skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really; there are algorithms where many nodes propose proposals in parallel, but eventually only one of those proposals gets finalized (or they maintain only a partial ordering, not a full ordering). (See Bullshark and redbelly iirc)

The main issue is that someone has got to pick a final ordering. If there’s a universe of millions of possible orderings it seems that the most efficient way is to have a single node pick a single one.
We could discuss the article's style - I'll admit to generously skate-reading that until it finally got to the actual political matter. But it is odd that no one is addressing his rather damning characterization of the current ruling class and their feelings for Americans. So that is the "sad state of affairs" that has engendered the disappointing irony that you note.
> Go take your social ineptitude elsewhere

I hereby humbly apologise for daring to participate in the comments section of Hacker News despite my autism. Will not happen again.

(But then where are "people like me" supposed to go?).
It is not detachment from reality. Those of us that are comfortable with compiling some of the programs we use from source don't by any means expect ordinary users to be capable of doing the same. It's an option that works for us and that's fine for many of us, though I personally would prefer if regular users had options as well.

It's also a straw man. Compiling from source is just one option (that is particularly relevant for the HN demographic), but many (most?) notable apps, the kinds regular users would be using anyway, seem to provide ready-to-use versions that can be downloaded from their site and run without even having to be installed. This is a very convenient workflow that even regular users would be capable of using, and is quite reminiscient of what people often do on proprietary desktop operating systems.
Dynamic vs. Static Dispatch
At least in the case of the Foxconn plant, I don't even think anyone actually got any favors. The politicians in question (Trump, Scott Walker?) just think that the appearance of a deal like this makes them look good to their voters. That's all the "favor" they needed.
That's the only way. Because it doesn't take a huge percentage of distracted drivers to pose a concrete danger. But I've seen more than one Tesla making weird moves and given how many of those there are here I'm not quite sure whether that is more or less frequent than with other brands but what I do notice is the severity of the moves and they tend to be pretty wild. As in: half a lane wide sudden moves. Of course that could just as easily be Tesla drivers that are themselves in control of their car. But I strongly suspect FSD to be at the root of these, they certainly don't look like the kind of thing a driver would do voluntarily, but as a panic response to a vehicle doing something out of the ordinary it would match just fine.

What really gets me is that people would then not return their vehicle as defective (or never ever again use such a feature). I sold my previous car after it twice false triggered on the auto emergency braking failure and I would expect other car owners to do the same thing.
> the now - the best time to live in in human history.

* If you are not subjugated, starving, displaced due to resource competition, impacted by global warming, living in a factory, owning property in an oppressive regime, farming resource crops for pennies on the dollar, making Nikes/iPhones/sex toys to feed your family, serving in the military against your will, unjustly imprisoned or non-white.

It's great!
I don't think this is true for genuine, dug up from the ground, ancient greek and roman statues. Replicas are a different story.

You can clearly see leftover pigments, grains of dirt, and various other undertones when you look closely at any museum with these statues. They clearly are nowhere near a pure white colour, without any exception that I've seen.
The contradictions I'm talking about are in the writing, not in the subject. Contradictions like "he was idle and poor but he earned a lot at his successful business". The fact that he also spent a lot, so he was always tight on money, does not justify the "idle and poor" (ne'er-do-well and almost wastrel) parts. We all contain contradictions, but not "he was short but tall" ones like that.
(interviewer here, but not on RWKV team and no ties) so if you're looking for social proof - this is something we cover in the pod but the original idea came from Apple (Attention Free Transformers) and Microsoft recently put out the RetNet which is a similar idea. If you believe that the reasoning benchmarks shown were legit (and these are pretty standard benchmarks imo, and audited by other academics not strictly on the RWKV team like Quentin Anthony (also our past guest!), tho he is with Eleuther), then that's pretty much all the proof you need. plus the fact that you can spin it up on huggingface spaces right now and try it out yourself (link in the show notes).

bottomline is this thing is being built by the community that uses it - there is no higher form of dogfooding. if you wanna wait 3-4 years for big names to use it before you take it seriously, then we'll just have to wait. i call this out explictly on the pod intro that i'm trying to be early here, i think we might be the first big ai pod to seriously cover RWKV
If it's a 5 year abatement to develop vacant or abandoned land, it's not much of a concession, if the alternative is the land continues to sit vacant.
I drive lots.

I'm saying that there are very little of perfect drivers. Even without phone and alcohol, which is a criminal negligence - there's kids, partners, mind wandering, daydreaming, poor vehicle maintenance, crap road designs or surfaces, medical conditions, vision impairments, weather, food, insects, etc which on overall means we are generally very distracted and impaired.
I read it as... 20 years ago we were the ones being censored so we created a free speech hosting. But now that it's our side doing the censorship, we're not so sure anymore.
So says the fun police.
It would be too frustratingly difficult to express the desired nuance of a line of script purely through a set of ui/ux. The most likely technological advancement we're going to see is "tonal mapping" which would allow a regular dev to record a line with the desired inflection/emotion and then map this onto an existing TTS voice engine model.

This tech already exists now though it is somewhat in its infancy.
> The changes are part of the government’s efforts to help young people buy their first home and to discourage individuals from purchasing multiple properties for profit, as Poland grapples with a housing shortage.

Making it easier for (first time) buyers increases demand. Increased demand leads to increased prices. Affordable via this type of manipulation doesn't last.

As for the buyers of multiple properties, what's to stop them from simply raising rents?

The article mentions that 12% of available housing is empty. Wouldn't it make sense to discourage that? And also give developers a tax break? Else the "incentives" mentioned are only going to be counterproductive (i.e., will drive prices up).
I think it's the fact that they're only vegan because of consequences, not because they have a moral opposition to harming animals, which is what veganism is supposed to be about.
Maybe Trump meant that the Foxconn factory will happen on his second term when he gets elected (:
The fall was swift and complete. Sadly.
I've heard of some of these "tax deals" working out well for the community, but often they don't end up providing nearly the amount of development or jobs that were originally promised.
Yes. The British were also promised Hong Kong would have democracy. Whenever there is a lack of enforceable accountability as part of an agreement, then it is a foolish agreement. It's another reason it's vital that the people should strive for political participation and power because such matters cannot be left to chance with foolish or corrupt decision-makers to screw them over.
It’s not localised and it’s not new either tbh.

That said, I do think there’s certainly been renewed interest since the pandemic in some of the classical psychedelics like mushrooms, etc. Certainly a lot more people asking around for good picking spots the last couple of seasons here.
will mention, thanks for correction. would love to interview someone from the LAION side to get that part of the story. (its really hard to trace as an outsider)
I'm reminded of a story about why reinventing the wheel is bad.

It's not so much that it's a bad idea... it's the endless arguments about whether our wheel should have three corners or four.
It's very relevant, because it shows that we already have a precedent for public salary disclosure.

And I'm not sure that concern is very warranted. You already know who gets paid a lot, because they live in nice houses in nice neighborhoods. Where they pay for protection through increased police presence due to their higher property taxes.
M-Wakili
Kenyan AI Lawyer
I don't see how what you linked-to establishes "TDS."
> For this, they're getting a $47M tax break.

This presumes someone else would be paying the $47M. Often that isn't the case, so the "tax break" is just money the locality would not have received anyway.
> the Mexican cartels do have power which rivals nation-states,

Not the Mexican state in terms of firepower & resources

> and in any case international criminal organization don't require the power of a nation-state to do any of the things described, as history has repeatedly shown

No Mexican drug lords dare show their face in public for long - they operate in the shadows. There are no strongholds, no cities, states out of reach.

The moment they become popular it’s time to lay low
No, because in the case of TSMC, they actually are building things in AZ and have already spent hundreds of millions on construction.
(Responding to jacquesm because thread depth exceeded)

> half a lane wide sudden moves

In 10k autopilot km's I've never seen that. Yes there is some breaking sometimes, but no swerves yet.

And yes panic breaking pisses me off and lane departure alarms almost caused to rage and return the car.
We do it now with thermal images: https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...
Under new age anti-racism ideology, all white people are born racist. It's a useful tool to supress anyone unwilling to go along with this new age thinking.
My point is that academic PL research has diverged significantly from the kinds of problems people are really facing. That's why we've seen array programming emerge organically to address a direct industry need, and it didn't come from the PL crowd at all.
Having used both, salvia is something I’ve gone back to multiple times and find value in. If you treat salvia with respect, it’s useful.

Datura taught me a valuable lesson exactly once, about hubris.
Working a treat for Disney
> I'm still wondering if meditation makes you a gullible crystal buying idiot, or does it just attract such people.

Maybe both?

It makes some:

It can be genuinely destabilizing to realize that e.g., the mind creates its emotional reality and it can hack that reality.[1] It's less destabilizing if you put that responsibility on some external fetish item – crystals, a guru, a retreat, an app.

It attracts some:

A lot of people are looking for an easy way to socially signal that they're good and unique. Meditation accoutrements fit the bill. See "Zen home and garden deco ideas" and "Can anyone identify this [Buddhist thing I just bought]?" posts on some popular Buddhist forums.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_feldman_barrett_you_aren_t_at...
TSMC wants out of PRC's crosshairs but they're concerned about labor costs and labor skills in the red, white, and blue. I think they'll find greater labor costs are worth the peace-of-mind. The skilled labor gap is one that's closable when industry, education, and government invest in supporting wise teachers and upping teacher pay.
> First, it shouldn't be solar+storage but solar+wind+storage. Solar and wind work well together because wind is strongest at night.

The trouble is they're both intermittent, even independent of time of day. For solar that's much less trouble because the demand is higher during the day, and aligns extremely well with air conditioning load in the summer.

But if you're relying on wind at night and then there isn't any, and you also have no solar because it's night, what's left?

> Generated fuels, like hydrogen, may work well for long-term storage and we'll them for other things.

At which point you have to add the cost of production, storage and generation facilities for some other generating technology.

> Third, we can overbuild solar and wind. It might be cheaper to make 3x or 5x than needed.

But how does that fix it? Sometimes it's calm for weeks, so your wind turbines are generating at 5% capacity for that long. Are you going to overbuild by 20x? Or build enough storage to power the entire grid for that long, even if you only use it for two weeks every three or four years?

> Finally, we are going to need extra energy for carbon capture and generating fuels.

This is a generic argument for building more of any kind of non-carbon generating capacity.
People will just make their own servers and they'll have to sue them to close them down.
I found it on archive.org. Search creator:”Albert Hoffman”
They have "plant based" sushi at Whole Foods that has the appearance of salmon and tuna nigiri. The texture is surprisingly good, but there's basically no flavor. Not sure if it's from the same producer as this stuff
Discussed here 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17535909
Only a single data point but if you tried to make assumptions about my wife based on her name (married or maiden) you would likely be very, very wrong.
As a picky eater who's not very fond of most vegetables, for most of my life I thought it would be impossible for me to enjoy vegetarian or vegan food just because whenever I'd seen some vegan options available somewhere they were just like what you described. Eventually it turned out that there are many more options out there than what you get when a meat-based restaurant needs to come up with some non-meat dish to not lose some orders and that if you find places where people know what they're doing you can easily discover vegan dishes that you find on par or even preferable to their meaty alternatives merely because of their taste and texture. Turns out there's a variety of "sub-cultures" there, but if you don't actively look for them all you get to see is bland mainstream filled with vegetables that I used to pick out from my plate as a child.
Are you saying you haven't seen Google return results that don't contain your search terms, or if they do contain the terms they're only in metadata (og tags and the like)? I know verbatim mode is supposed to help with this but afaict there isn't a way to enable it permanently, making it awkward to use (especially on the mobile site).

I've found Google search results to be poor these days but I don't keep a list of the searches that fail, so I don't have anything to share with you.
There are billions of users, probably 10's of millions of people of people writing html, 10s of thousands of implementers and 100s of designers.

A tiny improvement for a huge group can outweigh many drawbacks for a smaller one.
People avoid it just because of the name.

So, yes.
It comes off as US global imperialism to park nukes and battle groups near the other side's mainland. Although the South China Sea and Taiwan == China both come off as Chinese global imperialism, so both major powers need to learn to play nice without saber-rattling expansionism.
Counterpoint: syncing across devices, sharing, embeddable media and searchability are actually all kinda table-stakes if I'm going to be using these notes for the rest of my forseeable life. I have shared notes with my wife where we have shopping lists, shared notes with my co-founder on roadmaps, have my vaccine cards and IDs in there for presenting at bars, and all my code snippets in a folder called "Snippets" that is searchable and available to me at my work and home computers. Kinda hard to replicate with a folder full of text files without even more complexity and crud.
Purity can play an outsized part for some identities and moral worldviews. The truth is messier than myth.
Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, and neither is using HN primarily for political or ideological or nationalistic battle. I've therefore banned this account.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ah yep, that would be the one.
I can't stand people who conflate veganism with vegetarianism. Veganism is about morals and values and being a good person. Has nothing to do with diet or health.
Funny to see our product on HN. We sell dehydrated dihydrogen monoxide as a health supplement. It’s super convenient - just add water!
It is important to note the claims are made for similar dataset & params.
If you like some independent verification outside eleuther circle.

There is microsoft paper on retnet: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08621
And the stanford heyena paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866

Do note that both cited are competing alternatives for linear transformers, and in some sense competes with RWKV, in this upcoming "linear transfromer architecture" trend.

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While all the above validates architecture. It's important to separate out architecture design from dataset.

The quality of an AI model answers, is equal parts as much about the dataset, than the architecture used. This is why it makes less sense comparing LLaMA2 directly with retnet/RWKV for example, due to the large differences in dataset size.

> Disclaimer: I am the same Eugene in the podcast
“ID” can mean “identity document”, such as a passport.
YouTube has speed controls, if you speed it up, you can tell it's not in the same rhythm as either amen break nor other common DNB drum patterns.
First site I ever hosted was on NFS. Awesome they are still around.

Love their approach to simple hosting.
Try turning on indentation guides in your editor, they help to visualize scope.

If you are moving around large blocks often, well maybe they are too big? There are linters that can help with that kind of thing.
I'll be a vegetarian before I go for fake fish, fowl or meat. I just don't get it. Why delude yourself? There are thousands of ways to cook vegetarian foods starting from really simple stuff to the most complex of gourmet meals without faking something else.

What causes this revulsion in me I do not know but there is something that triggers a 'this is bad for me' reflex when eating something that's not quite what I expected and as a result I simply can't eat it. But I have zero problems with food just being what it is. Tomatoes, pepper, salt: instant breakfast. Add some garlic and pasta: quick dinner. Of course you can go full vegan and I'm fine with people doing that (or eating meat or fish or fowl), each to their own. But for me it just doesn't work.

A vegan friend of mine always pointedly reminds me that I'm eating 'thin slices of dead animal', but that doesn't bother me as much as eating tofu made to look like meat or fish. Then just give me a simple salad and I'll be fine. Or the real thing, also fine.

A friend of mine (also on HN) built a company around honest vegetarian and vegan food: it is just what is says on the package, no more, no less and they've been very, very careful about proper nutritional value and some balance. That I can get behind.

Fake steak is simply fake. Someone tried to feed me this on a birthday party for a relative recently, it was disgusting.
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How to Save Twenty Million Lives, with Dr. Mark Dybul
All of what you said isn't convincing at all that this is the future of money as you claim. Not even your extremely out of date sources are convincing.

Look at yourself, it sounds laughly like this is the future for criminals to transact with, Crypto ATMs, Gift Cards, Coinjoins, No Cameras, Monero, etc.

Interesting that you go through all this desperate lengths for magic beans that you trust any old random Bitcoin ATM that could be built by anyone [1]. Yes, you guessed it, it can be traced [2].

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-atm-firm-profited-fro...

[2] https://hub.elliptic.co/analysis/fraud-and-scams-involving-b...

You can expect me to be laughing when another crypto crash happens and you'll be sprinting to the nearest Bitcoin ATM.

> Any sources? Also, don't live in the US.

India:
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/indias-push-regulat...

UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-sets-out-plans-to-regu...

Singapore:
https://blockworks.co/news/crypto-singapore-license-standard...

> If not crypto, giftcards will work in a pinch (personal, smaller than $5,000) [2]. And for larger amounts, what I already cited works. [1]

Except gift cards don't work at scale. Crypto is way easier for criminals and is responsible for the amplification of ransomware which is on the rise.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366544598/Cha...

There is no upside to crypto at all and no normal person will perform / practice the fools errand that criminals and delusional utopian extreme individuals like yourself would engage in.
Consensus protocol researcher here. For what it’s worth, I think that the plethora of blockchain research in the last 10 years has made consensus much easier to understand. Raft (in particular, with all of its subtleties) reads (and implements) like Greek in comparison.

For a new beginner to consensus protocols, today, I would start them with Bitcoin, and then move onto Paxos/Tendermint/Simplex, and skip Raft entirely. (Simplex is my paper, a simplified version of PBFT).
The biggest issue is the need to avoid spamming people with duplicate posts. They handle it decently, but it's a sharp tool. They recommend using this tool before migrating any followers, so they won't see the same posts again. They also do other things to avoid spam: repost everything as unlisted by default, so it doesn't spam the public and local feeds, and rename hashtags and @ mentions to not spam them either.

It also can't set the date correctly.

All in all, maybe it would be better to archive your old posts somewhere other than your new Mastodon account and instead put a link to it in your profile? Do archive sites exist? Maybe someone could create a tool for that.
Use the OpenAI Playground and system prompts.
I don’t know where you live and perhaps you are not seeing more public transit usage in your area, however if you look at the data—and the data both exists and is relatively easy to find—public transit usage is on the increase in most major cities in the world, even in North America.

In my country of origin the public transit system is horrendous where politicians picked subsidizing electric cars (despite policy experts telling them what terrible climate policy that is [data exists too on that]) with minimum funding going to public transit expansion. And even there—with the exception of covid—public transit usage is on the rise.

In my current home city of Seattle a lot of funding has gone into expanding and maintaining the public transit system and usage has increased very dramatically as a result.

The reality is that electric cars are not a good climate policy by any standard. Even a lackluster implementation of public transit expansion beats a solid program of subsidizing electric cars.
At least in recent history in "melting pot" Western societies it seems to be related to cultural practices that prevent integration into the broader community.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230903212434/https://www.theatl...

https://archive.ph/Y72sb
Recent and related:

Apple clarifies why it abandoned plan to detect CSAM in iCloud photos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37348914 - Sept 2023 (302 comments)
Immigrants most certainly have some agency over their citizenship.

Do you find their pride less confusing?