skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks! but yea as some people mentioned, i need to sort/filter multiple items, (ie the first node needs wood,coal,stone to go left and the metals to go right), and the splitters can only filter 1 item.
The article is reporting that wholesale prices (measured by the PPI) have declined 0.5% Y/Y. It might take a while to affect CPI, but that would strongly suggest that inflation has reached a turning point.
Microsoft has taken a couple swings at making ARM laptops (which, we should note, doesn’t appear to be what they are announcing here).

I’d expect a future hypothetical Microsoft ARM laptop to be like a surface-RT; some Windows dropped on a third party ARM chip. Microsoft is a software company, after all. So it is more of a matter of, do they happen to have bought a chip that supports Linux (probably yes, because what hardware manufacturer wants to be dependent on one company for OS support?) and can you get past Secureboot (probably yes, after a couple years at least, when the jailbreak happens).
This is something a bunch of devs growing closer to us ops-guys have learned as well: Dependants are drag. Infrastructure and central systems stop being agile and nimble if enough stuff depends on it. Trivial changes become really hard.

Like, if you have your service with a backend and a frontend and want to toss your API between those out and deal with it, who cares? Do it.

If you want to throw out some weird edge case in a base template because "It's ugly", you need to look at 20 legacy services, and 20 somewhat modernized services people don't want to touch, and some 50 more services if they use that. That's the work necessary to understand how much work that change would mean. At that point, we're not talking about executing the change, or reverse engineering arcane mysteries.

I'm not going to say it's glorious work, but it makes a roadie or an admin proud if you can keep the "wonderful star" afloat and change everything below it without anyone noticing.
State of AI 2023
> You might say, but in the end they want to have a group chat with friends and not be limited to 20 because one friend has an android.

Isn't the group chat limit of 20 set by the carrier though, and not by the OS? Shouldn't people be complaining to their carriers? Also, RCS solves this limitation, not that it matters on iOS.
I expect the existing laws will be extended. I had a colleague tell me about looking into how much Morgan freeman wanted for a 15s commercial ($$$$$$). The alternative he used was a “sound alike” voice actor, for which Morgan Freeman received royalties to the tune of $$$$$.
My favorite were all the fake TikTok tremors videos. Search for it. Like much of TikTok it was people being obnoxious for views.

There's apparently an epidemic if fake medical condition videos on TikTok, including fake Tourette's impressions that are really offensive and harmful to people who actually have the condition.
"In this article, we examined the assumption that all languages are equally difficult to learn by using LMs as computational working models for empirically studying various aspects of human language. In summary, we find that there is evidence for an effect of speaker population size on learning difficulty that questions the above assumption."

"By using a variety of methods and analyses, we have increased the reliability and generalisability of our primary finding, which challenges our initial expectations: contrary to what we expected, our research reveals a positive statistical association between population size and learning difficulty, suggesting that languages with more speakers tend to be harder to learn."

I was asking about something like this the other day, but I have to read the whole paper to see whether I understand any of it.
HuggingFace GPT
Only using the NLP Course and AutoTrain Course as basis, along with a few ipynb files.

Built very fast, so use with caution but seems to work fine as long as you know what questions to ask.
It was a real cop-out.
That's... so French. Thanks for adding this bit. I'm always in need of culinary history ammo when I am confronted with having to feed people who only trust industrially processed food. Such as many of my relatives.
It's typical for US politicians to be slimy cowards unable to defend the value of their bills, so they instead tie it to evocative topics to try and turn bills into social levers to get results.

These lawmakers don't actually care about children. One look at family law will tell you that.
> I could understand the basis for climate change if I took enough time out of work and family and did my research.

> With religious truths, on the other hand, investigations reach a dead end with "this is simply a matter of faith" or "you just have to feel this to believe it".

No religion worth its salt would ever present a proposition, point blank (e.g., the divinity of Christ[2]) and then claim you are required to believe it just because, or because "feelings". That is merely a caricature, a straw man, and if that were the case, then you could easily ask why this particular belief? Why not what the guys down the street are selling? New Age is big on feelings, a grand synthesis (read: hodge-podge) of superstition, so why not them? Why not the various kooky ideologies springing up in our times, nearly all of which follow the same gnosticizing script, with the added aggression and bullying they deploy when demanding you believe their claims simply because they make them. Certainly, there are some traditionally religious people who say the kinds of things you say about faith, today perhaps especially in the US, but it is neither wise nor charitable to judge a faith by the flaws of its weakest professors. And not only that, but not all faiths are the same. Not all faiths are actually faith, that is, rational faith.

Now, because faith is a kind of trust, a kind of uncertainty does enter the picture. But legitimate trust is not irrational, and so genuine faith is not irrational, and indeed, all men have faith; your distinction is not as profound as you may think, though certainly there are distinctions to be made and a certain diversity of methods ought to be considered (historical vs. empirical, for instance). Methodology is an important thing to bear in mind, specifically when recognizing, that rationality and modern, empirical science are not identical. This is the error of scientism, one easily refuted by the observation, that the claim that equates the two is not itself a scientific claim.

John Newman[0], for example talks about how the aforementioned assent can take place, and here is an article[1] that gives a brief summary. But a look at, say, the robust tradition of Catholic apologetic scholarship will certainly show, that this faith not only respects reason, but in doing so, proceeds from it. It goes where reason leads and takes off where human rationality is too feeble or circumstantially constrained to continue. There must be warrant, and reason and authentic faith cannot contradict. So here, too, you could, in principle, also do you own apologetic and theological and philosophical research and come to certain conclusions, just as you could, in principle, if not in practice, do your own empirical or historical research or whatever.

[0] https://www.newmanreader.org/works/grammar/index.html

[1] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm

[2] https://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/christ-divinity.htm
Unless you have the overall incidence of self-reported chest pain or that of those who didn’t get the vaccine in the same period, those aren’t particularly meaningful numbers.
We used to leave a tip for good service. Now you have to do it for everything
Has a watermelon a special meaning there? Can you elaborate?
> and there's alternative explanation for the symptoms from some other issues

> I feel sure that I did not have ADHD symptoms during childhood

Both are hard requirements for the indication though. (at least in my country where they use the DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

* Symptoms must not be attributable to other issues.

* ADHD must have been there all your life, so before a certain age (in my country 12yo) symptoms must have been there, and they must be acknowledged. Not necessarily that they were then attributed to ADHD, but they must have been present.

Source: i'm in the diagnosis currently. I'm 45 years old. I'm not a shrink. I'm currently actually supposed to finish my bookkeeping, hence I'm on HN.
Between May and July, many cities in the northern hemisphere technically have no astronomical "night". But you made the wish, the monkey-paw curled a finger, and now all of Canada and Northern Europe are living in the Sleep Experiment timeline.
if not part of public education, one would hope that it might at least be provided at home, eg https://blog.plover.com/lang/embedded.html
Found an use to my m5stick C+ , will try this
Amazon has publicly changed course on this issue several times since the beginning of the pandemic. I am going to start linking this comment every time I see something like this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37314299
I think even that is an oversimplification. These GPTs simplify Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for the personal use case. You can provide "Knowledge" in the form of files and also defined "actions" where have your GPT can take action or reach out to urls. This is a pretty strong step forward in terms of general use.

It's a great democratization of personal use AI and has everything you need to build useful personal bots. It could theoretically provide the same sort of utility as sites like ITTT but for GPT-4.

I can see power users creating workflows which trigger by talking to their GPT and telling it to "execute xyz". It then uses the actions and its 128k context to download some data (GET action), run some logic on it, and send the output via json to another endpoint via actions (POST action). With these simple components and a creative mind, you could build something interesting or perhaps automate your dayjob.
> - Satya brings NVidia CEO Jensen Huang on stage

This should be ringing alarm bells at FTC and DoJ.

You know what's even better than trust busting and breaking up cartels? Preventing the formation of cartels and trusts in the first place.
if you treat splitters as moving the computation backward on the belt, I'm pretty sure they're universal, so the intersection of splitters and computer science is computer science
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The main issue with bots is that they "cheat" what you're trying to do and just instantly solve the problem.

You can click on your logistic auto-fetch feature and just have robots search all the boxes for the items you want, and they'll automatically refill your inventory to 300-belts.

And then when you build a belt somewhere, you can either choose from your inventory, or shift-click and/or blueprint build to have robots search for those items in your entire logistic network and they just fly out, find the item, come back, and place it for you. Just in like 2 or 3 clicks (or less).

So for a lot of these challenges and demonstrations, Factorio players aim for "belts only" or other such constraints, to try and force ourselves into design constraints. Belts-only also uses zero-power (bots need power to function, and its rather substantial in practice). So there's power-benefits to going belt-only.

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So what is your goal here? If its to build a tree in Factorio, I think we can say you succeeded.

But its not the optimal play or the "meta" factory design, lol. But I recognize that's not quite what you were going for. (Ex: the meta would be to just use bots in a bot-factory. Or keep items sorted in a belt factory, no reason to mix belts)

I think pushing players to think deeply about the "meta", including the deep thoughts upon how CLOS Networks apply to high-quality Belts/and/splitter designs, is very rewarding. Its not about trees though.

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Mixed-belts are fun though. And I think I spent many good hours and weeks thinking about them back in my Factorio days. Lots of interesting problems to solve, but I think my problem was that these solutions weren't meta, nor did they demonstrate any beautiful mathematical concept.

Benes Networks / CLOS networks applied to belts however, were a perfect match. The best builds were those that matched the deep mathematical/comp. sci foundation of Benes Networks. So it was the "more fun" part of Factorio to me. Not only was I learning some deep Comp. Sci topic, but when I improved my designs based on CLOS Networks, they instantly led to improved belt-balance and throughput in my factory designs.
One thing that I've been doing lately is creating a "synbiogpt", and from it, have come to realize the limitations of the custom GPTs.

- Biological sequence data is usually quite long. This is fine if the biological data is in a file: however, if you need interact with an API for advanced function (like codon optimization), you have to send this across a wire. The API calling context window then gets filled up with sequence data, and fails.

- I can't inject dependencies, many of which I've written myself specifically for biological engineering. Sometimes GPT will then try to code its own implementation, often which is incorrect.

- The retrieval API often fails to open files if GPT-4 thinks it knows what it is talking about. When I'm talking about genetic parts, I often want to be very specific about the particular parts in my library, rather than the parts GPT-4 thinks is out there.

I fixed most of this by just rolling my own lua-scripting environment (my biological functions are in golang, and I run gopher-lua to run the lua environment). I inject example lua for how to use the scripting functions, as well as my (right now, small) genetic part library, and then ask it to generate me lua to do certain operations on the files provided, without GPT-4 ever looking at the files. My internal golang app then executed the scripted lua. This works great, and is much faster than a custom GPT.

The biggest problem I have right now is the frontend bits. I would love to have basically an open source ChatGPT looking-clone that I can just pull attachments out of + modify the initial user inputs (to add my lua examples and such). So far I haven't found a good option.
It’s a well written article that makes many substantive arguments. If you refuse to engage with text that contains “obviously wrong” statements you will inevitably get stuck in some echo chamber. Open-mindedness is about trying to figure out what people are actually trying to say so you get a glimpse of the worldview from which the author’s statements make sense.

Nothing bad happens when you seriously read and engage with texts you disagree with. Try it sometime.
I don’t think you should fault the food bank. They have limited space, labor, and money.

You were asking them to take on a labor and space intensive project they didn’t ask for, that might require additional food production safety training to maintain legal compliance. Do they have enough fridge space? Do they have access to a commissary kitchen to process it? Do their customers want it?

If you offered them ready to distribute bags of veg from your plants I’m guessing they might take it.

Charities often run into this problem of someone offering something they didn’t ask for or need, and having to deal with it.

Externally it can seem like an obvious thing: of course the food bank wants greens!

Internally it looks more like: this guy wants to give us an indeterminate amount of his garden veggies, which we might have to process, and aren’t produced in a facility that we can guaranty is safe. we normally only accept donations of dry and canned goods and source our own fresh food for these reasons. Is it worth our time to make an exception?
One hopes that all her works will one day be available in print again, or at least in electronic form.
I think a white listing system could work. Let each country have it's own set of tags (us-7, us-13, ca-violence) which websites can include in headers or meta-tags. Then browsers and (mitm-)proxies could be configured with an accepted list. It would work well for schools, kiosks, kids devices that the parents control, and home routers. Websites would have clear guidelines per country and incentives to comply and include the tags. Encryption and privacy would ensure that the rest of the web operates as it does today; current software wouldn't need to change.
And we wonder why people despise Big Tech...we enabled this dystopian nightmare. While we were doing so Big Money came in and bought our government, bolstered by Justice Scalia's ruling that the Constitution says our government is up for sale to the highest bidder. Scalia also eliminated private property rights too.

This didn't happen overnight. It's the culmination of the Reagan Revolution. This is what these fookers were after all along.
There is no unique trickery here. In both cases, you do nothing -- don't charge presumed innocent people with "likeness" theft or with murder.
> Apple could support RCS (the SMS replacement introduced in 2007) or just release an iMessage app for Android. But they have chosen not to in order to alienate Android users from their iOS contacts and create pressure for Android users to switch for the most petty reasons.

I never understood why everyone thinks that it's on Apple to open up their ecosystem and allow inferior devices to use their services that are offered for free to their customers because they're better.

Nobody expects KFC to share their secret blend of herbs and spices with other fast food restaurants because people prefer KFC over them...

If you want to beat Apple, then you need to provide something better, not think you get their cake too.
> In reality, Science can’t be made devoid of human judgment any more than politics can.

If that is the key idea I remain unconvinced: science may not be as objective as we might hope, but politics is the epitome of subjective.
People know that, that's not the issue. The issue is that wages over 4 years have not kept pace, which means that not only did they go in the hole (debt) during this time, but they're still either adjusting what they purchase or continuing to slide.

Debt has skyrocketed if anyone's had their head under a rock.
Sure. But also Land Value Tax.
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I don't think he'll have much luck in Stockholm.
>... because making things to inject in people is their whole business model and if the FDA says that enough they cease to exist as a company?

1. That's a stretch. These companies sell more than just COVID vaccines.

2. How does a patient that was injured by the vaccine, through manufacturer negligence, say, obtain restitution?

I'm glad the FDA is still regulating the vaccine. I wish my constitutional right to bringing civil suit were similarly preserved before I was coerced by my employer into taking the vaccine.
> Brains are there to learn behaviors faster than evolution can.

Reflexes whether innate, enforced, or purely learned are basically impossible to modify without either conscious attention or a lot of training. I presume the CASA proponents were arguing that these social responses are akin to social reflexes.

Plants "learn" too. https://theconversation.com/pavlovs-plants-new-study-shows-p...

The mechanistic hypothesis being:

> Plants may lack brains and neural tissues but they do possess a sophisticated calcium-based signaling network in their cells similar to animals’ memory processes.
The one that doesn't change. :). And FWIW the one that does change is called Navajo time.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/14/1004757...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9670676/

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/01-09-2022-infodemics-a...
If that were true why is Apple laptop / desktop market share not 50% in the US like phones are?

For most iPhone users, the iPhone is their only Apple device. Maybe a few have an iPad (about one in 30 or so), but that's it. Most don't have a Mac, HomePod, etc, and so the "seamless ecosystem" is not a factor.

Talk to any teenager or young adult. It really is the green bubbles.
Cruise certainly knows.
There are methods of breaking a cipher with enough computation and memory, but those are specific to the pseudorandom function that happens to be used

But doesn't this constitute leakage of the algorithm's internal state in the output? (Albeit, very slow.)

and they are not limited to stream ciphers

I never said any of the above was limited to stream ciphers.
I think you mean

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Cheap gas is gone, but there's still gas. Where do you think the uranium comes from for power plants? Even the US imports a big part of it from Russia.
Using gdb. On the GnuCobol site you see a Screenshot of a debugging session in VS Code
https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/
https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/images/VSC_ScreenShot.png
> Cruise certainly knows

Given the number of drivers who seemingly-unknowingly bump and run pedestrians, I wouldn’t be so sure.
But my point is that even if they did open-source their backend code, and even if it was 100% secure and showed that full end-to-end encryption was implemented, you still wouldn't know for sure that this was the code they were running in production. They might have a modified code base running in production and you would be none the wiser.
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> Large distributed system logs, in the raw, are straight noise. None of the data has meaning until you add a layer of interpretation on top of it, and that interpretation often involves actual software creativity.

Additionally, I find that when people add logs/metrics 'just in case', they're often not sufficient to satisfy the queries that are developed later. You often need to know what you want to query about so that you can log the right things. The same thing happens with medical statistics: you can't prove or disprove a hypothesis from data unless the data collection was designed with that hypothesis in mind.
Can't forget nectarine!

https://scenestream.net/demovibes/

Soundtrack of my youth
Are there any areas that try and tax more directly based on services used (electric, water, fire, police, roads, etc.) rather than how large your property is or how fancy your house is? The idea of assessors trying to make judgements about the quality of a building seems a pretty silly way to pay for city services.
I worked for a streaming platform some 15 years ago. They would charge users by the second for watching live content. Shortly after I joined, DST kicked in, and I was surprised to learn that they simply shut down the whole website for one hour twice a year. They seemed to think this was easier to deal with than fixing their (many) time handling bugs ...
This is simultaneously impressive and pretty gross.
Does that make it okay for more bad bills to be passed? What is the point of this defense?
If you believe the NSA has less to say about Meta's data than CPC has to say about TikTok's data, then I got an old bridge for sale.
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Contrary point of view:

Extraordinary circumstances allowed you to stay remote during a pandemic. Now that it's over, it's fair and expected that they want you to come into the office. Your original contract with them was you being an in-office employee.

There is nothing wrong with them aligning on promotions being tied to you fulfilling your obligations.

If this is all too much, there's absolutely nothing stopping you from leaving and finding a truly remote workplace.

(Disclaimer: I understand some people were hired as remote, told they'd remain remote, and are now being forced to come to the office or relocate. That sucks, and I'm sorry it's happening).
Starlink's overzealous fraud detection locked users out of their accounts