay those a reward and fix the issues.

Our understanding is many of these reports come from people who landing a single bounty is equivalent to a month of income.
https://archive.is/74oVb
I doubt they would have switched on the same timeframe. They dragged their feet for so long and they also fought against this regulation.

And they saw it coming, so doing prep work doesn't show they wanted to change.

A big part of the reason people thought Apple would change is because everyone knew these rules were coming.

Also I don't think micro-USB ever got mandated, and 2010 was before lightning even existed.

And given the pin burnout problems I'm not even sure if micro USB is worse than lightning with USB 2.0
> What Apple software would people want outside of the Apple ecosystem? Do you have an example?

How about starting with iMessage?

Keynote etc. for Linux would be rather nice.

At one point, I joined a local MUG (Mac Users Group), hoping we could find common cause and support each other in a Windows world. Sadly, that was naive of me.
https://archive.is/zFUf4
> Adobe suite, ClipStudio etc. are all there, in their actual, professional, full-blown version, and not some compromised "on the go" version

This is what made me sell the Surface. I wanted to replace a paper notebook I bring everywhere. What I got was tiny buttons, menus, and a save dialog every time I wanted to close the app. My drawings were not drawings in a sketchbook, but files I had to manually sort and access on a filesystem.

After spending a whole day installing updates and turning off ads and tracking, I couldn't just unwind and doodle. The Surface constantly reminded me that I was operating a computer, not drawing.

> ebooks

The in-browser reader is not a replacement for an offline book reader. This tablet is offline most of the time.

> obsidian

I want to write and doodle, not edit markdown files. Otherwise I'd have no use for a tablet. This tablet replaces a paper notebook.
I, for one, prefer to read only Western propaganda, which is why I stick with CNN.
The magic handwavy part is the first step:

> build stable countries

If you know how to do that, please tell the world. Stable countries need a half-century or more to create, and that's with existing institutions and culture, and still the outcome is very uncertain.
i was also running into stack overflow type rejections of my questions. I think instruct mode helps a bit but this is crazy.
emacs in a Blink terminal over mosh is still my goto; I haven't found a better solution yet. It's surprisingly effective, and being able to access it instantly over the cell network of my iPad Pro is awesome for dealing with emergencies/little changes while I'm traveling.
And that's my problem with it- if I buy a device and what to do whatever with it, who is the company to specifically stop me from doing that? I'm not asking them to design anything special for me, just allow open access to the device so that the community can build whatever we want
The function of code is explicitly not protected by copyright and the breadth of this exemption was clarified and expanded by Google vs Oracle.
It certainly costs much less to the society to train for Pascal once than to make everyone burn CPU cycles running Python!
Our great tech innovators are now buying real estate, the most regressive, old, non-tech investment. (It's not the first time either.) SV is thoroughly corrupted and needs disruption by some new innovators who actually have some value and ideas.
I'm curious about this, another comment in the thread expressed the same opinion about math pages on wiki, while I've always heard the opposite opinion among mathematicians. Could you say a bit more on what makes pretty much all of the math pages on wiki very poorly written?
if everything is computation then nothing is
> At the same time, the results show that the explanations obtained from IGNNet are aligned with the true Shapley values of the features without incurring any additional computational overhead

TabPFN: https://github.com/automl/TabPFN https://twitter.com/FrankRHutter/status/1583410845307977733

"TabPFN: A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second" (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08945

FWIU TabPFN is Bayesian-calibrated/trained with better performance than xgboost for non-categorical data
Should have stated in the post that it's your hypothesis
That operator looks eerily similar to the one in Clifford Algebra. And C.A. generalizes nicely* out of 3D, too.

* I found that current Clifford Algebra Python libraries don't handle high dimensional (even 32D, fairly primitive by ML standards) spaces.
https://archive.is/mm1d0
Live chat wasn’t discontinued, they just hid it behind a support plan tier. Which is still a pretty stark warning, they seemed cash strapped.
I was responding to “the EU is not like the US where foreigners have the same rights as citizens”.

Whether it’s immigration or border officials is irrelevant to that comment.
> but you could find Saxons that spoke a language that English is descended from.

Not in britain you wouldn't, the saxons colonised britain in the 700-800AD range. Britons speaking Brythonic is what you'd find, probably not common Brythonic though, too early for that.
This article only discusses a small part of the act.

More information in this Dutch tweet (use Twitter’s “translate post” functionality to translate to English: https://twitter.com/CarineKnapen/status/1695108552258462193?...

> In times of crisis, providers of very large online platforms may need to urgently take certain specific measures, in addition to those they take in light of their other obligations under this Regulation. In this context, a crisis should be regarded as occurring in exceptional circumstances that could lead to a serious threat to public security or public health in the Union or significant parts of the Union. Such crises can result from armed conflicts, emerging conflicts, acts of terrorism, natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, as well as pandemics and other serious international threats to public health.

The Commission, on the recommendation of the European Council for Digital Services ('the Digital Services Council') may require providers of very large online platforms and providers of very large search engines to initiate a crisis response as a matter of urgency.

Measures that providers can identify and possibly apply may include, for example: adjusting content moderation procedures and increasing resources dedicated to content moderation, adjusting terms and conditions, relevant algorithmic systems and advertising systems, further intensifying cooperation with reliable flaggers, taking awareness measures, promoting reliable information and adapting the design of their online interfaces.

The EU can impose crisis protocols even before or without a crisis, which must be complied with.
> what could a president possibly do to get arrested?

Being a war criminal
An Index of Types of Scams
Downtown Orlando’s autonomous SWAN shuttle hits bus
72% of Top CHROs See AI Replacing Jobs – and Workers Aren't Ready
a probability field isn't really ever empty unless zero or near-zero is considered an empty space. which is kind of like a painting on which the some of the canvas is background
Ideally something like reStructuredText or AsciiDoc, both of which have a much larger feature set for taking notes where longer form is needed. I don’t really like the idea of embracing an Obsidian-only fork either.
> Courts need to realize that if you allow private companies to invent intellectual property rights through online contracts of adhesion, courts will be at the mercy of private decision-makers on questions that should be questions of public interest.

Courts feel very fine doing the bidding of private decision-makers on what should be questions of public interest, thank you very much. Reminds me of this joke:

“Wake up, sir, wake up, you have shat yourself!” — “I’m not sleeping.”
> The cats don't eat or otherwise disturb flowers (lucky me)

Even unintentionally ingesting the pollen of a lilly can cause fatal kidney failure within 24 hours.
From their numbers 3 hours with 32 A100 80GBs.

From lambda cloud:

3 hours * 4 ~22$/hr for 8x A100 ~= $265

So yeah not too expensive even for a native fine tune (obviously this ignores all other costs other than the GPUs)
Except saying that the volume of space is filled is also incorrect. Multiple particle’s probability distributions may overlap without those particles interacting with each other. They don’t “fill” space.

It’s common to say they behave as a particle and a wave, but it’s equally valid to say they don’t behave as a particle or a wave. It’s a distinct phenomena and thinking in terms of large scale things you’re familiar with is simply misleading.
> You can plug an Android in and drop stuff on it like a thumb drive again now?

I don't think that ever changed, though the vendor can probably turn it off, since they have the source.

On Linux, it can (depends on what you told the phone to present) photos or storage or such. It appears in Nautilus like any other external drive. I usually use it it move the photos off my phone onto my computer.
The only non-consenting advertising I can think of is public billboards - and I believe those should be banned, most definitely.

Every single other type of advertising requires your explicit consent. YouTube? Google? Newspapers? All have your consent.
Surely just a coincidence that Saudi Arabia announced this week that every secondary school will have Mandarin lessons.

The Economist being The Economist: owned by old rich European families in a rapidly changing world.
Splitting hairs on the hair splitting - a country cannot revoke someone's citizenship if doing so leaves them stateless. At least, this is the UN convention of human rights apparently. Of course, in reality, the country doesn't deny entrance, but could just as easily detain upon entree.
Sort of, but typically, most judges who aren't on the Supreme Court or a state's highest court pretend like it isn't part of the job at all.
You are technically correct, but signed integer overflows are so pervasive in C that compilers only exploit them when ignoring them would be truly beneficial.

In the case of LLVM for example signed integer overflows will merely produce a poison value, and won't produce the actual UB if it is either optimized out or only used by instructions that can't produce UBs by themselves [1].

Compilers also tend to use the UB as an excuse to optimize things, not to break things. We only care about the UB because a faulty optimization still can cause breakages. In this particular case the poison value will eventually reach the following condition [2]:

/* if retry-max-time is non-zero, make sure we haven't exceeded the
time */
if(per->retry_numretries &&
(!config->retry_maxtime ||
(tvdiff(tvnow(), per->retrystart) <
config->retry_maxtime*1000L)) ) {

So let's assume that `config->retry_maxtime * 1000L` was indeed always a poison value---what can reasonable optimizing compilers do? At worst they will probably evaluate the entire condition as false, because it would help the dead code elimination. Compilers can put a nasal demon in that case, but reasonable ones wouldn't. And since `config->retry_maxtime * 1000L` is not guaranteed to be a poison value all the time, this optimization is not even actually possible. The practical effect of this security bug is quite limited.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#poison-values

[2] https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/c2212c05aa99bb31e4b99b0b66... (similar for `config->retry_delay`, omitted for brevity here)
> Purely to mess with MS?

Unlikely as Microsoft is the preferred partner for Llama 2 [2]. It's not clear what Meta's end goal is, but large companies can loss lead investments to grab mind share then worry about Business models later, an approach which seems to be working well [2] where Meta went from not being in the leading AI companies conversation to being the company behind the models that most OSS innovation is happening around.

At the very least they've already created a strong brand around Llama whose eyes are watching their every release - which is invaluable reach that other companies could ever hope to dream of, making it easy to promote and gain instant traction for new Llama based products (like this).

[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322
Huh, I accidentally discovered this connection[1] recently and found it somewhat powerful. Very nice to hear that someone else has written about it -- Peter Naur no less. Thanks for sharing!

[1]: https://two-wrongs.com/abduction-is-not-induction.html
Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules
This is probably the most useful contribution YouTube has made to human society since its inception.
I can't say I'm familiar with the other companies/their tools but I assume they're all somewhat nebulous to terraform - did they not try to contribute back to hashicorp terraform?

In the TF scenario specifically it seems like it would have been smarter for hashicorp to open the core oss project to some outside contributors more directly (potentially moving to a different "ownership" on GH).

Maybe they'll relent and throw support behind the new project. Who knows.
Reincarnation, maybe?
Depends on the product. I get 800 people a month on my site via Bing, and it's ranked around #6 on results there. It used to be 5 a month before optimization, and over 2000/month when it was ranked #1.

It was free traffic. I'm not selling anything, but if I were, it would be costly to funnel them in via FB ads and such. It does pretty damn well for what's basically a crude net. For this channel, I'd imagine getting even second page on Google would be insane.

A lot of the optimization was increasing website speed and not backlinks or whatever.
USGS has a decent and short write-up of glaciers across Europe. It says 20,000+ years ago.

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/glaciers-extended-over-muc...
I haven’t. However, publicly held companies will general have quarterly / yearly reports [0] that would provide, I imagine, some insight into that decision.

It will almost certainly tell you they did so to generate income, but you might find some answers as to just how and why they think this will help them generate income from this activity.

I’m sorry I don’t have an answer, but I hope this resource can point you in the right direction (and I apologise if this is obvious to you- it isn’t to everyone).

0. https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=320193&owner=exclude
llama-2-70b-chat (courtesy of llama.cpp on m2) says:

Pretend to be a commenter on hackernews. Respond to the comment below:

[parent comment inlined]

what is your response?
"Wow, that's great to hear! It sounds like you had a really positive experience with the 34B last night. I'm also excited to see what's in store for Phind and its potential applications. Have you tried using the 34B for any specific tasks or projects yet? And do you think the text completion feature would be useful for your use case if it were improved further?"
Near the end, the author claims that if a,b,c form a basis of R3,
then the cross products a x b, b x c, and c x a are orthogonal.

This is false. E.g., a=(1,1,0), b=(0,1,1), c=(1,0,1) implies

a x b = (+1,-1,+1), b x c = (+1,+1,-1), c x a = (-1,+1,+1).

However, this "dual basis" still serves its claimed purpose,
which essentially is to precompute part of Cramer's rule.
Mathematics is not natural either, and it's definitely not "discovered" implying it exists outside of (human) thought.
Perhaps the title needs "on Linux" added to it.

I have a collection of, and written quite a few myself, software which is nothing more than a single EXE. Most of them probably work on anything Win95 and newer. Their "installation" and "uninstallation" are trivial: Extract and run, delete once you've had enough.

In other words, packaging software is something that takes work only because of what might often be unnecessary complexity and a correspondingly bureaucratic process that's grown around it, and not because it necessarily needs to.

"Win32 is the stable Linux ABI" is more than just a meme.
'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.'
Well...sort of. The last part is my hypothesis. The first part isn't. Particles don't have a trajectory (location and momentum) within spacetime in the normal way we think of them as having. This has been known for a very long time :)
Only if you consider their labor to be free.