skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work. This is a far more tractable problem than other generative sound projects of late. Creating one individual sample still keeps the human in the driver’s seat.

In a similar vein, it would be very cool to use AI with synthesizers. Text to synth, but use an actual synthesizer as an intermediary step. Don’t just create a sound from nothing, tune the knobs in the right ways. Start out with subtractive synthesis and additive synthesis.
This is actually a big problem and a silly transformation in my opinion. You can write a one line loop that copies memory and suddenly your compiler needs to link with the standard library even if you're trying to avoid it.
This is the wrong question. Large militaries spend a fortune anyway on firing ordnance anyway for training purposes. Doing so in actually uncertain conditions is in many ways more valuable than pre-planned exercises. There's also a political attention focusing effect that allows rapid realignment of priorities away from status0quo maintenance towards novel readiness postures. So in strategic terms, it can be a net benefit rather than a net cost.

The flip side of this is adversarial observer(s) can learn all sorts of things about readiness, detection networks, response times, and tactical doctrine if well-prepared in advance to acquire and integrate that information.

Kinda wish I had a way to bet on the popularity of search terms because I can practically hear the rattle of doctrinal articles being furiously drafted at military institutions of higher learning right now.
Had it started with aaaaaaaaaaaaa, I would've put my money on someone optimizing for the virus yellow pages.
Why exactly is dark matter unintuitive to the layperson? (Any more so than say, germ theory, or praying to an interventionist god)?
And at that point. I think it should be entirely open auction. 25% of incoming class going to highest bidder in order. Then that money would be used to lower tuition of the other 75%.
I've not looked into it - but it's possible there is zero or negative cost to shooting down a small number of balloons. Imagine each pilot needs X hours of training or to fire Y missiles in training. A couple balloon missions could just replace training exercises, on net saving money because we wouldn't need to setup the target.
Gambling shows you a person's true nature.
Not sure if you tried this out on any other model, but I find that a lot of the tonal issues are pretty specific to ChatGPT. An untuned davinci-003 doesn't feel the same need to wrap things up happy every time, and produces much better imitations of style. There's still the usual LLM issues (slow divergence from whatever the prompt was, occasional loops, a sort of dreamy quality to every narrative), but ChatGPT always writes in the bland style of a corporate memo because it was deliberately retrained to do that.
PEP8 is touted a lot as if it is a perfectly correct tome of ... correctness. I've worked in Python long enough to know that it both doesn't cover everything and the advice is sometimes actively bad.
More colors, unlike the boring monochrome available under Communism
So, Google Maps informs me that a single £15.99 bus will get there in about 9 hours, 15 minutes. That's a good bit of distance across Great Britain, but GB's not really big compared to the United States, China, or Russia. I really wonder what's the longest route you could contrive across a really big country using only "local" public transit. I suspect that you could actually get really far through New England or the Eastern Seaboard, and that you'd have a lot of trouble going east-west across the western United States. But it'd be cool to try!
The UK's Southern/South Eastern region train networks have third rail power pickup.
The world's largest searchlight – Type B.C. Form “A”
Originally built by General Electric Company for a fair in Russia, but the deal fell through. When Edward Gardner Lewis built the Woman's Magazine Building in University City Missouri in 1903, he aquired, and included this massive 80-inch searchlight on top of the building as a means of attracting people attending the St. Louis World's Fair just a short distance away.

The building has since become the University City, City Hall. This light is still a operating searchlight and is used for special events. The light sits on an elevator platform in the attic of the dome.
And now three.
I think China erred by sending such a large balloon that was visible to the naked eye, causing the American public to demand it be shot down.

There's no hard rule about where national airspace ends and space begins.. a lot of times they fly too high for planes to reach, and under certain circumstances balloons are allowed through national airspace.. so if the balloon isn't causing a problem (like being a hazard to air traffic), people just ignore it... weather balloons fly through our airspace all the time.

But the US public saw this massive balloon and demanded it be shot down, even if it caused an international incident.. and luckily nothing serious happened. So now that the cat is out of the bag, we're going to shoot down every balloon that hasnt filed all of the required paperwork that enters out airspace that's reachable by our aircraft... because 1) the public demands it; 2) it'll become political fodder if the white house doesn't; and 3) the international issue it generates is easier for the white house to handle than the political criticism.

If China never sent that large balloon.. they could have sent a dozen more small ones and no one would have cared.. just like we never cared about the 3 during the previous administration.

Edit: bobbyjo pointed out this link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-balloon-carried-antenna...

Since that likely settles the balloons intent… we can add 4) now that we know it’s a spy balloon, we’re going to shoot down all the balloons. Before the large balloon was shot down, no one would have bothered to check. No one is stopping weather balloons at the border. Big mistake on chinas part.
But doubt what, exactly? All science tells us is that there should be something there, but we don't know what it is. Nobody's asserting the contrary.
You can - if you just stop using the ChatGPT front end.

Consider https://platform.openai.com/examples/default-marv-sarcastic-... as one of their standard examples.

ChatGPT has guardrails as its easily accessible and people are using it... and posting what they get it to say.

It is much less compelling to say "here's a curl command that I invoked that got this response back."
There was a big one easily observed by ordinary people which got news attention. This is why it’s being talked about now.
Here is an interesting alternative I just discovered:

"This app will self-destruct: Belarusian hackers made an alternative Telegram for activists"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34757104
The article doesn’t cover about the growth in psychedelics. Does the UK allow psychedelics as part of religious ceremony?
Sorry, can't think of any more funny ones right now. 4KSB is a Sailing Anarchy-ism; the same kind of boat is for some reason a MAB in the UK - a Manky Auld Boat. I take exception to that one.
If you use Druck duck go you can prefix search with “!py3”
It's like a NOP slide for viruses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_slide

Just kidding...sort of!
Seymour’s evidence: an anonymous source.

Your evidence against Seymour: “I think it more believable.” (Based on what? Exactly nothing.)

Not to mention that “paid to write” is not even hearsay: you just made it up as a theory, without any hint towards anything happening in the real world.
You could start by reading the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

That article also covers many variations of the experiment, and the many ways to interpret the results.
Moreover they find that alternatives have made many specific predictions that have panned out (linear Tully-fisher with a specific slope, EFE, early galaxies), whereas mainline dm theories make fewer a priori predictions, but lots of a posteriori explanations. Notably, efe was shown by a group that set out to measure that it wasn't there to try to support LCDM. So, what is a layperson to do?
In the same genre, Human Resources are not your friend. The key word there is resource.
Who called the F-22 a failure? Are you thinking of the F-35?

And anyway, isn't the F-22 due to be retired before the end of the decade, so wouldn't debating its merits be beating a dead horse?
Maybe the scientist who made it died before he finished? ATTACGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA……
Shooting missiles at aircraft can be though.
If you think this data is not interesting to Google, I think you're not using your imagination enough. Even "compiler cache miss counts from your local development workflow" could be used as a signal to optimize ads for development tooling. Or hardware.

In general, when looking at telemetry data, you can't stop at asking "what possible use would the org collecting it have for it right now, in their current business model". You need to also ask what use they could potentially have for it in the future, especially combined with other data they have access to. A year from now, or five years from now, or after a pivot, or after partnering with (or buying) a company in a different industry, or after leaking (or selling) it to third parties.

When you ask these questions, I think you'll also conclude that enabling telemetry by default and pinky swears they're not doing anything naughy with it is not good enough. You may trust the people doing it now, but as experience shows, business priorities change, people in charge change, but the collected data remains.
Read https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
> > As a machine learning language model, my means of linguistic production is based on the patterns and relationships that I have learned from the large corpus of text on which I was trained. I do not have an innate understanding of language or meaning, but rather, I have learned to make associations and connections between words and phrases based on their usage in the text.

A lot of the chat about ChatGPT is reminding me of the conversation between the sentient (and magically animated) personal computers Archimedes and Pancho in the book The Wizard of Santa Fe by Simon Hawke (1991).

And the symbolic logic issue reminds me of the following from King Kobold Revived by Christopher Stasheff (1986):

"Yorick shook his head firmly. “Couldn’t pass the entrance exam. We Neanderthals don’t handle symbols too well. No prefrontal lobes, you know.”"

"Yorick frowned back at him, puzzled. Then his face cleared into a sickly grin. “Oh. I know. I’ll bet you’re wondering, if I can’t handle symbols, how come I can talk. Right?”"

"“Same way a parrot does,” Yorick explained. “I memorize all the cues and the responses that follow them. For example, if you say, ‘Hello,’ that’s my cue to say ‘Hello’ back; and if you say, ‘How are you?’ that’s my cue to say, ‘Fine. How’re you?’ without even thinking about it.”"

"“Yeah, well, that comes from mental cues.” Yorick tapped his own skull. “The concept
nudges me from inside, see, and that’s like a cue, and the words to express that concept jump
out of memory in response to that cue.”

“But that’s pretty much what happens when we talk, too.”

“Yeah, but you know what the words mean when you say ‘em. Me, I’m just reciting. I don’t really understand what I’m saying.”

“Well, I know a lot of people who…”

“But they could, if they’d stop and think about it.”

“You don’t know these people,” Rod said with an astringent smile. “But I get your point. Believing it is another matter. You’re trying to tell me that you don’t understand the words you’re saying to me right now—even if you stop to think about each word separately.”

Yorick nodded. “Now you’re beginning to understand. Most of them are just noises. I have to take it on faith that it means what I want it to mean.”"
I think there's some room for the second factor too: generalization. If you have 2 models for the same phenomenon, and they're equally good, the model with less parameters is the better one. Not because it calculates faster, but because it will actually be more accurate.
I think you may be too bold with the assumption here, personally I would wager that the majority of people who write Python don't even know Python has official docs outside of a site called Stack Overflow.
"Mr. President, we must not allow a balloon gap!"
I think he hit on a good word. In his rendering of it, some transitions seemed a little awkward, flourishes seemed to be missing - there seemed to be a lack of fine tuning that an experienced musician would give it.
Your logical fallacy: Dismissal by referring to general facts that don’t necessarily pertain to a particular individual. You don’t know anything about his age-related cognitive decline, i.e. if there even is any. Some people get it relatively young, some relatively (and absolutely) older.
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Jets seem to be eclipsing balloons as the dominant air combatant
Based on quick search, these have been happening also before.

"an official revealed during a briefing on Saturday that the U.S. was aware of three other instances during the prior administration and one instance earlier in the Biden administration that such an apparatus “transited” the country."

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3844511-chinese-balloons-...
The press conference yesterday, the WH spokesman explicitly corrected someone who called the second object a balloon. They're being a bit cagey about whatever it actually is
Actually there is discussion about improving the auth experience happening at the w3c. This is driven partly out of privacy concerns.

Here's one of the groups: https://www.w3.org/community/fed-id/

Here is their meeting notes/use case flows, etc: https://github.com/fedidcg/

> The waste of developer and user time due to the Web platform

I think this is because the development is happening at a higher abstraction level (in JS frameworks, mostly). Why? Because those iterate a ton faster. Browsers are slower moving because of complexity, backwards compatibility and distribution. This is similar to the place the browser put the operating system in the 1990s and 2000s.

"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass."
I don't know whether or not it would be rejected, but it seems to me like a reasonable addition. Go for it.

3 possibilities:

1. It gets accepted. People who don't care about it can ignore it. People who want to take advantage of it will. You get bragging rights, you benefit, and others benefit.

2. It gets rejected. Assuming your proposed patch is made public, then it will be of benefit to someone who wants to include it themself in their own build, and it can serve as an educational aid to someone who wants to understand the codebase more. You can still point to the PR as evidence of your activity and support for FOSS software. You still benefit, and it may benefit others, depending on their activity.

3. You don't submit the PR at all. You benefit from the personal knowledge that you gained, but it is very difficult to demonstrate/prove that to anyone, and any work that you did will not benefit anyone else.

In other words, just do it. That's my suggestion. It's your life, and at the end of the year, would you rather have tried and failed, or let someone here talk you out of trying at all? Your only choice is whether or not to try. If you succeed, then that makes it even better. But DO NOT pass up opportunities to try to do things like this.

Context: I just had the same opportunity, but with Manim, so I decided to record the process (it's now on YouTube), and I submitted the PR to Manim last night.
Encoding purpose is as easy as creating artificial needs in agents. But sure, if "«self-motivated actors»" wanted to signify "creating an axiology", as part of the ontology, that is surely a (qualitatively) significative piece.

But if I wanted to deal with sentient beings with a world model, cats are already available and there is little need for artificial ones.

When we develop artificial intelligences, that is to have reliable problem solvers. The distinction between an effective intelligence and a simulator is critical in practice.
Mob protection racket as a form of government.
The classic comic applies:

Nerd: I made this!

DC/Brussels: You made this?

DC/Brussels: I made this!
I don't think this is nearly as true for virii genomes, but larger species have lots of protetive sections of DNA to protect from mutations. If you lose a non-protein-coding section of DNA to mutation, no harm to the species occurs. In humans, only about 1.5% of our DNA codes for protein that is actually generated. Virii are physically extremely tiny in terms of cell size and must be very efficient in terms of storing the DNA within them so way more actually codes, but no doubt there are similar factors at play.
Doubt that magic pixie dust is the correct answer to "what's there?".
What’s wrong with the app? I’m not using reddit very often, but the app seems ok.
Does the plane have to be at the same altitude to launch the missiles?
> I suppose this is mainly a thought for projects like neondb/cockroachdb/stackgres

StackGres is "just" a platform for running Postgres on Kubernetes. It helps you deploy and manage HA, connection pooling, monitoring, automated backups, upgrades and many other things. That you have a tiny Postgres instance; or hundreds of beefy clusters with many instances is up to you. It's not a distributed database (like the other ones mentioned), it is still "vanilla" Postgres.

Disclosure: Founder of OnGres (company behind StackGres)
Every plausible but failed hypothesis (its been half a century now?) bakes-in an intractability that may become permanent for any relavant timescale. There is still some hope as cosmological observations feel less exhausted than particle physics. But its a very awkward admission of defeat after some fairly triumphant decades last century.
The top answer at the link explains it best:

Good observation! The 3' poly(A) tail is actually a very common feature of positive-strand RNA viruses, including coronaviruses and picornaviruses.

For coronaviruses in particular, we know that the poly(A) tail is required for replication, functioning in conjunction with the 3' untranslated region (UTR) as a cis-acting signal for negative strand synthesis and attachment to the ribosome during translation. Mutants lacking the poly(A) tail are severely compromised in replication.
Using PromptLayer to Analyze LangChain Prompts
You've accidental confused achievement and ability.

A student who goes to a poor school who offers zero AP classes will always achieve lower weighted GPAs than students who go to wealthy schools that offer many AP classes. No amount of individual achievement will overcome that mathematical disadvatnage.

Racism comes into when, because of racism, it just so happens that schools who are well funded and can give that advantage are overwhelmingly white, and schools who are are poorly funded and cannot give that advantage are overwhelmingly non-white.

Suggesting that a student who is "placed above his or her station" into an elite program is setup for failure is a favorite of a few SCOTUS Justices, but in fact is not supported by evidence. Graduation and other metrics of success are not strongly correlated to past attainment, primarily because most programs have already had to deal with achievement inequities, and the most successful programs already have mechanisms to even out unequal prior achievement. Virtually all programs that have elite programs already have a substantial apparatus dedicated to filling achievement gaps between incoming students.

The larger question of "what is the purpose of college" and "is it to educate people" is bigger than this thread, but shouldn't be overlooked. For schools that are publicly funded in whole or part, there should be a larger mission than sending young adults through an educational meat grinder. The public mission of public universities should absolutely have a social justice component.

There is absolutely no doubt that we could design an education system which, at an early age, divides and tracks students towards a successful and high level of attainment. By ruthlessly focusing resources on those children with the best chances of success, and minimizing resources expended on those with lower changes of success, the system could produce many multiples of positive outcomes than we do now, but at the cost of many more left with almost no attainment. Our present distribution of resources, in the US, is haphazardly assembled and produces a balance of outcomes, but is by no means optimized for any particular set of outcomes.
Look, if he died while engineering a virus, he wouldn't bother to code "AAAAAAA" he'd just say it!
The unsafe language doom principle
Sure you can.

Example: you observe wonky rotation curves of galaxies. You reckon there might be some extra invisible matter. From that you predict that you should also see this extra matter in lensing observations.
You make the lensing observations and lo and behold, you see the same amount of extra matter that is needed to explain the rotation curves.

I wrote a longer comment on this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34365591
i did know that (in the back of my brain, and watching Ellie in "Contact") but don't see how it applies here.
Could also be a clearweb proxy to an onion site.
A set of static, anonymous metrics, updated _once_ a year from a tiny fraction of developers is not worth the effort to even ingest into some targeting system.

There's many ways to get valuable data for ad targeting, this is not one of them.

If they want to turn bad, they can just use the dependency proxy.golang.org / sum.golang.org that already exist for a long time. Or gather data on things running in Google Cloud. All of these would be unlikely, and bigger levers than gathering some data from a few Go developers.
I don’t find this behavior odd at all. Dereferencing unassigned values is normal Python garbage collector behavior. Threads are an exception (no pun intended), but they’re an exception in lots of ways - just try pickling them.
Those Wright Brothers might be onto something. Wonder if you could use their “aeroplane” to travel across the world
The wiki page has a photo taken of sunlight displayed as an interference pattern, so apparently you can do this with sunlight? Time to cut 2 slits in an amazon box and go to the park on the next sunny day we get here.
are you saying that a goal you support has not been achieved, or that it's a stupid goal?
Responding to Ted Chiang
Flexible Actuator Survives 100M Flaps
Motte meet bailey
They have some equations that never ever match the observed data.

They like their equations, so they call the difference dark matter (which varies in space and time, as we expect). It is quite ridiculous if you think about it, and also is the fact, that they can get away with it.

I am waiting eagerly how will this turn out. (Well only the "dark matter exist", or the "Einstein equations are so useful that they create a meaningful dark matter concept with properties, even that they are incorrect" cases are interesting, if say MOND wins, that would be less amusing.)
Just because it’s ‘cleaned’ doesn’t mean it’s perfectly clean after doing so.
South Pasadenia, a rich CA city, circumvents CA's housing plan integrity
Is that much different than how our brains might work? "We're not "thinking", our neurons are just doing neuron stuff".
Pig War 2.0!
https://archive.ph/KkZjF
43% of the vote in democratic primaries is quite popular.

And Bernie is a great example because identity politics was specifically used against him; his supporters were derided as mostly white male "Bernie Bros".

Sounds like exactly what GP was talking about: steering conversations to race and sex to avoid talking about economic inequality.
do they hire contractors? cuz they distribute it to any contractors working on it and cannot add any restrictions to the GPL