skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say that. If party A creates a problem for party B, does that mean I have to agree with every possible response from party B? Can I not disagree with both of them?

Potentially letting criminals control my machine in order to avoid giving slightly more control over my machine to Microsoft than they already have seems like the wrong choice to me.

If I was so concerned about Microsoft's updates that I would even consider this option, I would be urgently looking to replace Microsoft as my OS vendor. And if that wasn't an option (because lock-in) I would hold my nose and choose Microsoft over organised crime.
There could have been a drone pilot in that Cessna.
Some facts are dangerous.
The funnier one was where it recommended a Ford F150.
I need to use Edge for testing. I opened it last night and it said "We've installed all your extensions from Chrome for you!"
Is he god?
How can someone enter Oxford without A-levels?
Complete PhD in a year?

Interestingly this article says that "he was never able to do arithmetic". https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/24/us/physicist-awarded-geni...
Seems like it could work a lot better still, very quickly, just by merging the trained model with an LLM trained on the language they expect the person to be thinking in. I.e. try to get an equilibrium between the "bottom-up processing" of what the TTS model believes the person "is thinking", and the "top-down processing" of what the grammar model believes the average person "would say next" given all the conversation so far. (Just like a real neocortex!)

Come to think, you could even train the LLM with a corpus of the person's own transcribed conversations, if you've got it. Then it'd be serving almost exactly the function of predicting "what that person in particular would say at this point."

Maybe you could even find some additional EEG-pad locations that could let you read out the electrical consequences of AMPAR vs NMDAR agonism within the brain; determine from that how much the person is currently relying on their own internal top-down speech model vs using their own internal bottom-up processing to form a weird novel statement they've never thought before; and use this info to weight the level of influence the TTS model has vs the LLM on the output.
> Nazi Germany thought their way to the holocaust.

That's bullshit though. You don't think your way to holocaust, you hate and greed and fear your way to it. Those are all feelings. Even indifference to the violence and death of others is a feeling - or at least fear-driven emotional defense mechanism.

The Nazis weren't "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts", no matter how much it nicely riffs off machine guns being a relatively new experience for most of the world back then. They weren't Vulcans or Skynet. It's important to study how and why they ended up doing what they did, but science and reason is not it, and tarnishing those aspects of being human is not the right lesson to take from that period of history.
If you're referencing the AI safety discussion, there's obviously the fundamental difference between this and a technology with the potential of autonomous, exponential runaway.
Nice to see you dropping in Maxim!

For the GP poster - I agree with Maxim here. We've been evaluating workflow orchestration and durable function systems for a while and finally whittled down to where we think we're going to pull the trigger on either Azure Durable Functions or Temporal. Temporal is really nice - the fact that you are "just writing code" is such a huge bonus over some other stuff like AWS Step Functions, Cadence, and Conductor.

As an aside, the engineering/sales engineering team over there seems top notch.
It’s at the top of the front page now fyi

edit: and it’s sliding down again. Your comment will be relevant again shortly ha
If "it depends" is the answer to "does hard work pay off", then obviously "Hard work is pointless" is true, as it is no longer a guarantee that it will pay off.
> It is “important to remember” precisely because these days people are not remembering this and speak with a sense of inevitability about discovering life elsewhere

Could you expand on this a bit. Whether someone speaks with a sense of inevitability or not, why is it important either way? Why is it "important" to remind people we haven't (yet) found life on other planets?

Why are the existing gaps in abiogenesis "important" to point out?

What is so "important" about these things?
There are already businesses tracking their employees' fitness for insurance purposes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-fitness...

EDIT: There's also a national legislative proposal to mandate that all cars have a system to monitor their drivers and lock them out on signs of intoxication.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053847935/congress-cars-drun...
>Reasonably well, all things considered. There are something like 20+ million ar-15s in america, were american gun owners considered an army it would be the largest ever conceived of with no close second;

And how would those ar-15 bros would fare against an organized, professional army, with training, logistics, and coordination, not to mention air support, tanks, and the state on its side?

Not to mention most of those millions of gun owners would need to be on the same side to begin with, to count together.

>perhaps here you will find the reason you enjoy more liberties than someone living in china or north korea

I doubt it, First Amendment aside, European countries are freer than the US in more substantial ways (for starters, they don't have the kind of kafka-esque over extention of the law in the US, or the biggest ratio of prison vs general population, SWAT-ized trigger-happy police, and so on), and they don't have guns at home, except the ocassional shooting rifle.
OP is living in Thailand, and not a hypothetical town in the US or the EU, so the taxes being paid on this LLC won't be going to their regional community. Due to geopolitics, forming an LLC in Thailand isn't conducive to their business (which was not discussed, but lets assume they make a SaaS product), so it's easy to see taxes as much more of a cost than anything else because while yes, I think a town halfway across the world should have good roads and good schools and feed the hungry, OP isn't running a charity, and paying extra so town A can have better roads vs paying less so town B can have better roads becomes kind of academic and the concern becomes more about money to OP than anything else.
Why not? There are perfectly legitimate uses for this kind of technology. This would be a godsend for those suffering from paralysis and nervous system disorders, allowing them to communicate with their loved ones.

Yes, the CIA, DARPA, et. al. will be all over this (surprisingly if not already), but this is a sacrifice worth making for this kind of technology.
There was a tool called "OneTask" about a decade ago that I really liked and which served as a lot of the inspiration for NowDo.

Unfortunately its creators fell into the trap of adding a bunch of features which ruined it IMHO. It's not clear whether this is related to that, it doesn't look like it is.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/24/us/physicist-awarded-geni...

This article says that he graduated from Oxford but the gaurdian article says he left oxford without graduating?.
Worth noting that one of Israel's many motivation for ethnically cleansing the Gaza strip may be to build their own alternative to the Suez:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_Canal_Project

EDIT: The quality of this article has declined significantly since I last read it, but it may also be complete nonsense. Thought it was interesting regardless.
Thats as if a facism broke out and people would be like "why you say its worse than before, ever seen system of goverment of egyptians that built the pyramids?"
I don't understand, how do you handle prioritization decisions: if you have a 100+ customers that all want something, how do you create understanding of all needs, how do you distill that to an integrated roadmap, and how do you align the roadmap prioritization decisions across 20+ teams?

How do you organize updating of documentation, training materials, enablement of support, pricing decision, updating of price lists, enablement of sales, presales, and customer success teams? How do you manage the input towards analysts like Gartner, that have a big impact on the decision process of your customers?

How do you evaluate the offering of the competition compared to your offering, how do you determine where you should be in 1,3,5 years to have a competing product in the market?

Most PMs are mostly concerned about what should be built to create a valuable product for customers, that provides healthy stream of revenue for the company. Most developers are concerned about how it should be built. That is a completely different responsibility.
> I’m still not sure how I feel about it.

Sir, let us read that for you
> Isn't that exercising political capital?

These are very good points.

> ... the worst of many abusers of the citation system.

Is this ad hominem argument by user "lacker" meant to distract from the omissions of the awardees Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun? Especially the first two got tons of citations for work that should have credited Schmidhuber's lab: the analysis of vanishing gradients in neural networks, the principle of generative adversarial networks, attention in neural networks, distilling neural networks, speech recognition with LSTM neural networks, self-supervised pre-training, and more.

The disputes with LeCun are more recent and of lesser magnitude IMO.
Now...1984 REALLY begins...
You mean like the US did Native Americans in early 20th century, or the Japanese-Americans in WWII? Or seggregation between blacks and whites?

Or like the fact that the US has the largest prison population (percentage wise) than any western country, by a huge factor? And where over a million people are convicted of felony per year?
DeLillo and Musk
I have a feeling that by the time this is fully fleshed out AI will have taken all the jobs anyways.
Yeah I can imagine law enforcement and employers are going to love this.

As much as this is an unimaginable positive benefit to people who are locked in, this is definitely one of those stories that makes me think "Stop inventing the Torment Nexus!"
There are, what makes NowDo unique is that I've whittled the feature set down to an absolute minimum - based on over 2 years of prototyping and usage. With NowDo the lack of features is its most important feature.
“Bernie fans were mean to me on Twitter so in this essay I will explain why you don’t deserve healthcare”
> The longer a bullying situation drags on, “the more traumatic the situation becomes”

Those two faculty characters learned dominance and submission behavior years ago, that is how they know how to do it. So now they do it to others. The article itself says plainly that the two senior figures had integrated loyalty through the departments. In other words, other senior figures supported them.

Somehow, active minds seek freedoms, while budget and authority seek confinement, dominance games and surreptitious meetings. Playing naive in the article does not solve these problems, it adds to outrage clicks. This article does nothing to solve this situation.

source: experienced dominant abuse in the workplace among otherwise highly intelligent people; knowledge of historical slave trading by the Swedish Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_slave_trade
Plain corporate propaganda. Sorry, no. The harder you work, the harder you're expected to work.

Wisdom says, work hard enough to earn your wage, but remember everything that matters in life happens after hours.
Dragon ball did this way before
I think feel isn't precise enough, maybe compassion is better? In the speech, Chaplain opposes the Nazis, yet the main tool the Nazis used to gain and hold power in Germany was by emotion, distributed thru speeches on the radio especially. Hitler was a highly emotional speaker. WWII didn't occur due to a lack of feeling.
I was thinking of writing about the self-test circuitry. It doesn't expose things in a JTAG-like way, which came later. The main self-test is that if you boot the chip with the BUSY pin set, it goes through a self-test of all the PLA and microcode entries, accumulating a signature using linear-feedback shift registers. It then XORs with the correct value and writes the result to a register. So the visible result is you see 0 in a register, not too exciting.

There are also self-test instructions to do things such as write entries to the TLB and read entries, to make sure it is operating correctly.

For details, there's a paper on "Design and Test of the 80386" by Pat Gelsinger, who is now CEO of Intel.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4069991 (paywalled).
> Let me be clear, GitHub is still far and away the best website for open source discover

We need to separate discovery from hosting across the web. It's convenient to implement them together, but certainly not necessary. Bring back the link aggregators!
Thank you for reviewing my inputs.
1. A simple placeholder will suffice; there is no need for additional text.
2. Don't want to press Cmd+T to see the tasks:)
3. Delete in bulk, specifically.
4. You could integrate Google Drive or OneDrive syncing instead of handling the syncing through your servers for a single fee.
> Is this on Cap'n Proto? Honestly, I don't know.

It absolutely is. It's a fairly basic principle that APIs should be difficult to misuse, and that fact that you made the same mistake 2/3 times shows that it is very easy to misuse. In other words it is a badly designed API. At the very least it should be called ListView.

I am not a big fan of CapnProto. It has some neat features but it's very complicated, full of footguns like this, and the API is extremely unergonomic.
> to run CI in a container specified by the repo

Would you happen to have an example YAML at hand?
you mean I get to bill the client for all the hours I spend thinking about their problem, which includes while I'm sleeping? sign me up!
Yeah, but at 6m a mini Mosasaur, since some could grow to 17m.

There was also a very recent UK find of a large Pliosaur (Plesiosaur), which coexisted with Mosasaurs, and at 10m might have eaten this Japanese one for lunch.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67650247
You didn't like the environmental interactions? I thought it was awesome how the "floor is lava" could quickly become "the air is now noxious gas / steam / full of lava elementals", how undead and the living react to elements different, etc. But it's really more that the action points system gave you a lot more tactical flexibility than the D&D "attack/cast + move" limits.

Still, though, I loved the different builds in both games :) When Original Sin first came out, I made a wine barrel build that just had an insanely strong level 1 character with telekinesis and no other skills... he could insta-kill any enemy in a single turn just by throwing 600 kg wine barrels at them. Or in BG3 how you could have a party of shovers that just throw people off cliffs.
They care about the Gaza people just as much as Israel being the most just army in the world
Another candidate for the old-time stories would be Internet before the public Internet. Back then, as noted, we have several "nets" connected by everything from fixed circuits, to dial-up telephones (I still know where my Telebit trailblazer is), and radio. And you had to know how to traverse it all. (I had the wall maps that were about as complex as colossal cave -- albeit no vending machine or Dr. Pepper bottles). Back then, kiddies, people actually communicated, they did more than just consume -- in fact, I'm told, I am responsible for the Anishinaabe word for Internet. (I helped bring their place on line years ago.) It supposedly means "The place where people talk who have never met"
Yee-Ra, like Javascript is yava-script.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
https://youtu.be/crJst7Yfzj4

Not sure on the accuracy in these examples, but this video may be showing the words/min speed of the system.
Sure, that works for many people. There were still hundreds of Texans who that fatally did not work for just the 2021 failure alone. Public policy generally works best if you focus on the people who don’t have the reserves & support network to absorb a failure.
Very tangential, but: the last time I looked into this (many years ago) the only full rules for Pai Sho I could find on the internet were improvised by fans. Can you share any more about the construction of your version? Is it still playable online somewhere?
That's not how asymptotes work.

Big O tells you that there exists some number N such that for each number m larger than N, if O(f(m)) > O(g(m)) then f(m) > g(m). In practice, N may be 10, or it may be larger than the number of atoms in the universe. It's unrelated to the number of items in your collection, but a property of the algorithm itself.
So you need to be the go-to person when someone wants something new and fancy. And then you need to be able to drop it on others when it is done enough. And you move to next fancy new thing...

Got it...
I can’t think of a single fact on its own that presents any danger. If anything, facts through the lens of ideology may become dangerous, but data on its own is like technology. Neutral without application, good or evil depending on situation.
Iran is funding basically the entire terrorist campaign against Israel: https://www.acfcs.org/unraveling-a-complex-web-a-primer-on-h... So yes, it is trying as hard as it can to not just delegitimize Israel but destroy it.

What Israel is doing domestically is entirely irrelevant to Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, who have all said numerous times that they want to kill all Jews. This stance has not altered or varied even when Israel had pro-peace governments.

The claim that there is no threat to Israel’s existence is totally absurd. It has fought multiple existential wars in many of its citizens’ living memories, and just suffered an enormous terrorist attack whose authors’ ultimate stated goal is, again, the destruction of Israel.

And then talking out both sides of your mouth that actually “the west” is fine with destroying nations so that rhetoric is okay is simply disingenuous. Is Israel under threat of annihilation and that’s okay, or is it not?

Anyway anyone who knows anything about the conflict can immediately see your framing is extremely disingenuous.
> hear responses via earbud

Maybe that's not even necessary.

I'd be very curious to see the results of trying to use the hardware in this system as a set of transducers — i.e. running the ML model here in reverse from a target text, and then pushing the resulting bottom-level electrical signals as trans-cranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) signals back through the EEG pads.

How interesting would it be, if this resulted in a person hearing the text as a verbal thought in their own mental voice?
These are also wet electrodes meaning you need to apply gel to every single one. You’ll notice that the person wearing it is also not blinking or using any facial muscles, as that activity would completely throw off the very weak brain signals.
That’s great yeah, looks awesome. Sorry if it seemed like I was poo-pooing on it. Mostly meant that if everyone were to list their personal favorite todo app the thread would never end ha.
Sorry, but compel seems to only work with diffusion models. Note that they have no examples of running this with modern LLMs. It only supports a fraction of the techniques that, for example Automatic1111 supports for "real" prompt engineering. Even if I'm wrong and compel does work with, any transformer model, it still only supports a small fraction of all the "real" prompt engineering techniques.

I shouldn't have to "average the embed tokens myself".

I know you're a big deal in the industry, but you're SO WRONG about the idea that "there isn't as much of a need for it for LLMs". I hate that the NLP community has such huge blindspots for this kind of stuff. Anything that gives further levers of control has massive improvements to the capabilities of an LLM.

My github gist proves that all of these techniques found in automatic1111 work with NLP models, yet no one implements it. I think it's because of the potential for breaking alignment techniques with them.

And yes, I will fight and die on this hill even if Yann Lecun and Christopher Manning tell me I'm wrong. I know I'm right.
Also, the founder has an unfortunate history of just up and abandoning his projects when they stop being fun for him. I used his media host/imgur alternative in the past, and it spontaneously just disappeared one day. I'd rather that not happen to my source code
To be honest gitlab can be a very painful beast to maintain if you just want to use it for yourself, especially if it's exposed to the public internet. The update rate is a bit insane, and while the updates are usually easy you still end up having to update almost every week or so, and I think monthly for critical security updates.
The 386 has two layers of metal, which makes it an order of magnitude more difficult to reverse engineer. I don't have a good process for removing one layer of metal at a time, so I end up having to puzzle over faint patterns in the metal to determine what is going on.

The two layers of metal also make it much harder to make diagrams that show what is going on in the circuit without turning into a tangle of lines. In this article, I decided not to try, and went straight to schematics.
Eugenics and Phrenology were very relevant at the time and used as a scientific basis to justify many attrocities.

It's important to remember that science evolves, and what we "know" to be part of scientific knowledge today might be debunked in the future. Specially with the state of peer review in the social sciences my feeling is many things that are said to be scientific fact today will be proven wrong later, including whole fields.

Easier to trust more fundamental aspects of math and physics, but even in those fields, on the bleeding edge many things can change.

The current zeitgeist is that science is as holy as religion used to be, and because there's so many anti-science people gaining a voice on the internet, it's sometimes easy to forget that we're not perfect at science and we also make wrong turns while we trudge our way through the scientific method.
Dwarf Fortress's accessible Adventure mode will arrive in April 2024
A problem seems to be that smart jerks know that people would prefer to not be around them and therefore spend a lot of time/energy/intelligence making themselves organizationally powerful enough that people have no choice. I think this is sometimes called "playing politics". Prevention seems to require actors who are both politically savvy and kind, and that doesn't seem to be easy to find.
It's weird that we live in a time where my initial reaction upon reading your comment was "this guy is definitely an AI bot". "That" phrasal structure + freshly created account? I'm simultaneously thinking that maybe I'm being unfair to a real human being and that I'm not really sure if I should care at this point... maybe the new machine men with machine hearts will be more humane than the machine men with machine hearts we have today.