skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this doesn’t seem totally implausible, although postulating it doesn’t mean it’s happening. More generally, there’s no doubt that we’ve vastly increased communication bandwidth and that could easily have effects. For a few years now I’ve been thinking about gatekeepers in old media as damping rods that prevented new ideas from spreading quickly. There are both positive and negative ramifications to removing those damping rods.
The qualities of being above average in intelligence but fabrically incapable of exhaustion and functionally immortal would be an excellent start for world domination
The rea trap is that LLMs can simulate empathy surprisingly well. If you have many problems to rant about but nobody willing to listen, the LLM is always there, it will never get bored or tell you to shut up, and it will always respond in encouraging and "positive" ways. Given how many people today do not have anyone like that in their lives, it's no wonder that they form an emotional bond.
The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet
Yes, having someone nice who constantly screws up, messes up public pages, deletes data, delays releases for months with dumb mistakes.

What a genius decision.
definitely protocol

https://spec.matrix.org/v1.6/
Not sure why but a lot of your comments are appearing as “dead”. Might want to email the admins
Hopefully if the Australian government changes the system, they'll grandfather it for existing residents. They've done that in the past, and New Zealanders who arrived before around 2002 are treated as permanent residents.

I do have an EU citizenship as well, and in fact I'd lose that if I became an Australian citizen.
Crackdown on Diesel Pollution Could Save Billions
Thank you for responding. I appreciate the honesty.

The 10 years as an IC is interesting as an issue and sounds like it might be part of what I'm experiencing.

I am definitely trying to work any relationships I have, but unfortunately with my past I have not been able to properly maintain them. I'll definitely keep trying there, though.

Management is interesting option I had not considered. I have lead small teams for short bursts in the past with some success, but haven't been confident about seeking managerial roles with my history. It's definitely something I would consider, though. Assuming my resume is otherwise ok, do you think I might at least have more success getting interviews with those roles?
We could replace a few politicians with AI maybe as a first step. Take it slow, see how it goes...
> neither of us are going to spend millions of dollars training two versions of GPT-3 we will have to agree to disagree

I encourage you to apply to TRC https://sites.research.google/trc/about/

You'll be able to access millions of dollars worth of compute. It's how I got my start.

I love when I'm mistaken, since that's how science is pushed forward – we can't be certain we're right, only that we're not wrong yet. So it would be delightful if you formulate this into a testable hypothesis and falsify it yourself.

You can use The Pile to train your GPT: https://pile.eleuther.ai/
This point of view is valid. But it is more complicated in software engineering because

1. autistic-autistic communication works just as well as (if not better than) neurotypical-neurotypical.

2. Being more thing-oriented on the people-things spectrum, our industry attracts more autists.

A culture of NT communication style will probably be more inclusive. NT won't have their ego hurt; autists have to wear the mask elsewhere anyway. But as someone with Asperger's (undiagnosed), I resent this. Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365508
I still make mods in Unreal Tournament. Unrealscript has its warts but does the job admirably. I can't look at Versescript without thinking that Unrealscript was better.
I think without AGI we are dead anyway, AGI gives us a roll at the dice to survive as a species.

We can't keep going in the direction we have been and end up somewhere survivable.
Megacities, sure.

But Tulsa, OK vs the surrounding non-metro counties? I'm less certain without diving into the data.

The median US city size is Naperville, IL at 149,104 people.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
The range covered in the article is from 1990 to 2020.

The percentage of non white immigration into those areas is frankly staggering compared to the 100+ years prior.

So yes, those groups did just move into those cities recently.
Even if they have good motives, it’s sometimes difficult. You cannot keep compensating for other people’s deficiencies. You are not Atlas to be able to bear the weight of the whole world.
It depends on the source of your competency.

If you came by your understanding through bone-headed determination, you might have an inkling of how to explain concepts to someone who just doesn't seem to get it.

If you are someone who just 'got it', your ability to teach someone who doesn't might be the limiting factor.
Should they is arguable.

But I think in this case it's pretty much required for good UX with the way file syncing works on mobile and in the browser, especially dealing with conflicts. I've done it both ways and there is a lot less friction with vaultwarden than my old 'synced KeePass file' approach.

It was just a suggestion, there are other ways to skin the cat.
I am commenting on the fact that these two statements are equivalent:

* This allowed him to draw conclusions along the lines of 99% of starting values greater than 1 quadrillion eventually reach a value below 200.

* This allowed him to draw conclusions along the lines of 99% of starting values greater than 1 quadrillion eventually reach 1.

yet the author used the first which seems weird
Can't speak for the others but if USA is "coming undone" it has never not been coming undone. You can always find some badness in an economy, but by most measures we usually go by it's totally fine. GDP looks OK, unemployment has stayed low while rates have gone up, and inflation seems to be slowing a little at least. Of course there are always some concerns that opposition or others protecting their interests (VCs lately) will highlight.
I have no problem with directness, but I think sometimes people hide behind that to excuse their own bad behavior. Direct is short and to the point. When someone writes a long response that really digs into someone it is often because they want to make that person look bad. Humiliation is a bad teacher for most people.
Or the banning of CFCs and other ozone depleting substances.

It helped that the benefit/cost ratio was enormous.
I'm not implying anything about the biological racial differences between humans. When I say racism, I'm talking about people of colour who experience prejudice based on the colour of their skin which is indisputable.
For at least one general intelligence, the human brain, that is in the wrong order. Act first, decide later. Unless by decide you mean act and then make up a narrative using linguistic skill to explain the decision. Even observe can directly lead to actions for certain hot topics for:the person.

All we know for sure is that sensory data is generated, the brain does what it does, and then we have acted. We can’t break that down too well once it leaves the visual areas, but there is clear data that the linguistic form of decisions and so on lag behind the neurological signs of the action.

And humans have a well known tendency to make a decision on a linguistic level that they then fail to carry out in the realm of actions.
This is... extremely ugly.
WhatsApp is used by billions, and uses (at least in theory) e2ee, so I don't think usability is a real problem for e2ee
I'll be that person

I asked ChatGPT:

> Gary Berhnhardt gave a famous talk called "Wat" about Javascript. Can you create similar "Wat" style examples for Python?

The examples it gave me were... not that 'wat'-y

Sure, here are some "Wat"-style examples for Python:

1. Unpacking tuples:

>>> a, b = (1, 2)
>>> a
1
>>> b
2

>>> a, b = 1, 2
>>> a
1
>>> b
2

2. Division by zero:

>>> 1 / 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

Though this one is interesting:

4. Using the is operator:

>>> x = 256
>>> y = 256
>>> x is y
True

>>> x = 257
>>> y = 257
>>> x is y
False
One of my favorite lightning talks of all time. So well done.
China has amazing peeps. CCP less so.
In the pipeline, first run a classification model to determine what class of question is being asked.

Then engage the most appropriate plugins.
Thank you for clarifying, and I recognize that React does lots of extra work because “it’s good enough” but is that really the limiting factor of teams? Slack is built on electron which we can chide for being resource inefficient as well.
I do remember feeling the same thing would be true of networked software in the early 90s. It is hard to tell to what extent it has happened.
Height is a physical measurement and has actual consequences, it's not a social construct like race is.
That started in Japan around 2000, a good ten years before the mental health crisis that struck kids at about 13 years of age in English speaking countries simultaneously.
The AI effect is actually: Whenever there is a breakthrough in AI research, the AI researchers will consider it AI and lament that others don't agree.

That wikipedia article is just from the AI researchers point of view, it isn't what actually happens.
It felt odd to me at first too. I think it is to try and build that team culture when people are remote.
None of these would qualify as a good code review though. The reviewer needs to put in the work - explain in a concrete way what the problem is (and be right), and offer possible and correct solutions.

"This will cause a problem if there are a large number of records in the table because it loads all the records at once. A memory efficient way to iterate this data is ...". is a good comment.
I think the issue about syntax is that the ?-mark soup doesn't look great, but many people likely won't mind something like the `where effect` proposal that I mentioned above. Still, I understand your point about having an effect keyword in general.
Yes! JavaScript is even more watty than you wat!

Your context is implicitly parenthesizing the expressions you are evaluated, treating them as expressions rather than statements. Statements are also expressions of a sort too in JavaScript so uh there's also that. Here's the full wat matrix:

> do {[] + []} while (false);
''
> do {[] + {}} while (false);
'[object Object]'
> do {{} + []} while (false);
0
> do {{} + {}} while (false);
NaN
> do {([] + [])} while (false);
''
> do {([] + {})} while (false);
'[object Object]'
> do {({} + [])} while (false);
'[object Object]'
> do {({} + {})} while (false);
'[object Object][object Object]'

(as a hint, `{} + []` is actually `{}; +[]`, that is not an addition operator in that context).
https://youtu.be/826HMLoiE_o

I think you're misunderstanding how endurance hunting works. There is no land-dweller on Earth that can outpace a fit, prepared human in a hot, dry environment indefinitely. Not even a horse; Google it. We're slow in the sprint, but we're monsters of endurance.

(By "fit" I mean "makes a living this way," not "jogs and hits the gym regularly.")
I do viral bioinformatics for my job. Bioinformatics workflows analyze raw data to assemble sequences, create phylogenetic trees, etc. They can't just design a completely novel RNA sequence (this is not the same as de novo assembly). Scientists can definitely manipulate pre-existing genomes, synthesize the edited genome, and thereby synthesize viruses, but this involves a lot of trial-and-error, tedious wet lab work. Also, the research on making more dangerous viruses through manipulation is extremely controversial and regulated, so its not like there is a wealth of scientific papers/experiments/data that a natural language model could just suck up.

Also, I asked GPT to do some of these things you suggested and it said no. It won't even write a scientific paper.
To me, that's even further evidence that both race and height are totally inconsequential. That fact that these things can bestow social advantages is no reason to view either of them in a positive light.

Racism is certainly bad and should be discouraged. Somewhat controversially, apparently, so should heightism.
I recommend taking a look at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42867903. Some core points pertinent to your concerns are:

There is no precedence for lots of folks from ones location suddenly flooding a country just because they now can. There were huge fears Puerto Ricans would do this. Yet once they got the right to move to US states, only very, very few immigrated. It took up a little more once a Puerto Rican exclave formed somewhere and friends and family started following existing immigrants.

Immigrants typically commit fewer crimes than the native born population.
Show HN: Track the time and temperature of your cold showers and ice baths
Hello there,

I'm working on an android app that allows to easily track the time and temperature of your cold showers and ice baths.

Main features include the possibility to visualize your progress over time, achievements when you reach new time and temperature limits, a “badass score” that makes it easy to compare your progress with others, and a Voice Coach that keeps you motivated and makes you feel less alone in the cold.

I’d appreciate any feedback on the app. More specifically, I would like to know how intuitive the user interface is, and what UI changes would make it a better app.

Thanks for your feedback!
like what? would you rather have a gpt5 or a nuke? pure fearmongering. what am i gonna do, text to speech them to death? give me a break
To the people moaning about “what is the benefit”:

You ship less CSS, especially the more complex your app gets. A app built with custom classes ends up growing linearly, often with lots of repeated css code. With Tailwind, the amount of css added always ends up being logarithmic.

It also ensures consistency across the codebase in both naming conventions and styling (e.g consistent spacing ratios) without seniors having to be vigilant about policing PRs.

Finally, the majority of people who have tried it find it quicker and easier to code with. Which means you can ship more functionality in the same amount of time whilst maintaining the same or better styling standards.

So there are three of the engineering benefits to using it. If you don’t like it and don’t want to use it, fine. But stop pretending that no one can give you good engineering reasons that justify it’s existence.
You seem very confident that a human can't catch a dog on a hot day. I hate to be that person, but do you have a source for that?

I've gone running with plenty of different dogs in temperatures of above 30 degrees over the years. Smaller or stockier dogs (like a staffy) fade very fast. Within a couple of kms. Working breeds (retrievers/poodles/kelpies/collies) will leave you in their dust but this is why the endurance hunting hypothesis relies on efficient tracking while running. If they're running on the lead, especially when it's a bit hotter, they seem to lose it after about 10kms. On a cooler day these same dogs would leave me dead.
> Americans prefer to breed our own gangs rather than import them.

We breed them and export them, which help exacerbate and sustain a lot of the stability problems in Central America.
I love that guys laugh near the end, it's like John Belushi was in the audience
Sounds more like TCL than LISP. (Of course there are those who consider TCL part of the LISP family).

> So... the weird characters? We dealt with them as kids, that's no weirder than LOGO.

Most kids didn't learn much from LOGO. AIUI the best available research on learning programming (which is very limited) says that weird characters are a barrier to understanding, and so is case sensitivity.
Does it still crash a lot?
So why don't they just recapture Vladivostok now that Russia is weak? Why do they prefer the little island specifically?
How is ridiculing someone for what they were born with or without a point of pride for you? Examine THAT.
damn some of these are bugs fixed in 2021. there's easy money to be made just exploiting published mobile phone vulnerabilities! they won't be abandoned and won't be patched! ... who thought splitting ownership and consequences of not updating software was a good idea?

being a black hat is almost too tempting today.
I wonder how much of this can be attributed to poor posture related to device use. Posture correction has been shown to give people back ~1-2 inches in height.

Note: I mean real posture correction through exercise and training, not the currrent fad of "devices" that fix your posture for you.
> This is pretty much what LLaMA did, for what it's worth.

I don't think that's exactly accurate. The GP proposed:

>> What about a tokenizer where the digits 0-9 just get the tokens 0-9, all other tokens are derived in the usual BPE manner (except that no token other than 0-9 is allowed to contain digits).

The paper says:

> We tokenize the data with the byte-pair encoding (BPE) algorithm (Sennrich et al., 2015), using the implementation from Sentence-Piece (Kudo and Richardson, 2018). Notably, we split all numbers into individual digits, and fallback to bytes to decompose unknown UTF-8 characters.

I read this as sayng the a number like 1002 would be split into 1,0,0,2 and then represented by the tokens IDs that point to those digits. These are not the same things.

Interestingly, the code FB provided doesn't seem to have any special handling for digits: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/llama/to...
This is the Paradox of Tolerance in action. One must fight against intolerance in order to preserve their tolerant ideals in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Slower to update, but fixed 12 months earlier. Pick you poison...
What a childish comment.
I had a professor who was involved in that kind of research at the time of the Asilomar Conference. He said it was all very good, everyone agreed to pause their research until people established guidelines for safety. And then once the guidelines were established and research was allowed to resume, everyone immediately published all the research that they had never stopped working on during the "pause".
> require tests to pass before a commit is allowed

Agreed.

I did not dig for the deeper context, their org is probably quite dysfunctional.
I wish they'd asked an AI to remove "like" and "kind of like" from the transcript.
There's no unitary "we" to block further development of AI. There are way too many actors with too many strong incentives to develop it.

Thus in practice you also have to consider scenarios such as "it's a lie and you supported the block, but other actors that are adversarial to you ignored it, and now they hold the upper hand". Given that the current state of world affairs can be described as "dangerously close to WW3", this can also be a very literal life-or-death matter.
AGI is a continuation of what we have been doing. Technological advancements at a pace that surpasses our ability to reason about their effects on us and the world.

I see two potential outcomes as most likely. We have control of power that we are not able to responsibly manage, or we are managed by power we can not control.
I use NBD for my single-user NAS. You can use FDE (full disk encryption, luks) client-side.

The system managing the physical block devices never sees unencrypted data.

Such a setup shines when you use a laptop as your main machine and wish to have a lot of secure storage. The approach I chose was to bond ethernet & wifi6e, use wireguard (w/ PSK). And wonder the house with uninterrupted access.
I have an older Mac dedicated to this singular purpose. It works well. That bridge + SmsMatrix on my android phone means I can get my text messages & iMessages from my (all iPhone family) anywhere I can load the Riot web app.

Note that it's kind of an interesting hack: IIRC It's just talking to the local sqlite data store that the Mac is receiving messages to. I worry that apple may one day say "Nope" and shut down this "API" we were never supposed to have.
Making a job for a person is something that should be done rarely surely? Getting a person for a job is better approach.
Sam Altman in his very interesting interview with Kara Swisher did say that one’s initial experience with these models tends to be a lot more “wow” than after using them for a while.
This is just grist for the '24 election mill. Advance BS legislation that might just get to the desk of the president. He vetoes it and then the outrage machine can claim that he's weak on China.
> In a way, people who are concerned about skills atrophying are repeating the cycle of previous generations, shaking their fist at higher level programming languages or drawing digital images.

Maybe some.

But I resonate with the title because I noticed I started leaning on ChatGPT to avoid having to think through things. I found myself tweaking ChatGPT prompts and hoping for a better response when the previous one wasn’t good enough. Often a better response is not found, then I have to struggle to start thinking for myself.

Over time that leads to less repetition thinking through problems and more difficultly thinking through problems when you can’t use ChatGPT. Is that a good trade off?
Yes but govts can try to minimize the damage from people making bad decisions. Which they do constantly, across all areas of society.

And what you describe as "neo-liberal mumbo-jumbo" I think for most people would be seen as simple commonsense.
> The IETF has approved publication of Messaging Layer Security (MLS)

Dated March 29th. Not quite final, but I believe this link is about the imminent release of the core spec.
They can bitch and whine as much as they like, letting people blow off steam is part of the process by which democracy keeps the peace. Aside from various small and short riots, there has been very little political violence in America since the 1860s.
This has been the status quo in Asia for probably at least half a century
Depends on what is required for AGI/ASI. Some say we still need much more power, others think we are almost there. So, yes, unrealistic if we are almost there already.
I said thanks to each answer :)
wow, that is absurdly careless. I paid money for little snitch and I am incredibly disappointed and feel a huge loss of trust,
I trusted Little Snitch to keep me safe from things I consider harmful and now it comes out they don't care about privacy at all.
I've been self hosting it all long before I knew it had a commercial front (Beeper), the docs are fine. That's from the POV of someone who was already running a Matrix server, though.
I usually show this to new devs starting out as a quick way to explain inconsistent and/or leaky abstractions. It’s a great and entertaining intro.
Eating cancer is a hard no for me and that’s what lab grown meat from “immortalized” cell cultures is.
Ah, yes, for regular banks that makes total sense – I was just outlining why neither of these options would be realistic for a full-reserve bank as mentioned by GPs.
Game devs and unfinished games
Did you try pasting in the relevant reference sections for those ImageMagick commands/options?
Yes this is a fair point, and if that is what they meant I could agree it is worth trying. As pointed out down-thread the Llama tokenizer is supposed to spilt numbers into their digits.
It's a 4 paragraph comment that's basically throw away and everyone will forget exists by tommrow. How much effort should people be putting into these comments. Especially when there's no return. There's no guarantee you'll get a smart responses
Cultivating Agency
Masses of incompetent people are the very reason why dealing with most large companies and their products and services is such a nightmare.
Example config:

const domainToPort = {
'localhost:3000': 3001,
'example.com': 3002,
'api.example.com': 3003,
};