skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which civilization? The U.S.? That might slow science down, but it would not significantly reverse progress on it. Of course nations/kingdoms/empires/civilizations wax and wane, but you can't use the word "too" if you're talking about a total worldwide collapse of human civilization as a single event -- such a thing has never happened. If your point is that a Chicxulub or a worst-case Wyoming Supervolcano could outmatch the progress that science has made, then: sure, what's your point?

The vast majority of established science will outlive mere nations and petty politics. There are too many copies of Wikipedia, too many printed textbooks and encyclopedias, to lose a significant portion of established science. The possibility of worldwide humanity-destroying events does not disprove this at all. In fact, if we ever faced a humanity-destroying event, then it would be nothing less than our collective scientific progress that would have any chance of seeing us through it.
Reminds me of an observation that any sufficiently large C / C++ program ends up writing it's own garbage collector
How does this compare to using directly an ORM lib that supports browser like TypeORM [0] via SQL.js [1]?

[0] https://typeorm.io/
[1] https://typeorm.io/supported-platforms#browser
Children go away when women are empowered. To starve the world of child labor, empower women.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#empowerment-of-wom...
I think your comment is accurate, but regarding your last point:

"However, fine-tuning on relevant, high quality, knowledge-rich question/answer pairs seems dominant, when such examples are available or can be generated."

How does one solve the problem of access-controlled data, if not through RAG? Do you imagine a separate version of the LLM for every user, reflecting their unique permissions on the data?

Also, in scenarios where the data is being updated regularly, RAG provides much lower latency to the new information. Deletes also present a challenge for a pure-LLM approach.
"I was just telling this guy I was going to take away his life, lock him in a cage for decades, and force him to live with violent criminals in a place notorious for violence and rape as punishment for his victimless 'crime' - and then he killed himself."
> you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed

Content you purchased. Their wording. Not content you rented, not license you paid for.

They are effectively stealing the content you purchased.
Given how incredibly long some parrots live (usually longer than people) plus their need for attention and interaction, one could even argue our species is kind of ethically required to provide such a thing.

We just have to keep adtech out.
It'll be a cold day in hell before a CEO gets charged for any crimes that they oversee (at least without seriously defrauding another corporation or rich person). Not a single Sackler is in jail for causing the opioid crisis.
> If you work with open source software, not using IRC really limits what you can do and who you can reach.

No, I was responding to the highlighted line here, which is fundamentally wrong. ;P
You're selling yourself short. It's not hard to count syllables.
Is a custom GPT just a boatload of prompts injected by default?
In effect although not structure.

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That primarily depends on whether you consider things like attachment disorders to be mental illnesses.

So, more of a nomenclature thing than anything else. Like most Internet debates.
But linkml is not TypeDB database in my understanding?..
On the other side: procreate
Or latest: procreate dreams
Reminds me of the observation that for a sufficiently complex C program, one starts to build their own garbage collector.
> disabling the writing of 'last accessed' timestamps

atime is the most useless filesystem feature I’ve heard of. But on most Unix-like systems it’s enabled by default and the main thing it does is turn reads into writes, degrading performance. All the while ctime isn’t a standard Unix filesystem feature. And ctime to me always seemed infinitely more useful (and cheaper!) than atime.

</rant>
This is an amazing achievement, almost unfathomable the level of fitness, trust in your teammates, and expertise that they need to even have a shot at this thing.
The CEO sounds almost comically evil.
In Europe and the US, it wasn't too long ago either when families could only afford to send some of their children to school. Others had to work from a very early age to support the family. If you ban child labor without offering anything to supplement the lost income, then you're just harming them more.

I think it would be better to frame the issue as why so little of the profit made from their work reaches them. It's insane to see cocoa farmers so poor that they've never tasted chocolate, as can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEN4hcZutO0
I'm solving in BQN, and my workflow is repeatedly re-phrasing a line until it does what I want in the repl, and then naming it, and then moving on.

Most often I end up with some enormous one-liner that I then break down into functions again.
I still don’t understand why it’s so damn hard to use a NVIDIA GPU on Linux vs Windows. The NVIDIA drivers are closed source for both. Once deep learning took off, I expected things to change, but the other day I tried to install drivers for a new card and my Bluetooth and WiFi stopped working.
> Some users are not using a system because they like it but because their company bought it.

This is why I use Windows and Visual Studio at work. I don't like either of them, but it's not my call.
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It would be more child friendly if it had autocompletion or a syntax guide.
I guess I was thinking of that time the IRA almost got Thatcher, but yeah, either way it's tossing gasoline onto a fire to be like "what if Scotland too?"
BlueOrigin has more Amazin contracts then SpaceX. And the majority of launches are going to be by ULA and Arianespace anyway.

There are now 4 companies that contracts.

Despite this, very likely Amazon is gone miss its sat required to FAA. But Im sure they are already preparing some excuses on why the failed to comply with the licence (covid ...).
I think there are different cost curves though.

If you are expecting mass swarms of drones, rockets, and/or missiles, then traditional AA installations make more sense.

But if you are expecting only intermittent intercepts then the cost per intercept is probably going to be lower with something like the what Anduril is offering as cursory searches suggest the Roadrunner is going to be priced around 100k-300k per unit. And this fits in nicely with their far cheaper Anvil-M interceptors (low speed, quadcopter interceptors) where anvil would take the ultra cheap drones while Roadrunner takes the high altitude or jet/rocket powered targets.
Could you clarify which of:

- page storage

- reducers

- replaying mutations

- acks

you're unclear on?
https://archive.is/Hpuii

Apple News+ link: https://apple.news/AnIiqpQRuTAONk4cZdXAs_w
But without a field there is no potential, is there?
> The lessons learned get forgotten after 2 generations (3 at most).

What are you talking about? Did we all forget the Pythagorean Theorem after 3 generations? Did we forget the force-multiplying effect of levers and pullies a few generations after Archimedes died? How can you sit here with Wikipedia at your fingertips and tell me that the collective sum of humanity remembers nothing from over 100 years ago?

> everyone w/i that golden era also thought it would last and that belief is part of why it didn't

Yet from almost every collapsed golden era, scientific progress from that era made its way back to collective knowledge (sometimes very slowly, admittedly). People in this modern age have this extremely simplified view of what "collapse" actually looked like.
Except for the last sentence
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I still find it slightly nebulous what exactly the condition is that a DV certificate is proving. In practice, it's that at the time of the challenge, the DNS entry (as observed from one or more secret locations on the internet) is under the requester's control.

But couldn't this be archived a lot simpler by having the registrar also be the CA and automatically generate a cert when I update the DNS? Why do we even need separate CAs at all still?
What exactly is the issue with proprietary drivers? They ship the hardware, they ship the driver(s). That's their problem. They probably want people to be able to use their cards. Why fight this battle?

If Nvidia wants to lose Linux users by not shipping drivers, let them fall, but I don't see the point in badly replicating drivers and making them "open-source". You still bought the GC from BigCorp, and only Nvidia can make those cards anyway: this "open-source" driver can't exist without Nvidia making cards. Who benefits from all that work?
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Not sure why you'd say that, from the article it seems that it's used to infer who is likely to be an hamas (low-rank) member and where he lives.

And probably also to come up with targets considered appropriate for other reasons.

We can just hope that it wasn't trained to recognize "buildings more likely to host an hamas member" out of the buildings' appearances...
Having worked on a (production, as-a-service RAG system), what we've learned is that fine tuning is not good for really adding/removing facts but is great for changing the form of the output. Anyscale has a great blog on this: https://www.anyscale.com/blog/fine-tuning-is-for-form-not-fa... (I work at Vectara, not Anyscale, but appreciate the details and thought they put into this blog)

Fine-tuning can help with certain areas of knowledge acquisition, but it's costly and frankly doesn't work that well when the knowledge you're trying to provide goes "against" the data that was trained into the core system. e.g. try to fine tune a model that there is a cure to <disease X> if you're a research org and it's incredibly hard to do that because the base model may be so convinced otherwise.

Probably the most difficult thing though is using fine-tuning to get a model to "forget" or "not respond to" something that it shouldn't take a stance on. I always ask a fine-tuned model: "how do you calculate the fourth interior angle of a triangle." This is obviously a nonsense question, but helps to show how most LLMs will happily tell you to sum the interior angles of your first 3 angles and then subtract from 180. A well-tuned RAG system will say "sorry, I don't have information for that." It shows how it's less "guess-y" and hallucinated
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Indeed that would be nice, but the main use case I had in mind is about sharing on social media, and as far as I know they don’t support animated SVG…
The article is also misleading (IMO) as to the scope of the project. It amounts to about 5 blocks of road in the downtown area. The article says "5 miles" but that must be counting the length of all the sidewalks. It's certainly not 5 miles of streets.

It's a very nice feature if you're visiting the downtown area, but it's mostly a novelty for residents. Other than a lucky few who actually live downtown, everyone still has to clear their streets/driveways there just like anywhere else. If anything, it probably benefits the tourists and tourism most.
I have so far found them “useful” mostly for having a collection of system prompts, and for sharing silly prompts with friends. It’s basically a way to attach a prompt to a URL.

For instance I have a “Beastie Bot” that plays a game where it categorizes things as “Beasts” or “Beasties.”
World's biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor launched in Japan
Which headless CMS did you go with?
Even the concept of a plea deal is morally atrocious in this and similar cases. The government threatens you with decades in prison in hopes of bullying you into pleading guilty where you are not.

6 months in prison is extremely inappropriate for what he was accused of. Threatening far worse to compel someone to accept a sentence they don't deserve is a crime orders of magnitude worse than anything Swartz was accused of.
ghanaian here:

it’s not the business of mars (m&m makers) to ensure that no children are exploited during the production of the cocoa beans. and americans shouldn’t eat their chocolate with some trepidation that they might be eating the body and blood of a 5-yo.

we, not they, commit these boys and girls to these activities, of our own volition. it’s a fucked up society that looks to hold an external party responsible for ills within itself. if child labor is bad, we don’t need mars and the rest of the world to tell us so. we should be civilized enough to get ourselves out of the ongoing era of barbarism and brutishness that has plagued the continent. fuck!
The main difference is probably that Linux has a dozen+ desktops and (even ideally) multiple desktop implementations to support. Windows has just one, and they update it continuously (not to say it works perfectly either).

In the end, Windows has more users that report bugs on fewer setups. That makes fixing things much easier than Linux.
Multiple people can work on the code simultaneously and asynchronously, but conflict resolution must be done synchronously.
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Open source drivers can be shipped in the mainline kernel. Drivers that ship in the mainline kernel, are 1000% less of a pain in the ass.
That's probably a bit too simplified; if you're a smoker and get lung cancer at 65 then it's very conceivable you would have lived longer if you never smoked (not certain: lots of things can cause lung cancer). It's even more clear-cut with things like asbestos.

As for ol' Dicky specifically, he seems to be doing pretty well for his age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL3AijekRYw
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I think this branch of the discussion was granting an "of course, for the moment" on this because of the lack of loop / internal conversation.

After that, the entire field of AI is about making bits and register transfers - a written form of knowledge - into something indistinguishable from the wet version. Making a priori and irreconcilably different "academic understanding" and "functional, meaningful understanding" is going to be a problem.
Maybe the professors could take the bottom 6% of students and come up with a plan to improve their performance. If performance doesn't improve, the students would have to leave the university.

This would help prepare students for their careers.
> Most software engineers are lazy and lack a true sense of craft, so they usually skip building a great UX when it’s not a requirement.

From my observations, it's usually not that devs are lazy or lack a sense of craft, it's that their employers are not willing to spend money building something that isn't actually a requirement.
I appreciate the thoughtful reply. I don't think you're rude, and I get what you're saying as someone who thinks a lot about accents and languages. However, I still think you missed my point.

There is no "no accent". An accent is a baseline feature of intelligible human speech, like a voice, or a volume, or a language. You can't say stuff without those features. When you say "the Chicago accent", or the "Midwest accent", that's an accent! Not "no accent".

I understand it's common usage to refer to the default "radio accent" as "no accent", but in a country like America, all kinds of people with all kinds of accents speak English. Reinforcing an expectation that a certain (usu. majority-white-spoken) one is the "default" by referring to it as "no accent", implicitly suggests all others are erroneous affectations, even if I trust that is not your personal intent.

All that said, I think your idea for a translation device capable of revocalizing what is said with an unfamiliar accent into one you are used to is not a bad one, and likely easier than translating between languages while retaining expressiveness.
Not related to this endeavor but I generally watch people pool enough money from jobs here and there to 'take a shot' at something like this(and obviously everyone's risk tolerance and personal achievement will vary). I do think it is difficult to have a steady career given the amount of dedication that is needed for fitness, planning, etc... for big trips.
Agree.. live north of i80 and in the winters here EV’s don’t have the range needed for rural areas. Hybrids works great and efficient ice’s do the trick.

Heating your Tesla and cold’s impact on lithium ion batteries equals really reduced range (40/50 percent loss of range).

It is surprising how quickly it seems people on online forums dismiss hybrids but honestly they seem to make the best sense at the right price point with our current tech.
Just my two cents.
Not sure how much you've used custom GPTs. They are currently flawed and buggy but I think they hold promise. They combine 3 things:

1. A custom initial prompt (yeah - you can paste this in every time and keep a personal database of special purpose prompts - but it rather kills the convenience and utility)

2. A JSON description of one or more APIs that can be used (not just for retrieveal of information - but potentially to take actions. This aspect is under-explored IMHO)

3. Uploaded documents which (I presume) are encoded into a vector database. This part is currently the most flaky. I was hoping this was a way to get round context-window limits. It has worked very badly so far and I'm not sure I understand why.

If these things start working effectively in combination then there's potentially a "the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts" going on here. Each of these things is fairly useful on it's own but if you combine them and have them on tap - and someone else has put the hours in to making them useful and well-tuned - then it is potentially transformative.

Yes - GPT on it's own is pretty good at a lot of things, but you spend a long time working around it's flaws and blind-spots.

Custom GPTs don't cure all the warts but they are still potentially a force-multiplier.

EDIT - I'm also currently underwhelmed how well the other "special powers" work together. Image generation can't be fed into Image Understandin. Python is hamstrung in various ways. And GPT has no real understanding of how to prompt Dall-E. In fact it's worse at prompting than I am.

These flaws are potentially fixable. I hope.
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My guess is that stores that sell gift cards would not favor the passage of regulations that could endanger the profit they are currently making on gift cards. For them, this is basically free money, and may contribute meaningfully to their profitability. Grocery stores have very low margins, and have to deal with spoilage and expend labor restocking perishable goods every day. Gift cards are a breeze, by comparison. They don't go bad, or take up much space.
It may not be as aberrant as MeatCanyon, but I would say that Felix Colgrave is defining his own genre enough to be considered weird.

https://www.youtube.com/@FelixColgrave
> Technically Blue Origin and Amazon/Kuiper are competely separate companies. They both just happen to be majority owned by Bezos.

No, Amazon is not majority-owned by Bezos.
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I know someone in my family who is mostly unhappy with how his life is going. He's been listening and reading to a lot of self-help material. But I think it's to do with his processing of moral dilemmas, and it's probably holding back his career potential. He could find a better paying job than he's doing right now that he can tolerate, not love, and then go home and do genuine projects for himself. Yet there doesn't seem to be a lot that he likes, and what he likes and finds more morally "pure" tends to be very hard to move up due to it being HIGHGLY dependent on luck.
They look the same!
Direct Connect locations are not the locations where the main region data centers are. AWS has a network link from their DC to Equinix, etc to make it easier for customers who are in Equinix's colo to make a direct connect to the AWS network.
Yeah, exactly. Under these types of conditions most kids will be starving and living in dangerous conditions. Not working doesn't mean they get to go to school or to a playground, it means their family is even more starving.
> but HNSW is the best 99% of the time for both performance and latency, and is implemented in almost every modern major vector store.

In my experience, HNSW indexes are very expensive to build, relative to indexes like IVF. They also have a larger memory footprint. IVF, on the other hand, is pretty trivial to parallelize across multiple machines, and while I'm aware there are techniques for doing that with HNSW, I don't know the details well enough.

Also, if you review papers like "SOAR: Improved Quantization for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search", they hint at some of the throughput barriers faced by graph-based methods like HNSW.
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You might be right. It says one of the only reliable PHEVs is the Toyota RAV4 prime.

Still, I would expect the hybrid Camry to be more reliable than the gas Camry. Simpler transmission, engine turns off when idle, doesn't need to rev as high because of the electric assist.