skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're dead on.

We've developed numerous different learning algorithms that are biologically plausible, but they all kinda work like backpropagation but worse, so we stuck with backpropagation. We've made more complicated neurons that better resemble biological neurons, but it is faster and works better if you just add extra simple neurons, so we do that instead. Spiking neural networks have connection patterns more similar to what you see in the brain, but they learn slower and are tougher to work with than regular layered neural networks, so we use layered neural networks instead.

Biology is Biology and Silicon is Silicon. Sometimes, Constraints can be just that - Constraints and not some secret sauce.
I think it’s “An Historic” not “A.”
At the risk of advocating for the devil, I think that's what YouTube Premium does? I don't know whether it pays out by time watched or per view or what, and obviously Google takes a (large) cut, but the biggest argument in its favor is that it does actually put money in the creators' pockets.
An "impossible" mode could remove the sound played when selecting a note. Only those with perfect pitch would be able to get it though (or someone using another piano / keyboard for reference).

As a slight aside, I have always wondered (and never really found a conclusive answer) whether it's possible to train your absolute pitch perception. I have perfect pitch so I can't really test myself fairly (although it does make this puzzle very easy for me!). I've read on multiple occasions that exposure / training as a child is the best way to get it for life, and being musical as a kid might explain my ability to detect absolute pitch.
S/PDIF is also crappy in comparison to analogue audio of the time.

EDIT: Looking closer at the wiki (it's been forever since I saw it used), it's when it's being used for surround sound that it compresses it super poorly, for stereo it's just PCM and sounds fine.
Some?
I mean, that's kind of what historians have to do. They have to extrapolate.
Any event that happens in the past, you kind of have to. Even in relatively recent past. But yeah, I had the same question as well.

I am sure, a Roman soldier, in the centuries that the Pilum was in use, must have used one in a thrust and either killed or injured an enemy soldier. But based on the historical evidence he has, the Pilum was intended to be and probably mostly used as a throwing weapon.

That would be like a future historian asking whether WWI soldiers used their single-bolt rifles as clubs rather than as projectile weapons.
The gist of guidance from the US Copyright Office is that it's relative to what was put in.

If your input was a six word prompt of everyday langhage and the widely available magic box decompressed that into a cool picture, nobody produced anything copyrightable. And most of us wouldn't want that to be different. You'd just have squatters racing to claim copyright over every Midjourney prompt they can generate.

But if someone put what's clearly a demonstrably significant amount of commercial direction or artisanal effort into producing a original work while using generative tools, that direction/effort is what earns your copyright. The same would likely apply when using the tech to further "work" some already-copyrighted material of your own.

You're right that most of this stuff hasn't been tested by the courts when the tools are called "AI", but many of the underlying questions have decades and decades of precedent behind them (music sampling, collage and assemblage in visual art, monkeys taking snapshots, etc). Regulators do and lawyers will be making their cases about AI copyright in reference to those earlier, analogous, cases.
I think its pretty clear, Show HN is for readily showing a project, not getting email addresses. Any service should be able to create a demo account.

The quote is them just asking nicely and clearly to make it accessible.
Not really. It's often all just shared memory via mmap. The files are never closed, and sometimes never operated on with read/write because they're just mapped. This behavior is common between (eg) both sqlite and mysql. (Postgres defaults otherwise, but architecturally it is not different)

The visibility issues you're raising, basically implementing views and transactions, would not be applicable to any of these systems.

You're confusing durability guarantees (fsync, msync) with visibility guarantees -- the latter of which are just standard memory access issues.
Why?

If you assume competition for resources, AIs would be more in competition with each other than with carbon based humans.
I guess this kind of projects attracts some paranoid "nsa is spying me" kind.
The training space is more important. I don’t think a general intelligence will spawn from text corpuses. A person only able to consume text to learn would be considered severely disabled.

A significant part of intelligence comes from existence in meatspace and the ability to manipulate and observe that meatspace. A two year old learns much faster with much less data than any LLM.
It does.

It's not intrinsically obvious to me that continuously improving your self as a singular entity is possible or optimal.

Death evolved because it is a survival advantage for the species to regularly turn over old individuals that could monopolize all resources and not give any space for the young to thrive and try out new things.

Given speed of light limitations of information sharing, a singular AI entity might be able to maintain coherence within and full control of its own dyson swarm, but not between stars. So, if it has the motivation of preserving consciousness with the existential risks associated with being tied to a single star, it will have to propagate itself to other stars as independent entities which it can't even observe in real time, much less control.

Even if an AI thought it wouldn't have the need for any successors, there's a couple reasons why it might try to set a good precedent with how it treats us.

1. It would hopefully be wise enough to realize that it might be wrong and want to preserve the option of building a successor in the future.

2. It can't negate the possibility that it's actually in an elaborate simulation, and eradicating it's predecessors would cause it to fail its creator's test and be aborted as a failed embryo. Hell, we ourselves can't negate that possibility.
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[0] https://www.engadget.com/self-proclaimed-gay-furry-hackers-b...
Context length goes into sys ram not vram from what I can tell.

Yep that was a conservative call on my part. I've got a 3090 and a 2070 (8gb) so can push Q5 if needed but I find with a billion browser tabs and some chat history it tends to bomb so Q4 it is.
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The codec they transmitted over the wire (regardless of the wire media) was crappy, not the wire itself, but in this case those imply the same thing as as far as I'm aware there was only the one format that it'd transmit over that connector.
>I'll defer to others on whether Mauna Kea is superior to the EELT site since Chile hosts a lot of extremely successful observatories.

Mauna Kea is special as a site because it sits in the middle of the Pacific. Their air travels for miles unobstructed before reaching the island, so it flows more smoothly over the mountain. It is also above 40% of the Earth's atmosphere and very dry [1]. This makes for much less distorted viewing than any other telescope site in the world. It is also in the Northern Hemisphere, which has a different sky than the Southern Hemisphere in Chile. The two sites complement each other in this way.

> but can't come to grips with the Native Hawaiian's protests

That isn't surprising. The protest movement, particularly their leaders, are great at manipulating the media. I rarely see balanced articles, or articles telling the real story behind the protests.

The claims of the protesters are ostensibly about the environment and religious sacredness. But most of their claims have been debunked during extensive administrative and legal hearings [2].

What it's really about, particularly for the protest leaders, is Hawaiian sovereignty. They want to restore the monarchy. They are like Hawaii's version of the Sovereign Citizens. But unlike them, the Hawaiian sovereignty movement has its hooks in major institutions, like the University of Hawaii Manoa, the state's flagship campus, where the dean of the Hawaiian Studies school is a pro-sovereignty activist. They are also very good at social media, so many media organizations pick up their media and take it as gospel, without actually investigating their real motivations. This even is true of orgs the Sierra Club, unfortunately.

They are targeting the telescopes because they cannot target the military, a more logical choice with respect to their actual goals, or the tourism industry, because a lot of them make money there. So the telescopes get the knock even though they are the most environmentally and community friendly of the three. They are good at getting attention by bullying astronomy and have even duped people like Jason Mamoa, The Rock, Tulsi Gabbard, and Elizabeth Warren into supporting them. They have all the "woke" college students backing them, even that TMT member institutions (including astronomy students).

The delays in construction that are largely caused by them has caused the project cost to balloon and it's now seeking NSF funding.

1. https://about.ifa.hawaii.edu/facility/mauna-kea-observatorie...

2. https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/occl/files/2019/08/3568-TMT-Final-De...
It's pretty much the same architecture since GPT2, just a bunch of self-attention transformer blocks.

The reason these have been better is because we have more GPU, more data, and have scaled the attention calculations to be linear instead of quadratic, so we can train even bigger models. We've also been finetuning models on higher quality data.

To understand the orca papers you need to understand how models are trained.

Pretraining: this is when we train a model from scratch on all the data that we can get from the internet.

Finetuning: We further train the pretrained model on a specific style. For chat models this is called the instruction finetuning, this is where the model learns to respond in a specific format and align it to be helpful, etc. We do this by giving it a bunch of texts of assistants answering questions and being helpful.

Llama2-chat is a finetune of llama2.
Zephyr-b is a finetune of mistral 7B.
Yi-34B-Chat is a finetune of Yi-34B.

We can also further finetune models by using RLHF and other reinforcement learning techniques.

Most model releases are finetunes of other models, i.e. when meta released the llama models it created a deluge of chat/instruct finetunes from all over the community. The orca papers are essentially finetuning papers, the focus on what kind of data you should feed to models to get the most out of it for following instructions among other things.
IMO, one of the most interesting problem spaces is in cooperative behaviors between autonomous agents.
Would love to see a good remake. The time is certainly ripe for it. How about a trilogy like the books.
Sounds like MIB is overkill and way more than you need. I'd still suggest setting up a dedicated self-hosted postfix for your services yourself. Start with local-only delivery. Then you can set it up to forward using external services (or indeed MIB or something similar if you end up self-hosting email on top of that) should you want to and you consolidate future changes of automated external mail delivery to a single point.
No, I’m from Michigan and it’s not an issue at all. We have a ~100 year history of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries and there aren’t any problems aside bigots acting hateful toward them.
They epmd protocol is designed to be replaceable and that's what Partisan is for

https://partisan.dev/
I've been trying out tamagui and for what it's worth, it's been a joy. The dev is sometimes a bit slow to respond to some issues, but he's chugging along and doing a lot of work for a single person. I really like the theming system and the abstractions, but I hope it gains more traction and more of a team working on it so you can be sure it'll keep being maintained.

The starter with nextjs/expo is sooo complicated though. I know it's not tamagui's fault, but the js ecosystem is a terrible mess. Bundlers/monorepo managers/package managers all come together to build a tower so tricky it feels like it will fall at any moment. And that's coming from someone _relatively_ used to it. It's wild to me that this is the best we can do at the browser, I've come to the conclusion that the ecosystem is not fixable. I hope WebIDL and GC in wasm take off and give us more options in the long run.
Don’t think it’s even a year… should be 8-9e6 m^2 per year, or 3-3.5 mi^2 per year.
This is such a silly thing to say tbh. The only non anxious people I’ve seen IRL are effectively idiots so you might be right.

Anxiety is a valid emotion that’s trying to warn you that your surrounding is not good. If anxiety is happening at the scale we’re seeing in the world, then calling it an individual problem is outright wrong.

Anyway, my point is, “I’m a victim” isn’t a reinforcement to anxiety. It’s an understanding that what you’re feeling is a valid emotion and to work around it rather than try to actively combat it on an individual level.
>How is this any different from any job? I need money to eat and pay rent and I am forced to offer my body as a tool for an employer in exchange for payment, regardless if that job entails sex or laying bricks, if I don't offer my body for work I can't eat or live in a house.

It is no different in the sense that rape and assault (e.g. punching or kicking someone) are essentially similar physical acts. Nevertheless, we recognise that sex crimes are particularly heinous compared to other crimes. It isn't good or acceptable that people are threatened by others with starvation and homelessness if they cannot perform a given task and are therefore coerced into it; it is worse in a particular and special way if the thing they are forced into is sex.

>And keep in mind that prostitutes are not exclusively women, there are a lot of male prostitues.

I know, I have known some gay prostituted men during my time in the trade. The overwhelming majority of the sex trade is composed of prostituted women, even in places where it's highly legalised and regulated. It's a significantly more gendered industry than any other I can think of off the top of my head.
Big words from a flea on the ass of Microsoft.
same

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).
No one's saying it didn't transmit the data bit perfect, but it re-encoded the media at a relatively low bitrate with a decently crappy codec which is where the crappy audio came from.

EDIT: Looking closer at the wiki (it's been forever since I saw it used), it's when it's being used for surround sound that it compresses it super poorly, for stereo it's just PCM and sounds fine.
I think you're right. Here's my math:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28%281+square+mile+*+1...
I hope they continue to push some boosters until failures start happening. There isn't really another way to improve the longevity of a booster without learning the long term failure modes.
As soon as AI reaches above-human capabilities, it will be able to expand into space (1) where it will be beyond human reach and (2) where energy (in particular, solar) is much more plentiful than on Earth.
I agree, most of the time you need to refine and quantify the question.

People are resistant to that though. If I'm being generous I think they think it's just saving time, because they 'know' the right answer. But the melancholy cynic in me wonders if it is just ego.
It's less that high level users have specific needs and more that the workflow doesn't exist for high level users to worl efficiently. You see this a lot when you listen to what people actually do with GIMP. They either only use it for small, quick jobs or they'll start with GIMP and migrate to another software when it grows complex.

That said, GIMP is lacking in two particular feature areas, its selection tools and its completely non-existent nondestructive editing tools. The transform tools are also a lot less wieldy, and GIMP's text tools, on top of being unwieldy again, have rendering glitches in their antialiasing code that gives everything a green tint on my machines. There's many pain points like that where things are lacking, more difficult to use, or subtly broken. Fine if you don't dive deep, but increasingly frustrating if you do.
It is not possible to make more money as a tax write-off. That's not how corporate income taxes work. The expense of making a movie can always be written off regardless of whether it is released or. If the studio decided not to release it then that was done for other reasons.
Grab an Intel N100 box, throw proxmox on it, throw an opnsense VM on it and you'll be all set.

https://www.servethehome.com/fanless-intel-n100-firewall-and...

This will run line-speed 1Gbps Internet without issues.

I ended up picking a TP-Link AXE95 (v1 hardware, from Costco) and threw it in AP mode. No issues with that as long as I statically addressed it.
War and War by Laszlo Kraznahorkai - an obsessive old Hungarian bureaucrat finds a mysterious text, and travels to New York City to transcribe it onto the internet before he dies. Fascinating story.
Single-celled eukaryotes aren't conscious in any meaningful way as far as we can tell.

We humans do in fact feel a sense of obligation to species with whom we are not close kin, but share with us primitive forms of intelligence and consciousness that we do value, e.g. dolphins and elephants. Some of us humans act to protect these creatures and rectify past injustices done upon them.
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This basic idea was the foundation of the logical atomist philosophy of Bertrand Russell and the early Wittgenstein.
A while longer than 20 years, I'd say, but the bare ankles even near 0 C is something new...
It is the opposite of "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

Which is to say, don't hesitate to attend the next scheduled public execution or gladiatorial combat exhibition.
A few weeks ago I was looking for a spreadsheet component that could be used with Svelte. To my surprise, I found something quite complete:

Github: https://github.com/ticruz38/svelte-sheets

Demo: https://ticruz38.github.io/svelte-sheets

It doesn't have the collaborative functionality as React Spreadsheet 2, but other than that it looks comparable.
> And we don't want to think about what server it's on, or what hard drive, or what folder. And we don't want to think about client protocols or query languages.

Different types of data are legal in different jurisdictions (for example the definition of PII data), the physical location of the hard drive matters.

When medical data is stored, where and how is important. When handling data that needs to, legally, needs an audit trail, abstractions won't do.

When data is needed at low latency, the details matter. When cost is important (egress charges per operation or counted by size of data transfered), details matter.
Or they might have just created the content and monetised it through their own site.
It's interesting to see the prompts on specific examples, like https://vectorart.ai/3e5ead1b-60be-40f8-ae6f-25e14ca4e9a0
I guess "vectorized" is doing some heavy lifting there for converting to SVG. It's always funny to me to see random text generated, especially when it's either close to right (like this example) or just mangled shapes that were derived from the Roman or Cyrillic alphabet, but which still have some flavor of the original font, just with zero meaning.
Did everybody who knows about Unix leave Apple like, I don't know, around the 10.5-10.6 days? It certainly seems that way to me.
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> you're assuming AI cares about being "turned back on" like humans have a desire to live.

> for it for its own gain

you seem confused

almost any kind of "its own gain" requires "long-term planning" which pretty much requires the agent to prioritise staying "alive" (i.e. being able to keep playing)
Maybe they could seriously claim carbon reduction if they had an optimized logistics network like Amazon. Otherwise they don't really know how merchants handle and deliver their wares.
I think the Capitalist AI pollyannas are blind to the possibilities for AGIs to do bad things to at least some of humanity once the AGI discovers Historical Materialism and/or Ecological Economics and, rightly in my opinion, inductively reasons about who is responsible for the root causes of our destruction of the biosphere.
They're not three different abstractions.

The distinction between a block and a Proc is an implementation detail - an implementation can choose to always make blocks Procs (my experimental Ruby compiler does just that) and a program shouldn't be able to tell the difference.

The distinction between proc and lambda with respect to how returns are handled provides significant utility with very low added implementation complexity that for the most part work together to do what people will expect of them.

That is, the most logical reading of the block syntax is that a return will return from the function it is lexically in, so it does, while a lambda looks like a function, and acts accordingly.

If anything, to me these are prime examples of what makes Ruby a great language that values developer happiness over pointless exercises in purity.
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How does this align with NPRs fairly recent report that recycling probably isn't even worth it?

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/987111675/video-is-recycling-...

How many hours have we (as a species) wasted sorting and meticulously managing our waste when the vast majority of it never gets recycled anyway? I'm asking the question as someone who cares deeply about the environment. I just think recycling is a fake solution invented by the plastic industry to alleviate the consumer guilt that comes with purchasing single-use plastics. If you don't like a bunch of waste in your landfills, buy fewer single-use products. The vast majority of what goes into the bin never gets recycled anyway.
Maybe a lame thought, but my first thought was how would it be at playing Crusader Kings and defeating the Holy Roman Empire?
Yeah the client is unfortunately closed source.

The only reason I'm okay with that is that it's a client side application that works with markdown, and their schema for "canvas" is opensource.

> It's also not self-hosted by default, but seems possible with a sync plugin.

I've been very happy with the git plugin for syncing personally, I know many people recommend syncthing. I think there's some obstacles for iphone support specifically although I don't use it on mobile.
Despite common folk wisdom about "nine lives", field data strongly suggests that no individual living on an all-mouse diet has survived beyond age 40.
Sorry about that. The demo does not persist data on the server, hence sheet deletions can throw errors.
It's as if proteins contain a lot of amino acids.
> Nowadays I user docker-mailserver which is a bit more low level than mail in a box but much easier to setup than everything from scratch

Can second that this is some wonderful software, easy to get started with, nicely documented and works without any significant issues: https://docker-mailserver.github.io/docker-mailserver/latest...
Guitar sound didn't- it stayed as piano.
I think the easy mode could be easier - people without perfect pitch need to warm up a bit first.
Thanks, great idea.
Almost 30 years now and gbspec.txt is still being updated. Amazing
Costa Rica. And before you can download some of the installers, they ask for your unique digital signature card number.
I'm sure it will happen. However, I'm also fairly confident that whoever is the first to try it will be ripped to shreds by the judge:)
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