skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a filesystem worked like alternative splicing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_splicing , you could for example store 10 different, valid and useful images using the same disk space. The filesystem would decide how to skip a block or two to give them all.

A woodworker could make a better analogy: DNA is like a box of leftover wood. You can chose the "exons" and build a closet with them, a different sort would make a table.

My point is we CS shouldn't feel pity for the biologist not being able to draw analogies with our field. You don't need an analogy when you are already the best at understanding the system directly.

I like to explain ML to biologists as an analogy with neurons, but it only can go so far. As soon as you need to teach the details things are no longer so similar. The reverse is also true: you can explain a neuron to a CS as a ML neuron, but when you need to explain neurotransmisors in detail, the analogy doesn't work anymore.
Hey,

I responded to this in the comments below, see here [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35380957
First, we'd need to have 26 Chernobyl-level incidents that you assume are a given.

Second, there's very little issue with nuclear waste. Way, way, way less than the media make it out to be
IRS collection agents already have the power to seize assets without a court. Letting them rack up legal bills too wouldn't generate a positive ROI.
Love it! Is there a way to view the airport name other than zooming in on the map?
As I see it, the existence of AI is proof we really are alone out here.
By special treatment I'm referring to:

- lots of people want to see Trump indicted come hell or high water. That's special treatment.

- lots of people think Trump shouldn't be indicted, even if he committed a crime, because he's a former President. That's special treatment.

- lots of people think Trump shouldn't be indicted, because it would inflame his base. That's special treatment.

Throw all of that out. Let's deal with the facts and the law.

If the prosecutor thinks they have enough evidence to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed a crime, then he should be charged.

If the prosecutor doesn't have the facts, or evidence, or law to support a charge beyond a reasonable doubt, then he shouldn't be charged.

Throw all the politics and "special reasoning" around Trump out. Charge based on the facts, evidence, and law. A declination even if the prosecutor thinks Trump is guilty, but they don't have the evidence to convince a jury isn't special treatment. That's—as you note—a routine declination. But a declination because you're afraid of the political ramifications of an indictment is wrong. Similarly, charging a weak case because you're afraid of the political ramifications of a declination is wrong.
Chatgpt with gpt3.5 or 4? Big difference
Kind of ironic that the fifth word of the first paragraph is presumably supposed to be "to", but it is typo'd as "ot", when the subject of the sentence is about the sequence of characters. I have to imagine this was an intentional little easter egg.
First of all, let me tell you that scratch is a wonderful project. I have only one, but pretty important criticism: The tutorials that are packages with the installer use screenshots that are not translated and thus are pretty much worthless unless your kids speak English. I was pretty hyped on scratch, but this pretty much prevents self directed learning from happening.
A bit of trivia about that:
In Germany, which had a rather vivid nuclear energy discussion for decades due to historical reasons, nuclear energy proponents often use the word "Kernkraft" (literally "nuclear power"), while opponents call it "Atomkraft" (literally "atom power"). That's because nuclear bombs are called "Atombombe" in German and the proponents try to avoid that association.
Even at Fukushima one person died as a direct result of the accident.

Evacuation killed more people.
Has anyone more information or a freely accessible link?
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Awesome. I used faiss during my phd studies on ai based lidar map building and I spent countless hours in the faiss github wiki pages, example code, and issues. Would have loved something like this back then. Bookmarked for the next time I need faiss.
It's very important in chemistry to deal with molecular weights and convert them into usable masses. You could try to deal with uholy powers of 10, but mole makes everything easier by turning 1 molecular weight into 1 gram.
I also love the fact that now I can develop on the go.

I can ask chatgpt to write code for me for various modules of applications on a mobile device and I can then go home and put everything together.

Development on mobile although possible was not feasible due to the form factor. Now that limitation is gone and things are only going to improve.
How do you know your own code is correct? Now apply the same strategy to others code
I can read the code and verify it. Sometimes there are small mistakes but overall the architecture and approach are mostly correct. It won't produce 100 % production-grade code, but that's not expected for a PoC. And personally I also get stuff subtly wrong at times, I just iterate and test to find these cases and fix them. So I guess we're not fully replacable yet.
Not 100% true.

Here is a counter-example.

First, guess what is one of the most abundant element on earth. Uranium. [1]
Now consider what is a common pollutant when we mine coal or burn it. Uranium. [2,3, 6]

Saying that we should burn coal because we are afraid of nuclear/radioactive waste is ad absurdum.

And unlike nuclear plants it is questionable if we process the radioactive waste in question [4 & 5 show the contradiction in assuming if the post-processing is done correctly or not]

[1]: https://www.energy.gov/ne/nuclear-fuel-facts-uranium

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

[3] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/langsdorf2/
[4] https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-wastes-coal-fired-po...
[5] https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/do-coal-fired-power-sta...
[6] http://large.stanford.edu/publications/power/references/hvis...
Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and Bill Clinton represent progressive principles? Hardly. Even Barack Obama, who opposed gay marriage when he ran for office was closer to being a Republican than a Progressive in his political rhetoric (though he is clearly a progressive at heart).
"pairing up with a junior developer who read all the documentation" is a really good description.
This is interesting. I'd like to see how this turns out
We're nowhere near reaching the max human life span,controversial study suggests
Can you please provide any sort of justification for your (quite ridiculous) statement. We have quite a long history of signal processing migrating to digital precisely because it is better in every regard, INCLUDING POWER. Maaaaaybe, since AI neuromorphic-like circuits are quite fuzzy, they wouldnt require such strong noise resilience and precision, this could be a potential use case, but there is also a point of reliability and testability, which on these required scales for AI will be completely infeasible for analog circuits.
Yes, agree. I mean GPT-4 is an all in all a fantastic tool, but it's especially good for developing. The moment you transform a blurry idea into structured data in any form (and it helps a lot with that: you can chat like two decent citizens and ask it to transform it to json at any given time), you can pretty much generate infinite boilerplate that's consistent through a whole application: interfaces > tables > migrations > models > forms > tests. But it goes way beyond crud, and during that iterative process you can come up with some sophisticated enhancement that you wouldn't have even entertained and all of a sudden it's easy to implement. It's great for longform code & structure generating conversations and it's great for picking up little details that would have taken the most of the afternoon. I'm in awe, really (as is everybody else?).

And yes, it does make mistakes, very rarely, and you can't really upload the whole source code everytime you want to talk with it, but it makes the programming dream real again (if only for a couple years lol): is not like you don't _type_; there's so many things you stop thinking about. And you can say: oh, there's the catch, but the truth is my own buffer is so much freer all the time, I get to tweak files, with excitement, that a couple months ago would have been very tedious to get a grasp of.
And about code quality: its Elixir is alright, its Typescript is excellent, but it's absolutely flawless at concatenating unix commands: it has read all the man pages. I've aliased more custom commands these couple weeks than in the whole of last year, and my workflow is getting tighter and tighter each day. There's just so much power into this thing.
> Nuclear triggers some primal fear.

It doesn't. In the 50s-60s people were happily imagining everything nuclear: from kitchen robots to interplanetary travel. "Primal fear" is the result of longtime negative portrayals in the media and by politicians.
I mean, Germany said so too and the bombing happened in their country. They even convinced other European countries to extradite the suspects who were later convicted
> emotional reaction to incidents that were not that serious

You're really making easy for those emotionally impacted by these deaths and whole regions made inhabitable to swallow your argument.
Yeah it’s hard to look at something like the Rod Blagojevich saga and then look back at Trump and not immediately wonder what the hell is going on here.

They very clearly have the capability to coordinate the entire media apparatus, law enforcement, etc to cuff a sitting Governor and quickly send him to a federal pit and down the memory hole for essentially the exact same sort of quid pro quo that was underpinning the first Trump impeachment.

Trump isn’t Phoenix Wright, he’s only still a free man because the Blob either can’t come to a consensus on “Blago’ing” him - or else the constant “The walls are closing in on Drumpf THIS time” drama is serving a larger purpose.
We could simplify the tax code. That doesn't mean a flat tax because the marginal rates are the simplest part of our current tax code. Get rid of most (all?) deductions and tax income at the resulting appropriate level. There's no good reason capital gains should be taxed at a different level than other income. The tax changes under Trump mean that 90% of filers take the standard deduction. The remaining 10% can pay the same as everyone else and adjust their future behavior accordingly.
Here's another recent example of a quick prototype I built with ChatGPT since I wrote that article: https://til.simonwillison.net/datasette/row-selection-protot...
I’m talking about self-taught. I also took comp-sci after learning to program and I learned a lot I didn’t know. So I don’t want to sound like I’m dismissing that education.
I agree, I've gotten stuff working that simply would have taken too much time referencing manuals. You can just keep asking questions until things start to work. It's rare GPT-4 has given a complex function that fully works, but it has done a great job recommending packages; algorithms;frameworks; commands, answering small scoped problems, answering trade offs, telling me what some github packages are doing under the hood.

Especially working with other languages now is a lot easier, because I can ask to translate between languages I'm familiar with. Same thing with configurations, eg translate this systemd script to openrc.
People have done this. It either has no effect or makes the disparities more stark with regard to Asian-Americans.
It's not that income abroad would be particularly easy to hide. Since financial institutions around the world have reporting duties regarding US customers, Uncle Sam will find out about it. The true, completely legal way to hide income abroad is establishing holding structures to siphon most of it into tax shelters abroad.
Making Content Accessible to Sign Language Users
Apparently predicting is the most efficient way of running a brain, as opposed to reacting. Your brain is a predicting machine.

Lisa Feldman, a top neuroscientist and writer, goes over this topic in a podcast episode with Lex Fridman.

This is the chapter on the predicting brain, but the whole of it is worth a listen, mind blowing stuff:

https://youtu.be/NbdRIVCBqNI?t=1443
> the $2T cleanup cost for Fukushima as limited.

Let's ignore the earthquake and tsunami that happened and pretend that all that cleanup is only due to Fukushima.

> A nuclear reactor in Sweden had a severe incident in 2006

Severe as in: exploded? people died?
Always mention your stack before writing stuff like this - people who write js/ts where every problem that could be done has been done will get very different mileage than, say, people who write C and assembly for some obscure architecture
I’ve sat in classrooms where coding was discussed but that wasn’t where I learned how to do it.
Everyone assumes there's a 2nd degree hidden intention. "You would only defend Trump on anything if you were a huge fan of his!"
In a sane tax world you tax profit not revenue.
Since there is the concept of sealed indictment, why are all the indictments not sealed (or none of them)?

I guess this is to preserve the person that is accused (because an accusation is easier to make than to defend, given the visibility decided by the media, supporters, etc)) - do why some are more preserved then others?

Since the topic is a hot one, please note that I am from France and have no stakes nor interest in the political discussion, I am genuinely interested in that concept of this seal which we do not have AFAICT.
I was recently wondering if this changed with age: when talking with older ppl, I sometimes think they prefer hearing what they want to hear - or maybe rather, what they predict I would say? And it can be challenging to get theough to them with novel concepts.
"he was exceptionally criminal so they investigated him a lot more than normal" is a weird thing to use as evidence of political motivation.
Like other folk pointed out, snaps (and moving Firefox into a snap) was the one single reason I also moved to Fedora. I now have five machines (three physical, two virtual) running it instead of Ubuntu, and although I a not a fan of flatpak (the amount of wasted storage and various quirks make running apps inside it a chore, so the only thing I run in flatpak is Blender), I concede it is better than snap.

I am also not keen on GNOME’s “our way or the highway” approach to customization, but as long as they still support user themes (which I use to make GNOME look like macOS — because I find it helps me find stuff when I’m fatigued), I’m OK with it.
On one hand, these are basically student projects, so we shouldn’t be so critical. OTOH, they’re being branded and marketed like products, so their claims deserve scrutiny.
And editing the history if it guessed wrong. You were frozzen in fear, stunned, unable to contemplate, the hardware abstraction is fine, its the pilots failure.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
The MIC at it's absolute finest.
It sounded like the brain has a prior on what it perceives. So something like Bayesian information processing. This seems not to be the case.

At least in this preprint: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6516078/
It was a long time since the discussion was coal version nuclear. Today it is sun and wind and different storage solutions versus nuclear. Nuclear is losing due to slow building times and being too expensive. The nuclear industry is unhappy about that and tries to blame it on regulations.
Thanks for the feedback, zooming is the only way currently. I could add the ICAO code somewhere in the UI.
Would be nice if it had a story or characters.
I don’t know who you are, but :wave:
> On top of that, nuclear power needs a lot of water. This means they can become less reliable, especially once they age.

> Not only does it need water, but the water can't stop for any reason without resulting in a disaster. You have to keep that spent fuel cool otherwise it'll burn itself.

I'd say your information is incomplete.

Nuclear power does not necessarily need water. Modern reactor designs do not use water at all, for example molten salt reactors that use salt for cooling instead of water.

Unlike wind power there are several ways to construct nuclear power plants, which eliminate the possibilities of several, if not all, of the scary failure modes, such as spontaneous meltdown, as is the case for the aforementioned reactor type. Instead of spontaneous meltdown of nuclear material, spontaneous lessening of nuclear activity is part of its design, in case total loss of control.
Those two sentences are totally unrelated to each other.
It’s a fun time to be interested in AI for proteins. Every new ML model type is inevitably tried out on proteins. As the functional molecules of life, proteins are uniquely important and fundamental to every process in biology. As the targets for every drug, the tools for every cellular job, and the squishy, wiggly, moving and alive parts of living things, proteins presents both exciting possibilities and deep technical challenges for those who design them. A protein can be understood simply as a string of letters about 300 long using the alphabet ACDEFGHIKLMNPQRSTVWY. This turns out to be a great representation for sequence models like transformers. One big public database, UniProt, has 200 million protein sequences you can train your model on.

The very largest plain transformer models trained on protein sequences (analogous to plain text) are about 15B parameters (I am thinking of Meta AI’s ESM-2 [1]). These can do for protein sequences what LLMs do for text (that is, they can “fill in the blank” to design variations, generate new proteins that look like their training data), and tell you how likely it is that a given sequence exists.

Some cool variations of transformers have applications for protein design, like the now-famous SE(3) equivariant transformer used in the structure prediction module of AlphaFold [2], now appearing in the research paper [3] accompanying TFA, as well as variations on the transformer such as the message passing model ProteinMPNN [4], which builds on a neighbor graph-structured transformer [5]

1. https://github.com/facebookresearch/esm

2. https://github.com/deepmind/alphafold

3. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.09.519842v2

4. https://github.com/dauparas/ProteinMPNN

5. https://github.com/jingraham/neurips19-graph-protein-design
There was a billboard on the side of i15 that was a puzzle. I completed the puzzle.
GPT doesn’t change some fundamental things that we know about the theory of computation as well as complexity. It’s a wonderful tool that we’re just beginning to learn about, but it’s not a get out of jail free card for the halting problem or a million line codebase that models 50 years of business evolution.
Of course you would need third party accountants with 3rd party software for businesses. But for personal taxes it should not require third parties
Hi Vicuna developer here. We are going to release the weight delta, and you should be able to reproduce the chatbot if you have the original LLaMA weight. We cannot directly release the weight due to LLaMA's constraint.
Stick them in the same cell?
> This holding everyone to the slowest standard in the name of equity is actually very inequitable.

Math in particular is a subject where there can be such a wide divergence in age where each kid is ready to absorb topics. Having a rigid schedule where topic X is taught in grade N is always going to hurt those who are capable of moving forward faster and hurt those who need more time/maturity to get there (but may well be excellent at algebra/calculus/etc if allowed to take it when ready, not sooner).

I like the schools where kids are allowed to progress through math at their pace, faster or slower, instead of being grouped by class level. Unfortunately that basically means private schools with such an approach, I haven't found any public school in the area (California) that support this.
There was a lot of turn-over (no pun intended) in strategic heavy bombers until the B-52. There were also all sorts of medium-heavy and heavy bombers between the B-17 and the B-52.

The MiG-25 had to swap engines after every flight.

Meanwhile, the A-10 is and was an amazing design and yet they want to ditch it.

The F-22, B-1A/B, B-2, KC-46 were previous boondoggles.

And now, ditching the Viper and Hornet for an Jaguar X-type with an unusable motor.

MIC loves it: more problems = more $$$
Pepsi’s Rebrand Takes the Gen-Z(ero) Challenge
Thanks for the feedback, didn't think about this.

I hope they consider it good marketing, given that their logo is watermarked in all pics.

I'll keep an eye on traffic in the meantime.
https://archive.ph/CEk1o
Okay great, you've established some measure of credibility. But given the number of medical treatments and established methods of with zero actual backing evidence, could you cite some decent support for LNT?

Currently TFA links to some interesting arguments in favor of a time-rate dependent factor that incorporates cellular repair mechanisms. At first glance that seems plausible, especially below a certain threshold. There appears to be no statistical evidence of higher cancer rates around many nuclear areas, etc. LNT is not a topic I've dived into but seen pop up a few times so I'm curious why LNT is considered unassailable.
Is that average over the country? Because there are regions where almost every student is already above average, and regions where they are below.

This sounds like a way of funneling the best teachers into the already best schools in the richest areas, and making it impossible to employ good teachers in poorer regions -- unless you have a plan to fix this (I realise you've only given a tiny explanation).
I have a FreeBSD vm running kde, but I don't remember if it's 12 or 13... it took a while to get the desktop running, but after that, it just felt like I was running Linux...

Is that a bad thing? I don't know. How come BSD doesn't have its own desktop? Or maybe it does and I didn't know about it at the time... but if I'm going to set up wayland I feel like I might as well run Linux.
They’re from another decade now but the Yale Online Courses are really good

https://oyc.yale.edu/
Education > Regulations
> Whereas back in the flash days there was basically just x86 desktop Windows and the few other web enabled devices were niche and didn’t properly support Flash.

It wasn't quite that bad. I was running FreeBSD at the time and Flash was fine there. In fact I remember for a few years it was easier to have working Flash than working "web video".