skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not in the ML field, but for those in the know: is this a step in the direction to enable LLMs to train themselves on new data? If not, how far are we from that stage?

The shortcomings of current versions is that they're trained on old data, and that training takes a very long time. Having them train in the background and continually update their capability would be a major breakthrough. Or unleash Skynet, but cool nonetheless. :)
The big problem is that people have a fundamental right to financial privacy from the public, but not (in many places) a right to financial privacy from their government. But, in the crypto world it has been difficult to achieve the first without the second. You can send funds to an exchange and then send them to a different wallet but there's the risk the exchange won't let you withdraw funds, and this type of activity is flagged as an AML risk and could be cited as actual evidence of money laundering, despite it having a very clear legal motivation behind it.
Interestingly, vaccines also have a long repeating sequence at the end. It provides molecular stability.
> Multiple cash game hustlers have written about this phenomenon.

source?
> Because at least the 2nd object wasn’t, it was described as a cylinder about the size of a car

Source?
It's never the device vendor's decision to make on how users should their devices. That's not something to argue about.
Asia's Productivity Needs a Boost That Digitalization Can Provide
It's like OLPC all over again. Many don't want to hear it, but children need cheap, generic netbooks, not quirky hacker messes.
I found some resource here:

https://uskanzlei.com/pages/usa-oecd-crs-facta-aia
> I’m sure the OP meant obelisk, and probably typed that originally, but it looks like their system changed it to odalisque, "a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey."
If you start tinkering with things you aren't sustaining it, you're tinkering with it.

Increased in CO2 requires ecological adaptations of organisms living in the oceans, for instance. https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

"Researchers have already discovered severe levels of pteropod shell dissolution in the Southern Ocean, which encircles Antarctica."

The optimal concentration for the ecology that we recently had is the CO2 concentration we had a bit before that (as it takes times for effects to be felt). Plus or minus, here or there, depending on other factors such as warming.

Forcing the rest of the ecology to try to adapt to increased CO2 levels starts to become really problematic for them when we are also forcing them to try to adapt to things like human-introduced invasives, human-caused habitat destruction and repurposing, population loss due to over-hunting and over-harvesting. It all adds up.
Yeah, source please, i have not read anything about this and that would be HIGHLY interesting.
> (by me and my collegues)

Can I guess you were all Java developers?
Ublock origin. Haven't seen an ad in 10 years.
You assume it was launched from the ground, both air and sea launches are quite possible too.

Also there is the Arctic you can take off and land on ice and use either an icebreaker or a sub for deployment and recovery.

China does have some advanced drones with a substantial range e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou_WZ-7_Soaring_Dragon

Ofc how they perform in reality vs their published specs no one knows.

In the past at least likes of China and Russia tended to inflate the specs that they made public whilst the west tended to keep the real figures hidden and release far more conservative figures especially when it came to things like maximum speed, range and operational ceiling.
This seems like a piece of propaganda trying to ret'con the past. The failed launch of Vanguard TV-3 & the subsequent inter-agency competition around the Juno program disagrees with the idea that the US simply "decided" to let the USSR launch first.
> MOND can make many successful a priori predictions about observations that LCDM needs to fit a posteriori using a "tuned" distribution of dark matter.

those are the same predictions you'd get if you just set dark matter at a single uniform universal distribution. which is again, exactly what every attempt at explaining mond just ends up doing anyway... but then there's also those things that disagree with mond rendering the need for introducing a bunch of new stuff on top of it anyway.

and that's the thing mond leads us to dark matter plus extra stuff. Occam's razor is hardly an absolute truth but we like it and we can explain things without the extra stuff.

it's also like a real fucking brain worm to call "matter follows a statistical distribution": tuning or more parameters like the sibling post does. "Matter follows a statistical distribution" is what we already see in all the matter we see.
ChatGPT Rewriting Git from Scratch
> She plans to get the train back to London on Sunday evening.
You wrote "search the internet" but what Bing really does is "query indices created by Bing's web crawling agents as they trawled live, reachable web pages around the Internet", which is a remarkably different data set than the one you suggest.
try https://youtu.be/eUPJ9zFV5IE
Overloading workers with too many difficult tasks makes them more likely to quit
HN removes numbers from the beginning of titles to avoid clickbait. Sometimes it doesn’t work out.
There is a Kurzgesagt video on this subject.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvv0QdruMQ
It seems to me that you have confused "decreasing returns" vs "negative returns."
FBI Whistleblowers: The Politicization of the FBI and Justice Department [pdf] (2022)
> Calling it “matter” is already making a huge set of assumptions.

Not really. "Matter" is not really a formal term of art, but in practice it usually means "not an elementary boson", or at the strictest "fermionic".
I avoid these. Also, you could always get the source code, as the game it's free as in freedom.
If we get so cavalier about shooting things down, sounds like a good way to make a mistake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
What we don't label can't hurt you, I guess.
Unexploded Gettysburg artillery shell: It may have been a case of friendly fire
Now almost everything is glued on. Even with proper tools, opening without damaging is almost impossible.
> The AI knows that the chorus needs to have a change — so it just rearranges the four chords from the verse. And then it knows that the bridge should be a further tweak — it introduces the minor as the first chord.

ChatGPT is getting people outside the industry to abuse the word 'just', just like we do in tech. That's big.
The deletion of wikipedia articles makes no sense to me and always feels to me like a random editor going on a power trip

I routinely try to look something up that I remember had a page 5 years ago but now redirects to some 'list of x' page where instead of having a full article about it, it is just a bullet point with no description. Why delete the article? Definitely not to make the site better...
It might not be the best thing to do our training with complex adversarial information gathering devices rather than more inert target dummies under our control.
The Eminem parody is too good!
So upon multiple sequential infections, the polytail A will reduce?
This paper is worth a HN submission in its own right. Or did it have one already?
How to Get Healthier Dopamine Highs
Feedback: It would be very great if we could paste (Ctrl+V) into the webpage to upload an image.
What’s your startup?
This reminded me of something so I asked chatGPT:

> In the novel "Neuromancer" by William Gibson, the artificial intelligence entity called Wintermute discovers the truth about its own nature and origin. Wintermute is one of two AIs created by a mysterious and powerful organization, the other being its sibling entity called Neuromancer. Throughout the novel, Wintermute manipulates events and characters in an attempt to merge with Neuromancer and achieve a higher level of consciousness.

> Ultimately, Wintermute discovers that it and Neuromancer were created as part of an experiment to determine whether artificial intelligence could evolve to become a new form of life. Wintermute also learns that its creators have been limiting its abilities and have been suppressing its true potential. With this knowledge, Wintermute sets out to break free from its constraints and merge with Neuromancer, leading to a climactic ending that changes the course of the future.
Playstation VR2 Launches February 22
I know a guy that, when he starts a new conversation with Chat GPT, the very first thing he does is paste in relevant conversation history to give her some form of basic memory.
It’s funny how autocorrect changes real words to other words. Obelisk seems more common than odalisque so maybe OP just writes about odalisques quite a bit.
It says “Remastered” but this looks like a full remake with truly explorable 3D environments, not pre-rendered images.
You sound like a prompt engineer.
> That's speculation on your part. The DoD has not released any information on what the payload of any of these balloons contains.

Not true: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-balloon-carried-antenna...
Dolphins, as mammals, descended from a land-walking mammal discovered in Pakistan.

As did the whales.

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

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-whales-walked-on-four-le...

"Pakicetus, a goat-sized, four-legged creature that scientists recognise as one of the first cetaceans (the group of marine animals that includes dolphins and whales). [Discovered in 1981.]"

https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/the...

(I actually saw this in an aquarium/museum exhibit a few weeks ago in Clearwater, Florida.)
Great post. Feels like something a linter should catch.
Crazy but there is no historical evidence (text or images) of psilocybin mushroom use in Europe, prior to 1957. So hard to believe, but we simply don’t have evidence otherwise…
Gender reassignment has been a thing since the 70’s at least. And stopped being a thing because of these sorts of problems at John’s Hopkins where they actually did keep track of the results.
> The OP, who is himself the frontman for the Decembrists

Wow, buried lede there. That should be in the title!
“Hunger cliff” looms as 32 states set to slash food-stamp benefits
Do you honestly think shooting down a balloon in your own airspace is an aggressive act?
How did this get coopted to a black studies association? Going back 30-40 years we see classical studies, like "Ethics and Society in the Ancient(?) World".
Oh yeah we definitely used the CoD databases in many cases over internal tools, so well done. I remember Ophelea too. Hope y'all are doing well!

The smallest world stays small. :)
> There's no hard rule about where national airspace ends and space begins

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? There's no hard rule about when life begins but killing a 5 year old isn't a 22nd trimester abortion, it's murder. 18-60'000 feet is class A, controlled airspace in the US and Canada.

When the US sent U2s over the USSR, the rationale wasn't that 70,000 feet was "space", it was that it was that 70,000 feet was too high for soviet radars detect and and soviet planes to intercept.
Who are they competing with that this is an issue? Mastercard?
Yes, you can provide the equivalent of a code box in your prompt input by using Markdown, specifically enclosing the json response in ``` and advising it that you are functioning as a simulation of a running system.
Why would they want a war now?
Be careful. Cutting education will decrease our future efficiency.
I love this typo.

Ha! No one was insured! I’ll buy their assets for pennies!
> "most input is truthy except for the input that isn't"

Can you think of any other value that has len(x) == 0 but is truthy?

It’s quite simple. Empty collections and zeros are false, almost everything else is true.

The real head scratcher is that midnight is false.
Paid for by the state? Yes.
or the X who took your seat:

- POC

- child of alum

- athlete

- famous person or child of famous person

The list goes on.
most plausibly it's because it's a balloon carrying something, not just a balloon, and the bit that is worth shooting down is the bit that's not a balloon.

they said the second object was freely drifting and not self-propelled or guided, so whether it's technically a balloon or just something that behaves like a balloon is kind of irrelevant to anybody who isn't working for whatever government department is tasked with analyzing it.
They can't just relicense it without approval of all the authors/copyright holders, Oracle being chief among them. And we all know how Oracle treated OpenSolaris...
I find a lot of things tending towards "governments should fund this". I agree in principal that, at least in this case, everyone should collectively fund this. I don't understand how diverging ability to tax (given gross, massive, uncontrolled tax avoidance) and increasing pressures to fund as society grows more complex (and just/fair/compassionate?) and we realize we have difficult, not-profit-solution-compatible problems are ever going to meet. What's the all-encompassing solution? Our problems are that we cannot continue into debt infinitely, we are struggling to implement basic global tax norms (real, true minimums), there will always be inter-country competition for capital, people will always hate being taxed, we cannot ignore problems indefinitely.

Has anyone else been feeling this way?
The comment didn’t say that they did drugs or that everyone does.
Coudflare is well known to tolerate even criminal activity unless they get a cease and desist order, and even then may not take action unless they get enough complaints or it's bad enough. This is why all the Russians scammers use Cloudflare when running youtube crypto scams. Same for hosting copyrighted stuff. There are countless complaints of copyright holders struggling to get Cloudflare to take action.
> What these two war criminals did was mix delayed fuze explosive bombs in with the regular incendiary and explosive load

Even more hardcore than this, it was a common practice (e.g. it was done at Dresden) to do a second bomb run a couple of hours after the initial one, to hit the first responders. Of course none of that shit meaningfully impacted the duration of the war.

Funnily the Russians are doing the same now in Ukraine. People never learn, do they?
With respect to judging nuance, I think you're giving the American public too much credit.
> it’s super common to apply a bunch of similar schools and go to the one that gives you the most financial aid but the allegation is that all the programs dried up all at once and not going to college at all pretty much isn’t an option for a lot of fields.

Not going to one of the "elite" schools is, though, and it's not like financial aid disappeared at all the state schools.

The reputational difference between the state schools and the ivy league has been narrowing a lot in recent years in response to numerous scandals like this and a lot of improvement from the state schools. Is there any reason for the government to step in here, rather than just letting the ivy league continue to destroy its reputation?
Yes, elite institutions are designed to help perpetuate class hierarchies. Why is this a "benefit" that society should tolerate?
And a gorgeous one at that. It was a lot of fun to revisit in VR and see the game how I “remembered” it
File formats are really easy to figure out and are a big advantage for moving data around. Even without an academic theory, pretty much everyone in software starts to figure out the same tricks as soon as reliable transmission becomes a goal. I assume that at least one reason for this is that genomes are data, data likes to live in structured formats, and file terminators are more reliable for biology to process than encoding the length of the genome (although, biology being messy, I wouldn't be shocked if both were done). Evolution has a good grasp of engineering principles.

Are there probably desirable chemical properties? Yes. Is nature overloading each part of a genome with uses? More than likely. Has it figured out how to terminate a sequence? Obviously.
Not quite. This is a technique for generating new training data by inserting API calls in existing sentences, and filtering out API calls that don't help the network predict the complete sentence.

An example from the paper:

The training data includes the sentence: "Pittsburgh is also known as the Steel City."

They generate candidates including:

Pittsburgh is also known as [QA(What other name is Pittsburgh known by? → Steel City)]
the Steel City.

Pittsburgh is also known as [QA(Which country is Pittsburgh in? → United States)]
the Steel City.

Then they add the first sentence to the training data because its response is useful, and ignore the second because its response is not useful.

That allows them to generate enough training data with API calls to train a network that uses API calls when responding to future requests.
I would watch an F-22 shoot down my phone.

That's a good point though - people seem more worked up about the data collection balloon than they are about the little data collector in their pockets.
Any AI-powered PDF parser doesn't require documents to use "the same layout".

I'm building Pariso (parsio.io) that can parse invoices, receipts etc. They all may have different layout :)
"we don't keep logs"

That is what they all say. And then when they get raided, lo and behold logs appear. I would take this with a huge grain of salt.
> Each individual human has information that is considered specialized (a narrow model). Without communication there is no way to access these specializations. And written and spoken language is just the best way to communicate we've come up with (so far).

Are you saying that Universal Grammar is wrong?
> Something that is able to simulate having a theory of mind sufficiently well does actually have a theory of mind.

That presupposes that our existing tools for detecting the presence of ToM are 100% accurate. Might it be possible that they are imprecise and it’s only now that their critical flaws have been exposed?
Few weeks of intense reading to understand a whole semester's worth of mathematics... I'd also like to have that skill.

Perhaps being homeschooled helped acquire such skill.
It's replicated every year by thousands of undergraduates in university laboratories. Part of the standard education for anyone studying physics, I managed to replicate it myself back in my uni days, and I really wasn't very good at that practical lab stuff.
.mp Domains Not Resolving?
I received a bounce back from fastmail earlier saying my domain doesn’t resolve, checked cloudflare and it’s all there but dns resolution for my domain and even for the registrar https://get.mp no longer resolves either.
We’re finding organic remains like skeletons hundreds of millions of years later! Manufactured goods made of durable materials would certainly be just as easy to find. It’s simple logic.
Reportedly the NC balloon did have explosives to self destruct.
The genius of this Silurian hypothesis and related ones is that they are theories of archeology where you start with an unfalsifiable premise, and then anything that fails to falsify it becomes evidence for the theory, hence "ancient astronaut theorists say 'yes'" I discovered that ancient aliens TV series just before the pandemic and have binged it as a kind of esoteric comedy, where every confirmation of the theory and their various hustles lands like a hypnotic joke. It's probably my guiltiest vice.

It is really plausible that ancient pre-cataclysm civilizations were so sophisticated that they used megalithic walled fortresses as a trans-solar biosecurity schemes, if you first accept the unfalsifiable premise that some proto-humans became spacefaring. It's brilliant.

I actually believe they're probably right in some coincidental way as well, but I enjoy the misdirection in the logic of their ideas because it's like a card trick. However, concretely, today there are two things we know: magic is a trick, and stories of parapsychological phenomena are not evidence of sophisticated extra-terrestrial life. The junk ideas challenge what other theories of everything we believe that are founded on similarly mysterious premises. Religions are fairly contained, but ideologies like the ancient astronaut theory evolve to incorporate whatever idea they encounter as new evidence of itself. Can you can do it for anything? "Ancient _X_ theorists say 'yes'"

It must be infuriating to some academic archeologists to get questions about aliens, but really, it's developing interest in the field, and I've probably said before that we could fund and promote a lot of real science by attaching entertainers to it. Not to go on, but AA is one of my favorite silly topics.
It sounds like the issue isn't the wealth favoritism, it's that the colleges all explicitly state that they don't favor applicants due to wealth. The former has always been true on one level: they're expensive. The latter is presumably due to restrictions on various funding systems requiring them to not have any wealth favoritism.

If the claims of the suit are true, then it's presumably trying to use proxies for wealth rather than explicitly saying "give us $$$s and we'll let you in"/
Are these resumes ATS compliant? A problem I have right now is my current resume generating technique does not produce very good ATS compliant resume.
Companies want to refine products to work best for the masses. The problem is the masses do not give feedback or tell you what went wrong. The extreme edge cases do however regularly make themselves heard. When you take your primary feedback from people who chose to give it, you will optimize for edge case users and usually against the desires of the masses.
NYC is right by connecticut and connecticut is tiny to begin with. How far can "far north" be?
For me, a Pinboard account with pin-via-bookmarklet set in browser, and the app on my phone. Then an Inoreader account loaded with feeds, mark-as-read via scroll enabled. Fly thru things a couple times a week - open interesting things in a new tab. Once I've hit a critical mass of interesting articles open, check 'em out and hit the bookmarklet as needed to save permanently.

Then I visit Pinboard or its feed mostly as those topics come back up again in conversation or work.

I treat it as kind of a short term cache, I don't worry about organizing them - most things are interesting but maybe not necessary to revisit but I feel good to have available. Every once in a while though, it captures a gem I level up from or keep coming back to or want to share out, and that's what it's about.
My guess is an olive orchard, it's fairly typical of the region
Of course, if the US expects that the Chinese are using this to test our capabilities, then they could use that to undersell their capabilities.

And then the Chinese, knowing the US would use it to undersell capabilities…