skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason whenever this comes up there'll be one person saying "I bet you didn't know it's for copyright" and another saying "I bet you didn't know it's for SEO". I've yet to see either prove anything beyond that it's a plausible explanation that could fit the minimal known facts.
> Worse though, it doesn't explain the observations.

So it needs more research, but pretending that the model doesn’t fit the observations with a very simple framework, and instead throwing more and more parameters at Dark Matter to get it to fit… At some point it’s starting to look silly?

Why not consider that there is probably more to understand here and try to combine these theories as Sabine is arguing?
Is this allocator by any chance available online somewhere? I'd like to read and possibly use it.
I think that two things are confused here.

You can't necessarily believe what people think they want with a consumer product, sure, but that does not imply that looking at what people do, you know what they need.

That being said, we are speaking here about a population of developers as "free" users. They report bugs or issues that they are encountering. it is not like when you are trying to sell an useless new stuff to random persons...
At that level personification of biology breaks down completely. Genes are not cooperating. Genes are pieces of a self-replicating pattern. Those patterns get shuffled and mixed a lot, but they also just get copied over and over even more. Some patterns are easier/faster to copy than others, and some are uncopyable. Over time, some patterns remain stable while others disappear, but that's not a result of work and cooperation - it's just a purely statistical phenomenon.
The "why" doesn't matter to recognize a law that seems to hold across many observations. We still don't quite know why entropy must always increase and how this is linked to time, for instance, and yet we call them the laws of thermodynamics.

What's conspicuous however, is that MOND can make many successful a priori predictions about observations that LCDM needs to fit a posteriori using a "tuned" distribution of dark matter.

So MOND does indeed describe those observations simply even if it doesn't explain why they hold. An example of a better way to handle this than outright dismissing MOND, are recent proposals for superfluid dark matter that reproduce MOND in the right regimes.
Those sanctions are often enforced by financial institutions (banks).
They rather stop transactions or freeze your account than take a chance.
A better title would be “Bug lurks in incorrect usage of async Python”.

The library documentation clearly calls this out, and incorrect implementations, while buggy, do not mean that async Python is itself buggy.
How is the ecology more sustainable and pleasant with a different amount of CO2 than 450ppm?

What is the optimal concentration of CO2 and why?
Am I missing simething? Seriously... Whats the point? It sounds incredibly boring to me.
Hindsight is 20-20, but I do wish the c standard library had been a bit split up more. It would be nice to be able to say "I just want system calls and memory management".

A lot of effort seems to go into stopping people from using some of the less well designed parts.
Miles is good fun. Also Manhattan to Montauk on local buses:

https://youtu.be/fKQmp0spxhs
>The point of the article is that dark matter is the result of doing 1, not 2.

The article may claim or argue this, but supports this claim rather poorly.

Look the fact that dark matter is even a topic, is because our models are wrong somehow. Dark matter is a convenient theory, but essentially a non-testable one, and one that has yet to have any real predictive power (outside of it accurately predicting things where our models fail at predicting things - but this isn't a real case, as it's essentially circular reasoning when it's existence is inferred from the errors in our model in the first place).
Kurzgesagt did a great video on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvv0QdruMQ
Cynically, with how much trash there is around rivers you're likely to be fossilized within a strata chock full of traces of our civilization.

Non-cynically, I would recommend having a stone abacus crafted if you wish to be buried this way - effectively mineralize the relic manually and don't leave its fossilization up to chance. You could also try encasing some objects into amber or resin and scattering them around your final resting place.
For Netflix's DVD service, pre-streaming, their recommendation system was awesome. You know, the one where they had the contests and paid $1M to any group that could do better by some percentage?

IMO, they don't use anything like that now for streaming. It's as others have said: this is what we want you to watch, not what you necessarily will like.
I think your question is more interesting without the blurb. Here is an image that got me to think on a deeper level. What if all the great prophets / gods we’ve read about are different entities on the astral plane vibrating at higher frequencies than us both in life and death. https://imgur.com/a/AAUxlj2
Google cloud supports grpc on their api gateway: https://cloud.google.com/api-gateway/docs/grpc-overview
I’ll just say it. The earth is around 4 billion years old. Due to the constant shifting of the surface and oceans, we don’t know what existed before. Fossils only form under very specific conditions. The Sahara for example were a forest before, so why haven’t we found trees and fossils there. What I’m basically getting at is, saying that we should be able to detect whether life existed by looking at sediment is speculation at best. Water and sand is extremely abrasive not to mention scavenger animals and insects that basically recycle waste. I’m not saying that there were advanced civilisations before us, but saying we’re are the first and only advanced civilisation that’s been on a planet for the last 4 billions years, is like saying there’s no intelligent life in the universe and earth is “special” because we can’t find alien life anywhere in our solar system.
Most users don’t want to send telemetry. But most users also want a system built by people who understand how users use it.
In Sanskrit, where poets have endlessly delighted in playing such tricks with language, there are at least a couple of such verses that contain all the consonants in order: one composed in a live performance by a poet who lived 1854–1914, one from the 11th century or earlier (https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/21366).
ImagineAI: A code generator that turns your app spec into a Node project
I personally don't think we'll have AGI in my lifetime.
I think Microsoft Ty already went 4chan for the brief time it was allowed on twitter.
I don't think you are experiencing envy.

I was also thinking about envy today, because we were reading the Torah portion where 10 Commandments were given and envy is the subject of at least one of them. It struck me that envy is given the same treatment as adultery, murder,idolatry, etc.

Why? Because real envy is a mind killer. You so resent what someone has that your mind doesn't turn to consider how you can get it for yourself, or why you may not be able to.

In your case it sounds like you've considered it, understood that you could do it but also have reasons not to. That sounds very rational to me, while envy paralyzes you and you become blind to what your actual capacity and options are - it becomes all about the other person.
It seems like an ultra luxury play. It's a naked grift but it's for people who are going into it with their eyes open and more money than they know what to do with.

See e.g. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/myria

a "luxury services for ultra high net worth individials" company backed by YC. It's the same target market imo
envy unlocked :)
It's so important to take these testimonials seriously, whilst also being careful we don't hurt the chances of those that are able to get the help they would have had no access to only a decade ago.
Tried this myself. I hope they can tune down the friendliness.
> is the claim that 85% of the universe is made of something that no one has ever observed directly.

The only thing anyone has ever observed directly is the contents of their own mind. All empirical work, without exception, is mediated by instruments, whether they're retinas or telescopes or 50,000 metric tons of purified water hooked up to a photomultiplier tube. Low-energy electromagnetic interactions happen to be the channel we're naturally best-equipped to use in our daily lives, but they have no special epistemic significance.
That’s little scary
The alternative here (which would make your example work) is that dictionary lookups return some falsy sentinel value when the key does not exist, just like in javascript. In javascript, this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Those values tend to propagate out and make a mess, sneaking into your stored data or causing errors in unexpected places -- fixing this feels like one of the main advantages of using things like typescript, and it's just not an issue in python.

It's not a problem, because the alternative is way worse. It's just a different language design than the one you're used to.

You could argue about whether or not truthiness makes sense as a concept (personally I think not), but the way it's defined in python is quite coherent and useful in practice.
Fantastic!

FWIW, ChatGPT as-is is good enough to know which (of a given set) of "tools" to use. I've had great fun doing prompt engineering: first asking it to pick which of a set of functions might be necessary to solve a problem, second prepending the list of selected functions and asking it to generate code.
It was about the financial industry getting bailouts while the common man suffered from economic conditions caused by the financial industry being so reckless. But then the corporate media got their hands on it and the narrative became 'these loony hippies think that people should be ranked by privilege'. Most Americans had never heard of the "Progressive stack" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_stack ) before, and this alienated the movement. In essence, the corporate media promoted intra-class war to preempt inter-class war.
Greetings, fellow money launderers!
Most cannot scale back easily as usually they brought a house matching their income potential. The key is scaling down your daily/monthly goods that isn’t housing and don’t scale up housing
That's really cool. I might rewrite some of your code in go and use it in erlog for searching (and give you credit of course).

How did you come up with the idea for jlq? It seems like it solved a pretty cool use case.
it is a result of trying to align the AI model after it has been trained using self-supervised learning with an addition human feedback step. OpenAI has a model / process called InstructLM or InstructGPT

see e.g.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.10496.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155.pdf

also an approach to solve the alignment problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment
I'd say don't bother because you can implement this functionality as a separate program.
Definitely this. I went through a local insurance agency. I'd had experience with them when getting commercial insurance on one of my trucks (box truck used for transporting equipment to and from customer sites) and had a very positive experience in dealing with them.

Do be weary, many insurance folks are individuals who decided they were going to sell insurance, took some minimal training, and are basically involved in "insurance" pyramid schemes like selling annuities. Source: family doing that stuff
Is it possible to teach GPT3 to do something like this through prompts? Like, responding with an API call to get information when it doesn't have enough?

The closest I've gotten is having the model output both the be API call and a hallucinated response
This is basically what got Nothing Forever pulled from Twitch.[1]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/06/nothing-fore...
Fitting any arbitrary measurement is trivial via regression. The hard and useful part is making predictions.

Cosmology is not amenable to either predictions or engineering. There’s not even anything to deny.
Can you write a blog article explaining how it works?
Lucky! And the best kind. If you don't have a choice to become envious, you've arrived!
For Twitter at least, this seems to be explicitly allowed by their terms of service[0]:

"You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. What’s yours is yours — you own your Content (and your incorporated audio, photos and videos are considered part of the Content).

By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same."

[0]https://twitter.com/en/tos
You'd get both if your HOA took over your country, staffed the senate with the people who regularly attend the HOA meetings, and put courts in the hands of your local school boards.

We can talk a lot about how the hierarchies should be managed, but I think it's pretty clear that hierarchies themselves are a fundamental, natural part of human societies, and you can't just do away with them.

The way I see it, our intuitive social skills work best when living in groups under roughly the Dunbar's number[0]. At that level, everyone knows everyone else personally, so you don't need laws and power structures: everyone keeps everyone else in check, people cooperate and self-organize naturally. When a group grows above that, and two random members are unlikely to know each other well, those natural, automatic methods stop working, and the group risks disintegration.

The group can always split into two at this point, and this is what often happens in practice, but then two independent groups competing over shared resources will eventually start fighting[1]. The alternative is to scale up, and the tried and true method humans historically keep arriving at is hierarchies. A ruling group can coordinate multiple independent Dunbar-strong subgroups, but the coordination mechanisms need to become explicit now: hence laws, policing, monopoly on violence. This trick allows a society to scale up some two orders of magnitude, but then the ruling group hits a capacity limit. The solution is... to add another level to hierarchy. This buys you another two orders of magnitude. Repeat as needed.

I don't know of any studies to link here that would back this reasoning up - but it does track per my understanding of group dynamics, economics, and of course it seems to map well to modern and historical administrative divisions, when looking at population numbers.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

[1] - I can imagine this being the original reason people started forming larger groups: in a world full of ~100-person strong competing tribes, scaling your tribe up to 200 or 500 people makes you invulnerable against all the other 100-people tribes (at least individually).
Title should be that “23 Baltimore schools have zero…”

As it’s written it’s just plain wrong.
Well, it's also sponsored by various government bodies, not that it matters.

If there's a problem with the methodology, why not focus on that?

Private sponsorship being an automatic conflict of interest that compromises research is a tired trope. All you can do is evaluate the methodology. For all you know, the researchers themselves are motivated reasoners with zero funding.
A close enough ally that the US was willing to sell nuclear tipped SAMs to Canada during the cold war. The only reason it didn't happen is because the general public flipped shit when they found out about the plan.
I witnessed this first hand in a close relative who, in the throws of a multi month long bipolar psychosis, concluded that the source of her mental health problems was gender dysphoria. The internet was very influential in her reaching this conclusion. The internet also allowed her to locate a dr who didn’t restrict sexual reassignment to those without mental health comorbidities. Thankfully the very liberal dr she found was too far for her to travel, since she could not drive and Uber wasn’t yet a thing.

She was stabilized on antipsychotics a few months later and completely dropped all discussion of gender dysphoria, something, to be clear, that she had never talked about or hinted at prior to her psychotic episode.

It concerns me that had she had this episode a few years later, when the medical ethics had changed and Uber made it possible for a mentally ill person to travel to the city where the dr she found was located, she likely would have undergone some form of reassignment surgery with lasting physical effects and potentially catastrophic effects on her psychological well being. She has been happily married, well more or less happily, for more than a decade now, to a nice man. No sign of gender dysphoria and no recent psychotic episodes.
So much respect for Chiang, but his GPT essay was just dumb. This is a good rebuttal.

I’m so surprised and disappointed that Chiang fell for forming opinions based off of metaphors rather than the real thing. Like, obviously airplanes can’t fly because they are kind of like beer cans with wings. It seems obvious (?) that one should take care to understand new tech before categorically dismissing (or celebrating) it.
The first sentence simply isn't true. Vigorous law enforcement can substantially curtail illegal drug trafficking, for example. Singapore does not have a fentanyl abuse problem. They also hang drug traffickers.

This argument has similarities to the pre-2010s old saw of "China can't censor the Internet, it's too open and decentralized and routes around censorship." It turns out that a determined state with a well-funded police apparatus can accomplish quite a lot, for good or ill.
You are confusing PDE5 and PDE4 inhibitors. PDE5 inhibitors are popular erectile dysfunction drugs and work via nitric oxide. PDE4 inhibitors are anti-inflammatory in the lungs and also have cognitive enhancing effects by potentiation of cAMP secondary messenger systems that trigger LTP encoding in neurons.
Nitric oxide is not involved in the action of PDE4.
Prohibition is the go-to example of banning alcohol not working but I think this is blurry thinking. In no other area of policy would you just point to one big example of something not working and thereby declare the whole approach off limits.

The whole argument seems like a discussion-ending cover for people's emotional attachment to alcohol. It completely doesn't engage with the cost-benefit analysis of how alcohol affects the functioning of society at large or navigate any of those tradeoffs.
> It's just a model fit post hoc.

So does Dark Matter
So in other words, China have been doing this a long time and it wasn’t up until now when the public noticed it that the US interfered?
https://archive.is/dPA5n
So you don’t think there is something fundamentally different about creating something yourself from your own ideas?
You are proposing outlawing rogaine and Viagra an plastic surgery and Botox, I assume? Or only medicines for trans people?
Yeah, some interesting comments, like from the chemist:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34755399
You could have just used Filebeat? It's also in Go and it's pretty easy to use.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/fileb...
> Myst can be played on devices that have an A12 chip or later, or an M1 or M2 chip.

uhh Myst can be played on a 486
Leptos: Full-stack, isomorphic Rust web framework
Nice! I've been using AUDIO as my opening word which will give me four out of the five vowels.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34757042
The distribution of fossils between continents was one of the pieces of evidence used to support the hypothesis of continental drift and plate tectonics. It would make sense that any prior civilization would also be introducing species outside of their native ranges, or making several species show up in disparate parts of the globe with no good natural explanation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange versus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Interchange

This species is particularly fascinating because it is only found in Japan and parts of Texas. No one has a good explanation for why, although no one is suggesting an ancient civilization did it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorioactis
I'm going to be that guy and point out that Free and Open Source are two related but separate concepts.

An open source dev can still charge for his code, and should if he needs/wants to make a living off of it.
I didn’t think neutrinos are a good candidate for dark matter despite being wimps all I said is that this is the first time I heard of that people who don’t accept dark matter think that interaction with ‘gravity’ requires also interaction with electromagnetism despite us having pretty solid examples of things that we know for sure that they exist that do not follow that requirement.
or for anybody who does not wanna bother visiting that:

> they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Unifying gravity requires insights into energy scales so remote from our own that you cant hold against eg string theorists for not nailing what happens at such extremes where fundamental notions may break down

Dark matter, being (likely?) a low energy kind of thing feels like a genuine gap within the realm we claim as understood. In this sense its more fascinating.
I remember an occasion in the mid 1980s when Tom Körner needed to get from Cambridge to Leeds and there was both a national train strike and a national coach strike. Simon Norton sat down and wrote an itinerary for Tom that did the journey using only local bus services.

From memory.
Same here. When I finally did incorporate, I did use a local lawyer who does everything for $300 and walked out with my documents and EIN. Took about an hour. Said lawyer also allows use of their office address as the official contact and weeds out spam/scam official-looking letters.

I do my own accounting, it's not exceedingly difficult if you use e.g. TurboTax, but it does take time that you won't be billing for. If you don't use an actual accountant, you probably want to be pretty conservative with writeoffs, deductions, etc. I have a lot of physical inventory and hard purchases, so that makes it more straightforward.

Do be aware that all the stuff about having a corporate veil to protect you is basically nonsense when you're one person with a corporate entity. I know folks who thought that was protecting them, didn't have professional insurance "because if they sue the company it won't come down on me," and found out that yeah, that's a super easy veil to pierce.
> Dark Matter proponents believe that everything that causes gravity must also be matter

I don’t think that’s correct. Most Dark Matter proponents are ardent adherents to general relativity. General Relativity is pretty clear that massless non-matter particles like the photon contribute to the bending of spacetime. So it seems like most Dark Matter proponents would stridently object to the claim that “everything that causes gravity must be matter”.
It’s a good thing people aren’t more intelligent, otherwise they would be able to construct and propagate deeper and more advanced conspiracies like this. Most people thankfully don’t even know what a genome is.