skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want to shoot big fireworks on my own land on the 4th of July, as long as the noise and smoke doesn't carry over to my neighbors.

I'm all for you launching fireworks, but I don't know how you'd prevent the noise and smoke from carrying over to your neighbors. You might be better saying "...as long as the noise and smoke are reasonable".
Hero Kids is another well regarded kid friendly rpg. Also only relies on 6 sided die and each session is an hour tops. Has been a fun way to spend a rainy day for our kids and they get pretty creative, so much so that the "story" sometimes continues throughout the day as they talk about their heros.
Also cheap, especially if you purchase the bundle. https://www.heroforgegames.com/hero-kids/
I run two side projects atm but they are both becoming more and more the main job.

I am building a Zillow for Europe [1]. The real estate market in Europe is a big mess and for the past 10 years not much has happend so far in proptech because it was easy to rent/sell properties. Now things are changing and I see a lot more supply coming on the platform. So far rented out 40 apartments doing around 3k in profit a month. We focus primarily on overseas/expats right now

Another project I started with a good friend from Google is Webtastic AI [2] it's a lead gen platform that indexes large amounts of data and I am using simple ML models to clean it up and make sense out of it. It does around 1.9k a month now but we just launched 2 weeks ago so that looks promising. Thanks to google cloud we got 100k credits which makes it a bit more feasible because the startup costs are extremely high.

[1] https://homestra.com/
[2] https://webtastic.ai/
That was a trove of useful knowledge and accomplished hackery. Let's hope it is restored soon.

Some redditors have been trying to reach the owner: https://old.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/12klulf/bashhackersor...
No. They are sarcastically saying that people making those complaints are doing so figuratively, not literally. Find one person who has genuinely suffered a surprise headache after looking at this site and you’ll have a stronger argument.

Accessibility doesn’t mean everything should be available to everybody at all times. That would be universal direct accessibility, which is impossible. Those without the internet or computer access cannot use a grocery website, but the grocery store is still open, and thus the groceries are still indirectly accessible. Providing an elevator as well as stairs means the 2nd floor is universally accessible, even though some cannot use the stairs.

Here, the content is provided by default with an unusual design. That design is part of their brand experience, which is why it has been posted. Some people cannot view through that experience, but they can still reasonably access the content using assistive technology. Thus the website is indirectly accessible.

Remove the design and you make the experience inaccessible to me. These are trade offs, not absolutes.
I am not convinced by this argument. It is very misleading to think that, since GPT is trained on data from the world, it must, necessarily, always produce an average of the ideas in the world. Humans have formulated laws of physics that "minimize loss" on our predictions of the physical world that are later experimentally determined to be accurate, and there's no reason to assume a language model trained to minimize loss on language won't be able to derive similar "laws" that stimulate human behavior.

In short, GPT doesn't just estimate text by looking at frequencies. GPT works so well by learning to model the underlying processes (goal-directedness, creativity, what have you) that create the training data. In other words, as it gets better (and my claim is it has already gotten to the point where it can do the above), it will be able to harness the same capabilities that humans have to make something "not in the training set".

Check out https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/ for a better treatment of this topic than I could possibly give.

Here's a relevant section of said article:

> Guessing the right theory of physics is equivalent to minimizing predictive loss. Any uncertainty that cannot be reduced by more observation or more thinking is irreducible stochasticity in the laws of physics themselves – or, equivalently, noise from the influence of hidden variables that are fundamentally unknowable.

> If you’ve guessed the laws of physics, you now have the ability to compute probabilistic simulations of situations that evolve according to those laws, starting from any conditions28. This applies even if you’ve guessed the wrong laws; your simulation will just systematically diverge from reality.

> Models trained with the strict simulation objective are directly incentivized to reverse-engineer the (semantic) physics of the training distribution, and consequently, to propagate simulations whose dynamical evolution is indistinguishable from that of training samples. I propose this as a description of the archetype targeted by self-supervised predictive learning, again in contrast to RL’s archetype of an agent optimized to maximize free parameters (such as action-trajectories) relative to a reward function.
Does it work for apps with pinned certs?
"continuous expanse of land" would imply at least that any island is its own continent, but perhaps even that each bank of any river (while water is in it) would divide continents. So that does not seem right.

Wikipedia actually contradicts you in the first two sentences in the "Continent" entry [0]:

> A continent is any of several large geographical regions. Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
> why don't they simply consult a lawyer?

Sure. Are you offering to pay?
When I was working at this place https://www.karnovgroup.dk/ which used to be owned by Thomson Reuters (so I was there for transition), HR decided to do some outreach to accountants - one of the groups that those companies provide services for of course - after which the HR representative came and shared the anecdote that one accountant stood up during the party and announced "We didn't become accountants because we like people!"

So maybe the people in these pizza parties just don't like people.
Sure, and the sun is technically the biggest hydrogen bomb in our solar system. But practically we are not going to build a bomb big enough to disrupt the tectonic plates beneath us.
This is beyond satire, the very first line is:

> Violent crime has technically been worse in Canada,

Technically worse? (Is that the best kind of worse?).
I use proxyman a lot, you did an amazing job, it's a super slick and well working app
Yeah, I 100% agree with hating emulating enums in Go (particularly because there is no safe way to emulate exhaustiveness checks). Personally I haven’t found Ocaml to be any more productive (inadequate libraries, poor tooling, constant futzing with multiple std libraries), but maybe I didn’t commit to it for long enough?

That said, I’m starting to do a bit more systems development so I’m excited to dabble a bit more in Rust.
Would be interesting to see that list compensated for the number inhabitants per country.
Greg Brockman just stated in a long post on Twitter yesterday: "...it’s easy to create a continuum of incrementally-better AIs (such as by deploying subsequent checkpoints of a given training run), which presents a safety opportunity very unlike our historical approach of infrequent major model upgrades." [1] This implies OpenAI will be shifting strategy to incrementally releasing future models, so we won't just suddenly see a GPT-5, but GPT-4.x along the way over the next months. The models page you cited also says, "some of our models are now being continually updated," and they will only offer alternative models which are snapshots that are frozen for 3 month windows for those needing more stability in the model.

Sebastien Bubeck gave a talk to MIT CSAIL on the Sparks of AGI paper where he commented on how RLHF (training for more safety) has caused the Unicorn test to become less recognizable [2]. He comments about how the safety training is at odds with a lot of these abilities. This seems congruent with the initial results from this project, and it will be interesting to see if they can restore this ability as they continue to push safety training.

1: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1646183424024268800
2: https://youtu.be/qbIk7-JPB2c?t=1586
Or just... not have it be a reward, just social event.
These comments are only very marginally associated with the original post. I was hoping for some insight into model drift.
Pizza-parties during work hours are fine. What I have a big issue with is the after-work team-building parties you're peer-pressured into where you have to spend your free time with people you barely know (because you work with 10 people and there's 100 or 1000 people in your company) and pretend to have fun doing random stuff with them.

It's only a thing because managers are rarely introverts.

Please just stop.
I'll concede the quote is well formulated, but the point is hardly original... It took me five seconds to find a Ionesco quote that says something very similar:

“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”

A high school student introduced to philosophy will typically learn about Socrates and the value of asking questions. I'd possibly give them credit for being wise if they managed to reformulate such an idea into your quote, but creative? Not so sure.

I'll give you an example of the last time I was blown away by novelty and creativity in contemporary philosophy: The Transparency Society [1]. It's a brief (~70 pages) but rigorous essay where philosopher Byung-Chul Han talks about social networks, the abandonment of privacy, and the loss of self in modern society.

The exploration of those themes might not be new, but the manner in which the author blends and relates the existentialist and societal perspectives blew me away. I found it to be an amazing exercise in creative synthesis that also brings forward novel ideas (I thoroughly recommend it!)

Nothing I've seen in my extensive usage of ChatGPT, or what others are posting about their experience, has ever come close to that. I don't even see it trending in that direction.

But again, I'm not categorically denying that it's not creative. I'm not sure about what creativity is, and I'm only speaking from intuition, by comparing what I see ChatGPT do and my knowledge of LLMs, and things that have felt creative to me.

[1] https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25832
>more women attempt to commit suicide

My understanding is women attempt suicide but more men succeed at it.
The person you are replying to is making a rational argument, not an empirical one. The premise that may be understated is "cases are more likely to be solved when the victim is known to the killer, because the amount of people who know a person is far smaller and more easily investigable than the entire general public."
Never had one after hours
I have developed AnyLabeling - image labeling using Segment Anything model.
Check out at: https://github.com/vietanhdev/anylabeling
I will love to hear your feecback.

This tool allows labeling data just like labelImg or LabelMe with more attractive UI, Segment Anything and YOLO models to speed up work.
OpenAI wasn't created to "Do Science". It was created to give humanity a better chance at navigating the singularity.
Adding to this, I am having flashbacks of having to buy an expensive programming device for my old truck to replace simple components because they are coded to a serial number. This is also like Apple devices that require reprogramming to avoid the use of stolen parts. This sounds like it will be easy for actual thieves to get around and a PITA for the legit owners of the devices. No more self repair, everyone will have to take this thing to an authorized service tech and if that is truly the case then the firearm should be priced much lower as their money would be made by service contracts.
LPs should encourage VC evolution
I worked for a medium-sized local company that had ice cream parties. Everyone loved them. They'd hired a local vendor and we'd all go down and get free ice cream and chat. Everyone was happy.

Later on in my career, I worked at JPMorgan at a tech center and they brought in a local ice cream food truck. I was like great, it's hot out and ice cream would really hit the spot. So I stood in line with hundreds of other people for about 30 minutes or so (which was honestly was just too long, but sunk cost fallacy, etc...) and I got up to about 3rd in line. Then I heard someone say, "It's not free ice cream, you have to pay for it." I was like, no way, that's crazy. Why would they advertise an ice cream party where everyone has to buy their own ice cream? So I stayed in line and sure enough, it was like $6 or so for some ice cream. I didn't buy any, I just walked away.

Imagine one of the world's most wealthy corporations being so cheap that they set up an ice cream party but have the employees pay for it themselves.
Mullvad Doesn’t Connect in Russia
Not sure that really helps. :-D
I’ve never heard of the idea that Australia might be an island instead of a continent. Grew up in the 90’s in the US, FWIW. I wonder if “Australia as a continent” is an older idea?

Of course people will argue endlessly about what exactly a continent is (can’t just use geology because then Europeans don’t get to be special), but the truth of the matter is, capturing Australia gets you +2 troops in Risk so it must be a continent.
The definition of continent is very fuzzy and mostly man-made. So all you're really saying is Afroeurasia isn't an island because we decided it isn't.
You could conduct the heat via heat pipes into the crust. The lunar basalt has decent thermal conductivity. Using something like mercury or alcohols (which have a low freezing point, and have ok phase change temperatures), or something more exotic you should be pretty ok. Radiators are mostly useful off a surface that can act like a heat sink, especially one as cold as the moon.
Call me old fashioned, but web sites that overdo the CSS and assert a strong design opinion just kind of annoy me now.

I wish we could go back to a WWW where the browser was the user agent and the user was the authority on text size, font face, colors and so on. Browsers have devolved from applications allowing users to browse hyperTEXT into these free-for-all canvases for web designers’ creativity.

Technically this should be solvable by using the browser’s “no styles” feature, but many web sites seem to be careless with the structure of their HTML such that “no styles” isn’t even readable.

I know this ship has sailed and my opinion is a fart in the wind at this point, but the web could have turned into a nice, fast, consistent way to publish structured and linked TEXT, but instead we got this “Remote Photoshop for Web Designers.”
The best debugging experience imo is using gdb and rr within nvim. Works for zig, c, rust, etc. with minimal configuration in nvim. The less I leave vim the more productive I can be. Same thing probably goes for emacs although I will never admit it.
> Guessing the right theory of physics is equivalent to minimising predictive loss.

No it's not. It's minimising "predictive loss" only under extreme non-statistical conditions imposed on the data.

The world itself can be measured an infinite number of ways. There are an infinite number of irrelevant measures. There are an infinite number of low-reliability relevant measures. And so on.

Yes, you can formulate the extremely narrow task of modelling "exactly the right dataset" as loss minimization.

But you cannot model the production of that dataset this way. Data is a product of experiments.
It's as if we never experienced those ~4B years. Or the ~13B years for the supposed age of the universe. Neither do we experience the ~8 hours of unconsciousness we have every night. We only know how much time has passed based on memory of previous sleeps, how groggy we feel, and how sunny it is behind the curtain.

The status quo belief today seems to be as you said: the nothingness that awaits us after death is also what came before our birth. But what came after the supposed nothingness of pre-birth was your birth, so why wouldn't there be another birthing which becomes you after the nothingness that comes after your death? To believe otherwise is tending towards solipsism. It would be thinking there is something special about "you" and why "you" were born into and inhabit "your" particular region of spacetime. When our feeling of personal identity, the feeling of "you"ness is really mostly an illusion of memory.

Imagine what it was like to be patient HM, with your memory being wiped every ~30 seconds. But imagine even further that you had no long term memories at all. It would be almost as if you were being reborn every time you have a memory lapse.
I made Cleavr as a desktop app first and gave it away for free. I got lots of downloads as well as lots of support requests. To keep support tickets away I put a small price tag on it. People still kept downloading and reaching out for support (not necessarily bugs but eben if they have their app issues). I then decided to go the path of a cloud SAAS app. The desktop app didn't hit $2k mostly be ause the price tag was small and I just wanted to do good and give it away. Once I went cloud, it took only about 4 months to hit $2k per month.

[1] https://cleavr.io
Why am I picturing Charlton Heston running around shouting "You have to pay for the ice cream!"
How many 'thought leaders', 'public experts', podcasters are purely experts at being experts, with no experience or knowledge behind it? I can think of a few public voices, especially in AI right now, who have nothing to say but the ears of thousands
In my (few hours of) testing, Auto-GPT was quite unreliable. If you'll pardon the expression, it suffers from severe ADHD: procrastinates, overthinks, gets distracted.

I think this is due to the main loop being a GPT feedback loop. Each loop it has a small chance of something going wrong (or a large chance, depending on the query), so as it loops repeatedly, the chance of failure approaches 100%.

My idea was to replace the core loop, instead of a GPT feedback loop just make it a few lines of Python.

Now the thing actually does what it says it's going to do, "thinking lag" is eliminated, and API usage is reduced 80%.

I turned (parts of) Auto-GPT into a tiny Python library, specialized for internet research.

GPT-3 and GPT-4 are able to use this library to write Python programs that do useful work.

This way they can "crystallize" their plans in code, to ensure that they will run.

Here is the interface:

def search(query, max_results=8) -> List[Dict]: pass # uses duckduckgo
def load(url) -> str | None: pass # uses requests and beautifulsoup
def summarize(text, task) -> str | None: pass # uses gpt-3
def save(filename, text) -> bool: pass

See the comments below the gist for the GPT-3 and 4 versions of main.py (20-30 lines for an internet research agent!).

https://gist.github.com/avelican/2d4e718954593e3df9e0e5ee675...

Note: It's currently optimized for my main use-case, which is internet research. So it's not an Auto-GPT in any sense. But it does one thing, and does it fairly well.

P.S. The Holy Grail would be a system where the user enters a query, and the system translates it into Python on top of Auto-GPT's library, and runs that. I haven't tried that yet, and I'm a little afraid to...
Not so sure about any real IDEs, lldb has worked fine for the (fairly small) zig programs I've worked on and the "CodeLLDB" vscode extension worked. Of course with the move from LLVM i assume lldb will stop working, and vscode may not be a good enough debugging experience.
Let me out-snob you and say those are called elements not tags.
Sure! Here's a few:

http://qualityisspeed.blogspot.com/2014/08/why-i-dont-teach-...

https://blog.cerebralab.com/Bimodal_programming_%E2%80%93_wh...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2997965/are-solid-princi...

And I have my own opinions of course, but to summarize I usually see SOLID code bases lead to extraordinarily overabstracted code bases that are impossible to debug or explore because everything is an interface that's injected through some DI framework. Exploring these code bases is a nightmare because everytime you Ctrl+Click a function, you're taken to an interface. The best part, the interface only has one implementation 99 times out of 100. But boy does it mess up your flow when your actively tracing and trying to understand a code path.

I would argue debugging + maintenance are the majority of a programmer's job. So any ideology that obfuscates your code and makes it increasingly difficult to maintain is not something I want people I code with to follow.
The question is, can it be considered accessible under legal standards (i.e. US ADA or the EU EEA, which is slated to come into final effect in 2025)?

In general, courts tend to follow not just the letter of the law but also the intent, so it's better to go on the safer side.
Do you get a Cloudflare Ray ID on the page when you’re being asked? You can send that to the website admin and ask them to check for you.
It is a lie.

Do you think those 51 IC member would have called it a Russian Disinformation Operation of the laptop was Don Jr? Well I guess that narrative wouldn’t work, since the Democrats have been pounding the drum that Trump was a Putin “puppet”.

I don’t even need to pontificate how the media would have handled it. They would have dug through all the “evidence” and try to find more “crimes”.

The fact is the IC community and Media colluded to bury the story. There was no interest other than the fringe to actually dig through it.

Hell the FBI has been sitting on the laptop for YEARS. It’s not hard to see how these institutions favor one party over another. Time and time again.
What Chrome for Android needs to learn from Safari
Europe is not a single country. Nothing you said is true for every European country (or every EU country, if that's what you mean).

But (despite your confusion about the European identity) I must admit you have a point. I think there is a mentality difference - Americans (USAnians?) are OK with being tracked by corporations, but hate any kind of government power. In Europe it's usually the opposite.
I could see an argument that a test tube baby might be something like a human created by artifice.
What are your opinions about QT? Do you use the open source version or the paid version? (I like it myself but mostly because I like their wysiwyg and the debugger support is intuitive relative to other ides)
Tradier, an API-focused online brokerage, raises $24.6M Series B
The free version of cloudflare lets you keep secret the IP address of your VPS. It also mitigates the cost of high prices for bandwidth if you use services like AWS/GCP/netlify. You're less likely to go offline if your website is unexpected popular on a random day.
I never understand the hn algorithm, but recent discussion (23 points, 9 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539348
$25.8