skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it's early for me too, but I can at least function well, and without becoming incredibly short tempered and frustrated, on a 0000 - 0800 sleep pattern. Left to my own devices, and with no alarm clock, I tend to actually wake up at around 0900 - 1000, but (not being independently wealthy) that's pretty incompatible with the rest of life.

If I had FU money I'd fully embrace that.

What's the point of getting up early, rushing around, only to leave the house and get immediately stuck in traffic? What a giant waste of time.
> What are advertisers going to do to lure me into watching ads for longer than 6 seconds?

I'll admit the K-Mart "ship my pants" ad got me to stick around a while longer. It'll probably be more of that.
How does one diagnosis schizophrenia in a mouse? Are there simple chemical tests for schizophrenia?
Stardew Valley was a 1-person effort (not sure if it still is), and massively successful
You did literally propose that we "let people...get rid of the cul de sacs." I don't think I was jumping to baseless conclusions while reading your words.
This feels like re-discovering DSLs, except the syntax is English, and the implementation is a blackbox.
Until recently I was watching Yannic Kilcher on YouTube, he posted over the span of a few years hundreds of in-depth paper reviews. He is technically a "content creator" but for me his videos were as good as lectures from famous universities.
This. It's not a net-new presence, but very perfectly tuned to catch emotions well.
No idea what Bhante Vimalaramsi is. I used the term as a synonym for sravakayana; I think I probably used it incorrectly, it should probably include a lot of mahayana practice (because mahayana sutras). Maybe it just means "practices that don't depend on revealed teachings". At any rate, "not tantrayana".
I fixed it. Thanks.
As a side note: all other links (e.g. footer, menu) to the privacy page were working correctly. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Hackers steal Activision games and employee data
Here is a link if you want to apply: https://jobs.lever.co/crosslaketech/7b2e42ec-d873-443f-b30f-...
Good feedback, we're working on more streaming features as well as supporting different backends for the CLI.

Any other features you would find useful or a dealbreaker?
I'm not seeing how that doesn't help support DRM?

It does nothing to dissuade content gatekeepers from employing restrictive DRM on their sites.

Anti-DRM would be avoiding anything that gives money to those that employ DRM to incentivize the removal of the DRM. Frankly, flat out piracy (streaming ripped content) is more likely to result in the removal of DRM than making it appear that the DRM is working well for the provider.
Wow this is actually amazing. I would have never thought to try something like this. A fun thought that comes to mind is connecting docker and twillio on the other end and then offering some kind of a pay per text vm for randomly testing things. Not sure if anyone would use that.

The fact that you got it to work at all is very entertaining to me.
In New Zealand we have an excellent piece of legislation called The Consumer Guarantees Act. Things are supposed to last a reasonable amount of time. You’ll easily get 3 years warranty if you cite the law when you call Apple. It’s Sort of like free apple care.
Also https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html
Religion worked for thousands of years to create society and a shared code of ethics and morals. To say otherwise is an uneducated understanding of human history. It may be outdated in many ways now but to say it doesn't work is not a take that gets you any closer to understanding how the world and people work, it just sounds edgy and spiteful.
Is this like Youtube's "Skippable" and "Non-skipable" ads? ie: you only pay for an ad if it wasn't skipped? Pay extra to have it not skipped?

The emotions would be like ... if a person watches the entire ad? If they interact with it?

On TikTok, if I see the same ad a few times, I'll flag it as "not interested" or "saw it too many times already" etc.
Of course test the real thing if you can. The introduction of mocks and stubs to the conversation to me has already implied that is not possible.
I remember there is a great analog for the era of the neuro network. The neuro network is a binary encoding of an algorithm/program. It could therefore be very efficient and simple. We will move on to get comfortable with it just like we are now comfortably familiar with the binary encoding of information (files).
Is CloudSec the new AppSec? tldr – not quite
Yup, that graphics stacks could easily add a few layers for ya! When I was at a gfx card mfr, there were many compatibility and shim layers :)
Or the opposite
This is the main reason I only buy Apple hardware as well. The moment you open the box on a PC desktop, it's basically worthless beyond what you could part it out for. A Mac will maintain >50% of it's retail price for years.
> - Warzone taxi / ambulance driver.

Oldie but a goodie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(video_game)

> Tailspin / Tales of the Gold Monkey / Archer Danger Island flight/business sim.

You had me at TailSpin. A solid series set in a world built on air transport instead of the automobile. I guess you could call it Airpunk? Though I'd want the ability to fly a plane on a mission with an AI co-pilot that can take the wheel while I switch back to a first/3rd person view and can now freely run around the plane to battle air pirates that have boarded mid fight. And toss in forgiving physics so you can air surf like Kit Cloudkicker.
This article claims that: "Genetic vulnerability is generally accepted to be involved in the development of schizophrenia."

It might be more accurate to say its accepted that it may be involved in particular cases, but is not a general feature in all cases, nor is it determinative (i.e. some genetic makeups may be correlated with a higher risk of schizophrenia, but only by a small factor, and many people with such genetic makeups never develop the condition). This is an area of active debate whose outcome remains uncertain. For example (2021):

"Schizophrenia: a classic battle ground of nature versus nurture debate", Clair & Lang

https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.scib.2021.01.032

Note that twin studies are heavily skewed by shared environmental conditions and so are not that valid of an argument regarding genetic determinism (in this as well as many other psychiatric conditions). The current state seems to be:

> "However, little is known about the causal biochemical and molecular mechanisms involved that translate genetic and environmental risk into the schizophrenia phenotype. It is also now clear that environmental exposures that increase the risk of schizophrenia can occur at any point across the life span and probably include pre-conceptional exposure."

This is probably a case where mice studies are not very relevant to the human condition.
Zero Knowledge Programming Language
> These big tech companies are role-playing as governments, but they are terrible at it

If actual governments did it, they wouldn't have to. I bet they'd be thrilled to be relieved of that responsibility.

> As far as "government is woefully inadequate in keeping the internet safe," is that really what you want the government to do?

Someone has to do it. I'd rather it be done by a government, who have to pay at least some attention to public sentiment, than by major corporations, who do not.
Wow, sounds interesting. Getting api access to GPT models others have fine-tuned would be a game changer!
> Interesting article.

Thanks.

For clarity, I wrote it and I submitted it. This is
part 2; part 1, the intro and context, is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34874213)

> I don't want my OS to be driven by commercial interests

That's fair enough, and if you have the skills to just switch to FreeBSD, it's a good choice. I found it hard work, myself, as I described here:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/20/freebsd_131/

Canonical does indeed run the only public Snap store, but there are private ones -- all the tools to host one are in the stock repos. The creator of Ubuntu Unity put one called "lol" up as a proof of concept, but it's gone now.

Hiding the complexity? Totally agree, yes.

Moving away from knowing where everything is? Well, it's not as bad as it sounds. With Nix or Guix you can still use `which` or `locate`, you can do `find -name blah`, etc. It's not hidden or invisible -- it's just all in a big software-managed tree.

TBH however much they like to think so, I bet most present-day Linux sysadmins don't know every folder on their machines, what's in them and what should or shouldn't be there.

The early part of my career, pre-Linux, was as a Windows sysadmin, and the last version of Windows I knew inside-out like that was Windows 95A. I could ID every file and tell you what it did, and I hand-built an install that fitted into a 16MB mid-1990s SSD. That was about ¼ of the size of a standard install or something.

No version since was so amenable, and no version of Windows NT ever has been, IMHO. It's just too complex.
That's called "the Tetris effect" [0]. It was later used as the title for a game in the series.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
The default is to mostly embed, except for a number of standard fonts.

You can list the embedded fonts using standard tools. The pdffonts binary is pretty universal, as part of the Poppler set of tools.
Look at unemployment in 2007, or before any major recession.

Its almost always quite low, which is the reason inflation is high and the Fed has to throw the economy into recession.

Low unemployment is a recession precursor, not the other way around. Very clear from the data
Submerged cooling reducing power consumption for datacenter cooling by up to 90%
should put (2017) in the title.
I wonder if the game author looked up all the Crazy Taxi reviews and then found where the review authors were now and pitched any/all of them with a "I made an updated Crazy Taxi game!" story.

Kudos to him if he did, it paid off.
That cognitive dissonance you're feeling comes from justifying horoscopes and jihad in order to try to avoid feeling silly about your unjustified beliefs.

Being smart is the opposite of irrational. Vengefulness is orthogonal to correctness. If the punishment serves to increase the length of your life, it is rational (equivalently, smart). If not, it is stupid.
FWIW this is part 1 of 2. The 2nd part is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34874219
Of course we can. fMRI will be able to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate brain states.
This looks great, I will check it out. A tool like this would have been immensely useful for us in the early days.
Interesting. I thought that with these offerings I had to rent a VM with GPU and pay the hourly rate for as long as a VM is running.

So this is really 0 USD when not in use? I'm also intending to use this for transcribing my phone answering machine recordings, so the transcription requests come in at random times which means that the transcription service should be constantly available.
> I experienced a deep realisation that our thoughts manifest from nowhere and not from ourselves (words fail me here) and that the construct of 'me' was completely false and was just a reverberation of my environment. I understood there was no me.

If you were tripping this is called ego death. In some circles, including mine, what you described after:

> I started to think that I should be looking to help other people and become a guru, perhaps write a book to help humanity, but then my ego (I expect) came back with a vengeance, kicked my ass and brought me back down to earth with a crash (maybe its a safety system).

Can be common. When I experienced ego death I was aware that it would return so I was able to deal with it. I think of it kind of like the trip itself; the more you fight it the harder it fights you.

Not sure this helps as it's entirely my own experience and was drug induced, but I do think occasional ego death is worth it. Just be cognizant of what you're doing. The mind is a powerful place.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri brought this up in 1999.

"We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn, and in the primary bonding process it molds itself around the task to be performed. The feedback loop never really ends, so a tenth year polysentience can be a priceless jewel or a psychotic wreck, but it is the primary bonding process—the childhood, if you will—that has the most far-reaching repercussions."

– Bad'l Ron, Wakener, "Morgan Polysoft"
Caltrain Ridership
Nonfiction for the win.
I understand the French tend to do the late-dinner thing, too. 8-9PM being a common start time for dinner, even at home.
Having a meal period <4.5 hours is a form of intermittent fasting called Daily Time-Restricted Feeding. You're fasting 19.5 hours each day.

There are many intermittent fasting protocols including multi-day fasts which have been shown to prolong life in mice. But daily fasting is included in those protocols.

A lot of health hype has focused on Daily Time-Restricted feedings. This kind of IF is typically characterized by a daily meal period of 8 hours or less, with only water or snacks under 50 calories allowed during the rest of the time.

This is supposed to promote changes like reducing insulin resistance, but there are questions about the hype vs truth of this.
Is that Oakland, California where a 600 sq foot home in a ghetto is listed for $499,000, property tax is some of the highest in the nation, the public school system has been seized for fiscal mismanagement, and the Oakland Police have been under Federal consent decree for twenty years, since the "riders" scandal where twenty cops planted evidence and beat witnesses, and the seventh Chief of Police, who is paid close to $220k per year, and is from West Oakland, has been fired for concealing police corruption? that Oakland ?
And GCC.
> My read was that it’s tired and dull to keep harping on exactly the same feedback for a decade as though it’s unique.

I hear what you are saying but just because something is bad for a long time doesn't make it acceptable just because its been a long time.

Will Apple ever change? Nope, their share price depends on it not changing.
They are embedded as postscript subroutines so all is well that way.
> All software is riddled with errors and for most purposes that's fine.

This is typically not that true when it comes to correctness. Most software does the correct thing in the eyes of the user, nearly 100% of the time. And when it doesn't, the bug gets fixed and that edge case is corrected for every other user going forward.

AI generated software, from what I've seen, has a wide range of errors in correctness (along with all the other errors that you mentioned all software having..which is true). Like it literally just does the wrong thing given what the user is expecting it to do. The path toward iteratively improving and getting it to an acceptable level of correctness for any given application might be there, but so far I have not seen it.
Could be fun to try matching with a large language model, using some technique like cross encoders

https://sbert.net/examples/applications/cross-encoder/README...
AI can reword something as much as needed to make it different. What are human authors going to do? Copyright all variations and paraphrases of their texts? Reinvent copyright to cover not just expression, but ideas? I think that would make copyright borrow characteristics from trademarks and patents, it would not be fair.

And LLMs are not used just to "abuse copyright", as you put it. They are also useful for task solving, thousands of different of tasks can be executed on language models. Thinking their sole purpose is copyright evasion is denying benefits to other people. Similarly artists think SD only exists to make infringing art, but it can be applied in many other fields, even other modalities like audio.

Why don't we just ban electricity to protect copyright? Without electricity there is almost no more copying, not even loading a web page. /s No AI works without electricity. Problem solved if all that matters is copyright.
I think you and GP may be speaking of different types of people and motivations. Somebody who makes an outrageous claim and follows up to criticism or questions with "do your own research" is almost certainly full of poo.

By contrast people who do genuinely "do their own research" on topics tend to be pretty happy to share what they found, where, and why they think its significant. And they would love to be corrected if provably wrong, because its more of a lust for knowledge than anything else. And I think this is the sort of people our GP was talking about, whereas it seems you were talking about the aforementioned type.
Here's one piece of knowledge, it's 'based on a blockchain'.
Yes, there's still nothing like Zombo.com

https://zombo.com/
And what’s a postmortem going to look like?

“Don’t worry, we stuck the flight data recorder in the training set, and rebuilt the model. Should be good to go now”?
"Neural networks are bad because some times they fail" is a low brow dismissal, indeed.

What matters is the percentage accuracy. A black box with a 10% failure rate is better than a fully explainable system that fails 20% of the time. Explanations make us feel better and they can be very important. But for most cheap, repeated processes they aren't necessary. Not to mention that neural networks can be tested and interrogated in ways that other systems cannot.
A lot of poor, majority black and brown, neighborhoods have community organized "cop watches". They usually play a role similar to what the Black Panthers did. Just show up when a cop pulls someone over and sit there and watch (and nowadays, record) just to let them know the public's eye is on them

It'd be amazing to see surveillance capitalism turned against itself like this
> By «everybody», you probably mean the most experienced players, since it takes a good 100 hours for a human player to start being competent at the game, while your median player only has 40ish hours under their belt.

Nah, I mean everybody as in pretty much anybody I see talking about AI in these games, it's almost always negatively. And honestly, I don't care how experienced players are. If your average player is complaining about your AI, then you've failed.

Experienced players are just better at quantifying and identifying how AI fails and how it affects the gameplay.

Honestly, I struggle to see what your point is. That devs just shouldn't bother with AI?
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I am aware no learning is going on live during the discussion with ChatGPT, nor are the mechanisms that lead to the similar outcome even remotely similar.

I also don't think humans are less human just because machines started making mistakes similar to human ones.

But I do see this similarity as a reminder that machines are becoming more human in an accelerating way.
I do not have a discrete GPU, have run TLP and Powertop and have adjusted the tweakables. Maybe it's my 1440p display.
Tom didn't say otherwise. You're arguing against a straw man.

To say there are smarter options now is different from saying it didn't work then. Getting illiterate people to gather for a sermon where they could be told to avoid shellfish that could kill them and to avoid harming other people (because an invisible wrathful being would catch them even if the society they lived in did not) served a purpose then that we have developed better systems for since.
Something like this also works:

hash="4e575a5ee4af2925477c9eea887ff560d23a586dbaf90b616d26c47ec429ca13"
[[ "$hash" == "$(shasum -a 256 file | awk '{print $1 }')" ]] && echo "Valid" || echo "Invalid checksum"

I use that little if-statement in some build systems.
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I never got the endless maintaining in software. We build so much physical stuff but I remember only cars getting recalled sometimes. If you write something for a zx spectrum it will just work a million years from now. It seems there is no good excuse for it.
I've been to Albania a few years ago, at the invitation of a friend. What a beautiful country!

Safety-wise, it felt like ex-Soviet countries did in the early 90s: generally safe but there were lots of gang activity, so you did not want to cross the wrong person. Everyone knew someone who was involved in criminal activity.

In smaller villages, going out to bars in the evening meant that the local tough guys would necessarily stare at us foreigners. There was a general "Americans are not welcome here" feeling in the air (and also in the things kids would shout at us), but it wasn't a big deal. Groceries were dirt cheap, the people - poor. I saw foreign police cars conducting a raid in Albanian villages to catch criminals.

In touristy places, like Saranda, I felt the most safe, even if my friend was pointing out all the bars, restaurants and clubs presumably owned by the mafia.

I had no bad incidents in Albania, only a great time, though my friend handled most interactions with other people. I would not go back without someone local. That's just my preference, I do have friends (non-Albanian) who go regularly on vacation to Albania by themselves.
I've always associated religious teetotalism more with low church/Evangelical protestantism (e.g. Baptists and Methodists) rather than 'high church' denominations in, say, Anglican/Episcopalian, Presbyterian, or some Lutheran sects. The former doesn't exactly seem like high social status to me.
Malware that replaces crypto addresses on webpages is already aware of this - they try to generate addresses with similar starting and ending characters since most people aren't checking the whole thing.
Bulding consistent-style pixel art by hand is real work. But AI may have lowered the bar. Earlier thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012806#31029663
The signal it send is that the people who maintain the file do things without understanding them.
Modeling of problems is something that feels like a lost art. And completely a subtext in so much of what programmers discuss.

What I mean by subtext is that OO is a way to model a problem as much as it is a way to organize code. Same for what we often call functional. Yet we spend far more time and effort talking only about what it means to organize the code, with kind of a byline on how it helps to model the solution.

I do think it is there, but by the time you show someone how a SAT solver is just working on the true/false of various variables, and that it often can be seen as "learning" combinations of those variables that are known true/false, that is so far away from the typical understanding of the problem that it looks alien.
Thank you for adding a correction. I shouldn’t have been so flippant: OpenAI did not invent transformers, GPT-3 is an iteration of the BERT architecture, which is an encoder, whereas GPT is a decoder model.

Regardless, a GPT model is not a proprietary technology you must get from OpenAI. You’re right that this tool uses OpenAI’s API, but this isn’t necessarily implied by the use of GPT.
Two edges means there's always a risk you cut yourself as well if you don't know what you're doing
No. Regulators, when will you finally start doing useful work?
We're building the platform because we think model creators spending their time and money fine-tuning would like to share their work and users would like to access models that are great at specific tasks.
Non-Apple laptops have also been slowly moving to more soldered components. This will likely continue as memory timings and power consumption requirements continue to tighten. I remember when you could replace the CPU in laptops, however the benefit to doing so didn't keep many systems out of landfills.