skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think I could give you a ethically consistent

That's what cognitive dissonance is. Giving one's senses (in this case the taste buds or the ego 'I' or the mind) more importance than something factual or apparent.

> I am not convinced about the rest of the animal kingdom.

If you take consciousness to mean intelligence, then sure. If you take consciousness to be separate from intelligence and senses, being the energy or force that brings forth the signs of what we call 'life', then I see no reason to believe that every single living entity has consciousness.

The only difference is in the type of body provided to that conscious living entity. Just like how some humans are born without sight, some without hearing, some without the ability to speak. It doesn't mean they're less conscious, they still are an observer observing things through their senses.

Unless and until one can come up with a clear definition of consciousness (you don't need to, just read nyāya philosophy and you'll save thousands of years of efforts), they will not be able to get over their biases based on unintelligent thoughts and cognitive dissonance.
our paid product is still in Beta actually as we're continuing to build it out, but BAML itself is and always will be open source (runs fully locally as well - no extra network calls).

in terms of parsing, I do think we're likely the best approach as of now. Most other libraries do reprompting or rely on constraining grammars which require owning the model. Reprompting = slow + $$, constraining grammars = require owning the model. we just tried a new approach: parse the output in a more clever way.
Or invert your screen.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711661
+1 for LiteLLM as well, I've been experimenting with LiteLLM for integrating multiple LLM providers and building my own AI chatbot, which is evolving into a multimodal AI chatbot. It's been a positive experience so far. [0]

On the other hand, I found Langchain less impressive. It feels somewhat vague and not very beginner-friendly, catering more to intermediate users.

[0] https://github.com/vinhnx/VT.ai
More recent history seems to paint another picture - knowledge is quickly gained as cognitive ability increases, and is even more rapidly lost once it diminishes.

Think of not only the replication crisis in science, but also the despair to retain "tacit knowledge" the failure of which often results in outright abandonment and outsourcing to somewhere else.

The technology to land on the Moon seems to be effectively lost. The supersonic airliner is for some reason not available either.

Same happened in Rome, and Rome itself together with Greece rediscovered civilization from a much darker age before them.

In light of that, the idea that any real knowledge could be retained for that long is preposterous.
> Did the Wright brothers use a lot of math in their wind tunnel experiments

Yes, they did. They did a lot of math in their design (their notebooks survive). That's why they were successful and their contemporaries all failed.

They developed the first mathematical theory of propellers, for example, and used it to create a propeller that was twice as efficient as that of other experimenters.

See "The Wright Brothers as Engineers, An Appraisal" by Quentin Wand

> there are a lot of "right* answers

None of them flew if they got thrust/lift/drag/weight/cg/strength/stability wrong answers. Lots of people died as the result of wrong answers.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40704267
If you're an admin of something like a game wiki, then whether it's currently controlled by VC or not, think about how you could back up, export and migrate the data.
The earlier post mentioned 'rms' without explaining what that meant. The post you replied to added context by providing a Wikipedia link.
thats pretty cool! We'll update the page after taking a look at the library!
What will be good alternatives to DJI then?
Why don't they just look for the monolith ? :-)
What's amusing of course is that the word text shares a root with textiles and hence the notion of weaving thread or cloth.

I'd strongly suggest not getting bogged down in the details of what various forms of notional recording are --- ink on paper, etching on stone, holes punched in paper, magnetic field alignments in rust (spinning, sequential, or otherwise), bitfields in memory arrays, holographic images ...

Records are created by varying matter in space to transmit messages over time.

Signals are created by varying energy in time to transmit messages over space.

Or expanded slightly:

Signals transmit encoded symbolic messages from a transmitter across space through a channel by variations in energy over time to a receiver potentially creating a new record.

Records transmit encoded symbolic messages from a writer through a substrate across time by variations in matter over space to a reader potentially creating a new signal.
Show HN: I built an app to never forget the books I read
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I'm a 21 year old CS student from Hamburg, Germany.

I enjoy reading books but a lot of the time I forget the key ideas. To solve this problem I created an app that sends me 5 phrases and qoutes via email.

Let me know what you think. It's free.

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No, I’m talking about isotope removal, but I can’t find anything now because all results point to the above article or similar ones.

If memory serves it had something to do with the isotopes changing the stresses in the crystal lattice and affecting the behavior.
the main one is that most people don't own the model. so if you use openai / anthropic / etc then you can't use token masking. in that case, reprompting is pretty much the only option
The windows stuff is fallout from graphics coming from games dev and that industry being mostly windows based. Not really a conscious bet on windows being a good idea for compute, just what the first set of graphics customers happened to be using years ago.
This is great. I've lost a significant amount of money to that scam.
My experience with models even about a year ago is that the model has firmly decided what it thinks by the time of the last layer, so the probabilities on that layer aren't very useful.

You either get the same (in this case wrong) thing differently worded, or worse you get effectively noise if the second probability is very much lower than the largest probability.

My guess is that applies here too. Better to let all the layers rethink the tokens, than force hallucination of eg a random letter when you don't expect an angle bracket

(Edit: above is assuming using logprobs and/or logit_bias with the OpenAI API, not some other masking technique)
For last 2 years I'm browsing fanbases wiki's thru breezewiki "proxy" because reading content on fandom interface is beyond any usefulness - displaying unrelated stuff took over the actual content. So I'm glad someone did even such short note on this issue.

I saw few cases where a longstanding wiki project of a particular topic created by fans faced a competition in form of a fresh project created within wikia/fandom that was filled with low quality articles. There even were situations where content was blatantly copied over. Pretty sure that was done only to hijack position of the fanbase project so ads could be displayed on fandom wiki and user tracked.

Luckily there are projects which managed to avoid being sucked into this fandom blackhole, like evawiki for Evangelion franchise or both Guild Wars games wikipedias

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And on as site note, I really don't like this recently introduced font change on general Wikipedia - previously default font is now the "small" size and current default is inconveniently the bigger "standard".
I'd like to hear from actual law enforcement personnel why/if violating my constitutional rights this way is actually necessary, specifically.
True. The distinction is just not always as obvious, because rent seekers often don't start out as rent seekers.

They usually gain market share based on merit. Over time, structural factors such as network effects allow them to grow the rent-seeking part of their income while the merit based part declines.

Rent-seeking is a very entrenched idea though. Even the tiniest bit of merit in the distant past is enough to justify renting out inherited land for instance.
The baml config files look a lot like code. For example in baml:

class Resume {
name string
education Education[] @description("Extract in the same order listed")
skills string[] @description("Only include programming languages")
}

Could be expressed in Python like this:

class Resume:
name: str
education: List[Education] # Extract in the same order listed
skills: List[str] # Only include programming languages

Two benefits I see are that it would make the file leaner (because Python is nicely lean) and provide free parsing and syntax highlighting.

Is there a benefit of rolling your own DSL?
Don’t forget all the lifetimes of all ancestors as well. A lot of our intelligence is something we are born with and a result of many millions of years of evolution.
Or cultural breakthroughs - either societies that started to value learning, or the advancement of such cultures?
Late Bronze Age Dye Factory Found in Greece
Is it?

This is literally the first time Ive seen the word human applied to other hominids. I see many discussions about neanderthals and denisovians and so on. I have never seen them referred to as human.
Reading this comment section, I'm realising that smart people in tech are still just people. They love to gossip, shit-talk about others, prop up cartoon villains to hate on.

I'm a big fan of sama. It's been said he's a snake. I hope he is. And he will do things you will hate and be successful doing it. And in doing so, will teach you a priceless lesson. DGAF about other people. Be yourself, look out for yourself and fucking bring it and step on the stage, as you are.

You don't have to be a perfect and excruciatingly boring paragon of virtue before you become a public figure. How wonderful!! It's ok to be a character. As long as it's your character.
eno writer: My First Demo
Japan, and many other countries around the world follow the US' lead. Your stupid racist cannibis propaganda and subsequent laws infiltrated the world over. We're all paying for it now.
Arguing over the metaphor isn't useful.

This is school-level mathematics. The 'wrong' answer isn't a different optimization of cost, strength, weight and endurance, which Boeing might consider.

It's an arithmetic or procedural error giving an incorrect result.

There's great value in understanding the method, discussing ways to make errors and so on — but I think it's nonsense to suggest this has anything to do with race.
Diesel-electric locomotives were the first vehicles to get really good motor control. In what are called "AC" locomotives, the wheel motors are 3 phase variable-frequency AC motors. The power train is Diesel engine -> generator -> really big MOSFETs -> synchronous 3-phase motors. Each motor is separately controlled and they are run as synchronized servomotors, to prevent wheel slip. When multiple locomotives are coupled together, they synchronize at the wheel level. The effect is almost 2x more traction than older technology, which means fewer locomotives per train.

Automotive motor controllers now use similar technology, but the locomotives had it first.
Can't we ask LLM/GenAI to summarize it and return structured output? /sarcasm (half?)
lmao - any particular story on how you first came across this song?
Tesla stocks have a lot of hype especially from Cathie of Ark. Nearly everywhere from spams to YT to FB, you have a lot of "ads" to promote Tesla. Anything EVs good news straight away related to "Tesla" even if it is about Toyota or BYD bad news, seems like Tesla getting credit instead. At current stage I am convince somekind of coordinated and multi layered pump and dump is happening. We are at the "pump" stage. Anyone doing a decent research will see Tesla has near no moat unlike Apple, Nvidia or Microsoft. No battery factory. No owning any lithium mine. No gpu productions. Factories depend heavily on China grace. High churn of employees. Solarcity gone. Autopilot rebranded as FSD which is not even reaching 3.0 after half a decade of promises. CyberTruck design are joke. Any trainees working in BMW or BYD can design a better CyberTruck. Gigafactory? Hahaha...you got a chance take a look BYD factories. Even Taobao warehouses will make Amazon warehouse look like medieval setup. There are Chinese factories that look more like Star Trek than ANY gigfactory. Just ride the hype part and make sure you do the dump earlier before the actual dump happening by the elites.
>>> The technology to land on the Moon seems to be effectively lost.

The technology might be, but not the knowledge. The tech just became obsolete and probably not up to safety standards anyway. I doubt we'd have much trouble recreating a better equivalent if the incentives existed.
Yes. A lot of students were on outside working crews creating firebreaks, so the survivor accounts tended to be along the lines of "I was sick that day, I never saw my friends again".
I highly recommend Bisqwit's videos about tech & programming.
Highly talented, very clever, a very uncommon sense of doing things.
You accurately described my experience.
> Isn't the more parsimonious explanation that our culture is now composed of poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated, lack sophistication and nuance, and accordingly have terrible taste?

On first read this opinion just sounded like some misanthropic two-bit Nietzsche take

OTOH I've thought the same thing reading reddit comments, some people really are just fucking stupid and the only thing you can do about them is get away

The way I see it: the common culture can go fuck itself. Find your own people and ride off into the sunset
Yeah, I do agree with this.

There must be some strong correlation there: where a better world-model allows you to be more intelligent. Especially if that world-model contains yourself (e.g. self-consciousness).

I do, however, fundamentally believe that our interior conscious experience IS our world model: e.g. There's some property of the information system we live in* such that any tightly integrated and time-coherent partition of information has an interior experience.

A good question: is it possible to build a system that has a highly sophisticated world model, but minimal intelligence, and vice versa?

I think that highly sophisticated world model / low intelligence is possible (and it would have an amazing interior experience).

A non-existent world model / high intelligence seems impossible, since you likely need a good world model to be able to generally reason.

* Our universe / some exterior reality that's running our universe simulation / something weirder we can't even conceive.
In the fuel tanks of future Cephalopoda.
Another ASU researcher, Sander van der Leeuw, whose nearly decade-old presentation at the "More is Different" conference on complexity theory in Singapore looks how stone tool archaeology tracks with intellectual capacity (and most specifically the size of short-term memory (7 +/- 2 items for modern humans, according to most accounts).

Video, 1h6m running time: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pOyQqPi28ug>

(I'm aware Google / YouTube are making alternative interface usage more challenging. MPV handles this stream well, as should tools such as VLC which incorporate it and/or ytdl.)

Video is admittedly long but has high information density.
Agreed that others should implement it as well but coercing llama to output results with matching grammar needs work.
How Branch Prediction Works in CPUs [video]
drinking ages, drink driving, car reliability tests, etc.

These aren't the same. Drinking ages don't effect other people.

Drink driving does.

Car reliability does.

Smoking weed or snorting coke does not.

There is usually some societal impact from having drugs legal but the cost of making it illegal typically far outweighs the negatives - war on drugs, cartels, mass incarceration etc.
> It also wouldn't fly in many regulated environments.

Why not?
TikTag: Breaking ARM's memory tagging extension with speculative execution
Apple gave versions up to 7.5.3 for free on its page. Not libre, but there's Executor (a fork of it) under Github which can run System 6/7 binaries.
I suppose there are more ways to be paid: fame / rank, money, or even piety.
It's time for humanity to move on, to social/messaging platforms not controlled by (for-profit) entities. Or ideally by themselves. Have you seen https://lurk-lang.org? Now it's even possible for anyone to provably compute a specific algorithm on your encrypted data!
Definitely. Though part of your job as a leader typically is also to catch that attention and direct it to serve the organisation.
I think it’s not uncommon to refer to Neanderthals as early humans, I’m sure I’ve read that in many places.

Natural history museum, for example, refers to them as early humans: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-were-the-neanderthals.htm...
Well—there's a thought experiment of something like a 'dark universe'—a universe devoid of conscious observers, with the absence of awareness and perception while the physical processes continue unabated just as ours does with all of the people walking around, doing business, living cosmopolitan lifestyles, etc. This is theoretically possible because humans are just agents with brains that bring in stimuli, process it, and react. I.e. consciousness is not a necessary part of the equation to realize the universe is currently realized. The only reason we know consciousness is part of the equation, is because we experience it ourselves.

So I don't know if the fact that your cats are agents that are reacting to stimuli is proof that they're conscious. Again, if we were an outside observer, like an alien, we would have no way to prove humans are conscious. The only reason we believe scientifically that other humans are conscious is because we personally perceive conscious, and since other humans have the same neurological structures that we do, we can posit that they experience the same thing. Philosophically though we can't 'prove' other people are conscious, which gets us back to the philosophical zombie thought experiment.
> Lisp can't at the same time be uniquely powerful, but also no different to any other language

There are lots of programming languages which are "uniquely powerful": C++, Prolog, Haskell, ...

> Lisp is a uniquely flexible language

I'm not sure if I buy "uniquely", but "very" would be fine.

> Uniquely flexible languages impose a cost for readability and collaboration.

At the same time it provides also important features for readability and collaboration. There are code bases of complex Lisp software, which are maintained by small&changing teams for several decades.

Lisp is effective not so much for "lone wolfs", but for small teams (5 to 100 people) working in a shared infrastructure with larger groups. Example: SBCL is a complex Common Lisp implementation, which goes back to the early 80s (-> Spice Lisp). SBCL is maintained by a group of people and has monthly releases. Around it there is an eco-system of software.

Simpler Lisp dialects can also be effective for larger groups. For example there are many people using "AutoLisp" (or versions of it), a simple Lisp dialect for scripting AutoCAD (and various competitors).
Ryzen wasn't "catching up". Ryzen was literally inventing the future. It was stubbornly insisting on shipping on chiplets on a fabric at a time where intel and nvidia were both insistent on monolithic as the right choice.

The GPUs aren't playing catch up either, They're the shared memory APU systems. widely celebrated as novel on the current Apple silicon and shipping in configuration since the playstation 4.
The love and hate comes with the territory when you're a public figure. I don't think he needs defending, and I don't think there is any lesson to be learned if a famous person you dislike is successful.
Defamation shouldn't exist (see Alex Jones, that's an insane situation to be told to pay $1.5 BILLION for sharing an opinion) but the standards are generally higher than "someone told lies about my character" at least.

Yes. Everyone has agency, if I tell you to commit a crime it's up to you whether to do so.
I love Bisqwit's older videos, where things were done using a crazy mix of DOSBOX and a TSR that typed code into "that editor". The

It's a shame that this video is slightly misnamed - it creates a "portal renderer" which is more like what a BUILD-style engine than what Doom did. He's got another cool video where he makes a 3D demo using OpenGL, with a DGJPP-compiled version of OSMesa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUwT9U1GzA
> They should be able to get medical exceptions for medical devices.

Keyword "should".

> The schools have agreed that if any phone is used by a pupil during the school day, it will be confiscated.

Yep, the "easy" and extremely irresponsible solution.

> It was in place when I went to school and there were no issues.

Good for you, but

https://www.9news.com.au/health/boy-dies-after-school-confis...

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/20/califor...
> isn't the only way to know whether it is right or wrong to understand it?

The other way to know is to test it. Things are tested anyway, just to ensure the math was done correctly.

I designed the stabilizer trim jackscrew so it could withstand 151% of the maximum load. (The extra 1% was for tolerances.) The test people grinned and told me they were going to bust my jackscrew. Off I went to Plant 2 where they had the medieval torture rig all set up. It was two I-beams, hinged together at one end. There was a hydraulic ram connected to form a triangle. My poor little jackscrew was fixed to both I-beams.

And, with a grin, the testers started cranking up the pressure in the ram. I watched with my safety googles on. They ran it up to 150%, and the I-beam bent like limp noodle, and my jackscrew stood strong and proud! No creaks, no cracks, no spalling, no buckling. The testers were chagrined, and I simply went back to the office.

There were two takeaways here:

1. It was too strong. Evidently Saginaw Gear forged a masterpiece. I've always liked Saginaw Gear since. They're some bad mofos.

2. The test people didn't do the math.
> what license is fandom content under?

Generally, CC BY-SA https://www.fandom.com/licensing

> can an independent entity scrape it and start over?

Sure. The difficult part is migrating the community and competing in search results. Fandom can and does fight efforts to direct people from fandom-hosted wikis to elsewhere. See this other sub-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711726
> I think mathematicians — similar to the people who didn't let themselves be scared away by zeroes, ones and babylonian letters — have become fluid at a system that they now defend, because they are the initiated magicians who understand it.

No, there is no elitism behind. Mathematical notation exists because it is the most compact form that also contains no ambiguity.

There is plenty of plain english explanation of all of mathematics, that is used to understand the concepts, but to represent them, you use math notation.
Cosmic kidney disease: study into spaceflight-induced renal dysfunction
Foreign exchange market API is a tool used to obtain real-time market data of the foreign exchange market. As the foreign exchange trading market continues to develop, more and more traders are beginning to rely on foreign exchange APIs to obtain market information and conduct efficient and accurate transactions.
> Also, BAML seems to be a commercial product with no clear pricing.

You've only presented half the story. They're also Open Source (Apache 2.0), with code on github.

As you mention, some features are gated, but they seem to have a fairly solid OSS offering.