skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a lot. Directly on the emissions at their origin, like capturing inside a cement plant, sure. In a city or region near the cement plant not so much.

The difference is probably 1-15 ppm depending on the city.

(Making up numbers for the example,) imagine 420 ppm in remote Iceland and 425-430 ppm in NYC. Now consider the cost of land in the two locations and the couple percent difference in CO2 concentration clearly isn't at all worth it.

Iceland also has volcanoes and lots of accessible underground basalt which makes this form of storage work best.
Actually it's only 6 digits of the serial number that needs to match. According to [1] the game Michael Larson was trying to win was organized by $ale of the Century (SOTC), which was actually a TV show, not radio show. And as per [2] it was run for only 2 weeks in the fall of 1984, and the prize was indeed $30k as the Damn Interesting article claims. And there is a recording of an episode at [3] showing the six digits to match were "550085". Since Michael Larson had 100,000 bills, he basically had 10% chance of winning the $30k prize. If the game was run 14 times (over 2 weeks), he would have had a 77% chance of winning (1-.9^14)

I found another episode at [4] where the host even explains "according to the Treasury Department there as 3.7B one-dollar bills in circulation; that means [...] there are 3700 dollar bills with the winning number"

[1] https://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php?topic=5153.0

[2] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/SaleOfTheCentu...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neCxKLjsow8&t=1510s

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnvSJZj3m0U&t=1296s
The comment you are replying to is ridiculous. Frankly by engaging I perpetuate ridiculousness and I should know better.

That said, to some reasonable approximation even the most militant pro Palestinian campus protests didn’t threaten any ones safety. In nearly every case the danger came from reactionary protests. Which is completely predictable if you are a campus safety officer!
That would also apply to Apple products then, and especially so to their laptops. I actually bought a MacBook Air recently and the thing that I like most about it is how comfortable the keyboard and especially the trackpad is compared even to high-end ThinkPads. And, on the other hand, the trackpad on my T14s is certainly quite sufficient to operate it, so this comfort that MacBook offers is beyond the bare necessity of function.
Even 1000 ppm is pretty high in practice. In offices it approaches this value, and it's no wonder that one needs pharma-strength stimulants and intense exercise to survive the day in the office. Ever wonder why one feels sleepy in meeting rooms: it's because the CO2 is approaching 2000.

At home I like it below 600 ppm, with values between 600 and 800 leading to a gradual deterioration of mental interest. Once it goes above 800, then in the absence of pharma stimulants, the harm to cognition is quickly apparent.

I'd be willing to bet that the value for optimal cognition could be closer to 200 ppm which would be close to its per-industrial value.
You don't need government backdoors when os trust isnt user-trustable and you could chain whatever into a sesame backdoor: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/626.pdf (for the tldr crowd; this explains a fairly glaring failure mode in signal's post-compromise security when any secondary devices are involved)
This man codecs.
Crickets. If this article was about the US doing this, there would be 300 sneering comments here.
It seems like you would be better served in a Montessori or similar education system.

I had a lot of issues with public education in my life. I don't regret the information I learned, no matter how trivial, but I do regret the time wasted, being a student who easily absorbed the entirety of the semesters knowledge for all non-stem classes by reading the book in the gap before classes started.

I would have appreciated being able to go further faster rather than wait for my classmates to make it to the starting line.

That being said, school isn't just about knowledge. We live in a society and we have to have a standard by which to relate to one another. Like it or not, our fellow humans are dark forests with gaping maws yearning to devour us, and we are the same to them.

Without some trauma bonding, some common fountain from which we draw our waters, we would willingly or not destroy one another until only our little clans remained.

Modern society has blinded us to the travails of our forefathers, where the people who live a few miles away might rise up and slay us if they have a bad harvest one year.

That we have come so far as to reduce the occasional rampages down to traumatic school experiences is quite amazing from a neutral third party viewpoint, even though it definitely doesn't feel that way from someone who has experienced it firsthand, but compared to being murdered and eaten by the person who happened to be my classmate, getting picked on and feeling some long term anger over the situation is vastly preferable to me.

All of that aside, we can do better. That much is obvious. We could do better easily if we could get everyone on the same page and standard, and make the standard "Maximally educated according to your individual ability" so that it would adapt to the learners potential rather than being concerned with the easier to manage yet still brobdingnagianly difficult standard of "minimally viable high school graduate".
Even if it was possible to evacuate a big city in three days, it would still be a valuable target.
The internet was Edenic as HTTP.

The advent of HTTPS was a fall from grace, as reality set in. Even if most people are nice enough, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

The Edenic experience can be reborn in a walled garden sort of way. But Eden cannot survive real anonymity.
I think I agree with all of this, including the ridiculousness. We all have a problem.
He’s been fairly open and public recently about his relationship with “edgy” art, his feeling that it didn’t destroy any hidden hypocrisy, and regret for it’s legacy of a coarser society.

I don’t mean to express any apologies he didn’t make, but I’ve appreciated his public thoughtfulness about it.
My friends call Elon Musk, Muskrat. I thought this was a chronicle about the decline of Tesla.
You're comparing an international market to a domestic market.
Because machines are tools meant to perform tasks, and part of that is being interoperable with other tools and de facto standards in the relevant field. For dev work, today, MacBook is not good at it.
The thing is that there isn't a lot to learn unless you have complex use cases (I have one, so I need to use chezmoi's advanced features). It just uses git under the hood and does a diff between your repository and the actual locations of your dotfiles, so if you wanted to (and I often do) you can just `cd` straight into chezmoi's repo and use `git`.

My complex use case is that I use all three of the main OS' and so there are some dotfiles for desktop apps that live in Windows' home directory and some that live in WSL, so having something manage that for me is pretty nice.
> at some point, it'll be too late. the horse has already left the barn.

I don't think this is true: the technology is useless unless it parasitises new knowledge continuously

it sows the seeds of its own destruction by reducing the value of past and future contributions to zero

> the more likely to happen is that accounts deemed to be polluting the waters will just get suspended with no recourse to have it re-instated.

so this is also perfectly acceptable: once they've banned the top 20% the site effectively becomes read-only, and the AI knowledge previously parasitised from it atrophies with no replacement
There are better and worse algorithms. I'm not sure "there is no free lunch" always applies in a particularly meaningful way. Some things aren't on the pareto frontier.
Semi-off-topic, but I carry a unbreakable umbrella and have been very happy with it. Worth a try if you are interested in a real world application of this post.

https://unbreakableumbrella.com/
> Many of the objects we use daily are made from mixed materials, ones are often difficult to separate [for recycling]. This cost can outweigh the value of the materials, so these objects are very likely to end up in Landfill. Of course, mixing materials offers functional benefits such as combinations of soft & hard structures, and nowhere else is this more true [than] with Umbrellas.

FTA with context added.
Thank you so much for the considered response. Very insightful and it's given me some food for thought.
> but not everyone will be ethical or responsible with it

Of course not. But here's the thing - if someone deems some information "unsafe", only unethical actors will have it.

Kinda like a beaten (but not solved/agreed upon) gun ownership argument, but on a whole new level, because it's about gun blueprints* now.

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*) Given a state of modern LLMs, there are high chances that a blueprint from an "unsafe AI" may be for a water gun, miss a chamber altogether, or include some unusual design decisions like having the barrel pointing down towards one's legs.

And thinking about the accuracy... I guess, old farts are having the Anarchist Cookbook moment (colorized) :-)
My original response in this thread was to a comment that said, "I'm not comfortable with the offset either".
> most humans gain the ability to take two concepts they have heard about before and create a third concept that they have never encountered.

You can ask LLMs to generate poems on any topic in the style of specific authors. That's a rudimentary version of what you're describing.
Love this.

I tried something similar with Google Translate, but for a different language. I'd attempt to say a phrase in my target language and see if it translates to what I was trying to say in English.
Yeah, I don't know. If you're protesting the broad concept of Zionism, of the legitimacy of a Jewish homeland, then not allowing the participation of the majority of Jewish people who are (in that broad sense) Zionist makes sense. On the other hand, you can't be blocking their entrance to buildings, or singling them out for verbal harassment due solely to religious signifiers coupled with the fact that they're not echoing your chants, right? This doesn't seem all that complicated. Everybody is a little bit right, everybody is a little bit wrong, and a few people on both sides (SJP, Shai Davidai) are luridly wrong.
Wow, am so impressed at where they have gotten to. Such details oriented work, over such a long period.
The Impact of Litigation on Venture Capitalist Reputation (2007) [pdf]
We only have a problem if we agree with the contention that kids protesting genocide are some sort of chaos agent. They aren’t! They’re just college kids. Sleeping rough. Temporarily.
The obvious application would be better tricking John Connor on the phone :)

https://youtu.be/MT_u9Rurrqg?si=xCEHZhDyGxucmXtW
>Uh.... yeah, it's a company, not a charity.

While this is true sites like Stackoverflow very much only function because they create the illusion that it is in fact a "community". The moment they make explicit that there is monetary value in the knowledge people post on the site it becomes obvious that the users are, using Varoufakis term, technoserfs.

You're very much never supposed to notice that Reddit, SO, and so on continously extract value out of work you produce, at worst you're maybe supposed to notice an ad or two. Because if you do notice that you might actually start asking why you aren't getting paid. Which is btw funnily enough exactly what news organizations and SO have realized vis-a-vis openAI.
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Regenerative braking is always a big deal in these discussions, put power control circuitry also likes a beefy capacitor. If you look at a Macbook power supply, the size of the caps seems to be dictating the thickness of the brick (the transformer is the same thickness but those can be rearranged)
This seems farfetched, I mean if you're teaching non English speakers to enunciate correctly then their speech patterns are changing over time and you're left chasing a moving target. There are probably better ways to target ads.
My understanding is that theirs is a pure hardware solution. The hardware is flexible enough to model any current NN architecture.

(Incidentally, there are black box optimization algorithms, so a system as good as grok at inference might be useful for training even if it can't support gradient descent)
When do they get used?
Why would you expect privacy theater, though. Apple genuinely tries to frustrate this kind of snooping from (third-party) apps, so if they choose to obfuscate the timer in the first place, I don't see what the point is for them to make it a security theater. The obvious and trivial implementation for this is adding a random number, and that's what any minimally competent dev will do unless specifically told otherwise. So, why would they be told otherwise?
SO isn't the only source. Official docs/wikis, GitHub issues, etc, are also good knowledge sources.
uhh because the only Gen Xers currently dying are the ones that are dying young?
No delusion.

Specific licensing and side deals is different to me at least than scraping.
Hmm... Any startups looking for an engineer? I don't want to brag but I can watch the hell out of some TV
but in usual natural sciences we don't have proofs, only data and models, and then we do model selection (and through careful experiments we end up with confidence intervals)

and it seems with these molecular biology problems we constantly have the problem of specificity (model prediction quality) vs sensitivity (model applicability), right? but due to information theory constraints there's also a dimension along model size/complexity.

so if a ML model can push the ROC curve toward the magic left-up corner then likely it's getting more and more complex.

and at one point we simply are left with models that are completely parametrized by data and there's virtually zero (direct) influence of the first principles. (I mean that at one point as we get more data even to do model selection we can't use "first principles" because what we know through that is already incorporated into previous versions of the models. Ie. the information we gained from those principles we already used to make decisions in earlier iterations.)

Of course then in theory we can do model distillation, and if there's some hidden small/elegant theory we can probably find it. (Which would be like a proof through contradiction, because it would mean that we found model with the same predictive power but with smaller complexity than expected.)

// NB: it's 01:30 here, but independent of ignorance-o-clock ... it's quite possible I'm totally wrong about this, happy to read any criticism/replies
You can create something like this easily by yourself using Obsidian and a plugin like https://github.com/AndreBaltazar8/obsidian-canvas-conversati...
Singapore has achieved astounding economic success
https://archive.is/dCB27
Not really - oxygen is a large percentage of the atmosphere (21%), and co2 becomes noticeably bad at tiny fraction of a percent - 1000 ppm == .1%

So even 2000-3000 ppm, which is quite noticeably stuffy and uncomfortable is only .2-.3%.

Oxygen percentage isn’t going to be notably lower in these scenarios. At most 20%, though the stoichiometry makes it easier to calculate exactly.
The commenter was attacking Apple for introducing lightning when USB-C wasn't invented yet.
In fact the books use that rapid discharge property to power weapons.
I wonder how long it will be before we realize we can't have nice things.

In the meantime, this seems cool!
True.

Cc-by-sa has had a few revisions.

Attribution would be lost in an llm, no?
Rural is a completely different beast and the limited infrastructure makes for a more sustainable setup, the issue is that the low density makes it unobtainable for most people. I also love the countryside, but it doesn't work as a general rule. It would work better if developments were designed with an urban mindset, but in the US you end up with unsustainable suburban sprawl that never aligns with the tax base.
I mean 90% of coffee brewing is meaningless rituals. Could you taste the difference between a burr grinder and a blade grinder in the resulting brew? Nope, but endless pages of debate exist on this, grain size distribution, quality of burrs. It has a strong resemblance to the audiophile community.
A few hundred km and 5000-7000 km under the ocean are very different. Good to know transcoding can be so fast, though.

Dublin is about 10-50 times further from NY than you are from that datacenter, and the speed of light is a universal limit.
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No empathy for users to spend their time contributing to a corporate walled garden and who to top it off get emotionally invested in it.
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Hi we are CLLM authors and thanks for sharing your experience and insights! I can see this drawing skill refining process echoes with the training process in CLLM, the only thing is at this point stressor in CLLM training is not getting progressively demanding.

For example, while drawing, you can set very specific time limit on how long you are allowed to draw in each trial and make the time progressively shorter. In CLLM, maybe we can make this the learning process more and more difficult by mapping more and more distant states in Jacobi trajectory to its final state.

We are using the term "consistency" because we draw parallelism between consistency LLM and the consistency model in diffusion image generation where the training processes are analogous.
I had an interesting experience in an Invertebrate Zoology lab class one summer.

We students were brought into a lab, given specimens to draw, and the only instructions we received were 'You have 30 minutes to draw this. Go.'

There was no "here's how to draw. here's what to do and not to do". It was just basically "We don't care about any insecurities you might have. We don't care if you think you can't draw. No excuses, just fucking draw it. Now."

Not only did we draw, but we (all of us) improved enormously over the course of the class as more animals were brought in and the exercise was repeated over and over and over again throughout the summer.

What it taught us is that everyone, and I mean everyone, can draw. Our collective attitude shifted from "don't know if this is even possible" to "of course we can do this. this is easy. routine. trivial."

Highly recommended approach.

It was the most freeing and amazing class I had in college.
When you see numbers it does make you wonder if the premise the Subprime Attention Crisis (Tim Hwang) is much more realistic than we think.

But when you think about the amount of industries advertising covers, it might still be tame. Hard to tell from the outside and even the inside on this until it is in the rear view mirror.
That’s the only theory I’ve heard on it. What’s your theory?
Scraping to me is different than side licensing the content in some other form or usage than what it was created for.

Licensing also means the writer retains the ownership.

Cc-by-sa has had a few revisions too.
> Does this decouple progress from our current understanding of the scientific process - moving to better and better models of the world without human-interpretable theories and mathematical models / explanations?

Replace "human-interpretable theories" with "every man interpretable theories", and you'll have a pretty good idea of how > 90% of the world feels about modern science. It is indistinguishable from magic, by the common measure.

Obtuse example: My parents were alive when the first nuclear weapon was detonated. They didn't know that they didn't know this weapon was being built, let alone that it might have ignited the atmosphere.

With sophisticated enough ML, that 90% will become 99.9% - save the few who have access to (and can trust) ML tools that can decipher the "logic" from the original ML tools.

Yes, interesting times ahead... indeed.
Perhaps related, the first computer-assisted mathematics proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem

I'm sure that similar arguments for and against the proof apply here as well.
Great job! A lot of folks from my CS PhD program are really into climbing (including me), but none of us has conducted research that explored climbing. Rather climbing is our respite from research.

Anyway, I think this could work really well as an app. Good luck.
I think any next token predictor will benefit. Iiuc mamba is a next token predictor.

I just skimmed the gradient article, but if their only change is swapping out the transformer block for the mamba block, I don't think it's already using this optimization
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Blocking them from buildings doesn't seem to be happening.

As I've acknowledged there's been a fair amount of verbal harassment (and obnoxious signage), some of it arguably antisemitic. Deplorable thought it is, it gets into a different topic (from the issue of people being supposedly blocked from campus areas due to their perceived ethnic classification).

It's also not been a feature of the encampments as such that I'm aware of (but I could be wrong of course). More like a feature of spontaneous confrontations / street actions.

Addendum (edit): To the extent that some of these people protest Israel specifically (as no doubt many of them do) -- it's usually against Israel in its current (effectively Revisionist) Zionist configuration, aka "Israel as a rigidly defined ethnostate", built on as much territory as it can reasonably hold onto and with a supremacist attitude towards non-Jewish inhabitants. Not the "legitimacy of a Jewish homeland" in principle, which can mean a lot of things (such as the idea of a "Jewish homeland" that is genuinely democratic and not determined by the fact of a Jewish supermajority).
Those are valid concerns, but I've found I keep my nicer stuff way longer than the cheaper things they replace.

I'm happy if I make it through a couple months with $30 sunglasses. I've had the same nicer ones for more than proportionally longer. For me, the difference is that I'm more watchful of the nice things. I'm not about to take off my good sunglasses and leave them somewhere that I'll forget about them. I know where my nice (not expensive, just nice and functional) water bottle is. I've kept the same pocket knife for many years because I'd go back and get it if I forgot to put it right back in my pocket after using it, which I wouldn't do, because it's nice and I subconsciously keep track of it.

However, I'm not dogmatic about this stuff. I want to own my stuff and not have it own me. There's a half-empty six pack of dirt cheap portable umbrellas over next to my shoe rack so I can dole them out to my kids who'll inevitably lose them at school.
You mean AI might be better at setting or at reading? I feel like your question is getting misinterpreted.
I think this is a gross mischaracterization of AI and humans are only slightly better. Truth is way harder than people give credit. It can depend on time, space, and context. What's true for a preschooler might not be true for an astronomer.

Here's a pile of facts; they get weird:

* The Sun revolves around the Earth

* The Earth is a sphere

* Energy can never be created or destroyed

* Jesus was the son of God

* Pluto is a planet

* Epstein didn't kill himself

* The ocean is blue

* The election was stolen

* Entropy always increases

* Santa delivers presents to good boys and girls

* The sun is shining

I have strong opinions on how true all these statements are, and I bet you do too. Think we agree? Think we can all agree where to set the AI?
Try the Blotto Box: http://cd.textfiles.com/group42/ANARCHY/COOKBOOK/BLOTBOX.HTM