skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This was as far from a VR headset as a kid’s Schwinn bicycle is from a Gulfstream G800 private jet

this quote wont age well
It is cheaper to make laws like this than to actually help poor people by giving them cash or services, which would cause an increase in taxes.

You can lay more of the burden on the upper middle and middle income deciles (since the costs are spread implicitly via costs to comply with regulation and liability avoidance), and avoid taxing the top percentiles, which really would require a broad wealth (or property) tax. Or alternatively, much higher land value taxes which hit the top percentiles too.
The misaligned incentives for security is the core issue, so stronger regulation is needed. Breach happens? entire executive team ought to get most of their remuneration clawed back.
I buy all my books paperback, even if I listen to them on audible, for posterity’s sake.
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Any relationship to residual vector quantized embeddings?
> By comparison I find bing image generator kicks dall-es ass

Huh? Doesn't bing image generator just use the DALL-E api?
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I meant personally. I'm not saying psychopaths don't exist. It would make sense that psychopaths would identify with the story, as it's about them.

I'm saying the story is not a call to violence for normal individuals.
Lifestance bought up the practice I was going to a couple years ago, and I have continued to see the same people. Haven't heard any complaints from them, will have to ask at my next appointment I guess
I mean, I think you're just wrong here. The entire state of the computer can be encoded and manipulated using mathematics. If that weren't possible, the computer wouldn't work.
It’s about 25% of every barrel we pull out of the ground. It’s not insignificant.
I just don't have enough time to do it manually. Writing a little script that automates crafting was quicker for me. It found me "Star Trek: The Rockapocalypse"

const sleep = (ms) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

let elements = [
' Water',
' Fire',
' Wind',
' Earth'
];

let pairs = {};

async function getResponse(left, right) {
const url = `https://neal.fun/api/infinite-craft/pair?first=${left}&second=${right}`;
return await (await fetch(url)).json();
}

function getRandom() {
return elements[Math.floor(Math.random() * elements.length)];
}

async function run() {
while (true) {
let left = getRandom();
let right = getRandom();
if (pairs[`${left} + ${right}`]) {
continue;
}
let result = await getResponse(left.split(' ').slice(1).join(' '), right.split(' ').slice(1).join(' '));
if (result.isNew) {
console.log('‼ new one ‼');
}
result = `${result.emoji} ${result.result}`;
console.log(`${left} + ${right} = ${result}`);
if (result != ' Nothing') {
pairs[`${left} + ${right}`] = result;
elements.push(result);
}
await sleep(1000);
}
}

run();
Yes, obviously in saying they can’t intervene enough to cause a problem for the whole website I envisage the possibility that they could intervene often enough to cause a problem for a part thereof.
> Canada has no unique privacy or other laws that apply to AI

Canada has plenty of unique laws, whether or not they apply to ai is a question yet to be answered. It seems pretty reasonable to me for google to take a cautious approach to our unique legal landscape
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I see. That makes sense.

That actually seems like a very solvable problem with older boilers by adding something like a heat exchanger on the flue / exhaust. That should be a <$500 retrofit, and should bring efficiency up to >>90%.
This is also occurring on my Mac
I love this thread! I'm discovering that there are dozens of us who like working in small commits :) My question to you all is where do you hang out? Where can we do more discussion on software development practices like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

Google is a search engine company and LLMs and related technologies are basically an existential risk to their core business -- ads in search. Anything they do to improve AI has a potential to kill their golden goose. Like imagine they actually do produce a breakthrough LLM but don't know how to monetize it yet and traffic to google search craters.

If you're the best horse and buggy company in the world, do you go all in on building cars or just keep doing what you're good at and extract profits while you still can? I don't think the right answer is obvious -- just like it's not at all obvious that ICE car companies should pivot to electric, and they've been pretty bad at electric cars for the same reasons.
Absolutely yes, but you'd have to design that for each application you develop. I'd love an out of the box solution. Then maybe skip the file and use pipes or sockets.
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I find them valuable, especially when trying to study a new codebase. In the current era where we get immediate feedback on everything we post online, it's harder to see the value that comes from writing good commits, and the value can be delayed by weeks, months, or even years.
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If anything, this just tells us that tooling should incorporate commit messages a lot more. While these kind of messages are most valuable in large projects, there are some of them in a lot of projects and they could have saved a lot of time.

Especially now with AI IDE integrations, incorporating a software's whole history into supplemental tools would be more useful than ever before.
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>>Anyone know what those might be?

A simple resolution would be that the physical infrastructure in some area does not support the same speed as in other areas, and it more economically feesable to upgrade in area where the average bill is higher than in area's where the overage bill is lower. The ROI is clear
This thing still looks awesome! I really liked the timelessness of mac design and I kind of miss the awe of earlier macs. Nowadays it's incremental. Back in the day you were wowed by the aurora background.
Yes, but most of them could be right. Given that Taiwan has cornered the market for so long, now that other countries are at least trying you could see a shift like this hypothetical market share change:

Taiwan 80% -> 50%

EU 1% -> 10%

US 1% -> 10%

South Korea 9% -> 15%

China 9% -> 15%

And if 4/5 of them ended up "being right" would indicate that subsidy policies are effective, right?
Precision equipment for Russian arms makers came from U.S.-allied Taiwan
I was checking the final version (xwoaf_rebuild4.iso), that is 2205696 bytes
paywall: https://archive.is/5bwG8
Bard image creation is currently not even close to DALL-E by a mile. The word restrictions are insane, no sadness, no poop, no cry, no hurt. Eyes are worse than 2021 Dall-E. For example, I test the dall-e with the prompt "Create an image of a crying woman". It created very nice ones. Bard ignores anything about women for unknown reasons. Anything with banana as well. Women + banana ignored immediately.

Politically correct AI is super frustrating. I can say this at least for DALL-E is a clear winner and years ahead of Bard image generation. It is worse than self-hosted stable dif.
Elo Life Systems grabs another $20.5M to get its monk fruit sweetener to market
> required many years until achieving a decent implementation for multi-threaded CPUs and during that time they have remained long behind Linux and other operating systems

Many OSes at the time had hitches with SMP. BSD was one of them. FreeBSD had SMP in 4.x but almost everything in the kernel was single-threaded and the kernel thread was a major bottleneck.

FreeBSD wasn't alone in this. Linux suffered from a similar problem at the time, also because of the driver architecture. (The infamous "big kernel lock" wasn't fully eliminated until 2011: https://kernelnewbies.org/BigKernelLock)

This is an area where NT was much better, or VMS, or Solaris. And yes, the SMP issue, in hindsight, does partly explain why both Linux and BSD weren't as historically attractive as they otherwise looked, for large systems.
>whether or not they apply to ai is a question yet to be answered

Yet Google has never said a peep on this. Can you name one such "unique law" that would prohibit Google but somehow is no issue for other vendors?

>It seems pretty reasonable to me for google to take a cautious approach

Bard is available in over a hundred countries, all with "unique" laws. Bard is available across the EU which has dramatically more comprehensive personal privacy and rights laws.
The whole point of Transformers is that they broke the Markov assumption (i.e., that the next token probability is strictly conditioned on a window of N preceding tokens).
> You can lay more of the burden on the upper middle and middle income deciles

This seems like it just means everyone will pay whatever the highest cost for anyone is. Doesn't seem like it burden's the middle more than anyone else.
We agree! I phrased my response clumsily, I meant my experience was the opposite in that I emigrated from the US instead of immigrating to it. I like living in Europe but it likely came with $2 million or so in opportunity cost, especially since I'm from norcal...
Backprop doesn’t give a shit
It's Fair to Describe Schizophrenia as Probably Mostly Genetic
Hey, thanks for the response. This helps.
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I've been building Google Sheets Add-Ons for around 3-4 years now, and working on Sheet Copilot (Formerly Formula God) for over a year.

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I thought it was Quebec and the English and not French issue.
We need more inflation than 2% though. The fact that 211% is too high doesn't mean that 2% isn't too low. And the low inflation expectations leads to low interest rates which reduces the cost of money which is creating our financial sector inflation/bubble.
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Typographic quotes are left- and right-handed, vs. the ASCII double quote which is just a single character:

“quoted”

"quoted"

Who in the blazing highs of techno-utopianism fervor thought it was a good idea to automatically translate the latter to the former we'll never know.
I was curious about the use of "terrestial", and it looks like it means "not aquatic" rather than "not from outer space".
Aren't you mistaking disk space for memory size? Available disk space in 2002 was much larger.
Specifically, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta[0], not just Malta the country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...
Google did it. Amazon did it. Plenty of others did. What do you think they were doing before recurrent neural networks?
I feel like with this kind of reasoning, everyone is always a victim regardless of their actions. This man intentionally played a game that is known to be rigged and lost...

> “what was coming” isn’t necessarily deserved

For sure, and I agreed with that at the beginning of my previous comment
> Brilliant!

Maybe it was brilliant early on, but by 2000 like 99% of computer users didn't knew about the typist layout and yet it was always one accidental keypress away :) It was a shortut that you could press accidentally when you highlighted whole words with ctrl+shift+left/right.

> ignored diactritics

Yeah we wrote without diacritics too early on. On computers because in 90s there were 3 competing 8bit encodings so it was like 66% chance you got the encoding wrong. Most nerds (me included) could recognize the most common encoding mismatches visually :) Thank god for utf-8 :). We had diacritics in phones but it was a hassle to type them with numerical keyboards on dumbphones, so most people didn't. So now it looks "lazy" to avoid diacritics and most people use them AFAIK.

BTW it's funny how outdated Polish ortography (we still have digraphs sz/cz/rz/dz and even some trigraphs like dzi which most Latin Slavic scripts replaced with š etc.) became a positive early on during the computer revolution.
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I have seen enough by now to have sold all my google shares. They are falling under their own weight. You can only layoff so much while you play catch up but it is not long before new entrants consume googles ad business and then poof, a long slow death until they are just another company of yesteryear… “wow dad you guys used to use google? How did you manage?”
Do you mean something like this by Tamas Rabel?

https://tamas-rabel.github.io/hex_world_generator/hex_world_...
> I have felt that pride in writing a great commit message, but I am less sure of the value to others. I don’t think most people search commit messages when they encounter an unusual error message, or when adding a new feature, or really almost ever.

They have value even if the only person who will ever look at them is you - and I will say that when bisecting an issue, the commit message of the commit I finally find is really useful (or it could be if it wasn't fixed thing). It also means that if you encounter a similar issue again, you know that there's a note on a commit you can find.
I believe 23andme rounds down, so I could be at 2.49% and it would still show 2%. Anyways it's just a fun statistic based on probably not a proportionally representative sample of the entire human population, but what they have on hand.
wow! In the same league of μLinux (muLinux). I remember back in the day, running a full X11 environment with only two floppies.
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I haven't seen Solaris but Stalker really really sucked.
For a long time there was a Perl script called the Demoronizer that fixed this kind of nonsense.
Its intent was to place guardrails/checks and balances around new development that could potentially damage fragile ecosystems. (It's still used this way a lot)

In actual use, though, it's often also (mis-)applied and weaponized by NIMBYs who just hate changes of any sort.

Affirmative (as opposed to preventative) environmental laws also exist, such as the solar subsidies discussed in the article, CAFE (fuel economy) mandates, etc. They're just different.

Anyway, I don't mean to lecture, lol, just point out that sometimes laws can be weaponized against their original intent.
The links at the bottom of their blog aren't inline in any other text. They're "clickable UI elements that stand on their own", "in a group with other related [links]". One could easily argue they're more button like, especially the email and call links at the very bottom of the page.

The author is complaining about nobody would understand to click on Accept in their example without having an outline around it and yet they expect people to understand to click on "eMail" and have it open their default email client.
how can you write about something called The Mikado, talk about taking things out, and not say, "They'll none of them be missed." ?
You may be eating pre-digested food
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Cash and services just helps the symptoms though. Addressing the root cause involves educating the poor somehow so that they have the skills to be more financially self reliant and the ability to avoid traps (lottery, debt, etc).

Being poor (long term, i.e. across generations) actually has little to do with how much money is currently in your bank account and everything to do with how much knowledge is in your mind. That's why you could take a highly paid [insert profession], take every penny and possession of theirs and dump them on the street penniless and homeless, and they wouldn't stay poor for very long if they didn't want to.
The problem in Canada is layers of legal uncertainty. Quebec recently passed Bill 64, which purports to regulate applications of AI. The Federal government is in second reading of bill C-27, which will impose an onerous regulatory regime on AI. (It is unclear if forthcoming amendments will prohibit open source AI tools entirely.) On top of that, the Federal privacy commissioner and five provincial privacy commissioners are currently investigating whether to sanction OpenAI under PIPEDA and various provincial privacy laws.

It's too small of a market for the level of legal risk, unless the upside is huge, which it isn't for at least the public-facing version of Bard.

Anthropic's Claude also isn't available in Canada, likely for similar reasons.
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I am not your parent but…

I believe the prevailing answer to your question (among people who think we shouldn’t use interest rates as our lever) is taxed - specifically, corporate taxes.

I don’t have strong feelings about this one way or another, but I believe that is the answer you will be given.
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Very sleek, I like it!
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