skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's much fun to be had with filters of varying kinds - in airborne mag KF filters can be used for removing heading induced signal - variations due to the plane travelling in specific headings wrt earth magnetic field.

In a similar handwavy fashion, after picking instrument paramers and distances that might twitch on shaft responses, filters can be zeroed on regions with no shafts to see if an enhanced response can be amplified when processing the return over ground with a shaft to the surface.

Other tells for lost 'hidden' shafts might include Lidar profiles of spoil heaps .. these are clear in some cases, eroded and softened in many others.

A good many old shafts are visible from the air in any case; more so at some times of days than others - if the will is there to map them then a first pass combo of visual processing and lidar returns to map out open shafts is a good start.
> When will you feel like you all have won the war here? What is it that you need to happen?

I was involved in a previous iteration of the culture war (religion vs atheism) pretty heavily. If this is anything like that, it'll start fading once people feel like the cultural dominance of the group is broken.

If you want a rule of thumb, hollywood being considered non-woke and universities not requiring diversity statements (cultural conservatives consider these to be roughly isomorphic to the old loyalty oaths) would be generally what to look for.

Edit: These institutions losing their influence would probably also be sufficient. There's nothing inherently important about hollywood, so if another locus of entertainment gains prominence, and it has different cultural views, that would also qualify.
> No matter what the numbers in the bank account says, the number of people who can get the good stuff will be limited to the actual infrastructure and actual production output.

Only if you define "the good stuff" as "the best stuff." If you define "the good stuff" relative to a subsistence farming or hunter-gatherer lifestyle, the median person today in a developed country is arguably richer than the richest person in town 50 years ago, the richest person in the country 100 years ago, and the richest person on the planet 500 years ago.
Yes, 2nd amendment gives me the right to own a gun and the right to own a gun gives me the right to murder anyone I want for whatever reason I want :)
For to define "reasoning", you have to deal with (at least) the following sub-questions:

1. What is knowledge?

2. How can knowledge be encoded in a machine?

LLMs say that knowledge is encoded in the relationships between words (and, in fact, has been by the corpus of human writing), and that's enough. Expert systems said that knowledge could be encoded in carefully-written rules, and that's enough.

I'm pretty sure that any actually intelligent[1] computer is going to have to have more than one flavor of knowledge representation, and be able to shift between them as the situation warrants.

[1] Whatever "actually intelligent" may mean. I don't have to know what it is, though, to recognize that what we have so far is inadequate.
When using 'thou', thou shouldst of course use the corresponding inflexion, too: "Where dost thou blog?"
I wouldn't account for it at all both because I think it will shake out in the aggregate but also because if people are spending all their money immediately I think it signals low confidence in their future economic situation.
Ask yourself: Who would want this?

Do students want this? No. They will want to distinguish themselves from their peers and trying to cap their performance prevents that.

Do institutions want this? No. They also want distinguishing power.

Do parents want this? Probably least of all. They want their kids distinguished and caps won't work.

No individual participant has the desire for this. You also can't talk them into the desire by doing things like saying "but nobody likes stress", because you don't control what is motivating people by how you squint at their motivations. Their motivations are their motivations.

As a result, even if you were King of the World and pushed the Magic Button that instantly and completely enforced this everywhere, it would immediately decay as every participant in the system worked around it, rather than for it.

I type this to encourage you to think in this way, because it is relevant to doing good engineering in general. Solutions to problems must also be implementable, and something the people with the problems actually want. And what they "should" want is pretty much irrelevant; what they do want and what the actually do are what matters.
There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.
The GP's point matters quite a lot, because the ratio of GDP to non-GDP value is going up. Terms like "financialization" or "commodification" describe a process that makes things visible and measurable. I think this is also what the book Seeing Like A State meant by "legibility".

And the whole reason it's a bad thing is that the human values that can't be converted to a measurable, tradeable commodity are often thrown away, because they're invisible to the commodification process.
Did you actually bring some counterarguments to "other countries are real"?
> They only spit out derivative works of what they’ve been trained on

How is that different from humans? Do we get magic inspiration totally separate from anything we’ve learned?

Show me any great book, song, movie, building, sculpture, painting. I will tell you the influences the artist trained on.
Literally the only thing every layman you're gonna ask knows about real estate is "location location location" which is exactly why redlining was harmful and has led to poverty that is measured in generations. Yes, racial minorities did buy homes (at a lesser rate than whites, and in worse places to buy homes) in redlined neighborhoods, with the added and so obvious it feels ridiculous I need to say it caveat that: the homes in redlined neighborhoods were worth substantially less, which not only meant they had a harder time being financed by colored applicants, and an easier one being financed by white ones for the purposes of rent extraction, but also meant even for the ones that did manage to buy, that the property was then worth substantially less when passed on to their children.

And, that's assuming that the neighborhood in question didn't get bulldozed for a freeway by Robert Moses or any of the dozens of urban planners that used eminent domain to rat fuck minority homeowners out of the meager scraps they had managed to acquire.

And, that's only racial minorities, that's not even going into women who thanks to being largely un-banked and the presumptions that finance was simply over their pretty little heads, and of course that their jobs were chronically underpaid if they even could get them, would be laughed out of a bank entirely if they tried to buy a home.

So like, was it ONLY white men buying homes? Nah. But it was predominantly white men buying all the homes you would actually want to buy and if you weren't a white man, you had an objectively, measurable harder time doing it.
That's what I mean. I've seen async loaders that wait 5s and don't see the file, then request it again. Before you know it, you're downloading 50 files of the same file or making 100 api requests to the same api endpoint.
Yes, that was the claim I responded to as well. Non-EU vs EU.
Cell phones are getting better. There are lots of websites on the internet. Batteries are getting better. Cars are getting better.

It is very common to focus on some large things that are bad and think that is the big picture without considering how much all the little things really add up to.
TFA is not putting music on an oscilloscope. Some of it is actually plotting frequency vs time in the video, so it's nice demo stuff but not true oscilloscope music.

Long ago I did like you and converted an CRT TV to accept audio on the deflection coils (left, right -> X,Y). I can highly recommend 2 particular songs for that setup:

1) Cathedral by VanHalen

2) Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider

By all means use a CD if you can rather than MP3 - I'm not sure how degraded the MP3 would be so maybe it's fine.
Humility doesn't hurt anyone.
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>Just for noodling. And trying it in a store. And playing with friends (you don't need much to play along an acoustic guitar). Or playing and singing in a room, or next to a campfire.

Who plays an FM synth on a campfire? Not even Kraftwerk! And I don't think it's for jamming with friends with acoustic guitars either. It's more for electronic musicians and keyboardists wanting something portable to noodle at home, or indie musicians for when playing live.
I quite enjoyed the ad at the end of the movie. Really hope that doesn't catch on.
> Now, if you think that a massive social transformation is underway of non-GDP-registering activities to GDP-registering activities -- e.g. people used to care for their grandmas, now all those people have gotten jobs to pay for care assistants to do it instead -- then yes GDP will show "false growth" in productivity. But that really doesn't seem to be a major factor.

But isn't that the issue?

Before: one working-age person in the household worked part time, or did not work at all. She (it was usually a she) could get the kids off to school, pick them up after school, check in on grandma, do the shopping, cook a simple meal.

Now: the working-age person goes to work, perhaps because the family fell apart, perhaps because other rising costs (e.g. health care) forced it. Before and after school care is paid for. Someone is paid to check in on grandma. Walmart+ or Amazon occasionally delivers heat-and-eat meals.

GDP went way up! Amazon contractor has a job delivering boxes. Someone is paid to check in on Grandma, and someone else to watch the kids. Someone works in the factory making heat-and-eat meals.

But are we really better off? Is it better to staff out the kid- and Grandma-watching and to heat up a dinner in the microwave? I'm not sure anyone knows the answer to that question, but I'm certainly not sure that "we really are seeing massive amounts of innovation in the economy that improve people's lives."
Sounds a bit like Team Topologies
You don't have to ban cities to get all that though, there are such areas all over Europe as well just that people prefer the density more until they have kids, and then they move further out to get a house with a yard and need a car.
I'll be generous and just say, maybe people should just use llama.cpp and not ollama if they care about having nice things, if merging support for existing features is that difficult.

It seems like it's probably a better choice overall.

That said, I'm sure people worked very hard on this, and it's nice to see it as a part of ollama for the people that use it.

Also:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That sentence literally makes no sense, obviously coming from the spoiled mind of a coddled rich kid.

The fact is that you chose to write what you wrote, for good or ill. I spent all day yesterday explaining the truth of our moral existence to y'all here, conversing with a very fine fellow who has a bit of knowledge. It brought me a joy that no one else on this site has ever felt. It was electric, sans drugs of any kind, and only a couple of sips of coffee all day, which is very rare for me.

No, there's a force within you that will work its damnedest to get you to quit reading it before you get to the bottom. It starts in that post about Maria Konnakova's poetry article, but that's not the important part, or even my grand-reply (reply to my initial reply). Most people don't have the intellectual curiosity and bravery to read such utterly new information, but if you can read drivel from AS, you can make through one (rather long) page of mine.

I triple-dog dare ya ;-)

And remember, ignorance of the truth is a human vice that we must fight and defeat, in order to choose the better path, the Path of Love. Giving in to ignorance is a choice between good and evil, my friend. I hope you choose well, but you'll likely choose to rebel against the truth, and instead keep believing the lies that have been told to you, which is our body's monkey-inheritance.

Happy choosing! I truly wish you all success and happiness in this world, but that latter one is dependent upon our learning and manifesting the truth, my friend.
And two of them should be the most obvious example you can think of, and the weirdest example you can think of.
How does a new thing become a store of value?

Could it be that there is a path to medium of exchange ->store of value? -> unit of account?

That could explain the volatility while the market prices it correctly
It sounds like they're not virtual flavors. They're real flavors; the actual molecules are released from the gel.

It seems the actual taste component is indeed virtual, which could be pretty cool. It might be able to produce a truer sweetness than any artificial sweetener, which all have off-tastes.
A bug is defined as an unexpected defect. You can fix an unexpected defect by correcting the error in the code that led to the defect. In your example of lack of bounds checking there's a very concrete answer that will instantly fix the defect—add bounds checking.

Hallucinations are not unexpected in LLMs and cannot be fixed by correcting an error in the code. Instead they are fundamental property of the computing paradigm that was chosen, one that has to be worked around.

It's closer to network lag than it is to bounds checking—it's an undesirable characteristic, but one that we knew about when we chose to make a network application. We'll do our best to mitigate it to acceptable levels, but it's certainly not a bug, it's just a fact of the paradigm.
I would like to throw our project in the ring that solves this problem: https://github.com/tjmlabs/ColiVara

1. Uses half-vecs, so you cut down everything by half with no recall loss
2. Uses token pooling with hierarchial clustering at 3, so, you further cut down things by 2/3rd with <1% loss
3. Everything is on Postgres and pgvector, so you can do all the Postgres stuff and decrease corpus size by document metadata filtering
4. We have a 5000+ pages corpus in production with <3 seconds latency.
5. We benchmark against the Vidore leaderboard, and very near SOTA

You can read about half-vecs here: https://jkatz05.com/post/postgres/pgvector-scalar-binary-qua...

Hierarchical token pooling: https://www.answer.ai/posts/colbert-pooling.html

And how we implemented them here: https://blog.colivara.com/
No mention of all the "deadwood:" people that don't contribute anything at all. People you're loath to assign anything to because they've repeatedly shown that they're incapable of finishing the simplest task. People one would think would be first on the cutting block at the next layoff.
> That's extremely debatable

I completely agree. People will have different interpretations and perspectives on it, and there is often no way to know which is closer to what Nietzsche was thinking. Jung is certainly not without his own biases, and very unconventional framing of things. I don’t intend to claim that his perspective is perfect. I’d say he was mostly unique in having the courage to think about ideas from Nietzsche that made him personally uncomfortable, and not try to avoid it or pretend Nietzsche must have meant something else.

However it is a matter of degree- a lot of the translations and commentary have really egregious basic misinterpretation and misunderstandings.
English is the language spoken by the broadest base of people in the EU, and since Brexit lacks the kind of partisan status that e.g. French or German would have.
Spies jumped from one telco to another in a way 'I've not seen in my career'
If you're curious where the data comes from, it's from a FT report that used this as the source: https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/b...
BT Group confirms attackers tried to break into Conferencing division
> but outside of confidence, grammar and vocabulary

Just those, huh?
Buying PUT options is equivalent to shorting i.e. the more the stock price goes down, the more money you make.

Selling PUT options is equivalent to being long i.e. the more the stock price goes up, the more money you can make.

The OP seems confused.
British hospitals hit by cyberattacks still battling to get systems back online
I love Isabel Wilkerson's book. It was that (through the comparison with caste) that gave me a clearer idea of the difference between what race is in American culture.

I have posted this before so a bit reluctant to repeat, but its relevant. i wrote a blog post about my view and experience of race in different cultures : https://pietersz.co.uk/2023/08/racism-culture-different
US officials recommend encrypted messaging to evade hackers in telecom networks
All cell phones in my price range now have buggy firmware: this did not used to be the case. Good websites are much harder to find than they were in 2014. Cars are bigger and scarier and more numerous than ever before.

There are things that are better, but "batteries" is the only one from your list that I agree with.
Temporary printable tattoos could be the future of EEGs
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. It feels good to have some company in this, I will follow your progress!

I created a repo for my solutions here: https://github.com/lyxell/aoc2024-sqlite

Update: Wow. Reading your solutions was a real eye-opener for me. It never struck me that one can exploit the fact that unmaterialized CTE's will not be evaluated for rows that is not needed by another SELECT and one can use this the same way one uses laziness in Haskell. This is great stuff, thanks again for sharing!
Let's pretend that we don't have a time machine and stick with comparing what we have today.
>>Congrats to the people who held through thick and thin, I speculate (my own opinion) that we will likely not see 80% drawdowns anymore due to all the institutional money that flew in, just “standard” 40-50% dips. Fantastic to witness, an asset class out of thin air.

There was some person who invested $30 everyday in BTC since 2017, and has $1 million right now.

The tweet had gone viral on Twitter.

BTC bull/bear cycles have taught a lot of people many things about regular investing.

Like what this person did is called DCA(Dollar Cost Averaging).

>>>>Cheers to the next 10X in 8 years, $1M in 2032!

Seems like showing up everyday is all there is to success. Mostly. Every once in a while, someone makes it big due to luck/help. But showing up everything is all.
Enormous amounts of valuable activity is not captured in GDP and never has been. This makes it dangerous to take two GDP numbers from different polities (or even GDP PPP) and compare them to compare their wealth.

However, change in GDP can tell you something broader about a society. It is a compounding value, which means only a trivial amount of GDP change can be explained by moving some of a society's value into or out of the GDP measure. Over a century, the compounding effect eclipses the non-measured component.

So if two societies, over the long term, have different GDP growth numbers, one of those societies will end up rich and the other end up poor.

Slow down GDP growth even a little and you will impoverish your grandchildren. They will have to choose between becoming doctors in their poor society, or emigrating and waiting tables in the rich society.
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> Clothes are above all something that warms/protects/hides us from the world.

Not sure that follows. Most places have a climate that would allow us to get by without clothes if we so desired (at least for part of the year), but few do. On the other hand, farmers and their families used to use flour sacks to make clothing, and when the flour companies realized this they started making patterned sacks. Flour companies didn't do this for fun, it was a desirable feature that increased sales.

> Also, "fashion" is one of the stupidest things ever, like oh hey, you should now replace your perfectly good clothes every season because someone says so??

Agreed, but nothing stops us from keeping fashionable clothes around for a long time. "Sunday best," for instance.
The people picking are also human beings who experience the services of said company?

Or are you implying the ‘pickers’ get special gold plated services completely different from regular employees?
Yeah its tough. One that doesn't get though about as much is libraries/frameworks or generic technology that can be plugged into these projects. If one of these firms had to reinvent a message broker or event streaming framework or front-end/UI library everytime they built something it'd not be profitable.
Ok, but then you end up with children who don’t need to work for as long because they have a head start. And so on until you have oligarchs who are born eating caviar and will never have to work.
There’s been a few threads on the Salt Typhoon operation but government encouraging use of encryption feels like a new twist.
Is it actually integral? I’m not sure. Try asking a person whether some arbitrary scenario is right or wrong and why. A good null hypothesis is that, for people with no training in morality or ethics, responses will be uniformly distributed over outcomes.
I worked on the sound effects and music for the game Wilderplace and used WebDX7 for all of the sound (everything but some sculpted white noise for rain as DX7 doesn't offer pure noise or filters). All the sequencing/synthesis happens real-time in the game. DX7 was crazy fun to work with, like working with clay or something...

DX7 patches have this way of layering with each other that feels both clear and warm at the same time. They don't accumulate mud in the same way that sample-based instruments do. They do have this challenge of accumulating digital-sounding cruft, but I think this is part of their gritty, organic beauty.

Okay but that said I'd love to experience a stereo GPU-based FM synth with high dynamic range and a fully configurable operator graph.
All the points you listed apply to India as well, with its multilingual states and conservative scarcity-driven mindset. Yet entrepreneurship is growing here at rates never witnessed before.
I sometimes go most of a week without checking any email address. I’ve gone a month without looking at my personal one. It’s basically just for transactional mail, I don’t get things from people there.
At least in the wealthier western European countries, English is already a mandatory subject from a young age. It of course varies by country, but for example Danes are learning English by age 10, followed by German/French/Spanish by age 13.
That's all really weird.
You can watch how chat gpt gives you advice on which mushrooms are safe. And now it can be just hallucinations
I live in Chicago. I have 350sqft garage and a partially-finished conditioned 280sqft attic room that functions as a studio space. I have more "workshop" space than most of my friends in the suburbs who mostly just treat their garages as a storage space with a little workbench in the corner. My home is over a century old, although the garage is only 25 years old.

Now, can suburban homes offer you MORE space? Absolutely! And if I had the kind of hobbies that merited that additional space I'd probably want to live there. However, as someone who grew up in the suburbs, has friends in the suburbs, etc - the number of friends I have who actually use that space for enjoyment and not junk storage is literally just 1 guy who has a sweet CNC and metal working space in his garage and basement. Everyone else has a garage used for cars + storage and a basement rumpus room with maybe a tiny 8x8 workshop somewhere near the mechanicals (HVAC and Water heater)
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