skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Emergence is about intrinsic properties, observer-independent properties. If emergence were about observer-relative properties it would be a meaningless term.

I'm going to address this in case it was also intended to reply to my other comment about "useful to people" possibly being a property.

"Useful to people" would be an observer-independent property, if it's a property at all. An alien species analyzing humanity would come to the same conclusions as humans about whether some system, like the internet, was useful to people. This would be evident by whether the use of that system spread.

As for whether it's "intrinsic", I'm not sure how you're applying this. As you said in a later comment, "Liquidity isn't [a property] of water without a container/pressure environment". In other words, liquidity isn't an intrinsic property of H2O. Moreover, the only reason we identify and created a label for "liquidity" is because it's useful to people, which is the very criterion that you're claiming should not be applied to describe some surprising scaling behaviour of LLMs.

I just don't think you've made the distinction you're attempting to make clear, because there is parity of reasoning between the allegedly emergent properties you describe and those in the article.
> History showed that centralization is ultimately extremely fragile.

but how many people today use Discord et al. compared to IRC? I think the centralized-decentralized thing is a cycle, not a one-way logical progression.
Also in Thailand (there seems to be many videos with different years of how old the soup is): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RxjfH0H1k

Some podcasters talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX2lUssXJpc&t=889s
fenv is available in standard C99. There is a GNU extension to trap and throw a signal when a fp error is hit (feenableexcept). I would definitely argue that signals != exceptions.
Not satire!

You're providing a real service to your friends - a mastodon server. It takes real time, real skill and real money (buying hardware or renting a vps) to do this. Your friends should compensate you and it's fair to ask them to do so.

How you do this is up to you.

I host a gameserver for my friends. This is a really nice bit of hardware in a datacenter. It costs me $600 a year directly and maybe 4-6 hours a month. I have about 8 folks who play on it with regularity.

For my friend group, we "compensate" via trading food, either cooking for each other or catching dinner out. That works well for my friend group and I perceive this as fair.

Your friend group may be different. You may literally ask them to throw in $5 a month or maybe you trade services (your barber friend gives you a free haircut on occasion, whatever).

There isn't a magic equation of what is fair or right for your circumstance.. and it's ok to experiment. Part of why the fediverse is good is that these experiments can be run.
Not specifically about that part, but another factoid that may be interesting:

> In 2021, there were 10,064 MAID provisions reported in Canada, accounting for 3.3% of all deaths in Canada.

From an official government report: https://archive.ph/xD0wD#selection-3057.0-3057.107

Numbers aren't out yet for 2022, and in 2023 it opens up to mental illness as well.
Probably because you can get them to stop picking up and charging if you show some process of your own. Sewage is sometimes bundled with property tax, sometimes with the water bill - another example.
As much as I’m unhappy about the death of PCVR thanks to the Quest 2, I have to agree with Carmack that it was very close to being the Right Device for bringing VR to the masses - and the sales numbers mostly reflect this.

But I can’t help but feel something dysfunctional happened internally since the Quest 2 launch.

The Quest Pro should not have been launched at $1500 with its current feature set/SoC and no depth sensor. And I find it difficult to accept the “enterprise market” claim as anything more than a cope when I go into BestBuy and see it being demoed to consumers and displayed prominently in an endcap.

Then you look at the software side. Horizon is a horrible pile of ugly jank that no one uses. I gave it another shot for the first time in ages last week after seeing an advertising campaign for a deep faked Notorious BIG concert in Horizon. Long story short, the “live metaverse concert” had fewer attendees than an average Wendy’s and the performance was low res 2d video on a screen. Embarrassing stuff.

As far as gaming is concerned: Meta spent hundreds of millions acquiring some of the largest third party VR devs over the past couple years - and still not a single game has been announced.

It sure smells like rotten bureaucratic infighting combined with Zuck doggedly chasing where he thinks the puck is going and Carmack’s resignation letter certainly doesn’t disabuse me of the notion.
Yeah. I’m not sure where this certainty is coming from considering how youngsters couldn’t be part of the crusades considering they’ve historically always been involved in conflict:

> In 1814, for example, Napoleon conscripted many teenagers for his armies.[28] Thousands of children participated on all sides of the First World War and the Second World War.[29][30][31][32] Children continued to be used throughout the 20th and early 21st century on every continent, with concentrations in parts of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.[33] Only since the turn of the millennium have international efforts begun to limit and reduce the military use of children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_the_military

I can see how it would be controversial because an argument could be made that children only are useful when you have some kind of artillery that doesn’t require the strength needed for a bow / crossbow. Still, I wouldn’t discount anything, especially on the purely modern subjective view of “it wouldn’t make financial sense”. Lots of human endeavors and actions don’t make financial sense. It’s not the only axis upon which humans behave.

I suspect of the controversy probably arises from the age “child” denotes. Is it a prepubescent human (lets say 10 and under) or a teenager (let’s say 13 and over).
Interesting, I've always considered signals to be an exception handling mechanism, as in the 'normal flow' of a program is interrupted and dealt with - or not - through some other mechanism. Learn a new thing every day, even after 40 years of programming in C :) Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_handling

(which has this bit: "C does not have try-catch exception handling, but uses return codes for error checking. The setjmp and longjmp standard library functions can be used to implement try-catch handling via macros.")
I have no idea if this would be worth doing. One could also use a conditional move like CMOV on x86 if available on the target architecture to avoid a jump. On the one hand I have the gut feeling that there should be a nice trick to do this, on the other hand this seems to either require a population count dependent shift or rotation or reversing the word, which also has no really simple trick as far as I know and is usually done with a logarithmic number of shifts.
> My tax dollars will be used to clean up this mess once it implodes

Really? have they been used to clean up the mess of some other offshore company imploding?
Twoflower the tourist telling people about in-sewer-ants was also pretty funny.
SEPA only works within the EU whereas what you are comparing is a global payments system. In Europe it is also necessary to report any transactions over 10,000 EUR which causes more friction than you imply.

It is not transparent as to how much currency debasement is taking place, nor does anybody outside a small group at the ECB have any control over it.

It is quite clear who owns decentralized networks - the participants. Are they perfectly equal? No but they are more egalitarian than what they seek to replace.

Decentralized networks are more resilient to outages than the electrical supply of some countries. It may not make sense for you to use but millions around the world have found a use for it.
> Well, for Europeans (and I'd guess Canadians, Latin Americans, etc.) there is a line, and the Dems never cut it.

This is overly simplistic. For instance, the US (left?) has been ahead of Europe on issues like accessibility for the disabled or same-sex marriage.
I'm curious what the tradeoffs are for and against anti-inflammatories (and which ones in particular and which kind of injuries).

Are there studies proving anti-inflammatories are counterproductive?
I do wonder if the next phase of social media is to encourage people to use a single user instance similar to mastodon.host. It would probably have to offer more than just twitter though e.g peertube, pixelfed etc. Start with a free tier, have it all running on auto scale and then notify people when they start getting popular that they need to scale up and start paying for their instance if they want to grow their audience. Don’t know if it would work or not but it’s an idea.
Damaged Soyuz May Leave Crew Without a Ride Home
Lol just gotten in and looked at this at a desktop I thought we were filtering a list. My bad. Funny though.

Interesting task I guess really you want to find the first (from right) and move the first set bit left to fill it.
I think it’s only when you want a tow same day - renewing a failed account has a three day waiting period if you don’t pay the rush fee.
voice chat will simply move to 3rd party apps, Suchas discord.
They're varieties of puffed rice often eaten in milk
> can no longer trust a word of what is printed there.

I think you're confusing a social media site for a journalistic news outlet. A service like Twitter is zero-trust: it's just a collection of individuals and companies that can say or promote nearly whatever they want so long as it stays within the realm of being legal and within ToS.

You might as well say that you can't trust everything you read that's hosted on on AWS.

As far as the algorithm, available evidence suggests that you're not correct about its bias:

https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/bias-report-release-page

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...

Of course, you'll respond to this with the bog-standard conservative manifesto that evidence and researched knowledge is liberal, woke, or whatever the latest scapegoat word of the day looks like.
Ask HN: What's on your Christmas wish list?
I'm aware not everyone here celebrates Christmas but for those who do, or just like take advantage of holiday sales, what's on your wish list?
Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
quick shout-out to https://literal.club/ as a hopeful successor of GoodReads

Before I sign up: does it do 'people who liked this book also liked...' ? And/or are the recommendations based on previous books I put in there myself ok?
Rice (or any other cereals) can be cooked in a microwave oven in between 12 to 15 minutes, depending on the amount and on the oven, and without using more water than will be absorbed by the rice, which is typically about 4 times the mass of the rice (e.g. 125 g of rice + 500 g of water).

There is no need for a pot of water or for fuel, but electricity is needed. Bread can be made with much less water, but that does not save anything, because in that case you must drink more water.
Lawrence Krauss – Stanford Classical Liberalism Seminar Series
Cryptonomicon. A classic but deservedly so.
I'm reminded of ramen restaurants I've visited that tell stories about their broth and its origins, mentioning that it's been simmering for decades. Some of the more famous ramen places I've visited have gone so far as to point out that the broth is made offsite in case anyone was thinking about attempting to tamper with it. Maybe some of that is for dramatic effect, but I imagine if you're a competitive restaurant and your success is dependent on something decades old, then you need to protect it.
Whatever man. Nobody is implying that therapy means you are broken. It’s about growth and self actualization.

Lots of people use "therapy" for performance optimization for example: sports psychology.
Unlike deafness, cancer tends to be fatal. More appropriate comparisons (though not entirely comparable) would be gender dysphoria, autism, or, if the "gay gene" hypothesis is to be believed, homosexuality.
Amazing book. I would love to see a film adaptation. I also recommend his Bas-Lag series starting with Perdido Street Station.
The Bone Clocks is what killed David Mitchell's work for me. Really like Count Belasarius though, but I have always liked my heroes heroic, especially the historical ones.
Thought they were talking about grad students at first:)
> It's easy to throw stones but what else do people want from Meta?

Exactly. However, I think their AI play will need to come into fruition - AI as a service will need to be their second cash cow before anything Metaverse
Chomsky? He's a linguist, what does that have to do with Psychoanalysis?

Feynman? He's a physicist, what does that have to do with Psychoanalysis?

...

This list very much sounds like something the marketing team of an online therapy startup would put together and post to Wikipedia and tell their colleagues to contribute to.
Of course it is, but it's no place to dwell in.

You wake up and realize you've been in a car crash. Best thing to do would be try to reach for immediate help, not to focus on or be thankful that you gained consciousness. There is a time and place.
> There is no government on earth that does not function without at least tacit consent of those governed.

One thing I've noticed visiting Russia (multiple times) is how politically indifferent the average Russian is. (Or more precisely the average big city Russian). There's this idea everywhere that, you know politics is really complicated and you don't really understand it, so let the people in charge make decisions.

So yes, Russian people have exactly the government they want.
They did the same when I broke my collarbone. The bone healed mis-aligned and needed surgery anyway to re-break it so it could be aligned properly.
I'm OK with the term emergent used here - it seems the best word to describe non-trivial capabiities/properties that weren't designed in. At least prior to the first LLMs, I think most people would just expect them to be capable of doing literally what they are trained to do - predict (locally plausible) next word(s), and this is certainly all that is "designed in" if we're talking about a basic LLM (vs one with further RL-based "alignment", etc).

Of course we can also appreciate that to get REALLY REALLY good at "predict next word" would require intelligence/understanding of what is being generated, but I think the point here is would anyone - the model designers in particular - have expected that the transformer architecture (+ scale) is all it would take to become so good at this task? I don't think "attention is all you need" was really anticipating transformers reading API docs and generating code to perform requested functions! One might have expected it to take a much more elaborate and evolved architecture to achieve this level of capability!

So, to me, it seems entirely appropriate to describe these models as having emergent capabilities - things they are capable of doing that are really so far above and beyond "predict next word", that it seems churlish and inaccurate to describe them as designed it (or even just confidently predicted).
You can tune the behavior of OCaml’s GC. See the discussion of best-fit/next-fit/first-fit allocation here:

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/garbage-collector.html
Fiction

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Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Gnomon - Nick Harkaway

The Gone Away World - Nick Harkaway

The Apollo Murders - Chris Hadfield

Nonfiction

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Mindf*ck - Chris Wylie

1776 - David McCullough

Apollo 8 - Jeffrey Kluger
> And the fire department didn't go out.

Again, more misinformation! They did go out, and made sure the fire didn't spread off the property. If anybody had been imperiled, the firefighters would have helped. FFS, it's right in that article:

> They put water out on the fence line out here. They never said nothing to me. Never acknowledged. They stood out here and watched it burn," Cranick said.

And if the firefighters were rude to these people, it's probably because the people who lived there were a bunch of anti-social shitheads and the firefighters knew it. But the firefighters did go out anyway. Stop your nonsense.
You are not alone, and you are not a lost cause. People change their life all the time.

Start with both the most important and the easiest problems.

You mentioned depression and suicidal thoughts. Take those seriously, treat depression like an injury or illness. You wouldn't ignore a broken leg or high fever. Absolutely get professional help for this illness. This is top prio. Do it tomorrow.

And then there's also all the small things you can change right now.

I've been in a similar situation a few times in my life, the most recent in my late 30s.

Kids, work and family left me without any time for myself, which meant over the years I had nothing else left. No hobbies. Very few friends. No real interests outside of work and family.

This also meant that any crisis in family or work hit 100x, because there was not much to compensate. I had reduced myself to a worker and family serviceman. I wasn't really a person anymore.

It took me a while to get out of this mess. The path that helped me was re-discovering things that interest me and then pursuing them in a careful way. Reading, sports, computer gaming, side programming on hobby projects, open source contributions, cooking...

Nothing special or unique, but all of these things I did for myself and not for others. I was slowly rebuilding my persona and reinventing myself.
> And regardless, do consider adoption, even as a single parent.

I am struggling to think of any official agency which would pair a child with a single man. Is this really something that happens?
Book: You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World by Torie Bosch [1]

Came across this book randomly on Twitter and picked it up. The book is broken into 26 essays about significant pieces of code (defined vaguely), ranging from the Morris Worm to Pagerank to the popup window and the 1x1 invisible gif and how these shaped the modern tech landscape. Lovely read overall, and really shows how pieces of code you work on today can end up having long lasting impact on how society perceives technology as a whole. Best of all, it's not a heavy read, but offers a lot of concise info that can send you down wormholes of wikipedia.

Paper: Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service [2]

Database systems have always been a passion of mine, and the paper from AWS about how DynamoDB works internally is an incredible look into what makes a NoSQL DB platform capable of serving 89 million requests per second _(this is in the intro)_ which is incredible scale. Always good to see how engineering decisions shape products, and it's been interesting to see Dynamo take shape over the last decade _(though I recommend most folks to stay away from it because of it's mad pricing)_

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60254955-you-are-not-exp...

[2]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc22-elhemali.pdf
This sounds like an amazing project and learning opportunity! Reminds me of a halfbaked hardware+software project idea of my own:

- Goal: increase the amount of natural light in my apartment during the day

- Mount a flat mirror on a motorized sun-tracking attachment on south-facing balcony railing

- Set up geometry, software, and motor to rotate the mirror so that it always reflects a beam of sunlight into the apartment, trained on a target area between the wall and ceiling, above eye level of occupants
I don't understand the resistance. You are in a meeting with me. If we were meeting face to face, would you tell me to look the other way ? I get it that sometimes when working remotely, you may not want ppl to see you because may be bad hair day, you were casual with your outfit etc but if you resist EVERY time, that is not a good thing. It makes one wonder if you are hiding something.

However, if this is something you want to do at times, not a problem. Just announce early in the meeting "Hey I am not in a good position to be on camera. Hope that's ok". If you do this sometimes and you get flak everytime, then it may be time for you to look for a better workplace.
Ok, we've attempted to give the article a more neutral title. If anyone can suggest a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the article), we can change it again.
What a waste of time to be worried about how people are using a word.
I agree. I was also taken aback for the first few seconds. After those first few seconds, I think I was able to adjust to the sound.

This would be wilder if I were in an unconstrained environment with similar enhanced audio quality. It would seem like a voice-over.
Being based around a protocol rather than a single piece of software, it will likely end up that servers intended to grow large will run different software than servers intended to stay small.
Binance and Tether are nowhere near big enough to be major financial weapons against the west. They also have nowhere near the sort of supposed major government or criminal support from anyone interested or powerful enough to stop their possible collapse. That you're claiming they do is odd compared to many, many other more mainstream financial systems that have been used as tools by governments and criminals for a lot longer than crypto has even existed. People could have claimed something similar to what you say about FTX just months ago, and would have, as we now know, been very wrong.

Edit: Just the daily trading volume of, say, the forex market, completely dwarfs both the total market cap of tether or the daily volume of Binance. The total value of global equity trading worldwide is also insanely bigger than these two combined.
Computer in a Lego Brick
You can think of it this way. Unlike Doppler, Infisical is open-source, so you can self-host it. Plus, Infisical is by default end-to-end encrypted (with an exception of some integrations). Doppler could in theory read you secrets if they wanted to since their main service is not end-to-end encrypted.
In Mexico, there are some people who do this with Molé

Most famously now is Enrique Olvera of Pujol fame from Season two of Chefs table on Netflix.

I like many, grew up with some kind of stove top medley that'd be going for a while.
The main change here is that Bazel now has a package repository that people can pull/push external dependencies to: https://registry.bazel.build/

This is a huge change as external dependencies used to be one of the big pain points with the Bazel pipeline.
NX is a very bazel like for frontend focused repositories.

I think what I struggle with the most is the opinions of the rules / plugins. Either I use it as a core task runner (easy, but lots of config the team has to maintain setting up script entries in packages etc) or I have to write custom plugins for anyting not on the "happy path".

I think thats my general frustration with these tools, they aren't terribly well built for SDK type consumption, they don't expose a core set of APIs directly, instead relying on a plugin system that can sometimes be very opaque
The solution is that the government steps in and says "No, you must". And American culture does not like when government says "must".

But in the rest of the world, we act like grown ups and accept that sometimes, it's perfectly okay.
You are egregiously misinformed about the US.
The 6502-based BBC Micro had this in the 80s as the Tube. This could run a Z80 and other processors.

The interface was initially used in the development of the Arm processor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_(BBC_Micro)