skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learning and Retention.
I find that I learn best if I learn a subject comprehensively. Taking notes in a mediawiki instance I've kept up for a decade forces me to explain what I've learned, helps with retention, identifying what I still need to learn, and is indexed so I can revisit information I don't use every day without as much pain.

If someone else finds it useful, that's even better ;D.
I don't think we should assume they know about their capabilities. They seem surprised with each iteration too.
> when they create context from unrelated scenes by cutting from one to the other.

Do you mean juxtaposition?
We do have some idea how, most people just don't really want to deal with the nightmare of being augmented and the life changing consequences that come with it, on top of the risk.
too much commitment for me
Pretty cool. I feel like it asks too many questions, making it take too long for it to provide value. However, it did give me some ideas on where my career could go! I think this is an interesting meta-idea: to create variations of ChatGPT that guide a user through a particular thought process. And honestly, it probably would be more effective than real career/life/fitness/etc. coaches.
Catastrophizing is very in.
> happy people do not consume the news

Or consume different news. Ad-driven news is vastly more crisis-impending than subscription-driven news, which tends to be more contemplative as well as zoom out and explore regions and issues that aren't in spotlight. (I read the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Economist, Information, Monde Diplomatique and Paris Review, in addition to a number of stacks.)
Do you issue new sessions and modify the requests?
When my kids were babies, we drove and parked outside the ER.
We then game them taste portions of all kinds of food that normally is associated with allergies.

We then waited a while, then drove back home.

We did that twice with a couple of months in between.

Some called us crazy :)
Well, to a degree, because we just don't do science like that.

You're the one supposing a thing, so the burden of proof is on you. You need to demonstrate that the "incredibly complicated behaviour" that you're referring to (I assume this is longhand for "thinking", but please correct me if I'm wrong) is indeed emerging from matrix multiplication. Especially given that what you're suggesting is unexpected, given the known way these models work and the explanations that have been put forth already that extrapolate from the known way these models work.

If science were so credulous as to accept the first proffered theory about a new development, well, we wouldn't have these interesting AI models in the first place!
What makes you think it is safer?
If a new banking system comes to be, please add a layer of indirection to account numbers so that I can have a "household bills" account, setup ACH transactions, and use whatever backing bank I want. If I decide to change banks, I should be able to change the backing bank w/o having to change all my ACH transactions, ie, bank account number portability like phone number portability.
> The reality is that these WiFi chips should probably have some fuse in them that decides what regulatory region they were made for and then run off that, but you can see the business people losing their mind over that: now you need to have a hundred different SKUs and worse you need to understand your distribution chain. So a software setting it is, and then you see why the FCC is upset.

So you need to travel with like a dozen WiFi cards? Setting the region in software is a feature to all travelers...
Nitpicking: without a cavity/feedback mechanism, it's only an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) source rather than a laser.
If this were available as a cosmetic enhancement for humans, how many people you think would go for it?
It's a red flag to be worried that you could possibly be misinterpreted and that the misinterpretation (innocent or otherwise) could lead to a red flag? That is some dystopian shit.... I'm not even allowed to be a skeptic about the red flag without being flagged. I think you've proven the case as to why I wouldn't want to see a therapist.
But there are no straight up syslog/journald adapters?
Because if it start self replicating on Mars, it’s better than if it self replicates on Earth…where you live ?
You need a clearer pitch.

When I read your pitch lines I don't understand what you're talking about (maybe a little tongue-in-cheek)

>>Never forget anything important again - well ok, this sounds good. So this is something that will improve my memory?

Get unlimited external memory with instant recall - external memory? so I guess what you told me above wasn't what I thought. So now there's this external thing where I save things? I guess like a notebook? but if I forgot about it how do I recall it? So now I see something important that I would have forgotten but I can put it somewhere else and instantly recall it...how?

>>As simple as texting a friend. - I don't understand how this is relevant. So there was something I thought would be important so i put it somewhere (and I'll remember I put it there) but then also it'll be like texting a friend?

It does seem like this could be cool but I'm not sure I understand it other than a notes taking app.
> I think people are extrapolating quite a bit as though this is some kind of movement forward from GPT-4 or Midjourney 5 into a new advanced reasoning phase, rather than a neat new combination of stuff that existed a year ago.

It can be both. Life itself was a "neat combination of stuff that existed" before. It isn't about the raw ingredients, but the capability of their whole.

Also, history as shown that are periods of time where rapid progress happens. It looks like we are in one of those, and it will make the previous ones look like baby steps.
Why not double down and give each child two tutors (furthermore called parents) @ $50,000/yr?

I hate to have to say this but GDP isn’t the absolute upper limit for government spending. I know they tell you that every dollar of government spending is equal to $2 of increased GDP (or some equal bullshit) but that doesn’t mean GDP is an open checkbook for the government to drive the economy. At some point someone has to generate actual value for them to appropriate for their political ends.

This is the only time I’ve ever wanted the AI to generate a reply for me but, alas, that’s not in my current skill set.
Based on the tweet thread, the user runs some code that connects to the chatgpt api with a prompt that results in the new chat instance responding with code that launches an wormable exploit causing other computers to connect back into the chatgpt api for more insidious instructions.

This doesn’t sound plausible with chatgpt, yet. But it’s getting uncomfortably close.

How long until chatgpt can discover novel vulnerabilities?

How long until someone gives these models the ability to remember? When will someone add a feature to let sessions continue from the web over to the api?

That being said, these models are not superintelligent, but how close are we?
Hype driven developers/marketers believe the only type of websites that exists are those which need indexable content for SEO purposes. More news at 11
I'd rather not kill my kid in my driveway with my truck, but to each his own.
There’s no way the code is sufficient to understand the behavior, right? There has to be a bunch of configuration / state involved too.
I self host my email, there are no other SSO providers I would use
These photos have a very "Last of Us" feel to them, and they look like (as other have noted) the Cordyceps fungus.
That I agree with.

But, Earth.x = 42 (in some arbitrary coordinate space), if I understand correctly there isn't a sub-light coordinate space in this universe where Earth.x = undefined.
> Evernote failed to make a business of productivity app, what makes you think you can make a business out of it?

I believe there are nuances in interpreting questions like these. Maybe this was meant to highlight what differentiates OP's business compared to Evernote. Just because someone couldn't do it, doesn't mean it's impossible. Everything successfully done might have had enough numbers of failures before someone showed how it's done.
> Do LiFePO4 instead. Nothing is fireproof but those are pretty tame.

The reason LiFePO4 is safer than higher voltage Liion is because it has less energy per volume. But even LiFePO4 can catch fire if punctured.[1] Although often incorrectly claimed to be, LiFePO4 secondary cells are not "intrinsically safe," like NiMH secondary cells are.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07BS6QY3wI8&t=3m17s
There are conflicting reports. A NZZ opinion piece[1] claims that a take over would be unlikely as UBS has dissolved most of their investment banking and taking over CS would pull them back in. Then again the new CS leadership has been refocusing the bank away from investment banking as well but that has only been a short period of time.

According to SRF there are talks between UBS, CS and the SNB. [2]

[1] https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/warum-die-ubs-nicht-mit-der-cs-in...

[2] https://www.srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/cs-turbulenzen-medien-ubs...
Yeah I am. Is there a reason you don't?
Talking about our lives is generally more interesting than fictional ones. And if it’s not, take a hike or something. ;-)
How confident are you in your last sentence?

End to end training on robots is often done via simulations. Physics simulations at the scale of robots we think of are quite accurate and and can be played forward orders of magnitude faster than moving a physical robot in space.

I'd expect to find some end to end reinforcement learning papers and projects that use a combination of simulated experience with physical experience.
Ah, that makes more sense. My thanks to you and Kim_Bruning for the clarification!
>If, for example, your universe is entropically uniform, is there an "arrow of time"?

Nope, and there's a really great 'physics slam' about this, sadly only in German but auto-translate seems fine. https://youtu.be/z64PJwXy--8?t=519
Unveiling QRI’s Consciousness Art Contests
According to TFA, maternal mortality rate is double in the US compared to the UK. That both countries also have poorer outcomes for black mothers doesn't change the disparity between the two countries.
In our project at work, we've been using superstruct since 2021, but if we started today we'd probably choose Zod. We also use fp-ts, and it looks like effect-ts is a recent project by the same author, which certainly gets my attention.
I don’t think Elon understands open source. It’s very difficult to build a community and the only reason you’re going to get outside contributors is if they too have a need for the project. I’m sure the current implementation is very Twitter focused.

Maybe a generic recommendation framework could be useful?
I'm on a one-person crusade against that 100m user number. It comes from a report released by a company that gathers analytics from people who were convinced to install dodgy browser extensions!

I made some notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/19/how-chatgpt-kicked-off... - I think ChatGPT had 30m users by Feb 3rd (a date later than that 100m number), because "two people with knowledge of the figures" leaked that to Kevin Roose at the NY Times.

I'm sure it's gone up a bunch since then. Maybe it has hit 100m even - but I don't think that original 100m number should be trusted by anyone.
I reject that anyone else can tell me what rules to live by. I only respect other peoples requests if they claim and show that my actions are causing harm. Otherwise, the “collective” is just a bunch of people I never met ganging up and telling me how to live my life at the point of a gun. And they don’t even have the courage to hold the gun themselves in most cases but go crying to father government to punish people they don’t agree with.

I define “rights” as what I may do morally, not a code, act, statue or “collective” decision. Words can have multiple meanings. What you are calling rights, I am calling arbitrary rules made by other people against my will.

Edit to reply to below: I am that I am. I don’t take titles like anarchist, but sure, that’s a decent title if you insist.

Anarchy isn’t a system. It’s just a word. It means no rulers. I don’t think that we should abolish the government (nor could we, it doesn’t exist), I just wish people would grow up morally, so we (conscious beings) didn’t feel the need to play ruler and ruled. I wish to see a world where each being understands morality and what is right and wrong “to the bones” or “from the soul”, so the idea of abstracting away and externalizing our morality and violence was no longer the accepted normal.
> It's difficult to see how such a hypothesis could be tested either experimentally or observationally. Sounds more like metaphysics?

Sure, but some claims which cannot be tested experimentally or observationally are nonetheless important. For example, the claim “it’s important that scientific hypotheses be tested experimentally or observationally.”
Have a link handy?
He addresses the size of vehicle issue and explains how station wagons or vans are more practical than SUVs for most families. Perhaps your situation is different, but I felt he made a compelling case.
Same problem growing garden vegetables. The garden probably won't be safe until it looks hardened like an inner-city liquor store.
He claims he was forfeiting every time he got an illegal move. Does no one on this website actually read the article?

Whether any of it is actually true is a different question.
This is a very strange way of doing a personal attack.
> errno can be set upon failure

... can it? I don't see it in the man page. The rest is a good point, either way, though.
When they are blindfolded? Almost all of them.
Huge difference IMO. JS can be used in moderation. That did not apply to Flash back in the day.
I think to sway the only benefit of Next.js is DEO is underselling how useful it is.

Sure SEO is important for most people anyway, but having multiple pages that load instantly rather than having to wait for a server call is also pretty handy. Plus auth working better.

I don’t see why next wouldn’t be the default and react now the outlier.
How much memory can you use for a Java app?

My java/kotlin app needs to keep a big table fully in memory. (~10 million records). And it is reloaded about 3 times a day.
In C, I would just malloc the whole table in one chunk. Perhaps there is a specialized GC for this usage ?
Corporations are people too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
So you're an anarchist. That's fine. But, at least right now, that's not the system we have.
Haha you’re not wrong. That gave me a good laugh. I do wish fewer people would operate such large machines in cities.
Basically, it seems like they got a tumor of deer cells to grow on a mouse, and the deer cells started becoming antler-like. Unlike what the title of the article implies, it's not mice with antlers in the positions they would be on a deer.
Basically yes, but there are nuances too complex to summarize in a brief comment here. If anyone is considering taking one of those drugs then I highly recommend subscribing to watch the entire video and read the show notes (including the linked scientific papers). There is a subscription fee but the it's a fraction of the price of the drugs and the information is top notch.
Yes, that’s what the word “most” means in the sentence you quoted.
Go has interior pointers. All byte arrays support word-sized pointers to any of their array elements. I think that's somewhat unusual for a language implementation with a precise garbage collector. Usually, pointers always point to the start of the object they reference, and not at some arbitrary offset somewhere inside the object.
There are so many huge features in Java 21, especially around scalability and data handling - I feel like it may be a watershed moment that brings Java back to the forefront as a leading choice for heavy lifting, data focused work. As an LTS release I could see it forming the next long term baseline that people build on for a very long time.
Captchas are dead.
Unlocking the Bizarre Properties of Strange Metals: A Groundbreaking Experiment
The main thing I didn't like about it was pretending it's all scientists involved and not philosophers. The article talks mostly about Huw Price—and from phrases like "Scientists, including Price", you'd think he's a scientist. He's an Australian philosopher. He was my professor for a couple of philosophy-of-science-related courses at Sydney Uni 20 years ago. He started the Centre for Time there I believe. He's a great lecturer—a very impressive mind and a nice guy. Not a scientist though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huw_Price

https://prce.hu/w/
I started blogging about writing and books and met a lot of other writers through it. I have people to talk to about the subjects I love, people to give feedback on unfinished work, and maybe even people to collaborate with one day. I learned a bunch about writing by exposure to their work as well!

https://barbariangrunge.substack.com/
How is that relevant to the parent point?

> I wonder if a country without an orbital rocket program would consider buying them out.
Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States
What makes you think he wants to "build a community" or attract outside contributors?

Elon spotted the rot and bias within Twitter. From day 1 he's been exposing and expunging it. Same with the recommendation algorithm. This is about transparency and trust. It's not a traditional OSS play.
I just want to feed in my favorite novels that never made it to screen.
I was reminded of the Hyperion Cantos, where "biosculpting" is a thing and the reformed party animal had turned himself first into a satyr, and then back into standard human.
Ask HN: Are there Manhattan Projects for AI/AGI and what is known?
Recently met an older university professor that claimed even in the 90s US government was monitoring the internet for signs of AGI was on the internet, though that’s all he knew, possible it’s not true. In the present, US has repeatedly shown an interest in Manhattan style projects for AI/AGI and wondering if any are known to exist, what if anything is known about them, etc.

EDIT-01: For clarification by AI, I mean AGI — not just ML, Generative AI, etc.

EDIT-02: To broaden question, I happy to expand it to any “stealth” projects known to have 10-million or more in funding explicitly for AGI, not just ML, Generative AI, etc. If for example OpenAI was a stealth project, which to my knowledge it’s not, or at least what’s commonly known of it, it would though count as a stealth project with 10-million plus in funding if they were not actively posting information or access to significant areas of progress, since their end goal is AGI.
> If we leveled the regulatory playing field trucks wouldn't be nearly as popular.

Yes they would. People aren't buying big trucks because they have no choice. Very few people would cross-shop trucks and small import vans. They want the big trucks.

Look at the F150 or the Silverado. They are bigger than they used to be. Import restrictions cannot explain that. They are bigger because every time they grow, customers like it.
I’m very surprised. I don’t fly often, but our experience trying to get a ride at SFO (in the last ~6 months) is that Lyft took a long time to match us with a driver (minutes, not 10’s of seconds), and I would have guessed it was fewer drivers at the airport, not too many.

We rediscovered the convenience of the taxi stand: walk right up, get in a car, and you’re on your way.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality...
Ask HN: What are the most wanted job categoies?
Built a Telegram bot that posts job ads gathered from 50 feeds and divided by categories.

So far created 25 categories, what others should I include?

The bot link is: https://t.me/jobboardsearch
Couldn’t read it anyway because of the ridiculously intrusive ads.

Sure, journalists need ads to make money but this way too much.
For several years (probably 10!) Calibri was my preferred font. I wouldn't read a Google Doc without converting it.

An unexpected shift occurred this year, and for the last 2 months, I've defaulted to serif fonts, with Spectral being the favourite, and TNR coming in second.
You're right there aren't any quick fixes, but regulation can change things over time. While there may be tons of SUVs on the road now, we could incentivize different vehicles and within 10-15 years the balance would be completely different (as it was not that long ago). Grandfather in whatever has already been sold, and require a different standard for the future. This is the exact pattern we use for emissions and safety standards.
As far as I understand you can use these frameworks to write SPAs as well. I have no idea how well supported that use case is in the end.

I find the idea that you want to handle data fetching and routing in a framework to be reasonably convincing. There are advantages here, and it's easy to get into a bit of a mess if you just fetch data in each component.

The part that has stopped me from looking at the frameworks until now is that they add a lot of parts I don't need, and the documentation seems to be focused on the SSR part. And then there are React server side components, which is another new concept I need to understand. Maybe the frameworks are a good fit for my SPA use cases, but it'll take quite a bit of time to find out if that is true.
I worked for a cookie company. Sometimes we would just swap the boxes for the name brand in the packaging machine while the line was running. The funny thing is, one box said it had some ingredient in it (it didn't) and the other one didn't.

Also at some point one company asked the cookie company to create a recipe to imitate some other product so they could compete. Except the cookie company was the one making that other product. So they copied themselves, it wasn't too hard...
I did, and it generated an image that seemed closer to what people would think when they read the title.
I've worked on a few "high end" games, and used to work for Epic.

Epic dogfoods the engine with _real_ games. Fortnite, Paragon, Battle Breakers, Robo Recall are all titles written in UE4, by Epic, which have had active contributions to the engine in their development. Whether you like the game or not doesn't have much of a bearing on the impact the game has on the engine.

They did the same with older games too, and the remnants of games like UT and GoW are very visible in the source of the engine itself.
Maybe. At the end of the day it’s all just code. Some is easier to understand than others. Sure.
Your landing page is a wall of text.

Simplify it.
Paywalled :fear emoji:
There was even more to it. Cosmographers of the time were willing to consider the possibility that the stars were very far away, far enough to make parallax changes undetectable. The main stumbling point was that they assumed the stars would be similar in size to our sun, but based on naked-eye and telescopic measurements of the diameter of the “disk” of the stars (many taken by Brahe and Galileo themselves), any solution that explained the parallax effect would have resulted in enormous stars, and this they couldn’t accept. Eventually the measurements turned out to be an optical artifact.

I read an entire book on this subject, published by a Catholic press. There seems to be an active interest in the Catholic science establishment in rehabilitating some of Galileo’s critics.
What's even more bizarre is the ChatGPT is proving him right, that a neural net can build logical grammar, and he is denying it!
Privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel's inbuilt screenshot editing tool
This article could not possibly be worth $40.
Did anyone claim the contrary, or do you just have prejudiced ideas about Haskell?