skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Academic publishing has a lot of problems, it is an aging institution after all, and it shows. However, reputation-via-affiliation is the only thing that keeps it running.
Seems not everyone can appreciate Dutch candidness ;-)
I always loved maps, especially ancient maps. I wonder if there's any book that would have a great collection of these. Kind of like a catalog of antique maps.
Nowadays AI chips are specialized in not just vector multiplication but matrix multiplication. Just as moving from scalar math to vectors brings savings in control and routing logic, moving from vector to matrix does the same. Taking a result from a floating point unit and moving it to a big, multi-ported register file and then reading it out again to feed into another floating point unit is often a much bigger draw of power than the multiplication or addition itself and to the extent you can minimize that by feeding the results of one operation direction into the processing structures for the next you've got a big win.
One of my most frustrating wasteful experiences was being “under” on the amount of M16 blanks we’d fired in training exercises. So, we loaded up magazine after magazine and fired them off, often on full auto (though the blanks would sometimes misfire on full auto).

The frustrating part wasn’t pointlessly dusting off training ammo; it was cleaning the weapon afterwards. The blank fire adapter that was needed to create the back pressure to cycle the weapon meant that none of the gunpowder residue left the barrel behind a round (as there wasn’t one), so all that residue was waiting for us at the barracks.
yep, the android app does not work. Proton had been working on a replacement for two years with little to no progress.

I have just migrated on to another provider because of Protons inability to provide a client on mobile (Downloading all my emails took 48 hours, indicating that Proton is doing what they can to hamper people ability to migrate away).

actually, their current Android app can potentially harm users: it will send previous unfinished versions of the email you are drafting resulting in the receiver getting bogus emails.
I'd like to know the answer to that too. I shouldn't have implied that CPU inference on Hetzner is cheaper than GPU on AWS, when I don't have any idea on the cost of either.
Yes OCR is better on GPT4V but my iPhone does it faster and without a network call. The difference is not that great at least in this use case
As someone who writes copious little todo lists on post-it notes with little check boxes I can X out when they're done... I kinda love this. Not really remote-work friendly, though.
how's Sacks an authority on this other than being buddy with Musk?
"Hmm... 2006, huh. I wonder what happened then for it to change. "

Well he remarried in 2006 having been widowed two years earlier. Neither he nor his friends were getting any younger. So it all sounds pretty unremarkable.
I wish I could, but only the mods that changed it can change it back.
"Blackbird Successor" that happens to be a drone it seems like.
For the background for whatever Q* is, listen to 35:00-40:45.
These are the guys that produced hilariously wrong forecasts for the solar market 12 years in a row. I'm going to go ahead and take their opinion with a grain of salt. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/07/12/has-the-international...
Nevermind, found it: https://foxrow.com/til-api-for-saving-webpages-in-the-waybac...

I'll add this to our hn.curiosity.ai server asap, should be pretty easy to automate as we already have post sync implemented there
I’ve heard the name, but honestly could not tell you what it is.
One could generate arbitrarily many math problems, where the solution is known.
John von Neumann: A Kind of Bird – By Eric Gilliam
Having spent significant time implementing machine learning papers before the LLM age, I can promise you over 90% of papers you'll find are full of shit. The claims they make are true in only the most contrived of circumstances and don't hold up under any kind of scrutiny. How exactly they came to these lies (data lies, result lies, omitting lies) is really immaterial. The concept everyone is apparently struggling with is that producing a paper that is entirely lies is not doing the scientific world a disservice: It is not unusual and already happens at scale. Making it even easier might motivate someone to actually figure out a way to ensure papers are reproducible and not full of shit. In essence this is a good thing.
Where is the code for the with-component* macro and for the metaclass object?? That would be the most interesting part of this post!
ChatGPT was trained (in an additional step to supervised learning of the base LLM) with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) where some contractors were presented with two LLM output to the same prompt and they had to decide, which one is better. This was a core ingredient to the performance of the system.
New Clues Explain the Mystery of Why We Itch
Video was great, thanks!
Why not use something like shiv[0]? You can bundle all your dependencies into one file and distribute that.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/shiv/
Look what brazilian politicians do and you will be shocked how this train endevour is so tamed it would not even be news around here. The brazilian president spend R$773 millions this year on travelling alone ($157.6 millions in US dollars)
What's crazy is those 360 profile settings still apply to 360 games on modern Xboxes. I was really surprised to see it remembered something I set on my old 360 like 10 years back.
PowerShell's problem is that it is a real programming language, which makes it less suitable for a shell.
You're describing the BigCorp meta, which I think is a good portrayal that people need to see.

However, in the context of the discussion and parent, it sounds like you're trying to defend.

I don't agree.

It's completely rational to play career frogger. The leader is getting compensated (We're talking re-ups of generational wealth for however long they can survive.) However, their leadership is fair for criticism. It sounds like the leader hasn't created a compelling vision, which their staff is craving, let alone delivered team success.
the answer to questions in headlines is always "no"

to say it in zeihans words:

- if it was star-wars like society out there, we'd know because either some traders would start exploiting us, or the empire would show up with a fleet and they wouldn't be subtle.

- if it was like star-trek, they'd keep their distance until we'd get our stuff together and have a unified world order

- if space travel was easy, we'd see the occasional trader in central park, selling us the equivalent of glass pearls, upending our economy

- if space travel is hard and they'd use something like the jump gates in cowboy beebop, they'd be protecting their property and whoever was in power wouldn't be missed, because there would be all kinds of power demonstrations out there.

- as long as the stock market isn't reacting, I'd just ignore all the ufo stuff
Physics is limited by observation but also by interpretation of that data. There are lots of unsolved physics problems that essentially amount to "no human has come up with a model that fits this data" that an AI could potentially solve for us.
Combat mission flights, like industrial deep sea diving couple decades ago are now in ripe position to be automated away.
I got to see an SR-71 and a U2 at the (amazing) USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio.

I was really surprised by how small both are.
Altman and those at openai appear to have an obsession with creating fear and panic, almost as if they were projecting schizophrenia on others.
“Reuters was unable to review a copy of the letter” rings alarm bells for me
ieee writing an obituary is really a different context than the Daily Beagle running obituary.
Maybe there is a tool that can help them trace where this bug is coming from in their cost calculator?
NuScale cancels first-of-a-kind nuclear project as costs surge
I wonder how much further they could push these machines if they don't need to keep a squishy human alive inside.
For the record, I don't buy the whole "America is best thing" and I most certainly don't have a dog in the whole patriotic-flag-waving-bs fight either. And yes, I've been on the receiving end of what would be politely described as "poor" US talent, so I'm acutely aware that not everything in the garden is rosy.

I am also not disputing that there is a proportion of companies out there who go to India for all the best reasons, a genuine quest for talent.

But sadly, I think we have to accept the reality that such companies are very much in the minority. The reality, sadly, is that the majority of companies who outsource to India only do so for one reason. Aggressive cost-cutting.
If you want to be polite, you can call it an illusion. If you don't, you can call it a scam (wanting to convince public opinion/politicians that continuing to burn fossil fuels is not a problem because the CO2 can be captured and magicked away).
Yeah, and most of the time I do it on wifi. Still, most of the actual voice GSM part of my phones communication is used by salespeople
> compilers often execute recursive algorithms with an explicit stack anyway.

Threading compilers shouldn't be too bad, but anything more complex would need a lot of extra work. I once implemented recursion using an array for a fake stack and the return stack for the "function", but it was a lot to wrap my then young mind around. I can no longer figure out how I did it.
Some of those "OGs" must be really full of themselves if they think a few superficial 20-year-old development stories are "ruining the Rockstar mystique".
They even recognize objects within pictures so you can search pictures via their contents. It seems to work offline, though it can take a while for the phone to run it.
The subtitle was added in localization. It's not incorrect to call it a localization change.
OK, name a few.
Oh that’s disappointing, I would have enjoyed being reminded of this episode of Boy Meets World:

https://youtu.be/864PunevIxY?si=Xl7Tgi_CUIpWDmtw

Spoiler: the mayor was the judge
So the only counter-solution they offer is to force the gas- and oil-industry to invest more into green solutions?
The Great Enshittening
Parliament's right of legislative initiative [pdf]
Going cashless is a bad idea but it's not a conspiracy
Going broad rather than deep cuts both ways. Sure, you have more employment opportunities, but the value of your individual contributions has a ceiling. That means after a relatively short period of time, you plateau career wise. Like is a generalist with 15 years of experience really that much more valuable than one with 7 years? Not really. So if you want to progress beyond a generic senior engineer, then you need to specialize in something.
I do care about my phone doing OCR and other tasks locally without Google, and tensor chips are the reason this can be done without draining the battery too much.
Think there might be a connection..?
It follows a list of global (heuristic?) and website-specific rules, which may specify what buttons to click in order to make the banners disappear, or what cookies to pre-load in order to simulate the user already having set a preference, preventing the banners from showing up.

Meta bug tracking all developments:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1783015
I’ve been looking into tiny municipalities

They're basically like startups and with semi public bylaws

You can form or takeover any one you want, and just pass laws that favor you for your term. You can vote out salary caps, you can vote in to delegate that decision to yourself. You literally just property tax some warehouses and railroad tracks and pay yourself!

This is what people meant by Land of Opportunity because it was about the land, not jobs

Its still true
The same could be said for space exploration. We spend a fortune accommodating humans.
Sounds reasonable the way you put it and I both understand and agree with it. The reason I went off topic is I saw an unrestricted debate on an off-topic subject and jumped in.

I have read the rules thoroughly when I made my account.

As my main focus of interest in propaganda and censorship in tech I would like a clear answer from you I can refer to in the future, whether I am allowed discussing this topic on this platform?

"propaganda and censorship in tech" again for clarity.
Fastamail

previously I used Proton but I recommend staying away form them at all costs.

1. their android app will send previous drafts and disregard your later edits.
2. That is if the android app even works. as other people reports, sometimes the send button does not respond. it also regularly just spins when trying to open an email.
3. they are discarding their Google reviews for their app. they used to have 20% 1 star reviews, which was reasonable.

in the end it seems they focus hard on marketing without maintaining their product. they have switched on the value extraction faucet.
Flight performance characteristics of vehicles are held back by meatbags in it and forces acted upon it.
In addition, I don't understand why they stopped them entirely, instead of spin them off as subsidiaries under e.g. Alphabet; make them financially self-reliant, have Google/Alphabet as the main shareholder, and give the people that worked on it (and whoever else wants to) the opportunity to continue working on the product.

Some wouldn't have been viable, sure. Others were probably too ingrained in Google's hardware/software ecosystem to be separated out (although I wonder if nowadays everything Google runs on its cloud offering, which would make it simpler, just change the billing).
I find superfluous pleasantries from a computer program unneccesary — I know English is generally leaning to a overly-polite side, but there is really no value in personifying a computer (this annoys me with ChatGPT default style too).

Do you really get offended that computer is being direct at you?
Plant trees. Chop trees. Build stuff. Bury wood. Repeat.

Note: it doesn't mean keep burning gas at the same time.
With X under fire, Elon Musk digs in and finds support from conservatives
The Rise of the Far Right in Europe (2014)
Could be, they also had a pre-iso valuation that needed justifying. The signal to me that it was really over was when they stopped supporting jabber/XMPP and look where it go them. I never experienced Google as a stock. My only experience with google is as a search engine and a mail delivery system that broke all the rules of polite society.

Could be "Don't be evil" was the answer to the business model question of early google. My memory is that it spawned during an interview with Larry and Sergey regarding the business model.
They sold (and continue to sell) TPUs under the Coral brand, and they're pretty popular for edge inference (e.g. Frigate).
A Busy 1979 (2011)
Thing is, they quit on it too quickly; sure, a lot of people would stick with gmail, but others - and following generations - would adopt and grow up with inbox.

I think / suspect that many people develop habits of this type in their 20's and never move away from it for the next 60 years because it works. Example, people who still use vi(m) / emacs. Nothing personal, but as an example, they use it because they're used to it and have been for decades. And no editor that claims to be better will ever replace it for them.
Why would it not? We've observed them getting significantly better through multiple iterations. It is quite possible they'll hit a barrier at some point, but what makes you believe this iteration will be the point where the advanced stop?
Basically, you're speeding on shitty roads, where the speed limit were set because they know they're shitty and dangerous?

And it's somehow on purpose and they should let you drive above the speed limit because 'you know'?

Prepare to avoid Belgium because they're lowering the tolerance on the speed radar and you might get a ticket for driving 5kmh above the speed limit.

Even on the brand new highways.
The bitter lesson isn't a "general result". It's an empirical observation (and extrapolation therefrom) akin to Moore's law itself. As with Moore's law there are potential limiting factors: physical limits for Moore's law and availability and cost of quality training data for the bitter lesson.
This is why nerds are kept far away from the seats of power.

The world is about shades of gray and (typically) minimising harm. We all know people fully bent on doing antisocial things will likely get there, one way or the other, but we still try to make it hard for them. That's why professional locksmiths typically have to register with the police, you can't buy all medicines over the counter, etc etc.

With this view, reducing access to information that is useful almost exclusively when committing crimes, is absolutely fair. It will not solve all problems but it will make it a bit harder to do bad stuff.
Sure, but OCR doesn't need ML and high-end SoCs to work well.

We had great OCR in $50 printer-scanner combo devices for home users and those didn't have M1 chips but some dirt cheap HW and Windows software to do the OCR(most likely using the Tesseract library which runs on a toaster).

So the everyday need for ML in everything in our lives is greatly exaggerated.
Nice, I'm going to look into playwright, looks promising.

I've seen a couple of automated test frameworks. I'm not looking to test thou, I'm looking at way I can quickly automate my daily work. There's a healthy overlap between what test frameworks offer and what I want, so that's probably my best starting point.
While neat tech, it seems hypersonic icbms like the Sarmat make more economic sense these days vs expensive and overly complicated delivery or spy vehicles.

Or at least, upgrading the current icbm and detection systems seems like it should be a priority in conjunction with these cool birds. Especially after their recent failures.
Work-related stuff, Google is for more personal stuff but even there 85% of my search is something like best running shoes Reddit.
The Technical Founder's Guide to B2B Sales (PDF, 45 Pages)
Some of what was going on was entering hate speech. There were posters of Indian consulate folks with crosses on them near the gurudwaras. Those folks received death threats, threats of their kids getting kidnapped.

Anyone advocating for violence and death is a no-no in my book.

Peaceful protests are perfectly fine but this was in gray area.
I discovered caching CDNs were throttling my everyday browsing
A short story on how I diagnosed half the Internet being broken for me, but the rest would be perfectly fine. And no, it's not DNS for once.
This is why you don't put your real name beside crazy stories of the past.
Look, you can not really take the position we don't have AGI, we don't know what it does, let's move quickly and not worry. If we don't know anything, then expecting good things to happen and therefore moving quickly is as well justified as expecting bad things to happen and therefore being cautious.

But it is just not true that we know nothing, the very definition of what an AGI is defines some of it properties. By definition it will be able to reason about all kind of things. Not sure if it would necessarily have to have goals. If it only is a reasoning machine that can solve complex problems, then there is probably not too much to be worried about.

But if it is an agent like a human with its own goals, then we have something to worry. We know that humans can have disagreeable goals or can use disagreeable methods for achieving them. We know that it is hard to make sure that artificial agents have goals we like and use methods we agree with. Why would we not want to ensure that we are creating a superhuman scientist instead of a superhuman terrorist?

So if you want to build something that can figure out a plan for world piece, go ahead, make it happen as quickly as possible. If you want to build an agent that wants to achieves world piece, then you should maybe be a bit more careful, killing all humans will also make the world peaceful.
The "Research" mode should be the default, the other UI is too damn convoluted, i am not playing a game
It's disappointing to see that some individuals at Rockstar unironically believe themselves to be rockstars.
Wouldn’t it be 30% for Spotify? 15% is only for businesses where iOS revenue is less than $1m.
For hypersonics it's more about not melting the airframe, regardless of whether there are any people inside or not. That's why I'm skeptical for such vehicles - unless they're disposable, of which there already are plenty (like the penetration aids installed in MIRVs). China seems (seems!) to be leading the pack here with their anti-aircraft-carrier programs.
I'm having trouble getting the types right for the formula mentioned under the Matrix Function heading. Is f meant to be linear? Is f' meant to be pointwise derivative?
> And without slaves, the pyramids would never have been built.

Rather: without the aliens, the pyramids would never have been built. :-)

SCNR
That looks familiar - it was posted on HN a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33172448
I was trying to look at ancient ones but the "early maps" filter isn't working for me or there aren't any on this website. Does it work for you?
Would it be ok, if they knowingly sold a phone that couldn't make a phone call?
> Otherwise explain me how the same international devs who struggle to crack 50k in their own developing country can suddenly score 200k+ the moment they're in the American labor market. They don't magically become 4x better coders the moment they cross the border.

Supply and demand. American companies needed "developers, developers, developers", and when the supply is very finite and at the same time the investment markets were flush with "dumb money" that begs for at least a pittance of ROI, so in the end they ended up in bidding wars.

So now when a developer from <insert poor country here> enters the US labor market, their market value increases simply because they are now adding to the supply side of the US labor market - them being in the US is the factor.
Just don’t go
Very well explained.
But you won't find null results in a journal, so problem solved.
That includes reported bumps and scratches.
With my limited knowledge, I don't see it. Could you elaborate on how you made that connection?
Of the many things that might benefit Russia, another Boris Yeltsin is not among them.
And also importantly don't risk pilots being captured. Self destruction on interception seems also desirable.
It'd be one thing if their goal was to build ML tools that they want to market as AI, but they explicitly aim to develop an artificial general intelligence. There's a mountain of risks and ethical questions that we should be answering before even attempting such a goal, and for them to waive it off under the banner of "intelligence is just economic value" is dangerous and horribly irresponsible. If we can automate ourselves into a post scarcity society then everyone and everything is free to be as intelligent and as stupid as it desires.

Even an AGI can't create natural resources out of thin, post scarcity is a pipe dream that at best means we kicked the can down the road.

Based on our actions, society doesn't actually even want to be automated away for a simple life of freedoms where all the basics of life are taken care of. We could have done that a long time ago, instead we just raise the bar and continue to make life more complicated and grow the list of "necessities". People seem to need a sense of purpose in life, taking that away with an AGI-powered system that gives them everything the AGI deems necessary wouldn't end well.
I started writing a static analysis tool for the BNF metasyntax. Basically one half of a parser generator, which I do not intend to implement as it's all just for fun!