skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super cool! Being able to chain together multiple generative models seems like it will definitely be able to help people who normally aren't the creative type to start getting creative. Or at least give them easy-to-use tools so more people can make more content :)
Yeah! I'm going to ramble for a bit because I'm about to leave the house and just want to print all my thoughts on the matter. I actually think there will be a new genre of 'non-fiction' games once hallucinations are minimized. For example I experimented with this animal game for Wikipedia, where you could play about any animal and learn about its unique lifecycle and so on. You would go through a few years of its life, die, and be reborn as a new animal. Was really fun especially if you start at the beginning of life on Earth, GPT-4 will already let you evolve pretty reasonable traits. It can simulate living through historical events etc. The problem though is costs... if we want the game to be accurate biologically, eg. for plants or bacteria the decision are boiling down to much more simple chemical responses, than more abstract human concepts --- then my prompts are way too big. GPT4 is too averagey it get it perfect without defining a ton of end cases. And then getting it to not hallucinate, just makes it not feasible. Scraping Wikipedia for random animals, loading in that data, and making sure that animal, its environment, the types of actions it can take, and so on is just too expensive to prompt engineer. I tried to simulate all the scenarios out and print it into mermaid.js and it is a cambrian explosion. At the point I had an interesting game with realistic characteristics I was spending $10 every few hours just by myself to test it. So IMO there will be a fine tuned model for this task... Chat GPT 4+ will probably be used for the highest level function for deciding if a goal was met, understanding its own limits, etc. and more finely tuned models will live down in the stem for example to check if an action an animal can take is realistic (eg. I am a bear, so I have a paw, so I can do this)... that kind of stuff needs to get hardcoded into the model at the bottom layers.
I believe it can and ultimately will, given enough training data.
What are the benefits to humanity of these "experiments", exactly?

As far as I can tell, they are doing nothing but accelerating damage to Earth's environment and ecosystems in order to reach a, quite literally, dead planet. It doesn't make any sense if you step outside of the hype bubble and cult of personality.
The other comment said it best. Let's say programming is going way. Do you think there is suddenly a need for hundreds of millions of trade workers? The economy will support that...? Have you thought this through?
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/782/justinians-plague-5...
If thats all they were sure, but a lot of configs do use the names. Like /etc/apt/sources.list or whatnot.
The ChatGPT-powered decompiler for Python
Hi, y'all!

Did you know that Python code is "compiled" into a set of instructions called bytecode, which is then executed on a VM?

I have created a Python "decompiler" that uses the ChatGPT functionality and is very rudimentary. If you are interested, please see the README in the following repository for an example of decompilation and run pip install pychd to see how it works on your hand!
I love the clean design and healthkit integration, but for me it can't beat Glooko. Mainly for the integration with my T:Slim x2 insulin pump, so I can correlate what control-IQ is doing to my insulin, with my blood glucose readings from my CGM. That's super important to me to make decisions about pump settings.
Ask HN: CLRS or Others?
I've been reading CLRS, and while it contains a lot of theoretical information and mathematical proofs, which is great if I want to pursue a career in computer science research, I'm really looking to learn algorithms and data structures from the ground up to become interview-ready at most companies, including MAANG.

Can anyone recommend a book that strikes a balance between theoretical background and practical information with exercises along the way? I want to solidify my understanding of the concepts and be well-prepared for technical interviews.
That is fine when it comes to competition. How does a graphic artist or programmer compete?
> I wasn't really reacting to anything about NPR. I don't even know really what that is. I was just pointing out looking at these things in isolation is not very information.

That's fine, but the NPR thing was basically the entire impetus of this comment train, so that particular commentary wasn't relevant.
sadly this is the consequence of green emissions standards legislation passed in 2009. thanks Obama
I really think most Ubuntu users should give Fedora a spin. It's really polished, Red Hat has no interest in pushing proprietary nonsense (Flatpaks, if you choose to use them, are decentralized), the immutable system work in Silverblue/Kinoite is really interesting, and dnf is just nicer to use than apt. You have a full transaction history and can undo a numbered transaction, I have no idea why apt still doesn't have that.
Web Animations
Is there any plan to support larger models than GPT-2?
yawn who cares? If it’s an issue, let law enforcement handle it. Everything has nefarious uses. Humanity marches on.
Elon Musk Says He Is “Personally” Paying for Some Twitter Users’ Blue Subs
I remember first learning about taal from this Sarah Thawer video. It's a really fun watch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tXGD4Ik7BI4
> It feels like that these two blog posts (and the one by lacorta) are the only ones that anti-PGP folks on HN could find on internet. There are far more tutorials on the use of PGP than on its problems

They're the ones that come up because (1) they're good, (2) they're increasingly "old" (indicating that these problems are not newly identified), and (3) they're reputable sources.

Besides, technical volume doesn't mean anything (and certainly doesn't imply quality): there are innumerable copies of the Anarchist's Cookbook on the Internet, and the sheer number of volumes doesn't make their contents any less likely to blow your hand off.

The problems identified are not unique to email encryption; email encryption stands out as a punching bag for PGP's failures because of how consistently PGP fails to provide meaningful security while the rest of the world has moved on. Notably, all of the problems related to PGP signatures in emails are shared by codesigning with PGP.

> Decentralized trust is a very good idea. PGP provides useful functionalities around that. Keybase was a good project, but sadly was acquired and has since stopped.

This hasn't been true for years (PGP's strong set and web of trust are dead, in thanks part to poor format design that enabled trivial resource attacks on keyservers. And the second part contradicts the first: the thing that made Keybase useful was that it centralized and made (mostly) work a bunch of things that don't work in "bare" PGP (such as actual proofs of identity/account possession).
Cos we're not elephant seals.
your app is in a bad place when fraud is a part of your pitch don’t you think? …
Does Taiwan have a justified reputation for safety?
Biofuel is not a solution. Not now, at least. It’s just so damn inefficient, you are better off with an oil well, if you care about the environment.

Airline travel is only better than cars if you compare it to a 1-passenger car, and then ignore anything other than CO2 emissions. It’s pretty bad.
If nothing else, Musk has a lot more entertaining method of boring tunnels now than those slow tunnel boring machines.
Guess the Game
Wasn't the emission requirements raised for trucks too? How is it only affecting small vehicles?
I found it remarkable that Taiwan is listed as the third safest place in the world behind UAE and Qatar
Maybe think of the children.

Why should they go to school at all? Why should they study? What should they study? What should I tell them?

A person who works in tourism just told me that he wants to learn something safer, because he had no job during COVID, so he started studying web design. All I could tell him is that that job has peaked, and I believe tourism is safer at this point.
I started my ML journey in TensorFlow, and now I am a happy PyTorch user, for many years.

TensorFlow, yuck
Sadly, most people don't care. They'll buy a $200 Chromebook on Black Friday, use it a year, then toss it. Donating is an option, but can be a pain for some people. Giving it to your child or a family member is another option, but oftentimes their old and the battery sucks, so it's not worth it.

One of the worst offenders of e-waste I see these days are DISPOSABLE e-cigs.. they last a few weeks or so then you throw them away, or worse, onto the street (I've counted at least a couple dozen on the ground so far). Imagine millions of those li-on batteries in the trash or on the street.
The page literally says prescription required though? Insane price however.
I knew it seemed familiar. It’s based on the fiat strada, a unibody based pickup that for the longest has been based on a modified fiat hatchback (fiat uno first, fiat Palio later, not sure about now, maybe the argos)

The closest us equivalent in the US may be a Hyundai Santa Cruz, which sells ok-ish, the Honda rigid line, which sells okish too, and the Ford Maverick which sells like hot cakes.

RAM, like Ford, had the reputation. A rebadged Fiat toro may do the trick.
Yes, and that's valuable signal as well.
Good old zero vision. It is being adopted all over the US now with tragic results for pedestrians and drivers. It's not in your head, the traffic lights are being changed to make you crazy. I both cycle and drive, and zero vision strikes an odd balance of making everything worse, except very specific urban environments such as Stockholm.
People are willing to pay $10k a year for college, very high conversion rate.
People are willing to pay for tutoring, at rate that's probably about 10% of student base, despite its very high costs ($50/h, not $20/m)

At the very minimum, I can already see every university and high school student paying for GPT-4. Its a way way way more powerful essay writer and personal tutor than GPT3.5, that alone is incentive to upgrade. For only $20 a month.

Know what GPT-4 currently is insanely capacity limited. So far, the limitation is not on the demand side, but the supply side.

Getting 100 million users in 3 months with 0 marketing or network effects already annihilates existing records, getting 10% conversion is nothing special.
> If machines that bullshit are philosophically indistinguishable from intelligent humans, how is it that humans that bullshit are distinguishable from intelligent humans?

Well, if we use the ReAct model, the flow of action involves the LLM narrating its reasoning and then acting on it. Which can still be bullshit, of course, but its at least a different thing than a post hoc rationalization when questioned. (Of course, we know that when questioned about past actions, humans often construct post hoc rationalizations, too.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35648544
> Zelensky's party goes from about 40% to about 60%, and wouldn't need to form a coalition government.

Can you cite your source for that information? I can't seem to find anything which matches it.

Based on below it appears they had a ~56% majority in the last election. Has there been a change in the composition since then?

"In the 21 July 2019 parliamentary election, Zelenskyy's political party, Servant of the People, won the first single-party majority in modern Ukrainian history in parliament, with 43 per cent of the party-list vote. His party gained 254 of the 424 seats.[113]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy

"All 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada
226 seats needed for a majority"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_parliamentary_e...
What's that as a fraction of median income? A brief search seems to suggest it's on the high side, over 40% at any rate.
I dont think I have ever said this though. Telling truck drivers to learn to code was disgusting and horrible. There HAS to be a better solution to these things that society can come up with. I don't have those answers, but jesus christ look at the shit show below my original comment. I am not saying pause research, stop AI, or do anything like that. I welcome the eradication of certain medical issues. I just want to know what society will do? To be frank I have said in other threads as well... if I lose my visa and job my only solution I've thought of as of yet is suicide.
Yeah I was considering whether to include TurboPFor at some point or not. It looks really good, but for my particular use case is not applicable due to GPL license.
Having everyone in the video cheer when it blew up was weird to me.

I guess it’s progress... but feels like catastrophic failure isn’t really something to cheer.

Just reminds me of Challenger blowing up. Y’know? Not a good feeling to watch these things explode.
... where have I seen this before ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_II%3A_The_Quickenin...
I feel generally there is too much but I can respect your desire for more tailored content. It just seems discovery would be difficult in such a landscape.
Another way to think about it is that we really don't know what changes drive towards survival as a fitness function, so nature tries as many of them as possible. Teams that make more shots generally make more goals -- more attempts provide more opportunity to find the "thing" that improves evolutionary survival.

The lesson for VCs is then that more competition, more players in the same general space give more shots at the goal and thus more chances to "win".

It seems wasteful, but every survivor may advance something a few percent, and over a few generations of companies, you can up with large advances in a technology area.

There's the other approach, sit quietly, spend loads of time thinking and trying to engineer your way there in one shot.

The best modern version of this that I can think of is the Space Launch System (SLS) vs. Starship.

The SLS was the "think long" version while Starship was the "iterate fast".

If you handwave away the Space Shuttle and the Falcon programs, both started within a few years of each other. SLS has had a successful launch, and Starship blew up on stage separation.

Early on it looked like Starship would surpass SLS, but as of today, SLS is technically a more successful program. Yet in the spirit of "you can win the battle but win the war", requirements have changed -- reusability is part of the plan. SLS isn't, Starship intends to be.

Who will "win" in the end? Well reusability of course, as a fitness function it checks all the boxes for long term survival. Rapid iteration is a mimicry of evolution in that sense that it can hopefully change and adapt to changing environmental conditions (changing requirements), and hopefully result in successful survival.

Sitting back and thinking hard thoughts, while it can appear to provide better thought through designs, may end up missing changes in the environment. You might produce a wooly mammoth, or a sabre-toothed tiger, and then humans show up all of sudden over the bearing straight.
It's with make - a modern build system should be content addressed and not rely on mtimes to determine if anything is out of date. Add on that many make builds are nondeterministic and you have a recipe for sadness.
Pretty much every tower looks better than this abomination.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=airport+tower&hps=1&iax=images&ia=...
This same sort of logic can be applied to a lot of things like Soviet style collective farms. A few Kulaks killed and starved is better for the Soviet Union. I just don't think it is a good argument.
Home Labbing: This Mutant Motherboard/CPU Combo Could Be the Perfect Solution
The best kind of hockey sticks.
It's really not, since they're used to generate or manage so many make builds.
Debian testing doesn’t get security updates. I’d rather run Debian sid (unstable). But tbh I don’t run Debian myself.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

It is a good idea to install security updates from unstable since they take extra time to reach testing and the security team only releases updates to unstable
Yeah, sure. If you're running some successful bakery in Kagurazaka having the nice-looking truck feels like a "fine" decision. My mental image is that Townaces are bigger, but maybe that's just my impression from the Kangoo's curves
GPT4 is much better than GPT3.5 at producing valid JSON and nothing else.

What I’ve found quite useful is to extract text from the first { and last }. This solves the problem of GPT adding some “helpful” explanations outside the JSON.
LOL, I tried that at Apple, was immediately made to pack my stuff after watch of a security guard and escorted off premises. As if I couldn't copy their stuff first and give notice later if that was my intent.

Now obviously, in a mom and pop shop, I would discuss my desire to leave before I even started looking and help find/train my replacement, while they would likewise help me find a new job that better fits my life situation. But that's just not how corporate America works.
The law is from the 70s, but reaffirmed and expanded https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_econo...
Can you elaborate on what American dirt roads means? Japan has tons of dirt/gravel roads. A typical operating environment for a kei truck might look like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.9510791,138.6746615,3a,75y,2...

They are pretty capable offroad vehicles.
Same. It took me years to even figure out I could just buy programming books from the store. But progs like Magenta and AOHell, plus the F1 help/documentation built into vb and the like, set me on the path.
so from a traction perspective electric motors are dynamically stable while ICE are dynamically unstable.
It makes tou nowhere nearly 2x productive. Usefull yes but 2x is a dream
This is a useful guide to the different shells in emacs:

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/running-shells-in-ema...

(the whole site has lots of information about emacs)
Bravo, dude.

The analogy I go to is that of a living versus a dead language, which I got from my dad. He was a professional cellist for years before he said screw it, got an MBA, and went into finance, and I always thought this was some tragic compromise on his part—but when I finally asked him about it (well into my twenties and figuring out my own career) he said it was nothing of the sort: finance back then (~late eighties, trading latin american sovereign debt) had much more innovation, competition, and energy around it then classical music had (or will ever have again: it was dead). We should treasure the art movements we have while we have them.

(proceeds to rewatch several Xiao Xiaos)

(proceeds to generate dog photos with Stable Diffusion)

(proceeds to futz with midis, slouching towards counterpoint)
This is silly, dual motor 4 wheel drive should be standard for EVs.
The cheating sites I see on the first page of Google seem to charge around $10-$30/page. GPT is cheaper, but lower quality. I don't think the market for tens of dollars cheaper but shittier quality than buyessayfriend.com is anywhere near every highschool and college student.
Of course it still is… smaller cars, smaller batteries, better all around.
The scary thing is that this kind probably killed orders of magnitudes more people than the one everybody is afraid of.
I can't get it to work, it keeps crashing on me.
The 2016 demoscene production "Through the Cracks" has some similarly catastrophic effects on Youtube's encoder, particularly around 2:30:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N5CLcSkkWs
But

> the law requires that the issuing banks hold a sum of Bank of England banknotes or gold equivalent to the total value of notes issued
Your statement in itself is a bit contradictory. You say that if it's all that you're exposed to it shapes what you believe but on the other hand you say that there was riots between a different political persuasions.

If Fox News was pushed upon the prison population with no other alternate choice for the people to get news then according to your own statement it would have shaped the narrative of all peoples in the prison thus not leading to riots. If Fox News was again the only option but some people believed and other people did not believe then it supports my position that those who were predisposed to believing the outrageousness of this claim chose to believe it while others chose not to.

Also keep in mind that while this is a particularly large and settlement because it is against a company other media outlets as of late have also settled for definition suits against individuals. All mainstream media seems to be intentionally polarizing and using lies to do it. Often times they back down quick enough from their lies to not get a lawsuit but it's the initial lie that they know that they told is the one that spread the farthest.
Some of the GPU shader languages restrict the code so that it's "almost" impossible to have a segmentation fault.

I know it's not what you are looking for since it's not making nearly enough bounds checks. I thought I'd drop a mention since it's widely available.
Libre is very good but I unfortunately developmed an allergy to the glue they use. So you have to test and see.

Also these devices have a bias and a drift and are useful for trending, not for exact results all the time. However to monitor how blood sugar trends semi-quantitatively and identify which foods cause how much spike etc, more than sufficient.
> Jokes are the unit tests of our understanding.

That’s deep. Never heard it before, it does make sense. Thanks.
Why were none of the existing solutions good for you? Glooko, Clarity, Nightscout all come to mind
Those girls must also _be_ in their 70s.
Yes, I am absolutely suggesting that. Not all engines but petroleum fuelled combustion engines, yes.

The world is going through a mass extinction event because of burning oil and coal and combustion engines have been an absolutely integral part of that ecological disaster. So yes.

Just be real about it? Why do “EV” subsidies exist? To wean us off combustion engines to save the planet.

Combustion engines should’ve been much more carefully regulated and we should’ve had better incentives against their use.
I've always thought a carbon credit/tax, or more broadly an externality credit/tax, system, would resolve these issues. Then the users will pay the real cost always, and obviates the need to ponder.
Ask HN: How do you prepare for “HN Hug of death”?
When a "Show HN" post is created by an app developer, the obvious effect of that is a massive load on the backend server of the app, bringing down the server. I have read posts here on HN, where developers who were unprepared for this spike in server load experienced, what is now well known as, the "HN hug of death".

So how do you prepare for avoiding this fate before creating a "Show HN" post?