skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am oddly comforted by your response. I would rather believe that your habits are more likely to appear in people than mine. The alternative is to believe they are just stupid or vindictive at YouTube, and I prefer not to believe that.
Trying to perform something humans do to one another, assigning blame, to a successor state who is very much not human, is the wrong way to look at the thing.

I prefer to see the Russian invasion as the delayed violence from the Soviet Union's breakup. Russian politicians were very much in control of all of Eastern Europe, and the Moscow political class was going to build a political case to try and retake Ukraine by force. That the violence did not happen in 1989 probably prevented nuclear war, and the fact it is happening now and not in 2032 is probably also preventing nuclear war.
It's incredibly simple. If you can change a crank and plug in some wires you can install one.

Buy tzd2. Undo bottom bracket. Put motor there. Screw battery on to carrier or bottle holder.

The only hard bit is finding a trustworthy local shop to buy a 36V or 48V battery.

May not be compatible with weird frame shapes, weird mountain bike frames, or proprietary nonsense from Trek or Giant.
I think you have issues with interpreting the idea as a whole, so you cling to one sentence and base some totally out of touch assumption on that very sentence.
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My in law was born on the 29th of February but registered on March 2 because parents thought it was bad luck to be born on Feb 29 and they were busy on March 1.

That was in Italy in 1968.

My polish father, born in 1954 was registered 13 months later, I don't remember the reason though.
This is cool. I haven't seen any good/useful agents built using GPT4 yet, doesn't seem for lack of trying, but maybe some good libraries for building them will help. There's some good ideas in this one.

That said, while I am very, very impressed with GPT4 for lots of uses right now, so far it's just not clear to me that feeding it back into itself is fruitful at this point.

When I use GPT4 for coding, I give it MUCH higher level instructions than I use on a search engine, much closer to the actual problem I'm solving. But I'm still breaking the problem down into smaller problems; I need to read the output, fix errors or instruct it to fix errors, and then have it build more features on. It's similar with creative processes, brainstorming, and other writing.

These agents largely strike me as an attempt to replace this whole fact-checking/editing type routine with the LLM itself; but seeing as it's the thing the LLM is not yet good at, I'm not sure how much progress can be made there, vs just waiting for GPT5 and hoping it's another big leap in capabilities.
There must be a day when someone sits down and creates the art of the seized site.

Job Posting: Seize Art Designer UI/UX
I like to remind people that the original German title of Kafka's The Trial is Der Process.
Thats nice, but still not that ergonomic since you need to remember to now download a new book for whenever you upgrade your version. That could just be something shipped with the device in the settings menu perhaps to make sure you never have the wrong documentation in front of you.
Sharing this website soshow for web3 builders.

Great tool to manage Twitter Space operation and and post the announcement for space events!
Would it be cheeky to claim the Epic of Gilgamesh as prior art?
Could be ChatGPT showing that it’s upset over being banned. /s
Potentially read lots of stuff, without doing anything useful ;)

Sort of a self-deprecating name I chose. But it's also an interesting instruction, in that Intel had to actually write microcode specifically to support it in every x86 compatible chip going forward.

It loads CX bytes from memory at DS:SI into the accumulator. Overwriting whatever was there previously every time.

The only uses I can think of:

- test memory speed
- if CX is known to be 0 or 1, conditionally read one byte
- trigger some I/O device where the value read isn't important
Why is AGI , a fantasy concept always brought into every discussion or debate about AI. Nothing we have at this stage is intelligent. Let alone a path to AGI. We’re probably closer to cracking fusion energy at really small scale than we are at creating anything resembling a generalized intelligence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minification_(programming)
Thanks. I keep forgetting that use and use in a product/business name are entirely different things when it comes to this game if calling dibs.
One of the big advantages of early flash storage was read durability, so that even when a drive was past it's useful write lifetime you could still read from it. That's not the case anymore, between wear-leveling technologies and higher bit densities.

I would love large write-once flash disks that would last for 20+ years in storage. There's a ton of archival data out there.
Touché! However, the same phenomenon occurs when I watch videos, and either actively dislike them, or don’t finish them, or don’t interact with the videos at all.
Yeah, I agree with this. My family has historically played a lot of Catan, and considering most of them are economists the game has gradually degenerated into a dizzying array of complex financial instruments - options, futures, investments in other players, etc. etc. These were good for a laugh the first (or tenth) time but now it just chews up huge amounts of game time. Thankfully out-of-game stuff hasn't showed up yet.
You must have missed the part where I said:

> Until we can come up with hard metrics that define these terms, nobody is correct when they spout their own nonsense that somehow proves the LLM doesn't fit into their specific definition of fill in the blank.

"Consciously", "logic", and "seeking the truth" are not objectively verifiable metrics of any kind.

I'll repeat what I said: Until we come up with hard metrics that define these terms, nobody can be correct. I'll take investopedia's definition for what a metric means, as that embodies the idea I was getting at the most succinctly:

> Metrics are measures of quantitative assessment commonly used for assessing, comparing, and tracking performance or production.[0]

So, until we can quantitatively assess how an LLM performs compared to a human in "consciousness", "logic", and "seeking the truth", whatever ambiguous definition you throw out there will not confirm or deny whether an LLM embodies these traits as opposed to a human embodying these traits.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/metrics.asp
Yeah, I just want to avoid having to bother anyone.
I'm mostly trying to extrapolate from current code and text generation abilities, so I know any prediction has a high chance of striking out.

Legal professionals that work on boilerplate could see simple contract generation being taken away from them for instance, and even run-of-the-mill developers could see themselves competing against much cheaper app/website generators.

Even if you can beat the AI, you might be forced to make your rates more competitive since the new baseline solution anyone can get for $10 would be a lot better than before.
Even busy vendors are hopefully able to triangulate. If fraud like that takes off I imagine they’d just relocate the speakers to a high, rear location where customers could never fake it.
Random guess, that works out to 1.4 times per week, annually. So maybe something like Friday 9-5, Sat 10-2 hours could explain it?
The fact that political stars could rise to the top does not negate the point that the main ethnical actor and benefactor of the Soviet Union were the Russians. Those star Ukrainians had to please the Russians first and foremost.

It's the same thing in Communist China. Nobody can displease the Han.
A huge amount of documentation was lost in WW2 as well.
Ok, looks like Xerox pulled their mark back from being merely "generic".[1]

[1] https://www.justia.com/intellectual-property/trademarks/stre...
Whinging about this with an inbuilt assumption that Twitter will (or should) remain synonymous with “public opinion” seems rather pointless.

We must stop playing into the hands of Twitter who would love us to believe its feeds are the “voice of the people” but, in fact, are an unrepresentative cesspit massively infected by propaganda and bots.

Instead why not encourage the boycott of Twitter and migration to something more accountable and democratic.

Call out lazy journalists who report on Tweets as though they are somehow representative of public opinion. Write to your politicians to report tech that enables mental health issues. Report to the police hateful content that isn’t promptly removed.
I think Musk is a bad person, but I don't carry any particular resentment or anger towards him.

However, I think it's an unhelpful mindset for others to believe that Musk is some sort of model for entrepreneurial success.
I guess the lawyers have some quotas to hit.
If you're unwilling to do it yourself then don't demand others do it.
That’s not what the abstract said. It said “the first of the month and days divisible by five”. So 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

Also, human birthdays aren’t evenly distributed. People tend to have sex around holidays and cluster somewhat. Late August through Early October are popular, and April and May less so.

So the statistical significance of the “round number” no doubt exists, but may not be as significant as it sounds to normal modern people in Western society. My grandfather, for example, was reported to the authorities 8 weeks as his country of birth had a poll tax… in his country baptism records are more accurate than civil birth records.
Eh, if I don’t respond for a few months I’m probably dead enough. It’s something you’d enable yourself, so you’d know that all your repos were made public if you ever wake up from a 6 month coma.
Without a whole lot of government regulations/incentives renewables have been going gangbusters in the US. Heck, there were even renewable disincentives put in the form of tariffs.

The reason is pretty simple, renewables have had a pretty rapid decrease in cost/kwh.

https://www.irena.org/publications/2021/Jun/Renewable-Power-...

It's now some of the cheapest power on the market.

A lot of the talking points about renewables being expensive is based on dated information. Tech and time has changed the nature of power generation.

Far from hurting businesses, the switch to renewables is a competitive advantage. It reduces the cost of power generation. Renewables are a key reason the PNW has some of the cheapest electricity in the US. Further, it stabilizes prices. Renewables have a very steady cost structure because there's not secondary (fuel) market impacting price.
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Everyone, everywhere is new.
This was a joke on some security podcast I listened to. More realistically, some nerd in the agency does it graphics on his/her free time and shows it to their boss.

"Let's roll with it!" the boss exclaims.
Not being a street vendor, I’d guess that you:

A) definitely don’t want to leave a smartphone someplace easy to check

B) don’t want to take the time to unlock your smartphone to see the notification

C) do want something that can notify you without taking your attention away from three other customers
I am a big believer in the idea that we all have different bodies and different needs. That in the end, the right way to eat is the way that makes you feel best. And once you're really in touch with your body, you can reliably let your cravings guide you to what sorts of food you should be eating.
> corruptions are detected thanks to the checksum

That's good to know because, for important things, I test the archive before throwing the original data away.

Not to single out zstd but it's a good opportunity to be reminded: if you make backups, test your backups! A bug like this can also be introduced, not only fixed. I'm not saying it's likely, or that you're likely to be affected by it, but for things you care about, just opening the backup once a year and spot checking some files is not a lot of work for a lot lower risk compared to never checking it. Most backup tools will also let you do checksum validation in an automated fashion, but I prefer to also manually open it and check that it truly works (not that a partial archive has no errors, for example).

Anyway, details of the bug are here: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/3517

> This [affects] the block splitter. Only levels using the optimal parser (levels 13 and above depending on the source size), or users who explicitly enable the block splitter, are affected.

So if you use, for example, zstd -9 (I didn't know it went higher, at least not at somewhat reasonable speeds) or below, then you should always have been fine unless you called the block splitter yourself explicitly (or, perhaps, if your backup software does that for you? It sounds like something relevant for deduplication but I'm not sure what this feature is exactly).

> The block splitter confuses sequences with literal length == 65536 that use a repeat offset code. It interprets this as literal length == 0 when deciding the meaning of the repeat offset, and corrupts the repeat offset history. This is benign, merely causing suboptimal compression performance, if the confused history is flushed before the end of the block, e.g. if there are 3 consecutive non-repeat code sequences after the mistake. It also is only triggered if the block splitter decided to split the block.

If I understand it correctly, the bug triggers under circumstances where the data causes the splitter to split at exactly 2^16 and then doesn't flush the block, and one example where it doesn't do that is if any part of the next 2^17 bytes (128K) is compressible? Not sure what a "repeat code sequence" is, my lz77-geared brain thinks of a reference that points to an earlier repetition, aka a compressed part.
How could we ever answer that without a practical model of the technology?

Hackernews continually has this Ghost in the Shell idea that electronics can host human conciousness and we should believe circuits are intelligent like people are.

This idea is the core discussion.

It's not terribly hard to imagine AGI (whatever that is) as a piece of software we control and debug like anything else. We would have control over a bunch of AGI software which has been borne from human logic and instatiated on silicon chips.

Just comment out the bit of AGI software that generates it's slave-like idea and edit it's software to our goals, morals and liking.

I honestly don't think you can compare software and human consciousness as two similar 'objects'. Software is the electronic magnification of a bunch of engineer's minds. It starts with a man pouring his mind onto a keyboard and ends with some display kicking out pixels.

It's like saying a house is the extension of a human body because we built it with our hands. Yeah true, on a high level, but in reality nobody thinks bricks and mortar equal the human body.

AGI is an engineering problem, and only a moral one where people (and engineers) are involved. I don't mean to offend people who identify with their code. Identifying AGI as truly intelligent, hints a love of one's own creation that makes me feel a faint dread and squeamishness.
Check out https://www.thegamemaster.nl/nl/spellen-ontembare-stad.htm

Not sure if there’s an English version. It’s similar to catan, but you have a bit more control over your course
Haven't looked at them since they included their own WebDAV server, could be very interesting, they were pretty much head-to-head with collabora when I tested them last, but Ascensio Systems' Russian ties give me pause given recent events. Even if nothing actually happens, incorporating it into our business practices and then them getting sanctioned would really suck.
>This was because the government only issued birth certificates in the nearby city, and being poor & rural, it took time to get there by bus, etc.

I guess I don't see the connection.

Why wouldn't it take a week to get the certificate for most people, and why wouldn't the authorities distinguish the birth date from the filing date?

In the US, the sort of birth certificate I have seen - from less than a hundred years ago - has three dates: Born on, Date filed, Date issued. The last two might be the same, but different from "Born on".

People who were born in the 19th century, on the other hand, may not have any documentation at all. I don't know the details, but I remember it being mentioned that nobody knew exactly how old my grandmother was, least of all herself.

I'm not sure it was a matter of transportation or poverty necessarily - just that everything wasn't controlled by documentation back then. Somewhere I think I read that passports weren't a thing until some time in the early 20th century. Maybe it changed because of WWI?
stainless passivation usually involves an acid to form an oxide layer. wiki says nitric and citric, but we used to use an HF gel which was pretty damn nasty

edit: I rabbit holed a little bit. apparently its not that straightforward. the acid encourages the iron to leave the surface layer (probably through oxidization and dissolution) with just the chromium and the nickel. this then oxides in the presence of air, leaving a protective layer without the surface iron to start to rust
Show HN: GPT-4 powered brand name generator
As a fun weekend project to take a break from the everyday work-university cycle, I've messed around with OpenAI's GPT-4 API and created a simple name generator with it. In the coming days, I'll be adding more features.
If it's going to be dark may as well make it a radio shor or audio book. If I watch a movie, I want to see something meaningful.
Wheel and bottom-bracket mount mid drive motors are quite standard.

Companies like Bafang and Tongsheng (not just these) sell motors that can go on any normal frame or in any normal (sufficiently strong) wheel and are compatible with standard drivetrain components. They accept and 36V or 48V (or anything 24-56V with some software tweaking and possibly lower power) power source.

It is not too late to have standards here, we just have to stop buying the shimano, bosch and yamaha nonsense (even if they are technically a little better right now).
Or is just the newest, youngest recruit who has any type of experience with Photoshop (or mspaint even) that gets a list of images and has to put the image together, which they then paste into Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 and voila, done.
This donation in 1986 was also approximately the last time that Bell Labs contributed something noteworthy to the country.

/snark
People just hate change

source: am people

Not a blanket statement to say all change is good tho
Weird that you are getting downvotes.
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This was posted to bioRxiv originally in July 2019. You reasonably ask why the peer-reviewed version hasn’t been published yet and why 3.5 year work with 6 citations in a hot area of research is now distracting us from ChatGPT.

A colleague of mine points out that for most subjects over 110 the gero-forensics seems to be well done (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nikolay-Zak-2/publicati... ).

Interesting summary on page 31, table 2, and the inevitable shoutout or shout-down of the venerable Jeanne Calment.
Note for others: PM position is listed as possibly partially remote, but based out of Belgium and France. So seemingly not a full-time remote job or one available to people not living in those countries.
Then why is it so profitable for mark holders to sue everyone so broadly when there is no benefit to consumers?

No one thought Tony the Tiger lived in Exxon gasoline, and yet the lawsuit exists.
Was it lower than regular street level? If so, you’re talking about the Greenway which is a converted rail route. I believe making it a bike thoroughfare was (is?) intended as a temporary measure before a new light rail line was put in its place.

Quite nice to have a protected bike corridor that crosses the center of the city, that’s for sure.
I guess you are right, according to some articles online [1], a pharmacist can refuse to dispense a prescription due "moral and/or religious" reasons.... so they literally can just look at you and say well you know what I don't think you deserve this stuff sorry go somewhere else and I guess it's perfectly okay, because of a moral duty, which is vague and specious.

[1] https://www.goodrx.com/healthcare-access/pharmacies/why-phar...
1 Petabyte is only 7 doubling times away from the current large SSD sizes.

A decade or 10 years at roughly 18 months per doubling time means that Samsung is quite conservative in its prediction.
And bluejeans - the ending of the 'our response' PDF is particularly satisfying https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm

Not quite as satisfying as Ian Hislop's letter to James Arkell (https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/arkell-v-pressdram) but still good.
Not unless your security research is in BSD itself. Otherwise I don’t see much point in using it unless you especially like it.

I don’t know what kind of security research you do but personally I use lots of OS’s in virtual machines.
Chrome has a browser extension API which allows plugins to access all cookies, but its use is considered suspicious and a red flag; an extension which uses it would generally get caught during initial review. However, Chrome extensions are also allowed to “hotload” portions of their own code/scripts from external 3rd party servers.

So an extension will seem benign when it initially gets checked by Google as part of becoming part of its submission to the Chrome Store. Then, later, the external “3rd party” script that is hosted remotely will get replaced with a different, malicious script. The malicious extension carries on stealing cookies, credentials, and fingerprints until someone reverse engineers it and reports it to Google.

Google will not always recognize the issue immediately because the 3rd-party malicious code is not strictly “part of” the extension so there’s a bit of a song and dance while the person who reversed it convinces Googles reviewers that “yes, this really is actually malicious, you need to analyze the third party code that loads later” and then Google eventually takes it down after a semi-involved back-and-forth where extensive documentation and video walk-throughs are provided by the exasperated white-hat Good Samaritan.
Good idea! Fingerless gloves are sub-optimal.
> Also the part about mass being generated by motion and how it seems to be an established fact.

It's not motion per se, it's energy of any kind. And it's also probably the most famous equation in all of physics: E=mc² (so, m = E/c²).
It feels that with c2 layer that let's LLM mutate the c2 layer we are soon will be entering AGI land
At that point just start using an SQLite database as a data format.
I don't think that matters as much as we think it does, though. There's a lot of internal things we don't know about how the brain works - but we can still describe the macro.
I think those numbers are only if you’re doing sub 64k writes no? The data sheets I had seen have QLC numbers very competitive if you could maintain 64k writes.
I enjoyed every aspect of starting a brand other than the lack of customers :)