skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is like applying the "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" logic to war; it's a multifaceted thing, you can do everything right and still lose.

It wouldn't still be mandatory reading at war colleges the world over if it didn't still have merit, or if it had no merit to begin with.
China is way more active deploying renewables than nuclear.
https://www.colorado.edu/cas/2022/04/12/even-china-cannot-re...
Would you say it’s a ground-breaking simulation of human behavior? I can only get there through some pretty tight parsing. They did seem delighted!
Actually had this problem in PC repair. A lot of times I'd spend hours/days diagnosing an issue just so I could understand it inside and out and have a quick solution for the future. I could almost never bill customers for it since it would've cost hundreds of Euros (easily going into 1000+) for what ended up being a fairly simple fix (the $10.000 to hit a pipe with a hammer phenomenon). I'm just lucky I had enough slack to be able to do in-depth diagnoses, because it saved me fuckloads of time later on.

Then there were the cases with arbitrary random bluescreens that were impossible to diagnose where I'd upfront tell them I could only do the bare minimum because otherwise they might have to pay 500 Euros for a solution that probably wouldn't work.
The only thing worse than hearing about other people's dreams is hearing about their talks with ChatGPT.
I do think GPT-4 has emergent reasoning skills, but I don't think this particular example is very complicated, and you must always be careful about whether you're describing a situation it will have learned all of the relevant details about by reading a large chunk of the Internet.

My personal blown-mind moment was realizing that GPT-4 can decode and encode base64 with high accuracy (near-perfect when actual words are encoded).
> Suppose you buy a bag of seed corn from a hardware store. This is not some sort of fancy cloned corn, but ordinary genetically varied corn of the sort that farmers planted long before there was a science of genetics. Grow one handful of it in a carefully controlled environment in which the seeds get uniform illumination and uniform nutrient solution. The corn plants will vary in height, and because the environment is uniform, the heritability of height will be 100 percent. Now take another handful of corn from the same bag, and grow it in a similarly uniform environment but with a uniformly poor nutrient solution. Again, the plants will vary in height, but all will be stunted. Once more the heritability of height is 100 percent. Despite the 100 percent heritabilities of height within each group, the difference in height between the groups is entirely environmentally caused. So we can have total heritability within groups, substantial variation between groups, but no genetic difference between the groups.

https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/cogprints.org/230/1/19...
Ok I think I am with you now. You are saying that lipstick-wearing variation is very strongly influenced by genes (namely XX vs. XY chromosomes), and is thus highly heritable by the definition of heritability, but is somewhat paradoxical in that XX genes do not directly cause a person to put on lipstick in the same way that, say, XX genes make a person capable of bearing a child.
Poland announced in 2014 that it will build a reactor and start it in 2022. Nothing ensued.

What Poland really does now is quite different:
https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/02/03/polands-second-larges...
Your intellectual humility is refreshing. Most of these discussions devolve into very obvious cases of Dunning-Kruger effect.
Breaking the SF Doom Loop: Convert Downtown Offices into Student Housing
No it is not, for the purposes described in the article there are several FOSS embedded OSes for "unikernel" like deployments.

RTEMS, Azure RTOS, AWS RTOS, NuttX, Mbed...
I would say the study itself is a groundbreaking milestone in the architecture it posits. The human behavior... quite mundane I agree! I watched the full demo twice and it reminded me of the more boring parts of the Sims 4. But maybe that's the magic as well?
You're absolutely right. When you login you can actually see a list of dependencies & make your own adjustments. While thanks.dev makes a recommendation based on what's analysed, sponsors are able to boost or exclude beyond our recommendations. It's not perfect & has a lot of room to improve but we hope it's a good starting point :)
Scale. paying 100$ for 1 pic vs paying 10$ subscription for 100 pics.
How is it a flex? Paul Graham is on Twitter. He is driving the traffic of his 1.6 million followers towards Twitter.

Paul is too addicted to leave Twitter. He's proven that. There isn't a flex to be had when that's true.
I like how this tweet puts it: https://twitter.com/FrKadel/status/1644096510357913600

The model’s designed to show “what would the answer to this sound like?”, not to provide a correct answer. Unfortunately it also 1) is profitable (look how many humans we can fire while producing kinda similar results with a tool trained on those humans’ work!), and 2) fits the age old yearning (aliens, gods) of humans for humanlike-but-nonhuman sentience, a catch-22 that’s doomed to fail.
All toilet users should set the seat to their preferred setting prior to using it.
Maybe IQ scores fell out of fashion so people train less for them? I remember taking some test and scoring 20 points higher on the second take, so IQ tests seem to be highly trainable.
Man how much talking are y'all doing with this thing? I haven't once even gotten close to hitting my limit.
In 2010 ((...)) Angela Merkel ((...)) decreed a 12-year delay of the schedule ((of nuclear phase-out))

Then Fukushima happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#Closu...
I find it interesting that the prior probability example always happens to be the one where the prior is correct, while the opposite direction is never given more than half a line. You can very easily turn it around so that an unreasonably large amount of evidence is needed to move a strongly believed wrong prior.

My favourite example is to do that with normal distributions and the posterior ends up as "let's meet in the middle and agree that we both were wrong" -a very low variance posterior with mean right in the middle between prior and data.
Genius idea. I try to donate to open source software I've used for long time, especially if I cannot contribute any code back. This site seems to automate the process of finding out which dependencies of your software are accepting donations.

Unfortunately, I cannot use this right now, because Maven dependencies can't seem to be found, and neither can Cargo dependencies. I decided to test it with an app that uses a mix of ClojureScript and Rust. There is a shadow-cljs.edn file at the root level of the folder, but those dependencies are not picked up. Neither are stuff in a package-lock.json. There is a Cargo.lock file in a subfolder, but that does not seem to be scanned either.

However, I am able to verify there exist dependencies, in each of these files, that are actively seeking for funding and use GitHub sponsors.
What's stopping you from coming over to Supabase?
People are free to make fun of anyone when they speak, even when it's their job to speak. It's called "heckling" and is a common thing. I'm sure it's not enjoyable to experience and people can be required to leave of course. I don't understand your obtuse comments around this.
Do you have the links to the videos?
If you don't peddle it as the real solution with zero evidence or as anything other than an interesting thought experiment, why not? He's not starting a cult based on multiple big bangs. I think it's fine.
Meta is also working on this: https://twitter.com/Dan_GPT3/status/1630669890138025984
Sure. It is an MVP for a CRUD app and would have some minor async worker stuff as well. The authentication piece of some of these BaaS is compelling.

Ideally a scalable solution that supports queues and uses a relational DB for easy migration to AWS in the future should the product scale. Ideally trying to avoid getting locked into a limited platform and needing to kludge around it
It’s a familiar pattern, these days you can present a prompt engineering strategy from 6 months ago & it plays as an epic new paradigm for representing human thought.

The trick is they’re all just permutations on manipulating what’s in context + embeddings for memory + prompt engineering.

There’s new things here! I’m rushing to implement the 2D visualization part! But this simply isn’t ground-breaking
It's still early for GitHub's Sponsor feature but I'm a bit surprised this is not part of it already.

- They already understand what kind of code base it is and already do dependency scanning for security issues

- They have payment details

- They have the "verified" payment method of a person / project (If sponsoring is enabled)
Wow. It’s a wonder anyone has a correct time then. /s

Sarcasm aside, their NTP servers are less than 2 hops from my router. I know that because of excellent tools like ping and trace route.
Stephen King writes faster than ChatGPT can.
5-day weeks are just a habit of history! People are talking increasingly more about mental health, avoiding burnout, and work-life balance. Remote work was a niche thing in tech for quite some time until COVID acted as a catalyst.

But we never wanted just to work from anywhere. It was always about a more flexible lifestyle. And 4-day weeks could be the next important step. The tech sector will be probably leading the way, just as it did with remote work.

Would be interesting to hear what you think about 4-day week trend?
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I wonder how much the author is willing to pay. Because what they're asking for* isn't an easy thing, and isn't a one-time fix. The Linux ecosystem is extremely "churn-y" and APIs change constantly, workaround must be developed constantly. If some benevolent millionaire wants to put serious money behind this project, I'd love to jump in and give my $0.02 worth of well-researched advice. But sadly I don't see that happening.

* - "a full-featured DE which just works on day-1, but with a full command-line API working with Wayland and X, with a user-friendly documentation as we see it for the Web"
I agree bs jobs suck if they had other options to feed themselves, but today we live in shitty capitalism and instead people might just have to live in cars and eat scraps from the trash.
That seems to be a personal problem. There's nothing inconsistent about either space or time being infinite.
> Personal culpability will be more of a deterrent than corporate liability. The people who made that decision should be facing jail time.

I'm not certain that this is not already the case. At the very least, it is the case for more serious crimes. It is, however, pretty difficult to prove.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Nolibc: A minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34479284 - Jan 2023 (13 comments)
And that's just the common fuel for most cargo ships.

Plenty of these ships are tankers and the oil cargo dwarfs the vessel's bunker fuel supply.
It was released as a B2B, almost for a year - only playground and an API.

It had limited impact, and only when they built chatgpt they gained significant traction.

(I know, davinci3 was not instruct-optimised, but anyone could’ve built something close to a
chat before them)
strlen from https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.2-rc4/source/tools/inclu...

/* this function is only used with arguments that are not constants or when
* it's not known because optimizations are disabled. Note that gcc 12
* recognizes an strlen() pattern and replaces it with a jump to strlen(),
* thus itself, hence the asm() statement below that's meant to disable this
* confusing practice.
*/
static __attribute__((unused))
size_t strlen(const char *str)
{
size_t len;

for (len = 0; str[len]; len++)
asm("");
return len;
}

/* do not trust __builtin_constant_p() at -O0, as clang will emit a test and
* the two branches, then will rely on an external definition of strlen().
*/
#if defined(__OPTIMIZE__)
#define nolibc_strlen(x) strlen(x)
#define strlen(str) ({ \
__builtin_constant_p((str)) ? \
__builtin_strlen((str)) : \
nolibc_strlen((str)); \
})
#endif
Plugins are extractive. Embeddings as well, to an extent.
Said panel of evaluators found that AI agents pretending to be humans had more "believable" responses than humans pretending to be AI agents pretending to be humans. So that's... a result.
It's good at presenting existing arguments in a good way. But the problem is that such models can only give back what they have seen, consolidating the status quo. There can be no reflection and no outside of the box thinking.
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Hi,
You might want to take a look at the new storage in keycloak[1].

Newer keycloak versions (19 and up) have a configurable storage for the auth sessions (see storage-area-auth-session and storage-area-user-session). I haven't checked them but the documentation is promising.

For older session (last time I checked keycloak 15) you might want to use offline sessions but they don't allow SSO after the auth session was evicted from infinispan.

1 - https://www.keycloak.org/2022/07/storage-map.html
That’s almost the basis of the concept of Cosmological Natural Selection, which was taken seriously by many credible physicists. It’s fallen out of favor due to the consensus on the Black Hole Information Paradox veering towards information preservation. But it’s still an interesting idea.
"Don't be snarky."

"Edit out swipes."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reading the abstract reminded me of Marvin Minsky's 1980s book "Society of Mind". I wonder if you could get some cool emergent mind-like behavior from a collection of specialized agents based on LLMs and other technologies communicating with each other:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind

* http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/
<embed src="children.midi" hidden="true" autostart="true" loop="true">

Now I need to go listen to some Robert Miles again.
It's all fun and games until you get a subprocess.run(["rm", "/", "-rf"]) snuck in there that you fail to notice.
Looking forward to playing StardewGPT. Half-joking aside, I do think that level of abstraction is probably a good choice. Familiar and comfy, but with enough detail to be able to find interesting social patterns.
https://archive.ph/4QSNv
Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest
You need to find better burger places if McDonalds is just as good half the time.
That isn't entirely true. As the article discusses, under the proposed conformal cyclic cosmology, gravitational waves would leave a lasting effect visible between aeons. This effect would be visible in the CMB, and some researchers (including Penrose) claim to have found such a signature in their analysis of the CMB. The validity of their analysis is still in dispute (because detecting such a signal from the noise of the CMB is a very hard problem), but in principle the signal would be there if CCC is correct.
The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings

This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.
Why would leaving the door open drain the battery is there is no light whent he door is open ?
"Nothing" is not a proposition; you can't negate it. You can take it's complement, which is everything.
As a more positive example, I read about crypto miners who had something like shipping containers that they would put at oil wells to capture gases that weren't economical for the energy companies to use and are instead burned off.

While I'm sure some folks would jump on that because it was using Fossil Fuels, I look at as it's profitable for crypto miners to use _excess_ energy where it's produced and would otherwise be wasted, which will happen regardless of how energy is sourced.
What do you propose should be done for places that aren't windy, or times when there's no wind?
Legalism sounds like capitalism.
I lived there around 2005, only the mission and tenderloin where remotely dangerous to what seems to be 80% of the city now. I'm pretty sure there have been tangible changes to how the city is managed. Most cities didn't get this problem after the pandemic so that can't be the only factor. Regardless "reverting back" is not a good sign.
Ya, but Seattle is still a mid sized city, I don’t think most of those routes could work profitably in narrow bodies. Alaska has only four Mexican destinations, all the other airlines probably find transfers more profitable.
Not sure how effective these schemes are - at least from what I've seen. There's a lot of "double dipping" i.e. people put it in designated recycling bins out of free will and then scavengers come to pull the worthy items out of those bins to get paid. Recycling hasn't been encouraged but money has been lost (paid out).

Often people that care about recycling aren't in it for the money and those that are don't care about actually recycling something.
Alibaba to roll out its rival to ChatGPT across all its products
Bitcoin is the snake oil of our generation
How do I convince the management that it's worth spending a fraction of what 1 developer costs to give back to OSS?
Rust equivalent: https://github.com/lukaesch/crustagi
I am a true crime fan and I did a careful study of OJ material and I do indeed believe he is guilty. During the Ford Bronco chase OJ held a gun to his own head as AJ drove, which was not focused on during the trial. Clearly he was suicidal, and the “suicide note” discovered also shows unstable mental state.

I don’t believe anyone else had the motive to commit the crime, in contrast to OJ who was a documented serial wife beater and had a violent temper. It’s clear to me he did it.
The great IBM ThinkPad is dead, long live with ThinkPad. Still a bit better than other laptops.
There's this cool SF novel by Polish author, The Old Axolotl by Jacek Dukaj. Some humans upload their minds into virtual reality game as mankind dies out. The remaining humans live forever, but the novel makes it clear that they stop 'growing' - as they're just copies, like large language models, they can't really learn new things. They go through the motions of being their past humans.

If we have these bots contributing, will they have anything novel to contribute? I doubt it.
Sure!

The one with Nathan Labenz the Red Teamer is here and it gets spicy around 45 minutes in:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35377741

The one with Sebastien Bubeck the Microsoft employee who integrated GPT-4 with Bing is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496745
Yea, I definitely wasn't trying to quantify it's value. ChatGPT definitely appears to be proving valuable to people. I was just challenging the idea that so far it's acting in a tutor/instructor/mentor type of role. While it seems like an interesting direction to take these LLMs, so far I haven't observed them doing that.
They're being sarcastic. ;)
It helped me quit smoking. I was desperate before.
> As someone who has studied in the analytic tradition, I think it's wildly uncharitable to consider Continental philosophy a disease.

I should point out that I did say (with added emphasis):

> Sure, there's a lot of "Continental philosophy" which ends up looking largely indistinguishable from the "critical theory" cant to which you object (although, maybe, it is unfair to tar all of it with that brush)

In other words, a lot of it really is that bad – but not all of it.

I myself have to admit I've always been rather fascinated by Foucault, and I think a lot of what he has to say is rather interesting and of contemporary relevance–especially his viewpoint that sexual orientation is a set of contingent cultural constructs, rather than some essential reality of persons

Žižek too – I've read some of his essays, sometimes he makes some insightful points (to me at least) – although I haven't read his philosophical works, and his essays I've read, I'm not sure if they should be classified as "philosophy" per se

> Why don't we like the alleged 'relativism' of Continental philosophy?

How does it answer the classic objection that relativism is self-defeating?

I don't think "relativism" is the biggest complaint though. The biggest complaint is obscurantism–which risks dressing up the trivial as profound, and hiding falsehoods behind fancy language. And imprecision–analytic philosophy is very much about precise definitions and precise arguments, which makes it easier to judge whether an argument succeeds or fails, and to work out whether the parties to a dispute are actually arguing about the same thing or just talking past each other–Continental philosophy tends to be much more impressionistic in character, making it harder to work out what people are saying, and to judge the quality of their arguments
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If the answer to "what would this sound like?" is accurate enough then it quite literally doesn't matter.

Large swaths of the brain work on prediction. You think real time reactions happen in sports? It would be impossible. You have blind spots in the eye you don't notice because the brain fills in the vision with predicted information.

If you can accurately predict what a doctor will say to arbitrary input then guess what ?, you're a doctor.
This comment was posted to a different thread, which we merged into the current thread:

Stanford's Groundbreaking AI Study Simulates Authentic Human Behavior - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35520236
Exactly. Similarly, your number of toes is directly determined by genes, but it has relatively low heritability, because heritability is a measure of variability, and most toe count variations are environmental (thalidomide is the classic example).
> Presumably this is done so that everything is a single file

Putting code in a single file is definitely an asset for instruction, whether Java, C, Python, JavaScript, etc.

That said, a Java file can have multiple classes (though just one public class).

https://dev.java/learn/single-file-program/
> it's so _obvious_ that any computer system can't possible be made to work without

Indeed. The sad world of configuration files and cryptic commands.
arXiv isn’t a great cite. It’s like “technical report”, and it doesn’t really count for points so much as it is a courtesy provided to the reader (well, the only real points that should matter).

I once dug out the invention of IDE code completion coming from a structured programming system called Alice Pascal from the mid 80s via a magazine article. That was a fun investigation, but no one really cared.
This is a great video for introducing Elixir/BEAM.
Curious: Did you try it out before typing this up?
You could have recommended that channel without disparaging the others but alright