skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really kind of wild. We rented a house on the Chesapeake Bay last summer. Newly remodeled (was very run down the year before - we've visited this town several times) with decent finishes. The manager runs a little real estate empire, either owning or managing rentals all along the I-64 corridor in VA (VA Beach through the Blue Ridge). She also runs a consulting business for people looking to get into the vacation home ownership game.

I used to dream about owning a vacation home, but my parents bought a beach house about 15 years ago. They'd rent it peak season, but keep it for family use on the shoulders through winter. It was fun for a few years, but eventually the constant upkeep and expense wore them down and they sold it. Renters can be real animals - constant stream of broken furniture, stolen kitchenware and decorations, and just plain weird stuff like broken bathroom mirrors. Really opened my eyes, at least to a money-making rental property.
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> I don't know about this. There are a lot of people being paid by their companies to work on the C++ committee and on various compiler teams.

The standards document isn't the same as a C++ implementation. The implementations are actually behind the standards, at least given current contribution levels.

There are relatively few people making significant contributions to C and C++ in compilers. Funding for middle and backend features to compilers are a lot easier to justify and fund because it looks like more straightforward optimization payoffs.

A lot of the effort put into C++ implementation work goes to keeping up with the pile of features added to the C and C++ standards every three years or so.
> Why do you think they are BS?

Because me and everyone else here really hates Elon Musk.

> You say it raised legitimate questions about their non-profit status and lack of non-profit related activity.

As soon as OpenAI accepted that investment from Microsoft it has only been used as a for-profit proxy to have their own ‘DeepMind’ to bring down Google which they have tried for years with Bing and the Scroogled campaigns.

OpenAI is now no better than Google DeepMind and both are as closed and secretive and OpenAI ditched from their charter and non-profit status and continues to make excuses for not giving back their research.
Handy Cross is the worst roundabout in the country, I hate it so much!
> Sure we do: we're made of atoms.

> To reject that this necessarily shows that AGI is possible...

Incorrect. For something to be possible in an absolute sense, it has to be possible in both the physical and the metaphysical realm, and a lack of knowledge of blockers in the metaphysical does not mean that there are none (in a comprehensive sense), it only means it appears that way, due to (at least) our cultural beliefs ("truths") and conditioning.

> ...you would have to demonstrate human intelligence is tied to an immaterial soul granted by a supernatural being.

Could demonstrating that intelligence rests upon a virtual reality generation machine (that cloaks itself from being realized as such) or something else not also work, at least maybe?
Until more people choose to live further away because the commute is now tolerable with the extra lane (and it's cheaper), and then you're back to square one.
That's exactly it. After "shipping the work to production" (making it faster for everybody), the overall average and p95 got worse. Each sub-population experienced improvement: countries with fast internet got faster youtube, countries with slow internet got faster youtube. But the overall average and p95 got worse: overall average was slower youtube. Because now more users from the second sub-population bring the overall average speed down (or latency up). That's Simpson's paradox.
Gibberish: A blogging app that feels like texting
I went to look for the ebook version of “Sparta and the Commemoration of War”, but balked at the $30 price.
I am curious what additional attacks knowing the last layer of an LLM enables.

Eg you go from a black box attack to some sort of white box [1]

Does it help with adversarial prompt injection? What % of the network do you need to know to identify whether an item was included in the pretraining data with k% confidence?

I assume we will see more of these and possibly complex zero days. Interesting if you can steal any non trivial % of model weights from a production model for relatively little money (compared to pretraining cost)

[1] https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-10-25-adv-attack-llm...
One problem I see (besides the paternalism, and talking down to people) is that "rigid schemas" of the kind that drives normies insane when nerdy types exhibit them and being smart vs. dumb are actually two very separate things.

So, there are tons of people who have rigid schemas, and are actually quite dumb, and watching health food nuts on YouTube is actually a great way to observe them in the wild. If you tell them "don't eat anything that doesn't look the way it looks in nature", they are going to start eating raw soy beans and poison themselves, because "science said so".

I don't think it's doing anyone any good if otherwise reputable news outlets, and actual scientists, throw even more oil into the fire of inaccurate information about nutrition.
F-Droid is quite significant on Android.
I am surprised anyone thought unique to humans. How is this different from commonly observed behaviour like these: https://www.britannica.com/story/how-other-species-learn

It does not even need scientific study to see these. Its common enough for causal observation.
A strong magnetic field would affect all (eletrically conducting) bullets, they need not be ferromagnetic. This would work better on silver bullets than steel, actually (because of better conductivity).

(This is obviously not practical)
I disagree, there seems to be no "agenda" Google is pushing.
For example, on YouTube, I tend to get a lot of suggestions for things I've watched recently - but that may be on either side of the current political divide.
If I watch a single alt-right video, I get inundated with more alt-right video, seemingly getting more and more radicalized content as I follow... but all I seem to need to do to counter that is watch one or two videos from some leftist denouncing the patriarchy - and then I get, again, more and more radical content going the other direction!

It is kind of good in a way: it doesn't seem to be trying to push me in any direction in particular, it's just trying to push me in whatever direction I was already heading on by myself.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/ultra-pro...
Yes. The book is fascinating and heartbreaking:

Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
So you think today's technology is comparable to farming?
He seems to have changed his mind a couple decades later.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35198697
"comes even close"

I think the argument in this thread is more between people thinking animals have 'zero' ability, it is just instinct, or some other mechanism different than what is taking place in a human. And the group that is saying, animals are using the same mechanisms as a human, just humans are scaled up. Abilities between Humans and animals is a sliding scale.

They are wanting to argue that Humans have a singular ability that does NOT exist anywhere else, kind of a 'divine' argument. And animals are doing something different.

"comes even close" is indicating, it's a scale, might be a big scale, but it is the same scale.
Not my area at all, just passing by and wondering to the extent and how they use knowledge graphs for drug discovery.

Some time back I had a peek at AstraZeneca's GitHub [0] and got me curious. I know in genomics they try to use custom hardware to accelerate the process using FPGAs and others [1].

Curious if anyone can shed light on knowledge graph use at scale is being accelerated.

[0] AstraZeneca; Awesome Drug Discovery Knowledge Graphs
https://github.com/AstraZeneca/awesome-drug-discovery-knowle...

[1] Gene sequencing accelerates with custom hardware
https://www.mewburn.com/news-insights/gene-sequencing-accele...
Well yes, but did you read my post in detail? I asked what the difference was between "space expanding" vs "objects moving away from each other".

And secondly, what is the mechanism for "space expanding"? What is "space" in this context? What actually is expanding?
The cognitive burden of developing in C++ anymore is excessive, but that appears impossible to recognize without completely stepping away from the language for a few years.

I loved the language; I even used it for web development for a couple of years and it was enjoyable to do so; but I did step away, and at this point I'd rather use Rust (a language I neither love nor find enjoyable).

Not sure the C++ committee have the capacity to "fix" this (whatever that may mean), nor whether the industry would let them, even if they were able to recognize the cognitive burden as a problem.
Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
Mozilla also has struggles staying competitive with its core products. The main criticism of Rust as a solution to safety concerns is about that kind of outcome.

Obviously Mozilla's challenges are multifaceted and don't boil down to user-invisible code rewrites. But, at best, switching to Rust was an orthogonal engineering concern that has opportunity costs.
Not exposure to elements only, Japan has very often earthquakes of various intensities, and what you describe sounds like it should help, at least to certain extent.
> Teaching kids that electrons orbit around a nucleus like a planet around the sun is a lie.

Of course its a simplification. You are talking to a kid! Not a graduate with high-school physics.

How else will you even attempt to simplify it to 10 years old?

It seems that you are also blaming a school teacher for not being a domain expert with PhD and up to date knowledge.

Most of teachers with decade or more are just that - teachers. Its their 9-5 job.
When you run a program under almost any operating system, the operating system assumes you trust it. The code can open any file you've got permission to access, open network ports, etc. The code is you as far the operating system is concerned, and carries with it all of your authority. The assumption that code can just do whatever it wants is baked into everything.

There are permission flags on your Smartphone and other places that curtail this a bit, but those are rather course grained all or nothing decisions. Those are like either handing over your wallet, or not, to the clerk at a store to make your payment.

There are better alternatives possible, I'm hoping they get here soon. Genode[1] is one such system, that offers capability based security, where you chose what resources to hand off to code, instead of giving it everything. This model of computing is called Capability Based Security[2].

[1] https://genode.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
Don't ask questions like that on the Internet. The OP may well not have any. Are you going to ridicule them for that or what's your point?
All of them? We've been working on and succeeding at automating physical tasks for decades.
By providing dividends. Investors who seek high risk and high growth can then go elsewhere, or maybe catch a flight to Vegas for some real gambling. There will always be investors looking for "slow and steady".

As a company grows, its culture changes, but so should its approach to growth and to investors.
But yet they leave https://telegram.org/ alone for some reason.

Weird that an American company would claim the word "gram". Thought they hate the metric system. /s
US Billionaire Drowns in Tesla After Rescuers Struggle with Strengthened Glass
What I wish I knew before quitting my job
The architecture as a whole is referred to as a transformer (autoregressive decoder-only architecture in the case of gpt style LLMs).

Note that there can be other types of LLMs too that are not necessarily transformer based (SSM, RNN, etc)
This all reminds me of my asshole great uncle making fun of me as a teenager circa 1997 while I was at the computer and on the internet.

Sarcastically asking me "Can you meet girls on that?" and then laughed.

He wasn't wrong in the short term but laughably wrong in the long term.
I appreciate how badly you want me to love him the way you do, but the emperor has been revealed to have no clothes and I'm not happy to put my head in the sand to continue defending his intelligence/business anymore.
I am not going to be skeptical until they tell me exactly how hey got to the "self-inflicted" wound. How can you tell it was self-inflicted?
Any witness? Recording? C'mon!
It would be Simpsons' Paradox if Google services in Indonesia were initially slow because Indonesians tend to use YouTube more often than lighter services.

There wasn't an error in the conclusions of the initial measuremen. It was the solution that had problems.
> The question has been answered - corporate entities do a much better job of curating spaces.

Do you have a citation for this, or are you just asserting it as a fact?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessence_(physics)
Yeah. For all the hate the Flash player got back in the day, the authoring software (which was Macromedia Flash when I last used it) was awesome. It has really nice motion interpolation (tweening) and onion-skinning tools. For Western animation this meant you didn’t need to outsource all the in-between work.
Bebop v3: a fast, modern replacement for Protocol Buffers
The UI side is clamping down on features,

The browser extension requires you to pay to use TOTP and so on.
AWS enabled dualstack S3 almost 10 years ago because object storage is pretty much the use case for IPv6.

I’m pretty sure the only other large object storage provider that is v4 only is Azure, and even then they offer a compatibility layer. Backblaze just flat out won’t work unless you pay extra to connect to them.

Honestly the only cloud provider I think you’re talking about is Azure, I don’t know of any other that are IPv4 only because it’s just cost prohibitive.
The curse of "zero cost abstraction" strikes again :/ A 5x performance difference between debug and release mode isn't uncommon in C++ either and a real problem for game development (plus the slow build times, but those two problems go hand in hand - you can have "high-level abstractions" that build slowly and run fast, or build fast and run slowly).

That's why there's so much advice to write C-like C++ and also ignore the stdlib in gamedev circles. The Rust equivalent is probably to write "embedded style Rust".
More options for apps distributed in the European Union
Deep Delay Autoencoders Discover Dynamical Systems W Latent Variables (2022) [video]
I dunno, I like the idea of 'quality content' being gamified as a kind of upward filter. Online communication has degraded in-person communication to some degree* and it would be nice if there was a gamelike quality to getting access to the best communities which aligned with the quality of thought and communication - an excellent training ground. The major worry I'd have is that midwit communities can't tell an imbecile from a genius and it'd be hard for a lot of actual geniuses to 'graduate' once they're being judged by midwits. But I'm sure the genius communities would have the means to put a workaround in place.

*I suspect this is at least in part due to memetic contagion rate being selected for at a higher rate online than in close reationships, but does anyone have their own pet theory as to why this is?
CalyxOS is a great alternative to GrapheneOS. The way I see it is that CalyxOS is much better for privacy but not as good for security, whereas on GrapheneOS security is always the main priority, whilst privacy and usability are second thoughts.
hey, I just updated the gemini api key, I think the old one was not working :/

Thanks for reporting, here's a test I just generated: https://geminivsgpt.com/share/zJnvyIdK
What about the folks that say everything will work out in a fair and balanced way as if the universe and everything in reality stays perfectly balanced on a tip of a pin?

You paint the picture as if the All or nothing folks are extreme when in reality the extreme is more likely then some perfectly fair and balanced equilibrium.

In nature things tend to overload or fizzle out or stay in equilibrium. Equilibrium, though possible, is the rarer outcome. Mind you it's not an impossible outcome but given the way entropy works, it is the rarer outcome.

Humanity itself is an example of this rare outcome. Usually molecules don't self assemble into replicating machines, they either freeze into inanimate rock or overload into fusion producing stars.

As for AI. I think it will either change the world, or amount to nothing. The former seems more likely. Some strange middle ground where the ai technology never improves to some point of a societal paradigm shift seems unlikely. chatGPT and sora only makes me ask what is the trend line predicting next?
> We’re providing more flexibility for developers who distribute apps in the European Union (EU), including introducing a new way to distribute apps directly from a developer’s website.
Hmm, typically the models where people use cosine similarity on embeddings have been deliberately trained such that the cosine similarity is meaningful. It looks like this paper is looking at examples where the models have not been deliberately trained for the cosine similarities, and hence in these situations it would indeed be unreasonable to assume cosine similarities to be a good idea.. (but that's kind of a given?)

For example, here's the loss from the CLIP paper [1], which ensures cosine similarities are meaningful:

# joint multimodal embedding [n, d_e]
I_e = l2_normalize(np.dot(I_f, W_i), axis=1)
T_e = l2_normalize(np.dot(T_f, W_t), axis=1)
# scaled pairwise cosine similarities [n, n]
logits = np.dot(I_e, T_e.T) * np.exp(t)
# symmetric loss function
labels = np.arange(n)
loss_i = cross_entropy_loss(logits, labels, axis=0)
loss_t = cross_entropy_loss(logits, labels, axis=1)
loss = (loss_i + loss_t)/2

And Sentence Transformers [2] using CosineSimilarityLoss:

train_loss = losses.CosineSimilarityLoss(model)
# Tune the model
model.fit(train_objectives=[(train_dataloader, train_loss)], epochs=1, warmup_steps=100)

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.00020.pdf

[2] https://www.sbert.net/docs/training/overview.html
Or killed by a nation state that thrives on creating conflict by amplifying two sided situations that lead to increased polarization and more instability… the problem with speculation is it’s just that speculation… I’m going to wait and see
I imagine there must be lots of gravity lensing going on as well, not sure how they deal with that.
> GitHub Actions is strongly not recommended for non-private.

By who? Why?
A British energy bill would typically look like this [1, PDF]. The green marked (11) shows the rate clearly.

My Danish bill is less clear. There are lines for electricity, tax, and other charges, rather than e.g. a single figure for usage and another for the connection.

[1] https://www.britishgas.co.uk/aem6/content/dam/britishgas/dow...
I agree, somewhat. Wikipedia is hand-curated and it works.

Perhaps it's time for a new DMOZ/ODP type effort from Wikimedia/Mozilla/similar.
This file seems to be encoded as Windows-1252, but is served as UTF-8; hence all the tofu. Browsers all used to have an option override the encoding, but unfortunately those are gone now. Firefox still has the ability to "Repair Text Encoding" in the View menu (you've to press Alt to show the old-fashioned menu bar), which seems to do a decent job on this page.
> “as far as we can possibly tell from the data we have”

Isn't that self evident in all cases?

In cosmology, the implicit assumptions are the Corpernican principle and that GR is correct. That is covered in introductory texts, but unless stated otherwise, it is usually not mentioned, especially not in press releases.

I mean, maybe you're just a Boltzmann brain floating in space and nothing is real. Fun to think about, sure, but expecting to state the basics in any and all cases is unrealistic.
How the miners' strike changed the role of women
The word2vec inspired tricks like king-man+woman only work if the embedding is trained with synonym/antonym triplets to give them the semantic locality that allows that kind of vector math. This isn't always done, even some word2vec re-implementations skip this step completely. Also, not all embeddings are word embeddings.
Where are you seeing that GitHub actions isn’t recommended for public repos?
Please provide evidence that the term "mainstream media" has its origins in far right politics.
Convenience, for me. A flat is better than two rooms when travelling with my son and my girlfriend, for example. For families it has plenty of upsides in places where family rooms or suites are hard to come by.
I've been marinating on Andrej Karpathy's Software 2.0 piece for the last 6+ years and it's incredible how it's held up, yet only in it's probabilistic niche! Seeing the rise of LLMs for coding, I can't help but envision a broader fulfillment of the concept. This iteration would generate code directly, tackling the more dominant deterministic types of problems and perhaps offering a fuller realization of the Software 2.0 ethos.
A well kept secret of linear algebra is that having an inner product at all isn't as self-evident as it might seem. Euclidean distance might seem like some canonical notion of distance, but it doesn't have to be meaningful, especially if the choice of coordinates has no geometrical meaning.
Noah Kagan's the Million Dollar Weekend Challenge Review
A Mini Project on a Contact Book typically involves creating a simple application or program that allows users to store, manage, and retrieve contact information. Here's a detailed breakdown of how you can design and implement such a project:
> In Bebop v3 you'll find that runtimes for TypeScript, Rust, and C# are much faster.

Sorry, but I would like some benchmark data to these claims....
> Angela Chao, the billionaire sister-in-law of Sen. Mitch McConnell, tragically drowned in a pond at her Texas ranch.

Not just a billionaire, a politically connected one. All the stories I've seen so far mention her actual work with the feel that she was a placeholder in the shipping company job, a family cog.

The past few days I've heard some fun rumors about "Musk is purging republicans for MAGA"

see also: WSJ https://archive.is/lvk3o