skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, its not just some minor inconvenience. The rims resting on flat tires can damage the sidewall, potentially radically reducing the life of the tire or ruining the tire completely. Its not just some harmless activism, it can cause some real property damage. Tires aren't cheap.
Preview environments are so useful to iterate quickly. Interesting tool!
Developing into what?
A drop in the bucket vs Google but it's a start.
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Great, because we need more specialized apps. I love classical music but I would rather use Spotify for that purpose because at this point I have realized the only thing important for Apple is money. I prefer not to further contribute to a trillion dollar company that has so much restrictions in their ecosystem.
GDPR doesn't apply in the US, or to the US Govt.
I'm regularly in touch with Chomsky. I've interviewed him several times, the latest being this for example with David Harvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezf7wxJ7whA

Earlier regarding Freedom of Speech and Capitalism: https://qbix.com/chomsky

Sometimes I send him articles about how chimpanzees or others have "language". Or now they found bumblebees can teach each other. Chomsky famously maintains that only human are born with innate capabilities for language.

Anyway, since Chomsky is a linguist and focused on language, it would make sense for him to say that. Of course, computers can develop their own languages (as Facebook's sales bots have done for example years ago: https://nypost.com/2017/08/01/creepy-facebook-bots-talked-to...)

I think that, in general, Chomsky is right that when it comes to language (unlike paintings or even photorealistic fakes etc.) the meaning will never be modeled perfectly, any more than, say modeling a Mandelbrot set on all levels of zoom can be done by a machine learning system that trains in the way generative LLMs train.

Having said that, I think that logic itself is a "poor man's approximation" to what AI can do, in that it just uses a few parameters. I prefer Steven Wolfram's analysis. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
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Chomsky says: The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question.

Had he said "not ONLY a statistical engine for pattern matching," I would agree. But I'm pretty sure that the majority of what human cognition is and does is exactly what he describes. The pattern matching engine encodes the wisdom of thousands of years of evolution, in addition to the experiences of any particular instance (person), but in the end, most of what we do and say is generated by predicting, based on pattern matching, what is most likely to get the brain positive feedback.

The thing that the rush to more and bigger LLMs seems to leave out, to me, is that the pattern matching and prediction that drives intelligent response and behavior in humans (when you can find it), is not merely prediction about language, but rather prediction based on multiple learned (by humanity generally through evolutionary incorporation into our neural architecture, and by individuals through experience) models - of space, time, biology, abstract reasoning, ontologies that objectify the natural and human intellectual worlds, and more. LLMs encode very little if any of that directly, but rather get pieces of it indirectly through the imprint of ontology and reason that are baked into word (token) usage patterns.

So, I agree with Chomsky on the main point: you can't really get much beyond fluency with LLMs alone. There is way too much hype on these things.
I forget but with Val arent value types Move by default?
Probably not, I dislike video / audio as a means to explain and update things, I'll watch the news (because the video adds to the story) but I'd rather have a text version if it's about software things.
Mediterranean and MIND diets reduced signs of Alzheimer’s in brain tissue
They're likely referring to Babel and TypeScript. In short, it doesn't matter what you're writing as long as your transpiler has the right `target` so it works in older browsers/engines too.
>For tax purposes an asset is valued at market or assessed rates depending on the type of asset (real estate, cars, stocks, etc.)

If you can't sell them on a market (as the stocks are before IPO) they should not be taxed. At the very least, it's like that in Poland. Not that a lot of companies offer stock compensation here.
Christmas trees: actually Christmas shrubs.
I disagree. It’s true that we are used to thinking of gravitation as a theory that was double checked with data, but it is also pretty clear that good physical arguments are strong priors. Then, with experimental data, we have a classic prior + data posterior update which does cast all of this as a statistical model.
Why would tomato being a fruit be a pirate terms? It satisfies all the conditions of being a fruit.
There are popular JavaScript tools that nearly everyone uses, that reimplement Lisp poorly by source-to-source compiling stuff written against the latest new hotness spec into something that can be run by some old-and-busted JavaScript runtime (e.g., in browsers).

In fact this is how TypeScript is implemented.
Your post is weird. Why would the amount of visitors to a country have anything to do with passports issued? The U.S. is less than 5% of the world's population. That's a hard limit on the amount of passports that can be issued.

The amount of visitors would be limited by the size of the tourism industry and regulations around entry visas. This is an unrelated metric.
The gameboy color also ran on two AAs and had long battery life and slightly better specs
Bingo. And California is responsible for funding and administering many of these safety net programs.
Are there more fuel efficient cars that are also affordable and large enough to survive collisions with SUVs?
> Without this foundation, it is like attempting to write a program in a programming language without knowing the syntax. You have to stop and look up the syntax for each line of code, slowing down the entire process. Some things simply need to be memorized to achieve a certain level of proficiency.

This is pretty much the opposite of my experience. I have learned many programming languages and never found it useful to memorize any syntax. I read the book/docs/tutorial once, and then reference it (or code I previously wrote) just-in-time whenever I need a reminder, and find that whatever I use repeatedly is quickly committed to memory. I don't see how memorization could make this faster.
But you can't sell those stocks/options/whatever until IPO. If you could I'd not mind.
On the remote beaches of western Latvia, in the sand are frequent paw tracks left by wolves. I wondered whether they were able to hunt any sea life, or if it is just an easy travel path alongside the pine forests that are immediately alongside the beach.
As someone with ADHD... this sounds like literal torture.
I've noticed there's a problem on streaming services where low quality artists basically spam the service with extremely low quality recordings of classical pieces. They often sound like they just got a midi file of the score and played it back through a piece of software. The scores for most classical music are public domain so there is nothing "wrong" about this but no one really wants to listen to low quality MIDI playback versus a human performance.

When you search for a given piece of classical music you have to wade through all this low quality stuff.

It would be great if Apple Music finds a way to combat that. I recently switched from Amazon to Apple, Apple generally seems to have better control of the catalog so maybe it's less of a problem there.
This just seems like a faster way to infect people with incorrect information. I mean every result returned will soon enough just be AI generated articles with that incorrect information, and you are saving us a step from clicking, but I'm getting sick of seeing this stuff.

If you can't do the job right and make sure the answer is right, then you shouldn't be publishing anything, or you are just damaging people and eroding trust. Returning search results in a fuzzy way I can't understand or fault you for is one thing and gives you plausible deniability, but not this. I'm all for Google alternatives (I use DDG), but this is definitely a turn off. Put the time into finding the right search result that actually has an accurate answer and just point me to that as the first result. Hell add a sublink that points to the actual answer on that page below the main result, but get rid of the gimmick that is AI.

Less hallucination is still hallucination.
The problem is that not only are we failing to transition away from SUVs and cars, drivers are actively transitioning from passenger cars to heavier, more emitting vehicles (SUVs and trucks). The only traditional car that Ford still sells in the US and Canada is the Mustang.

Whatever about moving the the needle in a positive direction, I think it's worth pointing out trends and personal decisions that are actively making the situation worse.
Unfortunately your study is notably missing a category where abusing children is legal: child marriage. It's still legal to marry children in many states.

[edited for clarity: I'm agreeing with the poster I'm responding to in that most child sexual abuse occurs at the hands of hetereosexual abusers, to the point where it's normalized through legal child marriage, which is almost entirely heterosexual, and aren't usually considered in studies on child sexual abuse.]
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How would you pay off the loan without selling at least the interest?
Show HN: Run ChatGPT and DALL-E in Emacs org-mode
org-ai is an Emacs package to integrate with the OpenAI API. It exposes a number of the API parameters (like temperature, system prompt, etc) so that it is easy to experiment with different combinations. The chat text is intentionally made fully modifiable.

org-mode is able to embed images so that DALL-E image generation and variation can be used from within an Emacs buffer. Definitely a fun way to create an illustrated story :)

Eventually I hope to connect other APIs and maybe local models as well.
> Rules

> I cannot engage in any stimulating behavior using external mechanisms for 24 hours

Your suggestion of "touch a tree" would be considered a stimulating behavior. So would "go camping", as there is tons of external stimuli outside.

The exercise was on purpose to limit any outside (outside the head) interaction with anything. Really anything.

What you're suggesting would be healthy for everyone, and a recommended activity for almost all humans. But, it wasn't what the author was aiming for.
I can power the same processor with a lightbulb https://hackaday.io/project/177716/gallery#96cfdbf5cc550d520...
> he was extremely dismissive of non-traditional approaches to graphics research (especially ML/AI-based approaches)

Not necessarily a poor decision.
The ratio of the long side to the short side is the same.

A rectangle that is 2x1 is similar to a rectangle that is 4x2.
The reason for this is that mathematical papers are fundamentally about an insight about mathematical objects. The insight typically comes from the mathematician having a deep understanding of the mathematical objects. The theorems are some formalised statement that should be true based on the deep understanding. The proofs are something else entirely, a sequence of steps which combine to verify the theorem but where many steps may result from trial-and-error searching for a path forward. Coming from a good mathemematician, the original insights are much more likely to be correct than the details of the proof steps.
A good time to mention the existence of https://standardebooks.org/ as well
That would be a very different experience. I record myself pretty often and it changes the experience in the moment because you have this direct line to the future. For example, you can list off 100 things that need to get done. Without microphone or pen and paper, you can only take forward what you remember.
The classic example is .then .catch callbacks vs async await, though .then is still occasionally useful.
Yeah no I didn't play it much, cause I just wasn't motivated. I will try it again some time though
According to Wikipedia Tesla was incorporated in 2003. A few months later Musk invested a large sum in the company but didn’t join the company until a year after the company was founded and started as CTO. Saying he joined a few months after the company was founded feels like a stretch.
While I share the sentiment, it seems like this one came with a built in expiration date. It's clear that any specific AI accelerator chip will not remain state of the art for long. Coral always felt like a prototype they produced a couple of 100.000's of, because that was the minimum order at the fab and they decided to share the 90k they didn't need with the community.

Would Coral still be anywhere near state of the art today? For how much longer do you expect, e.g. NVidia to keep selling Jetson Nanos?
Yes;

moreover they can protest however they want, but they've been threatening Taiwan long enough now to be not exactly surprised if e.g. NL decides to cut access to latest manufacturing tech
This just sounds like a very terrible idea. Very likely that your problems have grown, and you've lost 24h of your exactly once life. If you need a mental break, go for a long walk. It's really that simple. Don't waste a day of your life doing literally nothing.
This is very easy before the Internet became a commodity. It's still easy for me today.
Without the contribution of every unique individual in your lineage it is safe to say YOU wouldn’t be here. Differences between identical twins should be enough to tell you that.

You might say ‘I would be here but with a different genetic makeup’ or some such. But that is basically nonsense. You are, at the very least, the sum of the PARTICULAR causal sequence that made you.

You claimed that essentially no individual contribution is there after 100 years. That isn’t true. I am not suggesting the contributions are clear, good, special, or even ‘matter’ in some grand sense. They don’t have to even be linked to the originator. But that doesn’t mean individual contributions aren’t there.

Scale matters. Plato contributed to humanity. Plato contributed to the heat death. One of those is infinitely more interesting than the other.
For me the two main factors in purchasing an SUV where cargo space and safety.
The first word of the sentence is "The".
The second word of the sentence is "quick".
The third word of the sentence is "brown".
The fourth word of the sentence is "fox".
The fifth word of the sentence is "jumped".
The sixth word of the sentence is "over".
The seventh word of the sentence is "lazy".
The eighth word of the sentence is "dog".

Eight facts. Would replicating an entire book like this violate the copyright? The entire text is reproduced in order, there's just a bunch of junk added. I suspect courts would rule that it is a copyright violation.
This applies to the entire political class as well, one hand they ll talk non-stop about conservative (or liberal) values and as it turns out eventually, the very same people forced abortions/employed illegals/molested women and so on. I think ultimately there is big difference between what people practice and what they preach and it applies to literally everyone.
When I read Wikipedia (or any treatment) on philosophy, I can't help but feel like laymen are trying to science without getting their hands dirty and while trying to sound fancy. I know that's the wrong take, but I can't get over it.

The linked article for this thread is about how "tree" biology keeps springing up and disappearing - the molecular biology, genetics, convergent evolution -- and how the human concept of "tree" doesn't really map cleanly. All of that, to me, is intuitive.

But philosophy is lost on me. Neither your linked Wikipedia article or the article on the book you suggest [1] make much sense to my non-philosophical science brain. My eyes just glaze over.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Plateaus
Every time I had preview environments my life were so much better. There's a clear trend in the industry to let teams collaborate on preview environments (like Figma, but on the actual built version)
Combining PMD for code analysis and GIN for code mutation for code improvement
> I think you missed the entire point of the article?

No. It is a frame challenge.

The blogpost says "I’m hopelessly addicted to little dopamine bursts provided by algorithmically optimized technology (in my case – Reddit, video games, phone messages, and having music or tv shows in the background),"

The solution to that is not to do nothing. If you have this problem you precisely should do something. Hiking is a good idea. Or sitting down with friends and just chatting, without any of those distractions. Or working on a project where you concentrate on your tools (preferably physical tools) for days on end to achieve some results.

> Camping/hiking/exploring outdoors is the exact opposite of doing nothing.

Camping/hiking/exploring outdoors is also the exact opposite of being "hopelessly addicted to little dopamine bursts provided by algorithmically optimized technology".
That is not at all the way Newton thought, though.
As another person with ADHD, doing something like this but on a way smaller scale, incrementally with longer period of times (I'm up to something like 20 minutes after years of doing this... Started with doing just 1 minute per time) helps me cope when I'm forced to do nothing, like waiting, which I absolutely hate doing.

See it as an exercise, where you'll become stronger over time.
I would have slept the entire time. The writer allowed sleeping but didn't sleep "extra" because they weren't tired. I have no such limitations! I'm sure I couldn't sleep 16 hours a day for a week, but I think I could easily squeeze 12-16 hours of sleep into a single 24 hour period.

I'm a little inspired to try this for a couple of hours and see what things my brain wants to think about!
Toyota hybrids can do similar 30+ MPG on SUVs.
I was looking into this very problem yesterday! Terribly scared by widewine, I ended up building webkit with eme support enabled, then enabled the relevent setting in the nyxt browser. Seems to be working fine so far.
>Are they actually safer or do they just give the driver a false sense of security? Assuming it actually has 4WD/AWD (and most don't), that only helps you "go" and does nothing for "stop" as all cars have four wheel brakes.

No amount of snow tire fanboy circle jerking will make up for the fact that doubling the number of driven tires lets an AWD vehicle can leisurely drive up the kinds of residential streets and driveways that are a "pick up some speed and send it" affair in a FWD vehicle equipped with snow tires.

Source: I drive a FWD station wagon with snow tires.
Those “simple” equations underlie almost ALL scientific thought. They have implications far beyond the motions of the planets, which stimulated them. It’s hard to make a quantitative argument about how much more powerful they are than a statistical model, which I am sure is possible with today’s modeling, as you suggest. Ahh, but without Newton’s Laws, there would be no machines to run the models!

It IS useful to have machines GUESS models in science, by the way. You might know that a consequence of the inverse square law of gravitation and electromagnetism implies that the surface integral of those fields over a closed surface enclosing mass or charge depends ONLY on mass and charge enclosed, and NOT on it’s detailed distribution therein. You have to have the model to actually prove this.
> never heard of corrupt police forming a gang. I can’t remember hearing anything about that in the UK or New Zealand or Canada either.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I can certainly speak to that effect as a Canadian aware of at least one similar 'police gang'
Can confirm. This is the best use case I've come across. You can dynamically compose queries and not even think about argument positioning. No concern about injection. Better performance than named variables that are translated into positional.
I have read Deutsch’s book as well — awesome read.

The problem I have with claims like “there is no such process going on”, is we … don’t know. And the model of conjecture is a theory, also hard to prove — and thus my main (admittedly petty) point is that confidence about similarity or dissimilarity are both unfounded.

It’s like we are comparing the insides of two black boxes and trying to make absolute claims on them.
But is the correlation cause or effect? AFAICT, there is strong evidence that poverty is a leading cause of single parent households.
> Am I correct in understanding that you're saying that if a block has some pattern, then overwriting that block with the same pattern will result in no extra wear on that block

> I'm assuming the reason this works is because the underlying block that gets written isn't the same one that has the old data and thus the probability of overwriting with the same data is low because the encryption key for a given write is somehow derived from block offset

No, this has nothing to do with writing the same data to the same blocks, but rather how you handle a continuous stream of data being written (and eventually overwriting older data) to the drive over very long periods of time. You should assume that physical location of your data bears zero correlation to the address to write it to. The SSD controller will always redirect it to least worn available block.

In SSD it’s reasonable to assume that the flash memory can be erased and written at a more granular level than you would want to track for wear levelling purposes (because extra granularity cost more money). So writing repeated patterns of data to a disk that align with the wear levelling block size will result in some parts of your flash memory being written and erased more often. But this unevenness is too granular for the wear levelling algorithm to track and compensate for. Encryption removes the need to track more granular wear patterns because it ensures that every single bit of your flash memory is going to see very similar write patterns.

Additionally there’s an entirely separate aspect, which is that NAND flash is a physical storage medium, and economics mean manufacturers want to squeeze every last ounce of storage out of their silicon. This means pack flash cells physically close to each other, and storing multiple values in each cell. The consequence is that activity in one cell can cause changes in adjacent cells, if those changes are large enough value of a cell will change corrupting the stored data.

By encrypting the data you can eliminate the possibility of extreme edge cases occurring which have a high risk of data corruption. At better place to observe these types of issues is to look at RAM, and Row Hammer attacks. The basic principles are the same, even if the precise physical interactions are a little different.
I remember hearing some anecdote about Solidworks development where someone was brought back to meet the Fikket TEAM, a team of like 10 people who just worked on fillers fr 15 years. That being said, the fileting in solidworks is killer
Regular meditation instead of overdoing it is much healthier.
Oldest reference to Norse god Odin found in Danish treasure
Maybe they just treat it as normal people treat their job lmao.

"Well I don't really care that much about actual religion but job is safe and pay is decent..."