skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very poor argument. Laws and actions are good or bad based on their own merits and and not because of which parties support it or not. This link tax is a bad law. It's bad for the Internet. And thus it is also bad for Meta.

> And they have always pulled, aggregated and summarized news because it makes them money.

Not even accurate as news companies actively provide this content in their meta data explicitly for Meta to use. If they didn't want their content summarized they could stop it any time.
I can't think of a counterargument to the aphorism that good times produce weak men. Nobody knows the value of anything and counterproductive things are prioritised.

Sure, you could say that the counterexamples are just distributed away from politics, but that feels like haggling with the premise of the argument instead of disproving it.
US chattel slaves were forbidden by law to read because it made organizing/rebelling easier and more likely. There were a few exceptions for certain tasks (bookkeeping and the like). Of course punishment for literacy was exacted upon the slave, not the person who taught them.

It was not uncommon for Egyptian and Roman slaves (at least) to be literate (whether before enslavement or taught as slaves). For example, Greek tutors were in high demand.

It's hard to estimate what the literacy rate was; certainly it must have been much lower than in modern OECD countries. In Rome, unlike, say, Sparta, there were no schools; teaching was all done in the home, so if you were a plebian it's less likely you could read. OTOH the roman soldiers typically could read. And most of the surviving graffiti in Pompeii doesn't look aristocratic.

I think Rome probably had a literacy rate on par with contemporary Greece and Egypt; higher than contemporary China's and probably comparable to India a millennium earlier (inferred from the prevalence of public proclamations (e.g. Ashoka steele), compared to the more "aristocratic boasting" of Roman and ancient Egyptian monumental writing aimed more at fellow elite.
As someone with a spouse that works in homeless services, I can assure you that government agencies and everyone employed in them would love it if they could declare an immediate flawless victory where homelessness is entirely eradicated forever. There is no grand “homeless support” complex where people fear losing their jobs if the problem is resolved. These people would be working on the myriad of other social service problems we have instead after the homeless problem is resolved.
I'm using an AMD 6900XT with ROCm and it's fast enough ti be usable, for a fraction of the price of a 3090 or 4090.
I think what you mean is that in Buddhism there is no self beyond the self implied by your thinking mind. The nothingness you refer to is the eschewing of attachment to what isn’t and being simply what is. It doesn’t mean a void, it means that all existence is within the awareness, which isn’t directly observable and is constantly changing. As such, it’s effectively nothing - except it is literally all you are. Your past and memories are just crude encodings, the future is a delusion. Your self identity has almost nothing to do with who you actually are right now. Your dissatisfaction with your situation isn’t meaningfully different from your delight in some experience - they’re both transient, and are just experiences of the present. You can avoid unpleasantness, and enjoy pleasure, but holding onto and seeking or avoiding entangles your awareness in what isn’t to the determinant of what is. As you continue releasing the various attachments and let the awareness take hold, and actions come naturally without thought or attachment, you cease suffering and cease causing suffering.

But to my understanding the idea of nothingness being some objective in Buddhism isn’t the case - but it’s often described as such because that state of pure awareness without encumbering thought and attachment in many ways to an unpracticed person feels like nothingness. After all, the awareness is silent, even if it is where all thought and feeling spring from.

Finally, awareness isn’t that moment you snap back to thought. You’re always aware. We just tend to be primarily aware of our thoughts and emotions. We walk around in a haze of the past and future and fiction as the world ticks by around us, and we tend to live in what isn’t rather than what is. You don’t disappear in the sense that you cease to be as an individual mind, you are always yourself - that’s a tautology. What you lose is the sense of some identity that’s separate from what you ARE in this very moment. You aren’t a programmer, you aren’t a Democrat, you aren’t a XYZ. You are what you are, and what that is changes constantly, so can’t be singularly defined or held onto as some consistent thing over time with labels and structure. You just simply are.
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Amethyst[0] has options for screen padding.

[0]: https://ianyh.com/amethyst/
I was having a drunken discussion with the philosophy lecturer a few weeks back. He was making a very similar point. I kept saying it does it really matter? Lacking a theory of mind and deep insights describes 90% of all perfectly normal people. And perhaps training will be able to "fake it" (he went off on bold tangents about the definitions of this and that), or the language model will be an adjunct to some other model which does have these insights encoded or deducible, much like the human mind does. He wasn't convinced and I was too drunk. But it was basically feeling like: You can't feed carrots to a car like you can a horse, therefore cars are worthless.
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"They've been lying for years" is hardly a defence. In most countries this kind of pricing nonsense is illegal.
I wish content creators would just briefly mention that sponsor links are in the video info and not spend minutes talking about it. I just double-tap-right/skip over that and it only serves to make me annoyed. I would actually be much more likely to at least glance at a written list of sponsors and info for a video that I liked.
> insights are already as deep (actually more deep) as I get from most humans I ask for help

This was my thought as well. But then I figured if I can't get someone to give me thoughtful feedback, I might have bigger problems to solve.
BTW, I've always thought Python uses way too many syscalls when working with files. Simple code like this uses something like 9 syscalls (shown in the article):

with open('myfile') as f:
data = f.read()

I'm not much of a C programmer myself. but I at least reported part of the issue to Python: https://bugs.python.org/issue45944

This is the fastest way to read a file on python that I've found, using only 3-4 syscalls (though os.fstat() doesn't work for some special files kernel files like those in /proc/ and /dev/):

def read_file(path: str, size=-1) -> bytes:
fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY)
try:
if size == -1:
size = os.fstat(fd).st_size
return os.read(fd, size)
finally:
os.close(fd)
>We wanted to be able to keep a closer eye on what she was doing without breaking her trust

>so we installed a hidden camera inside the eye of the stuffed bear.

Oh so you just don't understand what words mean.

If you are trying to trust your child, that usually means taking the risk that your child is a shit heal or utterly stupid and does something wrong or bad. If they reach out to you for help with such bad things, even better!
> There needs to be a circle of hell for those who screw over other people when they insist that "perfect" gets in the way of "good enough to be a first step."

"Tiny homes" do not solve the particular strain of homelessness that is most visible and are likely to make people angry about funding any real solution in the future. In addition, if you solve the most visible homeless, you reduce pressure on the homeless support systems, and the invisible homeless have a much easier time of it.

Almost 3/4 of the homeless have fairly significant medical issues. You need a free medical facility for them--nothing short of that is going to help. A medical facility for the homeless is expensive, or it devolves into a dystopian nightmare.

The reality is that we know what a lot of the homeless need. We know it is expensive. We choose not to fund or create it because the status quo is so much cheaper.
I too would also love maintaining servers where the time changes according to some convoluted approach that no one really understands.

Sec becomes really, really easy. No one can access it at all!
Lem's vision of future was consistently, impressively prescient. He would've described himself as a "futurologist", not a science-fiction writer. His stories most often used technology as a backdrop to explore the social fabric and various interplays between characters - but at the same time, as relevant context, crucial to the story. He really struck a balance that few have.

One of my favourite books of his is "Peace on Earth", but really, anything he wrote is a fascinating read (perhaps with the exception of his final works, which tend to be dense and veering into the academic). I remember reading "Fables for Robots" as a kid, what a fascinating world he painted!
It’s huge, weighs three tons, has the acceleration of a supersport, has only sharp edges. Like your usual US truck, but somehow even more asocial. If this was construction equipment or any other kind of machinery, you’d need so much training and insurance to just be allowed to touch it.
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With Spotify Wrapped, it identified genres for me that I'd never heard of. A quick search found this site which will analyze your Spotify lists more deeply and make recommendations and new playlists.
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Yeah, perhaps I should have said MSDOS. But even still, I think perhaps your rose-colored hindsight is probably miscoloring your memory. The initial releases of Windows was a nightmare, with Bill's mom consoling him after a particularly disasterous demo, and if it wasn't on the back of the brilliant--or lucky--marketing maneuverings that cemented MSDOS as the preeminent PC OS at the time, I firmly believe that Windows would not have become the preeminent desktop OS powerhouse that it is today.

In fact, I think that behind the scenes of the ominous MS investment in Apple (with the whole big-brotheresque Bill Gates appearance) there was an explicit--business, not technical--agreement between Gates and Jobs that Apple would not venture out of their own hardware, specifically to allow Windows to continue its PC dominance.
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Agree. NK is classic proxy country, not independent. To be more strict, their behavior is shown in good film.
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You can always start ramping up by doing side projects or prototypes with Godot while keeping your main on Unity.

The day is coming when Godot will get its own AAA rendering implementations, and people will migrate en masse.
Yeah that's true, and I do believe there's a good chance our minds are perpetually adding tokens. But our minds also have an efficient/effective way of dealing with the context cut off. We don't have (or we don't experience) a hard cut off of our memory context. Instead the tokens are increasingly lossily compressed as they age out of our memory, the lossiness amount being based both on time passed but also on some fancy value function. And that combined with a "system" (or trained/fine-tuned in) prompt that motivates the LLM to reason in a way that is conducive to working with that kind of memory would be a sort of single-shot AGI system. Where single-shot is lying a bit because it's just infinitely looping.

I guess from that perspective it might make sense to test if such a thing is already happening in current LLM's and my dismissive attitude stems from the fact that I've played with them enough to know that they currently don't.
The multi-line console editor is already on stable for me, at least. It's quite good; definitely recommend trying it out.
I would say the tech is the easy part. The most difficult part is getting customers.
The real human element that I've observed, having been both in management and as an IC, and more broadly from research I've done as a whole, is that ENG is often the profit driver but has the least amount of say in their own workload.

I think this is where the tension comes from in the lasting, I'm still complaining about 20 years later sorta thing. Once you realize the value you are delivering to the company, naturally, you start to want to have some more say over the value chain, I think this is innante to human behavior, but there is alot of gates between ENG and the rest of the org, most of the time, from what I've observed.

Look at, for example, how "Agile" is implemented at a company. It focuses on ENG having to address stakeholders, without really saying that ENG should be its own stakeholder too. With SCRUM and other systems, the emphasis tends to be on outside stakeholders and what they want, rather than bringing ENG to parity with other stakeholders so everyone has more equal input on the work streams - which ultimately, when this is actually done, prevents more problems than it creates, nearly every time - yet you can feel the resistance in most orgs to giving ENG a full table stake
In fairness Firefox for android got essentially a full re-write so it wasn't JUST add-on support that was changing
> capital doesn't have as much power in the new info-WFH-open source economy

Seriously? 30% of the population believes whateber chatgt-bot tells them is true on twitter

> Stop waiting on government regulators for action

I think the key is that there is likely to be violence. Look at how clinate protesters are treated.
Or rather 30 different people on 30 different topics
Because it's basically free webhosting and you don't need to manage registering a domain?

I don't know for sure, but that's my guess. You could achieve something similar with S3, but you need a credit card attached, and then you need to worry about whose credit card, and what if it gets unexpected traffic and who will pay...

You could use Google Sites as well, but then you need to buy a domain, which again means requiring a credit card, and whose responsibility is it to pay and for how many years?

I don't think it's mostly about the cost, I think it's mostly about just not having to link a credit card?
Sure, but you'd likely fare better being hit by a Cybertruck than an F-150 or a Ranger or a large SUV.
Do you routinely download unsigned binaries of unprovable provenance and run them? Because if you do, you might eventually find reason to appreciate the additional isolation that namespaces et al give you very conveniently via Docker (or your favorite alternative).
TSA procedures seem random to me. I flew on a Friday and was groped over my clothes at the checkpoint (hands feeling my crotch). I flew back on Monday morning, with the same clothes and same carry-on with the same contents and was not patted down at all. (I am male FWIW.) Facial recognition in return for not being groped would be ok with me.
It's odd to read the story of an adult who believes they're a poor reader, still to this day apparently, because of what happened to them 30 years ago. Odder still that the article leaves itself the only conclusion of going all the way back to grade school and trying an entirely different strategy and hoping that just "works out" in the end.

The lack of "continuing education" in the era of the internet is baffling to me.
I moved to kiwi as well. Same reasons.
Interesting point re: technique vs structure. Structure is in general a much harder aspect to both master and innovate in.

I am curious, why do you consider Glass a more innovative composer than, say, Reich? Reich's counterpoint and phase music seem to have pushed music forward more noticeably than Glass (outside of, perhaps, Einstein on the Beach).
Lucidrains also created the much-missed EpicMafia, which still doesn’t have a good replacement after shutting down. Exceptionally skilled person!
> Unfortunately, the "browser", for lack of a better term... sucks.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I've been using Firefox and Firefox Focus for years and if anything it's always been fast and ultra reliable.
I'm good for a 30 minute shift either way if we can forever stop talking about this.

I really like the extra hour of sunshine in the Summer time, I would miss it.

And to think this proposal would even take away an extra hour on top of that... Yikes.
One example - a local model (Mistral 7B OpenChat 3.5, which ranks high in my benchmarks) was generating additional search keywords for products at online marketplace. A second run of the model was cleaning up bad keywords.

The fun part here - ChatGPT-4 reviewed some user searches, product details and comments of marketing department. Then it generated condensed tutorials on writing good keywords for the products in this system (keywords have to cover unexpected search terms that people would use when searching for a product).

The tutorial was supposed to be for the "junior marketing assistant", but in reality it was fed to Mistral 7B.

The second pass was done similarly. "Hey, ChatGPT, these are some sample keywords that are produced by junior marketing assistant according to your tutorial. Review them and write a short guide on correcting most common problems".

It works nicely.

Other cases of local models that work good - custom embeddings (multi-lingual, mapped to the same vector space), custom TTS, custom STT. These are mostly used for specialised personal assistants.
AGreed, not saying either/or on the tiny homes, just why they don't happen naturally without some group trying to make them happen.

As for SFHs in the surburbs, there are alot more variables to take into account, especially where do people esp families geniunly want to live. I don't see cities and families co-existing.

the strongtowns website gives me strong "you will own nothing and be happy" vibes anytime they come across my feed.
> Mozilla decided they didn't want to provide what I want when they blacklisted most addons and required their wierd signing requirements, so I simply switched to a browser that does.

You're free, of course, to be a patron of whatever software you want. However, they only instituted "weird" signing requirements to help dramatically slow down or stop the influx of addons that were maliciously changing browser settings among other hazards. If that doesn't sound like some good utility to you, then I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. Online security has never been a priority for a large subset of internet users.
By that logic the person with that domain knowledge can partner with technical folks for less than 50% equity. Which is what normally happens in my experience
Can you not create an add-on collection to install arbitrary extensions anymore?
Thanks for link - it sounds like you had some good non-CRUD experience to be able to discuss that intelligently with him.

Honestly I wish I could find a place to work where I felt like I was friends with people there. I've never had a coworker that was a friend :( But I also work at pretty small companies and they've tended to not have great culture. I'd take a $100k coding job there
Not everyone controls their schedule.
> we could embody an AI

... a hardware interface that generates a token stream from a living human's body would seem to enable this at some level.

Not sure how it would work at scale. Maybe something much simpler like phones with built-in VOC sensors that can detect nuances of the user's perspiration, combined with real time emotion sensing via gait, voice, along with metadata that is already available would be sufficient to produce such a token stream... who knows.
To get into this analogy: this doesn't mean cars are worthless; it just means they're a poor approximation of a horse. Maybe you don't want to approximate a horse. But, if you do want to approximate a horse, don't try to do it with a car.

Similarly, if you want to approximate a human, an LLM may be the best we can do right now, but it's hardly a good approximation.
Nix the language is OK if it is all in one file.

How files all each other and the parameters is odd. You call a function with two parameters but the file starts with many
Sure, this is possible, but without any precedent for this, from her, I suspect you might want to sharpen your Occam's razor, or just step closer to it when you shave.
The biggest business gap seems to be assuming other people won't screw you over, given enough money on the table and the opportunity.

I assume most MBAs already know this.

Lots of technical people learn the hard way.
Just wanted to share, the charts and gifs are exceptionally well done. Informative, concise, and easy to read.
> Where are people's critical thinking skills?

When there are nations working on manipulating people, with presumably significant budgets, you can't really fault people for getting fooled occasionally.
Look this is the only time I'll engage in this sort of discussion on HN[1], but first Donald Knuth is a real Human and it's extremely weird to position world class experts as something otherworldly. Second, suppose you got what you wished for (you used the "us" pronoun), is that not a sentient mind that you're forcing to do your labour? Does that not raise a ton of red flags in your ethics?

[1] normally I find HN discussions about what if chatGPT is human or "humans are just autocompletes" to be highschool-level scifi and cringe respectively
I mean opensource is nice, but that's not actually going to make healthcare safer.

Whatever flavour of AI needs to be deterministic, which llama, et al are not. even if you turn the temperature right down.

As others have pointed out, its the training set that actually makes a model behave, hence why models are freely given away by large companies.
I wonder if they checked for exploit code in the image the they likely originally found somewhere on Google.
Yeah - if anyone needs patent protection, it’s the little guy. Perhaps there should be some restriction on the patent applications from large corporations.
I am a car enthusiast (although not one who could afford either a 911 nor a Cybertruck) but respectfully, who cares about quarter mile times? Most car people I know want a car with some poke, but care much more about how it handles twisties (and how much fun it is doing so). And I'd bet my bottom dollar the 911 would beat the refrigerator-looking truck all day long.
It would be nice to redraw the 4096x4096 graphic using only 512x512 big "pixels" that contain the information of 8x8 points, so the bad points are more visible. Perhaps in each 8x8 "pixel" take the average of the 64 poins, or take the maximum (I don't know which version would create more nice graphics, probably the maximum, because interesting poinst are very sparse.)
I think it depends very much on the domain. LLMs are good at certain things and bad at others and these strengths and weaknesses are different from humans. The trick is to figure out how good they are at certain tasks and where it's a benefit to use them.

For example, in many situations it's much harder to have a good idea/solution than to check any single solution and see if it really works. A lot of the time you don't necessarily need trust-worthiness. On the other had, of course LLMs will improve and get more trustworthy (and we will learn what to expect from them, which will make them seem even more trustworthy). I don't pretend to know how fast or big improvements will be...
I'm relying on Amnesty International's evaluation of the situation and not taking Netanyahu's propaganda at face value, since he is a known liar and is disingenuous in virtually everything he says.
This will make mozillateam's repo preferred over default "snapified":

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/firefox-ppa-pin-400
Package: \*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 900