skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was genuinely impressed how good the "before" answers were. Many adults refuse to accept that they don't know something and will rather invent a fictitious answer, start believing in it and proclaim it as fact - but many of these kindergarteners actually said "I don't know". Stunning emotional maturity! Also, the ones who answered yes or no were mostly able to craft arguments supporting their position. I didn't know kids are that smart.
So have the fucking owner to put a password on it or have the device generate a random passphrase on first boot. Having locked boot loaders doesn't necessitate that you lock out the owner.
Right now GPT4 is useful/powerful and probably anything else sucks. That may change but the mountain has real value at the top only. At least for
chat used for either human assist or decision making or code generation. Categorisation, yeah you can use lesser LLMs.
OpenAI didn’t even exist when Adam was invented! The contact email on the paper is from 2017.

OpenAI has made 1 major contribution - the auto regressive decoder. You could argue also their productisation of RL for LLMs has been highly influential even though they strictly didn’t invent it.
The 1890s maybe or 1790s. All the trash from back then has been forgotten but there was just as much of it as there is today. This is not a new phenomenon.
Oh this is great thanks. I've been annoyed by symantec for a long time.
Growing up in a rural area I rode my bike all over the place. Should see a difference with rural vs urban as well.
I haven't forgotten what GWB's "crusader" did. And what his poodles did too. The double standard of the west is astounding.
You are telling me Google Assistant and Alexa aren't sentient ASI?
I feel like these children have been enlightened into number theory, but their original answers were nevertheless more correct than the later answers.
I feel like they are managing a tech company like you would manage a 300 old Japanese workshop and still be there for next 300 years.
It’s a little more complicated than that, and Kotlin co-routine docs aren’t great at describing the internals of the coroutines infrastructure.

Coroutines by default are launched without an dispatcher, and simply create a single threaded event loop that schedules a single co-routine at a time to use the thread that created the coroutine scope. In this world the is no multithreading and coroutines can’t be moved between system threads, and no thread pools or equivalent are created.

However in most uses of coroutines (especially on Android), you’ll have a framework that already created a coroutine scope (using something like runBlocking) and provided the default dispatcher as the coroutine scopes dispatcher, which is then automatically inherited by any child coroutines or coroutines scope.

Personally I wished they had called Dispatchers.Default something else, it’s a confusing and slightly misleading name, given Dispatchers aren’t a hard requirement to use coroutines.

But I agree the big think to take away from Kotlin coroutines is structured concurrency, and the ergonomics to provides to manage concurrent operations in simple clean manner that avoids nasty resource leakages.

For everything else in coroutines, it’s pretty easy to reconfigure the coroutine runtime to use also most any underlying threading model, including ThreadPools, Singleton Threads, virtual threads, and my favourite, no additional threads whatsoever.

The above means that measuring coroutine startup and creation time and comparing it to threads kinda misses the point of using coroutines in the first place. And it’s possible to make coroutine creation cheaper or more expensive, depending on how exactly you’ve setup your coroutine scope, and which dispatchers (if any) you’re using.
Is this tool useful when you are working with a managed cluster from a large provider like gke ?
That seems like a pretty reasonable plan actually. If I ever do a NAS I was thinking to have one disk for storing files, and a pair of of disks for backing up both the first disk and my laptop.

That way everything has 3 copies, but I'm not backing up a compressed backup that might not deduplicate well and might be a little excessive to have 4 copies.
Visibly worse than searching for English content, but not bad overall. You still get random English results in between, like in DDG, which doesn't happen in Google.
> By the way, some kids misunderstood the digit zero for the number zero.

That's not a misunderstanding. Place-value notation requires that digits are numbers. The fact that 10 is a number doesn't mean that the 0 within the 10 is not also a number; the kindergartener is correct in saying that that location means the 0 is a number.
It's an absolute atrocity what Israel is inflicting on Gaza, and all institutions that could put a stop to it have plainly proved either to be disinterested or powerless. And anyone who speaks up against this aggression (Israel is well past the point of self-defense) risks their livelihood for stating the obvious. It must shock us all, yet many are cheerleading the extermination of Palestinians. This is a brutal stain on our humanity and we will face the consequences sooner or later.
The difference between -freeze and -nofreeze is that -freeze is built with the RustPython freeze-stdlib feature, while -nofreeze is not.
Yeah, Bard is still the worst major LLM product
There is also Litestream.

And: the SQLite homepage runs on - guess it.
Maybe they have some doc/blog describing how they manage their traffic.
FTX Anthropic worth a lot now or has it been diluted ?
Gotta be the talent. Started by ex-OpenAI and probably attracted some AI geniuses who buy in to their safety approach too.
If it was related one would expect outbreak to start in June/July when people swam in rivers (thought this summer was relatively cold). Not in the September when water outdoors is cold and people swim mostly in pools. It can also be related to travel - in August and September many people take holidays.
That doesn't really make sense. How did they explain what plotting was without defining a line? I guess they could have taught how to plot a line segment then explained they go on forever.
I feel the opposite is true. You're right about this, if we were to resume the internet to the arab world/middle eastern world/etc. But the internet de facto is a global medium of discussion(for all intends and purposes, even though it's still somewhat segmented). This means it's more likely that people outside of this conflict, with no ties and partisanship, can have a 'more objective' look on this. This however is with a drawback: it's also easier to influence the "entire audience" through the power of peer-pressure (or straight out propaganda/agitprop).
Stacking Boxes? Treating Cancer? AI Needs to Learn Physics First
That means "huge" and "small" are numbers.
This weirdly reminds me of Dan Brown's "Inferno"
I completely agree with you. I think you hit the nail on the head, it’s good for reading and not much more. The UI is pretty good but the UX leaves a lot to be desired.
It's a philosophical question which is always fun to think about. As far as teaching maths is concerned, I don't know if it's needed to think too much about it. Could it even be more confusing for kids?
> helping me with things that I’m already an expert on

This is a very good point. I rarely use ChatGPT (I do not have the reflex yet to go there and some early attempt were miserable) but it helped me a lot to write some bullshit text for a presentation.

It was very good at putting together the buzzwords and the result was excellent. Since there was also some actual content in it I could check for mistakes and there were two. These were not life threatening mistakes (in the context of a corporate speech) but still.

I develop a lot as an amateur and I need to try using it for that. Right now I only use Amazon Whisperer which is great at suggesting code that I do not have to type anymore - but I did not try to have it create longer code. You gave me some ideas, thanks a lot.

Finally, I would like to use it to correct my typing. I never learned to touch type (tries about 165 times over my 30 years career in science, IT and development) but gave up after 10 minutes. This does not bother me too much as I spend a lot of time thinking rather than typing but since I watch my keyboard I have typos. Grammarly fixes some but right now I see that I typed "thater" and not "rather" and i have to go back. I would love to be corrected by the most probable word in the context of the sentence (which is almost always the first suggestion of the spellchecker.
I mean, if Google gets its revenue solely from ads. Doesn't it mean that you are paying for the ads you see?

I would rather have all google products be paid, and lessen the incentive for business to spend a large share of their revenue on advertisement.
Chester has one of the coolest personal websites by the way

https://chester.how
> Suburbia may have little traffic, but they are also devoid of "third places" where teens can be teens.

When I was a teen there was no pre-made concept of "third places". We made our own. Most of the time, this meant being outside doing something active. We didn't want to be inside. We didn't want to watch TV or even binge-play video games.

We created our own ways of keeping us busy, entertained, socially connected, etc.

Let's not forget, scarcity breeds creativity and innovation.
Yes, measuring is a more advanced concept than counting as it introduces fractions. I don't think simple measuring would include negative numbers though as that would include a measuring direction concept (i.e. vectors) as rulers don't have negative numbers on them and you can't have a speed of -5kph.
Nix has real potential, but it has a long way to go. The fact that this is a service people need makes Nix seem less production ready.

I really like the immutable system concept, but it seems like Snaps are a little more practical here.
This makes sense for future improvement, but not possible for now.
I guess the systems engineering / babysitting part is an intermediate step in the process (fits and starts of a new engineering discipline) and I hope that CS/ML research goes sideways or backs up a bit there, to (maybe less brute force) alternatives or better/deeper understanding.
I grew up in a rural area as well but in my mind it is no different or possibly worse - farther distances meant biking was a necessity versus walking, zero bike infrastructure so I had to be commingled with vehicular traffic, and that traffic was going much faster than in a city due to the wide openness of the roads and no need to stop for far distances. I think it was far more dangerous.
I've used it some, but in the free version the results are outdated for a lot of things. I just don't think to use it instead of search, guess I'm old fashioned that way.
There was a paper

https://maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/pubs/amm_supplements...
A Spigot Algorithm for the Digits of π
Author(s): Stanley Rabinowitz and Stan Wagon
Source: The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 102, No. 3 (Mar., 1995), pp. 195-203

Fortran code for the algorithm is at https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-code-snippets...
I bought this game via Steam and GOG a couple of weeks ago to nostalgia play it, but it doesn't open on Mac unfortunately. Shame, had a lot of good memories with this one (and it was ironically one of the first games I pirated to boot!)
What was the context of you saying you wanted to talk to the embassy? I have a suspicion you were already in trouble for something by that point.
Company name. That's why you form a company: to separate you from the company, and limit your financial liability.

Once you've filed your DBA, and have the paperwork in-hand, go talk to the bank that holds your corporate bank account (you do have a corporate bank account, right? See above). I don't know their exact process, but they will attach the DBA name to the corporate bank account, so that you can receive funds to it under that name.
I just went through a search for a new pharmacy, so I can tell a bit about the general situation. I've heard that supermarket pharmacies traditionally operated at a loss, just existing to draw in customers. I'm speculating that once some chains downgraded/divested their pharmacy operations, others felt free to follow suit. There has been massive consolidation of pharmacies the past few years. For example, Albertson's and Target sold theirs to CVS, and Kroger has merged with Albertson's.

I had to find a new pharmacy because the one I had used for decades was experiencing declining service after being acquired by Walgreens a couple years ago -- shorter hours, longer lines, mis-filled prescriptions, unanswered phones.

Reading reviews for every place around town, I saw that almost every pharmacy had experienced a drastic decline in service the past 1 to 2 years. Target was good until CVS took over. Kroger was great until about a year ago. Rite Aid is having longer and longer wait times. Even Costco is getting serious complaints now. I even went around to some places and talked to waiting customers about their experiences with those stores.

In the end, the best pharmacy by a significant margin was Walmart. The store was clean, orderly, and well stocked. It looked fully staffed, with three pickup windows open, no lines, and nobody looked harried. They are open 7 days a week and the pharmacist told me they had no problem transferring an order to another store if they couldn't fill it that day and it wasn't a controlled drug. I don't know how long Walmart will stay that way because I read from this summer they were looking to reduce employee hours and pay.
What you're saying is similar to claiming fixing a leak on your faucet is gonna fix the global water crisis we are starting to face.

Assuming you are in good faith, you are probably very uninformed about the state of the climate crisis, pollution crisis, and everything that comes along. We are far from the targets set by IPCC to ensure human survival, and they are one of the most optimistic organizations out there when it comes to projections, as some indicators are now much worse than their "worst scenario" projections.

Solar panels isn't gonna cut it. No single isolated change is gonna cut it. Nothing short of a global revolution tearing down industrial capitalism and consumerist culture. I mean, a solarpunk alternative sounds great, but is so far 100% unrealistic, while local-first permaculture-oriented anarchic societies have proved their worth/resilience throughout history/pre-history.
No, but it means there is one less thing we can rely on to identify "process gone whacky".

Plus, admittedly I didn't think about this thoroughly just now, this sounds like a cheap hack for speed. You could still have an OOB access that would land in some valid memory and thus lead to an exploit, right? It's just made very unlikely by making these areas very large and having ASLR. Proper bounds checks wouldn't have that problem.
Only on countries of high income.
Really surprised that Google didn't outright buy OpenAI perhaps the price is already too much now even for Google. Previously, Google has no problem buying direct competitors to its products for example Youtube and Waze.

ChatGPT with Bing search is just very good, intuitive and convenient that I highly recommend it if you have not tried it. Imagine a version of ChatGPT that has tight integration with Google Search, Google Scholar, Google Patent, Google Books, Google Deepmind, etc.

Early last year or so I've read that people were lamenting on how Google at the time was struggling to monetize Deepmind products and suddenly OpenAI ChatGPT 3 came and changed the game forever, while the game changing algorithm is right under their nose, so to speak. It's quite telling that none of the original authors of the Attention paper is still with Google for now.

To showcase the powerful nature of ChatGPT 4 with Bing search I've queried where the original authors of the Attention paper are working now and the answers are as follows:

"As of 2023, here are the current affiliations or recent activities of the original authors of the "Attention is All You Need" paper:

Ashish Vaswani: Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Adept AI

Noam Shazeer: Co-founder and CEO of Character.AI

Niki Parmar: While there isn't specific information about Niki Parmar's current affiliation, it's known that both Vaswani and Parmar were authors at Google when the paper was published in 2017

Jakob Uszkoreit: CEO and co-founder of Inceptive Nucleics, Inc

Llion Jones: Left Google Japan in July 2023 to launch a startup, Sakana AI, alongside David Ha, the former head of Google's AI research arm in Japan

Aidan N. Gomez: CEO & Co-founder of Cohere, a company focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Lukasz Kaiser: The search for Lukasz Kaiser's current affiliation did not yield relevant results. Further research may be required to find his current affiliation.

It's also noted that many of the co-authors have left Google to start their own ventures or joined other organizations since the publication of the paper."
> Unfortunately, HN isn't great for any nuanced discussion in this space

Agree and disagree: as far as social media goes HN is possibly the most capable of nuanced discussion among them all. That doesn't stop contentious topics from going down in flames, especially if the title is provocative. But I'm hoping/sure many people will read, or bookmark this article and read it later with interest, because it is way more nuanced and informative than the title might imply.
> “Yes, you asked this, and I said my dad told me and he said some babies are zero.”

Teacher, are you even paying attention? We've been over this.
As horrible as that story is, I don’t think that fears about poisoned candy go back to that alone. In the 1980s there were a number of real examples of the general American public being poisoned – for example the Chicago tylenol murders[0] and the salmonella attack by the Rajneesh (Osho) cult[1], Because the USA is such a low trust society in general, it’s only to be expected that people’s fears would settle on the candy given out by strangers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_atta...
I think giving them a clear, limited definition when their original answers were more intuitive is the part that introduces the confusion. Toddlers and kindergarteners are always bang on the money and don’t mess around where it comes to confusion, they have other things going on. That is to say, I’ve found that asking under sevens questions in ethics is always a brilliant process - where a professor could spend thousands of words on an article on something like the trolley problem, preschoolers just pull the lever.
There is a commonly-used way to avoid having an open-ended think while walking, too: podcasts.
You couuld also have an East pole and a West pole and have great circles for both latitude and longitude. It's not clear eitherr of those would be preferable to the system we have now.
Are you kidding me? are you comparing a bridge with a hospital full of people, doctors and patients
My wife is a primary school teacher and I assure you, UK kids are taught terminologies. I don’t think they were when I was a kid but curriculums change.
Indeed, but even the standard definitions are flawed.

When I fist was interested in NLP, I thought "word" was easily defined as "sequence of letters bounded by non-letters". But we don't normally pronounce spaces, do we? AndyoucanwritewithoutspacestoindicatespeakinglikeYahtzeeCroshawonZeroPunctuation. And when we've got a contraction, is that "we've" two words or one? Compound words in general, for which German is famous ("Antibabypille") but that's also present in English ("antidisestablishmentarianism", or less severely "internet" and "smartphone")? What about single nouns with spaces in the middle like "remote control" or "mobile phone")? And as my original definition was letters, what about the apostrophe in "we've" or "O'Neil", or the hyphen in older posters saying "to-day"? If all names are words, what about numbers in product names such as "iPhone 15"?

And all those pedants complaining about "to boldly go" in Star Trek because of the split infinitive; I'm told that's because infinitives in Latin were single words and therefore un-splittable, but should admit that I don't know Latin and I don't care to learn it.
The original comments talks nothing about that, actually. If that was the purpose, why not say that instead?
They’re also correct in saying it represents pure, unadulterated nothingness though. The teacher is confusing number theory with reality by limiting them in the way she does.
Those were really interesting reads, thanks. I'm not aware of any similar step-change. It would be interesting to learn more about the aftermath, especially the effect on business overall.

>There are plenty of online resources which don't require ads

So you claim, but one of the two links you provided contains an ad. Which did not bother me at all, of course -- I'm happy to provide a couple of seconds of my attention in return for the interesting and useful information someone spent time preparing.

If everyone blocks that ad, though, the site will make less money, unless they start charging a fee to view some or all of it. I'm interested enough to read for "free" (paying with a couple of seconds of my attention), but not interested enough to pay cash -- and the world is full of people like me. What do you think will happen to sites like this if everyone blocks ads? Is that what you want?

Yes, there is Wikipedia, which is excellent and free. I think Wikipedia is an outlier, though. It's high-profile enough that people actually donate money to it, which is exceedingly rare. In some countries, the government donates only a small amount to well-known charities like the Blind Foundation or the Red Cross because they are known to be high-profile and trusted enough that large numbers of the public will give to them directly -- but there is a long, long tail of deserving charities that almost no one has ever even heard of, which the government has to subsidise fully. What do you propose to do about the long tail of websites that no one cares enough to donate to, once you shut off their main (and possibly only) source of income?
I see natural numbers as an abstraction for counting things. Like "3" is what "3 apples", "3 cars", "3 stars" have in common. In that sense, "0" doesn't have a different status. I find it more difficult to explain "-1". Probably using a position along an axis with an origin, which gives you all the real numbers.
Government of Canada will support organizations to counter disinformation
You can when paying for the Ultimate edition, which allows the installation of the other workloads as plugins.
In this context, a line is what you draw with a ruler to get the correct answer.
Sure it's possible. But you need to test... For example there was/is a 1k file descriptor limit per process in a lot of distributions..
The simple answer is "it's the set of all points in a plane that are equidistant from two particular distinct fixed points", but that just gives you a clean definition that won't capture any of the properties that make lines interesting.

You want something like "it's the shortest path between two points, if you extend it to be infinitely long", which glosses over how you know how to do that correctly, or "it's a 180 degree angle" [same problem].

What did your dad say?

This question reminds me that one of Euclid's postulates was "all right angles are equal". We don't consider that an axiom today, and we don't understand why, in Greek mathematics, this was considered to require noting, or what exactly it meant to them. They obviously had something in mind when they said this, but we don't know what that was.

Thinking of a line as being defined by the 180 degree angle it forms at every point of itself feels like a similar sort of thing to whatever it was that the Greeks were thinking about right angles.