skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument (guess really) for why density necessitates more cops is that the opportunity for criminals also increases with density.

My thinking goes something like: a line of densely parked cars up Polk street with a bunch of people with their phones out at night making it hard to tell who is holding a flashlight probably means you need more cops patrolling the area to prevent crime vs my now suburban street with a few cars and no one walking at night means it would both be easy to spot opportunistic burglars and unlikely they'd hit up my street mostly for lack of targets.

I, too, could be wrong as I am saying this with no data.
Clever--and a gracious, flattering flex.
To those wondering if there will be a successful "marriage" between popular incarnations of AI, like ChatGPT, and FM: no, at least not in the sense you would expect.

Sure, ChatGPT will successfully manage to find formal proofs that have been done before.

But synthesising proofs from scratch is NP-complete for the simplest proofs (or worse for more interesting cases), and LLMs are simply not clever enough to do it (except in cases where the proof has been seen before).

It could be possible to integrate an SMT solver with a LLM to make this work, but the core difficulty of the FM task will then be solved by the SMT solver.
There is a significant difference though. Amazon is not just providing a communication platform, they take a significant cut of the money being made here, so I would argue they are an associate to the fraught (let's not even talk about all the other ways that they are often part of the deal).
"The Earth is round" was once an unsatisfiable theory for quite a while.
> Germany built massive transit hub train terminals in a matter of a year during the Nazi period

Well, things are always easier easier to build when you have access to slaves, but they still won't solve the project management issues in debacles auch as Berlin Airport. Do you have any concrete transit projects built under Nazi rule in mind? Everyone knows of the Autobahn which was drastically expanded during Nazi rule, but I can't find anything about other transit projects outside of the regular railways that were built for the army or deportations.
I don't think he has the space or the money for it. I'm hoping his workign with a metal 3d printing company will be an equivaletn.
THANK YOU HUMAN FOR YOUR INVALUABLE RLHF TRAINING DATA

on a serious note, it would be really interesting to compare same training/architecture but on different forums. or maybe something like the same base model, but the RLHF model trained on votes/comments from different platforms.
I don't want to be paid for my open-source code because that introduces expectations of support that I'm not interested in providing. The whole point of open-source is that I can just toss that stuff out onto the internet, and if someone else wants to adjust it to their needs then the only thing they need is a text editor.

Also, at $1 per user, your projects would need 15,000 new users per year just to match USA minimum wage. There's a reason commercial software has high price points (e.g. $50 for video games) or operates on a subscription model. You'd need marketing for that kind of userbase growth, which implies (1) overhead and (2) annihilation of forums like HN under a tidal wave of spam.

Finally, as a developer, there's no way I'd pay $1 per open-source project because nearly all open-source code is crap. I'm willing to pay high prices for good software, which is why the niche of commercial software is saturated and any developer with a pulse can get $100,000 per year at a cubicle farm in San Jose.
I'd be very hard-pressed to call this "human behavior". Moving a sprite to a region called "bathroom" and then showing a speech bubble with a picture of a toothbrush and a tooth isn't the same as someone in a real bathroom brushing their teeth. What you can say is if you can sufficiently reduce behavior to discrete actions and gridded regions in a pixel world, you can use an LLM to produce movesets that sound plausible because they are relying on training data that indicates real-world activity. And if you then have a completely separate process manage the output from many LLMs, you can auto-generate some game behavior that is interesting or fun. That's a great result in itself without the hype!
I agree with you where you are going completely.

Being conscious, experiencing, being able to ask these questions, ... it doesn't matter what the answers are. Mysterious or not, waking up to an existence as a self-reflecting hologram in a brain (or whatever poetic analogy fits best) is amazing.

No matter our limitations or illusions!
thanks for the support, let's hope we find the source code for open source success! :)
Well, I don't know what to say other than that:

a) I want to import my bookmarks

b) I can't enter any of the domains I care about as I mostly have obscure tastes

due to the above two issues I was unable to actually see how the product felt.
That’s not what I meant. Say that the first roll was a 1. Then you know that for at least 100 rolls, you won’t get a 1 anymore. And with more rolls, more numbers are eliminated.
> extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Is this really an extraordinary claim, though? The kind of abuse being alleged is unfortunately really common today.
I really don't understand the hate for the modern reddit ui, its great! I really hate clicking on reddit links on Hn because they are almost always old.reddit.
I would say that if you have to direct the steps of the agent's thought process:

-Generate tests

-Run tests (performed automatically)

-Gather results (performed automatically)

-Evaluate results, branch to either accept or refine

-Generate refinements

etc., then that's hand-holding. It's task specific reasoning that the agent can't perform on its own. It presents a big obstacle to extending the agent to more complex domains, because you'd have to hand-implement a new guided thought process for each new domain, and as the domains become more complex, so do the necessary thought processes.
It permanently warped millions of American youths.

Fortunately.
Interestingly, reporting at the time made no mention of adding narrow-body plane gates.

Example from 2020: https://www.airlinereporter.com/2020/01/sea-tacs-internation... "The new security corridor along the face of Concourse A will provide eight international wide-body aircraft gates with direct access to the new arrivals facility."

The Port of Seattle's own deck from 2014 implies only seven: https://meetings.portseattle.org/portmeetings/attachments/20... (page 3)

By 2018 the Port has decided eight are coming: https://www.portseattle.org/sites/default/files/2018-03/Sea-...

Maybe they opened a gate in the meantime?

This 2014 article talks about an increase of nine: https://airlinegeeks.com/2014/11/16/seatac-airport/ "It will also increase the number of wide-body gates from 11 to 20."

So does this 2016 article: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2016/09/29/fly-thro... "The new facility will allow airlines to add international flights to and from Sea-Tac by increasing the airport's international wide-body aircraft gates from 11 to 20..."

This 2015 one sticks to the "add seven" plant: https://informedinfrastructure.com/15920/port-of-seattle-rev... "Nearly double the number of existing gates capable of serving international wide-body aircraft from 11 to 18 gates"

By 2019 they're talking about adding eight, but not starting from 11: https://seattlebusinessmag.com/aerospace/more-international-... "... a multilevel complex that will expand the number of gates at Sea-Tac that can accommodate international wide-body airplanes from 12 to 20."

So I think they squeezed in a gate before construction started.

It's fascinating that over the years apparently nobody knew what the hell the plan was. I guess it's no shock that the end result was surprising.
So I’m just glossing through the paper linked in the article. There is a chart showing scores per year stratified by education.

The overall trend is down, sure. But… year by year variance across education groups seems to be highly correlated. Like in 2011 there’s a positive bump in performance equally in Grad students and high school students. And in 2014 everyone dropped.

Like… come on. That seems like an enormous red flag to the validity of the measurement. The year by year variance (normalized against the trend) should be random across groups unless there is something specifically different about that year. Presuming people didn’t briefly all get smarter in 2011, it’s crazy that all groups tested better.

The only plausible answer is that the test was easier in 2011 right? And if that’s true, how confident can we really be that it isn’t just testing variance?

Edit: that is to say, per the central limit theorem, the sample means of each sub group per year should be normally distributed around the mean. Let’s assume our null hypothesis is the reverse Flynn decline. We should expect that for a given year that some groups will do worse than the trend prediction and some groups will do better. Since we instead see that all groups do about the same relative to the prediction, we should infer that our data is not a random sampling of scores that are described by the mean of that trend line. In fact, the scores seem to be better described by other unseen factors that are specific to each year.
It helps by (geographically) spreading production units.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...

Underwater electricity links do exist, and many are planned.
https://eepublicdownloads.entsoe.eu/clean-documents/Publicat...
when you get caught committing fraud for big dollars like that, people should go to jail. Personal culpability will be more of a deterrent than corporate liability. The people who made that decision should be facing jail time.
But, one could argue that it was truly Jake Tapper who perfected the art.

IYKYK.
“(/usr/ucb/mail -s ‘Pizza Order’ ‘pizza-server@poit.eng.sun.com’)”

I had just paged that most useless piece of trivia in, but “poit” was from a Don Martin cartoon in Mad, not Al Jaffee.

Nevertheless, Excelsior!
I could never talk my parents into a subscription, but the grocery story had the magazine a glorious rack full of their books.
amazon allowing people to do it should be called out.
They use a battery backup. The main symptom of having a dead cmos battery is that your computer starts loosing it's cmos settings, it's a feature not a bug. I have a system where it keeps the cmos config on flash. the only system I managed to brick(almost). I put a bad config in(never disable usb on a laptop where everything is usb) and there was no easy way to reset it. I had to buy a sioc clip and a chip programmer to reflash the thing the hard way.

The point is all cars have a wonderful battery backup system, and resetting the computer when power is lost is also a nice feature.
This is also true for nuclear. Even France never ceased to burn fossil fuel in order to produce electricity (7 to 10% per year).
are you just redefining "free speech"?

there problem pre 1933 was that Hitler could spread whichever slander he wanted, "free speech", just louder and bullshittier than anybody else. "free bullshitting" because "free speech"

and the problem post 1933 was that nobody else was allowed to speak freely any more.

and PS: he already started losing at the ballot box. he just FUD-ed the moderate conservatives enough to have ether back.
Sorry for not writing scientific papers in the HN comment box, but note that you handwaved in just the same manner.
Dude, stop posting comments like this which is just ignorant and gives a bad name to Hinduism where the subject of "Cyclic Creation and Absorption of Universe" is well detailed.

People interested in the subject should start at the "Time" section of Hindu Cosmology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology
Sorry to see it stale... red-lang devs, if you're reading this, please post an update on v1.0 release, it's been almost a year...
That sounds really good.

I think reasons for slow adoption are probably a mix of:

1. Lack of developer awareness.

2. Security implications (or perceived implications) of exposing memory directly to a network without passing through CPU or application-level access control mechanisms.

The second point may be prohibitive for a lot of general purpose database systems which are intended to be run on shared infrastructure on virtualized instances.

Another reason may be that a lot of production systems are CPU-bound, not memory-bound. RDMA seems ideal for systems which require a lot of memory. I'm thinking maybe with recent advancements in AI/LLMs, it could be an interesting technology as these do require a huge amount of memory relative to CPU.
Is it possible for the GPU to communicate directly with the network card? I don't know enough about this area of the stack. I can't find anything on the internet about this
Ah interesting, I lived in Atlanta some in the last few years but didn't spend that much time there; generally it felt like the city had a much better handle on crime and homelessness overall (in part due to easier densification in the central area and other parts inside the perimeter) than SF.
Technically, vi and ex are part of the User Portability Utilities extension.
Not GCP related, but I found some local (to my server) telcos and reached out to their IT department and got access to use their internal NTP servers. So my servers are now stratum 1, connected to GPS and atomic clocks, doing skew via chrony. I’m not paying a dime. I merely had to agree to keep my access low and my servers peer with each other to keep their clocks within a few nanoseconds of each other.

It’s amazing what you can get, if you just ask. It’s the latter part you really want, which is doable with modern hardware accelerated time stamping and a peering NTP system (like chrony).
Quick, someone make a dolphin fin LoRA!
It's not just about horsepower it's about battery life and thermals. Especially those of us living in a hot climate not typing on a space heater is a big deal
Why would Nvidia be concerned with this?

I guess what I'm asking is what are Llm's used for? I googled that it was Large language model but I don't know what that means.
At some point, "wages" don't make sense. We're not there yet, but LLMs have given us a taste of it.

Instead of worrying about bullshit metrics from times gone by, let's ask questions like "what happens to the happiness of plumbers and electricians when they realize that they too can relax and let the machines take care of the grunt work?"
It does say a lot about the reductionist attitude of many here, on the internet, and AI researchers too.
https://archive.ph/nu8vB
https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/upu-postal-rate-change/...

> The grievance that U.S. officials cited in their intention to leave the UPU was the mandated cheaper rates granted to countries designated as “developing” — namely China. Before Option V, packages originating in China weighing less than 4.4 pounds were cheaper to ship to the U.S. than packages of the same weight traveling within the U.S.

> New rates will initially be capped at 70% of domestic rates with the option to increase 1% every year up to 80% — meaning some international shippers will maintain the advantage the administration objected to, just a much smaller one.

China and India are classified as developing nations according to the Universal Postal Union (UPU). As such, it is cheaper to ship from China or India to... say... Chicago than it is to ship the same package from Milwaukee to Chicago.

More about this at https://www.upu.int/en/Postal-Solutions/Programmes-Services/...

> Ever since the 1969 Congress, there have been many efforts to find an equitable formula which takes account of all the factors and complexities involved in remunerating international postal exchanges. As a result, the terminal dues system has become increasingly geared towards costs, as a growing number of mail flows between UPU member countries were subject to country-specific rates for which domestic tariffs were used as a proxy for the costs of delivery. The system has also come to take account of political and economic principles, as well as recognizing the varying levels of economic development of different countries.

> ...

> Over the past decade, consumers’ buying habits have undergone a sea change. People have grown increasingly comfortable making online purchases from retailers located in another country. UPU member countries responded to the challenges of declining mail volumes and the growth opportunities in the e-commerce segment by adopting a reform agenda to modernize, integrate and rationalize the UPU remuneration systems through the Integrated Remuneration Plan (IRP) adopted by the second Extraordinary Congress in Addis Ababa in 2018.

---

Thus, the "it is cheaper to make a scam something in China or India and ship it to the US" combined with "it is easier to disappear with the money / harder for FTC and US courts to get the money" made it that much more tempting.

While the rates are going up for shipping, the other advantages for scams still exist.
He went through the trouble of citing his sources, you should too.
The more we obtain uranium (prospecting, mining, milling...), the more we add to the associated carbon footprint. Therefore a sustained growth of installed nuclear capacity (this is your proposition, if I understand correctly) will lead us to exploit mines at always lowering ore grades => more emissions.

Scientific studies are clear: M. Lenzen ("between 10 and 130 g CO2-e/kWhel, with an average of 65 g") and E. Warner et G. Heath ("9 to 110 g CO‐eq/kWh by 2050")...
Apologies if my comment came across as callous; that was not my intention. I empathize with the tragic circumstances in the video. My point was to emphasize that we should work collaboratively to address the city's challenges, rather than generalize San Francisco based on isolated events. By doing so, we can strive to prevent such heartbreaking incidents from happening in the future.
I assume that’s because a VPN doesn’t let the ISP do any traffic shaping, which isn’t the case for regular CDNs (unless the ISP itself “positively traffic shapes” for)

Warp also regularly lets me escape public Wi-Fi’s where in-browser uploads fail.
Sequential Circuits' Hidden Headquarters in SF's North Beach
I think that quote is just a corollary to this one:

"War is the continuation of policy with other means." — Carl von Clausewitz

A foreign policy that achieves your aims is better than a foreign war; a functional domestic policy is better than a civil war. But sometimes people won’t compromise and the only policy left is war.
When HN was born, it was for browsing on a laptop while your compiler runs in a different window.

Little known fact: There's no embedded audio or video because nobody could hear it over the howl of the cooling fans.
If you ever listened to 1980s pop/rock, you have heard Sequential's synthesizers such as the Prophet 5. In fact you still hear them in today's music.

Dave Smith, the founder of Sequential, died last year, but his equipment and the music it helped create live on.

Dave was also co-inventor of MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface.

This is a surprisingly good article about Dave and Sequential, with some fun photos.

Recommended for anyone interested in electronic music.

(I took the liberty of editing the article's title to make it more relevant.)

Further reading:

https://www.sequential.com/

https://www.google.com/search?q=dave+smith+sequential

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Smith_(engineer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI
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can't we have nice things anymore?
The singularity sounded a bit more exciting when I heard Ray Kurzweil describe it ?
Another user posted, and deleted, a comment to the effect that the morality of experimenting with entities which toe the line of sentience is worth considering.

I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the "Ethics" section of the paper.

The "Ethics" section does repeatedly say "generative agents are computational entities" and should not be confused for humans. Which suggests to me the authors may believe that "computational" consciousness (whether or not these agents exhibit it) is somehow qualitatively different than "real live human" consciousness due to some je ne sais quoi and therefore not ethically problematic to experiment with.
That’s so terrible. When I visited San Francisco I was expecting a beautiful city, architecture, the hills, nature. But I was just saddened by seeing the homeless. They were in pain, suffering, some nodding of, some drinking and crying into their drinks. The whole city had an aura of sad desperation. None of the beautiful architecture or nature could make up for it. I couldn’t wait to escape from there.
ChatGPT Empowered Long-Step Robot Control in Various Environments
No privacy policy, no mention how search data is being used, and Twitter and Discord as the only contact options?

I like the idea, but those are some pretty major red flags.

Additionally, the promise of "No AI-Content" appears to be snake oil unless the creators have discovered a magic formula for reliably distinguishing AI output from human output. With up to 7 degrees of separation, your search network is pretty much guaranteed to include AI-generated content, which will be indexed like any other content.
This is beautifully executed, well done. The UI in particular is near flawless for what it needs to do.

Hopefully you add other languages soon? Are each of the lessons static or are they dynamically generated?
People always think that they are compatible if they share more or less a common understanding in big subjects, but stuff like these really test you.

One of my exes hated onion, and when I look back, this made my life way more insufferable than having to hear the (to me) weird political opinions. "Oh I'd like to have this salad but please no onion, and please don't use a knife that's used to cut onion when preparing!". "I think I smell onion, apparently they ignored the knife comment, can you tell them to pack this and maybe you can eat it back home and I'll just go to the [insert food stall name], so meet in 15 mins there?". Ugh.
During multiple months in 2021 there was much less wind than expected in most of Europe, which meant that during the night and when it was overcast, practically the majority of the continent's renewable energy generation was under capacity by a lot.

https://theconversation.com/what-europes-exceptionally-low-w...
I can see it now: Sun Tzu's The Tweets of War
This oversells the paper quite a bit, the interactions are rather mundane as the authors note (and I'm rushing to implement it! it's awesome! but not all this)
100% cannot agree more with this, absolutely not the best of ideas.
Yeah, your headline mentions "bouncing", and I immediately think of Tigger.

The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
Distributed transactions are invariably latency (usually storage I/O) bound, rather than CPU or memory bound. I think your #2 is a big part of the challenge with RDMA, as well as the "trickiness" of the programming paradigm.
Ask HN: Conversational Chatbot Self Host
Hi, what is the best tool for build a conversational chatbot, but oriented to answer questions based from documents (txt, md, pdf, etc)

I Try some options like GPT-2, and similar models, but the training not seems very easy, and the Q&A models requires a context, in other way I test too some frameworks but they not are very well (haystack)
If taking statements at face value is a "logic puzzle mindset" then I guess I have one. I don't know what to tell you. I find the other way perverse.