skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one got replaced in these films; additional characters got added.

A sequel or remake doesn't need to be exactly the same as what came 40 years prior.

Back in 1995 Star Trek Voyager added a female captain and a black Vulcan (a first, as far as I know), which passed with little to no comment. Voyager was also widely criticized, but that was just because the writing wasn't very good. Tim Russ' portrayal of Tuvok is generally praised.

Why did they hire a black guy for the role Tuvok even though Vulcans had previously always been portrayed as (very) white? Probably because he was the best actor to audition for the role.

Today I'm 100% sure people would be shouting about "DEI" and whatnot and that Voyager is bad because woke this or that.

Of course, Star Trek also very explicitly did DEI right from the start in the 60s.
Insights from Java SDK V4 on MongoDB to Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL Migration
Yeah, generating black “German soldiers in 1943” is a bit too much diversity even for clinically woke Google.
I'm not sure GPT 4 is still 8x200B
Social Media Isn't a Shopping Mall
Ask James Damore what happens when you ask too many questions of the wrong ideology...
Everyone always talks about Platonic Solids but never Romantic Solids. /s
JFYI in December largest Ukrainian operator Kyivstar was down for days after sophisticated Russian hacker attack
Out of curiosity how do you find it to be distracting
Bluesky has a Matrix dev group (afaik it’s an official one) why not use that too in addition to Discord (or other comms channels)?
Load a GB sized mbox into mail(1) and then say that again.

Mbox it's just a literal

cat mail/*.msgs >> mbox

setup.

Reading will be slow, and file locking will be hell.

Unix should've switched to maildir long ago. Since 1999 storage and inodes are not a problem any more.
Okay, but at the point you're refining your own Uranium and building your own breeder reactor, you're also at the point you're likely making your own intermediate (or even intercontinental) range ballistic missiles no?

And then you're more visible/have more of a footprint, and it's a lot harder to get under the radar.

And perhaps you'd even have something more useful to do with your life - or at least you'd have something you'd be hesitant to lose in retaliation.

Same as if you're able to build your own airplanes, you don't need to hijack any. But also, if you can hijack an airplane to do what you want to do - why bother going to the effort of building your own?

And as for the other points - I've never been worried about Hamas or personally cared to watch Fox News - and it's been decades. I also stopped reading/watching any general news several years ago.

So why are they not only still there, but have caused a lot of damage since? And made a lot of money?

No man is an island. And no matter how mentally healthy someone in Stalingrad was, they were still in for a world of hurt between '42 and the '60's, eh?

And if you refuse to use a tool against someone who will not hesitate to use it against you, guess what tool they'll eventually end up using all the time?
I used it for awhile and it was pretty good at Bash or Emacs Lisp one-liners but it was wrong often enough that it was faster to just search on Kagi for the information that I want first, instead of performing N searches to check the answer from Phind after querying Phind.
I think we're a ways from the severity of the Cultural Revolution.
Did anyone have a phone fail during this outage?

My Pixel 4XL was working at 2am as I placed it on the charger (even though it had about 80%). Noticed zero bars. Shrugged and went to sleep.

Woke up at 9am and the phone is totally non operational.

Yes I know sometimes phones just break, but less rarely while not moving, not wet, not dropped, or due to a charging issue.

What a coincidence.
Do you have an example? I've never heard of anyone accidentally generating CSAM, with any model. "1 in 1,000" is just an obviously bogus probability, there must have been billions of images generated using hundreds of different models.

Besides, and this is a serious question, what's the harm of a model accidentally generating CSAM? If you weren't intending to generate these images then you would just discard the output, no harm done.

Nobody is forcing you to use a model that might accidentally offend you with its output. You can try "aligning" it, but you'll just end up with Google Gemini style "Sorry I can't generate pictures of white people".
You do realize this mission is taxpayer funded. Intuitive Machines is getting paid as part of a contract to NASA under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLIPS) program.

https://www.nasa.gov/commercial-lunar-payload-services/

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/clps/intuitive-machine...
"Who uses APL in production?" is a common question. These days, it's mostly those who haven't stopped using it. The historical use, while never quite mainstream, might be surprising to those who never realized APL had a commercial presence at all!

- APL conferences were held every year from 1969 to 2004, minus '77 and '78 due to some unfortunate logistical issues (certainly not lack of demand). Conferences in the 80s regularly had >1000 in attendance despite both IPSA and STSC holding their own many years. My count (may not entirely rule out duplicates) is >1000 paper authors, and far more papers were submitted than accepted. https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_conference

- At least a dozen hardware manufacturers implemented an APL for their systems in the mainframe and minicomputer era (70s and 80s): https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Vendors

- Usage stats from just one university in 1978: 7,300 active accounts and 5,400 workspaces (which would each store an individual project, or something like that). Used for all sorts of administration and even a student ride sharing service. Today of course, much of this would be done in Excel. https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Syracuse_University

- The first serious e-mail system was implemented in APL in 1972, and used by Jimmy Carter in 1976 for his presidential campaign: https://forums.dyalog.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1629

- I've heard but can't verify that one of the APL books (Gilman and Rose maybe) sold over 100,000 copies.
Yeah, you're right, it was. That was temporary measure during the public launch to prevent spam/abuse. We've made some improvements here recently.
To be fair their stock wasn't necessarily doing that great at all (relative to AMD , let alone Nvidia over the last few years) when they were completely dominated the market.

Even with all dividends included their stock is worth about as much as back in 2000 (which they only managed to surpass in 2019/2020)), and if they are excluded they are yet to surpass their dot.com peak...
yes that are only good for simple cases, but at least for me those are not satisfying to solve

so letting it write some boilerplate (copilot) or solve simple problem that I don't want to waste my time for is providing me enough value to be worth spending money

also I find it very useful in filling out tests, where it mostly correctly fills other test cases given single example - again, not hard but time consuming

for harder problems I often find it useful when I debug something that I'm not familiar with, it usually give half of very generic advices but often suggest some valid starting points in investigation
(eg recently I had to debug openvpn server and I didn't touch them in years, issue was manifested with error about truncated packets and gpt was able to correctly suggest TLS negotiation)

sometimes I also use it rewrite/refactor code to see if maybe I would like different style/approach - this is rather rare, at begining I found it useful, now I think gpt started to often corrupt code or replace sections with comment with makes it much less useful
It would be lovely to have that in the U.S., but I doubt it will go anywhere anytime soon.

I'm sympathetic to the reasons. The U.S. has a massive population of people who for various reasons will not or cannot adopt methods other than SMS, if that.

Meanwhile you can call up some of our largest financial institutions and impersonate someone with public-record knowledge. Many organizations will allow you to skip any kind of over-the-phone SMS challenge by asking for -more- publicly available knowledge to "better"/further authenticate the caller. And of course all our Social Security Numbers are effectively all out there, and those are still the de-factor identifier where a phone number is not.

I used to do business with Vanguard. Several years ago they rolled out U2F-then-WebAuthn support so you could use a Yubikey or other FIDO2 compliant token as your MFA method. They allowed you to disable SMS MFA if you did that. I happily enabled that. Within two years, they re-introduced a requirement to enroll a number for SMS MFA on the grounds that their mobile app only supported codes delivered by SMS, and there was no opt-out. If you didn't enroll a number you'd be locked out and have to call customer service to add a number and reset your password.
Yes, in my experience. But maybe wine is a lot better now. They just made wine work well, but it's still wine.
Not a direct quote. But Discord is the only means of communication.
There is not so much net job loss. There is significant job downgrade.
The one thing we've learnt from the past few months of LLM optimization is that model size is no longer the most important thing in determining LLM quality.

A better training regimen and better architecture optimizations have allowed smaller models to push above their weight. The leaderboard has many open 7B and 13B models that are comparable with 72B models: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...
it’s that “0” level that surprised me the most here.

Days later, Rogers said you might be able to pull out/disable your SIM card to call 9-1-1, but then it depends: if Rogers is the strongest network, you might end up in the same predicament anyway.
A project that enables all your devices to communicate with each other
holy shit, i had no idea
Well, for AI, the "Matchbox Computer"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_an...
Phind-70B is a specialist model, unlike GPT-4. It optimizes for a different function than GPT-4 and therefore needs fewer parameters to learn it.

It's also true that specialist models still need to be sufficiently large to be able to reason well, but we've observed diminishing returns as models get larger.
I know not the details, but all power to that developer.
"Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible." 1984
But it’s kind of hard to kill yourself if you’re at home with your parents all day and so is everyone else.
> they treat it like a search engine instead of a conversation.

That's because web searches are so polluted that for a lot of purposes even ChatGPT 3.5 is better.
The opening reads more like factual statements to me, I don't really see anything that I would consider "nonsense billionaire-worship propaganda" (and I say this as someone who is generally pretty "eat the rich"). Would you care to quote a passage or two that you think reflects that statement?
To support the development of Wine and for ease of use?

Without CodeWeavers Wine wouldn’t be where it is today. They are the ones building your free and open solution. If it’s an important program for you, you should probably pay them.
Death, Lonely Death
Thanks Mitchell!

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Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters
> Though it's hard to say in evolution whether the chicken or the egg came first...

I thought it was obvious the egg came before the chicken because: dinosaurs. ;)
Horror and revulsion are proper things to feel about a monument to tragedy. Perhaps some additional feelings of solemnity and timelessness would come if you visited.
Was it that bad of a pun?
Figured a politician like Abe would have quite a few Abe-rants…
> I’m so addicted to the internet that when I block social media, I find I get quite the similar fix from work Slack.

Install "LeechBlock" in Firefox and "AppBlock" for apps. Block Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, CNN or whatever bad habit feedscrolling sites you use.

Limit it to like 2200-2300 in the beginning and then just set a total ban after one or two weeks.

It helped me alot. It was ridiculous how I had like muscle memory to open these things for no reason at all, all the time. I noticed first after I got the block message I set myself.

After a month or two the bad habit was gone.

Reddit got some third party mirrors for specific threads I want to read in search results (with a clunky high bar to reach) and there are plenty of alternatives to CNN. Etc.
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Just check average .... X....

I'm not sure if China, in decline, is worth mentioning. Eg. Average wage, GDP, ...

The west is not the US alone...
Your argument against federation and open communication is that bad people might use it? What's to stop bad people from using the main Bluesky instance?
Continuous fine tuning so you don't have to pass everything in the context with every query would definitely yield a better UX.
Phind founder here. Thanks for the feedback -- I'd love to hear your thoughts on this new model. You can try it for free, without a login, by selecting it from the homepage: https://phind.com.
Finally, the killer app for the Smart Home!:)
The 1,200 Year Maths Mistake [video]
Ah, damn it. I had this idea in my notes for a while. Too slow.
Yes we do. If you write a speech and read it aloud then your written speech is a "statistical model of what word should go next". Any method of creating language can be expressed in this form.

(For text, you might want to go back and edit what you've already written, but that can be handled with a token that says to start over.)
Not only that, but "do people consider these options to be mutually incompatible" is itself interesting information.

I wouldn't expect the average survey to handle it too well, though.
ah good point. Screw em; nationalize it.
I won't seriously argue. They had a good enough run. I even upgraded the one I got for free at a tradeshow at one point. But the synchronization and input was always enough of an issue that I can't say I ever found it all that useful in retrospect. And it always seemed to be in the "cool gadget" but not anything that was really critical.
Fertility and intelligence is only half of the picture. (an important piece, though) What about intelligence and life expectancy of the individual and of children? Also, what about other types of intelligence? IQ, EQ, etc? While very complicated, a multigenerational sampling with more information is really required. There is so much more to this picture, than a negative fertility correlation.
If I'm not mistaken, a high percentage of psycopaths have high IQs. It's one of the classic profile traits used to represent the stereotipical psycho.

edit: I searched a little bit on this and it seems that it was just a myth propagated by movies and a few very famous cases, i.e. Ted Bundy. But anyway, I do not see how you can make an argument from I wrote on the original post implying a correlation between psycopathy and high IQ. Is it the avoiding of having children, since it's an effective burden on the prospective father? It's just a fact, sexual drive was enough to make a man reproduce in the past. Not anymore. Natural selection wins again, the rules of the game changed, so you're out.
newegg shipped me six 16TB hard drives that were garbage. Some looked like a claw hammer ripped through their soft aluminum shells. Some had no connectors.
The linked blog post includes a section called "Does this mean Bluesky is going to be like Mastodon?" which lists a few differences. Is there something in addition that would be worth clarifying? I agree it would be great to include that on the site and not just on the post.
In which country? It's true in France, it's possibly not true in the US, it's definitely not true in China.
> I don't think there are any (even far) leftwanting to ban non-diverse representation.

Look at the rules to win an Oscar now.

To cite a direct and personal case, I was involved in writing code for one of the US government's COVID bailout programs, the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. Billions of dollars of relief, but targeted to non-white, non-male restaurant owners. There was a lawsuit after the fact to stop the unfair filtering, but it was too late and the funds were completely dispensed. That felt really gross (though many of my colleagues cheered and even jeered at the complainers).

> I think it's impossible to ban 'conservative thoughts' because that's such a poorly defined phrase.

I commented in /r/conservative (which I was banned from) a few times, and I was summarily banned from five or six other subreddits by some heinous automation. Guilt by association. Except it wasn't even -- I was adding commentary in /r/conservative to ask folks to sympathize more with trans folks. Both sides here ideologically ban with impunity and can be intolerant of ideas they don't like.

I got banned from my city's subreddit for posting a concern about crime. Or maybe they used these same automated, high-blast radius tools. I'm effectively cut out of communication with like-minded people in my city. I think that's pretty fucked.

Mastodon instances are set up to ban on ideology...

This is all wrong and a horrible direction to go in.

It doesn't matter what your views are, I think we all need to be more tolerant and empathetic of others. Even those we disagree with.
Man, HBO's Silicon Valley needs a reboot.
Housing Problem Solved [video]
There's a bridge nowadays, but… see https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/mastodon-date... which also links to https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges... https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users... and https://news.itsfoss.com/bluesky-mastodon-bridge/
Are you claiming that counts as being seriously considered? Or just floating around?

Clearly, Vince Gilligan is a member of the illuminati. Though the list of follow up episodes was a bit meh. Perhaps also telling?

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_(TV_series)#ci...], such as

Episode 6 - "A man contacts the Lone Gunmen, believing his life has been stolen after being abducted by aliens. They end up getting caught in a love triangle involving a one-eyed stereo salesman, brainwashing, and a wrestling dwarf."

Episode 10 - "Yves and Frohike go undercover as tango dancers to stop a man from selling government secrets."

Or, the real 'telling the truth in the form of a lie'?

Their last episode #13 - "The Lone Gunmen team up with Man in Black agent Morris Fletcher to find Yves. What they uncover is Romeo-61, a secret government organization responsible for decades of major incidents."

Was Vince picking up top-secret communications in his fillings (maybe even subconsciously) and ended up telling too much? Or a SG-1 style 'early disclosure'/'disinfo' campaign? Or false-false flag? Or coincidence? Or reaction to some actual gov't preparatory 'conspiracy theory' poisoning the well?

The world may never know. /s
That's a common opinion, but it's rather whatever was there, in cold climates large animals, in hotter climates there was plenty vegetables

What really helped humans I think is more their morphology, their incredibly precise hands
"Interesting" - I define that as "a product that a lot of people will buy for a few years, and is profitable."

I guess you have a different definition.
> In a couple years we will have multiple new announcements per hour

Models are research output. If 10 new models are being announced every day in a couple years, it would mean that generative AI research has failed to stabilize and produce a stable, reliable component ready for product engineering. And if that's where we are in a couple years, that's almost certainly a sign that the hype was misplaced and that money is chasing after itself trying to recoup sunk costs. That's a failure scenario for this technology, not what an AI-optimist (you otherwise seem to be one) should be anticipating.
That's still false. You don't need to have a large group of people go through IQ tests to prove a business necessity, you need to prove that IQ specifically is relevant to the specific job in some way.

And the thing is, that it's very difficult to show that IQ (as measured by an IQ test) is relevant to a specific job versus something like experience, education, etc., because "IQ" is a made up number that doesn't actually test intelligence or problem-solving abilities.

Businesses test applicants all the time. But instead of a useless IQ test, they test job-specific performance through things like coding tests, draft patents or legal documents, etc.
It kinda is, if you want not just performance on synthetic benchmarks but a good coverage of the long tail. This is where GPT4 excels, and also why I pay for it. Transformers are basically fancy associative memories. A smaller model, much like a smaller search index, will not be able to contain as much nuanced information for some hard, immutable, information theoretic reasons.
If you'd wanted to make the stronger case, you could have used those numbers the first time. ;)
For my part, certainly. It's an important part of how I keep emotional liabilities out of the company.
An APL keyboard typically wasn't exactly a custom keyboard, but a standard keyboard with APL characters accessible through modifier keys. Often there were adhesive labels on the front of each key showing the special characters or you could get custom keycaps that had the special characters printed on the front. And of course many of the special characters were created through overstrike rather than separate keys. Way back, I programmed in APL on a DECWriter that had support for APL characters.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39459606
It's a fair point and we definitely debated it, but it was too important to us that we complete the mission.
Anything to do with the polis, or a gathering of people, is by definition political.

Also, I think the "racists" you're talking about already entered the conversation when they programmed their ai to pretend that white men don't exist.

Another point is that it's Google. Google has always been racist. Remember the "gorilla photo" controversy from just a few years back? Were the big heads at Google able to figure out the difference between black people and gorillas? No, they simply removed the gorillas. Remember a few years before that, with the autocorrect? "A white man stole my bike" prompted "Did you mean a black man stole your bike?"
It's Google. They've always been racist. Why you're worried about people pointing that out I'll never know.
I'm still not completely sure who or what ReactOS is supposed to be for. If you want to run Windows applications, Wine on Linux works better. In fact, Wine and ReactOS exchange a lot of code in the user layer anyway, IIRC. Meanwhile, Linux is probably the best optimized, most ported and most customizable kernel we have.

The only thing you get by running ReactOS instead of Linux is... worse performance, worse hardware support and possibly a kernel based on leaked copyrighted code. What's the point?
This would be funny if we weren't living it.

Software that promotes the unchecked spread of propaganda, conspiracy theories, hostility, division, institutional mistrust and so on: A-OK.

Software that might show a boob: Totally irresponsible and deserving of harsh regulation.
Certainly not in my Silicon Valley teams.

I'd say maybe 40% white (half of which are immigrants) and 80% male.

More diverse than any leftist activist group I've seen.
When I worked in a factory they piped the local pop station over the PA system all day. At first it is really cool, but then when you've heard Alanis Morrisette for the 112th time that day, it can grate. And there is no escape :(