skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard disagree -- I think you might be misremembering how EMO looks in practice -- I'm sure we'll learn VASA-1 "telltales" but to my eyes there are far fewer than EMO - zero of the EMO videos were 'perfect' for me, and many show little glitches or missing sync. VASA-1 still blinks a bit more than I think is natural, but it looks much more fluid.

Both are, BTW, AMAZING!! Pretty crazy.
I was wondering if he was a real, individual human being because that author writes far more text in a short period of time than anybody I've ever seen.

I really liked Cage of Souls, it was like a Jack Vance revival. And it's always fun to reach Tchaikovsky and Alastair Reynolds books back to back.
It's a fine line. Maybe it isn't necessarily manipulation, but it does come off as disingenuous to me.

To take your marriage example. The genuine motivation would be: "I acknowledge my flaws and I'm willing to put in the effort to change myself for the benefit of my wife". If the motivation is to just tweak your wife's views of you, that may not be manipulation but it's not very loving either.

People will be able to sniff out if the goal of his behaviour is to have people think of him a certain way, versus having the goal of wanting to bring beneficial change and helping a team out.
The behaviour may be the same on the surface, but the intent is very different. I would be very wary of judging people's motivations, but the fact that the author explicitly mentions it bothers me.
so a good thing? i think the big probably with all these substitutions is they are to make us eat more of the bad thing. if you could only eat fried food or sweets on an occasion then no issue. however, those are the things that are made cheap.

then again maybe its cause those taste the best due to being evolutationary selected and companies arent trying to kill us but get us to buy whatever our bodies easily go for.
the right to remain silent and the search and seizure protections...
50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2
The right to not self-incriminate is very limited. Historically if it is a foregone conclusion that you have contraband hidden or locked away then you can be coerced by the courts to reveal the location and/or furnish the key to unlock it. The theory is that handing over a key is not testifying. Therefore neither is providing your biometrics testifying either, and possibly even revealing your passcodes would be testifying either.
There are still tourists who for some weird reason come in the worst heat. Bring a hat.
Here in Poland, we have PARP - a government organization that helps small to medium-sized businesses by covering almost all attendance costs, excluding travel.
They seem to have been managing just fine in past years without AI contributions, why would it suddenly be any different?
If this interests you I also recommend reading the New Yorker piece linked in the article - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/06/01/the-man-in-the...
Python Wrapper for Meta AI (Llama 3)
With the release of Llama and MetaAI Chatbot(s),

here is just a small wrapper to interact with the new MetaAI chat bot assistant with Python (https://www.meta.ai/), which is running the newly release Llama 3 model.

Another nice thing is that its directly connected with Bing Search so you will be able to get the latest informations.

https://github.com/Strvm/meta-ai-api
> We now have a method of embedding a variable length piece of text into a fixed size vector

Question: Is it a rule that the embedding vector must be higher dimensional than the source text? Ideally 1 token -> a 1000+ length vector? The reason I ask is because it seems like it would lose value as a mechanism if I sent in a 1000 character long string and only got say a 4-length vector embedding for it. Because only 4 metrics/features can't possibly describe such a complex statement, I thought it was necessary that the dimensionality of the embedding be higher than the source?
If we are. How do we make a guess of the external world and our masters?

I have always been thinking, the world in the Sims is not too different from the real world, isn't it?
"Small money" is relative. Rent is the largest expense for most workers.

Most tech companies operate on a free market where nobody is forced to pay them if they don't want to. Nobody is strictly dependent on their services, while we are all dependent on having shelter. And painting with a broad stroke you can't say that tech companies are rent-seeking, information technology is highly beneficial for the economy at large, in practical ways that are too numerous to list.

It's not one small-time landlord, it is millions of small time landlords. Just like one small time police officer demanding protection money from local businesses is not a problem for the economy of a nation, but millions of police officers doing that is.

You could say that people can go somewhere else if they don't like it. Don't hate the player, hate the game. And that is true, I think a lot of people will go somewhere else and are already doing that.

With that said, I've never worked for a company engaging in rent-seeking and never done that myself, tech or other industry, so in that aspect I'm completely clean even though I'm a sinner like all of us.
> So I can lock my phone out in a few seconds using my middle finger.

This is perhaps off topic, but does this mean you put your phone in your pocket with the screen facing outward? I do the opposite, am I weird?

EDIT: I suppose maybe you meant when the phone was on a table or something
You mean people would walk around wooded paths, and simultaneously do their studying?
There isn't a difference, but you could say the same about this one electron idea.
ie America + a selection of countries that mostly haven’t got their shit together yet on dealing with the threat of unregulated AI.
People talk up resistance training these days and it's indisputably great for you, but other practices like pilates, yoga, acrobatics, dance, alexander technique / feldonkreis, rolfing, etc are the ones that aim straight at these occupational hazards.

The athletic ones also have a high skill ceiling that can be very fun to pursue and is akin to chasing PR's in quantized practices like lifting or running.
> recognizing the ecological importance of lampreys in their native waters and are stepping up efforts to help them recover

After billions of years how many species are not of ecological importance? Maybe some primates?
Yeah that's absurd. Go to a fast food place and they are reusing the oil over and over again for as long as possible. Believing that the vegetable oil is in a non degraded state by the time they switch it out is naive.

That is going to create a lot of oxidative stress and inflammation.
Yeah, but like well marked wooded paths, haha.
Yeah this is an incredible engineering feat, but I don't think I could do it knowing I could just go out and spend $500 on an xbox series X to play the remastered version in 120fps at 4k instead. I admire this level of dedication.
If you can explain the difference, maybe you can help me make sense of postmodern philosophy.
"Meta AI", an AI assistant with a website at http://meta.ai/ , as opposed to "Meta AI", an artificial intelligence laboratory owned by Meta with a website at https://ai.meta.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20240324073604/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_AI
I don't think they're really intended to increase security over passwords. They're intended to increase convenience by operating nearly like there's no authentication rather then requiring a bunch of typing.
thats just not in the BDs ethos. They have been the only company really trying to physically build these kinds of robust, dynamic systems for the last 3 decades (almost to a fault).
I've been curious about this as well. For me I smoke maybe 2/month...one cigar a week at the very most. My guess is it's negligible compared to all the other toxic clouds we walk through in a given week. But hard data would be useful to see.

Edit: Table 1 might have our answers https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/sites/default/files/2020-08...
You want me to solve immigration?

The white crews and Mexican crews are doing fine last I heard around mid 2023. Great money. The heat is not a problem. The ‘heat’ was an attempt to mess with the Mexican crews. I get that it’s bad many are illegal but most of the Americans who worked on a crew couldn’t handle the job and quit or drank, not because of the heat but from sleeping in, drinking, the pain from job, and the large amount of money they made and then made poor choices with. It’s a physically demanding job. The heat doesn’t matter, none of the guys stayed up top longer than 30 mins in full sun already because you sweat so much you can’t hold the nail gun well
Someone who has run this locally, what kind of hardware is needed to run this locally, with a reasonable budget ?
It's crazy how the managerial executive class seems to resent the vital essence of their own companies. Based on the behavior, nature, stated beliefs and interviews I've seen of most tech CEOs and CEOs in general, there seems to be almost a natural aversion to talking about things in non hyper-abstracted terms.

I get the feeling that the nature of the corporate world is often better understood as a series of rituals to create the illusion of the necessity of the capitalist hierarchy itself. (not that this is exclusive to capitalism, this exists in politics and any system that becomes somewhat self-sustaining) More important than a company doing well is the capacity to use the company as an image/lifestyle enhancement tool for those at the top. So many companies run almost mindlessly as somewhat autonomous machines, allowing pretense and personal egoic myth-making to win over the purpose of the company in the first place.

I think this is why Elon, Mark, Jensen, etc. have done so well. They don't perceive their position as founder/CEOs as a class position: a level above the normal lot that requires a lack of caring for tangible matters. They see their companies as ways of making things happen, for better or for worse.
"When setting their rates, insurance companies [in California] cannot consider current or future risks to a property. They can only use historical data.

...

Insurance companies say that because they can’t consider climate change in their rates, it makes it difficult to truly price the risk for properties."

https://apnews.com/article/california-home-insurance-wildfir...
As in, completable? It's much harder than the first 10.
Posture is huge. I got a lot out of studying Alexander Technique for improving my own posture.
This explains a lot. Most of CA's population does not live in wildfire prone zones. But most of the rural parts do. This will price them out of their homes. Parts of the central valley, the mountains, and really north California.

They also tend to be the more anti-government types. One family in an unincorporated part of the mountains refused to pay the voluntary firefighter service fee. When their home caught on fire the firefights just watched it and put out the parts that threatened a neighbor's house who did pay the fee.
They are aiming to beat the current GPT4 and stand a fair chance, they are unlikly to hold the crown for long.
It occurs to me that the refrigerators around the outside where high turnover items like milk and butter are kept are designed with a back door in the warehouse area so that they can be stocked throughout the day, so you would probably need to get more creative to accurately inventory the milk.
Agreed. Very different gameplay, setting, everything really. Just two good games, weirdly sharing a name!
I'm pretty sure he suggested it was a 16 way 110 MoE
There are actually two parts here: product(design and engineering) and gaining customers(marketing). Second part is much harder for some people(like me).
Huh. That looks like really important context. I wonder why the Smithsonian article neglected to mention it. Do they just not want to admit that there's any dissent?
The original GPT4 may have been around that size (16x 110B).

But it's pretty clear GPT4 Turbo is a smaller and heavily quantized model.
I dual boot as well and don't have any delays on either Win 11 or Ubuntu 23. I'm running a high-end Ryzen 7950x though with a PCIe 5 SSD and 64 GB of ram.

My long boot times are with POST-phase DDR5 memory training. Takes around a minute before I can get to the bootloader. I have tried many BIOS settings to try to cut that part down but haven't been successful (usually results in a crash).

Another datapoint, I also have a Framework Ryzen 13 and I don't recall seeing delays for my dual boot setup either to Win 11 or Ubuntu 23. But, I think I do sometimes have DDR5 training lag times as it's also a 64 GB system.
> The idea of a free for all bug abusing server is pretty neat, a whole ‘nother level of the game.

Balance converging around bugs and exploits is pretty typical for all PvP sandbox games with cutthroat gameplay, even if not allowed by the server. ARK: Survival Evolved and Eve Online are infamous for having huge clans (thousands of players) willing to go extreme lengths at metagaming and bug exploitation. It isn't always that rosy, ARK had certain mechanisms to dox players and their multiple Steam accounts, which I believe led to a few spillovers of the ingame relations to the real life during the Great War. Sometimes it's very basic stuff though, like building a huge tower and breaking it upon being raided, DoSing the server and crashing it, after which it rolls back to a previous backup made 10-20 min ago, making your base very hard to raid if you have active players. (an ancient thing that was fixed many years ago)

Rust (the PvP game, not the language) also had the policy of encouraging players to spread and publish bugs and exploits on YouTube, but with the different aim - so that the devs would notice and patch those faster. This resulted in a pretty robust game that is extremely hard to exploit without resorting to actual external hacks.
> My understanding is that these incredible distances are achievable less by "flapping" and more by leveraging small adjustments to harness the incredibly powerful forces

That is not correct. This particular bird (Bar-tailed Godwit) has never been observed to "dynamically soar" nor does it have the proper wing shape for that type of flight. If you ever seen Godwits in the wild, you will know why, it's a flapping only bird, they have no other mode of flight.

Albatrosses on the other hand do employ dynamic soaring and fly even greater distances than Godwit does (they can circumnavigate the Southern Ocean several times) although albatrosses have additional advantage of being able to use water for rest (Godwits cannot).
> it only makes sense to completely solve the highest hazard ratio before even considering the next highest hazard ratio. But why would that be the case?

Seed-oil harm is nowhere close to the second-highest hazard. That's the point. If you're obsessing around optimising your oil consumption for health, you're probably missing lower-hanging fruit. It's fine to optimise on around the margins, but any more attention than that--assuming you are not a researcher--is overkill.
I agree with the use of such tools in our personal lives, as liability is not as big a problem and the stakes are lower generally.

I only object to the use of AI in places where I have to put my signature and will be held liable for whatever output the AI decides to give me.

Like that Lawyer that made a whole deposition with AI and got laughed out of the room, he could’ve been held liable for court fees of the other party in any other country, and lawyers aren’t cheap! I don’t imagine his employers were very happy.
The lower back and other posture issues are definetely real, but back issues are a first wave of the consequences.

In the long term, the concerns mentioned below for heart disease, resulting from a lifetime of sitting for a living, are definitely an issue.

Believe it or not, the actual sitting, having your butt supporting your weight all day, for decades, can also contribute to prostate issues in men, with prostate cancer also being a significant killer.

The illustrations in the article are of a female computer user, so she wouldn't have to worry about the prostate injury...
It's probably a lot more complicated than that. For one thing, California is a place that imported eucalyptus. This is a fire hazard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37442671
This post is stolen from a different blog back in 2013: http://web.archive.org/web/20130305164549/http://www.alexmed...

Anyone at Substack around to shut down this blog?
I was very curious about the Psychic Friends Network. One can find the code here (https://github.com/MrValdez/Roshambo/blob/master/rsb-iocaine...), and it's easy to deobfuscate substantially by running it through the C preprocessor.

I believe it works as follows:
- It plays randomly for the first 998 turns (https://github.com/MrValdez/Roshambo/blob/master/rsb-iocaine...): this line is "if (*turn < trials - 2) return libra ? callback() : random() % 3;", and "libra" is initalized to (int) NULL, i.e. zero, on every invocation.

- In the last 2 turns, it uses `find_goodkarma` to comb through the stack to find where the variables that match its history and the opponents' history are stored. These the stack arrays p1hist and p2hist (https://github.com/MrValdez/Roshambo/blob/master/rsb-iocaine...)

They're easy to find because they contain 998 known values each in a ~random sequence of (0, 1, 2), and they're just upwards of the stack from the current invocation of the Psychic Friends Network.

`find_goodkarma` simply increments a pointer until the whole sequence of 998 values matches the known history.

- Then, it rewrites the history to make itself win. These lines (https://github.com/MrValdez/Roshambo/blob/master/rsb-iocaine...) never get executed, then these lines (https://github.com/MrValdez/Roshambo/blob/master/rsb-iocaine...) tally up draws so far (libra), wins (cancer) and losses (scorpio).

This line makes sure its move is the opponents' move +1 mod 3, which is the winning move: https://github.com/MrValdez/Roshambo/blob/master/rsb-iocaine...

Then, these lines repeat the same trick for the number of wins and losses. It checks whether it's p1 or p2 by comparing the addresses of the win/loss arrays, and then overwrites the wins/losses appropriately using `pizza` https://github.com/MrValdez/Roshambo/blob/master/rsb-iocaine...

in the end it returns an arbitrary value (the address of `good_hand` mod 3).

It was fun to follow but the result is kind of boring :)
I beat the thing by asking for a riddle. But your instructions also didn't work on the bonus level.
Respect this opinion, but concerned that it's a limiting one.

In my opinion, repair and maintenance is the most commonly overlooked aspect of an automated system deployment. Scaling is impossible without efficient tools to fix problems when they occur, especially if the number of authorized service people is limited.

The more serviceability can be automated and standardized, the greater the number of areas that will benefit from widespread robotics.
This post started of really well and then fell pray to classic "developer mindset" of picking a technology to build on before even coming up product requirements.

After identifying that people are willing to pay money for good software on Mac, finding a funding model that leads to sustainable software seems a more important goal than whether it is open source. I bet that 90% of the reason web based calendar software is miles better than desktop is because it is locked away behind a sustainable stream of funding.

This "everything should be open source" thing is starting to trump building useful software that is created by good designers, that you know, want to be paid. To the point where people are willing to take VC funding with vague business plans (Astral, Zed) instead of, I don't know, making people pay for the fucking product they are getting.
Yeah, it’s disappointing compared to how it was in the mid 90s/early 2000s. It was one of my favorite stores as a teen. Luckily for me I live close enough to a MicroCenter which still has the old school electronics store magic.
> Whether or not biometric authentication exposes you to more risk depends on what your threat profile looks like. If it includes governmental action, then yes, biometrics are a weak spot.

Even if it doesn't include the government biometrics still leave you much more vulnerable. You leave your biometric information everywhere you go. Your face is easily found in photographs. Fingerprints are left on everything you touch. Your voice is easily recorded and deepfaked. Attacks on biometric authentication are well documented and while some seem pretty impressive (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/scientists-ex...) others are embarrassingly unsophisticated (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-easily-hackers-c...). Unlike passwords your fingerprints can't be changed following a compromise either.

I can also set a unique password for every device/service I use. Even if you managed to guess my hackernews password, that password would be useless to you for anything else. The face/voice/fingerprint that unlocks one device will forever be identical to the one that unlocks everything else someone has or will secure with it.

biometrics sacrifice huge amounts of security for the sake of convenience and an appearance of being "high tech" and "fancy".
Definitely worth the customer goodwill for something that is extremely unlikely to happen. Plus, for an insurance company the financial impact of replacing one house is completely routine. Yet, being able to advertise your situation would be golden.
Being physically active certainly improves your overall health. Also choosing the correct hardware, good chairs, desks with appropriate hight and such.
Sorry about this. It should be fixed now. There was an issue with the vocabulary we had to fix and re-push!

ollama pull llama3:8b-instruct-q4_0

should update it.
Why don't you use statistics and facts instead of very bizarre snarky rhetoric?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/us-worker-wo...

The rate of injury in roofers is 3.6 per 100 full time-equivalent employees. The rate of injury in software engineers is about 0.05.

Are you actually even trying to talk or, again, just putting on a gymnastics show for us?
It's a long shot but Relativity is keyed in to something most folks don't get or see. Using 3d printing heavily to radically unconstrain design & figure out where you want to put every ounce of material could be a huge advantage.

It might not be fast, but we have to compare the net cost, of letting printers run, versus figuring out exact manufacturing processes for thousands of parts netting millions of discrete operations.

These are costly works, but I'm actually less scared than I'd expect that this is an un-disruptable lead. We have much better control systems, much better manufacturing systems, and a clear example of what definitely works that creates a corporate necessity the old guard never & perhaps still doesn't understand.
In concert with Foxconn and others.
I have heard of but not read, this is just a collection of hard won coping strategies!

I will say it has some downsides, though - I feel pretty fragmented outside of work.
How does that work? Nobody will be able to run the big models who doesn't have a big data center or lots of rent money to burn. How is it going to matter to most of us?

It seems similar to open chip designs - irrelevant to people who are going to buy whatever chips they use anyway. Maybe I'll design a circuit board, but no deeper than that.

Modern civilization means depending on supply chains.
Is it banning glyphosate?
To be fair, this is part of the reason it is so valuable. Meta has access to absolutely stupendous amounts of private training data. If you forced them to make the data available you would have to settle for a tiny training set by comparison. The value of this is exactly that you are getting access to the result of training on data that you couldn't otherwise access at all.
Build an API for the Browser Game