skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on how many tokens a typical response is using, pricing will vary wildly but a rough estimate put the fast one as more expensive than chatgpt3.5 and the cheap one as way cheaper.

Quality will likely be heaps worse than chatgpt3.5, given it's llama 7b

It's 0.96$ per 100 fast chat responses
It's 0.0076$ per 100 slow chat responses

Chatgpt 3.5 with 50 tokens input, 50 tokens output will give you 0.02$ per 100 fast responses
If the llm responses are 500 tokens in and 500 tokens out then you get 0.2$ per 100 fast responses

I presume people will flock to the cheap version for when they can't afford the price and quality of chatgpt3.5.
i have a raspberry pi zero wifi thats running syncthing and has a few of my syncthing folders/nodes on it. i already have a NAS that acts as the always-on node for all my syncthing folders, but if that is ever down for maintenance or whatever then the pi zero is sort of a backup that will keep syncthing things

i have another running kodi so i can access jellyfin that's on my NAS

pi-hole for network wide ad blocking

currently setting up one to act as a storage location for the restic backups from my NAS instead of having to store them with some storage provider like backblaze. i will be installing tailscale on it as well so i can leave it in a friends house and hopefully be able to reconnect to it even if they move house in the future
Many of those French words in English though come from Norman French which is very different to the modern language. French having also undergone a major vowel shift as well as dropping pronunciation of some final consonants so that some of the “English” pronunciation of certain “French” words is arguably more correct
Yes, as a grey-beard in Unity (using since version 1 - certified expert etc.) - I picked up Godot 2 weeks ago for a new project (2D). I was instantly productive, and within 24 hours I was well on my way and had a rough prototype of the idea. I started in C# but within a few hours embraced GD script - because bindings between scene elements and code are smoother in GD. So far I haven't been disappointed at all - I'm using version 3.6 - and God-willing I'm done with unity.

Things I like:
- builds for web, works on mobile

- crazy fast build times compared to unity

- animation timeline feels better than unity, calling code triggers etc. I remember it took me a while to learn Mechanim - with Godot I could instantly understand how it worked.

- GD script is surprisingly fun to code in, yet has features I wouldn't expect (i.e. calling a function by it's function name - stored within a string)

- everything just seems to work - I've only had two minor issues, one with calling code from the animation timeline within the editor (which doesn't work) and also some issues with muting master audio bus

- the two problems I've had were pretty easy to solve, unlike with unity - right from the beginning in version 1.0 I always seemed to be the guy sending strange tech support stuff and finding new bugs that required insane work-arounds to solve. Just unlucky I guess.

- I love the fact that it's open source

However... just for balance here are my two concerns:

- v4.0 seems to be a rewrite, and this scares me - because Unity went down this track and at the end when starting a new project one had to choose between many different versions of unity. Choosing the right version depended on what features you needed vs. stability and compatibility with previous assets that might be in your library

- no... really that's it.

So... my experience with Godot has been a lifesaver! My new projects kicks-ass and turned out much better than it would in Unity - and it's been a pleasure to learn and develop in .... maybe I just needed a change?
As mentioned, we implement what applications are using/requesting. Do we know how many permutations are used in ffmpeg?

hm, I vaguely remember there was a vzeroupper problem, perhaps one fell through the cracks.

Interesting, can you share more details on the magic? Looks mainly like function call overhead. If functions aren't called often, we can inline (by moving into headers or enabling LTCG/LTO).

If they are called often, are visible to the compiler, have internal linkage, but shouldn't be inlined, I'd be curious to learn why, and also why the compiler is then generating the full prolog/epilog.
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I think that a lot depends on how you define concepts like "understanding" and "mental model".

Imagine that I am building a translation app: one way to do it would be simply a dictionary database where the Czech word "pták" is related to the English word "bird"- we certainly agree that this app does not understand what a bird is at all.

But when I say I do understand what a bird is, what does that mean? The way I imagine it, my brain is wired in such a way that when the word "bird" occurs, a certain pattern of neurons that encode stuff like "living creature", "flying", "feathers", "eggs", and "beak" also fire (each of those is itself a pattern of other associations).

In this sense, I think LLMs can "understand": connections between words "bird" and "eggs" or "flying" have weights closer to 1 while connections to words like "iron" or "multiplication" have weights closer to 0. A mental model of a bird can be represented as a set of vectors in multi-dimensional space.

Maybe I am missing something but I see no fundamental reason why we would not be able to encode complex mental models like chess or liberalism or flat earth theory as sets of vectors (and maybe even determine the set of operations that can move someone from flat earth model to globe model in a similar manner as those examples with 'King – Man + Woman = Queen').

Again, I am not saying I know how the human brain works. All I am saying is that I think we can plausibly explain a lot of it in terms of just networks of units that have some weights attached to them - it is a very powerful concept. That is why I am asking when people seem to be assuming that there is more to "legitimate intelligence".

Also - and I say this with a high level of insecurity because I am no expert - I do not think that LLMs actually play chess the way you describe it. If I even understand correctly what you mean - are you saying that LLMs are only able to play moves they have "seen" in their training sets? If that is the case, I would disagree - I think there is evidence that LLMs have some ability to generalize, which means the ability to work with abstract patterns (which I would be tempted to call mental models).
How Many Paris Metro Stations Can You Name?
It’s always so, until you’re on the receiving end.
C and C++ have standards, but certification applies to specific implementations only. Ferrocene aims to create a certified Rust implementation with minimal changes to the main compiler (rustc). To achieve certification, detailed documentation or specifications are needed. Ferrocene is doing that: their focus is on meticulous documentation, ensuring the implementation can be certified using standards like ISO 26262.
> If you're counting deaths by starvation under a communist regime as "death by communism", then you have to count deaths by starvation under capitalism as "death by capitalism".

No you don't. It's not all starvation deaths. Mao deliberately - through the insane power Communism bestows on the state - told farmers what to farm and how to farm, and punshed harshly those who disobeyed. And because they obeyed, and only a child who still thinks their parents know everything would think the state (parent-surrogate to many Communists) knows more about farming than farmers, millions starved. Even worse in some ways (while it's stupid to trust the state with farming techniques, it was at least trying to make farming better) - the Soviet Union imposed harsh quotas on Ukraine, causing the death of 3.5-5m people in the Holodomor.

This is what you should expect when you give your "bureaucrats that supposedly represent the workers" all the power, trusting that they can do all the hard and expert work in allocating resources both extremely well, and without any human failings such as corruption or violence.

Markets aren't perfect at resource allocation, but they are very very good at it. Replacing the experts at it whose livelihoods depend on doing it very well, with bureaucrats who know nothing about it, and whose livelihoods are guaranteed either way, and who might get disappeared if they displease their superiors' whims, seems impossibly naive on the face of it.
That's fairly easy to fix (in principle; I don't know what their backend is; it might require JS).

But there's so little value in the navigation, that I'm not surprised it works as an "MPA" (even though it feels janky). And that's all not done by JavaScript. The player, the animation, etc. still requires it. TBH, I don't see the point of this demonstration.
Not so. Gzip’s window is very small - 32K in the original gzip iirc, which meant even identical copies of a 33KB file would bot help each other.

Iirc it was Bzip2 that bumped that up to 1MB, and there are now compressors with larger windows - but files have also grown, it’s not a solved problem for compression utilities.

It is solved for backup - but, reatic, and a few others will do that across a backup set with no “window size” limit.

…. And all of that is only true for lossless, which does not include images or video.
Replace Argentina with Brasil and the sentence is as valid :-(
Because the spelling would otherwise be ambiguous.
> You shouldn't expect the same productivity

Hmm, in my experience rarely anyone looks at a real productivity; you can thread water/even waste everyone else's time, but if you do it 5 days a week it's fine

at _current place_ after more than a year of exceeding the expectations (I got really good feedback from my peers and I pushed many projects forward) I asked for 1 day off a week as a form of a raise and I could reasonably justify it (I need my time off so I can stay productive in the long-run, I felt a little bit burnout at that stage); I only got big fat middle finger

obviously after that my productivity plummeted down to all-time-low, but seems like nobody really cares, so I stopped caring as well :)
A lot of the problem is definitions. I'm not a free speech 'absolutist', do I guess I'm 'restrictionist'. But what defines 'speech'. It can cover the spoken word, the written word, communication in art, photograph, video.

If a King said "off with his head", and someone carried out that order in a country where this was illegal, who did wrong? Is the King simply exercising his rights to free speech? What about paedophiles sharing images?

I suspect that it comes down to power imbalances. And that is something difficult to measure. A dictator and an influencer both have power to cause a lot of harm in what they say, as does an adult who shouldn't be near a child.

I agree with your example of the atheist, and in fact that has been the case for hundreds of years. The 'harm' in that case is something that people disagree on. An atheist and most scientists would disagree in the harm caused in that situation.
Karabakh exodus amounts to a war crime, legal experts say
Photographs haven't been able to be trusted since almost the beginning. Trusted as an image of a real scene that is.

Indeed, people viewing photographs have always been able to be manipulated by presentation as fact something that is not true -- you dress up smart, in borrowed clothes, when you're really poor; you stand with a person you don't know to indicate association; you get photographed with a dead person as if they're alive; you use a back drop or set; et cetera.
Check out Fuse[1/2]. It's an open source library for visually programming on the GPU. It is built for use in the visual programming environment vvvv[3].

VVVV itself is based on .Net and you can extend its functionality by either writing nodes in C# or importing just about every existing .Net library just by referencing it or installing it as nuget. No need for wrappers[4]. For rendering vvvv uses the Stride [5] game engine which comes with a really neat shader system / language which is basically a superset of HLSL [6]. In vvvv those shaders are represented as nodes and you can open them in your favorite text editor directly from the vvvv evironment, edit the code, save and the changed result will instantly be loaded in vvvv[7]. If you have any questions join the vvvv matrix chat:

https://matrix.to/#/#vvvv:matrix.org

[1]https://www.thefuselab.io

[2]https://github.com/TheFuseLab/VL.Fuse

[3]https://visualprogramming.net

[4]https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/extending/overview.ht...

[5]https://www.stride3d.net

[6]https://doc.stride3d.net/latest/en/manual/graphics/effects-a...

[7]https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/libraries/3d/shaders....
Those have been used for denouncing and super resolution for 30 years now - they are not useless. And storage is cheap, just keep them all.
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So confidently incorrect.
Wouldn't it be more effective to pursue criminal charges against the individuals directly responsible? Graffitis, particularly when they involve symbols as disturbing as a noose, are not just offensive, they're criminal acts. They could even be classified as hate crimes or death threats. The perpetrators should be held responsible. Otherwise, they'll simply continue this harmful behavior in their future workplaces, knowing that there are no real consequences.
This is one space where I think generative AI would be helpful - generate pictures that look mostly right and fill a thumbnail or something on a webpage that doesn't necessarily provide indispensable information but nevertheless fills a void, and costs little. You could probably describe what was in the original photograph and/or draw a representation of it crappily in Paint and use generative AI to fill in the blanks, such that it wouldn't be considered a derivative work but rather just a representation of facts.
Hour and our are not pronounced the same, at least not in American English.
I thought privacy coins are banned there: https://www.livemint.com/market/cryptocurrency/govt-to-move-...
But is it playful or aggressive ? I often hear the behavior you describe is about the dog asserting dominance, which should be a no-no.
> Under communism, China went from being "the sick man of Asia" to the most economically successful and politically powerful country in Asia, no?

I don't believe that's true, no. China does have a lot of natural resources, and a large population, and also it's true that any very authoritarian regime, fascist Italy under Mussolini being another good example, can do things like create good infrastructure, because it can have long-term bets. That is an accelerator for long-term economic growth. But the actual economic growth has come from China allowing capitalist economic systems to develop, where the people doing the work or risking the cash make decisions. Of course, Communism dies hard, and so if you say the wrong thing you can be "reminded" that the Party is all-powerful[0], but China has done well to allow individual people create value, evidenced by its economic growth.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56448688
I believe what camel-cdr is saying is being able to run the same code without duplication (say, a loop) which has no vsetvl-s inside, by conditionally choosing either an initial "vsetvli x0,x0,e32,m1" or "vsetvl x0,x0,e16,m1" or "vsetvl x0,x0,e32,m2" etc, which is just unachievable with the intrinsics as they hard-code vtype in each intrinsic.

It's an extremely fun idea (primarily just for code size though), but thankfully (?) its usability is restricted by load/store instrs hard-coding the element type, so the main use of this would end up for switching LMUL, which has very limited usefulness.

What Highway can support is generating multiple loops of different vtype from the same code, which effectively achieves the same thing, at the cost of machine code duplication.
You guys are very unambitious.

FB AI, make a series of posts about me climbing mount everest, meeting dalai lama, curing cancer, bringing peace to ukraine, changing my name to Melon Tusk, announcing running for president and adopting a dog named Molly
The one associated with this website.
It sounds like there was a config option available to disable the signature addition to the image file ( https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/1059#issuecomment-108689... ). I could see a benefits for having an embedded image signature for preservation and corruption detection issues.

I don't think complaining about the design is toxic, but recruiting uninvolved people on twitter, and harassing out of band certainly is. Also reading the bug thread it seems the person with the issue wasn't the same as the one who instigated the harassment. (https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/1059#issuecomment-108675...)
Bitcoin: Am I joke to you?

Everyone: yes.
That's very cool!

1. Is the source available anywhere? I'm curious to see how it works.

2. Is there a way to connect the structure displayed here, to the rendered version in the PDF? To visually display the subcomponents?
We already know that humans can't detect fake news. So how can humans train a model to detect fake news?
For those wondering, they are written differently in handwriting, but are typically displayed the same in fonts.
Thanks! As it happens Mod support, an in-game map editor, plus Steam workshop support is our next planned update after release.

True, weaving up and down can get you far but you still need to mix tracks. I think a big difference is Factorio's trains use basically infinite-frieght-cars-of-holding and thus achieve freight high density. In our game each freight car holds 1 freight. Thus players build a ton more trains and network efficiency is more about capacity than simply connecting two points.
I think that this is two things:

- these people doing this stuff

- Tesla, once receiving complaints about it, not doing anything about this

The important bit:

> Tesla has failed to investigate complaints of racist conduct and has fired or otherwise retaliated against workers who reported harassment, the EEOC said in the lawsuit.

I don't really know how labor law works on this front but if Tesla knew this was happening and did nothing about it I guess they are considered partly liable for... something?
Currently most AI-generated images still have a "not quite right" look to them, that perhaps not everyone will notice, but those who do will be turned away by it, so I don't think that's a good idea.
This is another skill that like knowing when to say no, seems counterintuitive when first entering the working world. Sometimes the correct answer is not to drop everything and slowly explain something for the third time that would have been trivial to Google in the first place. You are not doing yourself or them any favors by being overly available for every little question. The kind of person that does this often has a kind of learned helplessness that they need to be shaken out of from time to time.
> Why should men see ads for tampons?

Why do tampon ads need to exist? It’s something you purchase on a regular interval.

> Why should women see a message telling them to get a prostate cancer checkup?

Why would there be any ads at all for prostate cancer checkups? This should be brought up by your doctor in an appointment with you. Who would even pay for and produce such ads?

> I already have tickets to see the superbowl - why am I getting ads to once again buy more tickets to the superbowl?

A stadium holds what, ~70k people, <0.05% of the US population? The massive adtech infrastructure privacy invasion just to avoid potentially showing an ad to someone who won’t convert on that incremental impression.

None of the arguments for hyper-targeted ads are compelling in the slightest.
Sounds like a good idea, but it had little value in practice (for me). Since disk space came at a premium back then, it led to constant manual/auto purging.
Let's hope the EU mandates this to end the current madness. No idea why they didn't do so in the first place.
I see no obvious contradiction here.

Humans can't fly, but can build machines that do.
Sometimes there are cercumflexed vowels that change pronunciation.

My assumption is that these vowels were accented, but you could only have one diacritic.
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Forget fancy tactile keyboards... BlackBerry has gone "full cyber".. Endpoint Management with their BlackBerry UEM suite, secure communication with SecuSUITE, real time OS (QNX) in millions of vehicles, EPP/EDR solution (CylanceENDPOINT) based on AI and wide range of professional services (MDR [CylanceGUARD], Incident Response, Tabletop excercises, Pentesting, Code Audits, ...).
I could see myself taking a ride on my Motocompacto down to the Rancho Relaxo
Is this the fastest ESP32 JPEG Decoder? [video]
It's fun reading this article about Richard Feynman and the connection machine:

https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machin...
> My partner has a Google Chromecast. Please tell me how I can configure it to use a DoH server I want, rather than the one dictated by Google. How about the video intercom systems in my apartment building? How can I configure them to use servers I trust rather than an unknown?

Devices you don't control are under no obligation to follow your network's DNS policy, or even use published protocols for name resolution at all.
Are the two different? What is a concept without a word?
Nothing happened, people overreacted.
Desktop client of Discord didn't work for like 30 min but phone apps and browsers worked fine.
And you can tell it in advance which person you want it to reveal as the suspect!
Disclosure: I’m one of the managing directors of Ferrous Systems.

There’s no inside baseball here. Ferrous Systems founded the Ferrocene project in 2020/2021 (1). At some later point in time Ferrous and Adacore decided to partner up for the Ferrocene project. This year, Adacore decided to leave the partnership for reasons only they would be able to explain. They honored their obligations and still do honor the ones that remain, so we bear no ill will. We’re still pushing the project forward and are nearing certification. And we’ll have a few exciting things to share in the upcoming days.

All in all, it’s pretty boring, but a lot of paperwork. I‘m honestly surprised why of all of our blog posts this one makes it to the front page a few month after publishing. The way of the HN algorithm are truly mysterious.

(1) the exact date is a bit hard to pin down. We were talking about that much longer, but 2021 marks the founding of critical section, our subsidiary that is the legal entity behind the project.
Parasitic plant with shrunken genome convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh
Basically Facebook were the equivalent of radio stations in Rwanda. The difference being if facebook had assigned adequate resources, they could have removed egregious content.

Would that have stopped the killings? It might have slowed down the spread of rage.
the fact that this looks like it can't stand up upright is a real missed opportunity to make this more "suitcase"-y
> for switching LMUL, which has very limited usefulness

I currently have a quite usefull use case for it, I'm concerting utf8 to utf32 and if I've got an average utf8 character size of above 2 I could reduce the LMUL for that loop iteration.

This shouldn't actually improve performance that much in good rvv implementations, since you can use vl and not LMUL to schedule your execution units.
Sadly this is currently not the standard, and ara is the only implementation, that does this I know of.

I think this wouldn't even be about code size reduction, consider an input, where there is basically a 50/50 probability LMUL can be reduced, that would be horrible for the branch predictor, but with only a branch over vsetvl, this could behave as a conditional vsetvl via instruction fusion. We'll have to see if such optimization become relevant once there is more hardware out there.