skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! My secret plan is also to grok the math behind the Transformer while helping my HSchooler out. And I think your resource is super good.
As an older person, I can recall conversations with Sun Microsystems employees about Microsoft world domination. Back then, people thought that one of the many court cases would trip Microsoft, and make the world a multiculture. Where did that get us? Where is Sun now?
There is no scenario where the US military cannot move a bomb from point A to B. Everything else would sooner stop than that ability.
Japanese knotweed, to make an example, is not solved by drainage or building appropriately. If you get it, you have to call a specialist for a 4 year treatment and you have to wait 8 years to be free of it until you can legally avoid to disclose it when you sell, at least in UK. I'm not advocating for manicured lawn, I'm saying that biodiversity for the sake of biodiversity is dangerous.
they aren't visible on on a small screen, but they're there

https://static.codefuture.top/jike-site/bg2.png
I mean, subreddits offer that, to a degree. So do some forums.
You have to Google and read those thought experiments to see why. You may not be convinced (I'm not), but they give good reasons. We have mechanistic explanations for all of those organs, and even if we lack some explanation, we know one is possible in principle. They argue this isn't the case for consciousness.
> The art masters cannot be replaced, you cannot predict what they’re going to do next because they change the rules entirely. This is how we know a great artist from a mediocre artist.

I agree that in principle the best working artists are those who know how to create, modulate and discard artistic languages over time -- creating and abandoning rules for sequences of work -- but AI systems can clearly be unethically trained to mimic art in those styles, and there are many living artists (or estates of recently departed artists, supporting their families) whose incomes are defined by some periods of their lives where they worked a particular set of rules in a way that became definitive.

So it's not enough to say that great artists won't be affected because they change the rules all the time. Most of them will still be ruined by this, because as soon as there's enough work in the new style it can be stolen.
The free book on partial evaluations: http://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/pebook/
Good to see Moldova and Georgia still turning in civilised stats...

(note that wine & cheese are forerunners of capitalism, or at least banking: they are ways to turn streams of relatively ephemeral grape and dairy production into relatively accumulable stocks)
In general, in Europe, either:

- It is the norm to use either a variable rate or series of short fixed rates

OR

- Redemption fee is capped (for instance in France it’s capped at one quarter worth of interest).

I’m not sure it’s normal anywhere to have a 30 year fix which you can’t get out of? Which country are you thinking of?
Unless you can be conscious in multiple places at the same time. Theoretically it must be possible by dissecting the brain piece by piece and restoring it to one afterwards.
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I'm Sicilian, and I would call this a well put video. If you go in Messina you will see that the city is oddly oriented with the back of the buildings and squares and everything facing the sea, like if the city is actively aware that the sea is dangerous. This shape was given by the reconstruction after the tsunami.

Btw: taking the boat from Messina to Villa San Giovanni is quite a nice experience. There is a tradition to eat arancini while crossing. Most Sicilians are not actually hoping so much to see this bridge to be completed, especially since in Catania and Palermo there are very high traffic airports with plenty of cheap options to go to Rome or Milan (Catania airport is the 3rd by number of flights in Italy). If the fast trains available in the North would be available here, it would be different perhaps.

About the social factors, if the bridge would start from Catania, where I live, I could be a bit more positive about the ability to complete it. Catania has kinda of a different mentality compared to the rest of Sicily (I guess I can tell this without biases since I'm from the center of Sicily and lived in multiple places for years). For instance Catania is the only place under Naples to have a subway. Apple and Ikea are in Catania, and so forth, in general you can make things work here, and even if this is a national project, local factors may play a role. Messina is not similarly well positioned.
At a certain point, art sells because of the artist not the art. Picasso's sell because they are Picasso's. An artist starts by creating a style that separates them from the pack but eventually turn into a brand that sells because they artwork is from that artist. For people that successfully are able to turn into a brand, great, but I feel new artist are going to be heavily kneecapped by AI.
The challenge I see is that (in the US at least), "style" is not copyrightable in the arts. IMHO this is a good thing because artists learn and copy from one another, and if it were copyrightable that would lead to no end of lawsuits between media companies.

So my concern is trying to apply copyright to training AI models can easily slippery slope into more draconian copyright rules for human artists.
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But it would have made vastly more sense to do that when Israel had casus belli after Iran’s massive drone strike last month. Also, fighting a two-front war is very difficult even under ideal conditions (see: Hitler).
All of these responses are ignoring the cost of AI: I went subscription based for an app and power users almost took my shirt despite charging 3x-5x what comparable non-AI sites charge

I landed on a hybrid base subscription with guaranteed usage and usage based pricing past that
"The fact that it’s illegal to be alive without paying somebody else to live is insanity "

I don't think it is surprising that if you don't contribute value to society as judged by society you will be shunned by society. Evolution is based on contribution and accounts for the a time period where you will be a burden to the time period where you should be contributing.
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Leadkit is a suite of tools every marketer needs, everyone pays for a lot of different tools from scraping the leads to verifying them and then a whole different tool-set for sending mass email campaigns.

Average setup costs $599-$899, where we are just charging $49 to start with.

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This is indeed a good point and something I want to write about when I eventually do a blog post on weval.

A few counterpoints that I'd offer (and what led me to still take this approach):

- If the target has sub-par debugging infrastructure, it can be easier to debug an interpreter (which is portable) then apply the semantics-preserving PE. In particular when targeting Wasm outside the browser, there is... not really a good debug experience, anywhere, for that. It was way easier to get an interpreter right by developing on native with gdb/rr/whatever, and then separately ensure weval preserves semantics (which I tested with lockstep differential execution).

- Maintenance: if one is going to have an interpreter and a compiler anyway (and one often wants this or needs this e.g. to handle eval()), easier for them both to come from the same source.

- Amortized cost: in the Wasm world we want AOT compilers for many languages eventually; there are interpreter ports with no Wasm backends; developing weval was a one-time cost and we can eventually apply it multiple times.

- If the semantics of the existing interpreter are quite nontrivial, that can push the balance the other way. I designed weval as part of my work on SpiderMonkey; extremely nontrivial interpreter with all sorts of edge cases; replicating that in a from-scratch compiler seemed a far harder path. (It's since been done by someone else and you can find the "wasm32 codegen" patchset in Bugzilla but there are other phasing issues with it from our use-case's PoV; it's not true AOT, it requires codegen at runtime.)

I don't think the tradeoff is always clear and if one is building a language from scratch, and targeting a simple ISA, by all means write a direct compiler! But other interesting use-cases do exist.
I don't think it's a flex per se, but more of a nod to where many people start off in their electronics careers. The LM555 has been used for four(?) decades to teach electronics to students.

A cheap $1 8-pin microcontroller (attiny, avr8, pic) could do the job of an LM555 without the LM555's required capacitors/resistors. But that's not as fun.
F# Is the .NET Rust
You don't need a computer science degree to work with open source software
Nice, there's also a Vassal Terraforming Mars module. Vassal provides a client-server shared board game state for lots of boardgame modules you can also make yourself. It's java based.
https://vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Terraforming_Mars
> because as soon as there's enough work in the new style it can be stolen.

This is where the oft-cited comparison to previous advances like the camera breaks down - AI has an ongoing parasitic relationship with the mediums it is displacing. The camera doesn't need a thousand photorealistic paintings of a new subject to be made before it can capture that subject going forward. AI is an unprecedented situation, as far as I can tell, where a new artistic medium greatly de-values prior ones while also being reliant on those other mediums continuing to be used at scale in order to avoid stagnating.
And visit https://news.ycombinator.com/newest regularly, to vote on content you find interesting. It's community service.

Which reminds me, I need to do that more often too.
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AGI is easier than robotaxis
MacOS is pretty clownish, if you think Apple isn’t using your data for advertisers when you use their services on their OS I have a bridge to sell you. MacOS also has things like Gatekeeper that play off of FUD as a security feature. The fact that Apple will gladly send your iCloud backups to the feds as well I wouldn’t call it a platform that is exclusive to modern bs.
Apologies. I meant plug in hybrids and evs
The article doesn't say much about whatever contract they signed. They were paid to provide some audio, and the company didn't tell them what it was for. It would be important to know exactly what their contracts said. Could well be that they signed away their rights.
I have no idea what you're talking about. And I'm not sure how you're getting "science is flawless" from what I said, or what that's supposed to mean.
You are presenting opinion as objective fact for a subjective medium, which is surprising to hear from an artist.

This argument, and this article, are not about the "great masters" but about amateur and professional artists who find their efforts easily reproduced and outproduced by AI. These people are not protected by "This is a REAL Picasso" and some of them could lose their financial security because of it.

The article indicates that style can be copied in as few as 20 to 30 images. Could you imagine being an artist who is attempting to gain notoriety, publishing low quality pngs of 20 of their works for their Etsy store, and then someone trains a LoRa on that and profits off of your images? Hundreds of hours of time in an attempt to start your art career, to have it duplicated in seconds by computer. You have no time to grow as an artist, because your required contribution to the data set has already been made.
Why is this flagged? Every major media outlet is running this story, and it isn't like the BBC is some fringe news agency.
"Lead with the heart more."

I'm not sure what led you to this conclusion but, absent complete context, this seems to speak more about your friends and their ego then something with you. Logic is not the enemy of emotion nor does logic preclude kindness, compassion or empathy. Logic is a decision making process that allows you to achieve outcomes, whatever that outcome may be.

The heart, has people call it, is the center of our ego. Ego is that self-important narcissistic and self-destructive impulse that we all have. Ego is the enemy of logic and leading with your heart because you may bruise a friend's ego shows a deep problem with that friend or with the friendship itself. Ego is what comes into play when a person says "you don't understand me". Because they never even stopped to think that maybe the other person understand perfectly but their own ego is preventing them from hearing it because they've adopted this policy of leading with their heart and never having to use logic to reevaluate their worldview. Ego is what says to us that we do not have to give the same consideration to others as we expect to receive and return.

All of the above statement is predicated on the lack of perfect context for this statement. It could be when you say you have a bias toward the logical it is to the exclusion of compassion and empathy. If that's what your friends are telling you then it is something you should work on. It is logical to be compassionate and to be empathetic toward others.
wsl --cd=%cd% ffmpeg -framerate 30 -pattern_type glob -i '*.JPG' -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p timelapse.mp4
> Isn't the point (and I could be wrong) with a Dyson sphere that it should have a spectrum that approaches that of a perfect blackbody radiator?

Pretty much. The lower the temperature of that blackbody radiator, the higher energy you can extract via temperature difference. Until you reach the background radiation of the universe, which could be considered the lowest possible temperature of a thing that still extracts energy.

> Or would any radiation that sneaks past the swarm drown out the blackbody spectrum?

If that's the case, you can improve your sphere and capture that extra energy.
The only rejuvenation process that I know is heat, either long period exposure to 250°C or short-term at higher temperature (800°C).

https://m.hexus.net/tech/news/storage/48893-making-flash-mem...

https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DH4waJBeENVQ&sa=U&ved=2ahUK...
The current trend is butt-in driven operations.

For every action you are already familiar with, and have performed several times, copilot butts in to show you an annoying way to do it with copilot. But first create a Microsoft account.

This reminds of google plus. When Google was pushing really hard for it, if you clicked 7 times on the internet, you will find that you just created a google+ account.
Because people might actually object to it if it was in the first contract.
As an Italian, it's a wonderful project technically, but you will be hard pressed to find people in northern Italy that believe in it (can't speak for mid/lower). The tech challenges give it little credibility, but the mifias problems are really what makes it a non-starter for basically everyone here.

The video shows one politician a couple of times, but he's one of the most unreliable ones (and Italians one in general are not that reliable).

It's a political tool, many speculate it's just another big project that will never be completed, since it's a common historical pattern with heavy right-wing governments like the current one.

Even though a lot of money has already been spent, it remains especially difficult to detach this project from its political side so don't hold breath, or hope.
My work email is virtually useless at this point due to the absurd quantities of spam I receive. I think the OP suggestions would actually make email less shitty.

Any communication medium that is cheap and easy will be relentlessly abused by spammers.
STEP 1: When you first use the AI Assistant, Ask for a virtual number with your prompt of what you want it to do. Example: "I need a number in NYC. When people call that number, forward it to me (202-555-0000)".

STEP 2: If you want to test different call/SMS/Email functionality, keep using the virtual number it gave you in STEP 1. Put that virtual number into the Existing Virtual Number edit box. Then simply prompt it with "when someone calls that number ..etc". (at this point there's no need to ask for another number)
> it also ensures the customer that she is getting the full advantage of price breaks

Well, well, well... it seems they were capable of using feminine for generic pronouns back then, after all.
https://archive.ph/etCJh
How do you measure this obsession? I only get these stories about regulators mostly—they seem obsessed with making the platforms work for Europeans, but then, that’s sort of their job.
We don't really need artificial consciousness. Actually, we should avoid it. We already have Artificial General Intelligence (contrary to common perception). Artificial consciousness will only complicate things. A lot. Better keep on enhancing the AGI we have and use it as a tool rather than having to deal with the emotional and ethical aspect of the AI in case it gets consciousness.
A weak strategy is to hope that someone will dislike Apple on an Apple device.

You can focus on Android, but they will likely do the same.

I would consider pivoting.
All your arguments are basically "we already know all of physics, there's nothing new to learn". Which is just wrong.

And then you engage in obvious logical fallacies like talking about mendelevium, as if it's exactly the same as hypothetical stable isotopes from the island of stability. You have no idea what you're talking about, you have not produced those isotopes, no human did.

And then you engaged in completely dishonest straw man with the space cat. I never claimed that there are such isotopes or other used yet unknown natural materials, I just suggested that there may have been some.

Considering how dishonest you are, I won't respond any more.
"Is this thing we defined to make us feel special achievable?" What we define as "consciousness" is just an emergent property of large, dense neural networks w/memory.

The human brain is a marvel of mechanical and electrical engineering, not a mystical, otherworldly device. Maybe there is something going on at a quantum level to explain the incredible performance our brains achieve, but that is still nothing that we can't build.
As it's a diuretic I'd say it pushes water, but yeah.
Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke interview with Walter Cronkite – Apollo 11 [video]
I work for Microsoft and obviously my opinions are my own, but I am pretty underwhelmed by all the Copilots. Besides Teams meeting summarization, they are all pretty worthless. I’ve never understood text generation in Word or Outlook. Anything worth saying requires a ton of detail that you have to type into the prompt and then lose in the context of generation.
And sw engineers feel very productive building a productivity tool, which is just an elaborate procrastination technique for sw developers.
This is a great sentiment in theory. But it assumes that the child is actually interested in rejecting those sins - and accepting the economic consequences of equality (e.g. them not being filthy stinking rich).

In practice most rich people spoil the shit out of their kids and they wind up being even more fucked in the head than their parents.
The article makes a big deal about the gliding aspect, but the devastation it's talking about comes from being cheap retrofits of quite large bombs.
Countries with similar laws: Isreal, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, and more.

Though it would be wise for countries to also implement these laws. For example, companies could ignore your data deletion request if you were in a state without.
What's the range on a laser, in terms of how far away is the beam still fairly narrow if it doesn't hit anything? Function of the geometry of the emitter?

Line of thought is that aiming a 100GW laser at a small piece of silicon probably makes it very hot, so periodically hitting very small probes with laser from far away could be a power supply as well as propulsion. If you can still hit the things from far away enough.

Making the probes very light is a convincing answer to the problem of accelerating masses to speeds useful for interstellar flight and we can get quite a lot of machinery in a piece of silicon.

It's vaguely plausible that a chip could absorb energy from a far away laser emitter, store some of it, do some arithmetic, emit energy from something like LEDs positioned on the surface and use that to fine tune position or communicate with other chips in the swarm. Can imagine that working well enough for science fiction, might be implementable in reality.
If you're wondering what’s up with the strange URL, apparently it is official. paulgraham.com links to it here: https://www.paulgraham.com/bel.html
Science and math should always be the default hypothesis. It's irrational for people to jump to mysticism which is basically another form of god-of-the-gaps.
Nice, thanks! I tried using ffmpeg for a minor video editing task I had a few months ago - just a cut, crop, rescale, and volume adjust. I've tried a few of the mainstream GUI video editing tools, and IMO, they all have incomprehensible UIs, are way too bloated, and usually far too expensive for what I'm trying to do. FFmpeg may not be dead simple, but I find it much easier to skim the command line flag list to figure out how to do what I want. And once I do, I can save down a handful of useful sets of flags and refer to them next time. Cheers to ffmpeg, one of the kings of FOSS! If you ever feel the need to do any kind of video conversion or editing, definitely try to do it in ffmpeg first.
I'm sure there are great applications for LLMs, really. But can we stop just putting minimal wrappers around ChatGPT and trying to cram it into everything?
Oxygen is highly toxic for most materials. I'd expect advanced civilizations to avoid oxygen.
how often do we consider the aspirations and potential of our wife

this, for me is the key to any relationship. generalize it to partner, since it is important for both sides. when i met my wife i carefully considered whether i would be able to support her goals as well as tried to figure out whether she was supportive of mine. fortunately, working in IT meant that i had a lot of flexibility and so in our case the chances of a conflict in our goals was small, but i would not have married her otherwise.
Reports, not records. People who I know who know him sharing privately. Jeffrey doesn't and can't publish everything that he comes across and has to be very circumspect with the stuff he does.
At this point, Microsoft is obsessed with AI. They think they missed the chance to be the first with internet and mobile, and trying hard to be the forefront of AI fad until it lasts. Force upselling enterprise is their old strategy and and it seems to be working in their favor. And the stock market like AI buzz too. More times you say AI, is better.
"Lovo denies the claims in the suit, said David Case, a lawyer representing the company. He added that if all individuals who provided voice recordings to Lovo gave their consent, “then there is not a problem.” "

"If". Oops.
Fun fact: this bridge is in the works for ~2000 years; the Romans were the first to want to build it.

Also, this is a great region, if you can ever get there in an RV - you are not going to regret it!
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