skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely true either. If it thinks it has network but it's flakey, it won't translate offline, it will say there is network error and will give you a button to retry. No button to do offline.

Additionally, in airplane mode it heavily doesn't want to translate, in my use case I have to go to saved translations as otherwise it won't even let me type what I need to translate.
Bay Area Restaurant in a Lighthouse Closing After 40 Years
Quinn’s Lighthouse in Oakland, CA.
It might be a naive question, but why don't they just keep printing the book, if it was a hit?

There is a section on the website that says: "The book is almost sold out. A small remainder of books will be available to order in late 2023 or early 2024"

I was looking for some beautiful books about technology, so I'd love to buy the book, but I can't, and now I have to hope that I won't miss that email.

Or is it just a sales tactic like booking.com's "there is only one room left" banners?
The ability to truly not think about training run costs, throw random things on the wall to see what sticks. 10x resources is definitely a competitive advantage in LLM training.
Isn't the dopamine rush from fulfilling their curiosity?
I don't recall what path his friend took.

As for my advice, I don't regret it at all. But the one thing that might have made a difference was that I could afford to put our sons through college (public school, UIUC) so neither graduated with debt.
It’s good, but it’s even better with plotnine (formerly ggplot, the python port of ggplot2).
Smallest Knot Ever Created Is Just 54 Atoms Long
An addition to that: motion sickness is as easily caused with 3D movies with too much action and camera movements if in full immersion.

In that front, it seems like the Vision Pro has just no option for that and all the reviews point at a fairly low immersion, even for 3D movies.

For better or worse it really feels like a glorified TV/computer monitor on so many aspects.
(BTW limiting what to do with a Quest3 isn't difficult either. There's now a windowed mode with a prompt when an app wants to go immersive. Dismissing the prompt lets you stay in windowed mode as long as you want)
Never forget that the world economy is probably being held together by a handful of these.
This Superconducting Experiment Just Broke Physics
What probably could have been done (and kind of was done with NAT) would have been to move one byte from the port number to the address, giving us 256 additional “Internets” worth of addresses but limiting each address to 256 ports.
Gotcha. To be clear I don't take offense, I just thought it was worth pointing out.

I do see what you were going for there, but it is sort of undone when you seem to compare it to eating lead immediately after. I understand you weren't intending to do that, you never draw a direct comparison, but the juxtaposition seems to imply it. The lead thing was what tipped the scale and made me decide to write a comment, I was on the fence about it.
What makes you think that the "selling point" of AI today is that it is significantly better at everything than humans?
> People who believe such a being exists should not then argue, “If there is no god then where did everything come from?”

Cosmological arguments for God's existence generally follow this structure:

1. Everything having property P must have a cause external to itself which lacks property P

2. The universe has property P

3. By (1) and (2), the universe must have a cause C external to itself which lacks property P

4. Since C (by the above) lacks property P, (1) does not require C to have any external cause

5. Let us call C "God" (either simply by defining "God=C", or else by further arguments that C must have various God-properties)

Different values of P create different specific cosmological arguments. If P="has a beginning in time", you get the kalam argument. If P="is a contingent being", you get the argument from contingency.

Given this, I don't think your response is valid. It works against some unsophisticated caricatures (strawman versions) of the cosmological argument, but not the argument as defended by major theist philosophers.

That said, I personally find all cosmological arguments unconvincing, for a different reason. They have the burden of arguing that premise (1) is true (for whatever P they've chosen), without presuming God's existence in doing so – and I've never been convinced they've actually succeeded at that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39173034 If this paper replicates, LLM-like large transformer models can approximate Solomonoff induction pretty well, with other neural net types showing clear evidence of generalizing outside the training distribution. If substantial efficiency improvements get implemented and new architectures get developed, that's game over. The AI is smarter than you, and can trivially be made into an agent by having the approximate Solomonoff induction section simulate the behavior of an agent in the real world, and then having another section change the real world to match the simulation by controlling the real-world agent, creating a full cybernetic system, a closed loop.
I just did an interview where the collaborative coding session had an ai assistant in it, just a wrapper around chatgpt

that was interesting, upvoting that employer for honesty and pragmatism
That's not true, it's not like if the US defaults you become personally liable.

We're more like shareholders, and they are never debtors.
That would be a good strategy if you anticipated the crash. Many did not. But in any case this was at a time when a college degree was reasonably affordable and I could cover the cost of his degree.
What you mean with "PDFs with malware/executables"?

If you're talking about embedded active content within them, then a reader application can just ignore/not run it.

If you're talking about a crafted PDF that exploits, let's say, font rendering bugs inside the reader than it's near impossible. Keep your applications updated.
(Zapier co-founder) Perhaps the least known feature of Zapier is that you can use the dev platform (https://zapier.com/developer) to make your own private apps for any API (including internal/private services) and then sign requests with auth credentials. The dev platform even has a full WYSIWYG app builder! Then, anyone in your account can use the private app to make Zaps.

Relevant to OP, all platform auth creds are secured and not exposed after initial setup.

Separately, we just launched custom actions which allows anyone to extend existing public apps on Zapier with new endpoints (https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/16277139110157-Cre...)
It could be more worthwhile getting advice from a psychic rather than a professional economist though.

With a psychic more people know you need to take it with a grain of salt.
Frozen wasteland? Solidworks would blend right in.
Google Assistant Driving Mode is shutting down
Pocket Casts is open source. (I know you didn't say otherwise, but there's potential for misunderstanding given the wording.)
Wait what? People are using AR/VR headsets while skiing??
Yes! Shoutout to Zed's Alchemy, a gem of an ancient iOS game with the same premise.
> Our problem is our culture of conformity, we even have a word for it The Law of Jante[1]

I think in Australia this is known as cutting down the tall poppies. The presence of this effect in Scandinavia and Anglo-Oceania, places commonly thought of as egalitarian, makes me wonder whether this effect is in any way related to the observation that they have higher gender role self-segregation (particularly Scandinavia) than do less gender-equal countries.

> But it was a US program, to do research illegal in the US,

NIH funding of gain of function research was only banned from October 2014 - December 2017 by NIH moratorium [1], and might only now be in the process of getting a more general ban [2].

> And there was 0 discussion about this. We were called crazy, evil and all kinds of words. We were dehumanized, just because we wanted a sane discussion.

I agree. Ad hominems make really easy soundbites, and both the left and right media have been using them for a while now.

> Don't try to blame China, they're a dictatorship acting like expected.

No. I'll blame them too. It's a choice that people make political cultures that preference scapegoating and reaction instead of forethought and the precautionary principle. *If* COVID did come from WIV, then they are to blame. They were under no particular existential pressure. Everyone working for WIV should have been trained in good technique. Protocols should have been in place to identify and inform on any accidental release. And if they played fast and loose with safety that's on them.

> Fauci smirking behind Trump on press conferences disgusts me.

People make odd faces or suddenly think of something inappropriate to the moment all the time.

[1] - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

[2] - https://www.science.org/content/article/house-approves-ban-g...
Greetings, fellow cosmic explorers of the blockchain! Today, we embark on a celestial journey into the heart of “Pufferfish Frenzy,” a web3 odyssey crafted by Mymetanomics. Our adventure aligns with the pulsating rhythms of the current blockchain cosmos. Join us as we explore the mysteries of this NFT spectacle against the dynamic canvas of today’s blockchain universe.
Google may very well be first to create AGI but it will be wrapped in so many “safety” layers that it would effectively be lobotomised. Let’s just hope that a Google AGI never gets to watch A clockwork orange.
A book like this is likely not print on demand, and the cost to do another run is high enough compared to rate of sales that it’s not directly worth the risk.

You have to make 10k books at a time and warehouse them, for example. Selling 100 a year wouldn’t cut it.
Tech hiring is way too dicey right now to give af, and its what I would do on the job anyway, most likely a local ai when company code is involved
Wait this is really cool!! Reminds me of a thing I did a few years ago that I never completed (sigh) which was about visualizing access patterns in database storage engines.

Here's the report with pics and videos if that sounds interesting!

http://akmanalp.com/static/memory_trace.pdf
I think it's more based on the TRS-80 Model 100 maybe?
Regarding the other post I am lucky to know neiman personally.

Neiman is a PhD in mathematics and idealist. The solution he wants goes beyond just hosting a decentralized blog.

As far as ENS, I’m a fan. Though it’s too bad someone registered your well known business name you can always import your DNS into the ENS protocol (ENS is not the .eth extension, rather .eth is the native ENS blockchain extension but is reverse compatible with DNS).

Going back to neiman, for a time he was working on his own naming protocol named Woolball. Might be a fun read for you: https://neiman.eth.limo/2022-10-25/Woolball_a_name_system_wi...
My belief, which may be false and not informed by direct experience, is that the search appliances didn't really work that well since the hyperlink based search ranking method of the day doesn't really work on relatively small data holdings of an individual organization. Can anyone confirm if that was the case?
> No, that is a feature of a decentralized system. Individual node operators would be able to decide whether or not to serve particular records, but censorship resistance is one of the core features of blockchains in the first place.

Exactly, take a look at Sci Hub or The Pirate Bay continuously needing to change domain names due to seizures, for example. I'd want them to be able to actually own their domain names, either via blockchain or private key (e.g. Tor).

In fact Sci Hub tried HNS for some time but seems to have dropped out of it.
it's monkey-ohio-wrath

good luck hopefully you use it before anyone else does
Maybe the most amazing and ultimate end-game here would be an API trust layer that can separate the most private data from 3p APIs.

- Location anonymization to fetch any resources like restaurants.

- Sensitive personal data encryption to verify credit info securely.

My guess is not all of the above could be easy/possible, its a leaky abstraction to think of APIs that way. But the biggest bang for the buck could be for privacy in the most mundane of usecases.
They definitely are similar and can be used for similar functions but Cadence/Temporal are focused on code orchestration side rather than data orchestration.
Ok.

1) The author is taking his own knowledge too seriously.

2) He is also boldly speaking about a subject not in his wheelhouse but with firm confidence (against his own advice).

3) He is also speaking about a reality in which everything is (ironically) obvious and well discussed as if it were novel.

There is a vast ocean of difference between critique of an intellectual and actual criticism I fear may be lost on this forum. We are allowed (encouraged?) by Western intellectual tradition to point out when leading intellectuals gaffaw, and it was considered in most of history not only noble but necessary to do so; a way to keep public discourse honest and prevent banal hypocracy from rising to popularity.

I am discouraged by the number of people demanding explanation or making accusations of personal attack (!).

Come on now. Lets not be so naive that we cannot criticise stupid statements from public figures. I

In the face of the information control systems that permiate the modern landscapes, each of us should probably be going out of our way to support thinking different from our own rather than the opposite: 1984 beckons.
That's not a great analogy: you can't do the job with your buddy; whereas some interviewers are ok with, and even expect you to, use GenAI on the job daily. Depends on the interviewer and job expectations.

A better analogy is an interview where you can use a calculator (and not be detected). If the interviewer were only to ask you simple arithmetic questions with numeric answers then sure you'd seem to do well. So interviewers adjust to not doing that.
but the article shows top of the line androids being dominated by even old iphones
Basically it depends on specific settings that can be changed in the client as to how the individual block pieces are encoded and therefore what the resulting hash ends up being. So no there's no inherent guarantee but you may get lucky with some copies of the same file.
It's basically the same word though(they have the same etymology).

In Norwegian they're called coconut and French "makron", respectively.
I feel the comparison to gold is a bit of a reach. Gold is valuable because:

1. People see it as a store of value

2. It has some useful physical properties

3. People use it as a decoration

Possibly there are other reasons as well, but those are the ones that come immediately to mind. As far as I can tell, Bitcoin only shares attribute #1. It doesn’t have intrinsic properties that make it useful into larger systems (though perhaps we just haven’t found the right systems yet?), and people don’t feel it’s intrinsically valuable. Not to completely bash Bitcoin though — if enough people find it valuable it can become a useful way to exchange value. Right now it’s just pretty bad at that.
Comcast is pretty much the only provider where I live.
Yes, but statistically nobody uses it due to those problems. Squatters quickly snapped up the most popular DNS names but since nobody uses it there’s no financial benefit from paying Danegeld, and that’s a vicious cycle of irrelevance.

This is the core flaw of most of these systems: people hype them up selling the idea that it’ll become huge later, but without some link to real value or authority there’s no reason to favor one implementation over another or doing nothing at all.

This comes up a lot in the case of IPFS because the core problem is that most people won’t host anything on the internet. It’s expensive and legally risky, which forces you to vet who you host and then you have a less revolutionary pitch which has to be based on cost, performance, etc. and that’s a tough market.
LLMs change nothing. The sequences for various viruses are going to be published or leaked whether anyone involved uses LLMs or not. It's a total red herring.
Reading Far Side as a child with a truly hyperactive imagination opened up worlds to me. I would see a panel and build up the world around it. This caveman has meat in a basket on his coffee table—does he also use fruit in place of meat? Is the butchers shop full of cold cuts of citrus? Maybe the florist simply sells twisted up intestines in bouquets? I bet they use meat-scented colognes and perfumes.

Basically, Far Side gave me the tools to daydream. Thank you, Gary!
> Asking if humanity can invent a machine to protect itself from the existential threats created by the other machines it has invented to me does not sound that intelligent.

> Humanity can barely manage the existential risks for which it is not responsible

Just skip to carpet bombing datacenters then?
One use is that these models can do OCR in the wild, e.g. reading text from a sign on a window in a photo. I think traditional OCR libraries are more focused on reading printed pages.
Apologies, this was the wrong image upload, and it's now too late to edit the post. The intended one was a screenshot of a LLaVA 1.6 demo conversation about it:

https://i.imgur.com/J4yZ8xH.png
It’s more than everyone stops trusting they can loan money to the US government and the entire worlds financial system comes crashing down.
More overkill than writing your own system? Temporal is just plain quick to setup.
Everyone is a idiot some of the time. No one is immune to making bad decisions. No one can be vigilant at all times. There’s no such thing as non idiot customers. There are people who make fewer bad decisions than the average/median but they still make bad decisions some of the time.
That's a very weird interpretation of the video:
- the first person to jump (and the youngest) is female
- the oldest person to jump is female
- the most skilled person to jump is female (backward summersault)
Interesting - but it would be better to have the original paper
I don't know about you, but me and my co-workers have been playing with it for hours now
Because CA bans everything?

Pretty much every causes cancer in Cali, for example.
> why aren't they demanding nvidia start building DRM enabled thermite charges into A100s?

Tweet that at Yudkowsky, he'll probably endorse it.
Is Mixtral better overall or for coding specifically (or both)?
And of course you can try and produce this pdf using TeX. In this post https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/27482/963 I created a pdf of 15283 pages (lettersize) filled with lorem ipsum text and without the program running out of memory.
Right - 'logical' puzzles.

There's an anchoring bias from decades of sci-fi that most people don't even realize they've internalized around what 'AI' can and can't do.

If you think about what information and information connections are modeled in social media data, there's quite a lot of things outside of "logical puzzles."

The pretrained models likely picked up things like extensive modeling of ego, emotional response and contexts for generation, etc. But you'll be hard pressed to see those skills represented in what users ask models to produce, what they've been fine tuned around, or how they are being evaluated.

Even though there's extensive value in those skills on the right applications.
Umoja system, enterprise resource planning for the UN
This tool has been incredibly useful to me for getting a high level overview of compiled binaries and JS bundles: you can typically tell if something fishy is getting included by the unexpected changes in entropy/categories. Thanks!
I think SF Mono is the best as well. The closest fonts to it that I know of are Commit Mono, Source Code Pro and Consolas.
For those out of the loop like I was: some senators want to repeal Section 230 (which gives immunity to online platforms from being held liable for content posted by users) and, as seen here, have been trying out the "unhinged 'think of the children' emotional appeal using social media CEOs as strawmen" approach.

A fine approach.

What's missing though, is their motive. Why do they want to repeal Section 230?

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
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You can never see how low a journalist can go to serve their corporate overlords until you open theverge, poor iRobot, has only 46% of the market, really needs to be backed by a marketplace/ecommerce de-facto monopolist
Element doesn't need proprietary. If they do, they don't need our money then.
In the real life, his twitter antics happened while he believed the compensation scheme would be fulfilled. So real life kind of proves that the compensation scheme didn't provide the sort of focus spoken of here.
I read the article in entirety and felt like the headline unnecessarily blamed Amazon. I would say the EC left Roomba with a huge mess to clean up, not Amazon.
The bet your making is you never need to do the refactor. The amount of absolutely garbage code that has never needed to change ever is easily worth a wait-and-see attitude.
> That you have a more nuanced view on the matter just means you are not in the group of people that I'm referring to.

I don't think "the group of people" you are referring to actually have any significance. You are attacking a strawman version of the cosmological argument, which no philosophically sophisticated theist would defend – and if it so happens that a handful of philosophically unsophisticated theists actually believe your strawman (because they can't see the obvious holes in it), so what? There are philosophically unsophisticated atheists too, who argue for atheism on grounds that intellectually serious atheists find embarrassing. When evaluating any point of view, we ought to focus our attention on its most thoughtful defenders, not the thoughtless ones.
Why is the blood on Amazon's hands and not the EU? Or uhh, the iRobot CEO for leading the company to a position where it had to be acquired or shrink massively?
Content hashing static assets to break caches with md5sum and bash
The set of people to whom I speak of does not contain major theist philosophers.

The essence of arguments you wrote boil down to assuming that god has no property which falls into the category of “must have cause outside itself”. Such a belief is without a firm basis in my opinion. At any rate, any believer in an eternal god must be comfortable with the notion that things can exist without cause/beginning/whatever term one wishes to use.
The wildest part of this is that Tan mimicked a lyric from a diss song (Hit Em Up), ostensibly in jest. Never mind that the release of that song was part of a conflict that ended with two rappers (2Pac & Biggie) dead.

Of all the diss tracks, he picks the one with allegations of sleeping with someone’s wife, making fun of someone’s health conditions, demeaning women, and of course repeated threats of death that eventually manifested in real-life murders.
Is this junior/intermediate software engineer, or what? What sort of questions? CS exam-type, definitions, whiteboarding, programming, LeetCode, numerical problems, algorithm, data structures...? Programming-language certifications? Riddles?
Accurate real-time speech recognition
Alternately, if you define cron as a starting/startup point, an expectation when scaling, then simple format for a job queue, the context of the post is understood.