skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Niagara-style (at least T1) design would have never worked in an application like this, because it compromised FPU power for the core count. 8 cores shared one FPU!

Niagara (all designs) heavily compromised single-thread performance, which could just mean time critical (5G or whatever) threads cannot complete on time.

Niagara was an interesting idea, but not great for most applications.
Certainly it was a design flaw, but also a major fault in training. Any properly trained pilot should have been able to detect a stall situation and pushed stick forward.
Good luck in your future endeavors!
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There were no PCs when I was in high school. We had classes in BASIC running on a time shared DEC PDP11. I got in trouble for running $TALK, which was like a very primitive chat app. Good times...

Didn't get to see any kind of PC until 82 or so, my boss had a "Trash 80" which he used to access APL workspaces from home.
To be held accountable, you need the authority to make decisions
> If not when it says so and not when it seems to display emotions (and change behavior based on them), when?

A necessary but not sufficient condition is having the architecture for consciousness, which means having the ability to actually experience and reflect on their own internal state, which these models by design cannot do. It tells you it has consciousness because that's part of its training, if the training data and tuning told it to say it has pain in its legs and feels sad about it, it would do literally that despite not having legs.

The human brain has a limbic system that regulates its emotional state, and there's constant brain activity going on managing those. These models don't sit there and experience emotions they literally do nothing until you ask them to give you another token.
Thats great for you I guess. When I work, I want vscode with all the fancy linting and language server bells and whistles. I want to be able to have a ton of chrome tabs for browsing and docs and I want a local version of whatever I am building to run. Im gonna make the bold assumption that this is quite common in the dev community. Given that, 8gb is pushing it, no matter how you spin the "but my memory is fast" or "but native apps"
I was a little surprised to see that it doesn't have the few extra tweaks necessary to work as a PWA in fullscreen mode: a manifest, some tags in the <head>, and CSS to lock down the body to prevent unwanted pinch zooming, scrolling and other gestures (which would also benefit the in-browser use case as well).

But still, really incredible work.
Framework isn’t using LPDDR5/5X like the surface or the macbook. LPDDR adds to the cost quite a bit, as does the advanced packaging apple uses etc.

But it’s the only way to keep pushing bandwidth forward, especially for graphics/iGPU, and keep pushing power down. Socketed memory inherently is much slower and less efficient, same reason consoles don’t come with ram sticks.

AMD’s solution is a package with cache instead, to try and reduce the amount of data they have to push around. But that adds a bunch of cost and still isn’t as efficient - but it lets you keep scaling socketed memory a little farther. Can’t help but feel like the days are numbered though, there isn’t an infinite amount of runway left for socketed memory.
A nice story about Xerox discovering this issue in 2003, when their copiers began slightly changing random numbers in copied documents

https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4594482/xerox-copiers-rand...
I'd need a theory as to why intelligence is in an llm not just apparent stimulus response outcomes. There is a huge corpus of knowledge inside the model and a black box for most of us. It's generating syntactically correct phrases, reams of them but with significant errors which to me say there is no apparent understanding of the regurgitated facts, and I see no introspection or intent.

Evidence is a more abstract concept. Nothing to date is evidence, to me. I guess it will be settled in hindsight and a theory to me is the huge missing link. We do (as far as I know) have a distinct lack of theories about intelligence at large, I find it encouraging how much recent research sees long term evidence of intelligence in higher organisms and better understanding for brain function but without being either a brain scientist or an fMRI expert I think I can say neither brain science nor fMRI science think they've cracked it yet, and so llm intelligence doesn't even begin to have theories grounded in organic, existent intelligence to work on just observations of input and output.
Luckily in the supposed alternatives, like the middle east (which has lending+interest, they just lie about it for religious reasons. "It's not interest, it's just a administrative fee per dollar lent. Not Interest! No sir!"), or China. Or China's efforts in Africa, for example. Luckily there nature is doing well!

Oh wait a second ...
The radio is a feature in which a move to change station should not take more than a fraction oft a second. If it takes more you should stop. That is valid for any action but for some reason people start adjusting their entire audio setup while driving...
Projected Headline: "According to investigators, pilots mistakenly believed their readouts and controls were still in simulation mode until seconds before the aircraft struck the mountain, killing everyone aboard."

I mean, yeah, practice for when the automation breaks is good, but during the flight? That's just creating more mode-switching error cases.
Yep. I click on this icon in my MintLinux panel and voila!

Tue Mar 5, 2024 4:50pm TASS News Reader 3.7.2 jvs [linux]
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7 alt.sys.pdp8
8 aus.ads.forsale.computers.used
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2 Logitech keyboard replacement issues 8 azigni <azigni@yahoo.com>
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4 dual boot - windows space requirement 6 TimW <timw@nomailta.co.uk>
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7 Unable to install GRUB 10 pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>
8 Does anyone of you really think Mint Version 1000 will have the default a 24 Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com>
9 wine-wine 5 Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid>
10 Recovering data 4 pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>
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EC 4 ME
No discussion of using labels to find similar music?
The Columbian Magazine Archive
Early magazines in US - https://daily.jstor.org/reading-aloud-in-the-early-republic/
how is the GenAI accuracy compared to AWS Textract?
Also I am not sure the libraries used by OpenAI get details from image input.
I think that understanding page layout of image is very important, which might not be the focus of OpenAI.
The London Magazine Archive
Like if Microsoft for some reason decided to put all their Azure examples in files that opened in MS Paint, imagine a “My issue with Paint is that…” comment like the above. You should judge MS Paint by how good it is for its stated purpose, not by how it gets in the way when you're not trying to use it. It makes no sense to say “My issue with X is that Y uses it and...” (that would an issue with Y) especially on a post that's about Z and how it's different from X.

In this case, Observable Framework is an open-source static-site generator that runs on your machine and uses standard Javascript, so really don't understand what's the connection to specific hosted Observable notebooks.

(But I guess it's of some interest/disappointment to the Observable folks that at least some people are encountering their Observable project mainly in the context of looking for d3 examples.)
You can judge height by the distance to your shadow.
I think you're in a same-same path with this.

That is, If you say "No, I don't want equity", they still owe your back pay, there are multiple ways to get it, AND if either "back pay" or "equity" is to have value, they must have more funding. Which means, out of that funding can immediately come your back pay.

So if you take the equity, or insist on pay, both are the same in the end.

In fact, by not showing you what you need to know? They're forcing you to go after any investment they get for backpay.

I've always found, in every single case, if someone doesn't want to show me something? It's because they know they're scamming you. Or selling false goods.

No one with a sensible, reasonable deal ever desires to hide what the deal is.

In fact, you should most insist and see what the founders are getting too. And the older investors. But either way, you are 100% owed salary, without dilution, and in most jurisdictions employee wages are class A, come first, before anyone gets cash -- investor or not.

Is this the case in your region?
I’d rather take 100% of a million than Fan Duels’ 0% of half a billion.
They should not bring back physical controls but make everything voice controlled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUTfUmI8vs
Are we working at the same company? :)
Yeah. Curious about this also. The careers page just has Canada listed. Please specify.
As a person from a different language/accent who has to deal with this on a regular basis - having assistants like Siri not understand what I want to say, even though native speakers don't have such problem... Or before an advent of UTF - websites and apps ignoring special characters usable in my language.

I wouldn't consider this a matter of ethics, and more of a technology limitations or ignorance.
Turning my car at low speed with the engine off feels much harder than 1.5 times the turning of an old times car of similar weight. I could hardly make it turn at all when it happened. I don't think I'd be able to make it through a real turn on a road. And I have a small car of about 1000 kg.
This was a time that "cloud" was still a decade or so in the future for the huge majority of people. You had to keep all your data locally, including all your music and photos. There's no way anyone would want to keep full histories of their repositories locally, competing with their mp3s.
Sure, but we only use Bautzner here: https://www.gls-eberlein.de/images/product_images/popup_imag...
not sure if anyone is going to see at this point but I digress.

even if this case did not directly set a precedent against emulation the mere risk of a repeat of this case with the same outcome is not exactly encouraging to the prospect of someone forking the projects at issue and restarting development.
On most turbo engines these days they are electronically operated and have no linkage anyway. That's even the case in most modern petrol cars where people think there still is a linkage. And that trend has been going on for at least 20 years.
Results of OCR with GPT4, Gemini and LLava (Llama2 with Vision)
Well I think it's safe to say that near 0% of people have read his book, and the hypothesis put forward is far from intuitive. It's also easy to see it as probably being motivated by ideology, as it falls right in line with certain social trends. So this is going to have a pretty polarizing effect. People who adopt to said ideology are going to be inclined to accept it with minimal questioning, and vice versa people who challenge said ideology are probably just going to eye roll and completely dismiss it with about as much consideration as the equal but opposite group gave it.

So it would probably help if somebody compellingly laid out his hypothesis, at least as it relates to animals, while making some reasonable effort to account for the countless self evident arguments against it.
It is no accident that the language designers of D, Chapel, Swift, Haskell, OCaml, Ada, looked at Rust lifetimes and current state of borrow checker and decided, while a good idea, they would rather keep automatic memory management productivity with just enough lifetimes, than the Rust approach.

Also we should take into consideration that while these concepts are somehow hard to use in Rust versus other languages, in Cyclone they are even more complex, and Rust is actually a more ergonomic version already, despite its complexity.
Why should we take that much care regarding the least important part of a language? Every syntax that was invented for actual use (not Brainfuck et al.) can be learnt in short time.

Language semantics and libraries are more important.
Only if we are talking about GC languages without value types support.

Examples of languages with some form of automatic memory management and RAII.

Swift, D, Nim, C#, Active Oberon, Modula-3, Delphi.
So does “println “I’m conscious””. I don’t think that an LLM, which has been told it’s an AI and trained on data where AIs say that they’re conscious, is a good judge of whether or not it’s conscious.
I wonder what are the security implications.
I just opened a random URL and an arbitrary application was launched inside my Internet OS desktop.
What if someone gives me a link to a malicious password stealer, for example?
I think a permission system would be nice.
Rock is my go-to in the morning, to each their own. We agree on Bach at least.
I’m a bootstrapped founder but hard disagree with this take.

Surely it can’t be the founder taking home a healthy salary from day 1 despite the company being far away from any revenue at all that is taking the risk in your book?
Contempt is not equal to content. I think autocorrect got you
bro, life saving stuff you've created there. also, for the "i need help" part, i'd try my damnedest so things won't go south like that (500 error). how about put it into a loop with backoff or something?
Not enums. But you don't need a runtime or function mutation for that...

Particularly egregious was (is?) async/await. Upgrade your browser/runtime/don't use it you say? Sure, but first two weren't always possible, and the third isn't possible unless you thoroughly vet your dependencies (easier said than done).

"Compiling to javascript" is all well and good if you actually just compile to normal javascript, as soon as you have any code that simulates other features (classes/objects/what-have-you) you are no longer "compiling to javascript". I mean yeah sure as a sort of intermediary assembly language you are but the performance is not the same. You have a new language with a runtime overhead, that now requires you modify the "core" language to bring in new features, which results in the underlying execution engines (browsers/cpus) becoming more complicated, power hungry, etc....

Anyways, type caching is not all bad. While the TS overhead is likely responsible for the performance wins for javascript in the following chart:
https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/typescrip...

The performance wins for typescript likely source from the ability of the runtime to pre-allocate and avoid type checking.

Providing the type checks without using any non-JS features (and possibly providing the runtime some heads up regarding checks to safely drop) is the ideal.
I very much agree with this sentiment. For me it is the 9th symphony that I don't want to wear out.
> but seemed to mostly converge and stabilise for a few decades

Due to regulation.

The US Congress mandated the PRNDSL quadrant for automatic transmissions.
(GM had PNDSLR, and people kept shifting into reverse by accident.)
I unsubscribe from everything, keep a zero inbox. Every mail in there needs attention. Currently I have 3 mails in my inbox. Works like a charm.
This has got to be one of the most biased, uninformed, bullshit, articles I've ever read. The author has no connections to motorsports at all, where everything and everyone is connected.

I've had Indy hard cards, lunch with Charlie Whiting, been in race control and timing towers of too many race tracks to count, and had people ask to take pictures with me because of what I created (still feels weird, but whatever).

This is a fluff piece of nonsensical ranting and raving about a sport that the author knows nothing about. It is a very expensive sport and also attracts a lot of money because everyone wants to find any possible advantage they can within the rules. I started my business to help fund my racing habit, and found that we can make more money selling useful tools to the racers and fans.

Someone told the author to go on a trip and write an article that's X,000 words long... sadly, that person didn't care if the article was actually good or not.
He stands by that post 11 years latter - https://www.threads.net/@jscalzi/post/C4D9dFKrR1-
I agree.

The classic "they were so interested in whether they could, they never considered whether they should"
It's also about the asset value of IP. Most if not all media companies have IP on their balance sheets. (Showing that you are) protecting IP is part of its value justification.
alternatively, python files can be interpreted as music

https://github.com/vdwees/tone_trace
My experience with most "neo HDLs" is that they are all code generators which make the tedious part easy and don't really end up touching the hard part.

This may be the first HDL I've seen that attempts to move the needle on catching bugs at compile time. (I've worked with several engineers, on hardware bugs which turned out to be pipelining errors, who did not understand what I meant by "make this design error inexpressible.") I have several pages of notes on what I'd do differently if I designed my own HDL - the typical software engineer hubris - and this is the first language I've seen that starts to line up with what I was thinking.

Another perennial area where bugs crop up are when crossing clock and reset domains. The language ought to be able to make it so that you simply can't make many kinds of clock domain errors - trying to read a signal from the wrong clock domain shouldn't compile. Dedicated "unsafe" primitives from a stdlib should perform the crossing and the type conversion.
If you have a home built out of proper materials, it'll need a wifi AP in every other room for coverage, and those still need uplinks.
Pretty slick
> it's damn near impossible to turn the wheels when the car is off and not moving.

That was also strongly discouraged on older cars and only possible with big steering wheels and good grip. Just move very slowly and the turning becomes really easy even without assistance (and which is what you were thought when this was still a thing in countries with required driving lessons).
The best advice I can give anyone trying to appreciate jazz is to think of it like listening to a conversation in an unfamiliar foreign language. You don't have to understand the literal meaning of the words/notes to infer their emotional tone, pacing, and the ebb and flow of the conversation. Jazz in this way is an abstraction of spoken language. It communicates a vibe or general emotional landscape that you can interrupt for yourself in a personal way.

As a more accessible starting point I'd actually recommend Miles Davis's Porgy and Bess album. It's a hybrid of Gershwin's composed music and jazz. Being more structured than most jazz recordings it will give you some context/framework to enjoy the jazzy parts. Most of the songs are short and digestible.
> Really wonder how that ever got into a production car in the first place.

Teslas are the Dunning-Kruger cars. Designed by people who seemingly do not really know how to design cars (a wheel is boring; let’s put a yoke because video games! Look how cool we are! Also, touchscreens!) and built with poor quality control. I was not aware of the horn button, but if I had to guess, Tesla would be my first choice.
... And memory/resource leakage is not an uncommon problem in those languages
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke

If you know it's difficult, shape a thing so it can not go wrong?
The first time I was strongly considering a startup I had to essentially treat the options as worthless. Both because of the usual fact that most startups fail, but because of stuff like in the article: I couldn't convince myself in any way that there wouldn't be people ahead of me in the line if the company was sold, despite the fact that the founders themselves seemed totally honest.
Yes. Very much so.

try here for a great start https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens