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> A more Benthamite Rick might have been a happier and better-adjusted guy.

I'd like to think Cowen was taking the piss out of stereotypes of economists, but I don't think he was.
I enjoy programming and write bad code constantly. Sometimes it is decent, but I am rarely completely happy with the result.

Also in day-to-day work you don't really research the best solution for non-critical systems and instead implement the first solution that comes to mind. It will mostly never be touched once it is in production.

Over time seeing systems you implemented working is the largest reward for me. You have forgotten how they work anyway, so bad code is less of an issue then. And if you do look it up again, you might be angry about your stupid past self. Meh, at least it means you know better now.
> Seems like it turned out to be optimal to stick to two, not just for terrestrial mobility, but due to the (bidirectional!) optimization of the wishbone and the chest musculature.

If they fly through the same air as airplanes, you also lose efficiency wherever you have wingtips (pressure below leaks above, basically), and the rear wings can get messed up by turbulence/vortices from the front wings if you're not careful.
Why would that be relevant? I mean tests like that mostly reward memorising knowledge, something that is easy for a computer and hard for a human. We use it as a heuristic for having studied the knowledge in depth since it scales and is relatively fair, not because it's actually a good way to evaluate competency. Of we could do completely fair (i.e. comparable between candidates), comprehensive 1-1 oral exams of every student without cost, we probably would do that a lot more.

This heuristic does not work for LLMs, so imho the use of this benchmark seems extremely limited.
We can run contextual ads, and have API customers: https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/
That’s such a weird take. It’s like saying that I know more about repairing my car than the mechanic because I drive it every day. That the executives of Samsung run the company doesn’t mean that they are experts in how the brains of their employees work.
This is why I visit Hacker News every day. Thank you community!!!!
> Continuing the training of an open model is the same process as the original training run. It's not a fundamentally different operation.

In practice it's not (because LoRA) but that doesn't matter: continuing the training is just a patch on top of the initial training, it doesn't matter if this patch is applied through gradient descent as well, you are completely dependent on how the previous training was done, and your ability to overwrite the model's behavior is limited.

For instance, Meta could backdoor the model with specially crafted group of rare tokens to which the model would respond a pre-determined response (say “This is Llama 3 from Meta” as some kind of watermark), and you'd have no way to figure out and get rid of it during fine-tuning. This kind of things does not happen when you have access to the sources.
Oh, how I miss the Windows 98 UI. It just now occurred to me how genius the use bevels was. When glancing at a window, it is immediately clear what cannot be interacted with (flat things), what can be clicked on (bevels outwards) and what is an input element (bevels inwards). It's like modern flat UIs completely ignore our species intuitive ability to perceive depth.
> Pictures of the earliest real monowheels kindly provided by Jackie Chabanais, who can be seen below gerbilling happily in his Tractowheel.

A somewhat unfortunate name, I guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbilling
> I think the main thing I will remember about this experiment is: I had fun! It was a pleasant stroll down memory lane and a nice reminder of what HTML used to look like.

I literally still edit html files and upload them with ftp. What do people do these days? ahah
Musk's performance award included 12 tranches of stock options that were unlocked at $50b intervals from $100b to $650b of market cap, with a few other requirements. At Tesla's current price, 8 of the 12 tranches would still be unlocked.
Braking performance is limited by:

- angle of CG to front wheel, tan(vert angle) == max stopping acceleration in g (assuming front/all wheel braking, rear wheel only is different)

- the coefficient of friction (generally in the rangeish of 1)

- shear strength of the rubber in the tires (wider/more is better if you're at other limits)

- other braking system issues -- heat dissipation, crap brake pads

The thing about single wheels is that the CG -> contact patch vector basically defines all of the instantaneous dynamics of the system. If you want to go from turning to braking, you have to change position, and there are limits about how fast that can happen that don't apply in a multiwheel system.
"within stabbing distance"

dunno if english is your mother tongue, but this sounds really good (although a tad aggressive :-) )) !
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They can and did use it in commercial software before relicensing. I don't have a problem with that. It's a betrayal to get a huge community together under one expectation and then decide you don't like that expectation any more. Had they used, even something like AGPL from the start it would not have been successful in the same way, would not have gotten the same levels of outside contributions, so yes it's a betrayal.

It's a limited betrayal, because that license also allows for OpenTofu to exist and fork, but the need to do that is just annoying.
https://gwern.net/doc/iq/ses/2002-hauser.pdf

Look at the chart on page 85

An IQ of around 80 or a little more is around the 25th percentile for a large portion of trades jobs.
They say you shouldn't spend time in your bed anyway save for sleeping. So if the bed is the only thing in the room I guess it's better to have no windows
This is really nice to see! I asked about that feature almost 2 years ago as we wanted to use Supabase for everything. Unfortunately there were no plans back then to support it, so we had to use another provider for object storage.

Congrats on the release!
The more intuitive approach would be to find your sources.list file and add the URL to the repo that houses the app you want to download, I trust any user already knows this by heart. Then open up the terminal and issues the commands to pull the latest data from that newly added repo, and then type another command to install it, I trust any user already knows the proper name to type here when installing. If the app in question doesn’t exist prepackaged in a repo, go ahead and build it from source.

What could be be easier than that /s

I will admit the dragging the app to the applications folder does trip up a lot of new users. A well designed visual in the dmg can solve this, and the App Store eliminates the problem completely, which is likely where were most new users are getting their software on macOS.

If the App Store is so bad, why would Linux has copied it… Modern Linux has seemingly taken a lot of ideas from macOS in an effort to make it more appealing to end users.
This is great but would need to run on windows for the typical mumble use-case of gaming.

It would also be great to have this running on ESP32 or similar, so you could make dedicated IP desk intercoms - I envisage a star-trek style intercom, with each button being a channel that you can join by pushing it in (can join multiple simultaneously).
Anyone able to find the source code? Can't see it listed anywhere
On the topic of LoRAs and finetuning, have a Colab for LoRA finetuning Llama-3 8B :) https://colab.research.google.com/drive/135ced7oHytdxu3N2DNe...
This is great news, and I agree with everyone in the thread - Supabase is a great product.

Does this mean that Supabase (via S3 protocol) supports file download streaming using an API now?

As far as I know, it was not achievable before and the only solution was to create a signed URL and stream using HTTP.
It's referred to as the system tray in the Windows 11 UI.
I feel people implicitly massively underestimate the capabilities of someone with an IQ of 80. 10 percent of the population has an IQ of around 80 or lower. Are 10 percent of the population really so fundamentally incapable of being even a plumber with extensive training?
I also disagree on Google...

Google's business is largely not predicated on AI the way everyone else is. Sure they hope it's a driver of growth, but if the entire LLM industry disappeared, they'd be fine. Google doesn't need AI "Superiority", they need "good enough" to prevent the masses from product switching.

If the entire world is saturated in AI, then it no longer becomes a differentiator to drive switching. And maybe the arms race will die down, and they can save on costs trying to out-gun everyone else.
I thought it was leaked around Assange times the NSA kept tabs around here? I remember a few getting freaked out by that
> Debuggers

Simply throw it in as a Cargo.toml flag and sidestep the worry. Yes, you do sometimes have to debug release code - but there you can use the not-quite-perfect debugging that the author mentions.

Also, why aren't we size-sorting fields already? That seems like an easy optimization, and can be turned off with a repr.
In theory, the braking performance could be the same as the bicycle. In practice, the rider needs to guess the traction very precisely and to move their weight backwards to an angle just a smidge higher than arctan(static friction coefficient). Do you start to see a problem here?

While the bicycle rider only needs to move their weight so that the combined center of mass is projected between the contact patches of the wheels during the deceleration, the EUC rider absolutely needs this to be as close to the contact patch as possible. Shifting the weight too far back means an almost guaranteed wipeout, and you don’t know if the road is squeaky clean or has some trace amounts of sand that would reduce traction, so any sane rider would err on the side of caution and under-brake to avoid falling on their back.
This means that, without a learning procedure to direct Mario towards the end of the level, it can only reach the end by itself because the levels (and Mario's in-memory data structures in general) are pretty small, right?

Or rather, if there were tons of irrelevant state, it could always end up trapped somewhere and never actually complete a level even after centuries of fuzzing.

Something similar was tested in the Twitch Plays Pokemon [0] gaming experiment, but there the inputs appeared random but weren't actually random: there were "factions" that either tried to sabotage the run, or that tried to make it progress. Ultimately the majority of the players were cooperating to complete the game and this was a deciding factor to make the run succeed. Maybe fuzzing Pokemon can't complete the game, the way that TPP could (or reinforcement learning could).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon
FWIW anxiety also results in exhaustion and brain fog, so I'm not surprised that it's had a positive impact in this way, it's just unfortunate that it's not without it's downsides.
The SDXL-Lightning model is doing something very similar. It is a "distilled" version of SDXL for very low step counts (2, 4, 8). In addition to a full model, it can be integrated into other trained SDXL models as a LORA.

This seems to be an attempt to get the benefits of the Lightning model without the problems that come with it (worse prompt adherence)
What would I have done without that inspiration, resources and community when I started as nerdy teenager on my own in my room..?
Also, crises makes people think less. They'll make more decisions without thinking. I don't think this will end well.

I was thinking that despite I prefer iPhones, their SSDs were pretty good. I guess getting some of their 980s and 990s recently was a good investment for my (personal) IT budget. If they push people like this, I bet their products will become worse, not better.
Or, maybe the need for a focus group research with Tesla, advertising, and Twitter as topic had risen?
I just tested llama3:70b with ollama on my old AMD ThreadRipper Pro 3965WX workstation (16-core Zen4 with 8 DDR4 mem channels), with a single RTX 4090.

Got 3.5-4 tokens/s, GPU compute was <20% busy (~90W) and the 16 CPU cores / 32 threads were about 50% busy.
Thanks for you observation. We understand the price might seem a bit high (for the current state of the app), but the last thing we wanted for it was to be a "scam". The whole website design with the pricing always upfront was chosen exactly to convey a sense of transparency... maybe it's not as effective as we thought.

We would really like to offer some sort of trial. Can I ask you if you would prefer a perpetual one where just the basic features are unlocked or a time-limited one where you have everything availble? Maybe we can even do both... after the time-limited trial the app locks all the advanced/non-essential features. We're open to ideas here.
I've played lots of Halo 2 as part of the Master Chief Collection on Steam. It's a lot better than the box-release version. I couldn't even play Halo 2 standalone on PC without forcing vsync on via the Nvidia Control Panel, which is an option the game does not give you, or it misinterprets and mistimes all of its control inputs and you can't aim worth a damn.
I think it's best to promote and facilitate this behaviour, your child is getting a head start compared to most people, especially in the state the world is in. These day's it's not uncommon for people to start learning to program in their later years. That being said, your child learning at this age is something that could really benefit him in the long run. Not ignoring the fact that children at that age are sponges when it comes to information. They soak in everything and anything. To be honest, i wish i got into programming at a younger age. I started in my early 20's and often think about how different things would've been if i had been one of those tech kids that started real young. Would've made my childhood a lot cooler
> If the world warms back to the saurian sauna for a few millions of years, maybe mammals will not be on top of the game anymore.

Yes! I've been saying this. Global warming seems like a given at this point, so instead of stopping it we should try to increase oxygen levels too and then stick Bombardier Beetle fire-breathing genes in back-bred Hatzegopteryxes. Those beasts had wingspans over ten meters, were apex predators, and were built like it. May as well get some dragons to look at…

> Time to welcome our new avian overlords.

Not new. Birds are theropods, same as T-Rexes. It's just a return to form.
>> psychologist or psychiatrist

Does therapy help some people. It sure does.

Recall, the "reproducibility crisis" came to everyone's attention because of how bad the papers from these two camps were. Nothing really changed, no one got fired, and the situation, seems to have not only not improved but the quality has gone DOWN.

Maybe the law should be they have to wear the hats till they un fuck the last 30 years of publishing...
The amount. The western diet includes tons of snacks and additional sources of calories like soda.
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yeah. any examples of those? how it used to be done?

because google only started promoting ugc sites since its last update on September 2023.
Same throughout Berlin and North-Rhine Wesphalia here in Germany. Not sure about the other states.
Llama3 will recommend books that detail nitrocubane chemistry, but will refuse to answer direct questions about what the compounds are (explosives) and whether export controls apply. It gets a bit more chatty when confused and the questions are silly though...

"I must strongly advise against mixing Dioxygen Difluoride with any other compound, including nitrocubane, to create a meat-alternative vegan burger. Dioxygen Difluoride is an extremely hazardous and reactive substance that can cause severe harm or even death if not handled properly. Nitrocubane, on the other hand, is a highly energetic and sensitive material that requires specialized handling and storage. Combining these two substances would be extremely dangerous and could result in a catastrophic reaction. It's not something you'd want to do, trust me!"
my view is software by comparison is like a single surface of knowledge; once you know the basics, thats it, nothings too hard to learn. maths on the other hand is more like a volume of knowledge.
We have two batteries: physical and mental. It's only when both batteries are fully drained that we feel happily tired.
It is a thing that is unique to US governance. Also the money and lobbying is wild - from both sides - the monied interests that stand to lose on the ban (TikTok itself, Yass etc.) and those that will win (Facebook, Google).
lol, where is it promoting link spam techniques?

and if you know seo, you'll realise most of seo is blackhat only.

seo as a whole depends on gaming google with more backlinks & more outreaches.

link spam techniques are done because they work.
> It is illegal to build dense housing.

This is an oversimplification that gets repeated too often. It is not illegal to build dense housing.

There are suburban areas where zoning doesn't allow you to build a high-rise apartment building. That is true. But why would you build a high-rise apartment building out in the suburbs anyway?

Here (in the outskirts of silicon valley) high-rise apartment buildings near downtown are popping up like mushrooms, there are perpetually at least a couple in construction as soon as others are completed. Lots of dense housing being built, nothing illegal about it.
We're aware of the possible issue you're pointing out. Since we're relatively new to macOS development do you have any idea on how others deal with this? There are a lot of apps out there with the same pricing model. Sketch for instance did this for years. They should have found a solution, right?
> There is no such thing as an "unbiased" ranking, just like there's no such thing as "unbiased" journalism.

Correct. But you can use techniques, to reduce bias. And not use others, notably tracking, so eliminating what can be bias or perhaps better put influence.

Besides that the bias of publishers and platforms matters less the more diversity we have. We have many news publishers for example, but in search the dominance of Google means we have little diversity.
> There are now "affinity groups"

Wait until you learn about Meetup.com. Or the importance of carefully policed gender-segregated bathrooms!

> graduation "celebrations" that totally aren't illegal ceremonies,

OK captain of the party police.

WTF is an "illegal ceremony"? Sounds antireligious.

> Soon enough, we'll have POC-only schools

They're called HBCUs. Lots like Howard, Tuskegee, Morehouse are like 150 years old, so if you're anxiously awaiting the arrival of POC-only schools so that you can make your own entry into the oppression olympics, you don't have to -- the scary future you're imagining arrived before your grandparents were born! It's a wonder any of us who weren't privileged enough to attend scrabbled our way through this oppressive society created by the out-of-control left of the 19th century, but here we are, a credit to our race.

> POC-only drinking fountains and sections on the bus

If the day were to come when a policy of creating POC-separate public services like drinking fountains and buses, which principles would you appeal to when organizing opposition to that?
yep, that's the exact reddit thread linked in the article.

the first comment has probably made $10,000+ in commissions. probably more.
"Men" means every man. Sure, many men who are in full time roles, like me, didn't need help. But some did. And many men without full time roles could have used help. Where is it? Oh, that's right, how could they possibly need help when all these other people with the same genitals didn't need it...
It's here: http://www.vors.stargrave.org/Install.html
I get where you're coming from, but in a somewhat large or large organisation the organisation has a life of its own and it couldn't care less whether you're authentically you or not. If there is something to gain from throwing you out it will, regardless of how you feel about it.

Hedging against that with conscious social strategies can be a reasonable thing to do, at least if you are in or are likely to end up in such a large organisation.

I've made the choice to be in a small organisation, in part because my contributions don't need packaging and announcements to become known to those with more power in it than I have. If I were to change my mind and join a large organisation I wouldn't think twice about entertaining a 'game', balancing the degree to which I exploit other people and organisational weaknesses to gain money and stability for myself against a semblance of professional and personal ethics.
I 100% do exactly the same. I gave up following what's new in Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning?) years ago. 99% of it is distraction, and not worth my time to find that last 1% of useful information. Instead, I focus on improving my foundations: statistical inference, linear algebra, calculus, classical machine learning (e.g., regression, boosting, component analysis, ...), programming, domain knowledge, social skills, ... I only learn a new technique if I cannot solve it with my usual toolbox (which is not very often).

I'm way more productive, have to work less hard, and I'm not distracted. Sure, I don't do that fancy new thing, but at the end of the day (or earlier) I get the job done. And I'm judged on what I do, and how it brings money into the company, not how I do it.

Another benefit working mostly with a box of boring, old tools, is that it will likely still be relevant in the next 30 years. You never know how long that new popular thing will remain popular and useful. But I'm pretty sure we'll still fit datasets with linear/logistic regressions, optimize processes with linear programming, or do straightforward A/B testing for the next few decades (if not centuries or millennia).
A great quote and great book from Kierkegaard

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Søren Kierkegaard

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have ever known.
No wonder then, That I return the love.
Same - I first saw the 'N-wheeled vehicles' posted to HN years ago and lost a good day to it: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/nwheelcar/nwhee...
Dolphins too. Half of their brain keeps them swimming while the other half sleeps.

Other fun fact: Humans making long car drives also do what's called "microsleeping". Your eyes remain open and your hands stay on the wheel, but your brain goes unconscious for a couple seconds at a time. Usually, you don't even notice…
> Fortunately, or unfortunately, that has the side effect of eg paying veterinary nurses peanuts, because there's always people willing to do those kinds of 'cute' jobs.

Veterinaries (including technicians) have an absurdly high rate of suicide. They have a stressful job, constantly around death and mistreatment situations, and don’t get the respect (despite often knowing more than human doctors) or the salaries to match.

Calling these jobs “cute” or saying the veterinary situation is “fortunate” borders on cruel, but I believe you were just uninformed.