skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point of anything is possible is always and forever true.

The point here is that there seems to be a strong correlation between people eating Bamba and no peanut allergy. How can we develop a control group? Oh wait, there is a group of people that have the same genetics but doesn't consistently eat this...perhaps there's a connection.

The goal is to see if we can show a correlation/causation.
I think that’s actually really not a limit.

We don’t teach babies by throwing lots of data at them, instead we teach them by giving them useful data.

The loop I see is:
- train on a lot of existing data
- run out of useful data
- people use ai and give feedback (we’re here)
- perform reinforcement learning on the data collected

Loop over the last two steps.

There is already more than enough data available, it’s just not nicely labeled to say if it’s high quality or should be discarded. Those last two steps will implicitly do the labeling.
This video is nothing but confirmation bias narrated over stock video clips. By the same logic used in this video:

- Bicyclist in traffic accidents are much more likely to die than those in SUVs. Also, because the physical size is so much smaller, it's much easier to miss seeing them, which increases risk of accidents. Therefor to ensure safety we should all drive SUVs.

- Bicyclist are much slower than SUVs, causing traffic congestion which wastes time and reduces fuel economy. Furthermore, the slow speed results in significantly extended commute times resulting in poor time-management. Therefor we should all drive SUVs to increase efficiency.

- Transporting 3 kids to soccer practice with a bicycle is dangerous for both physical and mental health of the kids due to factors mentioned above. Furthermore the mom will loose her ever-loving mind if there is no video playing in the back seat to distract the 3 year-old from asking "are we there yet" every 2 minutes. Therefor, for the sake of mental health, we should all drive SUVs.
Unfortunately this says more about your alma mater than anything else.
I'm not necessarily advocating for Kotlin but the key argument would be supportability. Scala is a very complex language+ecosystem with idioms many people are highly unfamiliar with. Comparatively, Kotlin can be written idiomatically in a way that the vast majority of developers will readily understand and quickly come up to speed with.
You're probably correct as to babies. But the prostate gland is extremely cancerous and my assumption would be that that tendency begins at either birth or puberty. The exponential function spends the entire infinite length of the negative x-axis rising from 0 to 1; think about the growth of cancer in your prostate gland that way.

I would not expect a man in his late 20s to fall into the category "men of an advanced age". But I would be unsurprised to learn that there was visible protocancer in a sample of his prostate.
> I will not compromise on this.

Will you collaborate on this? Help ban heavier vehicles for everyone?
Nice self report. Comments like this just scream "I don't know how to use an LLM appropriately".

There is a time and place for a tool. It's like watching someone make bad google queries then complain that they get shit results.
for a recent prototype i moved on from godot 4 to wickedengine.

i really liked godot 4, but the new physics engine is a bit green, and it’s easier to write cpp with wicked than with godot native.

wicked engine is very good.
Overproduce so that the plebs have something after the elites seize the lion's share
Ukraine’s power grid survived a winter of Russian energy terror
A jpeg? Of geometry? Compression artifacts must look funny in the rendered result. I want to see it.
Your blog is my favorite tech blog! I especially liked the blog series that contained to mock a mockingbird. Thank you for your excellent contact over the years!
Does it work the other way too? It would be nice to also get the response from downstream services, and test if the app is still massaging the data correctly and generating the correct output.
I'm in the middle of the video right now, but honestly, I absolutely hate the look of station wagons. The author makes a lot of claims that I do not share (not all of them though). For example, I do find G63 a cool looking car. On the other hand, pick up trucks are ugly as hell. But for some people they are not. People are different and they prefer different things. That's what makes our lives interesting and varied.

It feels like the author wants to fix the problem by just saying "Hey people, don't buy SUVs. Hey corporations, don't manufacture SUVs", whereas a more strategic and "backward" approach is needed.
Yes, perhaps we should get the Wuhan lab to go full speed ahead on this. What could go wrong?
What's the best way to download and get setup with this stuff atm? Ie lets say i want to run currently available variations of LLaMA -- 7B, 13B, and 30B [1] -- is there a current summary of how to acquire them, possibly quantize them, etc? Would i download a quantized version or do it myself? etc

I ran Alpaca 7B Q4 almost instantly because they provided Curl's to download it. Super simple. But it seems most aren't doing that because it's prone to getting Facebook's gaze. So.. what's recommended?

I happened to find this[2], but i think that's the non-quantized raw models? Not sure yet.

[1]: Won't bother with 65B, can't fit in memory i believe?
[2]: https://github.com/shawwn/llama-dl/blob/main/llama.sh

edit: I forgot about https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai - i suspect this is best in breed atm? Though a Docker container would be nice to wrangle all the dependencies
It probably was. It was definitely on the north side of the street and west of Jefferson, so that would be about right.
He addresses this point when he talks about how the most popular car 40 years ago was the Ford Escort.
The difference is "did it study the code and inputs/outputs" vs "it studied comments about the code"

What would it do if the training data was only code? Only code+inputs+outputs?
Only function signature+inputs/outputs? Only signature+comments?

Etc.
I drive a car that operates on maxwells equations rather than burning dinosaur juice, and I understand electricity a lot better than those fire chariot Rube Goldberg machines. Why do people remove the catalytic converter, diesel exhaust fluid? (I have to admit I don’t really know what purpose they serve either, IC stuff has been too complex for me to fully grok)
Keep just a few of both in captivity for breeding purposes, just in case.

Then be 'laissez-faire' about the birds in the wild. If too many crows get killed off, the excess hawks will starve, thus allowing the crow numbers to rise again. With the availability of sufficient prey, the hawk numbers will rise again and complete the cycle.

It's standard 'predator-prey' cycling.
Thanks for this feedback! I had almost forgotten about that page, which was linked in this post:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/12/backlog-language.html

I will take your point about walking through the upgrade process. Some things are still not stable so I've been hesitant to "recommend" it, but I think we can just make that clear. Most languages go through a big period of breakages before they get stable

And to be clear OSH is very stable, while YSH isn't. (Next post will also have a list of breaking changes)
This was written November 13, 2020. At that time, the majority of the community believed that amyloid plaques caused Alzheimers from a paper in 2006.

Since the paper in 2006 drug companies that spent billions of dollars in a race for a drug to decrease amyloid plaques to slow down or prevent Alzheimer's. In the trials last year, they found that while the drugs did decrease amyloid plaques, they did not impact Alzheimer's symptoms.

see: Evidence Mounts for Alternate Origins of Alzheimer’s Disease Plaques
https://nyulangone.org/news/evidence-mounts-alternate-origin...

This led to the discovery that some of the data in the 2006 study was faked.

see: Faked Beta-Amyloid Data. What Does It Mean?
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/faked-beta-amyloid...

The latest theory is now on beta-amyloid proteins.

see: Decreased proteins, not amyloid plaques, tied to Alzheimer's disease
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221004151217.h...

If the new theory of beta-amyloid proteins linked to Alzheimer's proves to be true then someone should look into if there's a link between gut and beta-amyloid proteins.
This is nothing to do with urban/suburban/rural life, and everything to do with dangerous vehicles.

Working people in Europe tend to use a van, which has much better pedestrian safety. The video praises that. (That's both urban and rural, since it's not clear.) People in rural areas drive normal cars.
Debit Suisse lived on a bit too long for what they’ve been doing. No wonder the Swiss politicians don’t want to bail them out.
Not true. Plenty of people will contribute because they like Elon. I know small private communities of commercial product that put in countless hours of free work to a software that is only ever to be used for that product. I'm sure people will contribute
I don't think that's a fair characterization of the "Start a New React Project" page [0]. Next.js is the first option listed and is described as a way to "create React apps of any size—from a mostly static blog to a complex dynamic application."

This reads to me like "Next.js can do SPAs (like CRA) plus static sites and SSR". Next.js' site even says "The core of Next.js has been designed to enable starting as a static site (or Single-Page Application)" [1].

0 - https://react.dev/learn/start-a-new-react-project

1 - https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/static-html-export
Totally agree wrt PBS & NPR. To the shock and horror of most everyone I know.

Since you're an expert:

How do you find and consume news?

If you were made King/BDFL, how would you "fix" investigative journalism? A la the documentary "Fit to Print".
That day may come, I'm more worried about creating mice smart enough to avoid or disarm traps.
I am not referring to tides, but to the tidal forces that generate them. Tidal forces are the result of a gradient in the field of gravity.

When you are close to a black hole, the part of you that is closest, experiences a stronger force of gravity than the rest of your body. This tension rips things apart. Likewise, some parts of our civilization will be more affected by AI than others, causing change there to accelerate. This causes tension with the rest of civilization.
Mercury Treasury takes a hefty cut (0.6%) of VUSXX yield. Any alternatives other than opening a Vanguard account?
CRISPR Gene-Editing Technique Reverses Vision Loss in Mice
That's probably true, but it's besides the point.

Haskell is not about removing side effects in the first place-- it's about making them obvious and contained, and about declaring them. It's about the type system imposing certain constraints on what's allowed and where: none of the above really applies to C.
Or the guy is just clickbaiting and knows that outrage sells on youtube.
Why don't you go try to start something like that and tell us how your ideas work out in real life.
Very nice paper!
> I don't really see another solution other than cheap and convenient pickup truck rentals.

In my city, you can rent a truck for the day for about $50 (including a decent amount of miles). I know because I do this regularly. I'd be surprised if such an option isn't available in your city as well.
gibberish.asm (at least on my machine) runs into a segmentation fault about 50% of the time, which to me raises an interesting question that will lead me to look into how memory is laid out at the beginning of a processes execution on a standard Linux system. In gdb, the memory seems to be allocated in a consistent manner, which causes the exception to never occur, though in normal execution it seems to be slightly different.

Wonderful!
Do you find AI to be good with art generation? I can't use any of the art in the projects that I do without extensive inefficient editing since the stuff it spits out isn't how a human would draw.

It's good for concept browsing, but not much more for me at the moment.
It allowed me to organize my thoughts better and push me to refresh/rethink a few things. Also helps to train articulating thought - trying to convey in an approachable fashion understanding is harder than just understanding something.
Sure, maybe the better way to phrase the question is: How is OP evaluating if there is actually a large enough paying market for this product to make a business out of it? Evernote showed there was not enough of a market for it to justify increased investment, so OP either needs to identity that there is more of a market for their version of productivity app or they need to have realistic expectations about operating a niche business (if enough of a market for such a business exists for this at all).

It's not meant to be harsh, rather just realistic, productivity apps are a dime a dozen (there's literally hundreds of submissions like this over the years on HN). OP needs to know what makes their submission different.
Governments and businesses make international travel more inconvenient through the trade offs they make because most people don’t travel. Selling a solution to these cross border problems is another revenue stream.

Some appliances aren’t 100-240V. Geolocation enforces region based pricing. Cell phone plan costs vary by several orders of magnitude.
If machine code is generated on (or close to) deployment, the implementation can choose a suitable collector. Hopefully, the proposed protocol will not require that implementations somehow optimize away interior object pointers for languages like Java that do not really need them, but make that obvious directly from the opcodes being used (or some other easily observed property). Likewise for the requirement to support pointer tagging for fixnums. Then the implementation can choose the appropriate collector based on what is being compiled (and the most general one for inter-language unification).

Keep in mind that typical builds of Hotspot support four or five garbage collectors, and most of them with two different pointer sizes. The required read and write barriers differ widely between collectors and in some cases even collector modes.

I'm not saying that it's going to be easy (an incredible amount of effort went into Hotspot over the years). But it's definitely possible to support wildly different GC strategies efficiently with sufficiently late code generation.
Starting a "new react project" should be basically creating an HTML file, and adding a script tag linking to React the JS library. Why are these developers always trying to obfuscate everything with tons and tons of layers of indirection all the time? You don't need to "bundle" anything and certainly not use some server just to add Javascript to a page (unless it's a matter of CSP of course) and you should certainly not have to rely on nodejs or cli tool X,Y,Z...

Somehow the JS/Node dev community managed to re-invent JEE web profile, and is very close to re-invent Glassfish as well at that point, but worse because it didn't learn anything from Java enterprise... this madness needs to stop.
The article splits out stats for urban and rural areas for all vehicle types.

Notably all vehicle types become more dangerous in urban areas but even buses on rural roads are more dangerous than light trucks on urban roads.
I am also a JavaScript developer and hold the same opinion. Who knows how many of us there are out there
I'd like him to open source his decision making process to ban reporters who report on stories he doesn't like.

Or maybe the criteria he uses to fire people who question his imperious pronouncements.

Ooh how about his flowchart for firing people based on their disabilities?
"Experts"
I was replying to:

> It remains to be seen if there will be other problems that take longer to discover

Which is a comment that applies to literally everything that humans have ever done in all of history.
Nor rational. What a strange impulse.
I just want to say, as a developer that just wants to get stuff done, I'm so annoyed by frameworks needing a meta framework, etc, etc. I want something as simple as CRA to be enough.
pigeons are smarter than they look. Not corvid smart so far as I know, but clever birds. It's part of why they're so ubiquitous.
While it is quite clunky and slow, and could be so much better, I don't see any reason to call it malware.
I'd also recommend https://playnite.link/ which is an open source launcher that does the same stuff.
It would be more useful if he'd said what he was towing.
I was about to reference this book in a separate comment. Glad I checked if anyone had already mentioned it. It's an absolutely wonderful read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
Such a small amount of footage. Not enough to get a true picture of what happened.

If the the Russian pilots were so effective in such a short time, they are truly magnificent. (Speaking as an ex-pilot myself)
Yes, the problem is when trying to take the system out of the sim. Usually it doesn't survive contact with reality.

At least if we're talking simulators like Gazebo or Webots they all use game-tier physics engines (i.e. Bullet/PhysX) which are barely passable for that purpose. If you want to simulate at a higher rate you'll need to either sacrifice accuracy or need an absurd amount of resources to run it. Likely both for sufficient speed.

But yes overall I agree with your last point, it'll get the models into the ballpark but they'll need lots and lots of extra tuning on real life data to work at all. Unfortunately that data changes if you change the robot or its dynamics. So you're always starting from zero in that sense.
We live in a world that's dominated by staring at screens. You're doing it right now. This wasn't true when I was young. The world changed.

It stands to reason that the education system should also change to reflect the world that we live in. Screens, AI, all of it. Children will learn how to become members of the society that they were born into, not the one that we were born into.
Since AmigaOS 1.3 (1987), Amiga has had a software version of a block device in memory which survives reboot, called "ramdrive.device", and usually mounted on DOS as "RAD:". It can even be a bootable device.

This is in addition to the, available since earlier, "Ram-Handler", a filesystem similar to Linux's ramfs, which does not survive reboots.
The AI primitives were designed to resemble neuronal primitives.
At least for us, all the translation stuff is frontend, so returning errors from the server is not straightforward. We backend people don't want to deal with anything user related. Sure, the backend needs to validate that it exists/is safe, but it probably doesn't do any of the other validations.
There’s nothing about SSG or caching that requires use of a CDN, and it may be helpful in both scenarios as it’s just literally another cache.
I agree that I can see it from here, but remember when nukes were invented people said “that’s it they’re going to make a bomb big enough to knock everything out in one go and anyone could make one, and that’ll be it”

As far as I can tell it hasn’t happened yet, so keep an eye on things. I used to be disappointed by slow ai progress, now, not so much.
"Please continue without explanation." Usually works for me.
Any references on this? Googling didn't let me believe this. From my interpretation (maybe wrong) of Xilinx UG116, FPGAs are reliable.
We've always been able to detect that some celestial objects appear to move backwards at times.
Thank you for the research. I didn't know that the mac's screen sharing was VNC, but that makes sense.
I can't imagine this code being in a place to open source. Surely it's tied to various internal libraries and services.
https://www.irec.es/en/publicaciones-destacadas/celulas-madr... has more information and seems to be discussing the same research.

They are focused on understanding the rapid growth with the idea of applying it to tissue regeneration.
React is a library, not a framework, so you usually need something on top.
It's always obvious in the Google news aggregation where the top article group is saying one thing and the Faux News headline is spinning the completely opposite direction no matter how tenuous the position is so long as it's owning the libs.
Gave it a try, no luck, but I'll try again later -- thanks!
On the other hand, calling people sociopathic (over a pretty open question) is totally normal and shows a very mentally stable outlook at life. Sociopathy is when an outside to the farming world wonders what value john deer actually provided to farmer if they seemingly overlook the massive caveats that we regularly hear about. Obviously.
Basically if you do a static export from next.js and ignore routing, you get a react SPA.

You can do the same in Gatsby, but it's probably a waste of time.

But...

With an index.html file containing a createRoot(document.getElementById('root')).render(<MyApp/>) call, and parcel or vite or webpack, you can produce much the same thing.

Possible that next.js will give you easier access to some more interesting ways to split your JS bundle up - but also possible it will fight you if you continue to insist on not taking advantage of SSR.
Macron's police like to beat peaceful women and defenseless old people
It's definitely a skill that takes time to develop, but don't be discouraged! Even reading code in the way you are now is helping you develop this skill.

Your ability to navigate a codebase, to able to see how its components relate to each other and to the effects the software has on the external world, is the perhaps the most valuable skill you can develop as a programmer. If you also have strong communication skills, you will go far.
> Given that Alpaca violated the TOS of both services, this is not surprising.

I don't think so? They are not competing.
Your understanding is correct – Next.js can do static sites, SPAs, SSR – all of them.

We (just today) updated the Next.js docs linked based on feedback around this to make it more clear. Hopefully this helps, let me know if you have other feedback.
Please review HN’s submission guidelines, specifically: “Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.”

Source:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
5 thermostats sounds like a very complex system, by the way!
What happens if you add the rules to the initial prompt and something like:
"Think step by step, explain your move and if it is illegal rethink"
They cite a preceding article, though I've no idea if 'the conversation' has any more gravitas (literally first I've heard of it).

https://theconversation.com/quantum-mechanics-how-the-future...
That sounds promising for Godot.
The most sensible option is that we remove academic credentials from job qualifications entirely. We’ve increasingly introduced non-credentialed ways to learn, and we have non-credentialed ways to determine what a candidate can do. So why are academic credentials related to our job applications at all? Why continue to enforce the whole miserable, class-hierarchy-reinforcing, metriculative education system at all?

The most straightforward option we have is to fund true public education, without credentials or metriculation. Simple, public class-by-class grades and recommended tests would suffice, and could be done with nothing more than HTTPS servers and .edu domains. We have no need for all the other cruft keeping people uneducated.
None of the libraries I’m currently a member of has it, but the next city over does, so I’ll see if I can join that library - thanks for pointing this out!
Ah well. If you don't want to spend much, someone's not going to get paid much. And the closer someone is to desperation, the more you can get them to consider doing that isn't really in their interest in exchange for helping them a little. So it's economically in the interests of the wealthy to make sure a lot of people are poor.