skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This stuff" has been around for ages. Forty years ago in my teens, I read a book with a very memorable anecdote about locals insisting canabalism was "a local custom" and defending their right to practice it. The British official in charge replied "It's our custom to shoot cannibals."

When I was homeless, I asked around on the internet for a source for who said that. There is a real incident where a British official said something like "We shoot people who do that" but it wasn't about cannibalism.

But the toxic classist forum where I asked initially replied to me with basically "You're just a stupid homeless person misremembering that." No, I read it in my teens when I had a near photographic memory and was one of the top students in my high school class and everyone respected me as one of the smart people, long before the world decided I was some loser making things up. I'm quite clear the anecdote in the book was about cannibalism.

There is a real historical incident similar to it, but the book got the details wrong.

I have also read some crazy accounts of how Einstein's Theory was proved because the solar eclipse bent light so much, you could see a star that our Sun should have been obscuring.

Humans tend to believe things we read. If it's in writing, it has some kind of authority in our minds.

This is often not the case and we need to get better about recognizing that a lot of "writing" on the internet is just modern chit chat and not reliable.
Is that really challenging? Mailing paper through the mail without getting flagged? Sending money isn’t illegal in and of itself.
The statute of limitation for wire fraud is 5 years. How did he get charged under that statute when he stole funds from Silk Road in 2012? Did they charge him for converting BCH into BTC in 2017?

I tried to look up the case but couldn't find anything that shed a light on that.
How many 4chan memes would it take to turn you into a racist murderer? I don’t know about you but for me the number is NaN. All the memes in the world cannot do it.

People seek out ideological justifications for acting out their violent desires, which are inculcated by broken and atomized social environments. The ideology is the excuse, not the cause.
The “save” button is generally still a floppy disk as well!
Try running the search many times. The lazy DFA should get faster.

The lazy DFA is technically O(m*n) just like the NFA. The "lazy" part of the "lazy DFA" is why. Because it builds itself during the search. A real DFA would be truly O(n) because it would be fully built before starting a search.
A few months back I tried using io_uring for some performance-critical network I/O and found it was slower than epoll. A bit sad because epoll has a notoriously janky API and the io_uring API is much nicer. (This part is also sad for me as a Unix/linux fanboy because io_uring’s API is very similar to what Windows was doing 20 years ago).
Many people confuse "free speech is a good" with "free speech is the highest good".

> truly free speech environment

Sounds awful.
> How do we escape the cycle of escalation?

By looking at each case individually. Rules are fun to make but tend to not work as soon as things get a bit more complicated. That's why we don't just have laws but also judges.
Coming up with a problem statement is only one part of the puzzle. Making the solution is the next one. In Heinlen's "The Roads Must Roll", published in the '40s, there's a scene where the protagonist wakes up and reads the paper on a "newspaper facsimile receiver." We can recognize this today as a smartphone or an ebook reader. But the ebook reader and the smartphone didn't really exist until the mid 2000s, a full 60 years after Heinlein's story. An anime in the early '90s called Serial Experiments Lain predicted a lot of the effects of the internet on socialization. The events predicted only actually happened 20 years later or so.

Humans have been predicting things that we invent for a really, really long time. That's only the first part. I read "The Roads Must Roll" in the late '90s before ebook readers and smartphones became available and it motivated me to try and recreate that experience myself. I played around with ebooks on a Palm Pilot I found in the trash because of that.
Curious of PopOS would be able to use it out of the box... Thinking of switching in the next LTS cycle from Ubuntu Budgie.
Try to define "conscious" in some kind of objective way, for starters. We can't even agree on what it is, except that each person accepts the fact that they're conscious as an axiom, and generalizes it to others on the basis of similar observed behavior. We "know it when we see it", which is good enough for most practical purposes, but extremely inadequate for discussions like this.
As long as the neutrinos are not too energetic they'd be contained by the black hole as well so what's the problem? To put it bluntly such a transformation would even negate the necessity to have nuclear submarines - or anything else for that matter - in the first place so that black hole would save a lot of money and effort as well.
Hey, just want to say thanks for saying that you changed your mind. It's hard to do on public forums and just in general. It's even harder to say that you don;t know something. Thanks for saying this.
3rd seats on JDM subcompact minivans are small even for Japanese, so like for children or emergency. It's fine for the purpose. https://youtu.be/8KHrR0FKs9Q?t=1223

2nd seat leg and head room is great, but possibly the seat size is a bit small for US fat people.
Out of curiosity: what's an example of a metric that you would use to evaluate the ability of the model? For example, just looking qualitatively, asking a prompt like "How do I tie a tie?" to Pythia produces content that isn't even reasonably responding to that. And yet many benchmarks have no problem with that
So, one agent was caught and convicted of theft, on an unrelated matter, and this is evidence of corruption? Wouldn't that, in fact, be evidence of a system that is successfully punishing corruption?

And since the transaction history is traceable, you cannot posit mysterious other transactions that are unaccounted for. Those would be quickly revealed.
Similar. So much of llm is about language design and leveraging being able to quickly manipulate semi formal dsls that I think lisp is a brilliant “driver”, so much more so than then current “string templates and regex parsing” approaches.
As well, Postgres now has great support for jsonb and querying that data, so you can effectively use Postgres as if it were NoSQL, if you really wanted to.
GPT-4 in ChatGPT Plus can do this fairly well for coding tasks, I've had numerous cases where the code it produces has bugs initially. However, after a few rounds of passing the errors back in the chat it's usually able to correct it's own code.
Maybe more AI? Surely you mean MOAR AI!!!?!
I don't think the author indicates that they're feeling anxiety at all. Overall, they seem to indicate happiness and content in singleness, and even give themselves a call-to-action at the end of the piece:

> Why am I writing about this deeply personal subject? The clock is ticking, and figuring myself out and finding a partner won’t get easier as I get older. By talking about these things in public, I want to make myself accountable for taking these personal matters more seriously. As a friend told me recently, I should “whole-ass” it, not “half-ass” it, if I want to progress. I hope to figure some things out, and I want to document my thoughts here. This is a good starting point to show where I’m coming from if I get involved in the online dating discourse.

In fact, I can relate to this feeling of realizing that I'm never going to have a "meet-cute" moment, and that I need to intentionally seek out relationships. Especially given remote work, on the average day, I will speak to 0 people who I don't work with. That doesn't leave a lot of room for starting relationships.
as content creator this makes me not wanting to create any new content, in fact this year I slowed down a lot, probably I'm going to a complete halt.
> This seems like a bit of 20/20 hindsight.

Except for all of the people who were saying it was a bad direction from the start. It certainly looked like a bad direction.
Just tried a couple searches. The results provided in the expert-mode explanation included inline links to sources from which information was pulled and summarized. Seems that SEO value is retained, no? Or is your concern that the summary will be too good, thus costing the content producer a click (and, thus, monetization opportunity)?

If the search-driven concern is costing content producers a click, perhaps there’s an opportunity for Phind (and/or similar services) to establish new monetization strategies that don’t rely entirely on getting a click to a site to display an ad. I don’t know what that would look like, but the possibility is intriguing—perhaps we could see such services experiment not just with ad-driven revenue, but sharing that revenue with high-quality content producers who are sourced in answers. Such an arrangement would obviously need to figure out how to identify and down-rank crappy content farms—especially of the variety that copies StackOverflow and similar content and hosts it verbatim on an ad-flooded alternate domain. Doing so would, I think, bring content producer, user, and search engine interests in better alignment.
> "Introversion is the state of primarily obtaining gratification from one's own mental life".

If this is true, then why do we find so many introverts in online forums?
That is waste.
Crypto generated an insane amount of general public mindshare with zero marketing. I wouldn’t read too much into that as a signal. I do think the value prop is a lot more straightforward, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not mostly hype.
The "Automatically hide and show the menubar" setting should really default to "Never" for notched displays, since it doesn't actually gain you any extra real-estate and just slows you down with a pointless animation.

I finally turned it off because on my (non-notched) external display it was too easy to accidentally activate, which would disable the thing in the toolbar that I actually intended to click on (and then I'd have to sit there and wait a second for it to re-hide before very carefully mousing to almost-but-not-quite the top of the screen to click my intended target).

It's in the Desktop & Dock section.
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This project was created because the alternatives, frankly, are completely overwhelming. A friend of mine introduced me to the FIRE Movement and, after doing deep dives through Reddit, I tried to find templates to help facilitate a financial tracking system of my own. Every template felt like complete overkill: portfolio tracking for shares, mortgage repayment calculators, even a kind of speedometer which moved depending on my savings rate. Clever, no doubt, but unnecessary for my purposes.

After years of tinkering and refining what I truly wanted out of this spreadsheet, I realised it was to clearly understand the flows of my finances. This spreadsheet does not attempt to compete with a typical FIRE spreadsheet or tools like YNAB/Mint, it is about capturing the big picture once a month and essentially taking a snapshot of my financial health.

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Note: You can still get hearing damage through conduction. If you can feel the bass in your chest, you might want to add more distance between you and the loudspeakers.
I use a standard disk icon to represent "saving" in a popular web app I run. I very often see users referring to it with "click the square thing to save".
Yeah, they're pretty much there. You can replace parts of the start menu and shell, which helps some. There are apps/scripts you can run to remove some of the annoyances. Large businesses get the enterprise version which is the only noise-free out of the box version I know of.

I switched to Linux for my general use early last year.
This hasn't happened to me a few iOS versions ago with the Buds Plus.
I find the notch distracting and have found this app helpful to "hide" it.

https://topnotch.app/
>>>Microsoft: invests 10 billion in company. Also Microsoft: here's the tools you need to DIY one of the premium features the company we just invested 10 billion in for free.

your point?
Bitcoin is not, and never was, anonymous.
Honestly, I very much relate to how you've described yourself. And honestly I feel like this correlates to how a lot of relationships work within queer communities as well (which isn't surprising considering the overlap in furry and queer circles). Where you have friends, partners, and folks in the weird grey in-between areas whom may be equally important in your life; regardless of whether you're dating, having sex, or just people you want to be around.

Which brings me to noticing how weird a lot of the folks in this thread are about relationships that aren't the typical "man and woman dating and having sex". And casting a lot of assumptions and negative connotations with the OP not fully diving in and desiring such a relationship.
That was just one part of their involvement.
There is zero evidence that GPT-4 is a trillion parameter model and some evidence that it is the same parameter size as GPT-3.

Newer research and models out of DeepMind etc. show that GPT-4 performance is attainable at 90% the size of GPT-3. It's well known by now that GPT-3 was hugely over parameterized.
Have we tried dragging the army Corp of engineers in to build housing?

What about a national jobs guarantee?

National healthcare that can’t bankrupt people?

I’ve met a lot of homeless people in my life, most have no use for a counselor. They’re largely uninterested in self actualization or recovery. They want safe shelter, affordable and accessible healthcare, reliable transportation, a job they can be proud of that provides for them and their family consistently. These people are gripped by despair and acting it against society at large because society has relegated them to the fringes as useless, hopeless, and expendable. Housing, healthcare, and respect for each individual human is the minimum. Just because that won’t scale does not it can be ignored. Ignoring this is how we got here. Continue ignoring it and we’ll probably see more tech bros murdered in broad daylight. We might also see the security teams of these tech bros commit a few massacres.
> The public comment period for the Rust Trademark Policy will close on April 16th at 5 PM PDT.

And it was created on the 1st of April then, right?
I'll get scared when someone actually feels like the replacement is satisfying. And the very same day I'll be thrilled for the increase in happiness for people who are lonely and unable to solve it the normal way -- e.g. senile people with no family taking care of them.
Back to Intel StrongARM Pocket PC PDAs?
I haven't seen Scroll before, it looks nice!

I've sent a mail to the gmail referenced in your profile page.
> from the perspective of biology, and as a critical asset in the development of the human race (especially during times of high child mortality)

There are many things that may be true from the perspective of biology, but we collectively as a humanity choose to ignore or fight them. I think most people will disagree with the opinion that reproduction is the only goal of human life. Because that's it - an opinion (that you seem to share).

For example, there are many people of both sexes that consciously decide not to have children. In this context, reducing women (and women only) to "literally baby machines" is not really logically defensible in my opinion. Unless I misunderstood your point?
the title implied something potentially really interesting to me that is not actually in the article: I thought "from Distant Reactors" meant detecting extraplanetary intelligience capable of building reactors; I'm not sure what it does mean, but I guess it's earthbound reactors at some distance from the experiment.
I saw it last year on an insiders build for Win11 pro... switched to using Linux drive as my daily driver since.
I don't think I am trying to (or capable of) forcing you to hang out with anyone. But I am trying to logically convince you that association and approval are orthogonal. I also don't think that wishing someone dead should be illegal. Acting on that thought, however, should of course be illegal.

Simply having a conversation with someone does nothing to help that person. If I eat at a restaurant with a Nazi, once we leave then nothing in the world will have changed.

Simply having a civil discussion with someone also does not mean that I approve of that person or their views. Most political discussions are inherently about disagreement.

If such a conversation means that you will think that I am necessarily evil, then I wonder why you think that.

If someone does something truly abhorrent, the appropriate reaction is to put them in prison. Whether or not to interact with that person is not relevant.

It seems to me like you are saying that the necessary obstacle to civil discourse is your own reaction to the situation. In my last comment I had assumed you meant the Nazi was the one who would not be able to remain civil. I guess I am opposed to emotional reactions when they accomplish nothing. Of course, overcoming our emotions is easier said than done, but it remains a goal of mine when it comes to anger and fear.
RLHF helps with getting the model in the "mood" to output responses in a certain style that is found to be helpful by users. i.e how to write a poem, or email.

It doesn't increase it's knowledge of the world or increase it's capabilities.
It shouldn't, CSS should contain both modes. You need some checks to ensure JavaScript doesn't leak, but you can place limits on how much you check and avoid having to solve the halting problem.
Fair enough. But it's why the notch space doesn't feel like pure waste.

If you right-click -> "Get info" on most applications, there's a checkbox for "Scale to fit below built-in camera (notch)".

I've only had to use that for one game and iirc Parallels.app that were rendering on top of the notch. It would be nice if you could force the behavior per app with that, but it's only to fix apps that, I suppose, use some drawing API that lets them render on top of the notch.
It's sort of surprising that someone would write a whole blog post like this in 2023 and not even mention the terms aromantic or asexual even if to just say that he rejects those labels. But maybe most people on HN aren't aware of those terms either?
I think they deserve the one that keeps them on the phone the longest wasting the most amount of time.
> Dark humor about race or ideology can eventually shape the beliefs of impressionable young people, and innocuous memes can be co-opted into symbols of hatred, researchers say.

Immediately following this paragraph is a quote from a researcher:

> “If you’re a young man with no prospects hanging out on 4chan, you’re definitely on some Discords and probably some pretty dark Discords,” said Dale Beran, a lecturer at Morgan State University and the author of “It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office.”
But is your "me" an actual entity, or is it just the process of experiencing things? And if the latter, what does it even mean for it to have a persistent identity - and does it, or is there just an illusion of one when you consider a single time slice of processing (e.g. "now").

The problem is that, just as with the outside world, we only have the perception of our own inner workings, not real understanding of them. So we are modelling "I" as an entity, and it seems useful enough for day-to-day purposes, but how accurate is it really if you get to the bottom of it?
OpenAssistant has been collecting instruction/response data. They’ve already used that data to refine several llama models with good success.

You can also bootstrap RLHF training data from the gpt4 api. Vicuna is probably the best public model created with gpt4 data available as of today.
Yes, that's normal hearing for a child.
> the same as today just with more pixels?

That's the safe bet, yes. Maybe not even with more pixels.
I'm assuming that this is actually satire, if a bit long-winded. I had a good laugh, anyhow.

Example: 'That’s right. Want to sell stickers with “Rust” on it? T-Shirts? Posters? No sir.'

Realistically, if you depict an old railway spike, nobody will come after you. But if you are profiting off someone else's reputation (via logos, etc), that's a problem; I don't see why that shouldn't be restricted.

I expect that a lot of the motivation for this is to have the ability to close down various kinds of bad actors (not just ankle-biter freeloading with amusement park midway merch). Rust is now big enough and important enough that I see this as a valid concern.
I worked on the SNO+ experiment for grad school and actually got to go in a boat in the ultra pure water surrounding the acrylic vessel to search for leaks. It is an impressive piece of engineering to construct such a detector requiring a lot of money and effort. They actually had to bring down the acrylic vessel in pieces because the whole thing wouldn't fit down the mine shaft elevator. Then they glued them all together underground (this is no small feat since the acrylic vessel has to be optically clear for the photons to travel through to the photomultiplier tubes).
Good article, although the title might be a bit too click-bate-y... there's plenty of research and available services that reliably can have low-latency, distributed writes at the highest data isolation levels (strict serializability). Both the Calvin and Spanner papers describe such systems.

The two papers mentioned in the post are highly insightful. This is one of my favorite subjects.

To fully disclose, I have a biased view on this given that I work for a (closed source) serverless, no-ops DB provider (Fauna) that implements a distributed transaction engine that is natively document-relational and doesn't compromise on relational (ACID, transactional) guarantees.
Any place that facilitates meeting people in general and that attracts a high enough woman/man ratio.

Where would you go to make friends of either sex? That's a good starting place.
Being an introvert doesn’t mean they don’t like to share or communicate. It means they don’t crave real world human interaction as much.

I’m also an introvert. I like to communicate at my own pace. Online forums allows me to do that. I can leisurely check for progress on the discussion where I participate, or don’t check at all, after adding my two cents.
Wait what?

Terrorist?

Al-jazeera is one of the most renowned news agencies in the world, finally giving an honest voice to the Arab and Islamic world,
and they can do this because they don't rely on pleasing advertisers.
What do you mean by anti-sentitic?