skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience, python won out the research crowd exactly for the reasons you mentioned, but also because it is a bit of a swiss army knife platform. Python has plenty of libraries for doing pretty much anything these days. Computer Vision? Can do. ML? Can do. Dashboards? Can do. And the list goes on. This means that a researcher can do their research in python and then also do the implementation in the same language and platform they are familiar with.

If someone told me to use rust for doing any sort of interactive/iterative numerical research, I'd send them for the hills. And I love Rust. But when I want to quickly learn about the properties of some data, or try to use dataset A to predict dataset B, I don't give a rats ass about types, or type safety, or proper programming idioms. I just want to look at my data.

Then, if I convince myself that I have some sort of model that I want to use, I could theoretically reach for Rust, but generally I don't need to. I can just take the output of the research - more or less verbatim - and start using it in production. Often with minimal changes.

Yes, sometimes circumstances require to use something more performant, but these days you also have Numba or Nuitka to optimize some hot loops.

For the longest time I wanted Julia to become a success, because I felt that it combined in one language and platform the possibility to write easy no-fuss, scalable, performant and robust code. A language which could evolve a codebase from initial research analysis to strongly typed production code. Unfortunately it never seems to have gained traction, so we are left with the next best thing: python. It's not really good at anything (as a language), but it's the least bad out of everything out there and the libraries are excellent.
An even more true statement when made in the context of pre Scientific Revolution. We don’t know everything but we know a heck of a lot more than when this was written.
it is not a simple number.. people who operate business on the commodity scale, often have very low profits and therefore, have lower spending power economically.. in other words, lots of farmers tend to live close to a kind of poverty. Meanwhile, in the center of some kind of fast and loose economics, like entertainment for example.. lots of economic spending power is traded very quickly.. plenty of people in the entertainment industries do not live close to poverty at all..

Large economic systems in real life have economic niches. Government policy levers change the basic flow patterns.. it is often a matter of life and death
> The amount of annual subsidies is around $2 billion. It's a tiny number for a country as large as Japan. Their GDB is $4 trillion per year.

Their Debt-to-GDP ratio is 263% (so around $9 trillion in debt), and the government's budget is only $1.2 trillion per year, so it becomes very difficult to maneuver, especially due to the increased Yen volatility.

The current status quo keeps farmers happy and voting for the LDP, while continuing to fund Japan's very generous and very expensive welfare system that everyone loves.

Mainichi is also the opposition newspaper and election season is approaching in Japan due to Kishida's scandals leading to his resignation.
Counterpoint: https://rumble.com/v4e0xw0-tucker-carlson-interviews-mike-be...
Right, but this doesn't invalidate the idea that genetic groups exist and that heritability can significantly affect traits such as intelligence.

It simply moves the question to, which genetic groups are correct to create distinctions from. The adage that there is more human genetic diversity in Africa than outside it comes to mind.
I've been at two small companies that had layoffs, and who was cut/retained was 100% based on what was best for the company (except some visa holders were retained). Which is what it should be.
If we can construct nuclear reactors a mile down, doesn’t that mean we can more easily drill for essentially unlimited geothermal power? I realize this is an “obvious” question but it isn’t addressed by TFA.
Ha, reminds me of Duke Nukem mirrors which are essentially the same thing, looking through a window to mirrored geometry
Context: The yen is at its lowest value in decades currently.
Very cute but that's all. No reason for me to consider it true. This if we are making unbacked claims then let me riposte thus, "the past is another country, they do things differently there". Which if true would mean the past has little bearing on the present – if true.
Yet they go for oil at these depths even at the risk of a dry well.
Jupyter Notebooks can be useful for more than small snippets of code.

A Ruby Jupyter kernel would be useful if you've got a Ruby codebase, and want to run a Notebook using some of that code.
It would be nice, but I don’t see why perfect need be the enemy of good
Hillary paid for the Russian collusion story with the full intent of interfering with the election. Many people actively participated in it and assisted.

Many government officials KNOWINGLY signed a letter saying the Hunter Biden laptop was not real, KNOWING it was real, with the full intent of interfering with the election.

Both of these things are huge and had a gigantic impact on the election. In fact, 8 out of 10 people think that if they had known the truth (or had known) about the Hunter Biden laptop it would have changed the election. [Source: https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116258/documents/...]

Yet no one has been charged with election interference. Trump on the other hand gets convicted for something seemingly much less innocuous and, likely, not even illegal.

If you don't think there is a 2 tiered justice system you are delusional.
It is also clear that the MSM is in the pocket of the Democrats and actively attempts to help them and hurt republicans.
Employees as Risks
It's the same way NVIDIA states bandwidth for PCIe and NVLink.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/
> If we're talking psychoanlytically of where wanting comes from, and call it a desire to fill a void of how incoherent you actually are, then an LLM doesn't go through that process.

Ironically, many people complain LLMs are too incoherent, with all their confabulations and hallucinations.

But I agree. Desire is a good verb. I think that's what differentiates us from the 'machines'. In art, we try to create meaning. From our lives. From our discontents. Even a million LLMs cannot be in deficit of meaning; they are precisely tuned to their own capacity. Whereas something strange about humans is our endless desire for 'more'.
I’d say that’s misleading. More like a very small, oblong pumpkin. (Can grab with one hand)
Brisbane hydrogen fleet project lands funding from Mitsubishi and Samsung
Ultimately to maximize engagement you want to get people obsessed with something. Whether it’s sometimes violent racism, vaccine paranoia, national politics, whatever, you just need to get them obsessed, and then they will spend hours every day on your site feeding this beast and go insane. Then you will sell lots of ads and get rich.

In this case, the government was saying: “Hey we have no problem in general with you driving people insane, but in this particular topic, having a bunch of antivax lunatics ain’t helping with the pandemic.”

IMO the problem is not the content per se, it’s the massive psychological manipulation. It’s incompatible with a free, functioning democracy.
Who ever measured the "correlation" between intelligence and IQ and how?

...given that intelligence is not only abstract, but also not defined consistently?
The reason why I left out anything was to avoid my clarification being taken as evidence of some personal bias. Alas I failed.

As you seem to agree that most modern nations have been borne out of injustices of some form or other, I feel obliged to ask this: isn't it taxing to deny every country's right to exist? It feels like it would be if you want to live in a moderate society where people want bygones to be bygones, especially the kinds that nobody can do anything meaningful about.

Personally I feel like the more productive way of arguing is for diminishing the injustices that are happening right now, not against the reasons why those injustices happen in the first place.
"...an ordinary 19th century family’s one book beyond the Bible (thousands of years old) might be Pilgrim’s Progress (about two hundred years old)."
I think that is part of the reason speech has changed. I am reminded of this snippet of dialog in the film True Grit. The language used sounds so archaic, even though the fictitious event is just over a century and a half old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMPr9rchJMs
Itanium was not in any sensible way RISC, it was "VLIW". That pushed a lot of needless complexity into compilers and didn't deliver the savings.
Thanks for your response, I was more interested to hear on the security part of Briar, as a signal competitor, in light of linked article.
So.. JavaScript is slowly reinventing OO class and module access controls?
> One trusts The Lancet I see.

I treat it like anything else: I wouldn't be shocked to see evidence that incorrect things show up in places like the lancet. But I assume it's on par with the best I can get my hands on, so I use it.

I'm gonna skip the "technically not forced" debate, been through it too many times. I'll agree to disagree.

Is the fish metaphor to say that it was some people realizing how little control they have over their lives or something like that? Amen if so.
Yes, this is it.

It's a very shallow introduction to Galois Fields but it's just barely enough to reach Reed Solomon encoding and understand error correction codes.

As I said earlier: it's a lot of math, even in this simplified form. Abstract conceptual math. But I do find this kind of abstractness very fun.
This is a nice idea, but assumes both your employer and your personal account use Google Calendar. If that assumption goes away I might be interested in this.

What guarantees does this make about access to data and how does it make them?
Even better recent evidence shows that rotation curves are flat up to a million light years, which no feasible particle dark matter halo could reproduce:

https://tritonstation.com/2024/06/18/rotation-curves-still-f...
Can you issue wildcard certificates with Dokku? It seems like you need to have a proxy domain to register the TXT records, since you do not know the domain of the user in advance.
The community you insist so much on everyone bending over for is dozens, maybe hundreds of people. Two games were released that cater to this very audience and this is how successful they are:

- dustborn: all-time peak 83 people playing

https://steamdb.info/app/721180/charts/

- concorde: all-time peak 696 people playing

https://steamdb.info/app/2443720/charts/

Gamedev is a business and these projects clearly failed to deliver any return on the investment.
Japan's government debt is owed to... Japan, mostly the Bank of Japan (ie, the government). Ironically the yen is weak because Japanese interest rates are low, because Japanese prices have barely nudged since 1990, averaging approximately no inflation until roughly last year. If anything, Japan isn't printing nearly enough yen. They can afford to spend more and tax less.
>which genetic groups are correct to create distinctions from.

None, because you cannot create a grouping without imposing certain parameters which are non-empirical in nature. Genetic science =! race science. Race as a concept is almost entirely mediated by social concerns and abstractions from concrete reality.
> "springs and struts"

This seems to have originated in something called Visix Galaxy, and supposedly done better there than in Interface Builder. See here: https://wiki.c2.com/?SpringsAndStruts

I tried finding any documentation on this tool/SDK, but no luck. Any one else has any more information on what this Galaxy looked like?
That's an interesting method of discouraging hand-washing after using the facilities.
You probably don't hear the founding fathers or various kings called that much either.
Congrats! Huge get :)
Preliminary Report on DisTrO (Distributed Training Over-the-Internet) [pdf]
Thank you for taking the time to do this.
As much I enjoy the quote from Contact about "Why build one when you can build two at twice the price?", and my wife and I have used it with each other as appropriate in some amusingly bizarre situations over the years, it did always bother me a bit that it wasn't true, because building a second one would be cheaper than the first. You only have to decipher the blueprints once, and anything you have to build a thing to build the thing to build the thing, which that structure probably had quite a bit of, you generally can get a second copy of the final output much more cheaply. Not a lot of construction systems involve the total, absolute destruction of everything you used to build the first one. (Although that can certainly be part of a construction process for sufficiently interesting things.)
there is pretty strong evidence that Nuclear energy is significantly safer than most energy production with the exception of wind & solar which are similarly as safe. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
They would be painted red and white so planes could see and avoid them.
We are at some point of the rising trend, we don't know how high it may get, and how fast we will reach some uncomfortable point. But what we do know is that global average temperatures are rising extremely fast, and the valid precedents of such rate might be associated with some mass extinctions.

In any case, global averages is not the same as how bad it could get at some point where you are, never cross a river 4-feet deep on average.
What works in other countries doesn't necessarily work in ours. The US is huge. We are spread out. We are rural. It's like the argument over Taiwan having much faster internet connections for every customer vs. ours.... but in a much denser country.
Chatbot based on Mac menu bar
While “rave” is a misnomer, being applied almost exclusively based on skin color, haplogroups are a well defined aspect of genetic study and are very well defined geographically. It’s why the Germans look so distinct to Australians and so on, because different genetics found their footing in different areas. Claiming they are based solely on “socio-economic” factors is wildly incorrect and wildly racist. To what authority does someone’s social and economic standing define their genetics?
Half of Canadians support mandatory national service, survey reveals
Same in my experiments. "Loud" is not the right word here at all.
IQ remains one of the most highly predictive traits you even can measure from someones psychology, predicting crime rates, happiness, divorces. Just about everything actually is predicted by IQ in someones like, to an extent to which philosophical questions about determinism even can be brought up in discussion.

Race is genetically determined. Are you suggesting that for example breeds of dogs can swap from Labrador to Golden Retriever based on vibes during their upbringing. The term "black" as a racial group is of course an extremely crude and large genetic grouping, much like saying that perhaps "retrievers" are a race of dogs. Nonetheless, groups remain genetically determined.
Unitree Launches G1 Humanoid Robot with 3D Lidar and Dexterous Hands for USD 16k
All we experience is in our mind alone - psychedelics reveal nothing about the universe but they do reveal everything about our perception of it. It wont make you see colors that you are incapable of normally seeing, or hear things you are incapable of normally hearing, but it will re-arrange your senses to seem that way. IMO, we should not be fooled by these cheap sensory tricks and im disappointed Sacks has been.
Sounds like dairy in Canada. We basically have a taxi medallion system for milk.

Result: high prices (basically a regressive tax), personal import limits that haven’t increased in 3+ decades, artificial barriers to entry (good luck becoming a dairy farmer unless you inherited a farm or take out a massive loan before even starting) & low per capita production for a country that could be a dairy exporting juggernaut.

New Zealand is currently the biggest dairy exporter. Canada, despite being a massive agri-exporter for other products, not even in the top 15.
It's not clear that GR would need to be tweaked to match MOND. The GR solutions we currently use in LCDM are based on the FLRW metric, but that metric could just be the wrong fit for our universe.
Interesting. How would one even go about expressing the idea that height and intelligence are literally the exact same thing in such a way that someone would want to talk about it?
As a gastroenterologist I have used Medtronic GI Genius AI to do colonoscopies for the past 8 months. It is mildly helpful but has way too many false positive alarms for "polyps" that are not polyps. It needs better training in the real world.
Lesson plans are inherently individual to a teacher. So even if a year’s worth of lesson plans was created and shared, and even if I thought they were good, it would still take non-negligible time for me to absorb them and mentally plan how I was going to use them.

That’s the tip of the iceberg in my attempt to explain the complexity of teaching.
I'm not building anything particularly billion-dollar scale (though my competitors think they are, given how much they've raised).

The idea is improving on uptime monitoring/status pages. It's a slow business to build, but it works.

I have friends doing the same for email platforms, web analytics, and more. Just be slightly better.
Which highlights that even suggesting this is illegal in countries in Europe.
Just curious, is "a ppp [lication]" an alt for "a[ndy] ppp"?

Both arguing the same points at the same time is quite the Baader–Meinhof coincidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Unfortunately I suspect that line is giving it a "dont think about pink elephants" problem. Whether or not it acts like that was up to random chance but describing it at all is a positive reinforcement.

It's very evident in my usage anyways. If I start the convo with something like "You are terse and direct in your responses" the interaction is 110% more bearable.
This is for LLM's which deal mainly with text. An entire book can be stored as .42 MB according to https://www.quora.com/How-many-megabytes-are-in-a-book.

424 terrabytes text is over a billion books worth of data. On the common crawl website it even says "Over 250 billion pages spanning 17 years." That's an impressive amount of information.
There is no water shortage on a small island like Japan, it gets a LOT of rain, and really, when grown in the mountain areas (cmmon in Japan) the rice terraces probably slow the water flow down rather than speed it up (going via the river straight into the sea) somewhat watering the rice crops and all other life nearby.

Rice doesn't actually need a lot of water to grow, they use the water as a type of weed control, rice is unique in that it can grow practically submersed in water. Most other species cannot.

Bali has been experimenting growing rice without such large amounts of water, it went well. Google it!
> I honestly don't get why they have a CLA, anyone know?

There are valid reasons to have a CLA: confirmation that your contributions are not encumbered by an employer contract is a good one. What there is rarely an excuse for is a copyright assignment, which often gets bundled into a CLA.

The only non-nefarious example of copyright assignment that I can think of is the FSF, but only because they have such a strong record on software freedom.
That OCP 3.0 card has the same link bandwidth as the GPUs, so you can scale out without much loss of all-reduce bandwidth. In practice, for all models except the largest, the ~16GB/s all-reduce is totally fine. You just need to make sure you can all-reduce all weights in your training step time.

Say you are training a 3B parameter model in BF16. That's 6GB of weights, as long as your step time is >=500ms you won't see a slowdown.
> (...) ignoring the fact that Durov is a Russian tech oligarch that was allowed to sell his vk userbase to an authoritarian state and is neither in a Siberian labor colony or having a taste of novichok/plutonium poisoning.

Adding to that, note the outrage expressed by high-level Russian officials regarding Durov's arrest. Not only are they ok with a private business running a supposedly confidential messaging service within Russia, they also go to bat for him to try to protect it. This, in a regime so hostile to free speech and personal liberty such as Russia.
> It prohibits the government from abridging the freedom of speech.

And that does not give companies and individuals the ability to choose what they host on their sites?
2 hours of battery power
> If anything, Japan isn't printing nearly enough money

Japan has very low wages compared to other OECD countries (the average wage in Japan is only around $25,000), so inflation - especially the kind you are proposing - is catastrophic, especially given how a significant proportion of the population is on a fixed income due to retirement or social subsidizes due to un- or underemployment.

This is why the Japanese government tries to limit inflation to 2%.

> because Japanese prices have barely nudged since 1990

Because of significant government intervention.
I've found Claude to be way too congratulatory and apologetic. I think they've observed this too and have tried to counter it by placing instructions like that in the system prompt. I think Anthropic are doing other experiments as well about "lobotomizing" out the pathways of sycophancy. I can't remember where I saw that, but it's pretty cool. In the end, the system prompts become pretty moot, as the precise behaviours and ethics will become more embedded in the models themselves.
There are a few exceptions, but overall the BSDs have very well engineered and maintainable code. They don’t move as fast as Linux distros do partly due to less manpower and partly due to taking the time to do it the right way. There is much less churn and they don’t have the cruft of supporting obscure UNIX flavors that have faded into distant memory like GNU utilities do. Take a look at some FreeBSD code and their GNU and Linux equivalents and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
I think it's interesting to read people voicing concerns and limitations of the projects in the comments (that's why I came to read them), but I was hoping more people would be excited about the idea. Even if it doesn't work out, I root for people who try out ideas like this.

Every once in a while some crazy idea like breaking down atoms to generate electricity works out and we're all better off thanks to it.
Anthropomorphization of LLMs is bad, but the reverse is worse. This is not psychology.

Although... has anyone tried quantizing schizophrenia?