skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An audio adventure game on mobile: https://roadtripadventures.msol.io

A humorous book of quotes with profanity added: https://whatacools.com/serenity/

An app to use your e-reader as a typewriter: https://solarwriter.msol.io/ (actually, this one is free)
Have you considered that you might have existed for a long time before your birth, just that your memories were erased at that point in time (or you simply were not equipped with a brain to store them)?
Have fun going down the rabbit whole of parsing structured data from ingredient phrases. Had a fun few weeks with that!
No, first because it's put in background.

Second because there's no `-e`.
I don't know anything about this particular case, I'm just saying that "eligible" shouldn't be disturbing in any situation because it doesn't mean very much.
Ah, good to know! My main sources were the release notes and occasionally your tweets (the account seems to have gotten suspended?), so my information was understandably a bit out of date. Glad to see progress being made though.
I want to see this happen just for its ability to shake the status quo.
People who live here, and I mean actually live here, not ones that just pop in for a few years and decide it needs to change.

YIMBYism is very misguided in SF.
Definitely missing one & after the git clone, else the cd into the directory after will fail, assuming the git clone takes non-zero time to execute.
Hasn't the CCP been pretty adversarial to cryptocurrency?
IIRC prison libraries do get screened for that sorta thing. Overly violent novels for example aren't allowed in prisons because of concerns that it might lead to criminals thinking violence is more acceptable. (So no Fight Club for example.)
No all businesses that want to make money do not hire a lawyer to vet their businesses and especially not their website design. Neither do they need to.

And you really don’t see why all of the ridiculous regulation in the EU might be part of the reason that no meaningful tech company comes out of the EU.
Anyone have thoughts on what the motivation was to keep operating in the red for 17 years, with losses apparently increasing over time?
sounds like someone wants to be the expert Science Advisor on a Hollywood blockbuster. "Seeds from Space" :)
After micro-managing the movie for months, once the movie premiered, DM threw Travolta right under the bus... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDk8YvgNlw&t=101s
That movie. I got physically ill watching it from the Dutch angles and the lurid colour grading. That said, the script was pulpy, but once you got away from the authorship taint and the motion sickness it was probably no worse than any other second-tier SF potboiler. I have the DVD (special edition!) as a means to threaten houseguests.
Yeah, but that's the same disparity that makes it illegal for a soldier to buy alcohol, but perfectly acceptable to hand them an assault weapon and put them in a war zone.

Network admins generally require a higher level of clearance since they have lower level access to systems that are harder to apply access controls to
Terrible headline. This is a hypothesis. Everything about alien life remains hypothetical. This paper the article cites not once uses the word "theory".
How exactly are they planning to go from step 1 ("additional density") to step 2 ("reformation") ? It looks like they would have to demolish about 10 floors' worth of housing and rebuild it in the center of the lot. That can't be done overnight, and all those people whose housing you have to demolish would have to go somewhere.
A warm, damp environment is perfect for bacteria. But as long as you're not eating the plants it should be fine.
This is one of these cases that seemed to perfectly fit a narrative that likely not many people ( including myself) would have thought to dispute it.
Interesting. I imagine they had to remove it - you just wouldn't know if there was any truth to it and could put the guy in the public eye incorrectly.
The one in Lakeview didn’t seem to hit the mark.

Residents preferred nearby Trader Joe’s, Mariano’s, Dom’s, Jewel Osco, and Whole Foods over this Wal-Mart.
Dogpatch is well situated for commuting, as is a fair amount of SOMA.
The SFBOS is looking to change that because they want to take down the 280 connector that gets people in and out of SF quickly.

WFH is slowly going away so I wouldn't keep counting on that either.
He recently published a book saying he is innocent and a good family man.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11944009/Monster-...
same thing applies to fixing tech debt.
Part of the problem with venture funding is 10m arr wouldn't be considered enough.
Some things will never be explained... for example what's the last digit of 22/7, and why out of all fractions around it that that particular number decides to extend towards infinity.

Reality can be unsatisfying because it does not owe us explanations.
This is a lot better than the high speed car chases they inevitably engaged in before, even if they were illegal.
Congratulations, that’s great. I’m always happy to hear of more successful indie developers.
Weird thing to cite. Even as the article itself tries to cast these lawsuits in a particular light to lead you to thinking that they're absurd, most of them don't seem unreasonable. They're great, even.

I'm supposed to feel bad for A&W because they put an "aged vanilla" label on their cream soda even though it contains none? Companies that engage in the "whole grain" nonsense? Packaging straight out of /r/AssholeDesign? Fuck 'em.

The guy's doing good work as far as I'm concerned.
Why your life is probably a simulation [video]
Pick this apart, please!
As a mathematician myself, I beg to differ. Proofs should be rigorous, and at the very least it should warrant a mention of this case.
Many functional features of F# made their way into C#.
> it was literally shown the game with only the legal moves

It's shown token sequences only. It has no idea they represent a game, or that the game has legal and illegal moves. And more importantly, it has no idea that each token modifies the state of a gameboard, or that simulating how that gameboard changes after every token is the only way to understand the token's grammar. It invents all that.

> Could it actually invent Reversi/Othello had it not known about it beforehand?

You mean, could an LLM invent othello even if its training material made no mention of the game or its rules? Presumptively, of course - why not? Suppose you go make up an arbitrary board game right now. If you then ask ChatGPT-4 to invent a boardgame of its own, nothing excludes the possibility that it will describe a game isomorphic to yours. Obviously the odds are very low, but why imagine that it's not possible?
Ok, but those triangles aren't equilateral but isosceles :)
What is interesting about this? Walmart has like 5000 stores in the country, they open and close some every year.
Based on evidence/reporting? Personal experience? Or something else

We've had shop closures blamed on shoplifting in the past that turned out to be due to something else.
> unwarranted

Gosh they're going to have a heck of a time figuring out what is and isn't warranted.
The lack of parking wouldn't be horrible if it weren't...all the way out in the Sunset. Maybe the mentioned MUNI L renovation would be enough.
This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi-like computer
He's doing this for funding and I think he is accomplishing the task as for everyone knows about Avi Loeb's recent work.
This is also right on point.

Although the sewage plant is not exactly right next to it lol.
I wish there was a breakdown of what are the typical parameters of a retailer (e.g. rent per sq foot, theft, labor costs, sales, distance to distribution center, distance to competition) and what made these locations unique. I see businesses all the time where it seems they have very little foot traffic or a location in a crazy expensive area (most places in Manhattan, for instance), and I wonder how these locations make a profit.

I also find it a bit off that this is posted on HN. If it was SF, the narrative would surely be around rents or breakage (well, theft). The announcement doesn't really say anything specific beyond "failed to make a profit for many years".
> Hubbard had enough imagination.

Hear, hear. To even contemplate, much less design and implement a racket on the scale of the church of scientology, you indeed need quite a lot of imagination.
The section about Berkeley having "no record of graduation or attendance" for Nima is interesting. What a mysterious figure.
> I'm not sure where the disagreement is here

I'm not sure we are disagreeing. I'm just having a discussion.

> If I tell you someone is intelligent, you roughly know what I am talking about.

Correct, because the context (you're talking about a human, and I know roughly what that means with humans) narrows the possibilities. But even there, it's a vague sort of intuitive knowledge, like trying to say what "art" is.

But when it comes to other areas -- such as machines -- context doesn't help narrow the possible meanings. What does saying a machine is "intelligent" mean? If you ask a machine learning person, you'll get a reasonably specific answer. If you ask the average person on the street, you'll get very, very different answers.

The reason is because we don't know what "intelligence" actually is. We don't even know, with any specificity, what it is in humans -- which is why psychologists assert that there are multiple kinds of intelligence (even if they disagree about how many there are).

> even if that notion is fuzzy and has grey areas.

I don't disagree at all. But the notion has more fuzzy and gray areas than solid ones. As an example, when most people imagine an "artificial intelligence", what they're really imagining is "consciousness". Is consciousness required for intelligence? Who knows? The answer to that depends on what you mean by "intelligence" and we don't agree enough on what that means to have that sort of discussion without beginning by defining the terms.
So 712 apartments, 212-car basement garage, and “additional parking will be included for 327 bicycles”.

Even right out of college, I would not have purchased or rented a place in SF above ground level with no back yard, no car parking, no bike parking, and no good access to transit. Good luck to the developers, but I think this is a mistake.

If they increased it to, say, 1000 bikes worth of parking, maybe.
The problem of induction is fatal. But we overcome it: we do witness causation.

When I act on the world, with my body, I take as a given "Body -> Action". We witness causation in our every action.

> This is an odd claim

The tokens can be given any meaning. The statistical distribution of token frequencies in our languages have an infinite number of causal semantics which are consistent with them.

We can find arbitary patterns such that

P(A) < P(A|B) < P(A|B & C) < P(A|B & C...)

Only those we give a semantics to ("Rain" = Rain), and only those we already know are causal we will count. This is the trick of humans reading the output of LLMs -- this is what makes it possible. It's essentially one big Eliza effect.

No, the structure of language isnt the structure of the world.

This pattern in tokens,

P(A) < P(A|B) < P(A|B & C) < P(A|B & C...)

Is an associative statistical model of conditional aggregate salience between token terms.

Phrase any such conditional probability you wish, it will never select for causal patterns.

this is why we experiment. It's why we act on the world to change it.

When the child burns their hand on the fireplace they do so once. Why?

Because the child immediately infers,

P(TouchFire -> Pain | MoveHand -> Pain) = 1

How? via the abduction, roughly:

P( TouchFire | Desire_TouchFire -> TouchFire) = 1

how?

P( TouchFire | Desire_TouchFire -> MoveHand) = 1

how?

P( Pain | MoveHand -> TouchFire -> Pain) = 1

etc.

In other words, we bottom out our reasoning in a

P( BodilyMovement -> Effect | Desire -> BodilyMovement) = 1

Absent this, absent being in the world with a body, you cannot determine causes.

The problem of induction phrased in modern language is this: statistics isn't informative. Or, conditional probabilities are no route to knowledge. Or, AI is dumb.
Fixing the train won't cut it. Everyone who lives there will need to drive.
Why I Am Not An AI Doomer
Oh, dang. The screenwriting she's done for fantastic beasts is not on par with her novel writing.

If she's something like a show runner here with hands on each script, it would make the series suffer. Some people are great at story tellingin one medium but that doesn't always translate.
The Lakeview one has a lot of local competition. However, that location like the one in River north was a freaking mess. It's great for convience.. however Walmart doesn't do well in a small/medium sided format.

I'm just amazed they aren't closing the thunderdome Walmart that is off of North ave.
i would place a larger degree of probability toward hollow asteroid type extraterrestrials, than the overt 100ton beryllium construction variety, just out of materials efficiency.
Governments perpetrate more wars and genocides than corporations do. In the 20th century they murdered tens of millions of people.
I made a blog post about the new for loop syntax (spoilers: ranges are only one of the new features): https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-multi-sequence-for-loops/
Depends on if you mean officially or unofficially, from what I can gather.
I also have multiple:

https://alphalerts.com

Alphalerts helps investors find new investment opportunities by offering stock, options and crypto alerts.

https://chapati.systems/autoupdate/

Autoupdate automates the update process of various software like Python, Gitea, Zitadel, Drone, Kanboard, Caddy, Podman and System.
Which coercion specifically are you talking about? Could you give an example?

Weird data types: R had been designed for and by statisticians with their specific needs in mind, which indeed could look weird to regular people.
Isn't Walmart's whole shtick that they move into an area and operate as a loss leader with the hope that their competition is forced to close?
Since Russia has lots of energy, maybe they can use it to settle transactions?

Meanwhile Visa keeps on clearing incomparably more (by “several orders of magnitude”) encrypted transactions per second globally for miniscule energy?
EU's AI Act: ChatGPT must disclose use of copyrighted training data
The AI Act has been under development since 2021 (it's the EU... so it takes time) -- but news broke this week that there are additional provisions under discussion specifically designed to address the rise of chatbots. My full summary of the act itself and the a breakdown of these new provisions is contained within the article.
It's potentially significant if it leaves a food desert in the area i.e. the walmarts pushed out/killed local competition, and then they close down which means there are no remaining stores for groceries etc. Not clear to me whether that would be the case here though.
China has outright banned it at various times. USA has taken legal stances against things like tornado cash, but never anything close to the broad strokes of banning that the Chinese government has done. If anything the slowness and deliberateness of USA regulators to respond has enabled the entire worldwide crypto economy to flourish.

So China is now going to "roll out the red carpets" for crypto exchanges? Yeah right.
Ya I have to agree why is this on hacker news? When did this creep of just nothing to do with computers or technology start happening? This is just Walmart closing some stores...
CCP doesn’t want crypto due to risk from capital flight and monetary control in China. Hong Kong has no such risks given its freer capital control. The only thing non-free that CCP care is speech.
It'll be no bikes worth of parking when the thieves find out where this is.
This would be very much welcome. Watching this in adulthood while I read the book when I was not!
Not sure why it’s in quotations.
This looks really cool
You are just watching too many influencers who are trying to convince you you can only make a living as an influencer.
The Dogpatch condos I'm familiar with though are pretty much midrise which are a lot different from living in a skyscraper though. And are pretty convenient to existing public transit and getting to FiDi/SoMa even if you don't want to live there.
They forgot to cast the shadow in that rendering.
Tax rebates or hope they would eventually be profitable?

Target in Canada is a great case study on what not to do.
The core reason (and thus the proper place to fix) for any injection attack is unclear distinction between data and instructions or code.

Yes, language models gain flexibility by making it easy to mix instructions and data, and that has value, however if you do want to enforce a distinction you definitely can (and should) do that with out-of-band means, with something that can't possibly be expressed (and thus also overriden) by some text content.

Instead of having some words specifying "assistant do this, this is a prompt" you can use explicit special tokens (something which can't result from any user-provided data and has to be placed there by system code) as separators or literally just add a single one-bit neuron to the vectors of every token that specifies "this is a prompt" and train your reinforcement learning layer to ignore any instructions without that "privilege" bit set. Or add an explicit one-bit neuron to each token which states "did this text come in from an external source like webpage or email or API call".

[edit] this 'just' does gloss over technical issues, such as handling that during pre-training, the need for masking something, as for performance reasons we do want the vectors to be multiples of specific numbers and not just an odd number, etc - but I think the concept is simple enough that it can't be an obstacle but just a reasonable engineering task.
There is a formal definition of "skyscraper", which comprises a steel frame supporting curtain walls. Buildings below 100 feet never qualify in practice. Since half of San Francisco has zoning heights below 50 feet and even more onerous unit limits, it's safe to say that the housing supply could be radically expanded without any skyscrapers.

For a general criterion, I think that double the local median building height would be a good line, though at least 3 stories should always be allowed anywhere with affordability issues.
Good question, it's for expats/digital nomads/overseas buyers. Europe is very segmented and every country has it's own real estate classified sites, these are great for internal market but lack a lot of the features to help a foreign buyer. If you are a German looking for something within Germany changes are you will not use the site for a long time (lets hope in 10 years it's a different story!)
I liked this movie. It was funny that years later they have functional harrier jets.

Another movie with poor science but more fun is The Core.
Yeah, this is just the massing. It's kind of like a wireframe for buildings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massing
Governments want to know the identity of AI developers
It’s simply wanting to make headway in urban markets enough to justify a large investment. The stores were unprofitable but not so much that they couldn’t be kept open to continue learning.

Go back 15-20 years and Walmart’s attempts to grow into dense urban areas were major news stories. Frightening at the time for fans of indie and small chain retail but almost quaint now that Amazon dominates.
The whole conversation will get awkward once the polar ice caps fully melt.
Totally. But regardless lots of ideas get funded that turn out not to be "venture scale" and many at an early stage that do not even get to $10m ARR.
Whether that’s true or false changes virtually nothing about this article or our understanding of anything in the universe.
I live in Chicago and I really think it's just competition.

Take the 2551 W. Cermak Road location. There's a Costco, Aldi, Target, Marianos, for big name shops, but then there's also at least 11 other smaller local or specialty shops (Betheleham Food Mart, Guzman Grocery, Helens Grocery, etc etc etc).

Walmart just can't complete in big cities. I can find something cheaper and higher quality than Walmart just by walking down the street. Walmart does well in smaller towns where there isn't as much competition, and where they can really push their specialty services. I would never get my eyes examined at a Walmart Eye Center, for instance, since I can find three other places that are closer to me. If you're in a smaller town though those things are super convenient.
Not currently, but the city is running the L Taraval muni improvement project concurrent with this development, and that line has a stop right next to the lot. That should give trains traffic priority and consolidate stops, reducing travel time to downtown. The reason people don't want to live in the Sunset is that it takes an hour to get to SoMa/downtown where the businesses are. You can get from the South Bay to SoMa faster than getting from the Sunset there.

If they fix the transit issues the Sunset could become a very desirable place to live - you have easy access to the beach, good restaurants, less crime, lots of parks, and generally higher quality of life than the eastern part of SF.
But if a species capable of rocketry had not developed, there is no way complex life would be able to get to those satellites.

The increased likelihood of being tidally locked is not the only problem with smaller stars. As a rule, larger stars are more stable and smaller stars are more active. This is made worse by the fact that the habitable zone is closer to the star for smaller stars. Most stars in the universe probably can't support life as we know it because any planet close enough to be warm would get it's atmosphere stripped off by flares.
That is a shockingly long chain. Amusingly if you flip them, Cookie links directly to Milk.
I am building Polotno SDK (https://polotno.com/). It a mix of SaaS and paid javascript library and react components. It is a design editor that you can integrate into your web app. From the first paying customer it took around 1 year to get 2000 MRR. And I spent around 9 months on making first version before the first paying customer.

It took me a very long time to find the idea of SDK. Previously I was thinking only about B2C cases. B2C market is already VERY crowded with Canva and million of its competitors. But B2B market was almost empty when I started.
I grew up reading the books, but lost interest in the movies (or perhaps aged-out of them) after the fourth film. I'm excited by the possibility of telling the story in a way that allows them to breathe more.

It's not that I think the movies didn't serve the stories well, but I love the potential of long-form cinematic storytelling. That's much more my mode these days. I'm curious to see what changes in tone they choose to make, or rather, what they intend to do differently.
> A client of mine seemed quite insistent that ChatGPT was "creative". I hope in a few years that opinion will be rare, as everyone ends up writing the same article over-and-over.

It seems rather probable that in a few years GPTs would become far more powerful, including more creative than most humans.
I hear parking spots in the Manhattan cost a million dollars. SF isn’t New York but gotta start somewhere. No such thing as a car-friendly city.