skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you regular carry some other single purpose electronics to compensate the lack of function? I want to get a simple phone such as the Light Phone, but I wonder if I'd also want to bring around some kind of small camera or mp3 player.
For almost a decade I worked with mobile devices; their certification, R&D, testing. At any given time I would have a dozen devices on me to test out in the field or demo units prior to sale.

Now that I no longer do this for a living, I seldom if ever carry a phone with me. I don't do social media, I don't watch movies on a phone, navigation I just look up where I want to go on a map and just drive there. The only connectivity I have outside the home is my Apple Watch Cellular for those random "pick up bread" messages, weather, and to tell the time.

It is so liberating.
Cascade Inference: Memory Bandwidth Efficient Shared Prefix Batch Decoding
Podcast apps let you subscribe to feeds, so it automatically downloads new content when available. Some also have quality-of-life features like speeding up playback, syncing progress between devices, and letting you view text data that accompany the audio (e.g., episode descriptions and links).
I tried through API with latest GPT-4-Turbo-Preview and this is what I got:

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Let's break down the information given:

The school is two blocks north of the pool. This means if you are at the pool and move two blocks north, you'll arrive at the school.

The convenience store is one block south of the school. Therefore, if you start at the school and move one block south, you'll reach the convenience store.

Based on the first two statements, the relative positions from north to south are: School, Convenience Store, Pool.

Thus, the third statement saying "The pool is south of the convenience store" is indeed true, based on the positions provided by the first two statements.

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But it starts weirdly messing up, when I asked it to explain it using coordinates.

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Let's use a simple coordinate system to represent the positions of the school, the pool, and the convenience store. Let's assume each block corresponds to one unit in this system. We'll start with the pool as our reference point at coordinates (0,0). Remember, moving north increases the y-coordinate, while moving south decreases it.

The school is two blocks north of the pool.
If the pool is at (0,0), moving two blocks north puts the school at (0, +2).

The convenience store is one block south of the school.

If the school is at (0, +2), moving one block south puts the convenience store at (0, +1).

Given these positions:

The pool is at (0, 0).

The school is at (0, +2).

The convenience store is at (0, +1).

Therefore, instead of the pool being south of the convenience store, the pool is actually located to the north of the convenience store if you consider "north" to mean increasing y-coordinates. The convenience store, being at (0, +1), is southward relative to the school but not to the pool. The pool, being at the origin point (0,0), is south of both the school and the convenience store in terms of their y-coordinates.
Thus, the third statement, "The pool is south of the convenience store," is false according to the given coordinates.

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It gets coordinates and everything right, but still somehow messes up North and South.
Yeah but if you dreed a bunch of cobras in your house, it solves the rat problem and keeps the neighbors away
> To reflect this, Bard will now simply be known as Gemini.
Oops. I probably should have checked before mentioning it anyway. ;)
Most animals would genocide the entire planet if they could. If there are too many of a certain species, they are entirely capable of extinguishing entire populations of the animals and plants they eat. Some of them, like cats, wipe out the animal population of an entire area out of boredom.
My setup is similar to your multi-monitor arrangement, except instead of moving my head I switch between respective window sets in Stage Manager (macOS).

One downside is that my neck does not exercise much because I do not look in different directions while working. Another downside is that at certain times context can involve multiple window sets, but that is rare, and it comes with an upside: it is easier to focus on one task without windows on other monitors distracting me.
I think that’s a side effect of each time they release a version to compete with ChatGPT and it’s not as good so they have to at the same time announce a few version that is suppose to be better than ChatGPT and each time it’s not overall so they have to announce a new version. Think this will continues for a while especially since non OpenAI companies have access to much less free data troves than they did not that everyone realizes how valuable that data is. But that even aside other companies even Microsoft in my opinion with full chatgpt access implement it much more poorly . I imagine Apple will suffer a similar fate for a while.
> My Jesuit theological trainings have led me to appreciate all other religions,

I don’t know much about Jesuits. Is this common in their beliefs or are you just mentioning that you yourself came to these conclusions? Just curious for my own sake.
>> amazing human taking time answering rando emails from the internet.

Life tip: Most people will do that if your email is about something they are interested in and (most importantly) they have time. Celebrities are usually off the table (no time for all the fan email), but this guy is "just" a retired engineer who made a big product and a lot of money. You were also asking about some side interest of his, so I would almost expect a response.

Be polite and fairly concise (brief, they don't need your life story out the gate) on a topic of interest to them and most people will respond positively.
Gemini Ultra is not available in France, even though it is in all neighboring countries: Germany, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Italy.

Is that because of french legislation, or Mistral? ;-)
"That’s not something I’m able to do yet." - Gemini when ask to summarize this whole thread.
Having a billion files in a single directory versus a more typical tree has its own challenges.

http://be-n.com/spw/you-can-list-a-million-files-in-a-direct...
No no, they renamed Bard to Gemini and Gemini Ultra to Ultra 1.0.
That's right: the question is just does it generalize? :-D
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I wouldn't call that the best example. They failed way too often for that.
mm, right. crypto is indeed WASM - either libolm (which is only 150KB of WASM) or vodozemac (our new rust impl, which is 5.5MB of WASM unstripped). Neither use much heap though - probably only a few 100KB.

The main heap management trick for matrix-js-sdk would be to turn on (experimental) sliding sync mode, which means that it only syncs the rooms it cares about - so O(1) with number of rooms, rather than O(N). However, i'm guessing you probably weren't testing with a large account?
One of Aaronson's arguments in the article boils down to the idea that running a full universe simulation (without cheating) on a universe with the same physics as ours may just not be possible computationally; it seems physically plausible that you need a universe to compute a universe.

If that's true, then the simulators would need to be running in a different kind of universe than ours... in which case "ancestor simulation" doesn't really make sense.
These are all great tips. Especially closing slack/email and disabling notifications.

I struggled with these for awhile, growing up during the IRC, ICQ, AIM era, messaging always felt like a requirement of using a computer. Putting them away for focus time is critical.
If you are using floss, it is likely PFAS coated. Also lipitor, prozac, cipro, flonase and nearly a majority of new pharmaceuticals in development.

'PFAS bad' is about as sophisticated a viewpoint as 'nuclear bad'.

Also, 3M is exiting PFAS tech since it only accounts for a few % of their business: https://news.3m.com/2022-12-20-3M-to-Exit-PFAS-Manufacturing...
Yep, available for multiple browsers and quite powerful in my opinion: https://www.einaregilsson.com/redirector/
https://github.com/lamini-ai/lamini-sdk/tree/main/03_RAG

You can implement RAG in 80 lines of python and 0 SaaS libraries.

It's extremely easy.

1. Load your data as a giant string (streaming)

2. Chunk it (big chunk size, small chunk steps)

3. Call an LLM to convert chunk -> embedding, store in an index (or just concat it onto a numpy array)

4. Call an LLM to convert query -> embedding

5. Compute cosine similarity between the embeddings, pick the max

6. Insert the picked chunks into the LLM prompt

That's it. I'd encourage you to try to implement it yourself.

Anything beyond this is unnecessary complexity.

I walk through the code/whiteboard of the whole thing in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkzd_YNbWmc&t=6003s
My experience is the opposite. I don't get addicted. Obsessed with a topic for a while? Sure! Compulsively repeating some behaviors, like checking HN? That's me! But once I get distracted by something interesting, it's like those never existed. They just lose their appeal.
Thank you for your comments, I've opened an issue and will look into best practice :)

https://github.com/louismerlin/concrete.css/issues/4
Just waiting for Space-Shuttle-120B-DPO-LASER-GGUF
I'm confused on how this is "cheating" isn't it just getting the answer wrong?
Show me a web site of design like in the examples with the value prop is front and center.
I like how clean this blog/website is.

Does anyone know if it is a custom engine/theme or not?
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You're reading the comment wrong.

There's two mindsets:

1) An emotional one. "Words impact emotions"

2) A logical one. "Study has issues 1, 2, and 3"

Both have places, but science must be in #2 to work at all. That is the point of science.

One of the critical parts of this mindset is separating criticism of work, quality of work, and the individual. Indeed, the more significant the science, the more it needs criticism. There is little (and probably even a negative) correlation between the quality of science and the quantity of criticism.

If I list out the limitations of your work in a blog post, that is not, should not, and cannot be read as a condemnation of your work, and especially not of you as an individual.

Indeed, generally, what that means is I took an interest in your work, found it compelling enough to do a deep dive, and I wrote a blog post because I'm trying to figure out next steps.

There is a pipeline from speculation to hypothesis to theory to fact, and it RELIES on people doing their best to invalidate a piece of work, understand methodological limitations, find alternative explanations, and otherwise poke holes. Once those holes are filled, and there are no more criticisms, you have trustworthy knowledge.

PLEASE attack my work (so long as you do it honestly and correctly; not unhinged emotional attacks). It makes my work better.
it isn't priority by vehicle type, but by time that you arrive at the stop sign. everyone has to follow the rules equally. approach the sign, come to a complete stop, whoever was there first goes. if the intersection is full, then opposite pairs alternate with whoever is going straight getting right of way, followed by whoever's turning.
There's a decent chance checkpoint/restart has been with us since the days of paper tape.

It's moderately amusing to see "save state somewhere" described as so new people haven't heard of it.
With this version of VBox, it's quite possble to pass a GPU to the VM. Have a look at https://www.cyberus-technology.de/products/hypervisor if you want to see a demo.
> Which is why he's so desperate to pretend he excels at stuff: horse riding, ice hockey, shooting.

That's not about his own psychology, but what the Russian people wanted to see in their leader. Near it's end, the USSR had long been led by decrepit old men, and no small amount of blame for the state of the state was laid on the way the country became a gerontocracy. Public displays of Putin's vigor and virility were important PR/propaganda. They came off as really weird in the west, but we were not the target audience for them.
I think that was the joke they were going for.
Not my cat, little bastard tortures mice and leaves me a grisly present of submission.
I think Gemini Advanced is not a model at all but the paid version of the Bard (now Gemini) website.
Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
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You say it's not confusing but you've got it wrong :)

Gemini is the name of the model and the service.

Gemini Advanced is the service with access to Gemini Ultra.
The public charging infra is a mess, but at least you don't have to deal with watered down gas

I am not joking, in Brazil it is a serious concern. People always try to fuel up only on the gas stations they trust.
Collection of Antique Maps and Atlases
More discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39301495
virt-manager plays fine with hidpi on Wayland. On the opposite side, VirtualBox’s GUI is super buggy in Wayland.

It’s basically the opposite for both. I use virt-manager because the GUI is simpler (and setting up virtualbox is a nightmare anyway).

Regardless, this feature is a step in the right direction. I’m wondering if distributions will pick it up or if it will ever be integrated upstream.
I’m curious why so many AI papers consist mostly of people with Chinese-like names. I’m surprised there aren’t more witch hunts from the far right & skepticism that they can embed CCP propaganda into the models.
If I understand it correctly, ~20MWh is for the full size model at 700m depth and with a radius of 15m (prototype radius is 1.5m and it is located at a depth of 100m).

And building concrete spheres that can withstand the pressure of a 700m water column is probably an interesting design challenge on its own.
But you're not supposed to store "large" blobs in databases, either?
I'm sure there are multiple layers of meaning behind the name, but Jeff Dean once mentioned the name had something to do with the latin translation being twins. That is, Gemini is a product of Alphabet's "twin" AI orgs, Google Brain and DeepMind, working closely together, and eventually fusing into GDM.
They should sell green cards to the highest bidder and distribute the proceeds to each american as a “america is awesome” dividend
Meta to Add Label to AI-Generated Images on Its Platforms from Third-Party Tools
The past 4 years includes a time when the market was red hot and great for software engineers - 2021-2.

Not getting a raise during that time is due to something other than "job market is bad" because it wasn't.
Is it genocide if you breed more of them than you put down?
I'm not sure exactly once can be done in the presence of failure. When you come back online, if you're not sure whether a call happened or not, you either drop it or try again - and that gives you at most or at least once.
This makes sense. It’s clearly a binary naming scheme. So we go Pro, Ultra, Ultra Pro, Ultra Ultra, Ultra Pro Pro, Ultra Pro Ultra, Ultra Ultra Ultra, and so on.

I don’t understand why people find this so confusing. Are we not computer people?

/s
DIY Jurassic Park pinball machine is a T-Rexcellent use of Arduino
What value prop? A 10 word phrase that's coming out an automatic bullshit generator* and that doesn't tell me anything about what they're selling?

* automatic bullshit generators were available online even before the current "AI" religion.
Nice one! Gemini got it wrong in my (one) test:

https://g.co/gemini/share/4bae8ca3dd0a
Don’t forget the Google One AI Premium subscription. There are very few superlatives left for them to use.
MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis
I think that logic is the most important thing to look out for though.
> Arguably harmful information is also arguably not harmful.

I can acknowledge without aversion that it may be possible that it is sometimes harmful, and sometimes not. Can you do the same?

>Bias is a given for any work, why is that a problem to you?

Bias and misinformation leads to delusion, delusion leads to disharmony, disharmony leads to suffering, at least often. I consider concern for the well being of others to be a good thing in an absolute sense...but this is a bias on my part, "each to his own", and enjoy the consequences Mother Nature rewards us. But please let's also consider how our fellow humans are making out in the lot they were born into.

> If there’s misinformation in the book - I’m all ears.

Is this to say that you are able and willing to consider all sound arguments, without bias?

As for Rosling: I think if people considered the entirety of his message things would be better....as I recall, he was an advocate of international aid rather than immigration and refugee policies saving some of the people from underdeveloped countries? To me, this seems like a better approach for several reasons.

> Is it pervasive?

I believe so, I think young Wittgenstein and many others are objectively correct, and that this can be objectively proven with virtually unlimited examples, because language is a fundamental building block of reality. The alternative, that all the people involved in disagreements derived from language are joking or something and I'm not in on it, is just too much for me.
Rust 1.76.0
I'm similar to you where my phone is bare bones, often not within reach. I do take it with me wherever I go — often it is my wallet. Maps, Camera, Notes and Messages are about the only four apps I use on it (yeah, Health and Weather and the aforementioned Wallet — Apple Pay, actually - from time to time). When I find myself out and about, standing in line or otherwise bored, I don't pull out my phone as I see so many others do — there is nothing interesting to me on the phone.

But I also turn 60 this year so, for me, my laptop is my "phone". It stays at home of course (except on trips) but it is where I do all my browsing, coding, image editing, etc. And to divorce myself from my laptop would be a hard task.

A remote friend of mine checks email/messages only in the morning when he gets up. Sometimes I have been up when he texts me and I reply within seconds — only to get his reply to mine the following morning — like playing chess by mail. (Sometimes he never responds at all ... I think he finds connectivity to be bad for his mental health and I respect that.)

I would like to be more like him — limit my browsing to the morning; essentially turn off the WiFi by 9:00 AM so to speak. Unfortunately when I am finishing a task (perhaps an hour out in the garage building a virtual pinball machine) I use the break time (perhaps a cup of tea) to open the laptop and see what insanity the US politicians are up to this hour of the day....
Some might argue that is what LLMs do.
Putting someone alone in a box for 23h/day because they refuse to work for $.30/hr is unconscionable. The comparisons to legitimate uses of force are non sequitors—no one is claiming torture when cops twist someone's arm behind their back.
The space exploration, which was once considered inspiring and noble, now is seen primarily as an investment diversification strategy of a bored billionaire with a very questionable character.

Unfortunately it's inevitable the conclusion that the humanity's road to the future is not monotonic in terms of progress and that looking at the past as better than today is not always a kind of nostalgic bias.
ADHD is a pretty broad brush. While I’ve no doubt that some instances fuel a predisposition for addiction, I’ve seen exactly the opposite tendencies exhibited also.
Research team takes a fundamental step toward a functioning quantum internet
Sounds like Bard is ChatGPT, and Gemini Ultra is GPT-4. Arguably clearer than OpenAI'S naming.
In the ai wars, g is light years behind. I don’t see a reason to use their models over comp. Maybe pricing?
Interesting, as an older millennial I hate the podcasts in Spotify.

But that's probably with the forcing podcasts on me when I don't want them rather than anything intrinsic.

I listen to music when I work because it blocks stuff out and I don't need to actually listen to it.

Podcasts catch my attention when one of hosts says something like:

Wait, you can't say that. You'll offend all the furries.

Then I'll have to rewind and listen to understand why they are talking about furries on an F1 podcast. But then it turns out I misheard it anyway.
> To reflect this, Bard will now simply be known as Gemini.
So glad they are dropping the name Bard which is not a smooth modern sounding name one would want to talk to all day. Time will tell if they update eventually to be hey Gemini vs hey Google.
Shoehorning productivity as a benefit to things in life that should have nothing to do with productivity. It reeks of viewing activities in life as means to increase productive output, which is... Sad.
And this completely undercuts my point in my response to sibling comment
Propagandists do like to co-opt narratives. It's a natural vector for sympathy. In terms of US politics, this has affected both of the main parties over the years. Singling out the GOP here is itself a false narrative. There are surely people in that party who are co-opted, but that is only part of what's going on. The Dems also have their useful idiots.

Speaking of WWII, Joe Kennedy (John's father) was quite useful to the Nazis.
My first playthrough I quickly got it to where the amplitude was minimal, so then I just dropped low frequency low amplitude sinusoids for a while until I got bored. The following tries didn't go so well, but I guess even if I don't get the amplitude low I could still use the low frequency sines trick. I think this could be nice as a potential teaching tool for how sinusoids and waves combine. Sort of along the lines of this small game I made when I was a TA for an intro to acoustics class in college: https://goatesheard.com/ncg
Which namespace are you taking about? cgroups_namespaces(7)?
Via the “AI Premium” subscription, obviously.
Given that they used position evaluation from (a search chess engine[1]) Stockfish, how is this "without search"?

Edit: looking further than the abstract, this is rather an exploration of scale necessary for a strong engine. Could go without "without search" in the title I guess.

[1]: IIRC, it also uses a Leela-inspired NN for evaluation.
The positive PR is so negligible it’s not worth it. This is an incident where no one was even injured.

If they want to put as much distance between themselves and Cruise, they just need to be transparent with the regulators and not play games with them.
Also: the difference between zoom levels is waaay too high. E.g. it jumps from showing too much to showing too little in a single zoom.
> Tsar

To be fair you have to go really far to get back to the times when the Tsar could and would execute random people for arbitrary reasons and without that the joke is no longer funny.
I have Facebook and have a fair variety of people on it but it's mostly dip in/dip out/here are photos of my trip. Mostly use email/SMS/iMessage if it's arranging a get-together with a closer overall group.

With Facebook, I think it is partly the feed but it's also that I've accumulated a fair number of mostly professional colleagues and friends-of-friends over time. Some classmates I've stayed in various degrees of touch with.