skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creativity is a process where humans can create concepts, certain of which can be created without being being a combination of previous concepts, yes.

It's fundamentally untrue that human insight is merely a product of available data - the entire field of mathematics is a great example of concepts that have a substantial original source and which aren't derived from any data.

The idea that all humans can do is observe patterns in data and interpolate is patently ridiculous, and is readily contradicted by the vast swathes of concepts created through reason alone that far predated their observation in any data.

For example, from which naturally occuring, exogenous dataset did humans discover prime numbers? None, we invented numbers from the concept of object we also invented, and we invented multiplication, division, addition, and from that we invented the concept of primality (which, despite relying on other concepts, is not a mere amalgamation and requires substantial creation to come up with). We didn't need a dataset to infer them from.

Note that while NNs can come up with functions and might in theory internally come up with some form of primality test, LLMs wouldn't be able to organically manipulate and explain the concept of primality if it was completely absent from their datasets, even if it turned out to be useful to model something, because they don't have access to the process by which they arrive at their results. Humans do when working at the semantic level.

Note that even if you take a hard-line Platonist approach instead, replace "create" by "discover from the world of forms through the mind's eye", and you get the same argument.
> But if a species capable of rocketry had not developed, there is no way complex life would be able to get to those satellites.

I'm talking about continuing evolution of the life that may already be there.

Informative points about stars.
Show HN: Cottontail – A Self-Hosted GPT Powered Telegram Tool Chatbot in Python
Sure? At least germany attempts otherwise. But regardless there is a pretty important difference between a government and a company.
Given that this might be so, wouldn’t it be even more apt to adopt Geoffery Hintons Forward Forward Algo which emphasises teaching the neural network the difference between dream data and real data at the neurological level.
I just re-read the novel recently after having read it many years ago. It’s pretty good. Keeping in mind that he claims, “this time I decided not to cut everything out and to just roll her as she rolled” [1], I’d say quite good.

I never got around to seeing the movie and I am so glad I didn’t after reading all the comments in this thread.

[1] https://battlefieldearth.com/introduction/
> Why shouldn't it be possible to simulate a full human mind, say, at atomic level?

Who's designing and running the simulation, on what infrastructure?
Following the link to the cuckoo hasing algorithm on Wikipedia, I don't quite understand what it's doing. I looked up another couple articles but still find myself confused. Does anyone have a link to a resource with an easy-to-follow writeup of how cuckoo hashing works?
I don't believe it's aliens because I am strongly persuaded by the grabby aliens theory.

We're either truly alone, effectively alone (any other civilizations are so far away signs of their activity haven't reached us yet), or by a stroke of luck we are the very first highly intelligent species in the universe.

There is a fourth option that also requires a stroke of luck, which is that there are in fact grabby aliens, that haven't reached our neighborhood yet. They may be traveling out in every direction at near c, and won't be detected until very shortly before arrival.

There are other options I think are possible but those are more speculative and exotic.
From an evolutionary perspective, letting animals think/dream is an optimal way for them to explore things without risk.
Is the next step reticulating splines once we're able to detect them?
I wonder if putting extensive load on the server could drain the battery in enough time before the sun comes up?
Have you tried this? https://xkcd.com/320/
They considered the styles, how much they liked it, year it was made, and whether the viewer thought they could make it themselves. I wish they put another axis, the appraised value of the art piece, for their multivariate analysis.
To achieve 10x you need to learn exactly how lazy you can be and get the same results :P

me:

html select list of orderings: fifo, random, rr, lifo

GPT-4:

To create an HTML select list with different orderings, such as FIFO (First In, First Out), Random, RR (Round Robin), and LIFO (Last In, First Out), you can use the following HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Select List of Orderings</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<label for="orderings">Choose an ordering method:</label>
<select name="orderings" id="orderings">
<option value="fifo">FIFO (First In, First Out)</option>
<option value="random">Random</option>
<option value="rr">RR (Round Robin)</option>
<option value="lifo">LIFO (Last In, First Out)</option>
</select>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>

This code creates a simple HTML page with a form containing a select list. The user can choose one of the ordering methods from the list, and the selected value can be submitted with the form.

---

OK not exactly the same but just wanted to GPT-golf it. When lazymaxing for real, I just try to keep in mind that ChatGPT is already fine-tuned to include certain things, like following proper conventions, explaining its steps, commenting code. And that most of the time it'll make an educated guess rather than looking at me going "huh?" if it's unsure - so if there's really only 1 reasonable interpretation of terse instructions, I can drop the human-friendly cruft text.
Or maybe 3D print it? ;)
Japan approves $8.1B Osaka resort, country's first casino
Oh sure, I thought it was a clever twist on the more typical ping pong table. Collective office perks work wonders. I suspect this more personalized strategy, in combination with other good retention policies pays dividends, not as cheap as the ping pong table, but higher impact.
> Long-term, this is smart. GM will gain complete control of the software stack…

CarPlay (I’m not familiar with Android Auto) doesn’t require that GM cede any control over their software stack. As Wikipedia puts it, it just “enables a car radio or head unit to be a display and a controller for an iOS device”.

What GM wants is to charge you $30/month for services, since phones have mostly killed their OnStar cash cow. What they’re going to learn is the extent to which “doesn’t work with my phone” is going to be a deciding factor for vehicle purchases.
The line is very clear, it's on the right side just below the orange circle. I found it difficult to understand the geometry of how it could be there given that the table appears to extend to the right just under that line. But you can set the edge and it's not actually the table extending, instead that is likely catching a bit of a camo jacket like you can see in the Instagram post sitting on a chair in just that location.
The Importance of EPSS in Vulnerability Prioritization: A Holistic Approach
Tangential, but it's kind of pleasing that Lars WirzeNius is writing an article for lwn.net.
roblox?
> Keep in mind if I hand-wrote this I still have to write out the text-values which are 50% of the prompt's length. It did the names/IDs and the boilerplate.

This is the kind of thing that I really struggle with when trying to do something like this. Often the part that takes me the longest when writing snippets like those _is_ the copy (or at least, collecting my thoughts and/or notes to get the copy into my working memory), the code is quick enough. If I spend that same amount of time (or more) writing the prompt, I don't feel like I've saved much time.
Well I'm curious when the normies join because whenever I check the Explore tab it's always the same. Like right now:

- republicans bad

- nazis bad

- fediverse stats

- fediverse stats

- fediverse stats

- nazis bad

- nazis bad

- musk bad

- fediverse good

- chatgpt

- nazis bad

- corporations bad

- republicans bad

- republicans bad

etc.

Where are the video games, celebs, Kpop stans, sport highlights?
Excellent. 32 degrees away, and brings in Air Bud.

https://www.wikibinge.com/#John_Wilkes_Booth/Hentai
You can easily write x10 lines of code; but what matters is deliverables.

My guess (I'm using free ChatGPT rather than v4) is that it's really good at small chunks, but not big.

On this basis, if you're bad at software architecture then it will rapidly get confused and produce a spaghetti monster nobody can even debug; whereas if you're good at architecture, even though you probably didn't feel limited by your typing speed in the first place, it's enough of a boost to make a difference.
Yes that's the joke. The law was meant to discourage the use of "non essential" cookies on the assumption that people would rather stop using them than put up annoying banners, but even the EU org itself thinks that YouTube embeds are essential.
The song was Tattoo, by Jordin Sparks btw
No, just that SF is full of crime.
Reminds me of HABBO
This also reminds me of some theories I've seen that sleep (e.g. mostly sessile behavior) is the biological default for Earth life, and being "awake" and highly mobile is itself a specialized adaptation.
This can happen to me if it gets stuck down a avenue that it thought I was interested in. But the next day or even a few hours later, it seems to correct itself.
Both of these articles mention that the high magnetic fields could be distorting the shape of the atoms, but shouldn't these be plasmas at these temperatures?
Does it make you feel better to further contribute to the flames by commenting here?
You know what’s nice? Realizing on Friday you cannot find your keys because you haven’t driven all week
Good point. I thought there was a way to validate authenticity by involving the TLS cert, but I’m unsure how that would actually work.
In terms of other life observing us broadcasting radio waves is rather small and limited. However consider the galaxy is much older than Earth. That conditions on Earth to support life is around the span of ~2 billion years. The galaxy is under 100k light-years across.

That's a fair bit of time for the possibility of some other life within our galaxy to detect atmospheric signs of life supporting chemicals on our planet and to send a probe to investigate.

I don't think it means aliens have visited or sent a probe but I think it is possible.
I probably still have a copy on a bookshelf... I'm more than a little stunned how bad it was. I was about half-way through, reading it on a weekend, all alone in the house, and my brain just kinda rebelled at the act at one point. I dropped the book, yelled out "seriously?!" to no-one, and went to get some food and take a walk before I picked it back up. I finished it out of spite and perverse curiosity.

Oh boy it does not improve. Definitely agreed with your list of better books though!
The Linux kernel API is so complex, and so ill-specified, that the only practical way that would maintain userspace compatibility would be to run the Linux kernel itself under macOS. (Microsoft tried to implement the Linux API in NT with WSL 1 and they abandoned that approach in WSL 2 because, among other reasons, it was just too much work to achieve Linux compatibility.) Running the Linux kernel under macOS can be done with Apple's hypervisor framework.
SF Blocks Contracts to Homeless Nonprofit Referred for FBI Probe
I've used this list many times, thanks. The header file with the definitions that get exported to user space is here:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/a...
Homicides in Brazil lead to 6 years in prison. The system doesn't work, but we have these gems like "if inmates read books...", the cherry on top of shit.
There are many things respectable scientists believed thousand years ago that we now know are not true. Vitalist views of life and consciousness are one of those things. As of 2023, believing that consciousness is a distinct phenomenon as fundamental as space or time is a crackpottery at the level of believing 5G causes COVID.
The timeline becomes wildly condensed in more-modern years. Would love to see a "zoomed in" timeline from 250Ma-0Ma to capture that detail on more pages. :)
Getting past the AI hackathon cold start problem – Remote Cluster Auto-setup
Or https://xkcd.com/1654/ -> https://explainxkcd.com/1654/ -> 2016-03-11
There are devices made to detect and disturb you (with light, vibrations, etc) during REM sleep, to help with lucid dreaming. If you want to experience a dream, something like that might help, with the fairly safe assumption that you do enter REM sleep.
It affects some people, but not all.

I suspect this is something that researchers would be interested in regarding the person in this article as well, given their statements.
The One Rule to Not Get Screwed by Using ChatGPT at Work
... where ChatGPT is a synecdoche for all LLMs and other generative AI tools.
Bob Lee was highly influential to the tech community, whether you realize it or not, whether you live in the SF area or not. It's relevant.
Nextdoor has a similar problem but even worse when it comes to the toxicity.
I assumed that statement meant she would be involved similarly to how she was with the movies, when she didn't do any screenwriting AFAICT (because the movies were faithful adaptations of the books, so there wasn't much to write).

It seems like the TV series will also be an adaptation of the books, which means there won't be any need for new stories like there was with Fantastic Beasts.

I guess it will be just like the movies, but without the need to cut much from the story. Sounds pretty cool tbh.
What about opposite? If you regulate too much, you can’t innovate :)
Is it on internet wayback archive?
I think we will soon find out.
It helps me not break my flow to go to StackOverflow/documentation, I can stay in the zone more continuously. It does worry me about the future of StackOverflow, because it is unclear how they continue to snowball and stay current if folks are not using the site directly.

Also, this is tangential, but: when I'm doing PoC application websites, etc it is also helpful to generate images/placeholders/etc easily with image generators (not LLM, but in the realm) so i can stay focused on the backend functionality. I recently created a PoC internal use website in an hour because I didnt have to mess around with finding just the right stock images, etc. Good PoCs, IMHO, should have enough visuals so as not to distract from testing and the goals of the PoC.
It seems worth a try, but we don't know how LLM's work (research in "mechanistic interpretability" is just getting started), and they tend to "cheat" whenever they can get an advantage that way.
What a great sense of humor this author has! I literally lol'ed at some of these jokes. It's hard to make humor shine through writing, so I'm double impressed.

Some of the best, but don't deprive yourself of the whole article (because it's a gem):

> More importantly for the future success of Linux was that the X11 system was ported to it, making 1992 the year of the Linux desktop.

> Thus, mine was the first PC where Linux was ever installed. While this was happening, I was taking a nap, and I recommend this method of installing Linux: napping, while Linus does the hard work.

> A couple of years later, he spent days playing Quake, ostensibly to stress-test kernel memory management, although that was with a newer PC. Much fun was had in that room, and there were no pranks whatsoever. None at all.

> Alas, early Linux networking code was occasionally a little rough, having been written from scratch. At one point, Linux would send some broken packets that took down all of the Sun machines on the network. As it was difficult to get the Sun kernel fixed, Linux was banned from the university network until its bug was fixed. Not having Usenet access from one's desk is a great motivator.

> In the spring of 1994 we felt that Linux was done. Finished. Nothing more to add. One could use Linux to compile itself, to read Usenet, and run many copies of the xeyes program at once. We decided to release version 1.0 and arranged a release event.

> I insisted that a version-control system be used. I had witnessed students in earlier courses do the shouting kind of version control: the students shared a source tree over NFS and shouted "I'm editing this file" when they were changing something. This did not seem like an effective method to me, so I insisted on CVS,

> In 1997 Linus graduated and moved to the US to take a job at Transmeta. I took a job at a different university in the Helsinki area. In the following years, many things happened. It turned out that there were still a few missing features from Linux, so people worked on those.

> The term "open source" was coined and IBM invested a ton of money in Linux development. Netscape published a version of its web browser as open source. Skipping a few details and many years, open source basically took over the world. LWN was started and covered much of this history on a week-by-week basis.
It has def helped me become more efficient in the sense that I can get ideas of how things could be implemented. Or for use cases like creating a regex to do something.

Has it made me 10x, probably not, has it improved my efficiency, 100%.
> It probably just recommends a bunch of stuff that is popular at the moment for new users.

I get that, but I feel like it starts with "known safe/neutral" material like cooking/traveling/photography/whatever

How can it detect "hey, this person might like if we introduce softcore porn into their timeline"? Like, do they have softcore porn identified on a scale and they introduce the really "safe" stuff and then gradually crank it up? Why are they presenting softcore porn at all? The Apple App Store is cool with that ToC wise?
It’s not so much about individual investments, but how commercial real estate sits as an asset class in wealthy people’s portfolios generally. There’s no scenario where a 2008 for commercial real estate doesn’t cost them a lot of money, so it’s in their material interest to push for back to office.
> Brian Markus is co-founder of Aries Security, and one of the researchers who originally showcased the threat from juice jacking at the 2011 DEFCON. Markus said he isn’t aware of any public accounts of juice jacking kiosks being found in the wild, and said he’s unsure what prompted the recent FBI alert.

Maybe the FBI came across some foreign actor that talked about doing this or maybe they did come across it in real life and we'll have to wait for some future trial/operation to learn about it (if ever).

Still that $180 USB cable is really interesting. Fortunately it's expensive, although it's designed for professional red teaming.
QEMU has this feature. It can run Linux programs by translating their system calls.

https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/user/main.html
Currently it's at about 77 US cents per average transaction, with the fee paid by the sender. A month ago it was briefly above $2.70.

VISA transactions, with the fee paid by the receiver, obviously pull more off the top in excess of electricity costs (for larger transactions), but they also have purchase protection, customer service, and things such as points built it for particular cards. So not a complete apples-to-apples comparison.
Yeah I know, but it’s not like he drove him to the woods, they drove like a mile down the street.
Is it too far fetched to say he would have stabbed him on that other sidewalk if he didn’t get into his car?
> Parenthetically I don’t recall whether this was a training issue, a software issue, or a pilot error. Accordingly, I don’t want to sound like I’m slamming the pilot.

It was a design issue, which many people like to blame on the pilot because they don't know any better.

The problem was that the rate-of-change of control-force per rudder angle is/was negative for that particular Airbus model... which is generally known to lead to PIO (pilot induced oscillations). When I say generally known, I mean it has been documented since at least as early as pre-WWII NACA (the precursor to NASA) studies.

In fact, that's what led to the installation of MCAS on 737 Max's: The FAA requires that, for the elevator (but not rudder), the control force should increase as deflection increases. So Boeing tried to simulate that behavior with elevator trim + software.

In other words, MCAS was a bad, hacky "solution" to a problem very similar to what happened on AA587 (but for pitch instead of yaw).

> On the other hand I’ve seen a B-52 lose just about the entirety of its vertical stabilizer and it didn’t seem to care at all; landed safely.

Yea, but a B-52 probably has more elevator authority than most commercial airliners (both because it is meant to go supersonic and need to deal with Mach tuck and because B-52 is expected to shed some "payload" while airborne). The problem is that the vertical stabilizer weighs a ton and is waaaay out at the end of the fuselage, so it really throws off your weight and balance if it falls off.
A paying customer of pirsch with feature request for the dashboard: for page views stats, could you make more space for urls?

My urls aren't even that long but get truncated because they get only 30% of the space.

Make more space for links: allow me to hide some columns and persist that across sessions. I really don't care about bounce rate or percentages.

Also, a deadly sin of arrogant designers: in your infinite wisdom you decided to to limit the width of that page so even if I go fullscreen I don't see the full URL but a lot of unused space. Why do you hate me?
A good filter too if you want to fly under the radar and collect a paycheck without doing much work
I’m not an architect nor a civil engineer so perhaps I’ve got this completely wrong, but I think it has something to do with both the amount of concrete required, which has a huge climate footprint, as well as the logistics around pluming, cooling, heating, vertical escalation, emergency response, etc. become increasingly difficult as you add more stories. At some point these difficulties add up to make it worse than a 5-8 story mid-rise.
The Stats page has a Battery metric on it. Currently sitting at 82%.

It has a "144 watt-hour battery" which looks like thats about 38,918.92mAh.

Certainly would take a lot it seems to drain it to 0% before the sun came up.
Sure. The NYTimes is actually part of a global cabal and needs to divert your attention from their true sources.
Stranger Things seems to be doing fine.. I'm sure there are lots of other recent long running shows with kids in it that are doing fine too.
Ghana is first country to approve Oxford malaria vaccine
I'm not saying it is wrong, I'm saying it's not adding value. Argue the point, don't make this a meta-discussion.
I went to see Battlefield Earth in the theater with a friend. Yes, it was awful.

Battlefield Earth was responsible for teaching me to check reviews before seeing a movie.
You mean like this: https://neuralink.com/approach/ ?
What does a post intellectual property world even look like, though? I'm not aware of any convincing frameworks that our existing society could merge into.
It's a very US thing to present issues as one side or the other, "Left or Right", "Capitalist or Socialist" with nothing between. In reality almost everything is on a (multi-dimensional) spectrum with a lot of nuance. This binary thinking is reinforced by TV and social media and is tearing the country apart.