skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For unflavored protein powder I like the Naked brand: https://nakednutrition.com
This technology allows for the secure transmission of information, such as a fingerprint to a bank, without the risk of interception because the data does not travel in a traditional sense. This form of secure quantum teleportation could revolutionize secure communications, offering a glimpse into the future of how data may be transferred safely over long distances, potentially leading to the development of a full-fledged quantum internet.

The study involved using entangled photons and a nonlinear detector, which, while not strictly teleportation as seen in science fiction, represents a major step towards real-world quantum communication systems. The team is optimistic that further advances could enhance the efficiency of these detectors, bringing the concept closer to practical use and integrating it into global communication networks.
What about shooting a kid for having a water gun?

Edit: fuck me, I was half joking and thought I'd check anyway. What a shit show. Latest case was 5 days ago.
https://www.google.com/search?q=American+police+shoot+kid+wi...
Yes, children have property rights. If there is a homeless 14 year old on the street, I can't just go up and steal his bike.
Thank you for summarizing!
> removes common sense

This happened about 5 miles from where I grew up: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/7-year-old-suspende...

In the 80s, kids would have bows or hunting rifles in the car or truck in the school parking lot. Now eating your pastry the wrong way gets you sent home.
As an employer/owner/investor I’m not trying to minimize expenses I’m trying to maximize growth/value. Abusing people is not a path to success by that metric.
It's mind-boggling to me that Google didn't create a spec to work with special partners whereby they could get syndicated data in a format that was easy to ingest, and easy for their partners to produce. Lighting dollars on fire just to serve up pages to Googlebot, when you could just periodically dump a journal of updates to Google, is just crazy imo.

On edit: if only there were some way to do some kind of really simple syndication of your data.
Literal beepers were still in use as late as 2012 as backups for on call people, enough so that we supported them at PagerDuty for redundancy (the API was email->provider->beeper)

https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/short-emails-for-your-pager/
> When most people hit that realization, they say ...

I have to say this is not my experience at all. In fact I can say I've probably never met anybody who came to that conclusion.

In my experience, most people recognize that, yes, bad people should be caught, but also that widespread surveillance and erosion of privacy is both bad for them and society. The problem arises with the fact that people often have more pressing matters to them - such as feeding their family - so they don't have time or energy to worry about fighting the myriad systemic issues that is needed to fix things on the necessary societal level.

I do not blame people for this, and nor should you; all that does is antagonize people and increases their reticence about politics in general.
The percentage of a nonzero tax off a zero amount is staggering though.
Mistral just released the most powerful open weight model in the history of humanity.

How did they weaken their commitment to open weights?
We need an amendment to the constitution that says governments aren't allowed to corrupt technology for breaking privacy. I'm tired of a variant of this sort of bill coming up over and over again, rallying effort to block it, only to have a new version pop up again later.
Didn't like this at first.

But...

He's a self made billionaire that seemed to want to build a big mansion around where he grew up ( did a sanity check in this)

He's involved with websites/piracy/..., so he's more accustomed to law suits and legal affairs than us/me.

He's not doing anything illegal and there seems to be a build violation from ( his also rich) neighbor.

Probably they can't agree on something and the court will decide.

Ps. It's also private matters, but I don't see much actual off.

Bought the newspaper, but also the guy is now living/working, seems to be more close involved than just trying to influence something. Perhaps they just hid it off as friends too and things led to unexpected ways?

Either way. It's his personal life and private matters. Just didn't want to jump to conclusions as many others and has not much value here in hn.
I mean, yes and no. At the same time there are power hungry mods, there are limitless hordes of complete asshole users that are only there to cause problems and not engage in legitimate debate.

Forums really kind of suck once they get over particular sizes and never ending battles erupt.
Your LCD is out of warranty by then too.
I remember when "place" happened. It was a collaborative art project where for 72 hours users could place a single colored "pixel" on a blank canvas then had to wait 5 minutes before they could place another. Communities formed plans, and battles for space on the canvas were fought.

Given the freedom to create something unique and beautiful together what did reddit ultimately come up with? Mostly a collection of corporate logos and copyrighted characters along with memes and flags. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnRCZK3KjUY)

"Hordes of fanboyism" seems fair.
Embeddings are indeed a good starting point. Next step is choosing the model and the database. The comments here have been taken over by database companies so I'm skeptical about the opinions. I wish MySQL had a cosine search feature built in
Yes, if you are physically working even one day in California in a given year, the Franchise Tax Board expects you to file a non-resident tax return. (How enforceable this is will depend on your other ties to the state and your personal risk tolerance.)

At one point, California and New York were unique in this, but I believe the practice has spread to other states, especially as a result of remote work becoming more widespread.

The relevant case (from 1989) is https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1772838....

Edit to add: as someone who moved out of California 10 years ago, I've been advised by a professional to basically continue filing a non-resident return forever. If I file a return that says 0 days in state and $0 owed, the FTB has a statutory time limit to contest that assertion. If I don't file anything, they claim they have an indefinite lookback period.
It depends on the interest rate. A 5% interest may be a legitimate loan; 70% interest is in the territory of loan sharking.
It was kind of a non-issue at the time, for the simple reason the DVD format used by all the players only supported PAL 25fps or NTSC 29.976 IIRC. There was very few "official" ways to get native 24fps content into the home until Blu-Ray, and by then many TVs offered a 24p mode to go with it. Neither PAL nor NTSC is ideal for 24fps content.
Will share python implementation soon as a kind of executable pseudo code which then can be ported to any platform.

This project is kind of like ultimate nerdsnipe as math is quite simple, you don’t need PhD to understand it and actually implementing things would teach you linear algebra faster vs just mindlessly doing exercises sets.
Bencher is a suite of continuous benchmarking tools. https://github.com/bencherdev/bencher
I'm guessing 2 dimensions isn't for this.

Here's a concrete example: "bow" would need to be close to "ribbon" (as in a bow on a present) and also close to "gun" (as a weapon that shoots a projectile), but "ribbon" and "gun" would seem to need be far from each other. How does something like word2vec resolve this? Any transitive relationship would seem to fall afoul of this.
Kotlin has stagnated for the last few years (!) due to JB dropping everything to rewrite the entire compiler (twice).

In the meantime, Java took a lot of the good features and made them even better, e.g. Java has actual pattern matching and Kotlin doesn't.
Had a read through parts 1 and 2, thank you for the engaging reads! Love how you've formatted your posts with the margin notes too. Thank you for providing the function to write numpy structured arrays to Postgres binary, I couldn't figure this out before.
Maybe, but theres nothing that stops OpenAI from stealing these tricks.
I'll bite: because after all is said and done, I believe we're more likely to have something of value left over from the AI craze than from the blockchain craze. The energy that goes into training a model gives you something that you can use afterwards; The energy consumption of Bitcoin is continuous (while still producing nothing of real use to anyone). Also, we can optimize the power used by machine learning, whereas optimizations in Bitcoin mining just mean everyone adopts it and the power goes back up (the nature of proof of work). So Bitcoin is hopeless, but to me the jury is still out on AI.

There's a separate question of whether the things we develop with 2020s-era "AI" will be good for us or worth all of the resources we put into it, but there are actual, valuable uses of things like image recognition and translation.
> ...and then repeat until the model says stop.

How does this actually work? At a high level, the autoregressive token generation process makes sense to me, but how does it know when a sensible time to stop is rather than just going on forever or abruptly stopping after n tokens? Is it trained on text that has special 'stop' tokens inserted at the end of paragraphs, etc. and when it chucks out one of these the model halts?
Geez if this is what it all looks like for AI to be unpopular I can't even imagine what its going to look like when everyone is actually into AI.
Riverlane Wins DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Program Grant
I can’t describe the feeling I get every time I see a bizarre project in the Ruby world, excited / thrilled is the closest feeling.
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A "go-see" is when the model visits a photographer to discuss a potential shoot?
r/gaming has a series of "I made a game" ads that the moderators allow users to run promotional organic posts

Some of the headphone and electronics subs seem to have promotional accounts.

There are frequent issues in gaming subs with youtubers bribing mods to promote their content.
But a rinse with water would be wise and harmless right?
Right like you could use it sort of like cache and send the blobs to OpenAI to use their similarity API, but you couldn't really use SQL to do cosine similarity operations?

My understanding of what's going on at a technical level might be a bit limited.
Future of Humanity Final Report from Anders Sandberg here:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/660e95991cf0293c2463b...

and Google Doc version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jgl2KqtiJ6lLkpoZ1I_VeniP...
It's about time! Here it comes!
Yes! Good catch, it also shows very clearly in minute 3:51 [0]. Thank you so much for your support!

[0] - https://youtu.be/TitZV6k8zfA?si=1BmlLAP-5fCq0yW2&t=231
Thank you so much for the time taken.

Yes, the situation is that we need to grow our team, actually on two directions. One is sales itself, is very simple, adding more sales power is bringing in the end more money. Secondly, customers are big enterprises, and they have special requests for better matching their use cases. Unsurprisingly, they want us to grow and honestly, we did what you suggested to get money from them in advance. This is how we managed very well until now.

But our product has so much traction now, that we do not need too much outbound sales but managing the inbound requests. This is where you say, OK, now we need to grow masively and this can only be done with VC money because growing organically is too slow.

We are very well underway with EU based VCs. They are nice and all good but too old style and coming up with a lot of conditions which feel off. From what I could read around, the US based VC are in anyway faster and they seem to understand easier the speed of our current business. So.. question still remains, how one reaches US investors.
pg_vector has you covered
I think you underestimate the level to which this area has been studied. And I wish you would talk about these new results then instead of announcing 5+ year old results then.

It would be great to see progress in this area (not my primary area of work BTW) but I am not seeing anything here, technically, that is going to make that happen -- maybe it is just getting all the parts in place and magic happens. It just makes me scratch my head a bit.
Also, isn't this illegal? Either Google respected rate limits (which I doubt) or it was a form of a DDoS attack.
Absolutely: it’s only because of the tremendous impact of lacking felt safety as an infant that we know they can tell the difference.
Also a good club called Drom that hosts a lot of good gypsy music. Drom being the Romany word for road.
Future of Humanity Final Report from Anders Sandberg [pdf]
For Profit Company Finds Money That People Throwaway in Trash
If it's worth it to you, tell your investment manager that you want to track MSCI Developed World minus Nestlé. You'll get charged a fee for a manually-managed brokerage compared to just dumping everything into an ETF, but this type of detailed preference is literally what active investment management is for.
That makes sense, so I guess once Ukraine loses, it'll make more sense for them to push the button and get ready. Better to be hungry and free than ending up in Siberia.
I did in fact look at the linked page, and Nestle doesn't own anything resembling half the grocery products in my grocery store.
Saying they hide it might be a bit of a stretch, that URL just 302's to the comment link with the title-in-url as usual. I guess you're referring to being able to right-click and copy the url directly?
War is already dark and more precision makes it less dark. Winning faster saves lives.
A lot of fuzzers use Mario or other simple games as an internal testcase. I'm aware of a hypervisor fuzzer from 2016 that did it, and I'm positive there are others (both before and since). Hell, tom7 has a fuzzer for exploring program states that uses Super Mario Bros as the example from 2013 (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf, plus a youtube video https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY), and he's definitely not the first either.
64GB is not GPU RAM, but system RAM. Consumer GPUs have 24GB at most, those with good value/price have way less. Current generation workstation GPUs are unaffordable; used can be found on ebay for a reasonable price, but they are quite slow. DDR5 RAM might be a better investment.
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<wink> I just used a walkman
QM is kind of the "Principles of Operation" document IBM has for mainframes, detailing everything the software sees (and some more).

It's not the OS, but spells out the rules of the universe.
Somehow Reddit has avoided being overrun by bot/affiliate spam and has become a better source of certain types of information. I don't know how. Perhaps some combination of the voting system (effectively outsourcing getting rid of junk) and algorithms.

I'm building a photo booth and an example from today: if I search Google for the best budget PC with discrete graphics cards, everything other than the Reddit link is garbage/affiliate spam. But a few clicks on the Reddit links and voila, real options.

Google itself seems either unable to stop their site from being full of garbage, or they just don't care because what are you going to do, switch to Bing?
I think this is part of it. Iirc “studies show” appreciation of bitterness (coffee, dark chocolate, broccoli) correlated with age. Iirc it was biologically related, but don’t quote me on that.
I don't know if I should put it this way but, going from 1 million to 2 million is 100% growth but going from 1 trillion to 1 trillion and 1 million is a growth of 0.0001%.

Hope you understand.
You can't mention RSM without mentioning PPBS, which he begat and continues to bleed money at a Pentagon near you => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output_budgeting
Negative, it was an embedded board. GRUB was not the issue; rather the kernel would hang after partially booting. Affected Illumos as well so it's likely a firmware bug.
No, I think it's the other way. The horizontal lines are digital, the meridians are continuous.
> Would you say that professional athletes who are now fabulously wealthy are dumb because it's "dumb" to pursue a career where most people fail?

Yes, anyone who compromises their future on the slim chance of winning the lottery is reasonably considered "dumb".

For the most part, athletes don't have to compromise their future, though. Professional sport networks tend to be good to make sure participants have reasonable backup plans and once someone is identified as having likelihood of making "the big leagues" will be supported financially to a smaller degree while they see if they can make the transition. There is an opportunity cost on those who don't make it, to be sure, but not being as well off as you had hoped you'd be isn't the same as crumbling under crushing debt for the rest of your life.

Maybe it is not perfect in every circumstance, but generally there is an effort to protect athlete hopefuls from running their lives exactly to protect those who are "dumb". Colleges, on the other hand, couldn't care less – "Just give me the money!"
I love that too. You definitely don't see as many of them these days. By 2006 they were kind of a punchline (cf the TV series "30 Rock" and their portrayal as a goofy dead-end tech for weirdos, sold by Dennis Duffy).

This might or might not be an interesting digression (apologies if it's the latter!) but many medical professionals still carry beepers or pagers of some kind. Not like "an app on their phone that will ring your phone at you even through Do-Not-Disturb" (I have one of those), but something that is very recognizably an old school beeper. They often have a SIM card in them, and the newer ones sometimes have wifi as well for redundancy.

My wife is a nurse at a cancer treatment center, she coordinates care for extremely sick people who are getting very specialized treatments and she's kind of the front-line person for dealing with them and project managing emergency situations, so she and all the doctors she work with carry them. I thought it was actually pretty cool :)

I asked her about it once, and apparently the hospital system looked at the more modern app-based paging stuff and decided that while it was cheaper, the reliability hit wasn't worth it to them. The physical hardware for these things is outrageously sturdy, they have a lifespan of like a decade, they're extremely easy to replace. Sure, your wifi might be out or your telephony might be down, but that's a problem your app has to deal with too. Apps are easier to provision, but it's an extra layer of stuff that can go wrong (your phone is getting an update or out of battery, you left it in your car because you were playing music with it and forgot to take it out of the console, it got stolen because phones are recognizably valuable) so they just stuck with the old familiar form factor that does one thing, extremely reliably.

This isn't a criticism of the app-based paging systems or anything; they're quite reliable in my experience. I just thought it was a neat additional data point about the considerations that go in to the thought process about provisioning an alarm for your employees when the alarm almost always means either "I have a time-sensitive question about a patient's ongoing medical emergency" or "your patient is about to die".
You can just Google "ice cream brands market share" and learn that Nestle has nothing resembling a monopoly on ice cream. The 5 top brand owners combined represent less than 1/3 of the market.
I had a bit of an epiphany when I read this comment since you hit the nail on the head so succinctly.

Wealth is the only true path that gives you options. All other paths are dependent on income.

There really is no other exit plan except financial security. Every other plan is just putting you into the walls a new rat maze.
Probably the fact that even ten years ago one could hope to do something impressive (and maybe even state of the art) with a custom-built model running on a laptop... these days anything you might try is likely to be outdone by a more general model.

Like the fact that all sorts of fun but elementary language processing tasks that previously required some clever engineering or at least careful data collection and a custom-built model can just be done (and done much better) by something like GPT-x. There's far less incentive to play around with basic ML stuff as an amateur now.
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