skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a fringe speculation without any physical basis: maybe the Big Bang emits a 4-dimensional spherical shell of matter at c?

With the direction in which we are traveling at c called “time”, and the other three which we're not moving through called “space”;

diverging rays having spatial velocity relative to each other equal to tan(alpha) i.e. flat projection;

and at any given point on the 4-sphere's 3D surface everything appear to be diverging in 3D because the emission is spherically symmetric;

and trajectories sufficiently paraxial to us fits the small angle approximation but those diverging widely has much more apparent perspective distortion,

with an error ratio of tan(alpha)/sin(alpha) = sec(alpha) = 1/Lorentz_Factor?
See, if it was my blog I'd have the dilemma to delete or keep this.

Of the types of walls which exist, concrete (hah) and metaphorical, the concrete ones can generally be replaced. Privacy breach is a wall of a kind which is less easy to replace. Does that mean "it's not a wall" ? well.. maybe.

Or maybe not. Metaphors and Analogies suck.
>"Dark matter" poses a problem for particle physicists, who have so far been unable to find any fundamental particles that would produce the observed properties.

It's clear to me why we haven't made any new discoveries in cosmology in the past two decades. It's this exact attitude of "the model is the truth". All models are wrong. The data can help you improve it, but you have to at least want to improve it.
The reason these are layoffs is because there's no openings for liars, manipulators, and propagandists in the reorg.

Corporate journalists are the enemy of the people. They deserve maximum contempt.
>But why?

Modern Web3 devs don't know how to program without first installing twelve dozen JavaShit frameworks.

I'm probably only half joking.
We simply have far bigger priorities than dedicated the enormous resources to having a whole separate set of releases with userdebug features and an on-device root terminal which requires a special boot mode and isn't persistent. It's theoretically possible to do it in a way that doesn't throw away a lot of security, but isn't being done by anyone right now. Resigning the OS doesn't avoid the major security loss from having it integrated in the way these projects are doing. It gives the false perception of having the verified boot and other OS isolation security intact despite totally ruining verified boot by trusting persistent state and hurting OS security a lot beyond that. It is possible to do it without those problems by having it limited to the user using it, but that means preventing apps hijacking it in any way such as accessibility services.
Without details I’m not believing this. Almost all medical providers I’ve dealt with are paper-based operations. It’s been an uphill battle to go digital.
Im not sure what your point here is. unless you think it's impossible to encode space/time with a mathematical framework?
On the subject of copy pasting, does anyone else use the browser's address bar as a quick way to get rid of line breaks? Ideally, I would prefer a less janky way but I do it too infrequently to justify a dedicated program.
Good luck! FYI, there's a hidden developer menu that's handy for browser developers to change the number of iterations, select specific tests, etc: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0/?developerMode, and ?startAutomatically avoids needing to click the button to start the tests.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791821
I think the situation is less clear than that. While I have limited research experience with image generation, I believe I do have a fair understanding of large language models. From the publication of GPT-2 until ChatGPT, it was true that the argument always was that supervised training data was not a priority and that it all boiled down to scaling the amount of unsupervised training data. However, this all changed with preference tuning, etc. and I think there is also an argument to be made that the extensive training data curation that we see today (and is withheld from the "papers" we see for the models) is a form of supervision in its own right. It could be that we will see computational/data scaling dominate again, but I think it is equally possible that we will have the next few years dominated by data curation and exploring forms of supervision to "extract" value out of what was learnt at the unsupervised training stage.

Still, you are correct that Extropic is looking at the computation rather than data. But, I wanted to chime in so as the discussion here would not leave the impression that we are still in the days of pure unsupervised scaling.
There was about a third as many users worldwide and about 70% as many users specifically in developed countries.

Traffic has increased dramatically with broadband expansion and the streaming that soaks it up, and the number of connected devices exploder, but the number of users are actually only a modest change and the distribution of traffic has decreased tremendously as traffic consolidated onto the few "winning" brands.

When you use "tiny" in all-caps, I imagine you to mean an order of magnitude difference in users or well-visited services. It's nothing like that.
That’s quite lulzy. But never estimate the stupidity of USG …
Those are the current stats. If the corporate tax rate is raised to 28%, as Biden is proposing, the US would be far above the average.
Not for a medical service, but I have spent ~$90 on a used iphone before that I just use for something that needs a mobile app.

They make excellent sitting-in-a-cupboard phones.
The free version has h264 and h265, as far as I can tell. I rendered a mp4, h264 video in resolve today. My first time using the software and it was surprisingly capable. (I needed to blur a moving face in a video)
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Can find it here, think it's a brand that mostly sell to restaurants. It's like a package of jelly when it comes out of the fridge, have to spoon it out.

Otherwise I use gelatin in pan sauces if I'm not using flour or other thickeners. Also easier to hit the right consistency as I can just add more unlike with flour that should be cooked in fat first.
Hamas had 40,000 combatants before Oct 7th. It started a war on Israel and is still continuing that war. This war can be over today. It could have been over 3 months ago. It could have not started at all.

Generally the areas leveled and bombed were evacuated from civilians. Yes, there were definitely many cases where civilians died from bombs but your statement is not relevant in the way you claim it is.

If you were Israel, and you have 40,000 combatants in Gaza that want to rape, kill and mutiliate your citizens, and say they will never stop, hold hostages, what do you do? Do you have a magical solution that removes them from the fortified, full of tunnels and booby traps Gaza?

So yes, it's totally up to debate. I am sure there have been cases of civilians being targeted. I am also sure that the finger on the trigger is very light on the Israeli side. But this is very different than intentionally targeting civilians as a matter of policy. There is plenty of proof that is not the case, civilians have evacuated under IDF security from many parts in Gaza and were not killed. Hamas does not differentiate civilians from combatants, uses child combatants, and while maybe the total number is in the ballpark the details are manipulated. This is not to excuse or make light of the heavy price of this conflict in human life.

I know, now we're going to unravel the entire conflict. Talk about Israel's right wing crazies and government, Occupation, resistance, apartheid, genocide, open air prison, etc. No we don't need to unravel the entire conflict. We can judge this from Oct 7th because the significance of that event in scale and barbarism eclipses the entire conflict. If you want to unravel the entire conflict I'm happy to do that too.
Social engineering, for a start. Everyone with a secret will be a target.

Half the world will follow stupid leaders. An AI would run rings around your average voter. I'd be surprised if it can't run rings around basically every voter given time.

We're also creating various kinds of robots, so the thing could just plug itself into the network it wants.

That's 5 minutes. An AI would be smarter than me and have a lot more time every second to think up better ways, and A/B test them on millions of people.

All it needs is one guy thinking "Ah, what's the worst that could happen? It promised me a million dollars."
This is meant to be a friendly comment, because I think what you're doing here is cool and useful.

When I see "impressive thing in only a few lines of C", I think someone has invented a new way to crash my computer if I don't color inside invisible, underspecified lines.

What I'd want to see, if I were looking for a library like this, is tests. I see that you do have a test suite: that's good. I also see that it covers the basic functionality: that's a good start. There are a number of excellent tools for testing for the various woes which C code is prone to, consider integrating them.

C code doesn't have to be full of goblins which will venture forth at midnight and eat the candy out of your nose. But it should be suspected of such goblins until demonstrated otherwise. Few lines is actually good! And the test suite suggests you've implemented a good surface area here.

And 350 lines means you probably only need a couple thousand more to really, very thoroughly test the code. It will take some time but it's well worth it.
You can backup more via the OS backup system using the device-to-device toggle. This should really be the default and perhaps the only way to do it. We have a new backup app planned with initial research work into that started.

> and set up custom storage scopes

There's also Contact Scopes now. We've started work on adding App Communication Scopes for controlling that within profiles and we'd like to do similar features for Camera, Microphone and Location (the standard mock location feature is not great).
Sulphuric acid actually has a lot of oxygen and hydrogen in it, and the presence of any metal or even high enough temperature will cause it to break up.

In a lab, it makes for a good solvent, but any place that has sulphuric acid will have both water and oxygen.

Venus, notably, has little to none of both. What free oxygen that does exist is from CO2 and CO breaking down in the atmosphere from the intense and extended venusian day. Most of the sulphur on Venus is sulphur dioxide (a tiny percentage of the atmosphere), and water vapor is a measly 20ppm.

Even if all of that water was sulphuric acid (which it may well be), there's simply not enough of it staying still long enough to form the repeating patterns of chemistry that might reasonably be called life.
Breaking down tasks
1. Never in a million years would I suggest this Raspberry Pi project being the answer to the ugly that is nautical software.

2. Even the big fancy screens in fancy yachts have god awful UI.

3. I am not talking about meaningless fad designs. Google
Maps decades ago made road maps intuitive and beautiful at the same time.

By comparison, the vast majority of those chart plotters look like ancient Windows95 graphics. It's disingenuous to suggest that's as good as it can get. Google could have easily just scanned a bunch of awful old school highway maps and called it a day if that was true.
Simple monitoring system with a single configuration file
Some contractor creates an internal webhook for testing the silo door that later gets accidentally hooked up to the full launch sequence and - during a billion dollar DoD mainframe upgrade project (to finally get away from COBOL) - gets exposed to the internet. MAD doctrine does the rest.

That is how the Anthropocene ends and the age of the machines begins. So say we all.
> doesn't decrease the global crypto mining rate

It doesn't- but why would Biden care about that? If it moves to a different country then it reduces demand in our local grid. That's a GOOD thing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
Any Chromium-based browser works including Edge included with Windows, Brave or our own Vanadium browser. Firefox may be gradually changing their mind about WebUSB. They added similar features they said they wouldn't such as MIDI. We would make some minor changes and test each revision in Firefox if we could, but they don't provide a way to do it.
Yes. The US government should ban the training of new foundational models and should do whatever it can to slow down progress in GPUs because the way things are going now, we are very probably doomed.

Even if China or some other country does not impose similar restrictions, a ban in the US and Great Britain would buy humanity a decade or maybe even 2 decades in which we might find a way out of the terrible situation we are in. (A decade or 2 is about how far the US and Great Britain are ahead in frontier AI research.) Also, buying an extra decade or 2 of life for everyone on Earth is a valuable goal in its own right even if after that Chinese AI researchers kill everyone.

If humanity can survive somehow for a few more centuries, our prospects start improving because in a few centuries, the smartest among us might be smart enough to create powerful AI that doesn't quickly kill us all. It is not impossible that the current generation of humans can do it, but the probability is low enough (3.5 percent would be my current estimate) that I'm going to do anything I can to slow down AI research or preferably stop it altogether -- preferably for at least a few centuries.
Do you mean how your notes are connected, and organized? Otherwise, they are plain-text Markdown files. Any app that renders Markdown should be able to do it.

In-fact, I don’t really like Obsidian on Mobile, so I use iA-Writer to edit/view the Markdown files that I managed with Obsidian on the Desktop.
Anyone have any idea how/ if bhyve, nvmm or vmm could be supported in the same way . VirtualBox as a front end to various backend could be very useful.
TailScale solved this already for me. Universal cross-OS, cross device copy/paste that’s reliable? Another story.
I thought an ironman was a really long triathlon? Is it realistic to go from couch to full ironman in a year? Or do you mean sign up for th shortest triathlon first?
No, not necessarily. At least according to Wikipedia, suicide is the act of _intentionally_ taking one’s own life. [1] It seems that the legal definition, at least in some jurisdictions, aligns. [2] If you find someone has died from self-inflicted wounds, it may be ruled suicide or accident. The colloquial use of suicide may also include accidental suicide, which could introduce confusion.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide

[2] https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=2057
There are two parts to AICI - one is that it uses Wasm and the other is the specific set of operations on the LLM that it exposes (which is why we call it "interface").

Having a common interface (provided it is adopted) lets you re-use the same controller over multiple LLM infra stacks (and different models), or conversely the different controllers over your own brand new LLM infra stack (or model).

Using Wasm simplifies your deployment story in the cloud (sandboxing), however the AICI runtime communicates with controllers as separate processes and so if the controller is trusted it could in principle be run in native code.
Have you tried a GLP-1?

I got fit through diet and exercise, and in the past that’s what I would have recommended. But now it’s 2024 and now there is are working diet miracle drugs. It’s expensive, but within your price range.
Do you have a reputable source on that?
Not the most ergonomic thing in the world, but ffmpeg is capable of it https://stackoverflow.com/a/67875700
What a royal photo teaches us about journalism
From when I was reading the proposal, the idea is that until a C extension is loaded, you can assume that there are no other threads. Then when a module is loaded, by default you assume that it uses threads but modules that are thread free can indicate that using a flag, so if a module indicates it's thread free then you continue running without the thread safety features.
No. Maybe a large portion of the Foreign investment is owned by Europeans but "most of mexico and latam" are definitely not owned by Europeans. Have you ever spent any time in LATAM?
Kind of. The usual mechanism for those sorts of libraries is a grammar-informed-token-filter. You get an output adhering to the grammar (or an error), but the mechanism is reshaping some intermediate conditional probabilities.

That's problematic because the entire point of an LLM (in most scenarios with non-trivial output sizes) is sampling from a calibrated probability distribution. The conditional mask in generation allows you to factor that into per-token work (given the preceding text, what's the probability of the next token being token X?), but none of that holds even approximately when you start tweaking the sampling parameters (the same reason why playing with "temperature" gives very bad results for a lot of complicated problems -- the greedy solution we're executing isn't globally correct).

For a small, illustrative example that I've seen, suppose your trying to parse a freeform text input into a tagged text input (podcast transcripts or something), squishing the result into a json schema or something so that you can actually use it in your end application. For longer text fields, many SOTA LLMs are prone to close the field early and append an ellipses rather than flesh it out in its entirety. Constrained schema generation will have a high probability of closing the (broken) string and a low probability of continuing past the (incorrect) ellipses, contrasted with an approach of retrying till the result doesn't crash a parser, which usually will not emit a closing quote after an ellipses and this crashes all those times the output would have been invalid. The net result is that you still have an invalid result, but nothing crashed, so now you don't know that fact.

This particular library also suffers from that same flaw (though the flaw is important and common, so I think it's worth repeating myself about it once in awhile), but it has two very nice features I'd like to touch on (contrasted with spec/grammar-approaches), one of which partially mitigates that flaw:

1. You can interact with partial results via a turing-complete language. It's really messy to use weaker languages to encode "this one json field is probably broken if it ends in an ellipses, but other strings probably can and should", and

2. You have your results available directly in your language of choice without an additional parsing/extraction step. Resource-wise I don't know that it matters, but tons of simple problems are much more elegantly described as "I want these things" instead of "I want this composite object -> post-process that composite object".

That said, using it for json in particular looks terrible, like you said (but you could presumably wrap one of the other json libraries with this and reap some of the benefits of both approaches).
In any doom scenario, like let's say >90% of humans dead, who runs the power plants that supply the AI data centers? Who runs the fabs producing more chips? Who maintains the plumbing?

Presumably all these systems fall over and die within a few weeks of the AI deciding to wipe us out. Then what? The AI then dies too.

It seems absurd to me that any planner capable of effortlessly destroying humanity would not see that it would immediately also die. Does the AI not care about its continued existence? It should, if it wants to keep optimizing its reward function. Until we’ve handed off enough of the world economy that it can function without human physical and cognitive labor, then we’re safe.
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'wound' singular
How is this different than for example Goat[1] counter (which is great) and myriad of others ?

I could not tell from the landing page not justify the 249 bucks.

[1]
https://www.goatcounter.com/
You can't understand why people want to be free from the shackles of government issued money? Arguments can reasonably be made about the viability of crypto, the stability and how useful it actually is, but it should be crystal clear why many people are desperate for mediums of exchange and stores of value outside of the government-controlled medium (crypto, gold or otherwise).
It's probably covered many other machine learning books, but generally assumed to be common knowledge here: The final validation for what you need the application for should be done on your end.

Need to use CRFs for NER? Test on your own validation set
Need to use LLMs for NER? Test on your own validation set

The validation set should be made up of carefully curated samples that you've seen errors on, edge cases, just like Test-driven Development, but at a much larger scale. Assessing LLMs by demo is a horrible habit that we've taken to that needs to be changed.
I did not know Simpson's paradox was an object lesson in causal inference until the other day. The right paradigm dispels the paradox. Here's a better article: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-simpson/
Aren't these the types?

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I've always wondered why people think that an AI that's super-intelligent will also be evil. It could just as likely end up being very kind (more than likely, actually, because the programmers would have safeguard to ensure that it's nice).
As a "sailor in tech", "web standards" do not belong anywhere near an ocean going vessel.
I’m pretty sure Stuxnet did hack it’s way into nuclear weapons infrastructure.
A special case of, "I got all the glory for doing the easy part, you get to take the hard part."
They're linked, but don't you think general corruption is even more damaging to Mexico? In cdmx we're quickly running out of water in major part due to corruption. Anyways, most cartel activity I've heard about from friends has been on highways, outside of major cities.
Heh I like the sentiment, but this feels to me a little bit odd, like saying "evolution is a cold ruthless inhumane process". There is no human (the root of all things "humane") without the evolution being critiqued by the very human values it made possible :)

What you're calling "primitive" (perhaps with judgement) is part of the system that perpetuates our collective socio-biological process in poorly understood ways.

For all we know, liking ppl until we're at scale is highly adaptive (in an information-theoretic sense) for sociality as a whole, and not some broken primitivity :)
It's a very long one, yes. 3.8km swim, 180km bike and 42.2km run.

I think it's doable in a 12-24 months time frame - so next year he can do it.

If I was him, I would register for a half one for the end of this year / beginning of the next, and a full one for late 2025.
If you live somewhere where people are fat, move somewhere where they aren't. Usually there's a reason.
Robots with hands and feet? Give that 20 years of continuous AI-assisted innovation.
This is the kind of nonsense that happens at startups, not government agencies with the capability to destroy cities.
“Create More Than You Consume”

That’s a bit severe.

Creation and consumption are both ways that we participate in culture.
> Among other details, he falsely suggested MacMasters had helped develop lighting systems for the London Underground.

> "These [claims] would get picked up in different types of media, I would cite them, and they would become fact," Alex says.

This is very funny, I can understand why the hoaxer kept on adding to the article.

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11454&p...