skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SVM, linear regression, naive Bayes

When I studied ML in 2012, the very first course started with naive Bayes and went one from there. A decade after being away, I see a lot of people around me starting with neural nets to train a model that naive Bayes would be plenty enough for and never heard about naive Bayes. Is that only my experience?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawks_Nest_Tunnel_disaster

"The Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster was a large-scale incident of occupational lung disease as the result of the construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel"
We have for example banned CFCs which are entirely harmless if used properly in properly and fully maintained equipment with proper capturing at end of lifetime...

That did not happen, so we banned them. I see no reason that we could not replace engineered stone with multiple other things.
Dead Man's Switch Using Git and Telegram
How I built a simple Dead Man's Switch using Git/GitHub and Telegram
Installed this, and it didn't let me do anything. Despite the fact the readme says stuff runs locally, first it asked me to link to my github account, and then all models required me to ask someone (I think meta?) for permission on github or use a huggingface token or whatever.

So I uninstalled it and now my wsl prompt starts with (base) and I don't know how to disable it and all my python scripts are broken because they can't find all the libraries I've installed from pip throughout the years.

0/10 would not recommend.
In non-capitalism as well. Except then the perpetrators are less likely to go to jail, as they're probably the ones in power.
When you're learning something for the first time, it can be hard to know what mental model you need to have to be effective with the tool.

Some documentation is reference material. With reference material you might navigate the reference material in a particular traversal to get what you need to do what you want.

How do I know some fact is important in reference material? The documentation for Git, Emacs or GCC is large and it is not immediately obvious what information is important, yet.

But at the beginning of your journey, you need to be taught a "flow" an expected pattern of operation to build up the right mental model of how an average session with the tool works. For programming this might be the edit file, compile, run, debug loop, or TDD or IntelliJ's build and deploy. Or a CI system commit, push, deploy, promote cycle. Or kubernetes kubectl edit, apply.

I opened the "dining philosophers TLA+" example and ran it - this seemed to be an affordance of the TLA+ Toolbox GUI which was straightforward to understand.

But then I tried to use the tool with my own. I interpreted the existing code of the dining philosophers and tried to make my own ringbuffer model.

It took me a while to realise that some of the code in the dining philosophers code was generated from another section.

It took me a while that I needed to update this screen to put in the following details that I have filled in on the screenshot:

https://github.com/samsquire/assembly/blob/main/screenshots/...

You have to put your entrypoint in the "temporal formula" and then put your model arguments on the right hand side.

I was able to piece together the operation of this tool by piecing together various reference details together, it wasn't until I saw that screenshot I referenced in my OP that I realised I needed to do that step to get the PlusCal code to update the TLC code that follows it. I was wondering why it didn't work until I saw that screenshot.
Sounds interesting, no doubt, and I hope it takes off. But from this to "goodbye Goodreads" is an extremely long way, even for entrepreneurs.
> his type of bottom up approach is terrible idea for a fast moving area like ML.

Of course not. When you learn this way you will realize there are a myriad of problems that can be solved with more simple algorithms. Trying to make every problem fit to neural networks is pure cargo culting.
NRK had a great article about this recently:

https://www.nrk.no/vestland/xl/kvartsstovet-som-gjer-folk-sj...

Seems to work fine in Google Translate.
I do not think it is true that the empire is beloved by Brexiteers.

As someone born in a former colony who voted leave, I was definitely not nostalgic for the empire. If anything I feel the EU is more nostalgic for the heights of European power than the UK - all the multipolar world stuff they love.

We are going back to a two super-power world, and China is the other super power.
But 70% of your friends would have to walk.
The twist was there to show an alternative future to the techno-dystopia. I think the author now believes that we’re merely waiting for the latent effects of climate change to destroy civilization, so I doubt he’s worried about an AI takeover these days.
Certain crops are certainly efficient.
I’m not involved in ag-tech, but the ideas I’ve seen aren’t really going after the efficient (and government incentivized) crops, but rather the more labor and resource (human and natural) intensive ones as well as ones that benefit from proximity to consumers.
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Psychological constructs and measures suffer from the toothbrush problem
There's a Motorola document about this:

https://ia904706.us.archive.org/5/items/Motorola-Seminarsand...
In there they suggest that "another bus master must perform this action" and that this one could be "an MC68000 MPU as well".

I've also heard and seen the claim that Apollo workstations before the 68010 used this method, but it's difficult to find a definite source for this (though it's likely true. Every reference etc. to the pre-DN300 models claim 2x68000 CPU)
And every form of modern physics began (more or less) with Galileo.

But if physicists suddenly decided Galileo was back because Galilean physics was somehow an ideal to aspire to, many brows would be furrowed with scepticism.

Leave the corpse alone. There's enough death drive around for everyone at the moment without adding yet more ancestor worship.
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We work together to build AI models in our favorite programming languages.

I feel that the only thing limiting my progress in AI is the Python programming language.
I understand the math and the arxiv papers.

However, I experience something analogous to Dyslexia whenever I look at Python code. I wanted to build an open community for AI enthusiasts who want to work together to build models in our favorite programming languages.

I wanted to gauge interest before dedicating my time to this.
The major mistake - some people have been getting this right - is looking at algorithms rather than processing power. The people who were just following the exponential curves [0] pointed out that we'd be hitting human-brain levels of processing power some time around now.

Turns out intelligence isn't complicated; it just needs a lot of brute force matrix math. This blog post can be interpreted as "I didn't realise what it was like living through an exponential process". Things happen very quickly.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/estimate-human-brain-30-times-fast...
Thanks, I will check it out.

I think one piece of media that summarized the general feeling of it all for me was the song "The Truth of the Twilight"[0,1].

0: https://genius.com/16860113

1: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vnRYapgm72k
Joining a server is about as much 'commitment' as joining a channel in IRC. i.e. technically very easy, and socially it entirely depends on the server/channel. For a support one, it's not at all unusual or hard to join and leave again.
What is blud yapping about
I think you have listed 8 strategies that are both good, and you ordered them in most important strategies first.

For courses, Andrew Ng’s classes have always been good, starting with his Stanford ML class, Coursera deep learning classes, and now his short mini-classes on being an effective LLM practitioner.

Textbooks on LLMs are likely to quickly be out of date, at least I struggle to keep my LangChain/LlamaIndex book current.

My advice to you is to try to get into a paid AI job as your highest priority, and that is a lot of work: identifying possible employers, preparing for interviews, and having persistence. Some of the interesting AI work you might find will not be with “tech” companies, but rather small or medium profitable businesses that need to use ML, DL, LLMs lightly - just a small part of their successful businesses.
> I don't have to know exactly how logic gates work to program in JS and make a difference.

Thats a stupid analogy to the above discussion. A better analogy would be trying to program in JS without understanding for loops and basic programmation concepts.

Thats typically what I observe with younger folks jumping into neural nets directly. They have a very shallow understanding of anything and survive with youtube tutorials.
The MacBook Air Price Gap
To make control easier, a locked down tablet? E.g. a Kindle Fire Kids is inexpensive (but hardware is on the lean side and you have to work hard to avoid the Amazon ecosystem trap).
Nice. I've used this before.
S3-Compatible Cloud Storage Costs
Why should we as a society, or even worse, poor immigrats, subsidise a company's bad business model.

If you want to compete for labour and customers in a society, you should follow the rules.

If you cannot provide food deliveries whilst paying your employees fairly, then you should not be in business.

Even worse if you are skimming minimum-wage worker's pay to produce a 10X VC return.
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Anyone else hate this particular blogging style?

Grandiose "expert" posturing, focusing exclusively on corporate bullshit hierarchy while being scarce on meaningful details. So they chose to hotload the microcode patch instead of rebooting, that's the only actual piece of information.
Curious it uses Ubuntu 18.04 with 20.04 and 22.04 already released and 24.04 just around the corner.
>at which point the force of attraction would be 0 and the marble's potential energy would be zero

That's wrong. If you actually stick to newtonian physics (because the picture changes completely in GR), then you can define the potential arbitrarily at infinite distance. Since a body with finite density will see a finite variation in gravitational potential, you could just define the potential at infinity such that it is zero at its lowest point by adding a constant. That's because forces in physics arise from the potential field's gradient - not the field itself. So any constant will just disappear in the derivative. Now, if you go to GR, the story becomes a lot more complicated, since gravitational potential energy isn't even well defined.
Assumes the existence of such a virus (and that it cannot be treated/mitigated).
There's definitely enough blame to be spread around between several countries for the current mess we're in and for the people suffering from fracking, that I don't know how this could be fixed and make everyone happy.

If there was enough cheap, clean, abundant energy for everyone, we wouldn't be in this mess, but since the global energy demand is much higher than the supply of clean energy, it's natural that the less wealthy and influential people and nations get the short end of the stick in the process of supplying enough energy for everyone.

Also, capitalism and highly profitable energy production require that the supply be controlled in order to always be below the demand, see the OPEC cartel, so barring momentary fluctuations due to unforeseen events, we'll always have an energy shortage to a degree no matter what.

I don't know how this can be solved so that everyone wins and everyone is happy, without creating more global turmoil in forms of economic depression, wars and climate change.
Yeah, here in Czechia I always look at https://www.heureka.cz/ first.
Advertising is PR, not lobbying.

Lobbying often involves implicit or explicit offers of campaign funding, PAC support/opposition, and gifts that skirt the edge of what is legally bribery.
Does anyone know of a good (preferably US based) replacement? It had a unique vibe.
You're looking at something called a "neural radiance field" backed by a sparse, low resolution voxel grid and a dense high resolution triplane grid. That's a bit of a word soup, but you can think of it like a glowing fog rendered with ray marching.

The benchmark details are a bit complicated. Check out the technical paper's experiment section for the nitty gritty details.
It matters when you get sued.
Ah thanks a lot that sounds more relevant!

Will repost - thank you :)
Do those tools really need to implement their own unwinding though? This really should just need to be implemented once in a library and then used wherever unwinding is needed.
"If not blown, then not overclocked" was my reading, as well.
Chained ternaries are quite readable when formatted as tables...

a = (x < 5 ) ? 'LESS'
: (x > 5 ) ? 'MORE'
: 'SAME';
No, it doesn't always. There has been a few times I've left a machine for literal days (when I really needed it to recover) and it does not recover.

My guess is that something causes a kernel panic, like the filesystem getting itself into trouble with the hardware.
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Tesla just showed their new bot and it's trained by ai.

We will continue integrating ai in all products for the next year's to come.

The money invested and what it opens up is still huge and it pointed a lot of people to this area for very good reasons.

But after the hype the work is there and now takes time.

Copilot rollout in my company (100k people) is only happening right now
Thanks for commenting. It is fixed.
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Heh, thanks for explaining this. Maybe my general aversion towards swap wasn't fully based on facts.
While this is almost definitely the case, in general supply chains are completely opaque to the consumer. Anything you buy could and probably has involved exploitative labor practices in some place. As for pollution, everything uses energy. Even using if something uses green energy in its production, it will cause someone else who otherwise would have used that green energy to use some polluting energy instead. There is no standardized labeling scheme and nobody can be trusted. I mean if the person selling stuff is telling me it's "ethical" -- okay so I'm just meant to take that a face value am I? Where's the proof? What's penalty if it turns out you've lied? What are the chances someone will even be able to investigate the whole supply chain after the fact and then they'll actually do it?
The big difference is access to fisheye lenses a burst mode that can be run for minutes at a time, and the ability to minimize the amount of camera post processing. In principle, the capture could be done with a smartphone, but the experience of doing so is pretty time consuming right now.
I have seen developers lock/encrypt their code they write and then when they get fired for it, they want the company to pay a fee to get them to unlock it/release source code
> their business is making and selling hardware. That almost always leads to the business viewing software as an afterthought

apple is a hardware company and manages to buck this trend.
Maybe! That's the seed of a completely different research paper :)
Very likely because public search APIs are a huge target for bot activity.

For reference, about 99.5% of the search queries that goes toward my search engine is demonstrably bot traffic (excluding the traffic that goes to the free and public API endpoint I offer).

A capable search functionality isn't exactly cheap to run, so requiring a login is the obvious way to be able to rate limit searches, which is otherwise impossible against a botnet.
Well just don't have any friends!
Oops, rogue hackers deleted our .zip files with the backups! :)

EDIT: BTW having no version control would be pretty telling on its own. It's a critical piece of software, that controls a train..
Kernel vs. User-Level Networking: Don't Throw Out the Stack with the Interrupts
That looks great! I'm not sure it was available in 2018 when I looked. I tried a few options, but posting to twitter & subbing to the account was the quickest hack that worked reliably.
Note that even without -fomit-frame-pointer, the compiler can still omit the frame pointer for in some cases. From the GCC documentation:

> Note that -fno-omit-frame-pointer doesn’t guarantee the frame pointer is used in all functions. Several targets always omit the frame pointer in leaf functions.

Fully inlined functions also won't have a seperate stack frame at all. I imaging that is is a big part why the perf impact of turning the frame pointer back on is as small as it is.

It however also means that a complete stack trace will still require using debugging information, in which case you don't really need a frame pointer at all.
I hope so, but it'll be a good while before we can release anything. We have tight dependencies to other not-yet-OSS libraries, and until they're released, our won't work either.
What about: rogue hackers maliciously squashed our whole repo into a single commit?
I'm curious how the creators would compare this to the capabilities of Unreal Engine 5 (as far as the display technology goes.)
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HMAC is used with the same purpose as in FIDO?
The DEC J-11 CPU is a single CPU that is implemented on two discrete chips with one taking care of control and the other of data paths, not exactly the same idea as using two identical cpu's to implement a different architecture, but somewhat related.
Every celestial sphere is actually an electromagnetic donut
> I see no reason to see why you should expect it to work in harder, nonlinear settings

I'm not so sure about this, maybe this is where the ML approach could outperform (in terms of estimation accuracy, not compute time) the traditional EKF and UKF approaches, by learning the nonlinear system dynamics?

This sounds very hand-wavy, and it is, because of my lack of understanding. For me it is just not immediately clear that if an optimal algorithm for the linear case cannot be matched or outperformed, that is also necessarily the case for nonlinear dynamics.

EDIT: And as mentioned above, the KF is optimal if certain conditions hold, e.g. additive, zero-mean, Gaussian noise on state dynamics and observation. In reality, you may have a multiplicative component of the noise nor non-zero mean or fancy noise distributions, and it would be interesting to see if these can be learned.
Um… are we talking about the same thing? It’s a menu. This is basic computer usage. Mentioning the menu path is just as good as a screenshot (better, in my opinion), and takes much less space and requires less maintenance. If you actually need to explain what a menu is and how to use one, the screenshot genuinely won’t help. And when this is intended just as a reminder of what has already been covered, a screenshot is even more inappropriate.

I’m not saying there should be nothing there. I’m saying that the screenshot should have been text. I’m genuinely baffled about what you’re actually saying.
I recently stumbled upon this

https://usegpu.live/demo/geometry/binary

and it reminded me of the city of text.
> No expense spared

but he only has one single IT guy in oncall during the emergency :-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640466
Late stage capitalism. Money will find the dirty way to get the gas that makes
most profit I guess. Governments should probably encourage more solar, more heat pumps, less gas usage. For the environment and national security.
RISC-V Mini Laptop
I had a look at the index and it does not cover nearly enough to have a solid foundation of ml.
That’s very cool. Thanks for sharing those details.
Does anyone else have an increasingly difficult time with Donkey Kong content because of how it caricatures black people? I used to love even the show as a kid but everything about it makes me feel icky today.
The effort always stops when the commercial goal is achieved.
>I find it impossible to imagine any naturally-ocurring scenario in which such any sentient species is forced by evolutionary pressure to optimise away consciousness in favour of other mental tasks.

If a person is born tomorrow, on earth, with a mutation that makes them slightly less sentient but more intelligent, they would not have any issue reproducing.

Or you could conduct this thought experiment: if chat-gpt4 were somehow installed in a robot with prompt "reproduce", do you think they would not replace humans after some time?
Do we have an inkling were the proverbial blind spots are in our theories? Like a general direction to search?
When I was a kid I had access to all sorts of exotic operating systems. SunOS, VMS, all sorts of Unixes. I was a very naughty boy.
There are more options than just "ban" and "don't ban".

You could pass a law imposing strict liability all the way up the supply chain, up to and including the importers.

If a worker gets sick, they could sue for damages, maybe even punitive damages, from their employer, any middlemen, and the importer.

If you align the incentives right, companies will figure out how to enforce PPE usage.