skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand correctly, and @mpetyak can correct me if I'm wrong: writing prompts for GPT-3 is something of an art. This lets you save your prompts, and lets other people execute them, to see what GPT-3 comes up with. It even supports fields for the end user to fill in, so they can see the output without having to worry about what the prompt was.
Hmm. This annoyed me about chrome too. As well as the constant default nags and the battery hit on macOS.

I like safari, always have done. But for those sites that are ~~IE6~~ Chrome debugged only I think I’ll start dropping into Edge instead of Chrome.
BSD and MIT (and a handful of others) are basically all the same terms, with slightly different wording.
I agree that calling this "settled science" is problematic, but a large point of the book in question is to introduce new evidence from the epoch in question that directly challenges some of the common narratives, especially Pinker's.

It's a thought provoking book worth reading.
We're not discussing a different world, we're discussing this one. Your doctor example is a good one. If you actually need 1000 people to have 1 doctor, and 1 doctor can treat and care for 999 people, then you need a community of around 1000 people to have "mutual aid" function for medical care (or very good luck in happening to have a doctor in a smaller community).

This means that mutal aid care based in units of city blocks is not likely to work, but basing it in units of neighborhoods or larger probably will.
Long time Gentoo user for similar reasons: flexibility and transparency.

Similar thoughts about Nix too. Messed around with it in limited ways but it's not a good match for how I like to run my systems and I don't find the extra layer of complexity to be a good enough trade-off.

Frankly I am a bit surprised that I am still on Gentoo after all these years (decades), you'd think that something better[1] would come along. But if it's out there I have yet to find it.

[1] ...better for my personal preferences and use cases
Anecdotally, I know of at least one large FI that tells auditors it's doing x, y, and z for security, when in reality their security practices are abysmal. They spend $1MM a year on a vendor product that in theory does x, y, z (though quite badly), install it on a server, and then never think about it again.

I've had important projects canceled because executives go 'oh we already have $tool this project is a waste of time'. I demonstrate that $tool hasn't been updated in a decade, has 0 users, and is completely ineffective, and how the project will address these issues. They respond 'oh we already have $tool this project is a waste of time'.
Different idea, but I really want someone to make a good drummer AI. Specifically, it listens to a key component of your song (probably bass or guitar) and generates a wide array of beats (midi format) to match the music. You’d provide input regarding style and intensity, and it’d be available as a plug-in for logic, etc.

I am fully aware of apple’s drummers in GarageBand and Logic, but they’re weak in my opinion. I’m looking for a quantum leap forward in the same way GPT chat makes Siri look like a toy.
just to point out, he went there on sabbatical - he was still employed at bell labs
It may be rare that you need to deep clone, but doing so can be a good idea nonetheless. Sometimes I want a function to not be able to mutate the original object that informs it, in which case it will receive a deep clone or return a brand new object. I find this can make complex code easier to comprehend because I can have greater confidence that return values are new and functions aren't causing side effects. Of course you can never guarantee this in JavaScript, but it's worth making a best attempt IMO.
This was going so well until the pivot in the last two paragraphs.

Is admitting the most capable students unfair? It is inherently discriminatory based on their knowledge and ability, which seems is what people want, but it also means that having more resources to be better equipped aka better nurture, which tends to positively influence individual's prospects, is suddenly something many are not okay with?

Obviously, the SAT tests are flawed one way or another. But then again, they don't care for students' superficial characteristics.

If not that, then implied statement is very reminiscent to slogans used in USSR or during cultural revolution in China.
We stumbled upon a mirror of our own cognitive bias.

Another chapter in the era of Narcissus and Echo.
Though I'm sure some games actually do this, to lesser or greater extent [0], I've wondered why it's not more common ..

I think the answer comes down to the fact that it would take, at minimum, one highly skilled audio engineer with specific audio programming skills to develop reliable variations that sound good. The sounds need to be realistic and appropriate literally every time, despite also being "random". This process would be deceptively hard, and take a significant amount of time.

How great or necessary is the payoff in most cases? For example, Dota 2 is widely regarded as having superb audio engineering - experienced players can tell what's going on even in frantic ten player battles involving 100+ different heroes and hundreds of abilities by ear alone. Dota doesn't use any procedural generation at all, and I've never heard anyone complain despite the thousands of hours they put in.

[0] - https://splice.com/blog/procedural-audio-video-games/
Or fish
All of those have been reinvented in the past century or so, mostly in terms of materials and manufacturing processes. Humanity went from bronze spoons to stainless steel spoons in a shorter time than from those stone tools to these stone tools.
The common BSD-style licenses, 2-clause BSD and 3-clause BSD, are similar to the MIT license. The 2-clause BSD is effectively the same as the MIT license. The 3-clause BSD adds "don't use the names of the original software contributors to promote your derived work."

(The Go programming language and Chromium use BSD-style licenses.)
It's incredibly common
> I think we have a generation fed up with algorithms and how shallow online partner selection can be.

Not to mention the apps fuck with people, creating fake “matches” and downranking them to try to goad desperate people into paying them money.
Have never seen any single game. Just a pure data put on ML models, Lol.
I think it's a good moment to start following a game though
These are actually the same engine underneath, though, aren't they? Just with slightly different prompts? (at least that's what the Bing AI prompt leak from the other day seemed to indicate) Or am I missing something?
IED has progressed immensely since the internet and the best bomb disposal techs are the people who'd been doing it recently and they're mostly in the middle east.
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You don't use ssh/opensshd?
What kind of protection does a team need?
I thought that was what I was saying --- sane people have written (presumably by mistake) for Quillette, too. But, fair enough. I stand by what I'm saying, though: I don't have to engage with this piece, which I did read, to make an argument that stories from this publication create garbage threads, and that the bar for stories about this particular topic is higher, in the same sense as the "significant new information" threshold raises the bar for stories on AI.

I don't have a dog in this particular ideological fight, for whatever that's worth. I'm sort of broadly dismissive of college in the first place, and, like everyone else on HN, have read a story a week on the excesses of DEI culture.
Eventually they'll develop their own language.
The Headline is misleading: "Recovering object-location memories after sleep deprivation-induced amnesia"

This is possibly only effective in stress induced amnesia.

This effect of Roflumilast has been known since 2015:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00142...

Roflumilast is a PDE4B and PDE4D inhibitor.

The enzyme, PDE4 (https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P27815/entry) uses Zinc and/or Magnesium as a cofactor.

What is the function of PDE4? It metabolizes cAMP (3',5'-cyclic AMP + H2O = AMP + H+) stimulated by Nitric Oxide which is responsible for LTP, or memory formation.

http://learnmem.cshlp.org/content/13/1/35/F7.expansion.html

This is what Viagra does as well but Roflumilast works in the brain because of its' PDE4B and PDE4D selectivity.

So what does this have to do with stress and nitric oxide? Everything!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28061969/

But IMO this is a healthy function of the body. We should NOT be remembering our stressful experiences!
That is unsurprising. It was first added as a brief note only in 3.9, and expanded to its present length only in 3.10.
Thats how ownership and influence works. You think China is buying 10% because of how profitable reddit is?
If you can, get yourself in front of an up to date version of ArcGIS Pro for a little while. The user interface will feel entirely different, and some people don't like it because it's different, but the entire package feels significantly better.

Importantly, a good deal, though not all, of the infuriatingly frustrating "random esri error for who knows what reason" issues have been resolved, and continue to improve.
I invite others to read the article and decide for themselves whether the insinuation we're talking about is tongue-in-cheek. Thanks for linking it!
> I personally find that the service mesh value-prop is hard to justify for a serverless stack (mostly Cloud Run, but AWS Lambda too probably), and in situations where your services are mostly all in the same language and you can bake the features into libraries that are much easier to import.

If you’re running server less you already have 90% of what you’d get from a service mesh.

I will tell you that having seen what happens in big companies, baking distributed concerns into libraries always ends in disaster long after you’re gone.

When you have a piece of code deployed in 200 separate apps, every change requires tons of project management.
Whenever I read articles or studies about scientific approaches to "restoring" memories, particularly approaches involving pharmaceuticals, I instinctively assume there's a significant metacognitive counterpart. Surely mental/psychological techniques and external stimuli have an equal or greater impact on memory retrieval?

I have a bizarre personal anecdotal experience with spontaneous memory activation. I was leaving work one evening, and I'm recounting a dream from the night prior to a colleague as we left.

Suddenly, in what felt like an instant, I began to rapidly recall a chain of lucid dreams I've had. Dreams I hadn't remembered in years. I remembered not only the dreams themselves, but my life's circumstances when I had them. I describe this as a chain, but it felt to me more of a... portal. As if inside each of these dreams was a connection to the next.

I awkwardly paused, said a brief goodbye, and returned inside to look at myself in the mirror. My pupils were very dilated, and I felt like I was on psychedelics.

The strangest part is that this... connection has persisted. If I try to recall any of these dreams, including writing this comment, I'm unwillingly transported through these memories, and I have to consciously focus elsewhere.

No idea what to make of this, but it's definitely interesting.
With AI, most failed products aren't just "late" at the game, they often never release anything at all. Most of the wild claims made by AI companies could be strait up lies and we would never know because no one other than the devs has laid eyes on it directly.
The bing ai can search the internet and gets some sort of dynamic prompt context injected. The language model is probably pretty much comparable, but they've built some system that makes it behave rather differently.
> new evidence from the epoch in question that directly challenges some of the common narratives, especially Pinker's

“Challenges” and “theory” may be better terms than “dispels” and “ideological myths,” then.
well, the thing about legal documents such as licences is that the devil is in the wording. bsd and mit, to me, seem to have quite different terms.
I've heard of a Russian medication that can be used in low doses that gives old memories back. It starts with"bro" and it has something to do with dopamine.
This is based largely on an essay from 18 to 20 years ago.[1]

The claim that GPL benefits large companies that want to maintain monopolistic market power is not supported by several developments in the years up till today. Intel’s stealth computer that runs inside of yours called the Intel Management Engine is running Minix, a non-GPL OS. Apple’s macOS/iOS/iPadOS is non-GPL. Sun’s Solaris was open sourced under CDDL, not GPL. Microsoft’s VS Code is not under GPL either.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080201042548/http://alumni.cse...
I was Dotcher on CoD and ingame, but I don’t think we ever spoke. I didn’t post on the forums much at all, and as a teenager on the wrong side of the world the fan gatherings and the like were a tad inaccessible.

I did a bunch of writing, news posting, collecting information for the monthly patch summaries, and then they figured out I could code and I ended up building tools and maintaining various bits of the site. I think I ended up owning the item database code for a while? I remember hearing that one got used at Turbine, because it was superior to what you had internally!

I’m now married to Kelly Heckman (Ophelea), who was site manager on CoD for a while, and my first real job was at a social gaming startup, getting in the door with the help of her network. That set my career on the path it is now, so you can draw a direct line from picking up that game box to where I am now. So yeah, thank you and the rest of the team :).
I think it's clear to most what is meant by "tested positive for COVID"
I never knew he was involved at all - I always thought of the UCB work as wholly independent hacking/reverse engineering.
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What do you mean by the word envy? Do you think it's a moral problem? Are you sure there's no plausible interpretation of this person's words that doesn't (or shouldn't*) sound envious?
That's true, but mostly because one rarely compiles Python.

I've done significant refactors in untyped Python without much ado: as soon as your tests pass, code works too. I've done significant changes with tests passing on the first go.
not conciously, no.
What are some good, cross-platform, permissively licensed alternatives?

I also mostly try to avoid the C standard library because I can’t be bothered to remember which functions are flawed and which are (mostly) safe to use. But I really don’t like to write my own platform-specific wrappers for e.g. converting between string encodings.
I have thought for years Netflix (for me, at least) would benefit massively from a "never show me this show again" button.

I continually see the same bunch of shows when browsing that I will never, ever watch. They take up space and add to cognitive load and ultimately just annoy me each time I see them in the list.

I'm sure this weighting would also be very useful from an algorithmic recommendations view as well.
What if he read the docs for that function prior to the "important" note being added?
Because there was no one standard back in the 19th century, not everything is standardised. You can have different loading gauges (roughly, what size vehicle will fit through the infrastructure) and the track gauge (the width between the rails). Whilst most of continental Europe is fairly standardised nowadays, you have various exceptions, like Spain and Portugal using a metre wide track gauge, or Great Britain[1] having a very small loading gauge.

Beyond that, the order size of the various railways is often relatively low (hundreds to thousands or carriages, or dozens of full sets) and railway operators often want them customised for specific services types (an intercity operator will want first class coaches and provision for food service, a commuter operator will want to cram as many people in as possible etc.) so everything going to be bespoke at some level.

[1] The island of Ireland, both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, uses a different set of standards to Great Britain or mainland Europe.
It's already been flagged again. Personally I think it's a shame we can't discuss stuff like this on HN.
The idea behind it is to pre-emptively destroy the discussions so that one can point towards it and say "see, the submission should never have existed".

I'm posting both "woke" and "anti-woke" stories (among many many others), but the "anti-woke" stories always get treated like this, by a handful of posters.

The "woke" stories discussions are usually not much better, because of other effects, but sometimes stories from both sides get nuanced discussions. I haven't found out, yet, what makes the difference. Working hypothesis: the concrete commenters. So basically chance.
Well, they should sue everyone commenting on this page then.

You are probably confusing PGO with their commercial certified offering.
I'm excited you asked as I have a theory that is getting real traction that answers precisely that:

https://kemendo.com/Myth.pdf
Really cool article. I don't know much about the Decemberists besides having heard of them, and I think the title sort of buries the lede that the author of this post is the lead singer of the Decemberists.
>But if we want AIs that 'know' the same things we know, then we have to build them to perceive in a multi-modal way, and interact with stuff in the world, rather than just self-supervising on piles of internet data.

In other words, a LLM that is tied to a GAN that generates images, produces an system that can both describe to you what is a cat verbally and show you a picture of a cat. Does it, then, know what "a cat" is?

Edit: Furthermore, if you then tie this AI to a CV model with a camera which you can point at a cat and it will tell you that it is, indeed, a cat, and then it will also be able to produce a verbal description of a cat as well as show you an abstract picture of a cat or pick cats out of a random set of images, does this whole system know what "a cat" is?

If you, then, make a robot with a camera and hands, attach to the system a more complex CV model that can see in 3D, ask the LLM to produce you a set of code instructions that can be parametrized to produce a motion that would pet the cat, input those instructions into the robot to make it pet a specific cat that has the specific 3D point cloud (I guess that's currently difficult but solveable), and the system will then indeed pet the cat, would it then know what "a cat" is?..

The underlying LLM is still the same in all these scenarios. Where is the boundary?
I have a theory.

Religion in America is majorly declining. The kinds of people who in previous generations would have been super obnoxious about Jesus things (not that he would have approved of their opinions) are now obnoxious about everything else. People blamed organized religion for how awful these kinds of folks were when actually it’s just a feature of humanity and the people just found new topics.

Likewise politicians, the news, and anyone else who benefits from attention are learning more and more that this kind of religious thinking can be egged on for more attention so they (intentionally or organically) egg it on for their own benefit.

The cure is for this kind of behavior to be shamed and shunned but only casually as to not give it the attention it deserves. Find the antics of the obnoxious boring instead of infuriating (like reality shows, I’m not upset they exist but I’m also not at all interested).

This is just kind of an obsolete feature of humanity, at one point very valuable to group cohesiveness and order when we were still at odds with nature and quite vulnerable. Now a bunch of bored suburbanites need to find something new to be interested in than moralizing nonsense.
Come to think of it, thats kindof what Tesla are building
> The conundrum with mutual aid is that it's non-trivial to identify the right size community for a given type and/or level of aid.

I don't think this is actually a hard problem at all. The algorithm is quite simple:

1. Start with the individual as the smallest community (a community of one).
2. Does the current level of community have the resources to deal with the problem? If so, problem solved, exit.
3. If not, go to the next larger level of community.
4. Return to 2.

The problem is that greedy people refuse to provide aid because they don't think they'll need aid. In fact, greedy people insist on acquiring all the resources which could be used to provide aid to others.

Zuckerberg or Musk could end homelessness in the US easily and still be in the top 10 richest people in the world.
When I watched it on my phone it looked great. On a decent sized screen, not so much. That sent me searching. Here’s another video from NTV, a Turkish TV channel.

https://www.ntv.com.tr/video/turkiye/ntv-ekibi-depremin-ikiy...
Estonia’s Robin Hood Plan: Take from Russia to Give to Ukraine
Looking into myself is way too scary though.
The issue is that OpenAI doesn't allow romantic context. There are independent players who would address is better. My friend is building https://exh.ai/ that actually has dating as a dedicated category, and I know that the quality required for dating context is very different from what ChatGPT can produce
Indeed. Though there are studies that seek to estimate this in various ways (e.g. "no happier once you have $75k in wealth").
This would be pretty book.
First point - most of it is now taken off the table because there is an implicit (explicit?) unknown party with the proven ability and willingness to cut off any remaining supply at the drop of a hat, and the ability to supply is severely curtailed. It stops 'cheating' or 'backsliding' on the part of either party.

Second point - agreed. If for no other reason than there is little to no incentive for any of the players to share any evidence or info they may have found that would support or disprove any of the scenarios.

For Russia, if they could prove the US did it, it would strengthens the image of the US as a powerful world player with their foot on Russia's neck. If someone else did it, it would make them look even weaker.

For Western European allies, it would make it really obvious how much influence the US has on them, especially since their own fate continues to depend on the US - and it's large natural gas supplies. Even if they wanted to cut off the US, Russia is even worse for them, and they can't stand on their own two feet against either Russia or the US right now (militarily or economically). If someone other than the US did it, it would make their key infrastructure look even more fragile and vulnerable.

For the US, if they did it, it would expose the extent they are playing dirty (hurting the 'clean hands' narrative) and lose them good will with most of the public. If they found someone else doing it, it would reduce their apparent 'dirty tricks' power folks need to worry about, which is a major deterrent to enemies and allies doing dirty tricks.
Pretty convincing.

Now I expect the output to be connected to a voice synthesizer (there are a few good ones), to a music-generation program that would write the orchestration around the basic melody (a few good ones exist), and, well, rendering the whole thing without a human playing or singing a note.

Once it works acceptably well, sell it as a service. Want an unique song written and played just for you, for your particular occasion and taste? Wait a few minutes while it's being prepared.