skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many ways to snap ones fingers and right the ship, very few ways to do it in practice. Imagine trying to get such a law passed, you'd have the entire worlds economy outadvertising and out lobbying you.
I had a Unibody Aluminum MacBook (the 2008 model) and yeah... flip the battery lid, one screw for the HDD.

That machine had thermal issues, but HDD and RAM was easy.
I have tried to encode all non-trivial numbers as strings. If it's too big (or small), or if it's a float, I'll have to change my JSON schema. Bake the need to decode numbers into the transforms for consistency.
In my experience:

Freelancer = revenue is mixed up in normal income and you pay the tax bill from your "personal" account. If a debt is incurred your house/assets are in the firing line. Some businesses won't touch freelancers for legal purposes.

Contractor = offers same services as Freelancer but operates under another legal entity to protect their assets (umbrella company; limited company). Any debts incurred only impact the company not the individual. A contractor might join a team as an "external" and perform the same tasks as a regular employee. More than 50% of my colleagues fit this description, usually employed by a large-scale "body shop".

Consultant = someone who offers specific niche services and operates under a limited company.
If I read that correctly the problem is that it prints a filename that might include terminal control sequences that come from an attacker-controlled file name.

Comment in your second link:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609#issuecomm...
Nextdns here too. It’s a good price and has been very helpful in locking down my son’s devices.

Initially had an Amazon Fire 10 HD (actually, initially a 7) - the kids setup is very good, providing games, books and audio books but they do not offer on the iPad.

So, iPad is set up to be blocked, with nextdns as a backup.
The problem is a culture of spending more than you have/make, which is pervading deeper into individual American lifestyles and their collective social fabric. As that trend persists, efforts to bring expenditures in line with revenues become increasingly politically unviable.

I use the analogy that the US drives its economy at the redline, leveraging a lot of debt to produce growth. It works great when times are good, as you reap a multiplication factor on return. But hurts when the car hits a speed bump (economic shock) or burns out.

Either the country will have a "come-to-senses" moment and correct course, or will slowly degrade to reduced global relevance/influence as servicing that debt eats an ever larger portion of the budget (putting a handicap on what else it can get done), dollars become less valuable, and other economies (like China) with more disciplined long-term planning overtake. The speed it happens will be affected by how much of that annual deficit goes back into productive activity vs. lining pockets / luxuries for those holding it. There's a ton of momentum so it's not surprising to see a lot of lag (decades) before the effects become obvious.

Keep in mind not long ago the US was a country of pioneers and entrepreneurs. It still is, but over time the mix naturally changes (some older people argue second or third generation citizens don't have the same work ethic, but that's a broader stroke than I feel fair to paint). As the demographics mature and change, you get more social programs, more entitlements, etc. From another perspective that can be viewed as societal progress. As long as it's sustainable (which I don't think it presently is).

Britain is a great example to look at for lessons from the past (before the pound Stirling lost its status as global reserve currency).

Here in Canada I keep saying it would be nice to see some politicians with conservative ideas on spending, but liberal policies on other fronts.

All of this is just my own uninformed opinion, take it with a big grain of salt and feel free to disagree!
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Youd have to somehow control for waste and individual consumption within a household, which would be very difficult!
IMO the 8-bit ones - while fun - are somewhat primitive and often a little too "NES hard". So I'd say start with Mega Man X - it's timeless; still one of the most perfect games ever made.
How does tailwind make money? I can't find any licensing or paid support options.
At bare minimum never trust the operating system that comes on cheap PCs. re-install the operating system yourself.

On a harder level: there is no way to know if the drive firmware has un-destroyable malware, or the boot firmware is compromised. (update the firmware yourself for sure at minimum, not sure thats even possible with most hard drives)
> There's no right or wrong about it, only the march of history.

That's awful nonsense right there. The awful part is the amorality, and the nonsense is the assumption that history has a direction and it will inevitably go your way.

> TFA talks specifically how the audience loves AI art if they don't know it's AI generated.

No. TFA talks about an online survey with 200 participants, and even the researcher says he "wouldn’t take this result too seriously." Not once did it use the word "love."

> And a few in the audience that really hate AI generated art seem to just want for there to be a meat bag with feelings involved, but not silicon beyond 90s level of Photoshop.

Come on, you're cherry-picking to make the point you already had in mind. TFA article you just cited for support says "The most important result of the study is...[p]articipants gave poorer ratings to images they thought were created by artificial intelligence," which directly contradicts you here. The audience wants that "meat bag with feelings involved."

Personally, I expect the audience's default assumptions to change. Digital art will be presumed to be machine generated until proven otherwise (a near impossible task), and suffer for it.

BTW, you're also proving my point about the bleakness of the perspective of "AI" enthusiasts who use terms like "Carbon chauvinism."
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If the number of cars keeps increasing, so will the number of deaths. If the size of cars…. If the speed of cars….

How about reversing those trends?
I understand the argument you're making, but it feels misguided in my opinion. Other things don't need consciousness to be valid -- and more importantly, consciousness is not an inherently positive thing which needs to be extended other things. Ideally, consciousness is specifically defined such that we can draw relatively clear boundaries between what is conscious and what is not.

In any case to answer where consciousness comes from, consciousness arises from the brain. You can test this with anesthesia, which is markedly different from sleep in that it does remove conscious experience. Although I agree it would be hard to pin down exactly what spectrum of animal is, or is not conscious, I think the extremes are pretty obvious. Obvious, unless, you're trying to extend consciousness to anything which could sense and react to its environment. If you want to call that consciousness, that's fine -- the human experience of having a distinct identity which can feel self-conscious, proud, content, anxious, etc -- is then something different entirely.
Yes but that's one drug, which does increase your risk of infection according to your links. There are other newer drugs for which we don't have 20 years of data.

The best thing is if we could target these drugs to only be activated in areas of active inflammation.
I mean, they’re just the high profile ones.
China makes and ships a lot of hardware, and the US makes and ships a lot of software.
> 100% autonomous ability is well within reach.

I don't doubt that, but the timeframe is unknown. 5 years? 10 years? Within our lifetime?
There is a cultural difference that make the situation in Vietnam not so bad as it sounds. In Korea, as in Japan, the cultural norm is to refer to people by their family name. In Vietnamese culture, the given name is normally used.
Fun fact: Henry David Thoreau's family was active in the pencil-making business in the 1820..1850 timeframe, and Henry D. made several innovations in the art.

https://www.walden.org/what-we-do/library/the-transcendental...

https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/h-d-thoreau-enginee...
From the article:

> One such piece of magic new to 802.11n Wi-Fi is called "beamfoming"

That's not quite true. 802.1ln has MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) processing, with "multiple" referring to the number of receiver and transmitter antennas. Beamforming is a special case of MIMO, and MIMO is a generalisation of beamforming.

In a "Line-of-Sight" channel with no reflectors, MIMO converges to a beamforming solution. Capacity is then limited by the ability for the rx/tx array to resolve each antenna in the tx/rz array: the diffraction limit.

In a "rich" channel, with reflectors, MIMO converges to a more complex solution, which takes advantage of the angular separation of the reflectors to resolve the individual rx/tx antennas, even if they are too close to each other to resolve with beamforming. Yes, counterintuitively MIMO capacity goes up as the channel become more complex/rich and less line-of-sight, whereas with just beamforming the capacity would typically go down.

You can sort of think of MIMO as being beamforming where beams are bouncing off widely spaced reflectors, but even that doesn't do it justice. In reality, each "beam" is replaced with complex wavefront ("mode") which is matched to the environment and each mode is orthogonal to the other.
Maybe it's the first successful attempt of a state which nobody would right now suspect as capable of carrying this out. Everyone is looking at the big guys but a new player has entered the game.
Conspiracy theorist: That's what they want you to believe.

And in fairness, the whole nature of their secrecy means there's no way to know for sure. It might be just a boogeyman kept around as a useful tool for scaring people into not breaking national security-level laws. I mean, it's not as though I want to go around hacking the planet, but the idea of ending up at a CIA "black site", assuming such things even exist, would be enough to keep me from trying it.
I have one that's a dog with the letters on it and my son was happily pressing away, turns out of you hit "b" then "I"
It says "b" "I" "itch".
I've just started this video, but already have a question if anyone's familiar with GPT workings - I thought that these models chose the next word based on what's most likely. But if they choose based on "one of the likely" words, could (in general) that not lead to a situation where the list of predictions for the next word are much less likely? Running possibilities of "two words together", then, would be more beneficial if computationally possible (and so on for 3, 4 and n words). Does this exist?

(I realize that choosing the most likely word wouldn't necessarily solve the issue, but choosing the most likely phrase possibly might.)

Edit, post seeing the video and comments: it's beam search, along with temperature to control these things.
The Bible is obsolete because the saner parts have been extracted and integrated into either the law system (e.g. the marriage system in the west) or education and social values, and have been refined other centuries of discussion and challenges to come up with a set of rules and principles that can work for our current population density and life style.

And in particular these rules and principles will continue to evolve, where the Bible wont.

What remains proper to the Bible are the funky bits, the outright offensive parts and anachronistic advices.
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Is there a JavaScript library? Both LlamaIndex and Langchain have nice JS/TS packages on npm. Could thinly wrap a JS client around this Python API but the community aspect of having an official library is nice.

Also might be helpful to have a simple example on the README showing how to fetch a document and start querying it. I would try it!
I think I get what you're saying, but you're not being super clear with that quote.

Ideally before we ban public drug use with punitive measures we solve free housing for the homeless. It is a known problem, specifically in Portland, that people come here to be homeless. That is a problem in itself because our tiny city can't shoulder the nations burdens. I was mainly speaking directly to what backfired with our approach to substances. Public drug use, whether it be alcohol or otherwise, should not be on the general public to deal with.
So your reaction to learning that one party is measurably worse in regards to a certain criteria is to immediately pivot to the argument that both sides are equally bad?

Yes, in the long term, the sun is going to burn out and leave the earth a cold lifeless rock, but I can certainly do things right now to improve the "short term", like voting for a party that doesn't constantly overinflate the debt.
Depends on how you have it set up. In Apple devices, it is hidden in a few levels, they will NEVER find it without a lot of investigation.

For Amazon devices, the only way I have found to use it is via an app - this can be turned off.

Or, you could run it at the router level with some funky dns routing (my router allows different dns for different devices), but that might not work with the logging function.
I liked the chart comparing the memory bandwidth against a modern video card, which of course had to be in log scale and was still enormously different.
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I don’t mean to talk democracy down, it’s great in my opinion.

It’s just the initial conditions under which democracy can flourish may require being un-democratic first.

>Why the men? At least one well-known theory is that the education and development of women is tightly correlated to overall development.

Because they are physically more powerful. A tribe of men able and willing to dish out damage is usually only stopped by another similar tribe. So there has to be a critical mass of them (specifically the leaders) who are willing to forego violence and accept compromise.

We have an easy example before us. Israel and Palestine or Russian and Ukraine. Two or more tribes want the same land, and there is no sufficient middle for there to be middle ground.

So if you were to draw a line around the perimeter of both tribes and setup a democracy, it’s probably not going to work out.
Don't get the argument that motion is somehow significantly better in vim vs. editors because you can search. Ctrl+F "func_name" is pretty ubiquitous surely
re: "the wheels continue not to fall off"

Then what was the 2007 / 2008 bail out?

And the Covid "bail outs" (on the part of the Fed)?

But yes, a Ponzi Scheme looks perfectly fine... until it doesn't.

Keep in mind, this financial vehicle isn't standing still. Once the wheels come off, there will be plenty of sparks, with plenty of flammable liquid nearby.
The number is pretty hard to calculate because it should include any obligation, not just official debts. If the government promised to, say, cover certain expenses in retirement like health care, the true debt should include a realistic estimate of just how much that health care would cost. Not that anyone can predict which new treatments will appear or what they would cost.
I see a `LocalLLM` chat model where it looks like you can pass a host/port (for example, ollama's)
You obviously didn't set AKF to zero 0
just to dispell my paranoia: are you sure there aren't any cables under the floorboards there?
Re-evaluating GPT-4's bar exam performance
Ah hah! Indeed I’m most familiar with musl in a static linking context.

Thanks for the clarification
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Based on the title, I expected this to somehow be related to "Office chair turns off monitors" (it wasn't, but that is also a good one).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978004

[Edit: I see this one has also been mentioned a few times already in the thread]
I don't know enough about the other disciplines, but the SWE one would be the other way around and serially dependent. The architecture comes first and then the implementation details can be handed off to the prompt engineer.

Then the code review will still require a human senior developer and maybe the architect. The testing after that can be fuzzed by AI but will still need to be confirmed by a human senior QA specialist.

In other words, AI can lower the bar for entry level work (not by much), but it does not eliminate or create any new jobs. It's very similar to what search did for entry level work. Search results "powered by AI" are also over a decade old.
> "middle class" is "about 20% richer than me"

There are better definitions.

> Karl Marx

You said Voldemort's name! Now he will surely haunt us.

In any case, your objective function dramatically changes when you own things for a living rather than work for a living. Many people would call someone with a 1MM retirement portfolio rich, but 4% returns on a 1MM portfolio is $40k/yr and probably isn't going to replace a job, not for someone who managed to amass 1MM in the first place. However, 4% returns on a 10MM portfolio is $400k/yr, and it might. 4% on $100MM is $4MM/yr, and it probably will. So the composition of incentives switches from worker-like to owner-like somewhere around $10MM net worth, and this is worth noting.

If you ever saw old timey movies from the 50s or 60s where "millionaire" was said with reverence, note that $1MM in 60s dollars is $10MM in 2024 dollars. They were aware of the class divide back then in a way that people generally are not today.
Trump and the party he now leads are famously bad about over spending and raising the debt. If there's a joke, it's on the citizens.
I hope he gets pardoned.
https://0.30000000000000004.com/

Although it would be good to move in the direction of using a BigDecimal equivalent by default when ingesting unknown data.
Very small differences in performance can be detected over the network as long as you have enough samples. Given that every port 22 is being hit by a gazillion attempts per day already, sample count shouldn’t be an issue.

So if distinguishing infected machines was their intention they definitely over-egged it.