skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if an update of N=1 will alter your posterior or not, but I have an uncle (not a particularly religious man himself) who had a 'dream' while undergoing risky surgery, that he had 'left', but saw his grandchildren praying to the Virgin Mary and the Virgin Mary interceded and sent him back. This is already weird, since, technically people don't dream while under the knife, unless the anesthetic has worn off. In any case, at recovery he was told there was a moment during the operation where he briefly 'died' on the table (whatever that means) but then spontaneously awoke and the surgery was smooth sailing after that. And it was indeed true that the grandchildren were praying to the Virgin Mary specifically at the time of the operation. I'm a bit fuzzy with the details because my information is second hand (my uncle's wife related the story to my mom, rather than me directly), but it is true that he had a terminal condition (I visited him in the hospital back when we thought he was close to going), the operation was not meant to be curative, only palliative, and yet somehow he's now completely cured and a changed man since that event.

In any case, not claiming this proves anything, of course; obviously there could be lots of explanations; but I remembered it because it does disprove the "people don't see religious figures in these visions" claim (albeit with an N=1). That's not to say I haven't heard of many similar accounts, but those had all been 3rd party accounts; this is the first time it came from a family member.
The horror of someone making something for fun!
Pretty much. Catching it with the launch tower means in theory you can have much faster turnaround between flights, since you don't need to transport it from the landing site to the launch site.
As a subscriber to this sub-reddit, the constant spamming of stories relating to people of particular ethnicities committing crimes was annoying. It became a constant drum to summon to action racist trolls and idiots.
2k is enough for most cinema purposes. https://www.yedlin.net/ResDemo/index.html

I do think 8K will make a big difference for VR though due to the extreme angle of view.
It depends on the instance you're using. You can always change it to more suited to your peers.
Stopping Prompt Injection
Let me know if you find a prompt that gets around it! I haven't been able to find one yet.
BS patents tend to have nonsensical loopholes.
Reminds me of how I nuked my first Linux drive. I was using the cthugha[1] music visualizer app. You had to pass in a CD-ROM device as well as a DSP device (long before ALSA existed). Instead of the DSP I probably passed in my hard drive. Whoops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthugha_(software)
Could it be made with a plastic and not glass exterior? One minor benefit I have enjoyed about the transition to LEDs is that they are physically more sturdy and will survive being dropped.
So many great memories. My first sysadmin job was a dev shop ruled by Sun Sparcstation 5, 10, and 20 pizza boxes. My mentor gifted me a Sun 3 workstation and I spent many hours installing and reinstalling SunOS 4 and later Solaris 2.x. Ahhh. I guess I have a project for next weekend!
yeah that one should definitely be more like

{ git clone ... ; cd "$1"; ./configure; make; make install } &

to run the group command (I had to look up the term in man bash) all in the background.

Using group commands can be kind of weird though because they're run in the environment of the running shell, so

% mkdir -p /tmp/foo && cd /tmp/foo && pwd
/tmp/foo
% { mkdir bar; cd bar; echo $BASH_SUBSHELL ; }
0
% pwd
/tmp/foo/bar

but if you do the group command in the background, bash runs it in a subshell[0] and the current directory for your shell doesn't change:

% mkdir -p /tmp/foo && cd /tmp/foo && pwd
/tmp/foo
% { mkdir bar; cd bar; echo $BASH_SUBSHELL ; } &
1
% pwd
/tmp/foo

[0] From man bash:

If a command is terminated by the control operator &, the shell executes the command in the background in a subshell.
You might like Reconnaissance Blind Chess [0]. It incorporates imperfect information into Chess and was developed for AI research at the Applied Physics Lab.

[0] https://rbc.jhuapl.edu/
How much does Mechazilla cost? I read it's 1 billion. Also news is Elon said destroying nearby infrastructure would be a 9 month setback at the least.
This makes a simple point I've needed to hear for the past thirty years. Thank you.

I was just saying today how realising you have absolutely no idea what you're doing is a prerequisite for competence in tech, and you need to watch out for the ones who don't realise that.

"I know only that I too am a dumbass," as Socrates said.
Cool, the SpaceX team is killing it.
I used to lucid dream regularly (need to get back to it - it's a lot of fun). I used a reality check where I would try to (lightly) blow air through my nose when my hand was closing it off. If I could I was dreaming. I did this randomly during my waking hours every so often when I had some indication that something was different and I needed to test reality.

Whenever I would come semi-aware when I was dreaming I would do this reality check and realize I was lucid and could do what I want. The interesting part to me is that blowing air through my nose and hand twigged me to the fact that I was dreaming, but the technicolor mega-gorilla screaming at the sky and throwing laser bolts did not.
Needs a 2022 flair and links to all of the times this has been previously posted.
This is a bizarre defense. Talking absolute nonsense about the crime isn't going to give the children their father back.

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edit: imagine citing the suffering of fatherless children as a reason not to criticize people who lied about how their father died.

"There's so much suffering in the world today; how will putting me in jail help?"
It can be debated about whether that’s a logical fallacy. If you ask ten experts for their studies on something and you find a reasonable correlation (eg all the ones promoting smoking are funded by Tabacco lobbyists while the rest have a more natural distribution of results and don’t show any correlation of potential undue influence), it’s not a logical fallacy to suggest “hey, this argument is being made in good faith and the reason I think this is because of the funding sources for this person”. Indeed, we know this was an explicit strategy employed by Tabacco with lung cancer (they knew it was a problem but intentionally funded research to get the contrary results to muddy the waters) and oil companies with climate change (same thing).
How did people try to "help"? By posting comments on social media?
A rural Texas county just blinked on library closures. Pressure worked
My father and I are listening through each CD in my late grandmother's collection. There's lots of truly excellent recordings from the 80s in there, from a time when record labels took the idea of 'digital quality' _really_ seriously. When I buy CDs for myself of my preferred genre of progressive rock, I make a point of searching for non-remastered CD copies (MusicBrainz is useful here), as the remasters inevitably limit the dynamic range. Another symptom of 'industrial disease'!
Does this help you when cooking? I'm an OK but not great cook (or so I like to think) and I tend to just think of a hob as a heat source. I guess the main downside of induction is that you can't pick up the pan?
CarPlay and AndroidAuto don’t give the car any access to the phone data and that’s the “problem” GM seems trying to “fix”.

CarPlay and AndroidAuto protocols basically treat car’s display as a remote framebuffer.
If you're really curious you could use the Salvador Dali method: hold cutlery in your hand. When you sleep, you drop the cutlery and wake up from the noise. Repeat until hallucination.

Probably not healthy for you though!
Probably a bad idea. Rocket launches tend to have exclusion zones for sea traffic and they will scrub the launch if some boat wanders into the area, and speaking as someone who likes to watch rocket launches on stream, I’m confident in saying that lots of people will be mad at you for doing this.

Edit: Oh, you said Matamoros, which is in Mexico and presumably out of the FAA's jurisdiction. Everyday Astronaut seems to think Matamoros is one of the more dangerous parts of Mexico[1] but I'm not one to talk anyone out of adventure travel. Just be wise to what you're getting yourself into.[2]

[1] https://everydayastronaut.com/how-to-visit-starbase
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mexican-cartel-says-sorry-a...
Yeah, even Charles Manson has been up for parole 12 times.

https://www.charlesmanson.com/related/parole-hearings/
Ask HN: Tools for working with Vim regex?
I have been trying to convert fairly complex-for-me PCRE/JavaScript style regular expressions[1] to be Vim-compatible.

I have not been able to find any tool that will automatically convert to and from Vim regex. Is there one I have missed?

In addition, the main Regex testing apps I use (regexr.com and regex101.com) don't support Vim regex, which makes figuring out what's wrong more tedious.

The closest I have gotten is by asking Phind to do it (https://www.phind.com/search?cache=43967e8e-ec1c-4e9a-94ab-5049857e330f), but it does not produce a working result on its own.

The only real resource I've found is https://vimregex.com/.

Is there any automated tool that could help with this task?

Thanks!

[1]: This common-OCR-error-correcting regex is one of them: (?<!\b[A-Z][a-z]{3}|th|whil|i)(?:e|s)((?:\s|(?:\n){2})(?:"|*)?[A-Z]) (Edit: HN is removing some of the escape characters. See: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/curiositry/dad4379d7c6de3e5969e367f0a69aa4e/raw/49521de5694c3e839a63ca482574e0654c909ec6/regex.txt)
You’re on hacker news and you ask “why do I need an app?”, red alert.

I agree with you by the way.
I don't think I've ever run into an issue where arm64 packages are older than amd64 packages. Sometimes Debian Stable package versions are old, in which case I use backports, use the company's internal packages (which are often compiled for arm64), or compile it myself. It's no more of an issue on arm64 than on amd64.
I find it funny though that there is a specific warning on that page the it is not to be confused with Large Language Model.
Is intelligence even intelligent? Only thinking creature and you use your brain for murder machines. Sounds so intelligent. Everything here for everyone, yet some greedy pigs feel more deserving. Intelligence, more like a waste of human life. Intellectuals and computers have been a giant circle jerk. You couldn't support your own weight.
Regardless of your feelings about it, this is quite the sensation, in the news headline sense.

Tragedy often makes "sensational" news, I think that's all GP was trying to say. I'd be very impressed if you've never read a sensational headline that involves a tragedy and been amazed at how the unfolding story defied your expectations and kept you on the edge of your seat.
Based on the excerpts in the article it doesn't seem like he's denying much. Rather it seems more like he's trying to retroactively justify it/look for sympathy that I doubt he'll find.

> the imprisonment and degradation of his own daughter — is described thus: ‘At first it was just a mind game I played. But I got used to it. The idea, which had previously seemed so absurd, so monstrous to me, took shape.

> ‘One day I knew what I had to do. All that remained was to wait for the right opportunity. On that rainy Saturday morning the time had come. The thought had become action.’

> ‘It wasn’t easy, because the thoughts of what I had done were constantly circling within me,’ he says. ‘I was constantly energised. There was no one I could confide in. I had to look ahead and continue on the path I had chosen.’
> goes to show some people are complete nut jobs. Best to go slow with most people until they have proven themselves to be non-deranged.

For a moment I thought you were referring to all the commenters who thought this was a "SF going lawless" story.
That's not the real question. Mastodon can be successful without beating Twitter's numbers.
GPT 4 gives me example code so I can learn the missing system call or library call that I need to make something work. Previously, searching for those @#$@ calls took most of my time.
After reading this article, is it strange that I've always considered "IT" a separate discipline from "software development/engineering" ? In these parts, the connotation of "being in IT" means you're managing networks, servers, fixing people's email, etc.
I've tried that but am always foiled; the bike falls over or I'm distracted at the last minute by something else within the dream. Its like the mind is creating excuses not to wake up.
So much goes into open source and proper licensing and attribution, think about how much you directly or indirectly benefit from that ?

Just saying that we should go for a free for all and trash IP ownership won’t be good because those with money today will crush those without and take everything that was publicly available and owned without giving back.

This is IMO what Open AI have done.
I can tell you from firsthand experience that dogs dream. Some dogs "talk" in their sleep, move their legs as if walking or running -- the sequence from Cinderella (1950) when Bruno is dreaming of chasing Lucifer is only a slight to moderate exaggeration. A dreaming dog is definitely in a place far removed from waking life -- perhaps one where steaks grow on trees and blood-soaked frisbees fly through the air for no reason.
I'm a big fan of straight out of the box solutions. I make a point of starting projects often and from a clean slate and learning to use the tools in their default config. If defaults aren't good, change tooling. Customization is super fun but it's just another layer of complexity at the end of the day.

I love that fresh VM smell...
I have no idea, you're the one who used it.
Off-topic, but why do you cut the power at 4AM?
There was a meme when the Starlink beta was going on that people's cats were messing up their internet because they were snuggling up to the antenna
Next step, make sure MIT closes.
(assume AI replaces all workers by this point)

Step 3 here is like dividing both sides of a math equation by zero; you can make anything come out of logic if you assume nonsense.

Also, if AI has "replaced all workers" then why will the "big AI orgs" (presumably all made of AIs) need money for services at all? Surely it would be Full Luxury Space Communism time.
Ah, I see! Yes, there's that also. However, there's something strangely exciting about coping with a flickering screen for months, to turn your phone on one day to find it fixed - mainstream options tend to degrade over time instead! I'd say as a rough estimate that the PinePhone is about 95% there compared to a comparably-priced Android phone by this point.
Yes, we did.

Spending as a percentage of GDP isn't really a helpful metric. What it was 5, 10, 25, etc. years ago, well that was then and this is now. And right now people across the US political spectrum are feeling cheated, let down, etc. Another over-priced fighter jet isn't going to help where we are presently.

It's a question of focus and priorities. You said it yourself, we did it to ourselves. Why? Because swinging our big military dick all the time led us to believe we were invincible. And yet we haven't changed?

We out spead the next 10 or so counties *combined* and the majority of those are our allies. On top of that, all that spending (for example) didn't stop Russia did it? Didn't stop China from agreeing to supply weapons to Russia did it?

The MIC is real. But it's a 20th Century paradigm in 2023, what could go wrong?
very interested to see where this goes, hopefully this promotes more competition with OpenAI, as I'm getting a little uncomfortable with them having a near monopoly on high quality LLM models.
It's a form of potlach. Same reason why the elite class promotes ugly architecture and "fashion" that nobody wears.
Your question got me curious so I did some googling.

The current international agreement is (best I can tell) UNITED NATlONS: GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AND PRINCIPLES RELEVANT TO THE USE OF NUCLEAR POWER SOURCES IN OUTER SPACE [December 14, 1992]

https://csps.aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/Princ...

I only skimmed, but it says this:

> In order to mlnlmlze the quantity of radioactLve materzal in space and
the risks Involved, the use of nuclear power sources in outer space shall be
restrxcted to those space mLssions which cannot be operated by non-nuclear
energy sources in a reasonable way.

and

> (a) Nuclear reactors may be operated: (i) On interplanetary missions; (ii) In sufficiently high orbits as defined in paragraph 2 (h); (iii) In low-Earth orbits if they are stored in sufficiently high orbits after the operational part of their mission.

So it seems like nuclear reactors are restricted, but not completely banned. For an interplanetary mission to Jupiter, it would probably be allowed.
>I do not believe that you have actually reviewed all of Chopra's work.

>I don't really know much about him,

That you can write those two completely contradictory statements in the same post shows that you're just as full of it as Deepak. And that's really saying something, although you admittedly don't know enough about Deepak yourself to fully grasp what that means. But I do know something about him.
The alumina cannot be replaced with plastic for 2 reasons.

It must be hermetic, to keep the argon inside and the air outside, for the lifetime of the bulb.

It contributes to the high efficiency, by reflecting both the visible and the infrared light and preventing thus the heat loss from the lamp.

Nonetheless, alumina is less fragile than ordinary glass.

It might be possible to replace the quartz window with some kind of glass window, for a lower cost, but not with any kind of plastic, because it must also be hermetic and it must be usable as a substrate for thin film deposition in vacuum and it should have a coefficient of thermal expansion matched to those of the multiple layers of the infrared-reflecting filter.
You can be a Democrat while disagreeing with what some or even most of the prominent party members peddle. Politics is about compromise in exchange for solidarity.
Contrast with the bromide that “sunlight makes the best disinfectant”, which has become somewhat dated since the advent of the internet.
"..things are even more complicated than anyone imagines"

This, because almost the only know social paradigm related to aliens is mainly related to "alien conquerors". But there are LOTs of possibilities about what an alien life form or probes could be doing around and/or on Earth.

The possibilities are endless, they could be doing research, they could be interested in other stuff in the solar system (a handy orbital outpost near Jupiter to monitor, supervise, re-orient high speed vessels, without reaching the inner solar system?), maybe they're looking for ancient aliens who were detected 3 million of years ago (instead they've found us, not sure what to do about the talking meat-bags), maybe our understanding of the universe is still way below the standard required to really understand them (just like octopuses and dolphins are highly intelligent but don't know how build microchips or space ships), you name it, it is possible.

Also, all the conspiracy theories are feasible too, because we've already "de-debunked" enought conspiracy theories in the last 50 years which ended being real, that we should really think about those "unthinkable" crazy hypothesis all around Internet and way before Internet.
> Which may have existed in human populations from the beginning

Well, autism is said to related to percent of Neanderthal. e.g. (2016) https://newsroom.uw.edu/story/human-neanderthal-gene-varianc...
The person you are responding to is saying authorization isn’t always needed if they are exploiting a vulnerability.

The fact that you allow a data connection may be enough to zero-click you.

It’s like putting your computer on the internet and opening ports.

You might think you are fine if you are up-to-date, but the reality is we don’t know about all of the current vulnerabilities and potential buffer overflows until much later.
"Reality. ChatGPT has been working fine for me but I have a ton of programming experience so I can easily fix any mistakes. I will be upgrading to plus soon.'

I think this is the reality of the current crop of LLMs. It's like having and assistant that you need to constantly check on. If you have lots of experience you can quickly catch the problems and move on but if you don't then it slows you down. My feeling is that in every field that it influences it will make experts more productive by reducing the tedious parts but for novice it will help but they won't have a 10x increase in productivity.

My general AI view is that to get the most of it you better become an expert in your field so you can catch problems with the output fast. Those that don't or can't will have a tough future trying to compete in the job market.
The sticking point for me here is that you are pointing out that it could be very difficult but have not come out right and said you suspect it to be impossible - that would be a fine response to the top level question of what is stopping you from simulating a human in software; "the fundamental error in simulating those atoms is great enough that we would no longer see expected macro behaviors like predictable chemistry". I wouldn't expect you to say it with the same level of conviction, but assailing a question like that with practical concerns instead of the principle of the matter feels like it misses the point a little.

Asking "why should it be possible" is very reasonable - but you gotta ask it. My take on it is simple; the interactions between things can be reliably predicted - if not exactly then with a model whose outputs are indistinguishable from reality.
The generated paths are not shortest. Click the "About" section for details. It intentionally generates longer paths through smaller articles.
You don’t have to read tea leaves: https://www.kff.org/other/press-release/poll-large-majoritie... (“In each case, large majorities across partisan lines, including more than 7 in 10 Republicans, think such discrimination against LGBTQ people should be illegal.”). These folks are upset about the “existence of transgender people,” but also want to make it illegal to discriminate against them?

You can understand the “culture war” by applying your own description of the “liberal interpretation.” As you aptly summarized, liberals don’t care about biological determination because they believe in people being free to express themselves without being limited to traditional norms and categories. It was when liberals started to advance that view—for example by promoting drag shows, which are about cis men dressing up as women as a form of self expression—that they triggered the culture war.
Thanks; I didn't know that! Do you happen to know whether Hexagon is just a simple DSP processor on the PinePhone's A64, or is more advanced with direct memory access etc.?
AI is the new printing press, and the establishment wants a tight grip on it as always.
/r/all is a thing and some people use it.
I agree, it would be so cool if we could get there in a couple of weeks.

At least once the spacecraft arrives, it will (assuming everything goes well) do some very interesting exploring. So something to look forward to, even if it takes a long time.
This uses carbon nanotubes, which can have asbestos-like effects on the lungs. Nanotubes are great for tons of applications, but especially those where safe disposal procedures are possible.

If these are a replacement for LEDs with better properties, these would be widely deployed in everything from lighting to devices. I wonder whether at that scale this presents a safety challenge, given the probability of breaking and the way people dispose things. The glass substrate does hold them in place, but what happens when the glass breaks in all the myriad ways it can in real life?