skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, interesting. It sounds like that would mean the language area of the brain is responsible for C? Or is it the architecture of LLMs that is just working on thought patterns?

I'm not sure current LLMs could run efficiently in what is basically real time. Even if a single input returns in sub-seconds, doing that a hundred times a second would probably take a huge number of GPUs.
There is a strict sense in which PGP does not remain on the table for you, because PyPI does not (and will not, on this developer’s clean conscience) ever support PGP for authentication :-)

As said in adjacent threads, PyPI intends to add support for other OIDC providers once they give us the claims we need. Whether or not you choose to use it is ultimately up to you; normal API tokens will continue to work.
Great start! I suggest a voice over as well so people don’t have to look at the screen while they are doing the exercise. You can record your voice, or you can use nowadays a plethora of AI voices, for example ElevenLabs.
Small chunks of debris flinging a few hundred feet from a rocket are well within the realm of anticipated ordinary risks of any rocket launch. It is effectively a missile or bomb with the amount of fuel that's loaded into it, it could do far worse like explode on the ground. That's why observers have to sit like 2-3 miles away.
I am a big casual user of anthropomorphic language for what computers are up to. I do it not because it's true, but because it's more engaging to say that "the computer is confused about X and so it's mad". But I'm wondering if that's dangerous when it comes to things that produce pseudo-human output. E.g.:

> I think that the LLM thinks that it cannot generate code for the simple task. Unlike every other computer API in existence we can prompt the LLM to tell us why it responded in the way it does.

I agree the LLM is going to produce text that is going to be narratively consistent with the assumptions of the question. But we already know LLMs are giant bullshitters. Is there any reason to think they are doing actual introspection and description of internal state? Or are they just going to give plausible-sounding words?
I forgot to add, the reason I know the 3 emaciated deer are not in that condition from disease but rather from malnutrition is that 2 of them are making a recovery. One was too far gone.
...if by "fixing" you mean driving us further towards corporate-authoritarian dystopia.

"If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."
Yes and no. My first thought was "... and, what, pay royalties to the contributors?" But the thing that the ML community has been doing is wholesale IP laundering and somebody needs to hold them to task for that.
decent uses this for their software for their espresso machines. Unfortunately, they don't really have any software expertise internally, so the product is largely a buggy mess.
I know they have never ridden kei trucks. I'm a 175cm Japanese and its seat and space is obviously uncomfortable. It's fine for the purpose (carrying farm equipment and other stuff, drive max like 10km at 60km/s) but not comparable with richer trucks. Looks better to compare with 90s Hilux.
That doesn't mean that neurons could be in multiple states at the same time which is what you were implying. That particular assertion is still horribly wrong.
Well no. Micropayments imply you pay authors. Adsense and other platforms do not require that. Apples and oranges, fyi.

Micropayments are suffering because most folks aren't willing to pay for content. Paywalls have shown that depending on the few is a viable strategy.

You say that an ad supported web needs to die, but I will point out that such a move would even kill Wikipedia, as they rely on their ad-driven donations to keep them alive.
This is kind of dumb. SpaceX not only was aware of the damage that would likely be caused, but there are already steel pieces of a flame diverter that arrived a couple of weeks ago at Starbase:
https://twitter.com/CosmicalChief/status/1644405156132290560...

They intentionally chose not to install it yet to accelerate the launch (it has been two years without flight testing, they need more data and this booster needed to be gone). It's a perfectly fine decision, it just means more repair after this inaugural flight than normal. If the cost of the repair is less than the cost of delay (and delay impacts Starlink, various payload customers, and especially NASA's Artemis program), then you're a poor manager if you choose delay.

The media have largely been completely ignorant about this kind of testing. Exception being those who have space as their main beat, like Space News, etc. Everyone in the space industry pretty much understands the concept of a test regime that has a high probability of failure. They understand that it's about an order of magnitude cheaper and about 3 times faster than the usual defense contractor "failure is not an option" approach. That's why you had such supportive comments from the NASA Administrator and anyone else who is actually in this industry.
The higher internal precision only applies to the classic x87 operations under most circumstances, AFAIK.
That the pretraining can be compressed down into DNA, combined with a second source of DNA through sex, then decompressed/expressed to build a brain that wires itself up as it grows from a handful of cells, resulting in a conscious being at the end is nothing shorter of amazing.

The numbers involved are also an order magnitude greater. In a human brain, there are approximately 60 trillion connections between neurons. Made with a variety neurotransmitters and regulated by a host hormones as well, not single floating point weights.
This is a great feature, but its name is going to confuse people.

Before I read the article, I thought it was going to be about some kind of additional verification process to check that publishers are not malicious and have adequate security practices, resulting in two tiers of publishers, "trusted" and "untrusted". You might then configure pip to only install packages from "trusted publishers" by default, and you have to go through some scary confirmation prompts to install packages from untrusted ones.

Then I read the article, and I realise it wasn't what I was expecting at all. If you'd called it "OIDC Authenticated Publishers", I would have known what it was about from the start, and wouldn't have walked into the topic with the wrong expectation
Having been, myself, relentlessly bullied by closed-minded bigots, I can confidently say that getting away from environments like that is priceless.
It's an interesting question, I'm not sure. This is mentioned under the Health Risks section though:

"In people who have undergone testosterone deprivation therapy, testosterone increases beyond the castrate level have been shown to increase the rate of spread of an existing prostate cancer."

So there's probably myriad scenarios where one needs to balance testosterone levels with maintaining physical activity/strength training.
> All of this textual information is defined in a JSON object I describe to GPT

Do you get json back from chat gpt as well? Is this consistent? I hadn't really though about using it as an api platform.
I learned a lot from his writing. This view of the immune system really shifted my perceptions too. Maybe having your work help people, even years after your death, isn't a bad legacy.
> SpaceX did the X, we got max Q.

What does this mean?
The user was implying neurons could be in multiple states at the same time because...quantum mechanics. Wrong conclusion even from this link.
Have people made replacement software for those? They always seemed like the kind of thing where that'd happen if it's in any way friendly to it.
Kangoo buyers in Japan also cares fashion. Japanese vans like Toyota Townace are too boring for them but Kangoo is cute.
> WebGPU is supported in your browser!

> Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: WebGPU is not yet available in Release or Beta builds.

Anyone using Chromium care to chime in?

If no one chimes in I might set up a Chromium browser up just to take a look at this, seems pretty cool.
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Yes, there are other reasons why a post might get killed that are not the same thing as an account being banned. If an account is banned, all its posts are killed (except the ones that users vouch for - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Other filters, though, will kill a post without banning the account. For example, a domain might be banned, in which case all submissions of URLs from that domain will get killed—but in most cases this won't affect the account.

(You're welcome re answering! I try hard to answer all the questions I see, at least the sincere ones that it seems possible to answer - but yes, there's also just too much to do a good job in every case.)
What advantages does Firebird have over SQLite for an Android app?

It's biggest advantage is concurrent writes, but that shouldn't be a big factor on mobile.
Why is a constant stream of ultra high resolution input from ~5 senses for years not count as a huge volume of data? Not to mention all the pre-training data encoded in the brains blueprint via DNA through natural selection? If anything, LLMs are more impressive than humans and animals in that they only have access to text to build a world model from a tabula rasa.
Then outsource the curation to someone else by letting people create a feed of trusted packages that pip can be configured for or something. Then we can point pip at pip.name.com/packages.json instead of having to host an artifactory for simple use cases.
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I wonder what a screen reader reads out when it encounters this
That's how you get illegally compromised hardware. Better send the bootdisk image (which should be small given that their servers are diskless (Netboot?)
It seems odd to me that you're complaining that Google experts are not seeing the bigger picture, when from what I see they are the ones taking ethical concerns seriously.

If solving health and safety risks is "not realistic for the current crop of LLMs", maybe they in fact should not be in the wild? LLM's already have a body count [1], so child safety doesn't sound like an unreasonable thing to ask about. Dumping the responsibility on parents does not actually mitigate the ethical concerns; its just a way of ignoring the "larger picture".

[1] E.g., https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/430098/belgian-man-com...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/preponderance_of_the_evidenc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
I wasn't aware of that. Can you recommend further reading?
Looks like there is a price - otherwise people wouldn't be moving here in droves. Also Houston being full of close minded bigots is hilarious to me, it's far more racially integrated than NYC. You seem to be the one that's a bigot
Your title really sounds more like "I still haven't figured out what I should do with my life: Why I find it hard to sincerely debate what I think my values and aspirations should be".

That's ok. Life is not an exam and you're not being graded. Not unless you consent to be, and certainly not against other people's criteria, figure out your own. When you say "performative" and "vicarious", sounds like you're afraid to articulate what you think might interest you. Douglas Adams, Mike Rowe, Sean Aiken ("The One-Week Job Project: One Man, One Year, 52 Jobs") etc. tried out a ton of stuff before they eventually found their calling.

For example, recast "II. my experiment with TFA" to "what I expected about the job, career, teaching, my aptitude, my motivations" vs "what I learned about each of those". If you want to update that section, I think people would be interested in rereading the details. Looking forward, how can you now apply what you've learned about all of that? Let your glass be half-full on that. Each of us has had experiences we were unsuited for, that's part of life, just don't become paralysed with analysis, too much analysis is as bad as none at all. (TFA famously has low retention rate, for multiple reasons, btw.)
Scammers can't even be bothered to register domains now.
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells are something oncologists have been looking at to create an unlimited number of T cell's, and PSC comes from the bones, so I wonder if bone health is an indicator of immune system response? Its quite common for people to break bones and the flat bones have the red bone marrow that makes the pluripotent stem cells. They can take Mesenchymal Stem Cells and convert them in the test tube into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to then become T Cells in the body, but I think they have as much control over the differention of T Cells once in the body like some oncologists using radioactive iodine for thyroid cancer only to find it dispersed around the body with some congregating in the thyroid and not having teh effect they hoped for.

In todays polluted world I wonder if we dont get enough omega 3's considering the role's they play and the triterpenoid's seem interesting.

The most surprising results I've seen is with a batch of histidine, but subsequent batches didnt solicit the same results which makes me wonder if the 1st batch was something like histidine dipeptides or some other reason like cellular pools being depleted of something. Considering histidine helps immune cells move through tissue to targets, aging suggests histidine levels are depleting even if an individual is healthy.

Same goes with glutathione, in disease and aging, it also depletes to dangerously low levels, problem is bacterial biofilms love it to reactivate themselves and until recently it was thought supplementing was a waste, but recent studies contradict this idea.
Yes, I get back only JSON. I found that providing a sample object is the best way to be consistent. I also have some basic validation on fields and have follow-up calls if needed. For example, dialog must be 1 character and at max 255. If I see empty dialog or too long dialog (or any other invalid fields), I pass back the JSON to GPT as well as the basic list of 'this property is wrong due to X' and make it provide a new JSON object.
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max Q is the point of largest aerodynamic load during a launch/flight.
…yet in the same article he’s talking about selling the data to LLM developers.

It’s hard to make sense of.
Right, but I mean even of non immune cells.
Strangely, there's a small amount of recent activity on the GitHub repo.
Bad people came for the library. People with meanness & smallness in their hearts.
Military pilots are trained to interpret their instruments and sensors in very specific ways that relate to combat information. Those instruments and sensors are, in turn, designed to collect and present readings in very specific ways. Both the human pilots and the devices they use are imperfect and subject to both systematic and random errors. Much of the data in the purported sighting incidents falls into the area where both instrument and pilot are outside their designed regime. In those places, things with perfectly normal explanations are subject to mis-interpretation. One example I'm aware of is claims of a some object rolling and turning in what appear to physically extreme, if not impossible, ways, turns. out to be explained by noting that the artifacts like diffraction spikes follow the changes in the direction of the light source relative to the observer and instrument, as the device slews through its range of motion.
I wasn't aware of the variability in thymic involution. I guess most studies focus on averages. If you have links to more information about these outliers I'd be very interested in reading up on them.

The most recent literature that I'm seeing is showing the most pronounced time of thymus involution occurring around puberty, suggesting a programmed switch from a growing to reproductive phase of life.

"Regardless of the seemingly crucial role of the thymus in preserving homeostasis, its involution in humans and other mammals begins in childhood and peaks around puberty, resulting in an almost completely non-functional organ in aging."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156816372...

In this light the following makes sense (stopping or suppressing the switch to a reproductive life).
"Castrating rodents before puberty or reducing the levels of sex hormones [e.g., by using Lupron, which desensitizes the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) receptors] can attenuate or markedly recover the involution process in aging mice."
We don't know that in any way that is relevant. A biological neuron is complex and made of lots of elements where very fine interactions can plausibly have effect, so in a sense, there is a combinatorially infinite space of neuron-states, but there's no evidence its upper-level computational function that leads to learning and producing adaptive outputs in response to inputs is not discrete. Indeed it seems that most of the complexity [that isn't just "piping" for life functions – don't forget these things aren't semiconductors in metallic sheets fabricated by TSMC, they have to migrate to their sites and branch out on their own, they consume, they excrete, they function for many decades!] is redundant and serves to compensate for various biological shortcomings like low transmission speed, limited bandwidth, noise and stochasticity, developmental abnormalities, cell death etc.

Analog computers also don't have infinite states, because of the noise floor.

A synapse can encode at most some low tens of states[1], synapses are discrete, spiking is discrete, receptor density is discrete, each neurotransmitter release is made up of discrete number of vesicles with a discrete number of molecules, even epigenetic expression is discrete. That it's not all perfectly algorithmically executed is not key to the function being performed – and anyway, at the limits of high-performance compute we also start to deal with esoteric processes, and ways of suppressing them. We didn't design the brain nor do we have perfect ways of observing it in vivo, so we can't always neatly distinguish the wheat and the chaff; but this cannot be seriously taken as a cause to think it's all wheat.
Non-human animals show that it's not magic either; even apes, with brains architecturally almost (not wholly) identical to ours but smaller, cannot learn any of the hard symbol-manipulating stuff that we or later GPTs can and that we colloquially refer to as intelligent behavior and reward economically. This, I think, is a very strong prior for that sort of intelligence not being dependent on some low-level expressivity of biological neural computational substrate.

Penrose-Hamerroff's "quantum effects in microtubules" thesis is crank science not supported by any direct evidence.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5247597/
this is what Microsoft is trying with Office 365 GPT approach, where they are siphoning training data from every company and offering graphs and summaries in return
One of the biggest factor in gas prices in CA and the rest of the west coast is that much the oil comes from Alaska which is a more expensive source and then is refined in smaller west coast refineries that cost more to run. The result is an overall higher baseline cost for gasoline all along the US West coast.
That's wildly good. Wow.
Collectors are in luck and don't need an accreditation: "A vehicle may be permanently imported for show or display. Written approval from DOT is required and should be obtained before the vehicle is exported from the foreign country to the U.S."[1]

1. https://www.cbp.gov/trade/basic-import-export/importing-car
How are they taking ethical concerns seriously? They launched the thing despite the internal employees' feedback that the thing lies and says things that would lead to injury or death.
Back when I was in high school, you had to submit your website to Yahoo, and choose which "neighborhood" it belonged in.
The Wikipedia article is a good start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding
Gas taxes are going to have to be replaced for funding road repairs. Might as well include a weight tax for vehicle registration.
It's not quite the same thing, but The Architecture of Open Source Programs (https://aosabook.org/en/index.html) has a wealth of knowledge that is well worth exploring.
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Many times, the springs are very poorly adjusted, and so the garage door cannot be easily opened without an electric motor to do the lifting. The fact that yours is well adjusted doesn't change this fact.

Moreover, the method of opening a well adjusted garage door without power is only available to you if you can reach the handle to pull down on the cord. People who are short enough, or in a wheelchair are unlikely to be able to reach that handle.

And that long handle on a cord is also a security risk -- criminals can take a properly bent coat hanger wire, pass the wire between the door and the wall, snag the cord, and pull down on the handle from outside. And then they will be able to open the garage door, just by pushing up on it.

There's lots of reasons why a law like this might be passed. These are only three that I can think of based on personal experience with garage doors during power outage conditions.

Yes, we have a garage door with a battery backup. The lights aren't powered by the battery, but the garage door will still open during a power outage. And my wife will be able to press the button on the wall or on a remote, and not have to worry about whether she will be able to reach the handle on the cord or whether she will be strong enough to lift the door by pulling the handle.
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Honestly you need to annotate datasets for barks and we're building this up with our users. Otherwise it's unclear what's happening even with video (we tried to build a YouTube/Instagram scraper and it was very unreliable even with vet tech annotations).
I looked at the pictures and I predict roughly 4.7x cost overruns when actual construction takes place. Any takers?

Cost is the most important factor in making green tech widespread, as has been proven time and time again.

Building green is mostly solved problem, though we continue to make new advances. This nonsense is an exercise in expenditure. I’m sure if we folded the money trail it’d take us some interesting places.
In extreme corner cases estrogen seems to keep it from happening.
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I only link to buzzfeed through sites like HN so all I see is Buzzfeed's better half.
I responded to this saying yes, but I think it left too much room for nitpicking. Although I do think this is above the bar, it’s also worth noting that in this scenario, the criminal did in fact seem to leave the crime scene. The much more obvious case is the one where they are caught mid act with many crowd sourced perspectives of the crime, like random shooters.
If you are an individual who has a vote but not enough vested interest to fund a lobbying effort for expected positive ROI, loopholes are definitely a bug. If you are a corporation that wants to undermine regulation by pulling purse-strings rather than by defeating regulation attempts in the arena of public opinion, loopholes are definitely a feature. However, a corporation that pulls the purse-strings to subvert a bill makes itself morally culpable in the bill's intentional inadequacy. You seem awfully sure that this isn't what happened with the car size loophole. Why?
The engine weight is still over the front wheels, so FWD gets more traction.
I don't understand what Atchley factors are, here's the paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0408677102