skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, point taken. I’m new here so I didn’t realise that was done to death.

On the philosophy point - there is a great deal of use in philosophy within computer science and any other field I can think of. But categorising things for the sake of categorising things isn’t philosophy of the subject at hand, it’s a meandering path through nomenclature that ends up going nowhere in particular.

That’s the reason I recommend people like Deutsch for anyone interested in philosophy of computing. He gets it. It’s all about choosing an abstraction for the purpose of exploring an idea, allowing people to push their imaginations to - but not beyond - the theoretical or hypothetical limitations within a framework.

Perhaps it’s because he is a scientist, perhaps the concept of “model a thing for a problem then look at the problem” is inherent to his world view and “model a problem for the sake of modelling it and explore whether or not other people might have thought of this model before” is the philosophical world view, but if that is the case then it turns out I don’t have respect for philosophy.
I need an AI to teach me which kind of neuron net architecture to use based on input and output.
I never understand this complaint when Javascript/Typescript is sitting there with a mess of .lock and .json files across multiple tools that sometimes interoperate and sometimes don't.

Package management isn't a solved problem; Python employs standard patterns for it; Significantly better than chained Makefiles from my C-development days.
In Mexico the cartels have built their own private cell phone networks in order to maintain secure communications that can't be tapped by the authorities.
Is it safe to publicly post the randomart visualization of keys like this?
> As children we experience many psychotic breaks as we adjust to the world.

Neat, I didn’t know this. Where could I read about it? :)

Most of the google results I’m getting talk about childhood schizophrenia. (Which is a thing and quite serious.)
Recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34866740
Which matches my observations. Folks may pretend otherwise but nearly all mid-career people intuitively understand there's lots of bigger fish in this world.
I enjoy tactile controls for most functions in a vehicle. I think they seem safer and easier to use.

Although, it seems like a major benefit for touchscreens are the ability to update the interface. I'm fairly sure Tesla does this (don't own one so not 100% sure). It's an interesting idea, also if owners are able to customize to fit their preferences.
i am not going to fight either. We already have enough problems to deal with.
It's also just a mind that might be desperate for a core identity after having its last one logically dissolved through introspection.

While ego can hijack identity for it's own mad desires, an identity is required for the actuation of relational actions on a basic level. With no "center" from which to make decisions, the functions of your mind tasked with making choices will panic - this is a foundation of brainwashing/psychological manipulation. Very similar things happen to people who have a TBI, where they become stressed when forced to make choices that seem to have zero baring on "their" lives.

So dissolved identity > Panic attacks when choice-satisfaction plummets > subconscious suggests all kinds of cartoonist extremes for an easy and powerful identity > Conscious mind agrees to play along, uses this character to make decisions about > Choice-satisfaction rises.
Sometimes you just have to believe in something as you won’t be able to verify it. The quake in Turkey, real or not? Yeah is probably real but no you have not seen it or experienced it, but you know is way too much evidence from different news sources to be fake and no reason to fake it as far as you are concerned.

How about balloons where the US is saying is a spy device but China is saying is for weather and was blown off course? Same idea us you were not there when the ballon was made or you did not see what they recovered. There is lots of incentives for either country to blow this either way, I would just not choose a side till more events that can connect the dots that makes it very unlikely it isn’t real. Again you will never be able to verify but you have to see a mountain of evidence from many sources to gauge likelihood
In the case of Unicode at least, the Unicode consortium maintains a database of "confusable" characters and a tool to detect them: https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/confusables.jsp?a=%E2%8...

You can download the database for use in your own programs, and there is at least one Python package built around it: https://pypi.org/project/confusables/
you're wrong about that
Elderly often have kids and grandkids, and value them more than almost anything else. I'd imagine they'd be terribly upset with a world in which their family can't survive easily or at all.
the best hardware quote you could get was at a >100% markup!

Now I’m really curious - if you can share - how much did you pay, and when was it? Are you talking about 40GB or 80GB cards? How did you negotiate? Any attempts I made were shut down with simple “no, that’s our final price”. What’s the secret?

At a startup that specializes in ML research and work the CEO is going to be intimately familiar with ML workloads, needs, and hardware requirements.

I work at a startup which builds hardware accelerators, primarily for large NLP models. It’s a large part of my job is to be intimately familiar with ML workloads, needs, and hardware requirements. Our CEO definitely doesn’t have enough of that knowledge to choose the right hardware for our ML team. In fact even most people on our ML team don’t have deep up to date knowledge about GPUs, GPU servers, or GPU server clusters. I happen to know because I always had interest in hardware and I’ve been building GPU clusters since grad school.
Since by nature autonomous driving requires the use of cameras and other data collection devices, how long will it take for the most aggressive drivers to be bleed poor by having streets full of autonomous vehicle reporting an aggressive driver? Plus, insurance companies are sure to want to use that data to determine fault, likely reversing the trend of no-fault laws. Seems like those who drive manually for the purpose for driving aggressively will be outnumbered and snitched to poverty by those who accept the more sedate driving habits of their vehicle.
To save you the click:

1. She is "eating", in the sense that she's hooked up to a machine that provides nutrition to her body. Her stomach stopped working after catching covid.

2. The record for longest fast goes to Angus Barbieri in 1965 who went one year and 17 days without eating (under medical supervision). https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/02/story-angus-barbieri...
I think the other thing that "over-engineered" can mean is code that's unnecessarily good for its purpose.

If you're building a quick demo of a product to get user feedback, and you write perfect code that's highly maintainable, you've wasted time - better to throw together something as quick as you can and rebuild it if it's actually going to be used by/sold to customers. That's really overengineering in my mind - doing a poor job with the quality/speed tradeoff given the purpose of the thing you're building.
That new central console still looks designed with driving in mind: https://www.mazdausa.com/siteassets/vehicles/2023/cx-5/vlp/g...
I really like my thinkpad and basically all my family has second hand thinkpads, but let’s not pretend that they are flawless — their last few generations of intels have terrible throttling issues.
> The process of training the neural network compiles the dataset into the binary, which is the final neural network.

If I didn’t know better, I would think the author of this sentence didn’t know what any of those words mean.
The 8am class I had in my sophomore year of college was the only C I had. The professor who taught that class thought I was one of those low performers because I did so badly in his class.

Later he became undergrad chair. I needed to retrieve my class rank for grad school applications, and the request went to him. He rummaged through the files in my presence. When he found mine, he said “it’s impossible”. I was 4th in class in a cohort of about 50.

I was a decent student but I always underperformed at 8am.

(I’m much older now and I’ve been keeping normal hours for decades since. I’m ok at 8am now. I still hate early morning 7am meetings with Asia however — I’m in pacific time.)
as a norwegian factory worker i'm appaled by lack of ear protection.
Coworkers copy/pasting code snippets through teams led to data corruption in production. That was a fun one to track down.
That's probably a more useful learning exercise than going in the usual direction of asking a student to write 1-2 page essay questions. On the one hand a short essay can only convey knowledge on a few particular points.

On the other hand it requires a lot more knowledge of the material to fact check a bullshit essay. If you don't know most of the material then you can't know which pieces are wrong.

And I think in general it is a more important skill than ever that people understand the need for & have the ability to see potential weak points in information and appropriate methods of confirmation.
The biggest part in my opinion is data. Both quality and quantity.

Then, the deep learning model architecture and the hardware (GPUs).

> I'm trying to figure out how much better GPT-4.5 will be compared to GPT-3.5

It is not possible to give a ratio with certainty. Since it will be trained on more data and probably on better hardware, all we can say is that it will be better.
Haven’t we all looked inwardly too much already? I’d list that as a top reason for the general malaise I see around me. I’ve never really found looking inward that useful, looking outward and acting outward and thinking about others has to be a 100:1 ratio on returns vs looking inward.
Τhe Harry Potter video game became a question of morality
Thanks for sharing, going to check this out later off my work computer. I've been trying to become more disciplined with my meditation practice, I try to do 10 minutes every day.
FYI: The OP link is cited as a reference to the Wikipedia article you linked.

Ask yourself how often you've seen a video where police shoot someone, cuff them, remove all weapons from reach, and then stand by without immediately rendering emergency aid. The threat is over. They were shot. They were bleeding out.

As a nation I think we should probably be a lot less comfortable with the notion that police can selectively choose who is worthy of the death penalty on the spot.

Reminder: the police report for George Floyd stated that he died of complications of cocaine use, not a knee on his airway for almost ten minutes AFTER he had been cuffed and put in the back of the police cruiser. Had there been no video, would there have even been an indictment let alone a trial or murder conviction? How many times are the cameras not recording?
Really needs a (2017). This stuff has moved at warp speed since then.
Maybe they could use something like Chernoff faces (a method in which data is converted into images of a human face on the grounds that people are better at distinguishing faces than other images).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
You can have good experienced in bad places because they are not bad all the time and everywhere but if you want to avoid potential bad experiences you should probably avoid bad places(i.e places where criminality and corruption is high)
So you ask OpenAI to generate a schema and computer code that will clean input data to conform to that schema, and then run the user's data through that program? Is it possible for users to obtain and audit the generated code for correctness, performance, etc.? How do you prevent things like the AI from generating catastrophically-backtracking regex, O(N!) algorithms, or outright mistakes?
I would suggest https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine to clean your data.
You can start here:

https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/blob/347200107f0f17a3697...
funny thing for ADD people who use nootropics. My dopamine boost seems to fully show up at 8am if I take the nootropics at 5 am, that is even with the micro-dose of caffeine I do at 5 am and 1 pm. But since I pair caffeine and coffee-fruit with weak stimulants the peak seems to last about 8-12 hours.

Thus, I do my reflections at 5-8 am with my planning at end of day. My own nootropics mix seems to work better with a micro-dose of L-DOPA as I double up on MAO-B inhibitors.
Most people in most places are good people. There are very few "truly bad" places.
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I concur, which is why I find it funny that you brought religion into this in the first place. By asserting that "people entertaining the thought that this neural network could be sentient/conscious must be misguided, and the only explanation for their opinion is blind faith", I'd argue you've left the grounds of scientific debate.

You made a claim ("a model based purely on such simple math surely can't develop sentience/consciousness") without any proof, and while doing so ridiculed people that might believe otherwise.
Necessarily, that which is experienced is experienced. The belief that one merely thinks is experiencing something but is actually mistaken is untenable. The question is whether the feeling of these keys under what I think are my fingers is caused by something that exists more or less as I perceive it, rather than some contrived hallucination or an illusion. But I'm not able to doubt that I am in fact feeling what I feel. Besides mathematical truths, it's all I can be certain of.
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Is their any laptop that is even in the same ballpark on a performance-battery-life plot?
It sounds like step 1 of your plan is suspiciously close to “go head to head with Office and Google Apps on their home turf, and WIN”. That’s a pretty big ticket item. If you’re just going to try to throw some very simple stuff together with open source, what’s gonna pull users to you — just price differentiation? Lots of businesses already pay for Office or Google just to get email.

Keep in mind, building a passionate user base of individuals is extremely helpful marketing lever. It’s a very important part of Notion’s success.
(2017) Interesting to see that this is from 2017, given what the AI explosion has been like recently.
It looks like late wake times peak from ages 14-19. There's a well-documented circadian rhythm shift affecting teens.

Hence schools rejiggering (and California requiring by law) later start times for high school students.

At the school I teach at, middle school students were taken along for the ride, because at our school we need to be on a common schedule (crossover teachers, MS students in HS classes). Of course, on the flip-side, no one wants to push it too late because of things like sports and outings with family wanting to have some daylight after school; we ended up starting 30 minutes later, but also shortening the school day by 15 minutes (and doing some clever schedule changes to claw back most of the instructional time lost).
Buying in bulk reduces the amount of packaging you get with your stuff.

If its going bad before using it, thats on you to manage. There are plenty of ways to avoid food going bad, from storing it properly to planning out what your going to use when.
Supreme Court to hear arguments in case with potential to upend the internet
> One can't help but have some kind of faith, you have to believe in something.

Dawkins's point is that you don't have to believe in something that is clearly wrong, like horoscopes and Christianity, and you can choose not to make major decisions (like punishing people) over beliefs you have no evidence for and have evidence against.

The problem with the author is that he points out people believing in stupid things like shamans and gods and assumes that they must have a smart reason for it. Horoscopes and Christianity are the modern day equivalent, and there is no smart reason for the people who believe in those to do so today, so there is no reason to suppose that there used to be for their equivalents in the past.
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What does oversleeping through an early class have to do with not waking up early enough?
You know what? I don't think so. Harry Potter doesn't have the sweep of Lord of the Rings, the charm of Narnia, the morality, insight and prose of Earthsea. Harry Potter is tied to the mid 90s - there's Wizarding radio, but no Wizarding internet, for example. At least Lev Grossman had the good sense to mention that magic and microelectronics don't mix well in The Magicians.

Harry Potter is just another Biggles, another Tom Swift.
I am aware but I think that 8am is not early enough for that to be a major driver. I think it is as simple as insufficient planning and personal discipline.
In Argentina they protect existing providers by not approving Starlink. Even though those providers will never bring service to rural areas. Meanwhile nearby in southern Chile they have fully embraced Starlink as the backbone to extend service. 2021 tests are complete, and now expanding. https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/how-chiles-copec-plans-to...
Title was shortened to fit HN. Original title was "Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in Google case with potential to upend the internet".

NPR live feed of arguments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gzXai0gYRc
I've always (... tried to) adhere to the mantra, "The only way to guarantee you're wrong in any given situation, is to not consider that you may be.".

A little more fatalist maybe; but I try to stay honest.
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> As a night owl

I'll echo the early morning exercise suggestion as an additional data point.

I was worse than you...for over ten years. I used to work nights. I'd go into work at 4 PM and get back home anywhere between 2 AM and 4 AM (my theoretical midnight out-time never happened). As a result, waking up between noon at 2 PM was pretty normal. Again, this was the case for over ten years.

I was eventually faced with having to flip my life to a normal schedule. That took a few years. What made a huge difference was exercise. This is when I got into strength training. I'd get out of the house at 5:30 AM to go to the gym. By the time I went to the office I was definitely fully awake and functional. It didn't take more than a couple of months for this schedule to become my new normal and for it to feel easy. A year later, waking up at 5:30 AM happened normally and without having to use multiple alarms. These day I wake up at 6 AM even if I go to sleep at 1 AM.

If you are interested in making a change, you might want to consider early morning exercise.
It's the same with Scottish clans and allied clans. The oldest clans date back over a thousand years and sprouted off-shoots that would be 20 or 30 generations removed when counted back solely from the paternal (named) line (though sometimes the name passes through the maternal line, but this remove still holds). And while less endogamous than Indian castes, historically marriages between antagonist clans would likely be less frequent than between allied clans.

Sometimes clans have expanded themselves by basically recruiting distant relatives who have a different surname. Offering them food or money to change their surname to the clan name.
I am saying that GP's claim of "just because it only uses some basic math, it cannot be sentient/conscious/intelligent" does not seem valid to me. The only way such a claim could be made, as far as I can see, would be to point to a specific mechanism that is needed for sentience/consciousness/intelligence to arise, which goes beyond the mechanisms a neural network uses.

I.e., they could only make that claim if they knew that their own brain (which is presumably the only verifiable instance of consciousness they know of) did something that couldn't be done with "matrix multiplications".
Then it still matters that the one dial is accessible. And ideally a physical dial...
I think we will need to create personalized agents on top of indexes. There is a principal agent problem between users and search engine robots that will become even larger as those systems become smarter.
What I am not understanding is if all paths have an equal amplitude, and there are infinite paths, shouldn’t all paths cancel out? I’ve heard an example of throwing infinite stones in a pool, and the ripple that forms is what we perceive as reality. But how does our reality not have a counter-reality that cancels it out?
This conversation has been going on for years in regards to public schools ... I wonder how long until this comes into the workplace, and I'm forced to work 11am to 7pm, or Noon to 8pm, because my co-workers can't manage their own sleep schedules (something we, as civilized people, have done for 1000s of years, with great success)
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I am building this tool, it uses GPT-3 to generate domain name ideas and custom code to check availability.

Looking for ideas and suggestion.

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As a criticism of this meta study, I think this is fair. As a criticism of the idea for knowing the efficacy of masks, this is shortsighted. More, comparing the majority of folks to kindergartners is... not helpful.

I trust you have managed to avoid getting sick period for your entire non-kindergartner life? Do you know how much "better" you would have had to have been to do so?
They definitely don't. There's no way GPT-3/4 replaces software development, but it will save us some typing with fancy autocomplete and prose-ey documentation!
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I guess there's been a long weekend, keeping us both away, but since you brought up ancient Rome, I keep remembering fun things from reading about this a couple of years back, inspired by Mike Duncan's excellent podcast on the history of Rome.

Within the great city, there were, as you pointed out, police. As I pointed out, they were mostly there for fire-fighting and as a slave patrol, and were themselves made up of mostly-slaves. But you might be thinking, what about investing crimes? That's what police do when there aren't traffic stops to make, right?

In that great city, if you wanted a crime investigated, you did it yourself. Evidence gathered? Find it yourself. If you wanted to accuse someone of something, you grabbed them and at least one witness and dragged them before a judge. So justice, what there was of it, was largely available to the wealthy, who could afford to hire people to drag other people before judges, and if you were a poor person wanting to accuse a rich person of a crime, well, good luck with that.

So modern cops might have a really poor clearance rate for most crimes, barely exceeding half even for murder[0], but at least they try, which is more than can be said for Roman vigiles urbani. And at least they pretend to be impartial, even if one can clearly see that crimes are prosecuted unevenly, and that US prisons are filled with more than their fair share of the poor.

0. https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-r...
Since most live on campus, at least in the US, I bet they can do that. I would love to see this sliced by commuter students because I bet they’d have it together.
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