skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
500 years ago literacy commanded a substantial "skills premium" on earnings relative to the larger illiterate population. Today most people in the work force are literate and literacy is not a distinguishing quality for higher earnings. But on a societal level, I don't think that developed nations could be as prosperous as they are today if literacy were as uncommon now as it was 500 years ago.

To relate this to your bachelor's degree example, if everyone earned a bachelor's degree in e.g. physics then the earnings premium for STEM graduates would drop if not vanish. But I expect that society's collective material prosperity would increase. I say "earned" rather than "got mailed a certificate" because getting a certificate without developing the corresponding abilities is not useful.
While having a strong position in social-economic class is indeed influential, data shows even an associate's degree helps increase long term salary.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cba/annual-earnin...
My current mobile setup is simple - a moto z3 play (beckham) running lineageOS 21, zero google services or apps, f-droid as appstore. Minimal apps installed (mostly everything I do on mobile is through the browser, for me fennec/firefox), and the few communication apps i use (telegram, element), podverse, and Newpipe for YT and I'm good to go.
>decades of neuroscience research

Could you point to some credible neuroscience research that mentions consciousness? My impression was the word consciousness is a taboo in those circles, much like AGI is in in machine learning research papers.
It is the part of softmax layer, but not all the time.
If you watch the 60 Minutes doc, it is literally taking out of service top people working against Russia.

Killing them would be crazy. This weapon, whatever it is, is perfect. Just enough doubt (by people like you and other Russian plants) to create no clear answer. EDIT: I'm not calling you a Russia shill.

The linked article and the 60 Minutes doc are literally what everyone's been waiting for. I was on the sidelines before, but not now.
And it's so easy to do...

GET /file.name

ERROR 404

[User: wtf is going on]

Turns on directory index

Sees /filé.name

[Oh that's the problem]

Forgets to turn directory index off
Yes, of course, I never said it was. Point being that I wouldn't consider Taverna to be on the level of Barley Swine or Uroko, yet it's easy to spend a hundred bucks there, while pre-pandemic it would have been more like $60.
If you use HuggingFace models, then a few simpler decoding algorithms are already implemented for `generate` method of all supported models.

Here is a blog post that describes it: https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-generate.

I will warn you though that beam search is typically what you do NOT want. Beam search approximately optimizes for the "highest likely sequence at the token level." This is rarely what you need in practice with open-ended generations (e.g. a question-answering chat bot). In practice, you need "highest likely semantic sequence," which is much harder problem.

Of course, various approximations for semantic alignment are currently in the literature, but still a wide open problem.
Plus if you have the means to attend college to begin with and then the drive and discipline to graduate, chances are you will also have the resources to establish a career.
I'm not trying to discourage the use of these drugs. In fact, I would absolutely use them if I required them- their potential benefits outweigh the risks. But I also must admit that I would still feel more than a bit nervous about it.

I also should point out that "long term effects of taking them are not well understood" isn't my personal opinion per se, it's something I've read in the literature about these drugs, including relatively recent research (I wish I had a good source that summarizes this point, but I don't have one on hand). Concern about long term effects is real and legitimate, and pre-dates concern about COVID-19 vaccines (another instance where I believe the benefit far outweighs the risk, for the record). There must always be a balance between spending time testing vs. getting a pharmaceutical deployed. It would be absurd to imply that we're not making a tradeoff here.
Only those who do nothing make no mistakes.
I'm curious to know where your towers were. Do you know if they still exist? Were your microwave antennae co-located on other operators' towers (e.g. those for VHF radio), or did your company have towers all to itself?
I couldn't find it mentioned in this article?
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Not the TN one, and the US legislative branch has already given the FDA authority to regulate vaccines.
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I'd love a RSS reader that groups items on the same topic.

For example, let's say I have feeds from 25 news sources and the President gives a speech on Ukraine. I end up with 25 articles on it, spread across my item list; I need to process it 25 times. IME, most items are duplicated at least once - half my items are not needed.

If the feed reader would group all the Biden speech articles then I could process it once - pick the item I want to read, delete the rest. That's also more efficient because it's easier to compare the items.

Online news aggregators like Google News already do that, so the technology exists, but I haven't seen it in a feed reader. I also wonder if the LLMs could group them more accurately.
Of course. It means people genuinely interested in your content will have it, but people looking to score cheap Internet points on you won't. ("Did you know he once called chapter 5 of Bob Smith's book 'under-researched," and Bob Smith's grandfather is Puerto Rican, so he's literally saying that people of color are stupid")

If you look at the link, that's what he actually says.

Sometimes these notes are not things I want to share with the whole world, but might be helpful for a few people.

So what do I do? I release them, but only for a limited time. I also put on a price tag — not because I expect to make any money, but so that only those genuinely interested will read it.
I got this far:

"The office and our apartment were a few blocks away from each other..."

and figured it had to be a line of sight transmission.

I encountered this in summer of 1993 when the company I worked at installed infrared (I think) transmission across our two offices, separated by 250m. When the summer sun swept behind the transmitter in the northwest-ish, the wifi went out for about an hour each evening.
Happy April fools day, hominid!
Just a note from a random, uninformed bystander that your posts are coming off as bizarrely aggressive, rude, combative, and dismissive (regardless of what your intent may be).

You may be 100% right about what you're talking about (I don't know either way), but I'm not particularly inclined to take you seriously based on how you're conversing. I'm much more inclined to believe the person you've been having back-and-forth with.
Software that gets used ships with insecure defaults, and software that ships hardened and totally locked down and must be configured for everyone's individual use case typically doesn't become successful.
I looked at this again and I think it implies that there /would/ be a way but it's not really standardized how to do it yet?

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31131#issuecomment-1...
I'm not claiming alcohol is (physically) less dangerous than kratom. I'm well aware of how damaging alcohol is despite its prevalence.

Brain altering chemicals do come with a risk but there's a big difference between being prescribed a drug by a doctor and deciding to use it yourself without supervision. You mentioned in another post of yours that you ended up abusing kratom as well, that's where the "risk tolerance" you railed against another poster for bringing up comes in. I'm very glad it worked out for you, I just said that I personally would not recommend replacing one substance with potential abuse for another as a means to quit, because I personally think it can have adverse effects in sidetracking people into harder drugs (and new addictions).

I don't think comparing and opiate to an opioid is disingenuous at all. Kratom may be "safer" than morphine or codeine at first glance but it produces comparable effects, induces a comparable addiction, and we also don't have the thousands of years of feedback through history of people taking it the way they take it now to compare to like we do with alcohol or traditional opiates. The full safety profile just isn't there yet. For example, it's wasn't unheard of for people to develop issues with their liver, or other physical problems after months/years of use though it's not very clear to me if it's from the kratom alkaloids themselves or that some of the early suppliers had issues with heavy metals / pesticides in their crops. And that's not something we tended to see recently or historically with traditional opiates being used by long time patients in moderate doses, but it pops up in kratom after just a few years of it blowing up and becoming more commonly used at recreational doses.
I may just be a pytorch monkey, but I cost more than a training server.
The two stroke diesel isn't really comparable to typical two stroke gas engine ala. chainsaws and dirtbikes.

Because they use forced induction, they don't use the crankcase for scavenging and thus have a "normal" four stroke style oil sump.

Since the total loss lubrication system isn't used, they aren't actually any dirtier on principle than a four stroke.

The big ship engines also turn very slow so a lot of the physics behind it is different, and different fuels are used compared to road going diesel (different grades of bunker fuel).

You are correct that GM used to make a two stroke diesel for over the highway and medium-sized equipment use but they were phased out because they weren't competitive on fuel consumption and their crude superchargers were incredibly loud. Growing up my Dad owned a compactor with one and I'd have to wear ear plugs under my ear muffs to not be deafed by "the screaming jimmy" (Detroit 471, IIRC).
Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management
Keep in mind this was a 802.11g network.
chuckle I got a chance to tour a CDC Cyber 205--one of the last in active use. And "tour" is the right word--we toured it like you'd tour a house. First and last computer I was ever...inside of.

You'd go down this "hall", the walls full of millions of wires, carefully looped so that the signals wouldn't arrive too early (1 foot = 1 nanosecond, and you wanted all the signals of the bus to arrive at the same time, which meant the all the wires on the bus had to be the same length.) "There's the address bus, now down the hall there are two rooms, one is the ALU, the other is the optional square root calculating units....

Yeah, a whole "room" to calculate square roots. I guess they hadn't figured out the fast square root algorithm which DOOM used yet :-)

Absolutely astounding artifact. It was like seeing the great pyramids.
When my home server recently died I was in a rush, and Amazon had Beelink EQ12's for next day delivery.

The N100 made me think "Intel is back!". The article's description is spot on - sips power (6W) yet snappy enough for day to day tasks. GPU isn't anything to write home about, but it supports hardware video codecs so it's fast enough for general web browsing. I'd guesstimate 10x improvement in MIPS/Watt over the GX-420CA based box it replaced.

The Beelink EQ12 case made me wish I had more time to find what I was really after: the same hardware in a fanless box. Fans have to be cleaned, and if you every have to take the thing apart to blow the dust out be prepared for to spend an inordinately long time getting the all screws back in. It's entirely possible you will give up.

But overall, it's a pretty awesome machine for the price. The N100 is undoubtedly the current sweet spot.
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Your question is ambiguous for two different reasons. First, this value is not representable as a floating-point number, so there's no way that you can even store it in a float. Second, once you have a float variable, you can print it in many different ways. So, the answer to your question is, irremediably, "it depends what you mean by exact value".

If you print your variable with the %a format, then YES, the exact value is preserved and there is no loss of information. The problem is that the literal that you wrote cannot be represented exactly. But this is hardly a fault of the floats. Ints have exactly the same problem:

int x = 2.5; // x gets the value 2
int y = 7/3; // same thing
I suppose you caveated your statement well , by starting your writeup with "master-feeder" setups. However in a vanilla fund, your description does not apply.

In a vanilla fund, the GP is another partner and has "ownership" just like LPs do. Its just traditionally very insignificant.

The GP is simply a special partner as outlined in the LPA. They vote etc just like other LPs in major matters. They make minor decisions for the partnership. This is why usually that means the GP is the managing member.

Ive described the traditional VC fund.

No need to make it more complex with a master-feeder structure. Or a secondary, etc
Forensic Biologist Explains Why Solving Crimes in Space Will Be Hard
It seems by that point it would be more efficient to use full names 100% of the time. Or at least be less mentally stressful.
There's a Mister Bean episode in which his TV will only work when he's sitting next to it (where he obviously cannot see it). I think he manages to watch TV by creating a copy of himself with his clothes next to the TV, while he's sitting naked in front of it
Thanks for the explanation. Also thanks for catching this and protecting us all; I think in the end it's way more believable that you indeed found it on your own, above was just brainless blathering into the ether =). Lastly, thanks for your Postgres contributions.
https://500mile.email although I do wish it had more content!
I adore that I live in a time where scientific articles have headlines with the word "crap".
All this riffraff and OSS maintainers basically work for free.
(its a waitlist)

And the demo doesn't work properly, I'm in Sweden, it connects me to the Netherlands instead of Stockholm which is closer to me and has lower latency
How do you determine the root of a decision tree?
I use to go to the In-N-Out in Oakland that just closed. That was a possibility, believe me.
Not where I live. Every day I pass more and more Tesla's on the road
It's a second edition, not a new book -- why did you feel deceived? There's a fair bit of restructuring of the first few chapters, and a whole new chapter on exploratory data analysis (which uses the new CSV support) and a bunch of new stuff about the new Unicode-character support.
Original article (linked at bottom): https://theconversation.com/were-working-out-how-to-solve-cr...
If absolutely everything is conscious, how come we can go unconscious after a knock on the head?

How come chemicals like alcohol can change our consciousness? Or adrenalin?

How is it that the only consciousnesses we are aware of happen to be located in exactly one human body, rather than say only the upper half of one, or fifteen humans, or any other subdivision of the universe's matter? Why is my consciousness not shared with other people's?

To me the hypothesis "human bodies produce consciousness, probably by some mechanism that's shared by lots of life but not necessarily all" is a lot simpler.
Damien Miller (OpenSSH maintainer, OpenBSD committer) has written a patch that implements the relevant libsystemd functionality without libsystemd: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2641#c13
This seems a lot like the 70s-80s auto market, a period you'd think would be burned into Detroit's institutional memory. Back then, companies like Toyota outcompeted companies like Ford by offering an affordable, reliable, no-frills product. Companies like BYD seem very well positioned to do the same thing.
That was part of their war with the Saudi coalition. The parent was saying they were attacking random targets and only used the genocide as cover for more random attacks, when it is clear they are targeted attacks and for specific purposes. Appreciate the link.
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I'd settle for just not logging me out every day.
It does not look like this is rolled out to Europe, or at least not broadly. (Tested using a VPN to France)
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As a reasonably experienced programmer that has watched Andrej's videos the one thing I would recommend is that they not be used as a starting point to learn neural networks but as a reinforcement or enhancement method once you know the fundamentals.

I was ignorant enough to try and jump straight in to his videos and despite him recommending I watch his preceeding videos I incorrectly assumed I could figure it out as I went. There is verbiage in there that you simply must know to get the most out of it. After giving up, going away and filling in the gaps though some other learnings, I went back and his videos become (understandably) massively more valueable for me.

I would strongly recommend anyone else wanting to learn neural networks that they learn from my mistake.
I've got a blue mark in the palm of my hand from where it was stabbed in maybe 1st or 2nd grade. I don't think I actually left a piece of pencil in there ... I think perhaps the skin was colored grey and just stayed that way?
I always make sure to thank chatgpt when it does a good job. I like to think I'm helping to improve the model :)
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