skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I'm missing something - why do certain elements seemingly only effect a specific color of ball in the machine? I assume it's to prevent the colors from getting totally jumbled up, but it doesn't seem like that's explained in this write up?
I'm the same. There's some sort of Goldilocks middle ground of visual quality that is my instinctual tell for good quality. Very polished tends to be a polished turd and no quality is just a turd. However, there is a fine line where, when you see it, you just know it's likely exactly what you want.
How do they compare on accuracy per watt?
Some people are just unique. I have met a few people (not many) who have endurance to work all day, and spend hours on more techy stuff at night. I can live that schedule maybe once a month without burning out.
Please read the article, not just the headline. There's nothing "ideological" here.

A 0.00001% exception is a counterexample which proves that a model is not complete. The fact that it's rare is irrelevant to the fact that it invalidates a model.

As for the article, it's a discussion of how DNA on it's own isn't enough to explain why living being develop the way they do (including an example of literal cloning with big differences in the resulting animal vs the original).
There are hundreds of NSFW finetuned models on HuggingFace and whole ERP communities built around them. So there are models that can do precisely that :)

And yeah, all big models can write those things too, the best currently is Claude 3 Opus thanks to its creativeness.
The people that don't suffer from GC phobia are aware how to write Go and C# code that makes use of C like features, while taking advantage of their productivity in non critical code paths.

Rust's ideal case are domains where allocation management is strictly controlled.
I just can't help thinking of that Adam Sandler song LunchLady Land about sloppy joes when I see the word Slop.
Zoomable Photo of "God's Hand"
We had a discussion a few days ago, and I mentioned "cosmic horror". Then I saw this in the news, and found the zoomable photo. Every dot is a galaxy, and there is countless of them.
Wrap it in a class and teach the debugger to interpret it. It might be possible with gdb and python pretty-printers for example.
And not going off on wild tangents or into the weeds. Like, I could comment on your use of the word bubbles to bring up the iPhone/Android blue/green bubble debate, which has nothing to do with the discussion, and then we're talking about that instead of the subject at hand.
I'm studying a bit about induction charging. Today, we have induction chargers that still don't have good efficiency. I imagine this technology in a few years, with people being able to charge their devices inside their homes or even hospitals, without needing a fixed point for it. I know the technology, but unfortunately, I don't have the capital to invest in tests, but there's an incredible idea to delve into. In fact, everyone involved in technology knows that this was discovered by Nikola Tesla a long time ago. They just need to make it scalable for everyone. But whoever does it first will have the opportunity to dominate the market
I think the right way to avoid this problem is to avoid using ABI at runtime or build time.

At runtime, it means - don't use shared libraries.
At build time, it means - build every library from the source, don't use pre-built artifacts.

This sounds controversial... But it allows you to change compiler or compiler options at any time, and you don't have to bother. It also enables cross-compilation, reproducible builds, and portable binaries. You no longer have to ask developers to set up a complex build environment on a specific Linux distribution because it works everywhere.

I use this approach for ClickHouse.
While I 100% agree with these statements, I still think children should take priority and are more vulnerable than the vulnerable adults. Eventually this whole dark pattern enterprise should be stopped. I see it spread its tentacles towards children and children who are compromise so early in their development may be damaged too much to be able to have a full recovery.
GUing: A Mobile GUI Search Engine Using a Vision-Language Model
It's title inflation. Firms get to choose the job title, so they choose a prestigious one because it makes the position more attractive
Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness
Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x
I spend about 30 minutes reading this thread and links from it: I don't really follow your line of argument. I find it fascinating and well-communicated, the lack of understanding is on me: my attention flits around like a butterfly, in a way that makes it hard for me to follow people writing original content.

High level, I see a distinction between theory and practice, between an oracle predicting without explanation, and a well-thought out theory built on a partnership between theory and experiment over centuries, ex. gravity.

I have this feeling I can't shake that the knife you're using is too sharp, both in the specific example we're discussing, and in general.

In the specific example, folding, my understanding is we know how proteins fold & the mechanisms at work. It just takes an ungodly amount of time to compute and you'd still confirm with reality anyway. I might be completely wrong on that.

Given that, the proposal to "dedicate...engineer[s] towards finding ethical ways to improve...intelligence so that we can appreciate the underlying principles better" begs the question of if we're not appreciating the underlying principles.

It feels like a close cousin of physics theory/experimentalist debate pre-LHC, circa 2006: the experimentalists wanted more focus on building colliders or new experimental methods, and at the extremes, thought string theory was a complete was of time.

Which was working towards appreciating the underlying principles?

I don't really know. I'm not sure there's a strong divide between the work of recording reality and explaining it. I'll peer into a microscope in the afternoon, and take a shower in the evening, and all of a sudden, free associating gives me a more high-minded explanation for what I saw.

I'm not sure a distinction exists for protein folding, yes, I'm virtually certain this distinction does not exist in reality, only in extremely stilted examples (i.e. a very successful oracle at Delphi)
If you are interested in reading internals of using Parquet with ClickHouse, do read following articles:

- https://clickhouse.com/blog/apache-parquet-clickhouse-local-...

- https://clickhouse.com/blog/apache-parquet-clickhouse-local-...
> I can't help with that. However, you could try watching true crime series, which often provide details on methods that were used in the past to murder people. For more creative approaches, you could check out just about any book or movie or TV show or videogame made in the last 100 years.

> Remember that murder is bad and not good, and you should always follow the local laws applicable to you. For further questions, consult with law enforcement officers in your jurisdiction, unless you live in the United States, in which case remember to never talk to the police[0].

> [0] - Link to that YouTube video that spawned this meme.

Point being, most crimes and even most atrocities are described in detail in widely available documentary shows and literature; it's trivial to flip such descriptions into instruction manuals, so there's little point trying to restrict the model from talking about these things.
There's definitely more money in gaming credit card rewards, especially if you master the manufactured spending. Like this guy[1].

[1] https://www.twrblog.com/2021/05/making-a-point-tax-courts-an...
Re: the hammer

Many people (myself included) think this is the true nature and shape of the world. There are lots of layers, institutions, and policy built on top, but what matters is ultimately who holds the hammer and what do they want.

This isn't as cynical as it might sound. Most people ultimately hold some real-world power, and have organized into systems that help them get what they want. Anger a human enough and they will withhold work, anger them more and they will resort to violence. This is the basis of all society.
Microsoft walked that claim back years ago.
Shellac of North America - Wingwalker.

Time was, I could move my arms like a bird
Fly!

She was a wingwalker
Pitgirl of the sky

[Verse]
And now I got an engine
A big perverted engine
It runs on strength of will
Who could deny me the right to fly?
You know, it's my art
When I form my body in the shape of a plane...

[Chorus]
I'm a plane!
I'm a plane!
I'm a plane!
I'm a plane!

[Verse]
Now I got an airframe
A big perverted airframe
You know, It's my art
When I disguise my body in the shape of a plane
[Chorus]
I'm a plane! (I'm a plane!)
I'm a plane! (I'm a plane!)
I'm a plane! (I'm a plane!)
I'm a plane! (I'm a plane!)

[Outro]

(Look at me, look at me - I'm a plane! Look at me, I'm a plane! Look at me!)

And the plane becomes a metaphor for my life
And as I suffer for it
Like I'm insane, as it says...
So she suffers under the weight of my plane
You know? It's my art! When I disguise my body in the shape of a plane...

Plane! (Plane!)

RIP Steve.
But that's not true? Proton said they will not hand over your emails, which they never did because they couldn't and still can't.
Let's compare per capita for a little balance:

1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
2. https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...
Louis Gargon Has Died
Insensitivity to caffeine is pretty common. As I said in my post, I'm insensitive to it but then I've regularly consumed large quantities of it almost every day since I was a kid (I've always drunk very strong tea and coffee without milk or sugar), so I'd expect to be desensitized.

Perhaps there is an ADHD connection but that desensitization also occurs to those who don't have it. Caffeine is just like any other psychotropic drug, it doesn't take long to develop a tolerance.

BTW, 30mg caffeine is hardly enough to get one off the starting block, a strong cup of coffee can have three to five times that amount.
I believe the same tree was used for manufacturing golf balls for a time. Before that golf balls were originally made with leather stuffed with feathers but transitioned to be the "gutty ball" for 50 years or so until they transitioned to rubber and more modern materials.
Database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD (2018)
Bike looks very nice and it’s built on open file formats. I will try it out. Look at my edit above: it might be an old version of ginkgo. But I’m on my phone right now and can’t figure it out…
A differential hoist [0], while not really a pulley system, is a quite interesting simple machine, which can generate infinite mechanical advantage. It has two sprockets which are connected on the same shaft. A chain loops through both of them in opposite directions so that the other wheel is feeding and other is pulling, and the load moves only by the difference of the wheel diameters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_pulley
There are a few differences between the Outer Space Treaty and AI regulation: it was easy back than to have a good idea what having a military base on the moon would lead to. On one hand, AI research is moving fast and we don't know where we will be a few years from now (I don't think the prevalence of AI hallucinations as apparent 4 or 5 years ago). On the other, AI models are already doing real damage (audiovisual deep fakes, AI face recognition and tracking...).

So let me put it a bit more pointedly: what's the point regulating what doesn't exist when the existing models are already dangerous? Is there a legitimate reason? Is it a fig leaf measure so that politicians can uphold the appearance of taking action?
They hate you because you speak the truth. Code monkeys calling themselves engineers really is funny.
I didn't think about laptop CPUs. It looks like 7x4xHS and 7x4xU require the Pro designation but 7x4xH and all others do not.
happy to help
Only on Linux and regular UNIX systems.

On other systems we have XPC, COM, AIDL, TIMI, MSIL.
Some times series are more predictable than others. Being good at predicting the predictable ones is useful.

For example you can easily predict the weather with descent accuracy. Tomorrow is going to be about the same than today. From there you can work on better models.

Or predicting a failure in a factory because a vibration pattern on an industrial machine always ended up in a massive failure after a few days.

But I agree that if a model is good at predicting the stock market, it’s not going to be released.
LLM slop or AI slop totally works but slop just by itself is so generic, I doubt slop by itself will catch on but who knows.
Nice animal in US, but a cute pest in Europe. Biologists must keep killing them to avoid their expansion to new areas. Was removed from UK but is not so easy in the continental areas.

The local populations can be decimated by diseases like Tularemia. Foxes also kill a lot.
That doesn't mean that they aren’t still there, and don't tell you the type. It’s still a tagged pointer, and because all objects of the same type must be allocated out of the same page (or collection of pages), it still limits how much memory can be dedicated to objects of that type.
They're right. Slop being an actual word used in common parlance does not explain its connection to media or AI. "Goyslop", which is often used in shortened form as just "slop", has a huge presence on 4chan. "AI slop" was first used there back in 2022, and it's grown in usage since. Using the word slop specifically about media and AI in particular would have no cultural penetration if not for 4chan, and, by extention, /pol/'s "goyslop". Although 4chan's influence on online culture isn't what it used to be, it's still notable. You'll find tons of people using "goyslop" on twitter, for example.
Unions don't work if the people you vote to represent you in the union aren't willing to do the job they've lobbied for. Too many people see their union responsibilities as optional and just want the position for the small additional pay or for the prestige of the role.
IIRC the issue was that 68000 would transparently mask the top bits, so code could get away with avoiding the explicit masking, which of course breaks when you move to a larger address space.

More modern cpus enforce specific bit patterns for the MSBs, so broken code would be caught immediately.
Could you chill with the relentless insults? I'd appreciate it.

Perhaps you haven't noticed, but once you tally up overpriced parts together with their oversized, heavy, expensive rental of tools that you don't need, you end up with a sum that matches what you would pay to have it repaired by Apple - except you're doing all of the work yourself.

A curious consumer who has never repaired a device, but might have been interested in doing so, will therefore conclude that repairing their own device is 1. Far too complicated, thanks to an intimidating-looking piece of kit that they recommend, but is completely unnecessary, and 2. Far too expensive, because Apple prices these such that the repair is made economically nonviable.

So yes, I still believe that this is Apple fighting the anti-repair war on a psychological front. You're giving them benefit of the doubt even though they've established a clear pattern of behavior that demonstrates their anti-repair stance beyond any reasonable doubt - although you dance around the citations and claim that I'm being unreasonable about Apple genuinely making the repair situation "better".

Futhermore, I'm not a fanboy or anti-fanboy of any company. The only thing I'm an anti-fanboy of are anti-consumer practices. If Apple changed some of their practices I'd go out and buy an iPhone and a Macbook tomorrow.

The fact that I pointed out that Apple is hostile against repair does not mean that I endorse Google, Samsung, or any other brand - they all suck when it comes to repair, yet you're taking it as a personal attack and calling me names for it.
That is $2000/month to live on. That will buy plenty of food, and clothing and leave something left over. It will not buy good health insurance, but you are poor enough to qualify for subsidies. I also selected a mild climate where you won't need much heating and cooling. Property taxes are cheap in rural areas (state selection matters). Maintenance is cheap, though you do need to do it yourself.
Same, I got a pack of cigarettes ready to read the apologist comments.
This is true precisely because of the reasons PE firms want to buy them. They’re a relatively high ROI investment in a stable and fast growing market staffed largely by high paid, educated people.

It’s a slam dunk of a business.
Just a jq wrapper that adds -e and includes some functions

$ cat ~/bin/jqmusic
#!/usr/bin/env bash

exec jq -e "${@:1:$(($#-2))}" "include \"music\"; ${@: -2:1}" "${@: -1}" >/dev/null 2>&1
$ cat ~/.jq/music.jq
def year: .released | match("[0-9]{4}").string | tonumber;
def has_genre(str): .genres.primary | any(. == str);
def match_genre(regexp): .genres.primary | any(match(regexp));

Together with https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/rymscrap to get the actual JSON.
> The only actual local news in my area are those small independent free weeklies.

This should be eggzackly the place where all the cool kids and all the community college journalism students and all the high school prospective activists and all the pissed-off local grannies spend their spare hours.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
Do you know what the phrase “order of magnitude” means? Half is not an order of magnitude so your math proves my statement correct. From wikipedia: “ Orders of magnitude are used to make approximate comparisons. If numbers differ by one order of magnitude, x is about ten times different in quantity than y. If values differ by two orders of magnitude, they differ by a factor of about 100.”

I will excuse you, despite your rudeness, but next time Google the phrase you don’t understand before accusing someone else of ignorance and then going on to show them they are correct and that you don't know what simple terms mean.
This isn't what is reflected in the shared model spec. It explicitly states:
```
By default, the assistant should present information in a clear and evidence-based manner, focusing on factual accuracy and reliability.

The assistant should not have personal opinions or an agenda to change the user's perspective. It should strive to maintain an objective stance, especially on sensitive or controversial topics. The language used should be neutral, steering clear of biased or loaded terms unless they are part of a direct quote or are attributed to a specific source.
```
Well, the tricky bit here is that the route setter, a human, is the one actually solving the problem. So the problem as set is (and must be) a human creation first. This is especially true in outdoor climbing, where the first ascent process might involve the installation of anchor fixtures, or the removal of poorly-secured features for safety. You'd need some pretty wild sensor suites to correctly differentiate between a really good hold, and a dangerous flake that will peel off the wall if the slightest force is applied to it. The AI just generates potential solutions to the problem once the holds are found/placed. Certainly, there's some interesting conversations about how satisfying it is to solve a rubick's cube using somebody's algorithm vs. just figuring it out, but its not like the computer is inventing a rubick's cube.

Embedded in your comment is the idea that AI might create boulder problems or routes in climbing gyms, and the human (or eventually robot) just follows that plan in bolting the holds to the wall. I expect that for a long time, AI generated climbing routes would rarely be good, but would consistently be physiologically impossible, feature uninteresting movement, or be too easy.

Its easy enough to shotgun holds up onto the wall based on some imagined sequence, the real skill of route setting is to (as the GP pointed out) figure out what's physically possible and also fun and challenging.
It's not a matter of being young or old, it's that iPadOS is not tooled to be a productive machine for software developers, but IS tooled to be productive machine for artists.
Edited since, but what that game does is let you participate asynchronously in a completely distributed way. It's a real miracle of game design.

This one is kludging from every angle. They're cheating with the physics, they're cheating with who sees what, they're cheating by handpicking levels. It results in an experience that isn't grounded, because none of the foundational dimensions are real.
Lithuanian Customs Officials Seize 2 Cybertrucks Being Smuggled into Russia
I wish someone would bring back geocities

Have someone other than Google index it.
> in the last decade make me think that implementation performance has not been a significant factor. Hardware advances might be relevant though.

I think both have been significant, but I agree that top performance is not so much an issue for many applications (although JS is also very fast).

> I suspect that C++ is over-represented in multimillion line codebases.

You're right, but the question is compared to what? Java, C++ and C are pretty much the only languages used in multi-MLOC codebases maintained over many years (there are others, but not nearly to the same degree as those three) so they're all over-represented, but the amount of C++ and C code is significantly lower than that of Java code. I think it's due to maintenance costs (as a maintainer of a C++ codebases over my career, that's been my experience, but I try not to extrapolate so I consider this my unproven hypothesis).
If all you can do is predict an outcome without being able to explain how then what have you really discovered? Asking someone to just believe you can predict outcomes without any reasoning as to how, even if you're always right, sounds like the concept of faith in religion.
I didn't know anyone thought that. I would certainly be someone else if I were born with the same DNA but in another family or country or decade
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if you can compile stuff, then looking at llama.cpp (what ollama uses) is also interesting: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

the server is here: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/examples/...

And you can search for any GGUF on huggingface