skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you say but that's not really what I was talking about.

Physical realizability concerns the question whether some type of entity can in principle exist in the known physical universe, whether it's physical existence would violate existing laws of nature. The question is independent of the question whether there is (also) a Platonic realm of mathematical objects (although there is a connection if you are neither a constructivist nor a Platonist). As far as I know, nobody doubts that integer quantities can be physically realized without violating existing laws. Likewise, you can say that a square is an abstraction from a square macroscopic object, even though no side of that object can be perfectly square in nature.

However, the case with real numbers is a bit different from the square. It doesn't make much sense to claim that real numbers are abstractions from quantities that exist as finite, quantized integers in empirical actuality. But if it's not an abstraction from something that clearly can be physically realized, then it is meaningful to ask whether a real-number quantity can exist in the physical universe. From what I remember, some philosophers and physicists think the answer is No.
Carbon credits can work in a system where you don't just let people make them with weak verification. The problem isn't the underlying concept.
The worst case is zero cents on the dollar.
Having more female than male babies might result in more offspring in total for the species, but it also creates a strong genetic "advantage" (or, you could say a gradient in the fitness landscape) for the few individuals who themselves have more male children. This creates an evolutionary feedback pressure that results in the number of reproducing-age men and women to be approximately equal.

For example, imagine just for argument that the probability of the offspring being male or female is proportional to the number of sperm that carry either X or Y chromosomes. And imagine that this ratio is controlled by a gene, and that initially, the gene is such that across the whole population, 17 sperm carry an X chromosome for each that carries a Y chromosome. In this population, any male who has a mutation in this gene resulting in them producing a closer-to-equal number of X and Y sperm will have a reproductive fitness advantage, because they will have more male children amidst a majority-female population. Those mutations will therefore spread until the advantage disappears.

In order for 17-to-1 female:male ratio to be stable, you'd basically need to have a period of thousands of years in which, for whatever reason, 16/17ths of women do not reproduce. That's the exact opposite of the condition described in this article.
Shouldn’t this say “immunity”, not “impunity”? One is a legal term of art, which appears over a dozen times in the linked legal opinion, and the other is a similar word that has no specific legal meaning, and which does not appear in the linked opinion at all.
Depends on the complexity of the planning, but... typically planning (in mssql, am not familiar with sqlite).

Parsing is linear, planning gets exponential very quickly. It's got to consider data distribution, presence or not of indexes, output ordering, presence of foreign keys, uniqueness, and lots more I can't think of right now.

So, planning is much heavier than parsing (for any non-trivial query).
There are many insurers, so this would mean many cases.

There is only one Amazon and I am sure the FTC is receiving a ton of complaints against them.
Wow, this is so... wrong.
Discussing about GDP lost when this technology still has to still prove somewhat to be useful (due to its inherent problems like hallucinations, the lack of goals and proactivity) it's baffling.

I'm a coder and still find Copilot a wrong version of stack overflow. Midjourney requires hours of prompting and adjustment.

Let's keep our feets on planet Earth please. It's not like we dockerized the world.
The last one is the most problematic IMO
Rde: Tools for managing reproducible development environments with guix
Those JS doc sites are getting ridiculous. Terrible user experience. Laggy, buggy, slow. Who thinks they’re a good idea?

Docs should be docs, not full blown apps
EU Chief Calls on Apple CEO Tim Cook to Open Hardware and Software Ecosystem
Jack Dorsey hopes Bitcoin will help bring about world peace
I did not even notice it is not a thing in the US. It's definitely not all of "The West". In Europe (UK, France, Belgium), mutton is pretty common.
What the Luddites Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence
TL:DR: Women should unfollow the accounts of influencers who post this type of material.
> 3. Maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but if I get how Leiningen works, I need to restart my REPL any time I want to add dependencies?

That is correct, though a lot of people are moving to `deps.edn` which recently lets you add dependencies on the fly.
Yandex makes some pretty cool tech- they clearly have a lot of smart engineers.

It's a shame that geopolitics means most of it will have to be reinvented by someone else before it'll see any use.
Thanks for the well annotated article. There are a lot of useful links here.
> but they require DRM

There's no option to sell on Kindle's own store with DRM disabled indeed.

edit: A poster has a link saying otherwise. Will ask what's up on the Audible side then.
Well said.

> You are in far less control of your actions then you believe.

No. But I say this in a way that might surprise you?

I view 'free will', as most people understand it, as an illusion.

I recognize that I, at best, have a tiny fraction of control. If I consider "me" to be a locus of control w.r.t. volitional action, then I will grant that "me" has causal impact. But what causally impacted "me" at time t? A combination of "me" at time t-1 and my environment. (I'm a materialist who is agnostic w.r.t. determinism.)

So, what does this really mean? "I" (right now) can only have volitional control only if one ignores the precursors. It is a mindbending realization to many, but it is the best theory I've found that fits reality.

There are lots of us around. We might disagree on how we define 'free will'; we may or may not 'deny free will'. But there is a huge commonality among most rational materialists who accept modern science: we do not conceptualize free will in ways that match 'mainstream' notions of it.
Why have school at all? Teach kids to read and how to use the internet. Give them a coach that trains them on how to achieve what they want using AI. And, when it's necessary, interview them for competency. I can't see how this isn't the future.
Hands, reality check in lucid dreaming and AI generated images
That's what these discussions are for: to discover solutions and obstacles.

Have you ever heard of the monkeys and ladder metaphor?

Things need to change. It's great to be skeptical, but not if you're not also optimistic at the same time.

Monopolies are bad for many reasons, not just because arbitrary "rules" or whatever you think is easily dismissed, but because of the opportunity costs that even the owner of the profits incurs. We're not talking about money or status or power, but actual meaningful change of the total composition of their culture & society and the world. They are literally preventing themselves from experiencing a world that gives them everything they can't have now and clamor and hurt themselves chasing after. It's the ultimate irony.

So yes, you should have hope. There is NOT a "good" reason for being a greedy parasite. People have just forgotten and/or been manipulated into believing in fake power. This false faith (fear) is literally what enables these fake leaders like Jeff Bozos the clown to succeed.

Please next time contribute more to the conversation than just whine.
My experience is they're not good at this for most vulnerability classes, especially the those that are tough to discover by classical methods. Have you had any experience using them for this?

Trivial vulnerabilities are easily discoverable yes -- but, they are also trivially discoverable by standard automation available today. I've found GPT-4 to be shockingly bad at vulnerability analysis for all except the most popular vulnerability classes. My speculation is that there just isn't enough literature on these vulnerability classes for it to have practical mastery of them.

Complex vulnerabilities are the emergent phenomena of multiple events across a codebase and it's dependencies, involving control flow, data flow, while missing type information and other runtime data. Even Anthropic's 100K context windows won't nearly fit it all, and if you stuff all the code into embeddings, the ability to reason across all this space will be poor.

You can train a model to ask very pointed questions about particular snippets, but wholesale LLM-based analysis to find vulnerabilities seems like it'll be extremely slow, expensive and inaccurate.
Your argument is similar in spirit to the claim that all, even infinite sets can have single element selected from to form a new set (so called "axiom of choice"). I.e. you equate the mere possibility of existence with a proof of existence (it's not a slur, there are a lot of mathematicians who do just that).

I don't see the reason to think that coincidentally arrived at ideas mean that ideas are discovered. We use the same framework, with the same rules. It's not unlikely that we'll create same ideas, because we use all the same rules, but the framework is so vast... it has so many rule combinations it's mind-boggling how would you think all ideas already exist in this framework.

More practically, we call an action a "discovery" when we (unbeknownst to us) faced the consequences of the phenomenon being discovered, but didn't know why we were facing them. An astronomer who finds a "new" star was ever so slightly influenced by that star's light, gravity etc. A marine biologist who discovers a new deep-water fish was ever so slightly affected by that fish through a complicated chain linking many different species through biosphere.

An artist drawing a new painting isn't discovering it in the same sense. She isn't interested in how an existing painting was connected to the consequences of her life or the lives of the whole human species. By selecting of all possible ways the paint can be laid down on canvas her particular way of doing that she creates something genuinely new, or as new as it can possibly be. It's counterproductive to label this activity "discovery" because then we lose an important distinction between the nature of the work of an astronomer and that of a painter (or a mathematician).

There are sculptors who'd jokingly say that they "discover" the statue in a stone slab. But they do so in a sarcastic kind of way, really (well, artists are weird and will make a lot of nonsense claims just to trigger non-artistic audience). But, deep down, nobody believes that they are searching and finding good images, melodies or novels. I cannot really imagine a mechanism through which I'd discover the answer writing to you. It's a lot easier to explain what i wrote by saying that I meant to write it.
I'd definitely have to err on the side of scary.

Seems like more fodder to abuse minorities behind the guise of fancy tech and supposedly "objective" algorithms. "All [minority] look the same" isn't just something racists say, it is pretty well documented that many people struggle to discern distinguishing facial features of other ethnicities and consistently perform more poorly on facial recognition tasks involving races other than their own.

Now you have an AI generated photo to go by that further does some fudging and blurring of distinctive features... Can you imagine which races in America, for instance, would be subject to more false positives to receive police/prosecutor attention and ultimately be more likely to wand up with charges drawn against them unjustly?

If you are poor, having charges drawn up by the DA means a plea deal and time in jail or prison 9 times out of 10. If you have money for a good lawyer your odds are better, but overall are still significantly worse than if you don't have charges drawn in the first place, despite the fact that there is no evidence of a crime beyond circumstantial crap, maybe some testilying by the arresting officer (their own term, not mine), and a bogus facial match.
It's https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Comfortaa

Fonts are in https://github.com/boustrophedon/eink-esp-weather-display/tr...
Very interesting. I can see that causing... extreme uneasiness, in some environments. But Netflix sounds challenging but cheerful and honest, the way you describe it.
JA4: New TLS Fingerprinting Suite from the Creator of JA3
Vizro – toolkit for creating modular data visualization applications
I mean for most large businesses you will be provided with a company issued device and taking company work of said device may be grounds for termination.

In business it's generally to prevent the leaking of trade secrets, but there are more than one cases where an employee was allowing a surrogate to connect to their device and do the work as a form of unauthorized subcontractor.
Yep. I'd say Amazon should be split at least four ways: AWS, their delivery/fulfillment operation, the web shopping platform, and the "Amazon Basics" and other product brands.

Edit: just saw that ihaveajob posted the same idea in another reply.
Right now I'm heavily into Grafana but when it comes to BI it kinda falls flat, I regularly have to fall back to using the Plotly plugin to create the charts (but it's getting better, at least you can do a normal scatter or bar chart out of the box since version 8. Labeling the axes is still a problem though). Navigation is also problematic, like jumping to a source table takes a lot of effort to make (basically you have to create a new dashboard and do some hyperlinking instead of there being a ready to go "view source data" button). I feel like there's a lot of friction to get Grafana to do BI, but I've also invested so much time in it I'm afraid to jump ship...
My problem on the Android Samsung keyboard is the positioning of the backspace key. When typing a word containing an "m", I'll often hit backspace instead, causing a lot of editing, for example "example" becomes "exple".
There were a few carbon capture (CC) projects that were genuine, shoutout to the guys at AirMiners, they also have a great community and they're a pretty smart bunch of people.

Downside of CC is it's still too expensive and current methods capture carbon on the order of kilograms/month where gigatons/month is needed. Sure, the tech will improve with time, and there's economies of scale, etc..., but a 10,000,000,000-fold change? Doubt it. Also, there's some fundamental physical limits that you'll hit way before you get close to that throughput. I wouldn't think of them as fraud though, as the people involved (usually) do not lie about what the current state of tech is.

I'd say whatever shows reduction on carbon emissions is a legit thing; far from ideal, but the best thing we have atm.
Comfortaa Regular - https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Comfortaa

I searched the repo for "ttf".
It is. A modern instantiation of buying indulgences from the Catholic Church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence

A hug part of the power of religions, such as christianity or ESG, is that it provides a mechanism to allow normal people to engage in evil but feel forgiven or justified.

"If someone can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit atrocities."
Good point about Bitwarden, and the more we can convert the better. I think we can catch more fly's with honey than vinegar.

What do you think about trying something like, "Good points about using a password manager. I think Bitwarden is better than 1password becuase it:
is open source,
it can be self hosted,
and you could switch to a fork if they get shady."

Because you wouldn't be implicitly calling them ignorant this way, they're more likely to hear your message.
Responses like this are why people still use C when it may make more sense to use a different language. Don’t just tell people, “trust me bro, never use C, there’s never a good reason”. Never make broad claims that leave no wiggle room, because the one thing that is always true is that there will be exceptional cases. Instead of saying this kind of stuff, why don’t you elucidate what circumstances exist where using C makes sense? Microcontrollers, FPGAs, glue code that can expose your API to other programming languages, maintaining an old code base already written in C, etc.

And as an aside, this is also why people don’t take security seriously. Not every bounds overflow will result in my database being breached and/or my computer being pwned. Instead of freaking out every time a bounds overflow or some sort of memory error is found, it may be useful to actually find out what the impact is. Is that code sandboxed? Is it local, or does it have access to the web? Does it request elevated permissions at any point? Does it even need elevated permissions?

There are many factors that can reduce or increase the risk factor of a bug. Security researchers need to start actually explaining the risk instead of blindly proclaiming everything as a “critical” vulnerability.

And everything I’m saying here has no bearing on this specific vulnerability. It’s in response to the general claim that every memory bug is critical.
And I am saying what Amazon is doing is not anticompetitive at all. These “companies” that sell on Amazon are basically glorified trade companies that arbitrage low cost Chinese manufacturing. I don’t feel bad for them at all. If they are hurting so bad, go sell the goods on Shopify store or Walmart/Target. Oh, what’s that? They charge more than Amazon? Interesting…
macOS Sonoma now being pushed to devices
The hard part about using any AI Chips other than NVIDIA has been software.

ROCm is finally at the point where it can train and deploy LLMs like Llama 2 in production.

If you want to try this out, one big issue is that software support is hugely different on Instinct vs Radeon. I think AMD will fix this eventually, but today you need to use Instinct.

We will post more information explaining how this works in the next few weeks.

The middle section of this blog post includes some details including GEMM/memcpy performance, and some of the software layers that we needed to write to run on AMD.

https://www.lamini.ai/blog/lamini-amd-paving-the-road-to-gpu...
That happened not that long ago, in 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
If only there was a way for the government to incentive folks to stop consuming and companies to stop producing by rewarding folks who don't with some kind of monetary compensation.
Leverage on music was much bigger because of the position that Apple had at the time, together with CDs not having DRM.

That was a unique situation that couldn't be replicated later for video and other media sadly.
Apparently product dumping isn't illegal if you do it on the internet. This wasn't even a fuzzy digital goods or services example either.
Most carbon offset schemes are at best naive and I suspect many, perhaps most are more or less fraud.
You can easily use ebooks from anywhere on the Kindle. However, agreed on the DRM. Blindsided me when I tried to open some comics I had purchased on my computer (to read them in color). Luckily others have already made tools to remove that DRM...
Exactly. The publishers need Amazon, and Amazon doesn't need the publishers. They have more than enough power to be able to dictate terms.

Apple realized this and was able to bully their way to a deal that worked for Apple, and the labels had no real ability to counter Apple. Amazon has yet to do so.

Arguably, Amazon has substantially more market power now than Apple did back in the Jobs days when they were building out iTunes and negotiating with the major labels.
Yeah, I don't mess with webp, VP8, etc. I see near zero benefit to myself from that, with significant downsides.

Like, Google Meet insists on using VP8/9. Why, cause it's "free?" The strain on my laptop and extra energy usage for it to CPU-en/decode video ain't free. Zoom just uses h.264 instead of being annoying about it.
It's the modern day global religion, so indulgences is an apt name.
hopefully, Japanese/Korean/Chinese support soon
Are you willing to share the stl/general geographic area? I might be willing to print & ship. There's also https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprintmything/ if all else fails.
They straight up copied products in their store an then listed theirs higher in search results. There was a famous instance of a bag. You can't be more monopolistic than that.

They also got insight into every states future plans (which are secret for some reason ) when they offered to build new HQs but then decided not too. This gives them a huge advantage over anyone else who wants to setup a nation wide logistics service.
Yes, but the point is:

> Associate Professor Prichard says it could be argued that influencers, who gain considerable financial benefit from their endorsements, should be held to the same standards as other advertisers
Are you arguing that it's non-linear? Because I'm pretty sure Firefox is paid based on a tiny 3% slice of market share.
(carbon offsets trade like cryptocurrencies if you haven't checked it out)
The methane will eventually break down in to CO2 on it's own, so whether your burn it or not you'll get that CO2.

However before it breaks down methane is a wildly more potent greenhouse gas. It still takes decades to break down, during which time it's going to be multiple magnitudes more impactful that the CO2 it will eventually become either way.
And ketchup doesn't have enough nicotine in it, even when applied to potatoes, to notice!
If space is the main concern, I just sort files by size and lop off the videos, old application installers, iso's (!) etc.

cd {whatever}
du -ah | sort -n

"-)

It will show dupes, since they are the same size.
I don't know of any biologically born men that can reproduce...
Worked for Sulphur Dioxide.
I flagged it because it does hijack the back button.
I dunno man. I sold a small company back in 2011 and it really was easier back then. Three out of four of our first leads tried to buy us because we were doing "real" machine learning. This was almost a pure API app. We didn't even have documentation we just told people we'd integrate it for them.

It is harder these days. Also, the product you mentioned "custom mobile app for housekeepers in rich families in the UK" I don't know how you're marketing that, but that seems like the hard part to me.

As for Twitter, people forget what it was like back when they were first starting. There were a ton of people you wanted to follow, but RSS couldn't handle the sheer numbers involved. Blogging had become so big and realistically you could only follow, say, 10 bloggers before being worn out with all the content. Twitter made it possible to get little nugget sized updates from thought leaders without having to eat the whole sandwich of some massive blogpost.
Interesting suggestions. I will give them a try later.

On a side note, lately I enjoyed some interactions with ChatGPT more than social interactions. Given the right circumstances, CGPT can be very interesting to interact with.
The supermarkets carry mutton yearround. I don't see much or any venison, but maybe that's because those who eat it hunt it themselves?

It does require knowing how to prepare it in order to overcome the gamey flavor though. (Greek recipes are good and approachable)