skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are not understanding things right, then.

GPT-3 has about the same number of free parameters as the number of synapses in a mid-sized rodent brain.

> Intelligence is comprised of multiple complex systems. ChatGPT only ever claimed to focus on the language part. It does not contain reasoning.

It (ChatGPT) is doing abstract symbol manipulation, unless you want to expand the idea of language to include chess positions (even if mediocrely), algebra, and the application of the rules of formal logic to the symbols used to represent those rules when it is so prompted.

> Even a rodent can reason.

> Much less complex organisms can reason, too.

For which values of the meaning of the word "reason"? From your other comment "But I would define ability to reason as the ability to make logic conclusions based on input from a feedback loop."

1. This is a terrible waste of computer power, in the order of multiple-trillions-to-one ratio, given logic is the underlying thing used to represent the numbers and floating point operations that approximate linear algebra that in turn is used to build LLMs.

(A similar ratio is also found in human "logical" cognition, and is why we don't use logic all the time, hence the classic example of "a baseball bat & ball that cost $1.10 together, the bat is $1 more expensive than the ball, how much does a bat cost?" which so many get wrong).

2. LLMs can do that anyway. Even literal flow charts are still doing that anyway, and LLMs can build flow charts.

It still makes mistakes, sure, yup, but then the question is "how many compared to a human?" and that's terrifyingly close to humans and I'm just hoping it will remain on the same side, slightly worse — I mean, your own example is humans being fooled by it, so clearly you also know humans can be wildly wrong.
Is there a way for VLIW to succeed in generic computing? Or is impossible?
Impact of time-of-day on brain morphometric measures (2016)
I'm not sure that makes much of a difference. It's just another version of xenophobia.
Depends on what you're aiming for.

If we talk about ultra-low-power platforms, e.g. energy-harvesting IoT devices, 1MB is still quite a lot.

If we are going to argue that Rust can compete with C/C++, it needs to have similar performance, also regarding binary size.
On the contrary. They can have all the deliberation they want but the votes need to be secret to avoid peer pressure, bullying, blackmail or coercion. In all these cases, the juror is not following their conscience, which is supposed to be the whole point. It has been known for centuries that public voting is ripe for abuse.
> so I guess I'll have to wait several more years

A feature that's landed in Rust nightly will be part of the next beta release (at most 6 weeks away) and then the following full release (exactly 6 weeks away).

For this feature in particular, rustbot added a tag of 1.77.0, which is releasing on 21st March 2024, less than 2 months away.

It's possible you've confused this with more complex features that stay on nightly for a long while they are tested. This is not one of those features.
Maybe the brain's plasticity. I read somewhere, a long time ago, that brain nerve cells wonder around and do their thing based on incoming stimuli when the child develops. During very early age a lot of things can be corrected by the brain if something goes sideways, thanks to the plasticity of these nerve cells, but after a while, when the nerve cells "settle" and "conquer their role", they cannot change anymore.
It's extremely opinionated though - and sneaky because it looks like Trello (cards-in-lanes), but it really isn't; it took a lot of frustration to realize it's more like one of the older tools where the "canban board" is just a duct-taped-after-the-fact view over their underlying data model.

In Trello I can set up lanes and move cards around as I please, in Linear strange things suddenly happen, and it's super confusing to tell what is possible and what isn't.

Like, what lanes a card can be in depends on which team owns the card; try to move a card from one team into another teams lanes, it won't let you without first "migrating" the card to be owned by the other team.
We are not anywhere close to creating a conscious AI. An AI without humanity is completely pointless unless it is capable of building a conscious AI which I doubt it is.
Daily temperature rhythm in the human brain predicts survival after brain injury [pdf]
No but researchers will build on this research, as researchers do and eventually some company will run a successful product based on the result of a lot of research that includes this and we'll be bitching about google falling behind.

Google is sponsoring a lot of cutting edge research and sharing it openly. How cool is that? How long will it last?
Adds up with larger applications using a bunch of distinct binaries or many libraries.
The problem is musl does not support execinfo. For a simple hello world, I managed to statically link with musl to get something with 7888 bytes.
And I'm telling you they are all delusional and/or propped up by oil and gas companies.
> (and not just blindly copy-pasting the 4MB binary blob)

Where is this 4mb claim coming from? I just built a hello world on macos in release mode, with no special flags and the result was 400kb. Thats absolutely larger that it should be, but its a lot smaller than 4mb.

Is it really that much worse on linux?
I had a look at central Europe and this map not accurate e.g. motor boar = yes and it only shows w few parts of the same river.
That's all any communication is, is two or more parties using symbols who's meanings a majority agrees on. It does not require a dictionary.

I refer back to the simple fact that the original commenter felt it reasonable to speak the words, believing that others had the same idea what the words meant as they themselves did, and to the fact that I and others did in fact have that same understanding. That means it is utterly silly to be trying to say that the term has no meaning. Does everyone else have telepathy and only poor you are left out of the club? It's even silly to claim that merely you individually just don't know what the term meant, if you would claim to work in any remotely IT related field.

It basically looks like an attempt to look smart backfiring badly.

The reason the things the term doesn't define don't matter is the same reason as for all other terms or symbols. No term is a complete description of anything. It defines what it defines and does not define anything else.

When you say "XML", you still have not said an infinity of things. XML merely defines more than INI. INI defines a certain structure, and you are free to do whatever you want within that structure, exactly like XML and all other formats & protocols.

If they defined everything, then they wouldn't be general purpose frameworks for packaging data, they would be snapshots of specific particular data. In fact they would not even be snapshots but one specific physical instance taking one specific form as it exist in one place at one time somewhere.

There is no way you don't already know all of this, I absolutely credit you with having this much understanding of how symbols work, which makes your argument disingenuous.

If you didn't and your argument was sincere, then you are embarrassingly illiterate for trying to partake in a conversation in this area. Not a crime to be that ignorant, and if so then I apologize for ridiculing a 6 year old who somehow found their way onto HN, but consider yourself now better informed than you were. That a ratified rfc or iso for INI, or any other term, is not required for a term to be valid communication. All that's required is for speaker and listener to both understand it, and such definitions are merely one of many ways for a term to have meaning and for all involved parties to have that mutual understanding.

Wait, I suppose I have to explain what rfc and iso and ieee all mean in this context. Anyone who did not know what .ini meant surely can not recognize any of those either.
Take-and-bake plays a significant role in the instore bakery (2023)
The article discusses the key improvements and changes in observability for Spring Boot 3.2, including enhanced tracing options, testing observability, new annotations in Micrometer, and other relevant changes.
Because some people throw a tantrum if it doesn't come pre-dockerized, I suppose
Another Online Used-Car Dealer Bites the Dust: Vroom, 3.5 Years After IPO
As proven multiple times with GNU/Linux failures among mass market, beyond traditional UNIX strongholds of headless computing, that isn't what the masses care about to make a sustainable product.

Even the Steam Deck is only a thing, because at then end of the day it's Windows games that gamers get to enjoy on the platform, Linux/Wine/Proton being a detail.
So we're better with benevolent dictators.
Nice project! I've long used Tika for document parsing given it's maturity and wide number of formats supported. The XHTML output helps with chunking documents for RAG.

Here's a couple examples:

- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-rag-pipelines-with-txtai

- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/extract-text-from-documents

Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai).
So basically anything that protects the customers privacy is automatically “deliberately to attract criminals”?

That’s a problem.
Yes. The statement I agree the most with in the blog post is "defaults matter".
Time of day associated with reductions in global signals and connectivity
No one is going to agree to such non-trivial impacts to their lives so long as it seems unfair. I will never give up meat, but will do so tomorrow if we blocked all mass global transportation networks, mandated fruit trees in all houses, and blockaded all imports from China. Those are far bigger issues for me and that means I'll be stubborn as a voter.
A few years ago, we decided to travel to Wales, mainly to visit the Doctor Who Experience, but also to pay Llanfairpwll­gwyngyllgogery­chwyrndrobwll­llantysilio­gogogoch a visit (for the novelty factor). We flew to Stansted and then drove through the English countryside and had a truly magical moment, when we decided to stop for a short rest. In small town we drove onto a parking lot, and then followed the sign to a small park/picnic are. The park was right at one of the waterways and there lay a few of those narrowboats and one or two were navigating the channel. It was such an unexpected sight, it felt light out of this world. Before that I had never heard of them.

Later I saw a depiction of life on such a boat when my wife watched Call the Midwife. It must have been Episode S05E07.
There've been charities working on this since before carbon credits were a thing; they're practically a byproduct. Bad cooking equipment is a huge killer, literally millions of people a year.

> these other people have to change their lifestyle

In this case, the lifestyle change is "not dying of poor indoor air quality", so I think people will generally be fine with that. You're generally looking here at some combo of replacing open fires with stoves, replacing inefficient solid fuel stoves with more efficient solid fuel stoves, or replacing solid fuel stoves with LPG stoves (plus venting improvements etc).
Gotta agree with you, the QL is strange. I tried using the wizard but it kept spinning. I tried asking Bard and ChatGPT but they provided invalid syntax.

This is sad because overpass is extremely powerful tool.

I’ll give the tutorials other commenters linked a try.
Palworld Controversy: Why Pokemon Fans Are Calling for a Nintendo Lawsuit
Prompts Are Tiny Programs
> say, pedestrians just because they're less energy efficient than bicyclists.

Being born with 2 leg, they aren't "going out of [their] way" though..
Fair enough, that is newsworthy.
I started the Coding Challenges newsletter March 2023 to share the real-world projects I use to learn a new programming language.

It's evolved from then and now has 40+ real-world projects you can build to level up as a software engineer.

You can find the coding challenges here: https://codingchallenges.fyi/challenges/intro

After many requests I built a few paid courses, which I'm slowly adding to around the day job.
Which is, of course, completely ridiculous for us in the year 2024 where random consumer devices feed every bit of data they can conceive about their surroundings into semi legal data aggregators 24/7
Rob Pike's post about Arno on Mastodon:
https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/111803732223395172
Build an audience first, then build the product that they want.
> ChatGPT proceeded to spit out a snippet of rust code, starting with a dependecy outdated by 4 years, proceeeded to mix API from several versions of the dependency and completely ignored most of the request.

If that's what you meant, I think everyone here, including the people disagreeing with examples (e.g. me), would have agreed.

What I mean with my examples is: it can do all the bits. Is it perfect? Nope. Do you still need a human in the loop to understand the failure modes? Yup. That MS paint app you asked for 45 minutes ago? Features are decomposable, so it can do this step by step, so long as you're OK adding one feature at a time instead of trying to do it all in one go — 75% of the results are fully functional and do what you asked for (which isn't always what you wanted, "tool selector" can be the CSS or the widget itself).
Out in javascript land no one cares about file size or wire time any more (but should) --

Over in C, plenty of people work on things where file size matters. It is a big deal. System constraints (embedded) wire constraints (far away systems where internet is slow and ephemeral), legacy systems where everything is going to be slow even moving that fat file around and you have to be present to update (ATM, ticket, vending machines)... The list goes on.

So it may NOT matter for the desk top, or mobile or servers, but that's a tiny fraction of the computing out there.
> "computers" no longer necessarily produce accurate output

This was always the case. Just because a computer executes your model, doesn't mean your model has any bearing on reality. This is not a new phenomenon.
Surely this is the final nail in the coffin for the whole 737 Max?
>At its core, it is a math PDF extraction engine. The engine has some machine learning going on behind the scenes to extract math problems in LaTeX from any image or document.

I would like more to see curated hand picked math problems instead of mass imported problems from various sources. Along with solutions and detailed explanations and links to the theory needed to understand and solve the problem.
Spotify's shuffle is hilariously bad though (to the point that there exist outside tools to pre-shuffle your playlists). I see that article more as an "excuse" for their bad engineering.

I'm sure there are people who will get angry if they get two songs in a row from the same artist on a "random" playlist, but I'll much rather have that than the pseudo-random Spotify nonsense that will only play similar tracks next to each other or just ignore 90% of the playlist.
They should have made the bit about Boeing instead.
You are looking at the aftermath. Also, you could have manually put `strip = "debuginfo"` to avoid the 4 MB binary even before that; the issue is about the default when no `strip` option was given.
Fix your IMDb social embeds on Discord and other social media
Just replace imdb.com with shareimdb.com in any IMDb movie or TV show link you are sharing. The links will redirect anyone to proper imdb.com page as usual and when shared on social media or Discord, the links will always have nice preview with image.
You can catch them locally (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html) or with a global exception handler (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.set_hook.html)
I don’t doubt it obviously, but I wonder what triggers it as I’ve never experienced any of these personally on the Apple TV app. I got other reasons I dislike it, but many of them stem from YouTube itself being more terrible than ever.
If you’ve got the money for one it’s easy to buy (see a site called ApolloDuck for used prices) and register, though the specifics of registration depend on which waterways you want to be on (the Canal and River Trust covers the majority, the Environment Agency some key sections, and there’s some odd few others managed by their own agencies). It’s perfectly legal, but as Covid really proved access to services can be a bit confusing, as it’s the mooring, not the boat, that can be classed as having a post code, and pretty much everything in the UK is tied to your post code. So while the boat can be your residence it can be more than a little difficult to access things like GP Surgeries (primary medical care( and other government systems that assume you’re at a fixed address. It’s a great way to live and to see the UK, but it has caveats for anyone with chronic medical issues, for example.
To quote the great song: The most interesting people I know, didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

So, I started out as IT Helpdesk. Then life took me to systems administration. Then I got 'promoted' to 'site administration' (everything tech related in a food factory - even the machine that made the food - a train-wagon-sized machine that run German Win95 (that was back in the early 00's), networking, telephony, the whole thing.

Later I switched to Internal (IT) Audit (that is a good paying job)(including SOX). Then that took me to IT Security and (IT) Project Management. Then got an IT GRC gig that required IT, IT Audit, SOX, and Proj.Mgmg. There was always a Privacy thing in whatever I was doing so I later gave Data Protection a try, and it worked/is working out well.

So.. I like what the CEO of Spotify said on the DOAC podcast about "T-shaped" skills. You are TOOOOO YOUNG to get married to a specific job.

Keep an open mind, let it take you where it takes you. Sometimes a smarter/wiser/older person may see something in you that you haven't realized, and that will make you jump 'diagonally upwards' (not vertically in the hierarchy ladder and not horizontally in the same grade but in a similar role).

If you would have asked me at 23 "do you imagine having worked in 'these' companies, traveled in 'those' countries, and make 'that' money by your 30/40/50 I would have said that you're crazy. But life is crazy so embrace it, keep an open mind, keep an open eye, and be kind to others.
In my experience this is usually a result of misapplying the idea of "consensus". The best formulation I've seen work is "nobody is vetoing". It doesn't mean that everyone agrees, just that nobody disagrees strongly enough to block progress.
https://archive.ph/qlp18
a) why not use
switch {
case len(a) < len(b):
b = b[:len(a)]
case len(b) < len(a):
a = a[:len(b)]
}

b) do you know the usual length of the slices? if so, can't you autogenerate/manually write switch to manually do the math? how would that perform?
Wouldn't trust the craftsmanship, better to cremate.
The plants used to make the best mezcal are disappearing
Google discover that not all countries have the same laws about work than the US
Interesting project. Would be nice to see how it compares to the built-in operations provided in Faiss.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/How-to-make-F...
If approximately half the cost of an EV is the battery pack I'm terrified by the prospect of a $10k car...
I was recently abroad. Started watching a show on Prime. Would come back and get some issues as you describe but overall it worked.

Came back home to find that Prime has now no idea I even started watching that show. Had to binary search episodes until I found where I had stopped.
I don't expect an attribution but a mention of the complexity of analyzing the explosion based on real political issues in Lebanon. And, obviously mentioning the involved actors.
> Debian/Ubuntu is also the sole chosen distro for Spotify and Signal first-party native packages.

I don't know about present, but in the past their .deb packages were updated later than the snap ones.
Apple was fine on POWER
The concept is fine, but implementation is quite obnoxious.

You'll have crap in your mounts list, process list, home folder, etc. As a reward for putting up with all that you'll have slower to start applications!

PPA, flatpack, and even "make install" are much more polite when you need a newer version of something, with good performance.

I recommend Mint these days. Easier than decluttering Ubuntu after every install.
It's funny that it was already considered be “only pay for what you use” when the binaries contained half of H. P. Lovecraft's œuvre.

See issue #13871

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871

I exaggerate, point is that we've come a long way and are still getting better. Different people look at different metrics and the more popular the language becomes the bigger the variety of metrics the come into focus.
The plastic paradox: How plastics went from elephant saviors to eco-villains
One of the things I enjoyed in Morocco (which is probably true in most places with traditional North African and Middle Eastern architecture, although don’t quote me) is how the relationship of private space to public space is entirely reversed from Western countries.

Instead of exterior windows showing the objects inside, the outside wall has essentially zero windows or decorations. Everything is interior facing and usually centers on a courtyard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_(architecture)
Alaska [Airlines] CEO. We're still a few years away from states having CEOs.
Yes, the skit makes no sense.
Can you point, please, to the better abstractions?
This is where good simulations are useful. If you can show even in ideal simple data scenarios, you encounter inference problems, it’s a strong signal that real data has little chance of doing better.

In general these are model identifiability issues.
> “Anyone who doesn’t think that in two years’ time AGI will have ushered in a new age where we all live on UBI and are free to explore our passions isn’t paying attention/has no idea what’s about to happen”, etc. etc.

I'd be surprised if it takes less than 6 to fully generalise over all domains (what I expect to be hard is "learning from as few examples as a human"), and I'm not convinced there's the political will to roll out UBI fast enough, not even if AI that is sufficiently powerful as to require UBI to avoid economic collapse and popular revolution takes 20 years.

But AI may well break a lot of things in 2 years even without being either of those. Radical economic disruption doesn't need to replace all humans, even 5% would be huge, and it doesn't need to be as evidence-efficient as a human if there's lots of humans doing the same thing that the evidence-inefficient AI can learn from.

On the other hand I have just described the trucking industry, and yet even despite the ability to collect all that training data from all those drivers, Tesla has still not fully solved self-driving vehicle AI.

And also, I do mean "replacing humans" rather than just doing specific tasks that are currently done by humans: if those same humans can "just learn a different job", then so long as they can retrain faster than AI can learn the same jobs by watching humans collectively, this isn't so bad.

> empirical evidence or theory

Theory, I'd agree. But then, we don't really have any theory suitable to this task.

Empirical evidence? That's a weird take, to me. What it can already do, even despite the mistakes of the current generation, has me wondering how long I'm going to be economically relevant for — and hoping this is a repeat of Clever Hans.
Yes, I'm sure you can design an experiment which shows different jury structures will produce different decisions. But how do you know which of them makes the better decisions?
November will change everything.
It seems like it’s completely false information.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/19dtz5b/comment/kj8qf...