skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only question is where the first self-replicating structure came from. As soon as you have a self-replicating structure, you have evolution. Evolution is driven by these self-replicating structures competing for the available energy. A more efficient replicator outcompetes its less efficient siblings at exponential speed. If more complex replicators are more efficient, then complexity evolves naturally. It's basically stochastic gradient descent, with the environment as the training data, and replicator efficiency as the objective function. Evolution prunes all the inefficient branches, and what remains may seem hand-crafted, but in fact it's just what remains after everyone else got outcompeted.

Now, the question is whether the first replicator can arise randomly from the primordial soup or not? Was the first such replicator simple enough to be spontaneously assembled from random inorganic molecules floating in water? I think on a long-enough timescale, the answer is yes.
I built Newsy. It's a tool that automatically generates content-aggregators. I focus on people who have domain names that are unused.

https://www.newsy.co
99.99% seems off by orders of magnitude to me. I don't have an exact number but I routinely see GPT 3.5 hallucinate, which is inconsistent with that level of confidence.

I've noticed this discussion tends to get too theoretical too quickly. I'm uninterested in perfection, 99.99% would be good enough. 70% wouldn't. The actual number is something specific, knowable, and hopefully improving.
Guessing that if you come to a photo assuming that it is an actual photo you're not exactly prepared to exercise your AI skepticism.

And truly it is the eyes that capture your attention. The hands (or fingers rather) are something like a vignette.
> while the ancestor of the bacterial lineage came from space.

I don't believe this is supported by evidence. Finding a few organic molecules in a meteorite is pretty thin, and as Carl Sagan pointed out the lethal doses of radiation in space make panspermia highly unlikely.
Transparency in updates is a big failure in the App Store redesign from a couple years ago. Now the updates are buried multiple taps in and I doubt most average users even know where to go to find them which leads to people thinking their apps aren't being updated.
I was taught both in the US. The content taught in US schools varies by locale.
I am a gift card reseller. Pretty much, there are marketplaces where you can sell gift cards and cd keys for games and when a customer places an order, I make an API call to procure that item and deliver it.

Currently at 70k Euros a month. It took me about 3 years to get here. And it took a few months to get to 2k monthly revenue.. However, the first two months I was at break even and it took me about a year before I could figure out how to get this system running profitably. Currently profit margins are about 7%
I updated my blog post with clarifications but I expect to see two types of changes over time, the variance of output, and the quality of output.
I don't think people hate either, we just don't treat them as actually-true when using language. Nobody ordinarily means to include "skin" when they say "organ" (possibly doctors or academics in certain contexts, but it's not normal usage), and nobody means "Afroeurasia" when they say "island".

It's a kind of reductio based on what people will tell you when you ask them to define "island", to show that definitions they come up with tend to have outcomes they don't like—happily, we may just ignore all that and keep using the words in a useful and mutually-intelligible way, so that language remains tenable. In fact, the reductio isn't proving people wrong when they say "afroeurasia isn't an island". Nobody treats it that way, so it's not. If they did, we'd need a different word for "island".
Funny. One America but no Eurasia ;)
How else could they sell you that subscription if you could just switch it on via unlocked software?
The letsencrypt root CA is included in this. If you trust only a device’s default trusted CA all letsencrypt certs will work. Also they don’t have their own root CA: https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/
Currently it shows Today (which is always today) and then the image name, `image-2023-04-13` etc. I didn't think to make it any prettier than that, Day X etc. I could do!
> > Also, Rust is not safe from dead/live locks and many other concurrency issues, only data race free.
> How is Erlang safe from those things in a way that cannot or only with a lot of effort be replicated when using Rust?

Each BEAM process (other runtimes would call them preemptable green threads) has its own heap, communicates with other processes by messages, and only works on immutable data without the involvement of Native Interface Functions (NIFs). There’s no shared memory at all. It is natively massively concurrent without most of the risks involved. Sure, it’s possible to write code that results in mailbox deadlocks, but it also means stepping outside of normal program design for the BEAM, and it means stepping outside of OTP (which provides structured programming constructs like gen_server).

Rust makes it harder to program without memory safety. Erlang (and other BEAM languages) make it harder to program without concurrency safety.

Edited to add:

Joe Armstrong’s thesis on Erlang is available for download and is written in very accessible language[1].

If you want more, you can also read Programming Erlang (2nd Edition)[2] also by Joe. (I would love to see a 3rd edition tackled by someone to address the newest stuff added in the 9 years since the last publication. I can understand why no one would want to approach this, since it was Joe’s.)

[1] http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
[2] https://pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang2/programming-erlang-2nd...
Is your pricing usage based on log volume?

This helps hockey stick revenue but is also the #1 customer complaint since logs will always grow (no cap).

Just curious how you hit millions in revenue with a 2-person company.

I'm sure lots would love to hear more about your story (e.g. perfect write-up for IndieHackers.com)
> And most of these families not only don’t speak English, they often don’t even speak Spanish. They often speak a variety of indigenous languages common across rural Latin America.

That actually sounds super fascinating and like a unique opportunity to learn about pre-Coloumbian history. Do you know any of the language names? Did these children come from extremely remote villages that never adopted Spanish?

> If that suddenly happened at Spring Hill I guarantee you Trump would win Virginia in a landslide. Democrats like my parents—who are upset that the mixed income neighborhood where we live has some poor kids—would be chanting “build that wall.”

It's honestly really sad that anyone would see these children as a threat and not as an opportunity to learn more about the world and our history.
The sum total of human knowledge has increased exponentially, so it's harder to come up with an example for that :)
The big difference in reality is that your brain has an additional context (your working memory, which is shaped by sensory input) and it's mean() function is extremely approximate, so your outputs are more variable. We could give these models video/audio/etc "inspiration" and increase the temperature and they'd behave similarly.
But this is clearly not! at best it looks like someone modified photo or maybe had some horribly hand-deforming disease.
Oh god, I thought that some of those sites had finally been slapped or scared by others getting slapped by regulators when the legitimate interest buttons under each subheading disappeared and was even feeling good that reject all might actually reject all now. But I checked a few and nope, they've just moved it to per vendor like you said.
> Should the vast majority of the world who do not have those health issues be deprived of its glory, because there is a minority who - very sadly and unfortunately for them - cannot look at it?

FWIW, the law says yes. And the law is right, IMO: we should not deprive a minority of their rights just because the majority is fine with the status quo.

And everyone will become disabled if they don't die young. Eyesight in particular is pretty much guaranteed to decline with age.
They used AI for voting too.
Perhaps. I think right now the sample of 5 days isn't anything we can draw conclusions from, but given 365 days, with a number of model updates in between, we may see more interesting patterns.
I'm 62 with no combat training or experience, so the US Army wouldn't take me even if I begged them to.

I have no sons. I do care about the sons of other Americans, but the only American troops being landed would have volunteered for military service.

(Also, I certainly wouldn't consider myself safe even after my successfully making the fallout shelter: particularly, it could easily be fatal for me if large numbers of my fellow citizens who were caught unprepared find my fallout shelter.)
Yes you can build targets for older macOS version, but can't do so on older macOS versions (unless you dig up a matching Xcode version).

But for a pre-1.0 language in development the decision is completely justified IMHO. Catalina is quite ancient by macOS standards.
That is true, and if it does the same, then asking about a job gets you there 15 minutes sooner. It’s an optimization.
Exactly. These are the same people that have the "in this house <insert progressive proxy>" next to signs opposing new developments in their neighborhood
It makes more sense to have a really strong base model that is "general" and then apply LoRAs to it to "specialize" it.
Frida: Dynamic instrumentation for developers, reverse-engineers and security re
So this is photography not photoshop contest ?

...did they paint a dog to do that ? Or there is some half and half dog running around somewhere?
Google Assured OSS
this generally isn't how designing with cognitive or neurological disabilities in mind works, we don't want the user to have to make adjustments in order to use a website as this only creates more friction. Not to mention the fact that we don't assume that the user is knowledgeable on how to make those adjustments, especially with the senior population which is a large segment of the cognitively impacted population who are using the internet.

unlike with the blind or low vision population, those with cognitive and neuro issues often aren't aware of assistive tech, often aren't familiar with the accessibility settings on their devices, and sometimes aren't even aware of the disability they are dealing with and are undiagnosed.
that problem can be solved and they are working on fixing it.
The article does touch on this. It's a more general issue of which NIMBY is only a part. In most usage, NIMBY is about building a tangible thing in a particular place. What the author is talking about applies even when there's no tangible thing and no particular place - e.g. taxes or regulations that affect what we do or how we do them. I think of it as people saying they want some change X while precluding all ways of doing X. Consider the example of helping the poor.

NIMBY: ...but I don't want to see or interact with them.

Almost NIMBY: ...but not by providing them with housing or transportation other things that cost money.

Not NIMBY (but still awful): ...but not by dealing with payday lenders and bank fees and punitive policing.

Do you want to use "NIMBY" as convenient shorthand for all of these? That's fine with me, and consistent with your name here, but it is a shift from how the term is currently used. The difference is worth thinking about, instead of "just"-ing it away.
Ask HN: What is wrong with the socratic method?
Two of my colleagues love the socratic method. Talking to them about work can get very frustrating, mostly I don't think asking questions is as useful as they think it is, but I am having trouble articulating why.

It seems lazy. It is easier to repeatedly ask why than to come up with hypotheses and statements, but maybe this is just the difference between using the socratic method well and badly.

It seems condescending. Once you realize that your conversation partner is using the socratic method, the questions begin to seem pedantic and not genuine. It is particularly bad when I know the practitioner knows the answer to their question. If I don't know the answer, it is frustrating, if I do know the answer, it feels like we are wasting time.

I can't seem to break my colleagues out of this conversation method. Even after expressing that I don't enjoy it, they seem to genuinely feel that it is a better way to discuss technical challenges. How can I convince them otherwise?
And what about Russia's erractic and agressive leadership, or China's erractric and agressive leadership?

Russia - Ukraine

China - Hong Kong, Tibet, spectulating Taiwan.
iphone 7 representin'

Maybe customers should reevaluate their shopping habit impact on the environment and stop chasing the next new thing?
Then, by that definition, how is Europe, as opposed to Eurasia, a continent?
There is a big update coming that is fixing/adding a lot of the features you mangent, build year etc. is added but I need to review harder on that.

Thanks for your feedback, really appreciated!
It depends on their upbringing. If they come from backgrounds with broken families and normalized violence they will generally be a threat to children that don't come from that background
> Has anyone at OpenAI even made a plausible start at explaining what the hell is going on inside these LLMs that enables them to produce such human-like comprehension?

I'm only an amateur in the field, so my uneducated high-level understanding is that, in a sufficiently high-dimensional latent space, there's more than enough dimensions to assign to any single semantic relationship people ever thought of, which is what the training process effectively does, which reduces an important part of thinking - working with concepts and their relationships - entirely to vector adjacency search.

I'm only beginning to study the details, and I don't know how much of specific understanding of this exists, but at the very least this high-level model explains why scaling makes qualitative difference here.

Now, I agree they have strong commercial incentives to push their models as far as possible as fast as possible, but honestly, if I were a researcher working on these models, even if I was somehow unconcerned with any kind of commercial viability and had access to more compute, I'd absolutely keep scaling those models up and up, all the way until I hit the limit of available compute, or the models stop qualitatively improving with scale.

Basically, there's no reason[0] to stop now and try to fully comprehend how GPT-2 works, when GPT-3 was a qualitative jump, and GPT-4 even more so, and GPT-5 is around the corner, and GPT-6 might be a year away from now. All those steps yield important new insights into how the whole architecture works, and if at some point the scaling breaks, that would be even more important knowledge to have. And this doesn't even take into account the fact that, starting with GPT-3, those models are increasingly useful in accelerating both research and scaling alike.

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[0] - Except, of course, that if transformer models are the road to generic AI, then we'll just blindly race straight into a point of no return.
True. But nowadays, zig is the new rust!
I would describe the first two more like:

I feel with you.
I have feelings for you.

Sympathy for me is liking someone or something e.g. an idea whereas I understand empathy as to be able to understand and share someone’s emotion/emotional situation.
You're mocking my supposedly outdated knowledge in an argument where you're the one who claims age and prior learning doesn't affect the ability to learn new information. Clearly zero self-awareness, I suppose.

What I said stands. If you need the details, adults see specialized neuron reproduction in he granule cell layer of the olfactory bulb & the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. The connectivity of these neurons is also strictly local. It's unclear if there's purpose to these divisions, or it's merely a sign of imperfect specialization & process.

If you wanna play with DNA and make forever living tumors, you may change this limitation. But as I said, the result won't be a human. And it will absolutely not be you.
I am still trying to figure out how to jump on that bandwagon. I used to be a C++ super geek but lately it’s mostly C# and Python. They are way more practical and productive but for some reason I like complex languages.
This is half devils-advocate, half serious, and half I'm curious to see where the discussion will go.

What if instead of using credit scores to decide who may live where, what if we instead used social credit scores to decide? Perhaps it is lazy of me not to elaborate on what exactly would go into that score but part of it is me not knowing either.
And possibly even if you do understand it! It seems like it might be a fundamentally intractable problem with LLMs, even if it can be made more difficult to do, no?
So the obvious answer is to take the $$$, give it to your wife, and ask her to take the kids shopping with her :-)
I will admit that there's also a slowly grown understanding of where the cookie banners come from, so it's not "100% blame the EU".

This comment from one o the linked discussions sums it up well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529190
At what point would you suggest switching from tutorials to building a toy project?

Finding it hard to judge. Sooner seems better but at risk of missing major understanding pieces which could end up being slower in total
Exactly. The famous Chesterton’s Fence.
Interfaces in Zig
If you are ok with a lot of code, that doesn't take much thought.
Yes, that is exactly the point. "Research" and "Scientific Research" are not inextricably linked - I work in an R&D department, and not all research we do is scientific. We do have scientific research, but it's handled very differently from the PoC type of work that occurs more broadly. We are forced to choose between handing out trade secrets in exchange for gaining more soundness in our theories, or keeping them sheltered and hoping our observations hold up. That doesn't mean our research can't inform our decisions towards profitability, only that it's not scientific.

Edit: I mean, c'mon - the final step to the scientific method is "communicate your results". I'm surprised this requires explaining.
Ahh, cool, that's great to hear!
AFAIK the LLVM backend won't go away in the standard Zig distribution even with the new non-LLVM backend.

But even without LLVM backend I would expect that Zig will be able to produce DWARF debug information.
Not him, but probably not. They likely use HTTPS with certificate pinning
Regardless of the silent downvotes, it's still true.
Imagining these three as a spectrum, and not three static silos, is most helpful.
This is nothing significant TBH.

First, the image sucks. Do you really get any artistic whatever from that image? At best, it looks like a badly photoshopped image that struggles to simulates 80's look and feel. It also has AI-specific dirtiness. I really wonder how many people can legitimately argue for this image. Perhaps this may mark that the competition is somewhat irrelevant to the taste of general public anyway, and this kinda relates to the small trolling impact he made.

Second, the competition already accepts photoshopped images[1], as long as the scope of modification is clearly outlined in description. On top of that, the specific category he competed is more open to heavily photoshopped images in the first place. It's likely that images modified using AI will be allowed to some extent. (i.e. insert/remove items, minor fix to the posture, etc).

[1]: https://www.worldphoto.org/help-contact#13

I mean, if he were such a pioneer, he could've just based his work on smartphone photos, and provide fully honest description and still win. That could've been a real history. This? It's just a dead copycat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ohh that is interesting, how did you end up on that page, it should be https://homestra.com/list/houses-for-sale/?amount-of-bedroom... might have an old link somewhere :(

Ill add the elevator filter, thanks for your input!
Use IronVest masked phone number for GitHub 2FA
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Empathy: the ability to feel what others feel.

Sympathy: you align with that they feel, not merely understand it.

Compassion: you're doing something about it, not merely aligning with it.
Western Countries promote and protect corruption in the rest of the world. Where does the corruption money go? Where do the corrupt people and their families live after they are removed from power for whatever reason?
RT is wholly owned by the Russian government. Either you didn't know that and now you're informed, or you did and you were deliberately intending to confuse by conflating a propaganda bureau of the Russian government with an independent network of media outlets that get single-digit percentages of their funding from the state.

Either way I'm not going to engage with you further.

edit: also, it wasn't "being applied consistently" until they fixed it, as I mentioned in the grandparent post. RT and NPR are fundamentally different, and Twitter even recognized that by changing NPR's label while keeping RT's the same.
I think it's clearer to create a tree:

Empathy
|--Sympathy (positive view of the result of empathizing)
|--Antipathy (negative view of the result of empathizing)

For example, one could empathize with someone who is consumed with hatred of other people, and possibly understand how they came to adopt that view, while strongly disliking that kind of mentality, and that would be antipathy. One could even have compassion for such a person, while also accepting that they need to be locked up in a prison because of their history of serial murder of other people.

Alternatively, one could empathize with a parent fleeing a war zone with children in tow, and most people would be sympathetic towards that person and their motivations, because one could understand why a parent would want to protect their children from harm, at a personal emotional level. A compassionate response would be to say, "Perhaps our government / community can provide some basic resources for these people, and why not also try to stop that war from continuing so we don't have to take in all these refugees, as well?"

Empathy doesn't really have an opposite, but it is a capability which may be missing in some people, comparable to vision vs. blindness. A person lacking any sense of empathy is somewhat rare, but they do exist and are generally categorized as sociopathic narcissists... they do tend to be a bit on the power-mad side of things, and hence are more frequently found running governments, corporations, and (other?) organized crime cartels, as well as starting wars, etc.

Perhaps the lack of empathy is genetic in nature? Someone could come up with a DNA test, perhaps.
So first off, your gif looks great! I like your sizing and resolution--that's one of the things I was worried about. Video recording is new to me, so I'd love to know what you record with and resolution settings to pick?

I stumbled on this nice blog post on automating these recordings. Maybe a partial solution?

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/94

I was thinking of doing a manual process like yours for a start rather than automating, but hearing your thoughts makes me think I'll try automating sooner.

I see what you mean about the multi-app aspect. I'll have to switch to browser windows for mine as well. Your android approach is nice!
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