skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the time, you can just download with:
`M-x package-list-packages`

However, I prefer to do (use-package ...) function in my .emacs file. It is easier to manage and you can normally find the function to copy-paste on the github page.

Of course, it is elisp you are playing with.

My .emacs file has been used for years and works well for Windows and Linux. Whenever I start my new job, I have my .emacs file ready. I install emacs, add my .emacs file and leave it to install. Very little mess.

My recommendation is to learn the keyboard combinations and already supported packages before adding new ones (which is when you start looking into elisp)

To help with this--- Emacs, on the splash screen, does have an Emacs tutorial which I recommend reading.

I remember the first time I tried Emacs. Likely 2010 but could be more than that (2005???) - based on comments I was reading. When it first loaded I had no clue what to do. We all have to start somewhere. :-)
Curious if anyone has any recommendation for what LLM model to use today if you want a code assistant locally. Mistral?
Isn't this concern independent of the language?

> Requiring me to churn out 3-5 features a week in the first 6 months is the best way for me to hand my resignation a mere two weeks after starting.
The brain will really never cease to amaze me, that's a very interesting story. So they have internalized the abacus to the point that it's entire state is present in their head. I wonder how long they can maintain that state and if they are able to mentally put it aside for a while, perform another calculation and then recall the stored one.

I've seen a similar thing with a really good chess player friend of mine, he could play without actually looking at the board.
270M parameters at I guess FP/BF16?

I'd be interested to see how well the ELO holds up when the model is quantized.

At INT8 a small transformer like this could have a pretty amazing speed and efficiency on an Edge TPU or other very low power accelerator chip. The question becomes then is it faster / more efficient than Stockfish 16 on a similarly powered CPU. As we've seen with LLM's, they can be extremely speedy when quantized and all the stops pulled out on hardware to efficiently infer them compared to the raw FP16 and naive implementations.
Just before that: Microsoft will buy Canonical
So tell me how they actually measured global mean temp back in 1850?
> He is quite clearly on the side of russia.

I wonder if that's true: Maybe he just wants to be a controversial contrarian and always tries to be on the "non-woke" and "non-mainstream" side.

Doesn't change much in this instance, but still.
Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
He is on the side of Russia but giving away for free this Starlink thing to the UAF that has proven useful for their operations. But how come the UAF are still using Starlink if it's provided by someone clearly on the side or Russia?
> Then I wonder why you are insisting it was Apple.

As I already said, "somehow magically every single time a scam app makes the news media, the app disappears from the App Store." Also, self-removal "prevents any sales, which is the point of selling in the App Store."

> I didn't say there's nothing wrong with the app.

Then I wonder why you are insisting it wasn't Apple.

It appears your view is that it's "unsubstantiated" unless Apple comments, but as I already said, Apple never comments about this, so apparently there's never any substantiation according to you, and it's just a giant coincidence that every single time a scam app makes the news media, the app disappears quickly from the store, even when the app's developer may be asleep due to living on the other side of the Earth.

It's a very convenient way of sticking your head in the sand and refusing to make the most logical inference.
If it did show unsafe code, people would be excoriating for that. Hell, someone would probably try to sue Google for allowing its AI to show unsafe results, or perhaps if the code caused a problem, Google would catch some of the blame, regardless.

You can't win for losing on the internet, so I'm not at all surprised somebody decided to take the safe, pr-driven route.
Why doesn't anyone refer to it as DIE?
It instantly changed how I work. Seems like a lasting change.

For me, counterintuitively, the stereo 3D is a secondary benefit. Albeit a natural and welcome one.

But the killer feature is the ergonomics of having any number of weightless screens of arbitrary dimension and placement.

It took me a day or so to realize I don’t need a desk so much.

For five days I have been sitting on my couch with a MacBook Air (couch friendly) developing with many screens of relevant info arranged around me.

A mundane but profound benefit of “spatial computing” is no more hardware screen “keyholes” limiting how much information I can see.

Apple seems to get that the Vision Pro wants to be a Mac replacement, not an iPad replacement.

Everything in Vision works with both see-pinch and track/mouse click.
Hoping see-pinch comes to Mac screen in Vision, or simply needing a Mac becomes redundant.
That's just another name for 0
Years ago I got a job through a recruiter, left company A for B. She called me after a few months and asked me for the Compsny A internal directory - which I declined to provide and she got kind of nasty about it. Maybe ten years later I was at company C and my manager mentioned hiring a recruiter - same person. I mentioned our previous interaction (not out of spite, just a naive narrative) and they stopped working with her immediately. My point being - your behavior has a long tail, so don’t be trying to take advantage.
I assume a working gps is necessary for good signal since orientatiin matters in starlink.
I can never give up
You forgot 0n ... I guess you wouldn't pass
Can't agree here.

Especially when you deal with unsanitized data - like from a 3rd party API - you're bound to eventually have each of those cases find their way into your if statements/expressions.

Also, this question works for other languages too, as e.g. NaN can evaluate to True (Python) or have an undefined behaviour but still evaluate to true (C, C++) - it's useful to know what is true and what is false(y) in your language of choice, especially coming from another language.
Only a moron would consider the distinction material. Is Carlo Rovelli a theoretical physicist or a philosopher of physics. He would say "both" and would probably say that the two disciplines cannot be pursued independently. Was Ernst Mach, whose interests extended well beyond physics but whose basic philosophical questions about relationalism produced general relativity, count as a scientist, a physicist, or a philosopher? All three. What about Julian Barbour, head of the shape dynamics research program and noteworthy independent scientist, who is inspired by Mach to elaborate on purely relational theories of gravity? What about Terrance Deacon, whose (flawed by comprehensive) book on the distinction between living and non-living systems is probably the most cogent analysis of the subject I've ever read? Definitely a philosopher, but also clearly working on entirely physical material. What about Scott Aaronson? I could go on and on listing people who work in both physics and philosophy departments.

The idea that "philosophers" don't think about reality is just absurd. There are thousands of philosophers thinking directly about reality.
Public education is already very heavily funded. As of last report, the correlation between funding and student performance was negative, suggesting that additional funding is unlikely to achieve much.
This really brought me back to those 90s era anti-piracy ads.
> “There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” Musk wrote on X, the platform previously known as Twitter.

> “The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation,” Musk wrote.

Musk himself has used the ostensible fear of becoming complicit as a justification to disable Starlink access for the Ukrainian military.

So yes, he's already taken the position that he would be to blame. You can't then turn it around and say he wouldn't be to blame for russian military success through the use of the same technology.
Next up, claims of ...

Text generation without human writers
Image generation without human artists
Video generation without production crews

The rub is that all the training data has been done by lots and lots of search, human writing, human artists, and human production crews. At every step, they curated the results and generated a beautiful latent space that the model was then trained on.

The impressive part about AlphaZero is that it did the Monte-Carlo Tree Search itself, without being trained on human decision-making.

While this ... well, this is just taking credit for all the search and work that was done by Stockfish, or humans, at a massive scale over centuries and then posted nearly for free online. It's then using all that data and generating similar stuff. Whoop de doo. Oh, and it's even used cheap labor for the last mile, too:

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

It's not the same thing as actual search to, for example, automatically derive scientific laws (e.g. Kepler's laws of motion) from raw data fed to it (e.g. of star movements). AI doing that can actually model the real space, not the latent space. It can go out and learn without humans or stockfish massively bootstrapping its knowledge.

I mean, don't get me wrong ... learning a lot about the latent space is what students strive to do in schools and universities, and the AIs are like a very smart student. In fact, they can be huge polymaths and polyglots and therefore uncover a lot of interesting connections and logical deductions from the latent space. They can do so at a huge scale... and I have often said that swarms of AIs will be unstoppable. So at the end of the day, although this isn't very impressive when it comes to the credit of who did the search and curation, AI is going to be extremely impressive with what it can do with the results on the next N levels.
I wish there was a site/service/seller/provider that would sell me just the license to own and use a copy of <something> for as long as I live.

A digitally signed PDF with the license would be just fine.
After playing around with it for a while, I noticed there is ways to walk around the barrier but it will probably be fixed quickly.

The idea is to not mention words that Gemini deem unsafe, make Gemini use those words for you instead, then you refer to it.

Guiding Gemini to use the words can be tricky, but when you succeed, you use it through sentences like "do the task as YOU suggested".
Yup. Totally justifies bypassing the law and putting all the farmers under surveillance.

> as well as explosives

As read: "Verstoß gegen das Sprengstoffgesetz" or, in plain English "A violation of the law on explosives". Which says absolutely nothing, as fireworks would already qualify as explosives if forbidden.
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And inflation since 2004 means a $23Bn IPO for Google in 2004 is like a $37Bn IPO today.
The limits still exist but for certain use cases larger limits have helped
Yeah, as I said, the vibe I got from reading their other articles was that their solution to the problem was to pull up the drawbridge, galt's gulch style.

I'm reminded of that aspect of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where a civilisation decides that a third of it's population isn't necessary and sticks them on a 'colony ship' telling them that the other two ships are 'still being built' then promptly dies out because they were, in reality, quite necessary. Who'd they ship off, I think it was pest controllers and hairdressers? I forget.
By "useful" he means "will make VC's and uninformed investors feel good"... gotta remember, the definition of "useful" is relative.
Hiyo!

Yep, aliases help. Also, verbs are standardized. That example was a bit hyperbolic.

Most of my work is in Linux nowadays, but for me, jq, yq, and other text manipulation software and shell features in bash/zsh will always take a back seat to using the standard commands that ship with PowerShell. I wince every time I see a co-worker using a pipeline full of parse-and-pray greps and awks that is fancy af and amazing, but also, maybe not as nice or consistent as working with objects.

I will say though, you might say "PowerShell is more convenient in many scenarios," not that it's more advanced.
Time for Ukraine to start shooting down satellites? What is the most efficient way to do it?
Yes, it is likely that a liability disclaimer would address this, but it doesn't address the deep psychological need of Google psychopaths to exercise power, control, authority, and to treat other people like children.

AI "safety" is grounded in an impulse to control other people, and to declare oneself the moral superior to the rest of the human cattle. It has very little to do with actual safety.

I vehemently disagree with Eliezer's safety stance, but at least it's a REAL safety stance, unlike that taken by Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, et. al. Hell, even the batshit crazy neo-luddite stance of nuking the datacenters and blowing up the GPU fabs is a better stance on AI safety than this corporate patronizing bullshit.

Nobody there cares about reducing the risk of grey goo. They just want to make sure you know daddy's in charge, and he knows best.
In all his wisdom, Orwell imagined Newspeak to be a politically-motivated effort, instead what has apparently become a cultural shift driven by corporate lawyers.
> how much time remains on the copyright doesn't really have anything to do with them

Not if you change the law to say so :)
Mistral-doc: Fine-tuning an LLM on my ChatGPT conversations
you are lucky, where I work WSL2 is blocked for security reasons

WSL 1 is allowed luckily, but it's kinda meh
No sweat, I get it! :D
In the security team there were experts but I suspect the issue was that if they suggested a solution and it did not work or I implemented it incorrectly then they would get the blame.
You’re thinking about something else. There’s a thing called “Sign In With Apple” that is available when an app/website wants to offer it, that integrates with Apple’s authentication system. The email the app/website sees is a bunch of random characters followed by @privaterelay.appleid.com. But Sign In With Apple is not the same as Hide My Email. SIWA is for when the website opts into Apple as an auth provider.

I just looked at my alias list in iCloud and every single “hide my email” alias looks like a plausible @icloud.com address with dictionary words, and every “sign in with Apple” address is using the privaterelay address with the super random characters. There are no addresses that look like a987dfc429be@icloud.com.
I experience it, Imran Khan is former Cricket player and cricket worldcup winning captain he certainly give the big fight. Still not losing. Trust me he made Pakistani politics more entertaining than Netflix.
I think for intellectual commentary from the US perspective you can try The Atlantic & The New Yorker, there's another similar one but I forget the name.

For slightly less commentary and more facts The Economist is good, that's from a UK perspective.

If you're Australian, Quillette is the only one I know
I really do not want to work with the person(s) who downvoted this. These sort of 'jokes' are part of what makes a hostile work environment.
You can work on biology without physically being in a lab. Many neuroscientist spend more time writing simulations and analyzing data than they spend in a lab. Like how much time in the lab do you require at a minimum to be a "bona fide" "serious" philosopher.

Like I seriously want to know: how many philosophers have you personally met? How many conferences have you attended? How many papers did you read this year? Because only a person barely aware of what philosophers get up to could possibly believe that they aren't interested in reality.
Yeah I agree with this. Especially with stuff that's more experimental/exploratory, project management, deadlines and 'deliverables' kill my motivation.

A lot of the best work I've done has been a bit under the radar. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.
Spoofing is possible, and Russia is known to use it. But it's unlikely they'd use it here. Spoofing is pretty indiscriminate, so nearby devices would also be affected, and as another commenter pointed out the device knowing it's location is important for it to connect to the network.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/vladimir-putin/russia-spoofing-...
Information content of note transitions in the music of J. S. Bach
A link in the article explains ...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sudo/#how-is-sudo-...
The best way for people with money and resources to make more money is for you to rent from them. This seems to be a depressing fact about modern capitalism ranging from digital media to apartments. If you have something scare that you control (or that you can potentially make scare via legal maneuvers), don’t just sell it once, sell it multiple times to the same person.

This situation seems like it will further devolve as it is a fantastic business model and is making rich people a lot of money. I don’t see how we close Pandora’s box because fixing the problem of usury and the negative impact it has on free people is older than modern society.
Niche? We must live in different places. Where I live dual sports are probably the most popular bikes after Harleys. All the kids in my neighborhood are getting Surrons instead of gas dirt bikes.
Perhaps, but it might be harsh to say it was the wrong decision when it was made as partitioned tables are far more optimised than when JIT was first worked on. It seems to me, most of the people that have issues with slow JIT times are having these issues with partitioned tables and JIT is slow due to having to compile large numbers of expressions. However, maybe this is the place for me to find out that's not always the case. The JIT costing is likely to get an overhaul soon, and if all goes to plan there JIT will be considered per plan node rather than per plan.
Ai is looking to become the basic interface to everything. Everything you do will have ai between you and whatever you are consuming or producing, whether you want it or not.

I don't know why anyone would pretend not to recognize the importance of that or attempt to downplay it.
I’d be curious what legalizing weed has done to the number of people who tried it for the first time or went from non use to occasional use. I say this because the addiction/safety/outcome of many of these “harder” drugs means that a short dalliance could lead to faster addiction etc. There would be a knock on societal effect if there was an uptick in use, and NA etc are not that effective %wise for people to hop-on hop-off. By this measure, alcohol is just as bad, and while prohibition didn’t stop the flow for those seeking it and increased the safety risks from bootlegging, I wonder if a better example is to look at a country with strict historical prohibition which relaxed those rules (can’t think of an example).
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I'm hoping someone will write a tool to do project estimations. Like instead of my manager asking me "how long would it take you to implement X,Y,Z ...", he could use the LLM instead.

It doesn't even need to be very accurate because my own estimations aren't either :)
Indeed. People are gravitating towards spaces that make them feel comfortable and safe, subconsciously or not, when engaging in the sort of intimate interactions that an in-depth conversation can be. One practical consideration that probably also often plays a part is acoustics, literally how easy it is to hear and to be heard.
OpenAI on track to hit $2B revenue milestone as growth rockets
> the two countries have mutually agreed not to use firearms

The Border Peace and Tranquility Agreement from 1993 is over now after the intial clash on the confluence of Shyok and Galwan River, leaving casualties on both sides.

Indian and Chinese soldiers now patrol armed again.

After that initial clash, several additional clashes started, both India and China began mobilizing, and India considered launching artillery strikes on Chinese positions.

Read the article - it's written by the General Naravane, who was commanding the Indian Army at the time.
https://archive.is/TlTLe
But Rust is actually a successful language, and the idea of writing a web browser in it is actually a good one.

Security is a huge concern for something like a web browser, which is a thing that keeps on increasing more and more in complexity. So far it seems Java is dead in the desktop space, and .NET has a very minimal impact, so it seems a compiled language is the way to go.

And Rust's excellent support for multithreading is also a big boon since now multicore CPUs are a standard and keep on getting more and more cores.

Overall the idea of building a very safe and performant browser seems like a great one.
Pretty awesome book.

Would be cool if someone could recommend sci-fi that equally good.
Fun fact: back when I was a contractor for Apple many years ago (while Steve Jobs was CEO), I learned through their directory service that Steve Wozniack was still an employee and reported to then-CFO Peter Oppenheimer.
Yup, I enjoy this book.

If you enjoy it, too, might I recommend Fool's War by Sarah Zettel. It's more of a Space Opera, but some similar themes to Permutation City pop up in it...
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I wouldn't call it lightweight, but for an adventure bike it's certainly accessible.
Russia is at (undeclared) war with US and NATO. Russian propaganda currently says that they started the war to counter NATO expansion.
No need to shoot down, just blind them.

"US Wants to Defend Satellites From Laser Attack" - https://www.universetoday.com/14614/us-wants-to-defend-satel...