skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (please note: this is not an anti-religious post, but the malware makers seem to target those sites much more than anything else I have seen.)

I would guess it is because older people are more likely to visit, so setting up such a site or just buying ad space on it is a good way to target an older (and less tech-savvy) audience.
> as Chalmers says it denies the datum of experience

Chalmers is a particularly ill-chosen example for this, because Chalmers also claims that his zombie twin--an atom-by-atom duplicate of him that is indistinguishable in all its physical properties and actions but lacks consciousness--is a coherent concept. But by his own definition, since Chalmers says his conscious experience is a direct "datum", so would zombie-Chalmers. And since zombie-Chalmers is an atom-by-atom duplicate of Chalmers, on what basis would Chalmers say that he is right when he makes this claim, but somehow zombie-Chalmers is wrong? If physicalism is true, this is simply false reasoning: zombie-Chalmers, since he is physically identical to Chalmers, must also be identical with respect to consciousness. So either Chalmers is simply denying physicalism--he has some mysterious non-physical property, in principle unexplainable in terms of the physical state of him, that zombie-Chalmers lacks--or he is simply failing to think clearly about his own position, and therefore believes that the concept of zombie-Chalmers as he defines it is coherent, when in fact it isn't.

Similar remarks could be made about other concepts that are trotted out by Dennett's critics, such as "qualia", but Chalmers makes the incoherence of such positions particularly obvious.
Writing a beginner intro to wealth tax and assemblng and organizing all the Ressources I had consumed in years. https://start.me/p/1997pL/inequality-for-the-pragmatic-ideal...
You can also put iPads in MDM software and manage them remotely very easily.
I've been buying used books from local booksellers and betterworldbooks.com when I can't find them locally.

Seems like a fair compromise to me re: ecological impact.
What do you do wearing a Vision Pro in your yard?
No surprise there, given that Japan has declared that they will not enforce any copyright claims against AI companies, and in fact explicitly allow training on copyright material, even stolen copyright material.

https://www.privacyworld.blog/2024/03/japans-new-draft-guide...
Thames Water, the company that maintains sewer pipes for the millions that live in London and surrounds also has strong pragmatic opinions grounded in real world experience that "flushable wipes" should never be flushed and will always make up a large proportion of pipe blockages ...

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/responsibility/bin-it

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/news/twenty-four-million-peopl...

But, of course you're correct, after all what would actual engineers from a company that recently spent > 5 billion on sewer upgrades know about pipes?

They should just hire dismissive internet commenters to hand wave such things away.
Another interesting angle is power consumption. The brain consumes about 20W so that’s ~200pW/neuron. The GPU is 4 orders of magnitude worse at ~2uW/neuron.

The brain also does much more than a GPU. I’m not sure what percentage of the brain could be considered devoted to equivalent computation but is also interesting to think about. I’ve seen that the brains memory is equivalent to ~2PB.
The power of a 12TB hard drive is ~6W. So current tech has a long way to go if it’s ever going to get close to the brain, 2PB storage is about 1kW alone.

That’s pretty impressive for a bunch of goo that resulted from a random process.

Makes me think we are barking up the wrong tree with silicon based computing.
People say that if public libraries didn't already exist and were proposed today as a new thing, they'd be found illegal.

I agree that they've sort of lost the plot by taking this digital lending stuff seriously.
> Phi-3-mini 3.8b: 71.2

Per the paper, phi3-mini (which is english-only) quantised to 4bit uses 1.8gb RAM and outputs 1212 tokens/sec (correction: 12 tokens/sec) on iOS.

A model on par with GPT-3.5 running on phones!

(weights haven't been released, though)
Would you be open to putting it on F-Droid or something like that?
the stat is also leaving out an important part of the market, 10,000 books. (I think that's the size of a run of books; the actual number is not important, the vast range between 1000 and 100,000 is)
Is there reason to believe authors aren't getting a cut of the library license costs?

I used to buy my ebooks until I realized libraries had ebook catalogues. A large portion of the books I've borrowed are sales the author lost, they ought to be compensated somehow.
> It feels like how electric cars add artifical engine sounds.

A side note, there is some sense in the artificial sounds of the ev engines. I'm blind and if not for them, I might be dead in five years, together with many no so attentive people.
Thanks, I don't see them being "well above GPT-4", merely 1 point? Also, no idea why one would want to exclude GPT-4-Turbo, the flagship "GPT-4" model, but w/e.

I also don't think they "beat Llama 3 8B"; their own abstract says "rivals that of models such as Mixtral 8x7B and GPT-3.5", "rivals" not even "beats".

Great model, but let's not overplay it.
If I was Apple I'd be quaking in my boots. They are getting too far behind to ever catch up. Nokia in 2010 vibes.
In the final report on the Irish health services ransomware incident, AV did pick up early signs of the attack but they were not further acted upon - there is value to enterprise AV, provided you back it up with enterprise incident response...

For home use, sure, just use defender and be careful, like the article says and you'll mostly be fine.
This is great, have been looking for something like this.
It's funny that you have trouble with term "cloud" but you're okay with an equally made up marketing term called "outsourcing".
There are several wordlists which have been curated this way. --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list
Less tokens than Llama 3 (3.3T vs 15T) yet better outcome. No doubt more information dense training data. The interesting thing is the use of synthetic data which they don't talk about.
And for what it’s worth I totally support zoning. America just did it the wrong way.
a couple of alternatives are donation models (patreon), or quadratic funding, where a common pool is used to provide the incentive to contribute to the creation of a public good at the actual value you get out of it (see Radical Markets for a description). there's definitely others- the main problem is there are powerful actors who benefit greatly from the status quo, and coordination is hard.
At the least, there's multiple benchmarks noted in the paper (21!) and the results are consistent across all of them.

I'd trust Microsoft to do decontamination testing, although the paper doesn't explicitly mention it other than "The prompts and number of shots are part of a Microsoft internal tool to evaluate language models, and in particular we did no optimization to the pipeline for the phi-3 models."
Maybe try Windows S mode ? This is a locked down mode of Windows home edition where you can only install apps from MS store and there are many other restrictions that will prevent accidentally breaking your system.
Now imagine the impact of those high ebook costs on more rural, or even suburban libraries.

These libraries have less money to spend on expensive ebook subscriptions, but at the same time ebooks are much more useful to patrons who live a long ways from the library and may have difficulty going to check out physical books.

The same probably applies to libraries that serve more impoverished populations.
From when I worked the job, when cutting pizza the general flow was; remove from oven, prepare and box, then check what order it was for.

As adding the garlic spray is part of the prepare step, it's really easy to fuck up. It's not uncommon to mess it up, ask for a remake, then mess it up again. When you follow the same steps every time it's hard to skip one.

If you want a tip, the Brooklyn style (I think they renamed it?) doesn't come with the spray by default, so it's easier to stop yourself. Only other difference is the pizza has less dough.
My server uptime

Once a point of pride, rendered

nil by Voyager
Exactly what I was looking for - thanks! Not earth shattering, but it’s neat to fill out our map of the neighborhood.
> As a consumer, when you buy an e-book or e-audiobook, it costs about the same or sometimes even less than the print book version.

That "even" looks out of place. Since I would expect some digital detritus that can be reproduced in unlimited copies at close to zero cost to cost less, then I would say that it "sometimes even costs more than the actual book".

It's not surprising when it's less; "even" adds emphasis on some parameter that has gone beyond expectation.
The App Store didn't launch until a year after the iPhone.

Originally, it was 'Write web apps that run in Safari'

Sadly, because that original web app vision likely would have prevented App Store revenue from twisting corporate priorities.
No, not making an argument, just a comment that, if you're worried about the CCP data mining US users, banning tiktok is a bad way to fix that problem.

Realistically, this falls under the "solving a human problem with tech", which is to say, it's not going to work. What you need to do is to educate the users. The problem is, the USGOV is data mining US users, and, if they were to educate users on how to avoid CCP data mining, they'd also defacto be educating them on how to avoid domestic data mining as well.
Of course, that would be a net-positive for society as a whole, it'll just never happen. They could also pass comprehensive user privacy protections, which, they won't do for similar reasons.

What you're really seeing play out here, is USGOV/CCP incentives matching, and the USGOV having a hard time navigating this legally because we do have at least some protection against massive unilateral government actions, whereas China has nothing of the sort.

You're free to think about data mining, narrative shaping, etc, any way you'd like. I know many think that it's nbd, many think that only the CCP doing it is bad because the USGOV is a force for good, many think that the CCP doing it is ok but the USGOV doing it is bad.

I really do think that if you think the CCP is bad, and tiktok is used by them somehow, directly going after tiktok is a very bad idea that'll likely result in a lost court case and tiktok being a permanent fixture, along with any other app in a similar situation, because calling China a foreign adversary is, well, extremely hard to prove in court, no matter how true it is. Doing nothing would be better, and, if something must be done, teaching people what they're dealing with is the best option, even at the expense of a loss of domestic capabilities.
Sounds like MS ditching Windows MR has left an opportunity in the market for Meta. The OEMs listed all previously made MR headsets and presumably needed a new solution.
Did they ever claim to be a powerhouse in foundation models? Did your MacBook or iPhone become obsolete or stop working? They use the models, they don't release them because they don't hoard data.
It was until someone resurrected the evaluator it inherited from CMUCL
> We could have public libraries be entirely outside the copyright system. I doubt it’d have a material effect on production of new books.

I really wish this could be the case, but I strongly doubt, which ever country we are in, the politicians we voted in will be on our sides.
It's beyond odd; it's simply idiotic. You would not "buy down" holds for physical books, or not to a ridiculous degree. If there are 100 holds for some book, you're not going to go out and buy 75 or whatever. Why do it for e-books? Cause, wee, they don't take up shelf space in the stacks?

If a book is popular, let the patrons "buy down" their own copy, or else wait behind 90 other people.

There is always bittorrent and filez websites: the real libraries of the digital age.

There are also ... craploads of other worthwhile books you could explore that are not held.
- Claims forms (think reimbursements with photos of receipts, insurance/rental forms with photos of the car, etc.)

- Student submissions (video/presentations, CAD files, database analytics, etc.)

- Support requests (screen share videos, corrupted files, etc.)
Honestly? Pretty smart move by them. Japan's major export is its culture. Nowadays almost everyone enjoy manga and anime and by extension, they adore Japan. That kind of soft power can be very useful. By allowing unlimited access to their cultural outputs, including copyrighted materials, they can influence the AI and further boost their reach.

You can sort of see this in Stable Diffusion and music models like Suno. Lots of creations are basically Japanese art.
there are a lot of apps yea, should've specified I wanna solve in my browser. I like doing gigantic puzzles (like at least 30x50) and seeing the whole board at once
> Chat With Llama 3 by Meat AI

Meat AI?
Fuck Google for asking to always sign in to Google accounts for everything and tying up shit together.
Yes, "chinchilla optimal" is a meme, but 15T might turn out to be too many tokens.
Honestly, quitting is an option. My Grandma gave up on email because it was frustrating, especially after her account got locked out thanks to Google’s weird security setup and her lack of recovery options.

I was a bit upset about it at first. I wanted her to be connected to the family. I made her a new paid email managed by me. She didn’t want it.

But it turns out, it’s not that hard to stay connected the old fashioned way.

I send her photos in the mail with Shutterfly. I call her. I visit her. She doesn’t really need a computer for anything. The finances are handled by the family now, but before that she’d just walk into the bank branch or brokerage office.

I might argue that they are a little closer to not being independent than you think.

Still, some of the advice around here could help. Definitely use mobile device management. Migrate to iPad or Chromebook style devices rather than a full operating system. Take airplane mode out of the control center. Remove all the options they shouldn’t touch. Explore the accessibility options, set the text size and cursors big enough.
Several hard-to-mess-up wordlists have been standardized. --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list
From the intro:

> we've seen many companies and organizations hop on the vector search bandwagon, from NoSQL database providers such as MongoDB (via Atlas Vector Search) to traditional relational databases such as Postgres (via pgvector). The general messaging I hear around these vector search plugins is largely the same and goes something like this: developers should stick with us since you can store tables/JSON in addition to vectors, so there is no need to manage multiple pieces of infrastructure!

> This kind of statement always cracks me up, as it's clearly crafted by unsophisticated marketing teams

From the conclusion:

> Once your application starts requiring more complex workloads (such as joins or aggregations), that's when you'll want to contemplate using different data stores.

I don’t know, after reading through the post I’ve come away on the side of the “unsophisticated marketing teams”; if the vector DB doesn’t have transactions, joins, aggregations it sounds like I’d hit its limitations pretty quick and then I’d rather have an all-in-one industrial strength DB like Postgres instead of two systems.
Sure, I never said they weren't.
I have a small YT channel that teaches JAX bit-by-bit, check it out! https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinuteJAX
I got sick of repairing and rebuilding my in-laws windows PC about 7 years ago and moved them over to the largest ipads that were available at the time. It was 100% the right move. I haven't had to fix their computer in the past 7 years. Bought refurbs to keep the price down but it was still a couple grand total for two units. I got the cell enabled ones too so they work when they travel. Totally worth it.

A couple years ago I finally got them to switch from their pre-paid flip phone to an iphone. That's also gone extremely well. They own a Thor RV which (no surprise) has a terrible OEM stereo. Replaced that with a carplay capable one with a giant (but pretty low res) screen and that's made their RV travel GPS integration far less buggy than when using plain old bluetooth.

TBH moving them to iOS from windows was far less of a painful process than I expected and I'm pretty apple positive. The fact that it just works and they really can't 'f it up makes a big difference. Now they can download all sorts of shit games and I really don't have to worry about the system getting hosed. If I considered how much I value my time and the frustration multiplier then it's an investment that has easily paid back in multiples.
I was thinking it’s more of a trust thing. “If it’s on the church site it must be ok.”
I think apple has high trust only because they repeat their message all the time.

However, just buy an apple device and try to use it. You cannot use it without apple allowing it. You must connect to apple and activate your device. And as part of activation, you get a chance to read apple's privacy policy. Literally thousands of pages of privacy policy without the ability to DO anything, like say "No". And everything in the os phones home, continuously.

If you are a european and disable location services, and use a european vpn, apple still won't let you use the european app store because the phone knows your location. sigh.
ClosedSourceAI
In teasing out this apparent dichotomy, the committee first focuses on distinguishing between digesting copyrighted content for “information analysis” (which is allowed) versus the use for a “purpose of enjoyment of the thoughts and or sentiments expressed in the copyrighted work” (which is not allowed). The committee’s report states that “enjoyment” consists of satisfying the intellectual and mental needs of the individual through the viewing/experiencing the works. By contrast, information analysis might include a scholarly assessment of movie themes across various genres, while “enjoyment” would likely include the ability to play and view all or a significant part of the individual movie.

Interesting, I wonder how they will enforce it. I could envision a world where AI datasets become split between commercial / non-commercial, but this sounds like the dividing line is whether or not it the end work is "enjoyed".
Old people don’t need to care about e-waste, most computers will last longer than them.
Elon Musk Wouldn't Be the First Car Company Founder to Flame Out
been is a past participle!

Besides, present perfect seems appropriate. It's commonly used to discuss events in the past relating to 'now'.

Past perfect wouldn't make sense, as past of what past? And past simple, focusing on a finished, closed event, when this even doesn't seem 'over' - at least from the perspective of some.
oh I'm sure they get /something/, its just not proportional to the their contribution.

I'm out of the habit of using the library because I was far away from one, but my normal approach is to just buy the physical copies of the book, regardless of whether I read that or the physical one. There are publishers who go out of their way to be drm free and i do make a point to buy those (Tor comes to mind).
I don't recall Nokia being a 3 trillion dollar company. Your vibes may vary, though.
It's when something comes up and you remember that you read something relevant in the past. In most of those cases it's not about "Ah, this is something I may want to check again at a later time, so let's highlight it". So, there's no list of highlighted passages to search through.

Indeed this is one of those things I miss about paper books. When the above happens I have a terrible time finding that on my Kindle. Most of the time I'm not able to, while with a paper book I didn't have that problem, mostly.
Has anyone used these/similar with fine tune and RAG? How is the performance over a narrow domain for simple queries? Is it good enough for say an informational chat bot?
At first I thought it was "BALLMERCOIN 2019", which would also be a kind of cool shirt.
I said “about 3.5b”. In the context of a statement that we have an “ever growing population” does it really make a difference if it’s 2.5b or 4.5b?
Maybe just cynicism, but publishing houses are not known for generosity towards authors. (Much like music studios)
Bartending / cocktails / "mixology" .

It's more fun than I thought because whipping up every cocktail you've ever heard of is actually quite simple. There's also some cool generalizations to uncover so that you can Pareto principle your way to knowing how to do almost everything with a few tricks and ~10 liquids. I could have someone knowing more than 2/3 of bartenders (most are just a job / basics) in an evening. Then once you've got a good handle on all the basics, there's an endless adventure into variations and history. There are a lot of flavors out there you wouldn't believe existed; many concoctions of herbs and botanicals. It's a great social activity too.
Voyager 1 is currently 2.4e10 km from Earth. Trisolaris - sorry, I mean Proxima Centauri - is 4e13 km away [2], so in the (almost) 47 years since its launch, Voyager 1 has covered a whopping 0.06% of the distance. And it's not even headed that way.

Meanwhile, radio, TV and radar have been advertising the presence of a new technological civilization on Earth for more than a century. That means any entity worth worrying about within a 100+ light year radius - a distance 44+ times longer than to Proxima - already knows about us. And that sphere keeps growing in all directions at the speed of light, or roughly 18000 times faster than Voyager 1 is moving.

If you really want to worry about the Dark Forest, it would be more justified to ask if your local radio station takes into account the repercussions of sending commercials and TOS reruns into deep space.

[1] https://theskylive.com/voyager1-info

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri
From the article:

>>> "Wouldn’t it be great if you could pay $9.99 a month and read all of the books you want?"

I sincerely hope nothing "disrupts" public libraries in my lifetime. As a California resident, I can walk into ANY public library in the state and get a free library card with access to physical books, audiobooks, ebooks. Some branches have laptops, hotspots, tablets, e-readers available to borrow. My local branch even has a Makerspace with 3D printers, laser cutters, sewing machines, and other misc tools.
I imagine today you would have libraries, but they would be like Netflix with maybe some small physical outposts in really major cities.

So instead of the Seattle Library, it would be the some big tech nonprofit at best that would lisence content in bulk.
We have switched to chrome boxes and chrome books for our aging parents.

It's not perfect, but at least they are less likely to get viruses or spyware, which was about every 6 months with Windows.

What is it with older people and their penchant to install every possible crapware they encounter, no matter how strongly you warn them?
What if GPT "enjoys" reading something lol
Even if you construe this phrase as unequivocally negative, you can't scrub negative emotions and intentions. If you were able to actually scrub some word or phrase from the language, another would take its place, like with all the racial and intellectual disability slurs.
Um... Yes!? That's +-1bln (the population of India) you're talking about. If you don't see a difference there, I don't know what to tell you