skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the more pressing concern is more societal unrest, economic and monopolistic - e.g workers being displaced without enough new jobs being created. Or every communication channel being spammed with no ability to discern trustworthy/authentic content. Or too few large companies hoarding the GPUs and owning the biggest most effective models which allows them not only to consolidate power in the AI industry but own/decide winners in every other industry. You can kinda see this now with Nvidia basically trading GPUs for equity.

The 'regulate it like nukes' thing because teenagers might ask it to end the world thing seems pretty far down the line.
I don't the term "Artificial Intelligence" because it inherently implies anthropomorphism which has a negative impact on the discussion.
Maybe someone knows the answer.

But is there something unique about munitions used in Afghanistan or Ukraine vs those used in WW1/2 or Vietnam or Korean wars that are particularly more toxic or have increased duration of toxicity that would make crops unusable? I would have suspected the munitions to be similar enough to see the same effects.
the NSA
I'm Loud Quitting My Job Due to RTO Policy, Bad Company Culture
It's nice to have easier to use C++ GPU numerical computing libraries, but it seems like there's a good bit of work to go in terms of feature set. Taking CuPy as an example, they've nearly entirely mirrored the enormous featureset of both NumPy and SciPy.

Although I'm not expecting on that scale here, but what's the planned future work here? E.g. matrix free operators and operations, sparse matrix support, or symmetry aware eigenvalue / singular value decompositions? There are official cuda libraries that support these (e.g. cuSPARSE).

Otherwise this looks good! Documentation is decent too.
That dismissive attitude gives the free software community its bad and well-deserved reputation. There are reasons why some of glibc is written in C or assembly, but 99% of it is just untested neckbeard bullshit that is easily replaced by something safer. There is no legitimate reason why glibc parses environment variables this way.
https://archive.ph/17zc6
When someone has already sold all he could to buy drugs and is now resorting to theft to get a fix, it's a bit too late to intervene. Hard drugs have a very high preponderance to cause detrimental behaviours, and convert a productive member of society to a welfare-consuming blob at best. Of course they should be banned.
Of course, the world's oldest sandals were found near Fort Rock, Oregon:

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/fort_rock_sandal...
> A company giving money to the parents of the owner is fraud.

None of those points are actually fraud on their own, except potentially one. The companies use of customers funds would likely fit the definition of fraud, this is unlawful gain.

A company can legally give out loans. Companies give out signing bonuses, salaries, gifts etc, the problem comes down to whether it fits the definition of fraud.
I've got one compose that has like five web-services in it. And I had a heck of a time getting a config that allows each contained thing to see the others - and also be visible outside. For now I'm using fixed IPs in the compose to get it so it's all visible. Now, the network can be overwrite via env but I wish I knew an easier way to get containers visible to outside and each other easier. Else, in the service I'd have to have two references to the other services: the internal name and external name.
The number of days we work has nearly nothing to do with the technology available to us and everything to do with the relative power between labour and capital.
For Chicago specifically, there are two solutions I can offer:

1. Chicago Engineering Tech Communities and Organizations - https://github.com/driscoll42/chicago-engineering-and-tech-c...
2. Chicago Tech Community Events - https://chitechcommunityevents.softr.app/

The first is a list of all the tech/engineering orgs in Chicago I maintain. Many are still on meetup, but not all. Unfortunately there's not one calendar to find everything. The second is an attempt to make a calendar of Chicago tech events, but it's not perfect. I don't run it but I highly recommend it.

I do recommend joining local community slacks/Discords. There's a good one for slacks here (https://github.com/thisdot/tech-community-slacks), e.g. for Chicago there's the Chicago Tech Slack (https://join.slack.com/t/chicago-tech/shared_invite/zt-1cb3m...), but you'll need to explore around.
So you should be able to use the repeat(numberOfTimes?) tag to generate an N number of examples. I believe I set the max now to 20.

But as long as the first index in an array is repeat(), anything in the second index will repeat N amount of times.
Just go down another level to 'gatekeeping gatekeeping'.
It really doesn't. Think of all the lives he has ruined. He should rot in prison.
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models [pdf]
That's true, but they don't.
Did you know the mupdf backend allows you to open pdfs and epub? 99% of ebooks are either pdf epub or trivially colorlessly convert to epub. There is reasonable virtue in being able to use a single reader for all books.
musl has a better track record of standards compliance than glibc. Common method for porting to musl is putting non-standard compliant code into an ifdef glibc.
You might be making some good points, but it took me about 3 attempts to understand your comment.

For example:

> Also, the confusion over the phrase "0.5-2x slower" highlights a possible lack of clarity in communication within the community, which would hinder the accurate assessment and adoption of such optimizations in practice.

Maybe instead:

> The phrase "0.5-2x slower" is confusing. You might get more adoption if the language was more clear.
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Linux driver sucks. I accidentally got one with my last computer and it had weak signal, intermittent disconnecting, bluetooth interference, just overall crap.

In general the Intel wifi driver is the best but you never see an Intel wifi card with a Ryzen CPU. So mediatek was the best I could find.
Yeah, we're again and again victims of oversimplifications, marketing gimmicks, and pseudoscience. Energy cannot be "renewable" and we're creating mountains of stuff that's not recyclable at the moment! Yeah, let the future generations worry about all this - we want to be wasteful today and fund questionable schemes like "carbon offsets!"
Institutional review board time. We've already been warned that a computer merely enumerating the names of God can end existence. Then surely a computer can also summon ancient demons.
At least the US government heavily subsidizes leverage for real estate investment specifically, with institutions such as Fannie Mae for example. Absent that, no bank would offer a middle class individual a 30 year fixed rate loan for 80 - 95% of the value of a home. A loan to buy stocks on the other hand will typically be floating rate and the brokerage will retain the ability to liquidate your position AND require additional margin if your investments don't perform.

Fannie Mae has a short history page here for those interested: https://www.fanniemae.com/about-us/who-we-are/history
Words can be reclaimed by social movements and used neutrally or positively instead of negatively within them. "Gay" used to be a slur, as did "slut", and language is culturally dependent on top of that - I'm lead to believe that "cunt" is a generic reference to another person in Australia, while it's not a particular term of affectation in the US. So it depends on the circles you run in. "Pirate" is villianized if you're in the shipping business due to actual piracy, but if your morals are a bit flexible, paying $100/month to have all the streaming services is definitively a choice; the word "piracy" just brings to mind that person's preferred torrent site, and is seen on the same level as breaking the speed limit on the highway.
> I don't see any path to a new Speaker so long as the Freedom Caucus are intent on watching the world burn.

Well, there’s always reaching across the aisle.
There is an extension that redirects all twitter links to nitter:

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...

https://github.com/SimonBrazell/nitter-redirect
I hope the uber captialists decide they can use AI to build a space utopa for their families in another solar system and go there :)

I honestly don't give a shit about jobs, or having a job, I have one because the system says I need one, if I don't need a job, I'd be so so so much better off.

I'm certain we have enough technology and nohow to feed, house and provide electricity for everyone on earth without them having a 9-5.
We must be shopping at different stores. My experience with cassette adapters (and I tried quite a few different ones, back in the day) was always muddy, bad audio quality. FM transmitters (good ones anyways) never had that problem.

As for Bluetooth as a standard: what, exactly, is not a standard about the audio portion of it? You can take any device that supports Bluetooth audio output and connect it to an audio playback device (speaker, head unit, whatever) and it will just... work. Super old speaker to brand new phone? Plays audio fine. Super old phone to brand new head unit? Same thing.

This isn't some 'big techy is out of touch with reality' thing. We just have alternatives that are perfectly practical for edge cases where you absolutely need that aux jack, and the vast majority of consumers have moved on years ago.
You really don't want to see what a 90mph crash in a bus looks like. It ain't pretty. Those speeds are unreasonable for a bus, but common on commuter rail in many civilized places.
Meanwhile, on CNN [0]: "Wind energy has a massive waste problem. New technologies may be a step closer to solving it." Yeah, "maybe!"

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/world/wind-turbine-recycling-...
The issue is that if a Broadway show loses a cast member for whatever reason they cast another one. A band can't exactly do that. If the criteria were 'play the songs written by X by the most talented people available' then I am sure that (barring IP issues) you could set that up in a major city for a weekly seasonal show, but since people want to see the original band members, that isn't what we get.
Do you call the holocaust a capitalist genocide? What about when my ancestors were exterminated in the Irish potato famine and the free market was used to justify it?

Are you downplaying every genocide that took place in a capitalist country? You denied a historic genocide that killed my ancestors. You think you're offended?

Well, I'm not. How can I be offended? You're a basic product of your environment. Youre told that genocides that happen under communist systems are de facto communist genocides. Obvioualy. And genocides that happen under capitalist systems happen for, well, entirely different reasons. Obviously.

Realistically though, when pol pot, Stalin and Hitler went on extermination binges to kill enemies (real or imagined) their reasons were much the same... the maintenance of their power.

Sorry I mean giving people houses and not charging rent - the two most evil things you could ever do.
Well to me, and to many others, death is final. Putting him away immediately would put him out of people's minds and send a signal to anyone who wants to achieve notoriety that there is nothing there but finality and obscurity.

Instead he keeps re-appearing in media whenever he complains or tries to get a case going. And even if he didn't, his followers till know he's there and can continue praising him for his sick ideas.
Execs are people. They are not uniformly the same.

JPMorgan's billionaire CEO does not speak for the many decamillionaire CEOs who want to get into the billionaire club.
Carmack is an Ayn Rand-loving Texan so he will ALWAYS oppose anything hinting of regulation or top-down control.
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What about a crossbow with a warhead that can kill 100 people?
Yep. Keep it all hot. North/southbridge, controllers, everything. Skip POST. If something has changed we can just restart once it's warmed up. Anything that still needs a traditional boot (eg a disk drive) we just be assumed to have not changed until proven otherwise. Fuck the MBR. Fuck ROM and BIOS and CMOS. If you don't need to do it between RAM frames, you don't need to do it until you're told to reboot.

If you've been unpowered all day, or if your hardware has changed, or you're worried about security, then you can choose boot from scratch. The only other reason, IMO, is because the computer has just been put together. If all those parts can restore their previous configuration, all they have to do is signal "yep, I'm still in the same configuration" and we should be able to pick up where we left off (again, except for disk drives/ram/networking etc).
GGUF:
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GPTQ:
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AWQ:
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Thebloke is really really fast, he quantized and uploaded them already yesterday.
dunno, but transportation is up there with health care, education, child care, housing, etc as things that people can't really do without (unless you're still healthy and young and can ride a bike).

it feels like it should expand to consume available income with subscription fees.
I find such white-collar crimes very interesting because of the math between crime and punishment.

For the crime that SBF is alleged to have committed, we can reasonably expect 20 yrs (he will be out in 10-12). But if he had committed a murder, he would be in prison for life (no parole).

Mathematically speaking, this implies that a life is worth more than fraud worth 8 billion dollars. We can make a very reasonable assumption that the govt can save 1 additional life using a million dollars (giving necessary treatment to drug addicts / suicidal people / etc). Out of the 8 billion dollars from SBF, government would have got at least 50 million dollars from taxes (this is a lower bound). Out of that 50 million, maybe the govt puts 10-20 million back for public good. So the govt could have saved at least 10-20 people from the money that SBF is alleged to have defrauded.

Based on the above, can we say that SBF indirectly killed 10-20 people? What would be the punishment for someone who kills 10-20 people? Surely more than 20 years.

This balance between the scale of crime and the severity of punishment can be very interesting. Should someone defrauding 2 billion dollars suffer twice the punishment of someone defrauding 1 billion dollars? What about 2 murders to 1 murder? What about numbers on scale that can change an economy (what SBF did)?

More fundamentally, is our legal system scalable?
lol people are paying for ads. couldn't be me
Yeah, viable, but far from satisfying. I'd say polkit is a bigger pile of trash than setuid is.
The author has no sense of self preservation!

> Demonology is a topic I’ve been interested in ever since I read Stuart Clark’s brilliant Thinking with Demons. However, it’s also one I find intimidating to do real research in, since so many of the sources involved are written in a highly erudite form of Latin.

Should be:

> since I don't want to end up with a creature from the netherworld in my study.
Nukes are not that useful for stuff other than extremely destructive explosions.

Besides, we have knives. I'm afraid this mindset will soon demand everything to be pre-cut in licensed facilities and make the knives illegal.

This desire for censorship and restrictions is infinitely ridiculous. Instead of addressing the issues of why would someone want to hurt someone or themselves, they try to eliminate the tools.

This is going to fail, maybe people in UK or in the USA might end up not knowing how things work without formal licensing but people in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, China, Vietnam will know.

This attitude can actually lead to the downfall of the western societies. WTF the computer wouldn't tell me how to cook meth? That's something that junkies do and it's not the lack of knowing how to cook it that keeps me from doing it. I'm just curious, not looking to harm myself or anybody but I'm being lectured by a computer.
Yes, it's unclear how the FCC is allowing IEEE 802.11bf to proceed if it can be used to collect passwords and other typed data, not to mention what people are physically doing in different rooms of their homes and businesses. Good for vendors of 2FA and faraday rooms, but bad for the millions of buildings about to become transparent.

As for keystroke timing, it could theoretically have been collected for years by local and web (search?) services which offered autocomplete. Research and investment is ongoing, e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05570

> Our approach called TypeNet achieves state-of-the-art keystroke biometric authentication performance with an Equal Error Rate of 2.2% and 9.2% for physical and touchscreen keyboards, respectively ... the databases used in this work are the largest existing free-text keystroke databases available for research with more than 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 subjects in physical keyboards, and 60,000 subjects with more than 63 million keystrokes acquired on mobile touchscreens ... The global keystroke biometrics market is projected to grow from $129.8 million dollars (2017 estimate) to $754.9 million by 2025, a rate of up to 25% per year.

Meteor Lake has a dedicated IP block for sensor fusion, https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/... & https://venturebeat.com/games/intel-unveils-meteor-lake-proc...
In pixel space a convnet uses pixel-wise convolutions and a pixel-kernel. If you represent a vector image as a polygon, the direct equivalent to a convolution would be the Minkowski sum of the vector image and a polygon-kernel.

You could start off with a random polygon and the reverse diffusion process would slowly turn it into a text glyph.
Due to likely CIA sponsored mental abuse (MKULTRA), absurdly.
Yeah, who would possibly vote for Joe Biden—a successful, stable, and reliable president?
Why do you think it's only that? I've seen a lot of dismissive comments on AI articles that were shown to misunderstand or underappreciate the article.
NSA's new project takes aim at foreign AI hacks
> Yep, why would anyone own anything that negatively impacts them.

That's a false dichotomy. You can own something (or a share) and the purpose of it need not be "return as much value as possible, via buybacks, in the next quarter".
I've been using ChatGPT for this and it produces really good results, though of course the back-and-forth is a bit clunky. Would be great to build it into a more streamlined experience.
Used vehicle markets seem to have slowed, after a dramatic and surprising spike during the pandemic. Specialty vehicles in particular.

For new cars, there was a dealer/scarcity dynamic that seems to have allowed dealers to charge more than RRP, and consumers were paying it. I wonder if that has had an impact.
How did Ford cancel the dividend without shares?
Ownership guarantees some legal rights, but it doesn't mean that all value is yours to consume. Employees, partners and customers are all going to fight for the value that is created and will use whatever leverage they have to get it.
> negative externalitiy imposed on the community from your unstable behavior.

It's the same externality as being in a depression or bipolar for instance. I see the moral argument where intent is taken into consideration, but more on the practical level, the community as a whole should have mechanism to deal with unstable members.
Slightly off topic but this is hilarious. We are already crafting "chants" and "spells" for LLM, i.e. prompt engineering, now we are teaching it demonology too? Some priest from the middle ages would have a heart attack.

Now I know how the AI apocalypse would look like. GPT-42 would summon hordes of demons from the pit of Hell to bring about the end of days. Who need all that pesky nuclear codes when you can call upon Satan?
I agree. But both parties also actively obstruct third party candidates from appearing on states' ballots. For example: https://apnews.com/cbd7947a020a1c5983a69e804ce3a5f8
> Is every dropshipper undermining brand-name (high-margin) apparel?

I don't like this analogy because you're not comparing items of equal quality. They're not fungible.
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> DeepL and Google Translate definitely also make things up

I think what they make up is different, but this is a good point. They have a particularly odd tendency to either do something like autocorrect where it wasn't appropriate (translate a different word that is similar in spelling to the requested word), or to make up false friends, doing something like transliterate + then autocorrect in the target language.

One example, which I blogged about 5 years ago but is still mistranslated, is the word "ribbit" (what a frog does): https://www.kmjn.org/notes/google_translates_ribbit.html

In 2018, if you translated it to Greek with Google Translate, it gave you κουνέλι (kouneli), which is Greek for rabbit. A word that is one letter away from ribbit but not close to a similar meaning. When I tried it just now, it translates it to ραβδί (rabdi), which means stick and is completely unrelated to the correct answer, but I guess starts with similar letters as ribbit?
Granted... You are now a font!
It's really unclear from the submission here (no date in TFA either!) but v2 was 'released' 10y ago fwiw.

https://github.com/semver/semver/commit/9eca13516c58f0e9456c...
They certainly wouldn’t be rich dudes for long if they were okay with the numbers going down!
Too cool for civilization?