skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t call this cynical, I’d call it incredibly naive. Notwithstanding the fact that we are still feeling out what LLMs can and cannot do. When are established players quick to move? When does disruptive tech NOT have to fight back against organisations compromised of individuals who are often incentivised against its success? When does a new player topple the giants overnight? Pretty much never.
To me, the reason is rather simply: you cannot solve a problem you don't understand. And we don't understand how we understand, period.
The 160MFlOps of Cray-1 is the theoretical maximum of the implementation (as are the whatever FlOp/s numbers quoted by GPU vendors), while the numbers for Linux capable Broadcom SoCs in RaspberryPis are results from LINPACK. The Linpack benchmark is not exactly a representation of what you would compute on a supercomputer, but even this kind of semi-synthetic benchrmark will cause the Cray-1 to score significantly lower than the theoretical 160MFlOp/s.
Russ Hanneman
It feels like they are subjecting themselves to the consequences of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
In Linux terms, think about what would happen if you tried to use ACL (or fsattr or whatever non standard stuff) on a filesystem not supporting ACL: it would throw weird errors, and you may not properly handle them if you expected all filesystems to support ACLs.
Markup (CSS/HTML) isn’t programming.

As someone who went from Photoshop -> FrontEnd WebDev -> FullstackWeb -> MobileDev… I feel inclined to say markup isn’t programming.

The engines that injest CSS and display them on screens (aka developing browsers) is programming. Otherwise it’s just intent based markup.

For example, using CSS to say <p> tag content should be green is pretty trivial. Actually programming that to display the text, in the font of choice, in the language, wrapped to the screen width, compiled to work on the device’s hardware - is programming!

Giving me a css statement

p: {
text-color: blue;
}

Is bul*+* easy. You did not nothing other than just give an intent to the system and be amazed at the results
> "you've mistaken my kindness for weakness"

> Wow people outside the military say this unironically? The military has some shit bags who really do think this way (taking advantage of people giving them a second chance), and while people say it and I never liked hearing it, to think a CEO has the nerve to say that like some paranoid despot is pretty out of touch.

I mean, I have said this before, but usually in response to the kind of person who is lauding the fact that my coworker had to sell their dog to continue staying employed. It’s kinda cringe to say when you have no leverage but it feels fantastic when you are not only willing to burn a bridge but have also set up c4 all over it, while simultaneously being the only person who knows some mission critical process while somehow not being given a contract with teeth because the execs think you are beneath them.

I do agree that hearing it from a CEO is insane though. The only CEOs who exhibit anything like kindness are literally newsworthy
Humans also answer in predictable ways so if you place such criteria for a turing test humans will fail to pass it too
If you want to reduce partisan thought too childish self serving behavior (which I do not think is accurate but am OK with) than yes, that would be centrist.
The unique culture, history and geography of Russia produces a different sort of dynamic:

Strong men create bad times.

Bad times create strong men.
We're not going to make much progress here as long as being interested or active in men's issues is equated to being an oppressor class torch-carrying Capitol-storming MAGA cultist or to worshiping Andrew Tate. We seem to have forgotten about healthy and pro-social male role models and instead only focus on whatever downsides come with masculinity.

Belonging to the male sex needs a serious PR campaign.
But compilers, chess, go and search are all proof that computers could think. We've been discovering as we scale up the hardware that those things appear to be converging to human intelligence with minor tweaks (turns out tree search for chess needed to be combined with matrices and we're most of the way there). ChatGPT can out-reason many people I know and can out-argue a fair number of comments I see on the internet.

If we took this comment at face value we're ending up with a definition of "think" that can't reason, play games or recall information - or it would be outdone by machines. Thinking obviously isn't very important!
What the next Mac Pro could be
On introspection, I think I would/have used both "it" and singular (agender) "they" for corporations.
The author's whole approach to AI is focusing on the supervised learning aspects of AI but ignoring the likelihood that future advancements in AI will come from reinforcement learning - much as how AlphaGo was first bootstrapped on human play but then improved through self play.

On another note, this was amusing: "Many of my friends and colleagues are deeply impressed by their experiences with the latest big models, like GPT-4, and are practically holding vigils to await the appearance of a deeper intelligence. My position is not that they are wrong but that we can’t be sure". Is this supposed to be reassuring?
In the end we will find out that AI is not that intelligent and since it is so close to mimicking us it will say the same thing about our own intelligence.
I never really understood this. Can a company go to prison or get the death penalty?
So now META will need to start paying a healthy dividend since they are no longer in “growth” mode.

Meta Platforms EBITDA for the twelve months ending December 31, 2022 was $37.630B.
What's wrong with just saying "not autistic"?
We allow three engineers to build three parallel bridges and then the free market will decide which bridge they want to drive over.
It's definitely coding, if we understand "coding" as "writing code". It's writing text in a text editor to generate an outcome, programmatically.

Also, CSS with animations is now Turing-complete. So yeah, writing HTML/CSS is programming.
Bought a refurbished Atari 600XL at a clearance store for less than $90 around 1984. Borrowed a tape drive from my older friend Richard in exchange for making him a video titling program for his fledgling wedding video business.

All 16k of RAM was glorious, I already knew BASIC from the stack of Apple IIs in the library computer lab. Wrote some rudimentary generative art and music types of programs and was just starting to PEEK and POKE my way into machine code.

Unfortunately my mother's mental health condition (now treated, thankfully) viewed the noisy machine as a threat and she disassembled and destroyed it. I found my way back to computing via electronics and an EE tech degree. DOS on the 8086 just wasn't quite the same a few years later.

The nostalgia factor is powerful and getting something like this is tempting, although I've fired up emulators and dabbled a bit in the past and realize that I'm still looking to the future, not the past.
The paper summarized at the link at the top hypothesizes that in a setup like this:

Bb --- Earth --- molecular cloud --- B'b'

where Bb and B'b' are very similar (from the molecular cloud's perspective) inspiralling binary black hole pairs, and Earth is where LIGO (and Virgo and other detectors) are, then we will see characteristic bright flashes from within the molecular cloud and a change in the B'b' detected waveform because it will have lost some energy to the production of the flashes of light.

(The light flash will trail behind the dampened B'b' waveform detection because this hypothesized mechanism only works when a refractive medium slows light from c (its speed in vacuum) but does not slow gravitational waves from c. Although the authors do not touch on the matter, I suspect that we would also be interested in <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_echo>s.)

The paper focuses on an analysis of water as the dominant molecule. There are known astrophysical water megamasers (see second paragraph at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megamaser>), so this is far from ridiculous.

Trying to match detected flashes of light (including gamma rays) and neutrinos with gravitational wave detections is part of multimessenger astronomy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-messenger_astronomy>.
On the topic of Apple building an uneven playing field that disadvantages third party apps - I want an iPhone but don't want to use Apple's services, so I'm sticking with Android for now. It just seems difficult to have an iPhone without suffering from Apple's handicapping of superior third party experiences. This is in contrast to Macs, which are absolutely top-notch pieces of hardware that would like you to use Apple services, but don't shove them down your throat.
The series is great too !
It’s not just that power is taken offline but wholesale prices drop at the same time. In extreme cases the grid will charge you money for every kWh you’re dumping on it. That’s obviously not a profitable time to be generating electricity.
Learning to Program with Natural Language
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in various basic natural language tasks, which raises hopes for achieving Artificial General Intelligence. To better complete complex tasks, we need LLMs to program for the task and then follow the program to generate a specific solution for the test sample. We propose using natural language as a new programming language to describe task procedures, making them easily understandable to both humans and LLMs. LLMs are capable of directly generating natural language programs, but these programs may still contain factual errors or incomplete steps. Therefore, we further propose the Learning to Program (LP) method to ask LLMs themselves to learn natural language programs from the training dataset of complex tasks and then use the learned program to guide inference. Our experiments on the AMPS (high school math) and Math (competition mathematics problems) datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. When testing ChatGPT on 10 tasks from the AMPS dataset, our LP method's average performance outperformed the direct zero-shot test performance by 18.3%.
It doesn't seem like pure renewable is the minimal cost, maximum speed solution. Storage is expensive however you cut it, and there is already infrastructure in place to operate nuclear plants that would be wasted if they were slowly retired.

Geothermal is indeed a dark horse/wildcard. I dunno if you have read this, but it is extremely promising: https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-deep-geothermal-drilling-...

What do you do with old fusion research and the oil drilling industry? Maser drill holes under coal plants, and pipe it to their turbine! Oh and you run the maser with the existing infrastructure at the coal plant. Its almost too good to be true.
> With more plants there are inevitably more nuclear incidents

Can we stop making this argument? It is an extremely bad faith argument. There have only been two accidents of commercial reactors in the history of nuclear power that led to the loss of lives. The likely value is well under 10k (<100 directly attributed to Chernobyl). The first was orders of magnitude more dangerous than the second, was early into the development of nuclear power, and was caused by experimentation using a nuclear reactor that the rest of the world refused to use due to the potential for the reactor to fail in exactly the way Chernobyl did. The second, killed a single person, was caused by the largest natural disaster in the region (in all of recorded history), where the science of the day did not think such an event could even happen.

Yes, there's more nuance to this, but we also need to recognize the actual level of danger. These arguments pretend that scientific knowledge has not changed over 80 years. These arguments pretend that there are no deaths and/or environmental concerns with other energy sources (literally every one has these concerns). They ignore the cost of carbon and other environmental damage of the source's lifetime. Most importantly, these arguments pretend that all incidents are equally as dangerous.

Can we please just stop? There are a lot of valid criticisms of nuclear power, but making lazy arguments just results in fighting. Talk about costs, reliance on fuel, the possibility of not even needing them, or any other points (argue with nuance). The public is (sadly) not well informed about nuclear nor most scientific concepts in general, although many members have high confidence in their cursory understanding. (The thesis here applies to a lot of other scientific domains btw, including: climate, health, and even evolution) We need to have real conversations about these issues as there is a lot on the line. Complex issues require complex discussions.
iPhone is worse in that way than macOS . You can pretty much use macOS as a Unix-like
I'm actually quite excited by this, or at least the potential of this.

The first and most exciting part of this is the ability to have a 'day in the life' consolidated ledger of our activities on device, across all app experiences. The ability to log our lives and add our own thoughts on top of it is important for self-reflection and for the many moments we want to recall using temporal cues and in context (I remember I was talking to Joseph and then saw a really cool webpage).

A lot of the time the act of journaling is writing about the activity that has transpired on/through our devices (who we spoke with, what we did, etc), yet currently there is no affordance to link these together. We may add a note in a calendar event to remind ourselves of what happened, or rely on our memory, but just to look back at our day we have to cobble together a mix of calendar, notes, messages, etc; it's all a very disjointed experience.

A consolidated journal/ledger of the day with the ability to write atop it is essentially the user-facing version of what a future AI assistant would see and present to users. A good assistant would not just do tasks but solicit our feelings and attune to us, which is essentially 'journaling' when brought into UI form.

This whole product is frankly quite a bit overdue.

The second value-add of this idea is tying journaling closer to Health. Health journaling is essential to managing chronic conditions, as its value is primarily retrospective discovery of trends. There's a lot of sub-par health journaling solutions out there, and none do a good job weaving themselves into the context of Health data. I hope to see this use case in this initiative.

The history of our usage of devices has always remained a largely unexplored area of computing, and one of the major divergences between how people see the world and how computers present the world to us. Bringing history back to us in human-consumable form is important to get this sense back. The only other initiative that I see taking on this need is rewind.ai, which is quite exciting and I'm guessing is on Apple's short list of potential acquisitions.

Finally this seems like the next step in the feature trajectory of adding context to our device usage. The first feature in this trajectory was Apple's Shared with You framework [1], which is about adding contextual data tags to activity (E.g. seeing a webpage in Safari showing at the top that it's shared by your friend Joseph, which reminds you of why its relevant).

(FWIW I've spent the last year designing an OS for a new tablet platform with journaling as a central experience)

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sharedwithyou
In the USA we have enough space to build over 100 times more houses than we have now. Much of that land is very cheap.

Why don't you build some houses and be part of the solution?
The empire may no longer around but the UK and the Commonwealth still are. They are thriving. France is still around, and despite the protests, is still a wealthy nation. Belgium is still going strong. The US is the richest country in the world. Turkey is still kicking. Despite Nanjing, Japan's economy is to die for.
So without it planets are like cubes? Can't even imagine how deformed people would be
Aside from matcha (powdered), konacha (powdered), hojicha (brown) and perhaps kukicha (twigs), most (all?) of the other ones are also just sencha, or loose-leaf green tea.

Shincha would just refer to freshly picked sencha, for one.

"Green tea" would be 緑茶 (ryokucha). Hojicha is not ryokucha nor green.
Historically, the reason men reap the lion share’s of power and resources is because we take the risks. We take life threatening risks because compared to women, we are expendable. Not sure what’s happening now assuming we are supposedly working towards equality (which should include both the good and the bad eg women should be able to get drafted just like men and the custody of children should not predominantly favor women) and the “lean in” movement isn’t just a fad
> The app will be pre-installed on all iPhones that run iOS 17, and it will deeply integrate with location services, contacts, and more on the user's phone.

> It will even offer "All Day People Discovery," which will track the user's proximity to others, drawing distinctions between work colleagues and friends.

Basically a big FU to all the independent devs trying to compete on a fair playing field.
This is good analysis, but this kind of analysis misses the point that money isn’t everything.

People pursuing the university research track may simply not be optimizing their years on earth to maximize their bank accounts.
I'm a bit wary of offering a logical explanation for something that is less reasoned and more habitual/cultural, but if I had to, I'd say corporations present a single unified posture that is not necessarily reflective of the posture of any single constituent of the corporation. Thus, it is somewhat fallacious to attribute that (carefully curated) posture to any(/many/most/all) of the individuals within that corporation.

Incidentally, I think it's funny (but justifiable) that you used "is" here:

> But Facebook as a company is plural
> Once AI systems can outperform CEOs, investors and boards will insist they be in charge.

I doubt it. You know who sits on those boards? The executives of other companies.
(It's trite but) you can do both.
Thanks! I'm really glad that you find CozoDB useful!
We should not try to achieve consumer protection via laws, like GDPR, that bureaucratically regiment private interaction.

Consumer protection should be promoted through technological means, e.g the EU could have funded development of fingerprintless browser technologies, zero-knowledge proof based identity verification, etc, instead of through GDPR.
> In any case, someone is going to fall in love with one of their browser processes soon. I'll guess by mid-August.

We've already got Blake Lemoine
Honest question, though: does "Turning over an engine" (as an earlier commenter typed) have actual meaning for an EV?
Chat GPT-4 Suggests Beating StarCraft 2 Grandmasters with Stupid Stuff
All of these work better than suppression:

- Bury your power lines. If only PG&E would invest in fire safety… check list of funders in TFA… scratch head.

- Rake your forests. (Or “remove ladder fuels”, as it is now called.)

- Controlled burns.

I’d like my $11M now. Can we spend it on burying lines under an emergency order that bypasses California permitting?
> “Men are advantaged in every aspect of our society,

> “We tend not to prioritize men’s health, but it needs unique attention, and it has implications for the rest of the family. It means other members of the family, including women and children, also suffer.”

> Advocates for more research into men’s health say the goal isn’t to steal resources from women, girls and gender minorities.

So men's health deserves to be an issue only because it may impact children well-being, and only if it doesn't steal resource from other more noble causes.

I don't know how US audience reads this type of article, but as a foreigner, it seems every single issue nowadays has to be artificially rebranded as a social justice fight.
What about limited liability? It seems to me to be an enormous concession to corporations and their shareholders, and which never seems to be questioned in popular consciousness.
Dunno if there's some trickery going on under the hood, but GPT-4 does basic arithmetic correctly.
Re: 2: Gold and land.
> It would be cool if the creator of the original four-byte burger made an NFT version of it.

It would not be cool if the creator of the original four-byte burger made an NFT version of it.
Synology apparently thinks btrfs is reliable enough to bet their credibility on it, for what that's worth.
It is also likely due to the people using it most right now. Wait until it’s more broadly used and you’ll have people anthropomorphizing it (rightly or wrongly). ‘
Go in the Finder and try to change a file name to have a colon. macOS will tell you it can’t do it.

Now change it to have a forward slash. macOS will happily abide.

Finally, look at that file’s path in a terminal. Where the Finder shows a forward slash, the terminal will show a colon.

Redoing the AppleScript example:

$ osascript -e 'POSIX file "/tmp/file with : forward slash.txt"'
=> file Macintosh HD:private:tmp:file with / forward slash.txt
It's much more limited than what its critics imagine. It's a legal doctrine to ensure shareholder's rights aren't violated. For example, shareholders having a right to Free Speech means you can't suppress that right when shareholders act through the corporate legal structure to utter speech.
That's widely understood, but I hope nobody is boiling their salads in response to that statistic. Maybe tomorrow I'll trip on my shoelace and crack my skull open on the sidewalk, but I'm not going to wear a helmet just in case. There is an endless supply of extremely low probability ways to die, but if you spend your time worrying about all that crap you'll ironically hasten your own demise by stressing yourself out. Round those small possibilities down to zero and stop worrying about it.
True here in India as well. The cheapest pack offers 2GB data/ day and 100 SMS/ day for 3.5 USD per month
Ok, why all the downvotes even after starting a healthy discussion thread?

And can someone help me understand in layman terms how current physics posits that gravitation is generating light or even hawking radiation?
Excellent observation. In fact the language part of the brain is only a (albeit a rather large) portion of the brain (not nearly as large as visual processing though). And people who suffer brain damage which renders them unable to speak (or understand speech; which interestingly is a different portion; albeit close to each other) are still able to demonstrate intelligent behavior with ease.

In fact it is damage to the prefrontal cortex (which has nothing to do with speech) which is mostly correlated with a detriment in intelligent behavior (suspiciously also social behavior; a food for though in what we consider “intelligence”). Victims of lobotomy had their prefrontal cortex destroyed, and their injuries resulted in them loosing their personalities and loosing basic function as human beings, even though they were still able (but perhaps not always willing) to speak and comprehend speech.