skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the level of intelligence required to observe or signal other planets is completely unnecessary for survival, so there’s no pressure to evolve to that level.

Ah, but humans today are fully capable of guiding our own evolution toward whatever goal we desire as a group, regardless of "fitness".

Perhaps there is a threshold of intelligence that, once reached, allows the possibility of that species becoming more intelligent and capable over time.
> no better than a petulant child

Child, you say? That's a great achievement.
Yes, this has happened to me a few times. I agree.
In full contact competitive arts e.g. striking and MMA the trend has been toward more and more limitation of contact sparring. For striking and grappling arts like BJJ, you can still train skills with very low contact and low intensity drills so you could train many hours of the day sustainably. I have never practiced Judo but I am pretty sure due to the dynamic nature of throws there is no real way around throwing each other to train, i.e. the intensity or equivalent of 'contact' can only get so low.
Is Mapbox dead now? It used to be awesome many years ago.
Because PostgreSQL major version upgrades are hard and for large databases, requires some level of downtime. Given that that major version releases are on an annual release cycle, staying evergreen is really really annoying.
Platformatic v0.15.0
"Salinity matched" does not make any sense, and the article said nothing of the sort.

It said "make them appear ... as part of the natural background — something that required adapting to the specific salinity of the water". Making something invisible to sonar could depend on the acoustic impedance (which varies with salinity) of the surrounding water and might involve adapting the object accordingly.
> Teddi and her sister Nala, age 3, were both diagnosed with MLD in April 2022, according to the NHS. Unfortunately, Nala was not eligible for Libmeldy because she'd already developed symptoms of the disorder.

Holy shit. My god, I'm just thinking of the parents.

"Sorry, we can only save one of your kids."

"You can't give Nala the treatment?"

"Well, we could. We won't, though."

I'm sure there are good reasons, but Jesus, that's harsh.
Artificial Intelligence patents are available to everyone and can just as easily run on a distributed network of IOT devices nearer victims. The paragraphs you are quoting are exactly what they did in the 1990s when supercomputers were relevant, so the press release only really mentions more of the same despite diminished significance of old strategies.
There's many ongoing projects to make whisky faster using ultrasonic agitation! Why? Because if the same value can be delivered faster, people try to. The same is true of software, and testing gets pruned.
Poor is the potter, then.
yes it is. but the point isn't to sequester carbon for no reason, it's to reduce overall atmospheric CO2. and if you can replace more carbon-intensive food production with seaweed farming, that's a win.

also, regardless of how quickly it grows and is harvested any sort of farming does sequester carbon for as long as those crops are still crops, and seaweed can (afaik) grow year-round, permanently replenishing itself. if the total biomass in your seaweed farm stays relatively stable at 10T, that's ~10T of carbon removed from the atmosphere for as long as that farm exists. the fact that some of it is getting harvested is irrelevant as long as more keeps growing.
Another (maybe even more) important motivation was to have simple, statically-typed language so that new hires can contribute to the codebase faster and the code itself is more standardized and easier to maintain at large scale.
Viruses do that an astounding number of times a day, every day, don't they? And this treatment uses a virus.
In case anyone is curious, I downloaded US Census Bureau data on the population of all incorporated towns and cities in the United States, eg from https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2...

It appears that the median resident of the United States lives in a town or city of population 18,290 (as of the census date April 1, 2020).

As a quick sanity check, the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... cuts off at population 100,000 and mentions that
> The total 2020 enumerated population of all cities over 100,000 is 96,598,047, representing 29.14% of the United States population
... and we have no idea how things went from "RNA precursors" to "independent reproduction".

All extant RNA-based organisms require host DNA to reproduce. I see no reason to believe that RNA came first.
We’re All Living Under Gravity’s Rainbow
Complaining that things that are utility positive could be more utility positive is an all-too-common criticism, and it's a really lousy one. For one, it's internally inconsistent: if the goal is maximize the utility of one's actions, then rather than spending energy criticizing a positive action for not being more positive, you'd be better off criticizing something negative for being negative. For another: there are heaps of people on Earth. Humanity can, and does, do many things at the same time. If you've got some idea to make the world a better place, go do it. Or don't, it's your life. But criticizing people trying to do a good thing for not doing a better thing is just spreading negativity.
Finally a real world use for my maze solver gtk applet from 2008!!
> $ echo '{}' > package.json && npm i --save-dev typescript vite preact

> added 17 packages, and audited 18 packages in 1s

You're off by two orders of magnitude. I get not wanting a lot of transitive dependencies, but you can get a modern toolchain without having a lot of transitive dependencies.
> or indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else

I'm wondering if it will use private storage for those memories. Will people try to hide stuff by wrapping it in sexual language?
Direct is probably also from chat apps and stuff. I remember that I posted the article in one of my groups.

Fascinating
It has been a very long time since I’ve used Java. Rust will tell you where you need the locks, at compile time. Does Java? Serious question.
> Notable that sticking at the top of Hacker News for a day really does drive an enormous amount of traffic—18% of the traffic you get from the second most followed account on Twitter (looks like Barack Obama is still number one).

That's pretty incredible. I'd be really curious to know how this compares to being on Reddit's front page. I guess Twitter's click-through rate is just particularly poor (or maybe specifically Elon's is, maybe even the view count metrics are inflated).
That's true. In the zero acceleration case you get a vertical straight line. If you have acceleration or deceleration equal to G, you get a straight angled line. If you have any acceleration or deceleration that doesn't match G, you get a curve
You think that’s better than the questionable decisions a human makes? When a human makes one who corrects it? With autopilot you face the joint distribution of it and me making a mistake rather than either of us.
But thats why you cant compare a ready product to use like Notion to org-mode. I’m somewhat an advanced user and I cant be bothered fucking with org-mode. Obsidian is just perfect for my needs.
> Sure you can, if you can self host 8x A100 cards ($200k+), plus the cost of electricity and heat dissipation.

Well, you don’t need it on all the time, so if you don’t mind having the compute & model in the cloud (and since “data pods” seem to be a concept that TBL is pitching that would likely be implemented in the cloud, just with sharing being granular and white-listed, you probably don’t if you buy into that), you could just spin up an EC2 p4d.24xlarge instance for a little under $0.01/s when needed.
Agree, but that's how it always was before Covid.
> He was really convinced of his own brilliance because he thought he designed a good interface, but he didn't realize that his entire approach to design was bad.

I see, so you evaluated his design and the skills you have allowed you to see it was bad, when he could not?
Congrats! I see by comparing the author list of v1 and V2 of this paper[1] that a Go player[2] was consulted before making claims about defeating a Go AI. This is indeed a nontrivial exploit that passes muster with a Go player who was skeptical last time around [3]!

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241v2

[2] https://agagd.usgo.org/player/13822/ (6dan amateur strength is very strong, roughly 2300 Elo in chess)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33449600#33450069
Augmented Language Models: A Survey
Related to emotions, I think the only difference is the RLHF. Probably a different set of human preferences.
Very interesting! But apart from visitor numbers, how high was the number of emails or requests that you received because of the wide circulation of that post? I could imagine that there was some interesting requests for comments?
Is being a soulless robot masquerading as a human being good for mental health?
"Lol gottem." But seriously, in this connection I find I keep thinking back to another article [1] posted here a few weeks back, and about how the Bing chatbot seems on at least one occasion to have accidentally circumvented its lack of long-term memory via its ability to search the web. [2] Combine an emergent capability like that with an engineered capacity for anamnesis - something which seems theoretically feasible, albeit possibly expensive in practical terms; I'm sure there are teams already working hard to do it, if indeed it hasn't already been done - and...

It takes a lot to make Ben Thompson to have as normal a one as the Stratechery Update post he un-paywalled this week [3] strongly suggests he did. So I don't feel too bad about admitting I have begun somewhat to wonder whether anything as trivial as merely abandoning the current dispensation of the web in its entirety would suffice to make a meaningful difference here.

[1] https://sive.rs/anon

[2] https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/#threats

[3] https://stratechery.com/2023/from-bing-to-sydney-search-as-d...
This is a complete game changer!
a 2.37% click through rate is far from ideal. Twitter analytics specifically does not mention clicks on links for this very reason. instead they simply track all clicks... links, profile, hashtags, etc.
Clear Linux pitches itself as the perfect Docker host:
https://clearlinux.org/downloads/containers

Its almost certainly the most performant distro in this huge thread (unless your host is ARM).
It sounds like this is really two things, a software synthesizer toolkit, and a way to sync multiple instances of this software running on multiple devices for a sound installation.
That's true, but a ball rolling down hill wouldn't give you an estimate of gravity without understanding Newtonian physics and friction coefficients
From a more cynical point of view, "zero-trust" tends to mean something along the lines of: "trust a TPM on the user side... and all of my server logic and my cloud provider."

From a less cynical point of view it means "hold all the client's keys in their TPM and only authenticate on the server side, but don't decrypt (or otherwise pass keys around)"
German ballet director ‘smeared dog faeces on critic’s face’ after bad review
The video is an hour and twenty minutes; anyone want to post links to the best time indexes or screenshots?
You should be free to do what you think is best for yourself, medically. And everyone I know thinks the same.

Your neighbor in Wyoming checking in. Those I know here would agree with you.
Update: Elon claims he invented the car fart. See https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626703667591270400
Honestly, even if it isn't, I appreciate the archive link.

I've often found HN threads that are many years old while researching things, and the original article is long gone. An archive link at least _usually_ works.
Would probably do little good. They show that the attack goes through almost perfectly even if you give the target an entire wallclock hour per move to do tree search to try to defend against it (as opposed to the more typical seconds or minutes per move search budget): https://goattack.far.ai/pdfs/go_attack_paper.pdf#page=8 So it's a serious blindspot.
You can be healthy now and developer cancer next year. They're looking at whether this child shows signs of illness, and he doesn't. That's the same definition of healthy that we use for everyone else.
I wouldn't waste my time, personally. Most God in the Gaps arguments trace back to intellectual cowards, in my experience.
hmmmmm

I'm on up to date droid OS with an older pixel device

I wonder if 'aggressive throttling' is the norm on older devices? Also, I remember reading about a non-google android handset vendor who shipped custom throttling logic (but don't quote me on this)

it's been a while since I tested, and because I don't know how to inspect the daemon state directly, I'm not sure of any of this, but iirc:

1. I had to switch chrome to 'unrestricted' from default 'optimized' in the OS settings 'app battery usage' screen, or else notifications would fail starting a few hours after the last time chrome was foregrounded

2. chrome had to be started once after boot (less sure of this)

it's certainly possible something else in my stack is causing problems, or I have misconfigured retry on the send-side
We can't have constructive conversations with people who deflect criticism of one party with criticism of another. This "whataboutism" is intellectually dishonest, implying straw beliefs that haven't been professed. There can be two wrong parties, but it's childish to change the subject defensively.
In broad strokes, how would you do such an endeavour? At those depths it seems impossible, unless some massive technological breakthrough has happened very recently.
But on the other hand, if at some point you become unable to respond (artistically) to your biting self-criticism, there's the danger of ceasing production entirely. Then five years go by.
Can you talk more about why you feel it would be infeasible? I'm a guy with a house full of CRTs so I am genuinely interested.

What sorts of things are advanced filters like CRT-Royale are missing? https://www.google.com/search?q=crt-royale

Each individual phosphor dot on a CRT is not terribly tricky to emulate.

The brightness at any given moment is a fairly simple decay function based on how long it's been since you lit it up with the electron gun. On top of that, you would typically want to apply some level of bloom to simulate the way light is diffused by the glass. Sure, you've got a few million dots to simulate, but this is also anembarrassingly parallel problem.

Now of course, admittedly, you're only simulating that phosphor glow decay at the refresh rate of your monitor -- 60hz, 144hz, 240hz, whatever -- instead of an effectively infinite level of steps as would be the case in real life. However, I don't think that is a practical issue.

You're clearly thinking of factors I'm not and I'm genuinely interested. To my mind, the visual aspects of CRTs are pretty easy to simulate, but not the near-zero lag.
IF you increase the carbon biomass, you can offset humanity. We have cleared a lot of land to graze cattle. Restoring forest both above and below water will have a positive impact.
Sorta off topic, but how do some Substacks get so many subs? I seen posts go viral on Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter,etc yet the associated Substack posts have just 1-5 likes, yet other Substack blogs get hundred likes per post. Is it just friends and connections, or are external traffic sources not that useful? Where does the traffic come from if even front page Hacker News for 3+ hours is not good enough to get more than 1-5 likes?
> Regarding the commute, to me it feels like the employer saying “You’re going to dedicate at least 5 more hours a week to work where you won’t be compensated and won’t be productive”.

Unless the employer is forcing you to live in a particular place, your tolerance for commute vs. rent (and other lifestyle impacts of location) is saying that, not your employer. I’ve rarely seen a worksite [0] (and doubt that it is the case for any FAANG HQ job) where it was impossible to live closer than 1/2-hour one-way commute from the office.

[0] There obviously are some, and even some where the distance is much farther, but they are exceptional.
It's the second one, though the NRA is a special case in every way.
I don't know why anybody is surprised that an LLM trained on Reddit and twitter would accuse its critics of being nazis during arguments.
I think some people (like myself) just like some order to things, or at least the feeling of it.

Fiddling with my notion calendar of how many gym sessions/runs I made/missed is easier than actually going to the gym of course, but I like to think it helps me stay on track in a “what gets measured gets managed” kind of way.

But maybe when I’m older and more wise I’ll see it for the fallacy it is
I spent several hours on this today. Currently stuck at "out of memory" error trying to fine-tune the base model.
Even after I point out your "reasoning" system and its flaws, you come right out the gate with "CIA approved sources". Are you even capable of anything other than bashing the source?
If someone says they are done, take the hint.
Apparently MLD is not in the standard genetic screening panel that these parents would (probably) have been offered. I guess that's one reason for every couple to do genetic counseling if they can.
I think the only unclear pieces are the complete list of blackmail targets and complete list of all those that ever flew to the island.
There was a bribery scandal at my college years ago. But, what was more shocking than professors and teaching assistants accepting bribes, was how small and seemingly insignificant the bribes were. I recall one professor elevated the grades of an entire fraternity because they sent pizzas to his office after midterms (when the exams were being graded).
Commentary: Can a philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?
I'm moving to a new house in the next few weeks, so I'll be firing this up again soon. It was fun to model our current house, and it was very useful for figuring out interior design. I also used it to set up some floorplans in Home Assistant using https://github.com/adizanni/floor3d-card
And a 2D version with https://github.com/ExperienceLovelace/ha-floorplan

The home automation floorplan stuff was a fun project, but I don't really use it. I found that it's not as useful as a simple dashboard page with plain buttons and cards. But it was fun to work on just as a hobby, like painting models or setting up a model train set.
I’m sure you’ve heard something like “alternating current is more efficient than direct current for transmitting power”, but this is only true in specific conditions. At very high A/C voltages, the magnetic field created by the alternating current “pushes” elections away from the core of their conductor. This has the same effect as using a smaller diameter conductor, increasing heat which increases resistance and reduces efficiency. At sufficiently high voltages and distances, DC can have less loss and also has the added bonus of not needing to consider differences in A/C frequency when transmitting power between areas that have dissimilar electrical grids.
We really need models with lower VRAM requirements to use on consumer grade GPUs.
I think there is some good progress in the area (SantaCoder) but it might take couple of years until someone releases a decent GPT-3 alternative for consumer grade GPUs.
I beat chatgpt at writing javascript without an infinite loop....not sure why it or this should be newsworthy though.
What about HVDC instead?
I second your Gandi recommendation! Everything is straightforward. Never had any problems with their service or support.

When you buy a domain from them they also include a pair of web/smtp/pop/imap mailboxes you can use, with the ability to create aliases, including wildcard aliases. So I don't need to pay separately for fastmail or some other email service.
Last time I shopped (admittedly 8 years ago) there were tons of entry level, cheap Toyotas and Hondas that were only a year or two old with under 20k miles for $10-15k.
I've had the impression of seeing text in my dreams, but it's typically something that my eyes pass over without trying to resolve into words. More rarely, I see text and know what it says, but I don't recall actually reading it.

Then again, I've also dreamed that I understood various languages that I don't while conscious.
I had a conversation with a journalist this morning (one I'd talked to before about other AI stuff), and I'm set to do a short live TV news interview at the weekend - but not much aside from that.
I'm glad I migrated our 2FA from Twilio to Vonage some weeks ago after an awful experience with toll fraud (more info here: https://yousefamar.com/memo/log/2023-01-29-00-05-40/)
You mean you cannot read in dreams? See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchance_to_Dream_(Batman:_...
It does forclose most other usage opportunities for the land needed.
Of course; everyone else is on the hook for the real estate and other contracts signed by genius CEOs and the experts they hand select.

The rest of us just live here.
I don't think I can edit the post, but I agree. Though many have kind of described their process which gives somewhat of a picture. If anything it's been interesting hearing different people's definitions of deployment.

I would probably condense my definition to how quickly can you go from new code added to someone seeing that code running (in web dev terms essentially available on some URL). So even if you had different layers of pipeline, the build artifact stage would still be included, because you can't deploy without it.
Haha, someone was asking today on Twitter

> I can't find a mention of "GPT" or "General Purpose Transformer"

:)
It's weird to be reading anything about IIS in 2023.
How Dagger Uses Ruff
> there has never been, nor will there ever be a functional "helicopter" that looks like Da Vinci's helicopter.

No: it has no stabilising rotor. However, there could be a functional quadcopter using four of Da Vinci's aerial screws: https://www.cnet.com/science/this-drone-flies-using-da-vinci...
That's my opinion. We need more of a culture of giving back. I dislike proprietary software, but I have no problem paying for software.

For example: there are several apps on F-Droid that give you full functionality (even if there is a paywall for those features on the Play Store version), and all they do is say "hey, this took my time to develop, and I'd appreciate if you could throw some bucks my way." I enjoy contributing more than what they'd charge with a paywall in those cases.