skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I believe most people deep down don't want war, or invasion and aggression.

Most people given the choice would rather live peacefully with others. The outlier here is there is 1 billion+ Chinese furious and ready to invade China. Not the other way around.
I'd think COVID demonstrated that people's behaviour at a society-wide scale can be changed surprisingly easily.
From what I learned about neural networks (not much really), any specific NN is not a computer program, in our progammer’s sense. It’s a higher order data in a commonly used format/structure reducible by a computer program when combined with an input. You may rightly claim equivalence, but regular people usually imagine loops, conditions, some low-code-like schematic diagrams or a cryptic text when you say that. At least that’s what I think most of them do. They definitely don’t think of hyperdimensional gradient descent optimization matrices or what’s used there today.

While I agree that ChatGPT isn’t sentient (in however broad definition of this term we’d like to use that could still make sense), neither is it a traditional program, nor is it non-sentient because it’s a program, imo.
You can give https://github.com/martinvonz/jj a try. It works with git repos. Jj is developed, in part, by a few Mercurial developers.
It's highly variable. I didn't go to a Catholic school but where I grew up there were religious camps parents could send their kids to, where they could be hit. Some of those kids had problems with drugs or aggression, but others were just queer in one sense or another. If the Catholics can hit then so can the Pentecostal and Baptist and Mormon teachers as well, and you might not have appreciated their discipline as much.
The vast majority of modern forager groups are generally considered "egalitarian" and the traditional narrative is that virtually all human societies before the neolithic were relatively egalitarian. That's not to say that they're perfectly egalitarian (it's a spectrum after all), but it's the word you'll find if you open any introductory anthropology textbook that discusses the subject.
You're absolutely right that we should try to understand LLMs. That's the point of science, after all, to understand stuff.

But the truth is that very few people are actually trying to understand LLMs. Rather, what the vast majority do, is that they poke them unsystematically and then ooh and aah about all the things they can do that earlier language models couldn't do.

Careful analysis? Thorough, systematic experimentation? Theoretical results???? I have yet to see any of that and of course it's a joke to talk about theoretical results when it comes to machine learning research, these days.

It's as if we don't have any computer science, any theories of information, complexity, computation, learnability, etc, that we could muster to try and explain how a complex computer program works. So are people really trying to understand or are they just happy to ride the hype train? Because I obviously think it's the latter.
> The initial focus will be on how a new currency, which Brazil suggests calling the “sur” (south), could boost regional trade and reduce reliance on the US dollar, officials told the Financial Times. It would at first run in parallel with the Brazilian real and Argentine peso.

That last part is pretty important. Both countries have a history of severe inflation. Circulating a new currency alongside the old seems like a pretty baldfaced attempt at inflation without having to admit it. It beggars belief that either country would retire its national currency given the deflationary shock that would create.
Merging is an operation which takes three inputs: left, right, and common ancestor. This is a very old algorithm, the diff3 utility on Unix is at least from the 70s I think? The reason history is a graph is to walk the graph and find common ancestors. Subversion's model cannot do this (screw off, pedants, I know they added an attempt at detecting common ancestors after Git had long since supplanted Subversion in relevance).

And if you can't merge, you can't branch. And if you can't branch, you need locks.
Haha right I don't know if that was autocorrect or just me zoning out. Probably the ladder
What do you mean?

Just ask what are the reasons that a Monster drink gave an allergic reaction and what are the treatment options.
> But I believe mostly in science, and I know there is not a single proof from science on the existence (or not) of God.

There can never be evidence from science on God, but there are logical proofs for the existence of God:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35592365-five-proofs-of-...
> For me the biggest mystery is how and when did language progress because this is what allowed a group of humans to effectively operate as a pseudo single organism

Language evolves very early in species. Pigs are known to have ~150 words. And the 'dialects' differ from herd to herd. The words probably start from the expression of or reaction to natural states, desires, situations and motives, and then develop in complexity as the species evolve and its activities become more varied.

We also see primates and chimpanzees act in certain, superstitious ways - throwing things into a certain cave/hole in certain days of a season, arranging objects in certain ways without any utility being present etc. These are thought to be the predecessors of religious beliefs that evolve in later stages of the evolution of a species.

At this point its important to note that species learn from each other as well - some orangutans in some regions apparently have learned how to fish using spears by watching humans, and they are now doing it themselves.

This would mean many primate species likely have learned from each other and exchanged many things, concluding that the evolution of human species was not something that is clear-cut, neat and certain like how the late 19th century science told it in a way that is uncomfortably too close to the Christian dogmatism and certainty.

Its more likely that different species of primates including human ancestors have been using tools, fire and different technologies and practices by learning them from each other by seeing or through actual interaction/coexisting, and the spread of technolog was not instant like how its being implied in our existing perspective. Instead even among the same species of human ancestors its likely that different groups had differing levels of tool use, language use and other practices, whereas other groups have either did not adopt those, were slow to adopt those or outright could have rejected those.

So great variety in the levels of technology among the human ancestors' societies should have been possible. And many more things, really, because our perspective of human history still has not broken out of the late 19th century mold...
In Atari BASIC, you can set a variable to a number and GOTO or GOSUB VARIABLENAME.

10 MYSUB=50
20 GOSUB MYSUB
30 PRINT"END"
40 END
50 PRINT"MYSUB"
60 RETURN
RUN
MYSUB
END
READY
_
The path you're currently on is the "IC path." You'll need to take a look at the "manager's path" to grow those other skills: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-managers-path/97814...
Links:

https://github.com/onlurking/awesome-infosec

Books:

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race https://www.amazon.com/dp/1635576059/

Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking https://www.amazon.com/dp/111943338X/

PTFM: Purple Team Field Manual https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LJV1QCD/

I issue these to all new cyber hires in a senior infosec role.

For someone coming fresh into building infosec programs from scratch, I recommend
Creating an Information Security Program from Scratch https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367554658/

If you want to go splunking for publicly exposed vulnerabilities, Shodan occasionally runs personal account specials: http://shodan.io/

If you put an email address in your profile, I’d be happy to gift a book bundle to you.
Around how many samples are required for an effective training set?
I agree with your position. Our use case at the company I mentioned above was ten developers, all physically co-located, actually all operating on the same 3 or 4 servers. A centralized VCS was a better fit to our development needs. In situations where the problem space is centralized, applying a distributed tool is using the wrong tool for the job.
Ah yes you're correct. Fibonacci heap's aren't usually used in most applications of dijkstra's algorithm (such as road networks) though because trading an O(logn) heap.decrease_key operation for an O(1) heap.decrease_key operation, but getting a slower heap.delete_min operation (by a constant factor) isn't worth it.

This is because there are much fewer heap.decrease_key operations on average than Dijkstra's worst case analysis suggests. The expected number of heap.decrease_key operations is not large enough to offset the loss in average runtime for the heap.delete_min operation.
You're ignoring details and nuance that make a significant difference.

Those details and nuanced issues are meaningful.

That's not to say there aren't issues (on all sides) with the handling of government documents. There definitely are. But in the specific cases you mentioned, you ignore the details.

Are you unaware of those details (if so, please educate yourself. You'll be glad you did) or are you (I'm not claiming that you are, but it's a plausible scenario) intentionally obscuring them?
> Microsoft didn’t “port” their software in the traditional sense. It was a clean rewrite for each platform.

Not true. See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-so... in particular:

> This source was ‘translated’?

> Each of the assembly source files contains a header stating This translation created 10-Feb-83 by Version 4.3

> Since the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of the early processors used in home and personal computers weren’t spectacularly different from one another, Microsoft was able to generate a substantial amount of the code for a port from the sources of a master implementation. (Alas, sorry, we’re unable to open-source the ISA translator.)

You also write:

> For instance, the Apple // graphics memory layout was really weird.

That’s largely irrelevant because the core of Microsoft BASIC was text-only and had no graphics support. Graphics support was an extension, which was highly platform-specific, since platforms varied greatly in terms of their graphical capabilities and how those capabilities were implemented
Fascinating! I went to look for more information about this, and didn't find anything at all, but did find this charming and interesting piece about German pear varieties from long before the descent of the Iron Curtain:

https://cider-review.com/2021/09/20/pyrus-a-personal-voyage/
My company wanted to "script away" all the "pain" of using Git to make it equivalent to Clearcase. I think it's a smell. If you want to use Clearcase, use Clearcase. etc.
I didn't know that! Thank you for elaborating.
DEC had paper terminals (LA34, LA36, LA38). VT52 was I believe the first video terminal. Then VT100, then VT220.

But it all started on the DECWriter paper terminal.
> This strategy meant that it became progressively harder for shoppers to find things anywhere except Amazon, which meant that they only searched on Amazon, which meant that sellers had to sell on Amazon.

Downloadable pre-21st century MP3s (or even CDs) are a fine example. My own recent search turned up none with a catalog within an order of magnitude of Amazon's size.

Injury to insult, the ability to play a few-second sample before buying is long gone. A smallish competitor in Czechia will do this, but all text on the website (except content titles) is Czech-only.
How can you prove that the government printing 3 trillion and handing out $15K to every adult citizen annually "doesn't make sense"? Assuming much of that will replace existing programs (e.g. the $1.2 trillion spent on social security, and a similar amount on health insurance), it's not necessarily massively more than what's currently spent.
Brave search has been surprisingly good for me. I actually had it find me something Google was failing to find for the first time yesterday. Normally I have to occasionally try a Google search for nuanced topics, but this time it was the opposite.
That is what Thiel said about his direct involvement in the case, which he instigated to settle a grudge against Gawker for outing him. Speaking from direct and recent experience, it is not at all the case that people with professional-grade incomes (to say nothing of "single digit millionaires") can't afford access to the legal system.
Are you saying that will cause as many power delivery lulls as will happen with lack of wind in wind power or lack of sun in solar? That is the context of this.
> We literally had a mass shooting where 10 died and 10 were injured, today.

And? Statistically, every day over a 100 people die in motor vehicle incidents and a further 100 from fall related injuries in America. You're just proving my point.

> number 1 cause of death in children is gun violence,

Firearm related deaths are not all gun violence. The overwhelming majority of them are accidents.
Adding custom instructions in the RISC-V ISA
I don’t think so. Programs that use numbers approximate e and π. It’s only programs that manipulate symbols that can use their exact values.
You probably could, though you would probably have to give up or weaken other axioms as well. You would need to prevent there being any bijections between the good sets and the bad sets, because you then you could use the bijection to define a choice function on the bad set. What set theorists usually do is just distinguish between when you use the axiom of choice and when you don't.

There's one super-subtle point, though: even if you ban using the axiom of choice, you can still construct sets where it is independent of the axioms of set theory whether they are measurable. You have to add "these sets are measurable" as an axiom.

The simplest way to do it is to consider a class of sets where you know you didn't use the axiom of choice, and then declare that these sets are measurable. One common choice is the class of "projective sets". Usually set theorists impose a stronger property called determinacy, so they add to set theory the Axiom of Projective Determinacy. Then you can say "If I stick to the good sets -- projective sets -- nothing bad happens. Arbitrary choice functions take me out of the projective sets, where bad things can happen."
Most white supremacists are not in intrinsically anti-government. They are more than happy to support it by becoming police officers, soldiers, and prison guards.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-i...
>> The only way that statement would be relevant is if souls existed.

I think the OP is saying that carbon is not like silicon and perhaps carbon is special in a way that silicon isn't. They're not saying that humans are special because they have souls, or something along those lines.
Actually, isn't the burden of the plaintiffs to prove their copyrights are being violated?

Whether or not it's identical to human brains isn't the matter, they'd need to prove how a small 5GB model trained from a huge dataset infringes their rights specifically.
That is a symbolic manipulation. Wherever it comes down to actual numbers, you use adequate approximations to infinite summations for x and iy. Even nominally exact rational values are often idealizations of measurements: your house has no actual right angles, but eh, close enough.
Smithfield some 170 years ago was a large open space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield,_London

Which for several hundred years had held the Bartholomew Fair, a seeming high point of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Fair

My Grandfather's grandfather was born close by 10 years earlier, and it is strange to think he would have witnessed it, although by that point I imagine it had greatly faded from its glory.
I never experienced anything like this until my wife had a baby.

NOBODY prepares women for this, but the cervical examinations can be extremely painful. She has an exceptionally high pain tolerance. But the excruciating pain she was in as she squeezed my hand - I felt every bit of it except the actual physical sensation. It was a flood of panic and adrenaline as I desperately wished it to be over for her sake. It was like all the reactions were there, just not the physical sensation.

(she had a c-section, hence I didn't mention the pain of delivery)

I think it's also a lesson in love. This study uses strangers but I don't think I'd react as strongly with a stranger. When my wife has required surgery in the past I'd give anything to trade places. But trade places with a stranger? Nah, I'm OK.
Maket – Generative Design for Architectural Planning
That would be great. I just really liked reading your feedback!
https://routineshub.com - a place to create, schedule and share your everyday routines.

I've been a long time self development enthusiast, regularly trying out new health/mediation/workout routines and wanted a tool to keep track of my routines, help me schedule everything automatically and where i could share my routines and explore other users routines too.
> Hot is not a recommendation algorithm -- everyone has the same hot list. It's literally just a sort of votes.

It doesn't have to be personal to be editorial. Newspapers, for example.

I can sort by "top" which gives me the most votes in the given time period. I can sort by "new" which gives me the posts in chronological order. I can also sort by "hot" which serves posts in an unknown way that reddit has decided means they are driving interaction.

To me, what makes "hot" different is that it's a trade secret. "hot" is the thing that other sites don't have. "hot" shows you posts that you're more likely to be interested in (as apposed to "new" or "top"), even if it's not personal, to drive engagement.
I was hoping for there to have been more than an HN comment for you to have been persuaded.
If they wanted to do so. But historically, India hasn’t been very aligned with the US. They’re more Russian aligned.
Isn't that always the case for any synthesis, let alone a cross-disciplinary one?

I felt this book was in need of an editor much more than it was of missing information.
Too late to edit my post, but this was achieved with a technique called lag switching[1] back in the day. Now I feel old. :(

Modern cheats just do it in software. These days, I think the technique is antiquated in any strategy due to its limited success with modern multiplayer implementations.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=lag+switching
FBI warns of neo-Nazi plots as attacks on Northwest power grid spike

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/01/19/surge-in-oregon-washi...

(Shrug) Then maybe you should ask the FBI why they'd issue that warning.
This is a good article, though I wish it hadn't been referred to as UBI -- it was a basic income study. And more studies like this will, I hope, help persuade more people that UBI is an excellent idea. Among other things it can sweep up some of the patchwork of other programs, reducing their administrative costs, and so not cost as much as one might at first think.

Speaking of those other programs (brought up in the article), I with someone could make a phone app that managed the applications and such for people who need them. Some are disabled and need assistance; some are working two jobs to make ands meet, and all of them, by definition, have troubles (transport, kids, jobs) getting to the required meetings. Almost everybody has a phone; many have no other device. Having everything assembled ahead of time, with generated forms that could be printed out at the library, could make life easier for applicants and save time (thus taxpayer money) for the people working in social services.

This would have to be a charity-supported effort, and would need ongoing maintenance.

And of course, making life easier for applicants is against state policy in some jurisdictions.
I think those societies are rare and observations of those societies are inaccurate. There must be hierarchies in those societies, it's just misreported.

More evidence of the relationship between hierarchy and biology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXxKBiidbeo

Serotonin is the biological chemical that is linked with hierarchy in biology and we are awashed in it.
Yay for connected fridge reselling your data
/s
> One of my earliest memories was horseback riding with my mom. I must have been no older than 18 months.

That is an incredibly early memory! 3-4 is more typical, and 2 is usually the earliest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia
This is also how Kaillera works. :)
Med schools have more graduates than there are residency positions for (which is required to be licensed to practice). For historical reasons the residency system mostly relies on federal funding, rather than supply and demand.
Absurd, most definitely.

I got divorced about a year and a half ago. I’m 32 - for what it’s worth. In June, I left my job and SF. Put all my stuff in storage and went to the east coast for a month then went to Europe for 3 months. After all that, I committed to getting a six month lease on an apartment in Manhattan. Been here since November.

I haven’t worked at all. Maybe done a total of 20 leetcode problems but I spend way more time reading about layoffs and hiring freezes than interview prep. Mostly have spent my time at the gym, Broadway shows, meeting new people, and watching a lot of content online. I go out social dancing 5x/week and to the gym about the same amount. I’m trying to get better at yoga and getting a v-taper at the weights. I’d go out more but it’s hard to find the dances on some nights. (Sunday’s and Monday’s are particularly slow in nyc)

The absurd part is that I’ve done all of this in hopes of meeting a fantastic woman and seducing her to come to SFBA where I can start a family, build a house in the Santa Cruz mountains, and enjoy the region.

It is quite absurd - mainly cause it has no chance in hell of working but it wasn’t going to work in SF either. We’ll see where I end up moving next - too ugly and too much melanin for Manhattan.
https://api.computerender.com/generate/fart-compiler.jpg

Is it supposed to work even without an API key?
More information here for those of us who are teutonically challenged:

https://pomiferous.com/applebyname/schweitzer-orangenapfel-i...
America is too far gone and too stubborn in its beliefs and values to be fixed or saved. We will continue to take on a form not dissimilar to South Africa or many parts of South America. We will continue to be the elite global super power and the dollar will be strong and this will help create more and more of a divide of the haves and have nots.

Parts of cities and vast swaths of rural and exurban areas will be littered with decimated communities full of people without any ability to help themselves. The rest of us will continue to “progress” like you said which means liberalize/decriminalize without any action to support it while further privatizing the the things we do care about like education, etc.

There will be islands of prosperity in an ocean of trash. In essence shanty towns/favalas will pop up and be left there. Individual identity will be valued by the upper classes more than anything and tons of “middle class” people will get caught up in but will live in tiny cheap housing in bad locations. The top 30% will thrive.
Tribes still have leaders, elders, priests and what not. Similar to how apes have alpha males and females with a pecking order. Members of the group have a certain status in the hierarchy, even if resource access is mostly egalitarian. But what happens when you start having a bunch of tribes living nearby on a regular basis? Then you have emergent leadership across tribes. It could be by force or democracy or by whatever means. But human civilization is an emergent phenomenon once you have dense enough populations regularly living in a region.