skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An example of running this on the command line that isn't a GIF.
That's not sentience. That's just life.

Neurons do not have a brain. They do not have emotions or feelings or thoughts. This conversation is so absurd that it's well into the realm of fantasy.
Maybe a dumb take but I’d really like for the population to earn an ownership stake in the company for providing subsidies. I don’t know much about subsidies but it seems like it would be in the best interest of the population to be able to have an ownership stake in the companies that are providing a head start through monetary or policy subsidizing. Can someone tell me if there is a way for the US to recoup subsidy money or how this works?
If advertising has so little effect on our behavior as you suppose, surely there can be little harm done by forbidding billboards, as this would force the companies who purchase those ads to save money they are currently wasting.
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Well, it's also not how car problems are solved at UCSC, either.

UCSC is an enclave on a hill with limited transport routes to downtown or the rest of the world. And the UCSC leadership has its hands tied by many different things; they can't just say "OK no cars on campus except if you are a commuter".
We’ll never see it, but I’ve wondered what a Switch would look like with an Apple chip.

Take something relatively modern but no longer too expensive, say an A15 like the Apple TV has, bump the screen to 1080p, and I bet it would scream. Possibly with better battery life.

Nintendo would never do that. I doubt Apple would either. But it would be a very interesting test.
This happens with any 3D reconstruction. It's because any mirror is indistinguishable from a window into a mirrored room. The tricky thing is if there's actually a something behind the mirror as well.
Show HN: from 2019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033728
> it looks to have a lot of overlap with containers

No it doesn't. They're at different abstraction layers.

Containers are more convenient form of generic code/data packaging and isolation primitives.

llamafile is the code/data that you want to run.

Equivalent poor analogy: Why does JPEG XL exists? I can just put a base64 representation of a PNG image in a data URL inside a HTML file inside a ZIP file; I can also bundle more stuff this way! JPEG XL is useless! No one should use JPEG XL! Other use cases that use JPEG XL by themselves are invalid!
Oh yea, that is another thing I enjoy about the Nintendo ecosystem. I have co-workers who are single and still game a lot and the whole paying for add-ons to be competitive, or to get a feeling of completeness about a game and what not is something I really enjoy about the Nintendo ecosystem. Sure Nintendo games can have DLCs, but I've not met one yet where I felt like the DLCs were required to make the game feel complete or to be competitive (like map packs on Call of Duty). You can play BoTW without the DLC and still have a really good time, also really re-playable.

Edit: Sure, Map packs weren't required. But it was shitty when all your friends had the map packs and wanted to play the new maps online and you didn't have them.

But yea, I really hate the gambling aspects some of the big AAA studios have adopted.
The consumer is paying for the ads in the end. This just cuts out the grifters in the middle.
It's not "ad space", it's our cities. Why is it even possible for them to "sell ad space" to private business? Should be made illegal.

We want to live in nice towns not in cyberpunk hellscapes where we can't even cross a street without being violently bombarded with advertising. A business should be able to put up a sign on its own building and that's about it.
Correct and there are already known exceptions such as the python interpreter in which the “interpret function” function actually falls into this case and so for the foreseeable future python is going to continue to be compiled omitting frame pointers. But by default this destructive micro optimization is off by default until proven a performance bottleneck, just like any performance issue should be!
Experiments in Complex Software Development with ChatGPT
The most obvious answer seem to be around population density. What is the population density of your small town? Why would the developers not build multi-story apartments/condos?

Why is there no supply of multi-family buildings anywhere outside of cities? If everyone wants a single family home with a yard, you are going to run into space limitations.
They're using (AIUI) Ookla Speedtest data, rather than taking anyone's word for anything.
It's much more likely that this stuff is difficult to do, and thus difficult to price out, than that somehow the managers of these companies are working with the finance people to secretly steal money from the government and hide it in their books, the government never catches it, and these very amicable ties between the government and defense contractors continues - and all of that is before we even get to what happens when you try to steal and your project falls behind.

It's way more valuable, usually, to get it done quickly and done well the first time, so you can move onto another project. You leave a few people on the original program pull in tons of super easy maintenance contract money for what essentially ends up being a skeleton crew.

Or, I suppose, you could try and inflate costs by a couple percentage points (not too much - you'll get caught and the risk here is MASSIVE), keep working on the same program, and hope the opportunity cost doesn't get too high.

I'm sure it happens, but I doubt it happens often.
Huge bummer for the EV industry but they’re honestly still just too expensive up front. First you need to have a home with a garage, then you need to have a 220v charging port - preferably two, preferably solar panels - and only then does it make sense to buy a base model for 40k, which is pretty expensive and never mind financing with these interest rates.
If you can outlive the capital returns cycle (10 years is the standard for VC), you'll beat all but the 1-2% of the investor-funded competitors that eventually develop into self-sufficient, "going concern" businesses.

Obviously, this means you have to be continuously profitable, not take on outside capital yourself, operate lean, and be willing to work on the same project for 8+ years.

May people "can" do it, I think, but it requires a lot more patience and determination than the alternative, so few do.
Looks nice thank you
Isn’t it 1080p when docked?
does anything you just retorted with qualify as "rarely having" warning?
Non-fiction Orwell vibes.
An example: vinylon. [1] Briefly popular in the early 20th century, North Korea is about the only place in the world that still makes or uses the stuff.

It can be made from coal and limestone which are some of the few resources North Korea has. Similar to nylon or polyester, except stiffer. It's the material used for those shiny suits the North Korean officials wear. [2] A significant % of all clothing in the country is made from it at a couple big plants.

There is probably slave labour involved in its production. And yet one can say at the same time that, making Vinylon, in a very cold country, is probably significant and meaningful work for many of the middle and upper management and scientific types involved in it, yes.

Some models of how bad North Korea is (and it is hard to overstate, really, but some do) seem to require the North Korean people be almost inhuman in their endurance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinylon

[2] https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-north-korean-men-dressing-...
> it's entirely possible that the biological substrate on a chip would experience pain on some subset of the pin inputs

Absolutely, but the guy I responded to suggested that "all physical processes involve a sensory component", which is utter insanity.
GPS spoofing is generally done at limited range and line of sight so the fact that "horizontal signal will suffer pretty fast" and having the range limited by terrain and curvature of the earth is not a problem but a feature that the spoofers generally want - affecting the target, but not affecting people 500 miles away; and sometimes even explicitly doing that from a pit so that spoofing or jamming affects airborne targets but not those on the ground.

And regarding "If you want to spoof GPS signal very well, it should be also weak" the scenarios I've seen (e.g. targeting drones in current conflicts) often explicitly target non-sophisticated commercial off-shelf GPS modules that don't attempt to detect spoofing and will gladly accept a signal that's 100 times louder than the actual satellites, so I think the spoofers often have no desire to do it "well" according to your criteria.
All very true! I should clarify: I’m objecting to the user above attributing that to US policies or culture. The general trend in the developed world away from abject poverty is fantastic and something to be thankful for. I guess I don’t have proof that trend isn’t globally based in “not tolerating poverty” where that’s implied to mean hardline/law-n-order type stances (AFAICT?), but that seems to clash with other countries more compassionate/socialist policies.
It’s called the sunk cost fallacy anyone who owns a Tesla and Tesla stock has been extremely susceptible for years now
Not really? I mean, there are architectures with fewer than 16 GP registers (IA32 is one of them); if you can compile some C code on that architecture, then surely you can also compile it on x86_64 with 15 (well, 14, really, due to the stack pointer also being reserved) rather than 16 (15).

If someone is writing in assembly, then they've already decided if they're going to allocate a register for the frame pointer, and Ubuntu's change isn't going to affect that, as this is about compiled code, not assembled assembly.

The only real issue is performance: if a program has a particular hot-path function (or just many functions overall) that really benefit from having that extra register available, and would otherwise have to spill data into memory, then this change could have a big negative impact. But that's not really a big deal; the packager can decide to omit frame pointers just for that particular app or library.
Doesn't zen4 have 2x 256-bit FADD and 2x 256-bit FMA, and with avx512 ops it double-pumps the ALU (a good overview here [0]). If you count FADD as a single flop and FMA as 2, that's 48 "1 flop cores" per core.

I think it's got the same total FP ALU resources as zen3, and shows how register width and ALU resources can be completely decoupled.

[0] https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=614191
> YouTube is a monopoly

what? in which country and how?

> and it's putting ads in its ad-free subscription

i pay for youtube premium. never seen an ad.

> Especially when they gained their monopoly status by operating at below-cost for years, preventing fair competition from even springing up in the first place.

i fear you are thinking about a different product. youtube is not a monopoly and it's not preventing fair competition as TikTok is even bigger.
Not 100% sure I understand your question but if you're asking about 4040 vs 6502 as contenders for Apple II in 1977 - the 4040 was a much more limited design than the 6502 and would not have been viable as the Apple's CPU.
Reading this brought back a vivid memory of listening to Voice of Korea about 20 years ago.

I had a shortwave receiver in my Honda Civic - a Sony AM/FM/shortwave/cassette that was a drop-in replacement for the factory radio. On the way to work at Adobe in San Jose one day, I tuned in North Korea's English-language broadcast beamed to North America.

One news announcement stuck in my mind so vividly that I remember it word for word to this day:

"Scientists are studying the brain of Respected Comrade Kim Jong-il, because the Respected Comrade is capable of feats of mental power beyond the ability of ordinary human beings."

Brainwashed: Growing up in North Korea:

https://medium.com/@penguinpress/tears-of-blood-life-in-nort...

Voice of Korea official site and Wikipedia page:

http://www.vok.rep.kp/index.php/home/main/en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Korea
I think there’s a better chance of this happening than they believe.

It’s already happening. When GM announced no more CarPlay, we took the $60K we were going to use on a new Blazer EV and gave it to Hyundai instead. (Good thing, too, or we’d still be waiting on that Blazer instead of driving our Ioniq 5 since April.)
Ye. Bytecode interpreters very much benefit from the extra register. And any function that looks similar to one.

I mean e.g. getter and setter functions get alot of extra code to run.
The standards extensions reservation of _t is such a non-issue I don't understand why people even bother mentioning it anymore.

It's become such a common practice to suffix your typedefs with _t it's practically a de facto standard at this point.

Since everyone's already namespacing types with some kind of prefix, I don't see the problem nor have I ever experienced a negative consequence after decades of writing C this way.
I'm was only being a little flip there. Taken straight from their website:

> We see the fight against billboards as part of a wider struggle for social, ecological and economic justice.

So to be completely fair, I am responding to the case that they are making that combatting billboards is just one piece of an intersectional fight against corporations and injustice.
What's wrong with ternary operator ("a?b:c") ? It seems many people hate it but I've never seen a reason for it.

This operator is very useful and uncontroversial in Perl, it's normal (and quite readable) in selecting a value for assignment. One is expected to use good practices with it, but it is nice.

Is the problem the fact that in C you can use it instead of if, selecting not values but actions, like (a > b) ? printf("A") : printf("B");
You can try VALL-E; it takes around 5s to generate a sentence on a 3090 though.
As far as I can tell in a cursory reading, SpaceX Starlink applied for subsidies with enumerated requirements. They cannot meet those requirements, so the subsidy is rescinded.

Seems straightforward and doesn’t seem to matter, as far as I can tell, how many other companies couldn’t meet the requirements or don’t have the hardware to meet those requirements or whatever.

Unclear why this is “blatant corruption” or “crony capitalism” and in fact seems to be based in facts. Can you explain?
What 'drifting representations' reveal about the brain
Kola nut is the original caffeine ingredient in original coke. They replaced thus long ago with coffee-extracted caffeine, so there is little reason to still use kola nuts.
I have not done any thorough analyses on my end, so I cannot say with any confidence where these improvements come from. I can only give a thesis that seems, from my point of view, more probable: the gradual increase in the average socioeconomic status of all the people in the world has led to an increase in longevity of said people, due to factors such as: access to better nutrition (and ability to make more informed dietary choices), access to better environments (clean, safe, and less stressful), access to better lifestyle choices (exercise, abstinence from drugs, stress-relieving outlets), and greater access to healthcare. All of these correlate with longevity and correlate with socioeconomic status. Access to healthcare is a part of this, but not the absolute root cause of the increases in longevity.

If I had a philanthropic vehicle with unlimited funds, I would put out grants for further research into psychosomatic (and somatopsychic) disorders -- as well as the placebo effect. But I don't; and to ask others to do so where no incentive exists for them is foolish.

I think useful tools are being left on the table for the treatment of illness, because everyone involved is uninterested in anything more than self-interest.
Tell that to your local telco carrier. I bet my ass they have network equipment runnning with zero updates for well over a decade.
I went from consuming nearly no sugar to consuming really quite a lot when I started cycling seriously. Compromise I'm at now is to do sugars for the purposes of energy for workouts, high quality calories everywhere else.
I guess it really depends on how you count your monies, but if you apply yourself at UCSC you can definitely do quite well. At least, that was true for my generation- I graduated from there in '95, missed out on the first tech recession by hiding in grad school, and then eventually moved to industry when I felt educated enough. Since my industry is tech, I've generally been paid well, with an especially profitable stint at Google. Nearly all that money got reinvested (not in housing) and continues to grow quite well.

Realistically, though, everything about CS changed and so now, I don't know that somebody could get a degree from UCSC and even afford to be a grad student or junior programmer here unless they're willing to give up a lot of niceties.
> That they are sensitive to statistical relationships does not discount their ability to understand.

The claim is that nothing but sensitivity to statistical relationships somehow leads to an ability to understand?

I am not going to believe it.
Yes, this is the way. Unit-profitability and patience. It's a long game.

You won't grow nearly as quickly, but most middling-sized markets (you mention 1Password as an example) favor the tortoise over the hare in the long-run.
I loved "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" so much. Kaufman's work scratches a deep itch that nothing else can really reach.
Yes. Continuously bringing up a few random exceptions like the ElonJet case, while ignoring the massive shift Twitter went thru to go from one of the most censorious common western internet places. That is the problem how 100% of negative responses I've received to praising the FoH improvements at X have received.

It is missing the whole while looking at details. Losing the big picture. Not properly managing one's preference for detail autism, for the tech business/lead spectrum types.

EDIT: Noted your fix was a sematic one. Ok. For how I often see written, and what also logically makes sense, the sentences are identical. "For" replacing "Because of" isn't that uncommon and is usually readable.
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I still don’t understand the logic behind:

> Jewish people cannot colonize an area they’ve been for 3000 years.

As I understand it, Palestine used to be a majority Jewish area. Their creation myth states that they migrated there from Egypt to escape slavery and oppression. However Jewish people never mass migrated from Palestine like they mass migrated from Egypt. Some Palestinians simply gradually converted religion with during varying colonization, first to Christianity during Roman and Byzantine colonization, then to Islam during Arab and Ottoman colonization and today, most Palestinians are Muslim while Christian minority exists. Prior to 1948 there were even still Jewish Palestinians. Jesus Christ him self was even a Palestinian Jew.

While this is happening, some Jews—instead of converted—migrated from Palestine to Europe, where they were persecuted for centuries. While in Europe, they still managed to intermarry and doubtless some Europeans even converted to Judaism. These immigrants became part of Europe and European heritage, and after so many generations they became European Jews.

This is why I—and others—consider Zionism to be a specific case of the more general European colonial enterprise. Zionists are mostly European or European descendants who migrated to lands that wasn’t theirs, made it theirs, and displaced the indigenous population from it.

In my opinion this is the worst possible case of colonialism.
Our comparisons were a little while ago so I apologize I can’t remember if we used BS 1 or 5 - whichever we picked, we were consistent across models.

Insanely fast whisper (god I hate the name) is really a CLI around Transformers’ whisper pipeline, so you can just use that and use any of the settings Transformers exposes, which includes beam size.

We also deal with very poor audio, which is one of the reasons we went with faster whisper. However, we have identified failure modes in faster whisper that are only present because of the conditioning on the previous segment, so everything is really a trade off.
"flipping a bit" isn't a thing in memory. Our brains are not computers, and work nothing like them. That's the problem with using a computer as an analogy; it's inaccurate and makes you think inaccurate things. This always just aligns with our understanding of various technologies. See: when we were understanding fluid dynamics and talked about the body's "humors".

When you're throwing a ball in a computer simulation, it's performing millions of mathematical calculations to perfectly describe the result of your action. When you're throwing a ball in real life, your brain is basically going "Ok, so last time I did this it felt like X so I'm going to recreate X". Completely different.

We know very little about consciousness and this is kinda scary to me.
> Avoiding dying, as best one can, is also a natural behaviour

Source?

Natural selection is about passing on our genes which looks like: reproduce, raise your offspring ... <roll credits>
> One control which we made for checks to reduce systemic risk continues to have consequences more than a century later. Most disagreements between you and a grocery store are beneath the notice of the law. If you and your grocery store have a disagreement about a check specifically, you can go to jail. The crime is sometimes called “uttering”, for charming historical reasons.

patio11: you write a lot, and have taught me a lot, and I appreciate it. But I want to make a small complaint. You frequently say things like "for charming historical reasons" and then _cite no sources_. Link something! Cite something! As a reader, I regularly feel like you are teasing me or showing off to me when you include all these small asides without any further reference or any concrete details.
So the whole world should take a 1-2% performance penalty on everything so some users can maybe run a profiler?

Wouldn't it make more sense to just have an 'apt reinstall all --with-frame-pointers' command that power users could run before they wanted to profile something?
> They will appear elsewhere because fundamentally: we want them.

I cannot speak for anyone else, but I can assure you I DO-NOT want them.

People also want pr0n. Should we paste it all over?

But then all ads are pr0n.

They use vulgar manipulative displays to make you lust and desire something
usually with overly attractive people.

pr0n feels more honest in a way.
>I suspect his statements are carefully made to not technically meet the legal definition for fraud

2017 was before the infamous "funding secured" tweet, so I imagine there was no care in crafting his statements.