skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you're using a reasonable definition of "subsidize".

By all methods of accounting, Bill Gates contributes more to the public coffers than any other human being under discussion.

Your definition of "subsidize" is predicated on the belief that the state is entitled to a flat percentage of income.

This is arguably preferable (though it is, historically, a very messy argument!), but more importantly it is not true according any existing legal structure.

So you could equally reasonably argue that Bill Gates (or anyone, really) has any number of other responsibilities to the public that you might dream up. He does not.

Exactly zero of your tax pennies went toward the purchase of Bill Gates' yacht. Money is fungible, but that does not mean that all money is in all places at once.
Yeah, let's agree the term open source can mean anything, for example closed source.

There is no small nuance to intellectualize about here if 98% of the discussed thing is the contrary of what you claim it is. (Now, one could argue it is 90%, won't help)
> It seems they are targeting emergency responders

I think they're choosing to focus on emergency response use cases for public consumption. I suspect Airbus knows the primary market for this mix of capabilities will be as a

a) better, faster, longer-range "sky limo" for politicians and wealthy people already using helis for private transport

b) faster air taxi for business travelers to commute to/from congested metro areas

c) faster, longer-range heli for sight-seeing tours like Hawaii or the Grand Canyon.

It's natural engineering evolution to expand possibilities with new trade-offs between speed, range, performance and price. Faster, longer-range helis have been possible for a while and there's clearly a market for them. Personally, I don't see a problem with this. The weird thing is that marketers feel they need to present products in some "social good" context if they can - even when it's obviously a poor fit, as is the case here. In any market of products there will always be luxury offerings. Yachts, super cars, private jets and mansions create perfectly good jobs for large upstream ecosystems of non-billionaire engineers, craftspeople, machinists, mechanics, etc.
Everyone knows it was caused by a massive decrease in the quality of Roman garum. After their supplies of the good stuff ran out, they just didn’t have enough umami to keep the empire united.

Once Constantinople developed their own garos, they had no reason to stay together with the west.
Why do they do training from scratch instead of starting off LLAMA 3 or something else?
I don't believe climate change will be the downfall of human civilization, but it's not just an alarmist take. There's actual reason to believe it could be. The problem is that it's a potentially self-accelerating problem, like a nuclear meltdown.

As the planet warms, more CO2 that is locked up in melting glaciers will be released, accelerating the problem. Rising sea levels could displace a significant portion of humanity, causing a level of unrest and chaos that could make it hard to muster the governmental and intergovernmental efforts that might be require to slow or stop the problem. Food scarcity could further these issues. People won't be worrying about investing in green energy if they're worrying about whether they or their neighbor will be the one who gets the last bag of rice.

And my biggest concern: CO2 makes us stupider. As ambient CO2 levels rise, people can't think as clearly -- we're talking about the entire collective intelligence of the human race potentially being reduced significantly if CO2 levels rise to not that much higher than they are now. The effect is noticeable at 1000 ppm, and indoor concentrations can be 2x to 3x outdoor concentrations. Right now we're at 424 atmospheric ppm. It's not hard to imagine that worst-case increases could literally smother the brains of every human on the planet. And then civilization is literally at risk.

Again: I don't ascribe much weight into the probability of that worst case. I put a lot of stock into the incredible ingenuity of humans to solve problems, once they actually acknowledge that they are problems. So I'm pretty sure we'll get through this as a species (although some coastal cities may not, at least in their current form). But the end of civilization is not merely alarmist -- it's an actual worst-case possibility that we should be aware of.
The extension lists the mailing lists you're subscribed ordered by the frequency (the amount of emails the sender has sent), does that handle your usecase?
I think games are fundamentally different from other software in many ways. For example, games tend to revel in selectively sharing information (Tunic for example) in a way that regular software doesn't. It's hard to apply lessons from one to the other.
Nvidia drops $374M to become its own landlord in Santa Clara
But, but, but --- blockchain is secure.
PolyAI secures near $500M valuation in boost to UK's AI ambitions
finetuning is easily within reach for llava-mistral or something like that, just rent an a100 or two for ~$20 bucks and you'll have your finetuned model
The dumb thing about this was we had a better solution: the TPP.

The whole point was to band every single trading partner and rival of China into a trade alliance against it. It would have had way more juice behind it, come at a time before things like EV subsidies, and wouldn't have directly cost American consumers anything!
Its twin brother is in serious trouble, too:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero-calorie-sweet...
> You can share the prepared binary because it contains no trace of the rom.

This is wrong. Please do not confidently present your guesswork as fact.

If it were true, copyleft would have no chance of working; binaries compiled from copyleft-licensed source-code would not be subject to the copyleft licence.
Not willing to pay the $100 is a choice you can make, absolutely

But to frame this, again, as some steep expense that prices out young talent is very weird.

Developing for android or Linux is not free. You need to have a lot of resources already to get started here, too. In fact there is an argument here that if you want to test on any variety of supported android or Linux hardware you can easily spend a ton of money here too, far more than the limited number of apple configurations

I started coding on the Commodore 64 and that was a massive expense for my family. I suspect at 13 years old you had a lot of resources at your disposal also.

Again, it’s fine to say that a developer account is not worth $100 for you personally. But let be real about it. Nothing is free.
American AI data centres may use as much energy as new US solar farms produce
The OSI definition is fairly precise and the most commonly used definition. Anything else will add confusion. We should promote the OSI definition and discourage imprecise usage.
Orbital velocity increases as you get closer to the middle, not the other way around.

An example closer to home, our orbital velocity around the Sun is 29.8km/s. Mercury is 47.9km/s (on average, it actually varies throughout its orbit). Neptune is 5.4km/s.
Healthy growth helps B2B food e-commerce startup Pepper nab $30M
You're spot on that BI adoption is largely a social challenge. Our thesis is that by defining the entire journey from source to viz as code, we create a structured foundation that LLMs can build upon, democratizing access to the transformation layer for non-engineers in a way that point-and-click BI tools can't.
You're saying it works great, which makes me wonder how often your phone has been snatched away?
Yeah, there could be some useful tweaks. I started getting much better battery life on light to moderate load on my ThinkPad when I switched the AMD pstate driver to passive mode. I don't know if that has performance implications but responsivity seems fine to me.

If your Legion has a discrete GPU, that might be outside of the tweaks in the post, though.
I think (iii) is about models trained using Gemma output, while the "For clarity" part says that the Output itself is not a Model Derivative
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What Even Is Inflation?
> With this upgrade, if a thief forces a reset of the stolen device, they’re not able to set it up again without knowing your device or Google account credentials. This renders a stolen device unsellable, reducing incentives for phone theft.

Is this going to be a significant deterrent to mugging in practice, or are muggers still going to approach for your wallet, and take the phone in any case (to prevent calling, and to flip it for parts)? Is there data?

For muggers that want the phone not to be tied to a Google account, is a mugging going to turn in a more intense and lengthy encounter, while they make you deactivate your account on it? (And they're getting nervous about how long it's taking, and take it out on you.)

Personally, my first choice is not to be mugged. But, if/when I do get mugged again, my second choice is that it be a quick and smooth transaction, in which everyone remains calm, and I don't get physically hurt nor develop PTSD.
> - single training pass (LLMs have multiple passes, GANs have a single but produce multiple models)

LLMs have multiple passes? wdym?
Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad
"...hasn't ever been..." is not true. Someone above posted an earlier statement from the archive.
That's because the ADA has no enforcement mechanism other than lawsuits, isn't it? Our whole legal disability rights infrastructure is designed to be driven by lawsuits, and sits inert if nobody sues.
You have to assume that it does.
None of this exists at runtime.
Funny, I was just thinking it was so that they can get more attention-economy eyeballs for ads.
> training a model on ChatGPTs output is "illegal, harmful, or abusive activity".

it doesn't say that and terms of service violations aren't illegal per se.

either way, everybody is ignoring these restrictions and OAI is way too afraid to try to enforce it for the reasons you've mentioned
> the latter has you figuring out which filesystem library to compile into your binary

For what many people are doing with them, ESPHome has simplified the process to programming an ESP32 to do what they want down to nearly nothing.

"Running Linux and being able to direct-drive voltage pins" is certainly still an existing market, but it is rapidly being encroached upon in both directions.
In the age of Software Bill of Materials and increasing focus on upstream attacks, the OSI definitions via the SPDX list, is getting increasingly rigid and used as terms of art. While I like you am a linguistic descriptivist, I can also recognize attempts to confuse and white-wash.
Wasting from a savings perspective, come on now.
Appreciate you checking it out.
I don't know what the experience is like on Android but on iOS a PWA opens in a completely separate process, without any browser chrome at all. It feels exactly like a native app that renders to a fullscreen webview.
Laura Mersini-Houghton and Roy Kerr seem like very good sources to me. Are you familiar with their work? It seems not.

A "black hole" implies a singularity behind an event horizon not even light can escape from. There isn't any proof that such a thing exists in nature. You're correct in saying that we see the indirect gravitational effects of something that doesn't fit any model our imaginations have conjured up to date except for "black hole." That doesn't mean it's clear that black holes are a real thing.
This is the thing stating people in the face that many don't want to just observe and accept. You didn't sync something to icloud and somehow it's undeleted? It was synced to somewhere. This plainly points to a massive, industrial scale invasion of people's privacy that apple fanboys are not going to acknowledge.
Again, I'm not talking about machinery that actually needs PLCs, I get that. A lot of stuff doesn't have vibrations, temperature, safety issues etc. but is built around PLCs out of tradition and BoM reasons.

"Here's our end of the production line fan that blows dust off of your product for $4k because we used a PLC." There is lots of stuff like that that just has no business using a PLC.
Yeah, it's interesting that folks seemed to take offense at what I said. It's really pretty much exactly what you'd hear, from any astronomer (which I'm not, but one of my favorite shows is How the Universe Works).

Not all stars are created equal. Blue giants may only live a few billion years, while red dwarfs will last practically forever.
I'm intimately familiar, maintain ONNX and llama.cpp Flutter libraries across all 6 True Platforms.

Quick opinionated TL;DR:

- llama.cpp for LLMs and can do whisper with it's core dependency, GGML.

- ONNX for everything else.

- TF is the Apple of ML, it's great if you're completely wedded to Google ML ecosystem. Virtually dead outside that. (Something absurd ,like, 94%, of HF models are Pytorch)

- only chance I'd have to do a direct comparison in inference performance is Whisper in ONNX vs. GGML, someone got my llama .cpp lib running with Whisper and didn't report significant perf difference
The trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey
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Gemini 1.5 Ultra was never announced
Supermicro: AI boom pushes CEO into billionaires list
Signal has its own backup feature that will backup to a file on your device on Android as well.

Settings -> Chats -> Chat backups
Yup, exactly. If it's removed from the index it won't just show up again one day. This tells me that that innocuous explanation is not what's going on here.
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Thanks for the feedback and for taking a look. I think that's a fair point.
> Have a situation right now where I am bottlenecked by IO and not compute.

Can you describe your use-case? Are you reading from NVMe or S3?
Snap, Crackle, and Pop come next.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...
you're making a 'decision' about what to recommend.

idk, vague language like this that is not court-tested is scary and will cause enterprises to think twice
This is an unkind nitpick of something someone has made.

It’s an app that runs on a Mac. What framework it’s running on doesn’t make it less of an app.
If this is an offline app - or at least that your images don't leave your computer, that's pretty cool. How big is that model provided by OpenAI? Doesn't the app itself become huge?
You can get a SFFPC with 7th Gen i5 for like $40. Apart from low power cost and form factor (and I guess gpio), you would probably just get the SFFPC
Have you seen any documents that help explain how to interpret those tokens?
I've personally used Pis for things much better suited to microcontrollers, many many times, purely because I understood Linux and did not understand how to program microcontrollers.

Now, the tooling around ESP32s is so good that that's no longer a reason. I would never reach for a Pi over an ESP32 unless I need something an ESP cannot offer, like USB ports or compute or gigabytes of memory.
Datomic transactions are not “operations to perform”, they are a set of novel facts to incorporate at a point in time.

Just like a git commit describes a set of modifications, do you or should you want to care about which order or how the adds, updates, and deletes occur in a single git commit? OMG no, that sounds awful.

The really unusual thing is that developers expect intra-transaction ordering to be a thing they accept from any other database. OMG, that sounds awful, how do you live like that.
That's an unfalsifiable assertion/tautology that is basically a "not even wrong" statement.

That is, you're basically asserting "If you try to change your behavior, but can't, it's because your explicit beliefs have been manipulated into thinking something that your body won't go along with." Well, how do you know? Seems like you're saying "Because your body would go along with it if your brain wasn't being manipulated."

Just look at the millions of people who have tried for decades to lose weight. You can call it "manipulation" or whatever, but I think a poor quality of life, shortened life span, etc. are plenty real, valid, "non-manipulative" reasons on their own for obese people to want to lose weight even if you ignore the societal implications. And does taking semaglutide somehow magically make it not "manipulation" anymore by your definition?
I thought it was the extinction of the sylphium plant that really sealed their fate.
seems to work just fine for me. maybe it was a temporary issue?
With how ubiquitous discord has become for online spaces, I don't think it's unreasonable to hope for some degree of privacy, particularly in DMs or small close nit servers.

I think the point being made, with all the abrasion of a sander, was that even in the most controlled case of DMs or two person servers, all information is still available to third party admins, which wouldn't be the case with something like self hosted Matrix server.

I agree with you that this is hardly the most convincing point to 'the friend group', but with every electron of the online experience being mined for potential revenue, there is something to be said for technologies that work a barrier to data siphoning.
Why Writers Could Be More Prone to Hypochondria
Have you seen any good documentation anywhere on how to do that?
Philippines sends warship to assert sovereignty, counter activities by Beijing
Love this paper! I read it after watching Dr. Pavlo lessons on YouTube.
AT&T cuts a deal to launch satellite-to-smartphone service soon
The RP2040 isn't a very compelling microcontroller though. The only interesting thing about it is the programmable peripherals, but we've seen that before, e.g. from XMOS and in practice the protocols & peripherals you're going to use 99.9% of the time are completely standard - I2C, SPI, I2S, UART, counters/PWM, etc. For the rare case you need something custom and high speed there are really cheap FPGAs now.

The ESP32 supports all of those protocols and Wifi and Bluetooth, and it has low power sleep modes. And there are RISC-V versions which is quite nice from a a warm fuzzy point of view.

I think RPi still has a place for hobby electronics projects where you want GPIO. I don't think people are going to use it as a standard computer (desktop / media server / etc) though.
Does IRCv3 include voice chat within the server, as well as easy streaming within that group voice chat? Does it include rich text such as custom emojis, photos, and videos natively embedded into a message?
This is rightfully the top comment on this page (at least as of this writing).

These people need to be called out relentlessly until they stop misleading the public.

So much for the Altmanian infinite progress of humanity. They can't set aside their ego, their money and their power, so let's put them back in the Evil Corporate Billionaire category that such people belong to.
> obviously, you'll always be able to get things "through" a filter like this. But the value of raising the bar of the exploit is still quite substantial

I just want to stress this part.

So many people I talk to will just dismiss things because something isn't bullet proof. Like there's a binary option. But in reality there's a continuum. I'm the annoying person that tries to get my friends to use Signal, but then say if you won't install, that WhatsApp is my next preference. People on Signal forums will say that you shouldn't have the ability to delete or nuke conversations (now you can delete some, but only if <3hrs old) BECAUSE you can't guarantee the message content wasn't copied. Which is just fucking insane. It's not incorrect, but you have to think of things probabilistically and security is about creating speedbumps, not bullet proof vests. It is standard practice in many industry settings to remotely wipe a device (and then operate under the assumption that the data was leaked) because if you don't, adversaries have infinite time to copy that data rather than finite.

In most things, there are no perfect solutions. We have to think probabilistically and the tradeoffs for different environments (which are dynamic). Trying to make perfect solutions are not only unachievable, but even if they were they wouldn't last for long.