skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part I can never figure out is how do you get the entire mechanism required to self-replicate, which is not just a couple molecules, to get to the point where it actually does what it "was intended" to do?

Meaning, what is 1/4 of that system? At some point, it had to start evolving towards the end result, but the in-between stages would give no survival advantage and likely useless. So why are they starting to form a self-replicating mechanism? It's not like it knows it needs to try to hang onto these currently useless parts because one day after enough generations it'll turn into its "final form" and be amazing.

And obviously the entire mechanism required to self replicate doesn't just come into existence randomly at some point and "just works". There must have be many, many years of some sort of "work in progress".

I can't fit that into the theory of evolution at all. Yet here we are.

I ran it by GPT-4 and it doesn't know either. Gave some theories, but ended it as expected.

> The precise mechanisms by which self-replicating mechanisms emerge and evolve are still not fully understood, and it remains an active area of research in the fields of biology, evolution, and artificial life.
> Yeah, I have read about the things they want to do which are mostly cryptography related and which have absolutely zero reasoning as to _why_ they can't be done with ActivityPub.

I guess the race is on, then. Surely ActivityPub, with its much larger user and developer base, will grab the best ideas from AT Protocol and squash this redundant newcomer.
Most of the time, the unresponsiveness is due to the touchscreen itself not the software. They usually use inexpensive touchscreens. It's expensive to use something like the iPhone's touchscreen on large screens in cars.
you’ve been very lucky. the list of “chores” i’ve had to do at the airbnbs i’ve stayed at is unreal. even worse when i was paying absolutely ridiculous cleaning fees.
> Hey SeanAnderson, good question! While parameter count is certainly an important factor in model performance, it's not the only one. The RedPajama project is taking a more nuanced approach to understanding what makes a model perform well, and their focus on smaller models like the 3B is a big part of that.

Sure, you may have played with a 7B model in the past, but that doesn't mean there's no use case for a smaller model like the 3B. In fact, having a performant, smaller model is a game changer for a lot of applications that don't require the massive scale of the larger models. Plus, smaller models are generally faster and more accessible, which is always a plus.

It's hard to pick out the actual answer: what is the application that this is good at? What has their "more nuanced" approach to understanding performance increased this model's performance at doing?
To some degree. It’s also because because Teslas are new cars driven by affluent, youngish people.
> There is a reason why HATEOAS is almost never observed in REST setups.

I saw the HTMX creator floating around the thread so hopefully he can confirm, but my understanding is HATEOS is a specific implementation of a REpresentstional State Transfer API. JSON is often used for the API, HTMX uses HTML instead but it is indeed still a REST API transferring state across the wire.

My shift key really doesn't appreciate all these abbreviations
How is it sacrifice? Many people simply don’t want kids or can’t afford them. Has little to do with sacrifice.
Can someone Explain Like I’m Five why someone would design a filesystem to be deeply entangled with a specific struct in memory in a specific kernel design?

I’m referring to where the article says ext4 “still makes heavy use of buffer heads,” implies this has been the case since ext2 and says “the buffer cache was deeply wired into both the block subsystem and the filesystem implementations.”

Naively I would think the job of the filesystem is to handle reads and writes to disk and that a well designed one would leave caching to other parts of the OS.
"A "this doesn't look like an email-address"

unfortunately this also needs to be done server side, unless your trusting the client to send you information that is what your expecting?

client side validation makes for a good user experience, but it does not replace the requirement to validate things server side, and many times you will end up doing the same validations for different reasons.
I completely agree with you. What I'm curious about is what about work-from-home that director-level-and-up find so objectionable? I can't imagine that strolling by an open office once in a while to see people in cubicles is that fulfilling.
The problem is you’re judging based on different standards and ideals, but the violations are fundamentally the same. So China can imprison citizens, the US decided to make it harder to imprison citizens. We do arbitrary drone strikes on people we don’t like, on foreign sovereign territory. We have Guantanamo. The fact that we arbitrarily draw a line at “our own citizens” is frankly meaningless in the grand scale and not really a meaningful distinction in terms of human rights.
i also wonder how powerful will 3b model will be ? can it act as a prompt router where it can make API call to ChatGPT or other specified model for actual processing. its probably possible to do this with langchain but i have not tried it yet.
AWS is following the same path as other web technologies offered by big tech. In the beginning, they want to lure as many people as possible to their new, shiny product, so they offer irresistible prices. The next step, which is the important one, is to secure corporate and government contracts for that technology. Next thing you know, they will see small clients as a nuisance, and do everything to make their lives more difficult.
I see dark grayish text on a light yellowish background.
With regards specifically to women, I recall that having children in your 40s or beyond carries significantly higher risks of complications and birth defects. Ideally you want children in your 20s, even 30s is pushing it let alone your 40s.

So that's one metric for "later in life".
Not to be overly pedantic, but.. sure, they died in 1975. But the article was published on April 23, 2023. What is the correct label in such cases?

In this instance, "1975" confused me.
My ThinkPad for Windows has no Menu key at all. Needless to say, my brand new Acer Chromebook definitely has no Menu key, much less a Hamburger key.
Consider how you'd react to the opposite story, where TikTok refused to index and recommend gay content.
It's not crazy to want to train or run models like these, it's actually quite popular right now! :) The question for you to answer is how handy with scikit-learn and pandas are you, and how much do you want to be on the bleeding edge of things? Most stuff is coming out for CUDA first, since that's what the industrial grade GPUS (A100s) use, so with Apple Arm you either have to wait for someone to port it, or port it yourself.

On the other hand, getting > 8 GiB VRAM on a laptop GPU is rare; you're definitely not getting 128 GiB VRAM, so Apple Arm, with 32 or 64 GiB or RAM (get 128 if you can afford it) is going to get you more gigabytes of usable RAM for training/inference.
Email templates are canned responses. E.g., if you get many emails asking about x, give them the boilerplate response in a couple taps from your phone.
I've been living on a busy street for the first time and the amount of fine dust from car exhausts is absolutely staggering. Never again.
There could still be word of mouth that leads to paying customers. Or circumstances change and the paid plans are worth it for previously free customers.
You are putting words in his mouth and then getting upset about them.
Memory paging, windows calls it a pagefile and Linux calls it a swap partition/file. Considering phones use nand flash (which has limited numbers of writes) this seems like a good way to kill the nand faster.

More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_paging
> How many more steps have to occur between these models and me printing them?

Shouldn't be too hard. Based on the code of the examples it seems it can output polygonal meshes in ply format. Either your slicer natively supports that, or you can use something (for example blender) to convert the ply to a format your slicer supports.

What can go wrong if the model "looks okay" but have some subtle geometric issue (like if it has a missing face, which makes it non-manifold or non-watertight) Nowadays many slicers have tools to heal such problems, but there can be dragons that way.

I looked for an example object in their repo and found this one: https://github.com/openai/shap-e/blob/main/shap_e/examples/e...

If that is representative it is a very nice clean geometry. I have sliced it with prusa slicer no problem and I could be printing it within a minute of downloading it if I would need a 3d printed cactus in my life.

> I just got a 3D printer but I'm a total noob.

How noob you mean? If this would be literally your first print I would recommend printing first a sample file which came with your printer. (just to make sure everything is okay with the printer itself) But as a second print you can totally try to print one of these of course. Just don't give up the hobby if something goes wrong :) Something always goes wrong.
This reads like an SEO "content farm" web site. I found myself looking for the ads, or whatever the content farmers think they're boosting in google search.

I really don't know if the content is useful or not. I've only had idli a couple of times, and I've never had an urge to make it myself.
The first time I heard of Flutter was as Sky in 2015. I can't find any article or video about Razer. Please provide a source.
Got any links to your music?
IBM CEO says we 'work better together' as he plans to cut jobs that A.I. can do
Well, as a counterpoint to "America is the same" I would direct your attention to this handy map of how long the current national leader has been in power for each country - there are some pretty clear distinctions (https://preview.redd.it/gzqeeslcyez91.png?width=1024&auto=we...)
>> when the gene pool is only left with high fecundity actors. The real resource wars will start then.

I’ve become a bit convinced that we’re essentially going to see Incestuous Kings II except this time with feudal tech lords.

Quite a depressing future if that ends up being it. Working class probably needs to get around to killing some bad actors sooner or later.
Most of my recommendations for services to use come from my friends who have either used that service on a free plan, or a paid plan. It matters very little in terms of the network effects of their service whether or not you're on a "free plan". See GitHub's free subscriptions of CoPilot for open source contributors.
Thabk you for your contribution of a The Granuid article, the information that the United States is actually run by the Priestly Council of Bay Area /g/, and a second, not related to the thread reason to save the planet and cut everyone's energy bill by an order of magnitude that becomes a general case of the thread reason by the end.

Truly we are all much better off.
> What percentage of people who watch such content don't support gay rights, do you think?

I don’t know what percentage, but likely more than you think. Look at someone like Chaya Raichik (creator of Libs of TikTok) - she’s not exactly supportive of LGBT rights, but she obviously spends a lot of time watching pro-LGBT content to try to find stuff to criticise about it. The same is true of many of her supporters who send her tips. And there are other conservatives who obviously do the same thing, e.g. Christopher Rufo or Rod Dreher
I think it is actually selfish because you were given the greatest gift of all, life, and you should "pay it forward".
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Well it wont be my descendants taking part in the resource war. Maybe the problem isn’t the people choosing not to breed.
You're pointing out that a machine that can grow without bound is mathematically equivalent to an infinite one. There's a reason the word "finite" is part of "finite state machine". If you have a state machine that can grow without bound, it's not an FSM and is capable of computing things an FSM cannot compute.

And the halting problem is solvable for any finite machine. A finite machine has a finite number of states. You only need to run N steps where N is the number of possible states. If it hasn't halted at that point, it must run forever.
Probably not from my personal use, no.

But for company use, I'd rather pay for something I'm happy with using personally or have had good experiences with in the past, rather than rolling the dice on something unknown.
Not really selfish at all when you consider that the Earth's population cannot grow infinitely. Some people have kids, others don't, not a big deal.
I could be wrong about the example entirely, I've never actually been involved in that stage of construction (or most other stages).

My understanding of building inspections in Toronto, Canada was that they were supposed to be reasonable systematic and thorough even for houses, but I'm definitely not a reliable source. Even if my impression was right I definitely have no reason to assume it applies elsewhere.

Anyways, hopefully the point came across anyways even if the example was sub-optimal.
For example, Facebook has been sued multiple times for breaking terms in which they promised not to provide data to third parties without your consent.
Experimenting on animals that cannot give informed consent is ok but not when there's a human involved? Arguably, I don't think that humans should get paid for what is essentially an elective surgery experiment when there's a real possibility of death. It should be completely volunteered and compensation should come in the form of a hospital bed, meals, and post-op care.
doesn't seem like much of a loss to lose that "business":

a user who hops from free service to free service, and is so opposed to spending money that they will badmouth any business that wants to actually charge for its service.
No it's the human experimentation part that's evil not "letting people volunteer."
Screen reader testing is a risk mitigation strategy. Is the team okay risking ADA law suits?
I wonder if part of the confusion here is that “backend” is pretty overloaded. There are backends like API servers, and web server backends (which at Google they call “frontends”!)

I’d guess that Go is relatively more popular than Node for API servers, and Node is more popular for web servers.

And as you note, both are probably less popular than languages like Java and PHP.
> I have an app based on Tauri which is web based, and the msi is 10Mb. It’s never had any perf issues.

And that's on the heavy side! Tauri is awesome, it's unfortunate most developers opt for Electron to reduce the amount of testing needed between browser engines.

I agree with you that a well-made web app is snappy and works well. I don't think we'll go back to native apps (for now), what I hope for is simply that it could become an _option_ as right now it's just basically trying to swim upstream.

Web apps do a lot of things really well that native applications always had difficulty with, such as accessibility and distribution. Still, I feel that even when doing web apps that are snappy they miss out on some cool features of native applications such as consistent theming, reduced memory usage, reduced CPU usage (regardless of how well the web app is written), and just the simplicity of it.

Perhaps the ship has already sailed, and native applications will never make a comeback, in which case I hope lighter weight engines purpose-made for web applications get adopted as an alternative to shipping the entirety of Chromium with each program I download. Projects like Servo [0] show me that's possible, it's just that there is currently no interest from the big players to keep funding these developments and provide them as an alternative to Chromium.

[0]: https://servo.org/
What? It does or doesn't show this are good or bad?
HTMX makes heavy use of replacing branches of the DOM with HTML partials fetch wit get/post requests

There a ton of additional features builtin to HTMX, but I'd love to see just this basic primitive built into browsers. It's related to the element transitions API that has been working it's way into browsers, but approaches it from the angle of HTML partials instead of diffing two full pages durn SPA navigation.
I wonder if this is the norm of scientific research nowadays. I mean, not the top 20% of useful researches but the bottom 80% that do not turn out to be useful immediately. We have too many scientists hungry for publications and citations so they can get funding and make a living, which means they have an incentive that distracts them from actual research.
Cracking the Code: The Mysterious State Injection Mechanism
This article will explore SwiftUI @State injection optimization mechanism, the generation timing of modal views (Sheet, FullScreenCover), and data coordination between different contexts (mutually independent view trees) through a reproducible piece of "mysterious code".
IMHO multilingual support would just pollute precious available estate in those models. Why not use it in english and use another one for translation?
I am paying it forward. Many people will live better lives because of me. The fact that they share 99.99% of my genes rather than 99.999% is not my main concern.
I wouldn’t expect them to understand it. because if they did, $backwardsState probably wouldn’t be such a bad country to live in in the first place.

On the other hand I believe that you shouldn’t be traveling to places which regularly violate human rights at all.
How do we fix it? Compulsory service with a peaceful election in exchange for higher education and lifelong healthcare?
Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”
His quoted words are him frankly admitting to wanting and being willing to do the sort of human experimentation universally prohibited by medical ethics. He is saying he's only being stopped by the oversight mechanisms that are in place to stop exactly that.

I do find that frightening and don't see what you and other commenters gain from downplaying the seriousness of that intention.
Yeah. It seems to me that it's really hard to get more than 10-14 GB of VRAM without using some sort of hyper expensive cluster. What would it cost if you wanted to do it with Nvidia? Being able to share ordinary ram with the GPU in a Mac could maybe be a unique value proposition
It works, but it may depend on how resilient your workload is. We have timed spot instances that come online shortly before the top of the hour in the morning eastern, and via specifying instance alternates we'd often get instances that were much larger than our low-ish bids would warrant. Then most of them would get pre-empted <2 minutes later and there would be a bunch of churn as we had to replace them with what we should have gotten originally.
a requirement that is solved by setting the length on your input field?

or have we forgotten that plain hold HTML can validate much of this for us with no JS of any type required?
I'm advocating more against designer-driven decisions. Of course UX should be based on user research.
After I find one, is there anything I can ask them to help figure out if they're good, or do I just need to try out a couple of lessons?
The fact you read that literally tells me you’ve wasted both the power and the beauty of your youth…
I have had my company purchase company plans for products I use as free or free for personal use.

I will never recommend Google Apps for Domains or whatever it is called now after they dicked around.
Seattle's first affordable housing tower in 50 years welcomes new residents
LiQuery: Search, tagging, filtering, sorting for SQLite databases
That’s assuming the human race naturally reducing or eventually dying out is considered selfish in the first place. We really place too much longevity of humans while extinguishing animals for sport.
> Your premise is faulty however—that something does not exist because there’s not a court case.

My premise is that something does not exist because there are no documents claiming it does. Snowden had the chance to leak such documents, but he did not. Despite that, you produced a conspiracy out of thin air as if Snowden had produced such documents.

> - Of course warrants are rubber stamped

Then why haven't we seen thousands of warrants to obtain data from other countries on US citizens used in prosecutions?

> Of course they help each other, why would they even bother to get in touch otherwise

They help each other by sharing intelligence in other countries, not by helping each other break their own laws.

> - There’s no laws against using third party data

Then why doesn't the government just read your email?

> This whole subthread is an immaterial pedantic angle and waste of time, and I won’t be returning here further.

The next time you post conspiracy theories on HN, I will be there.
The insight that there are problems a theoretical machine with infinite capacity and infinite time cannot solve is such an interesting result.
Or tell them it may stop being free in X years, where X is large enough that it’s aways off but close enough that some decide to switch. And then stop new signups but never actually take away the free plan.

The “good work Wesley, I’ll probably charge you in the morning” plan.
Even better - though I suppose it's probably against ToS
That ramp in the back was a recent development?! [0]

[0] https://www.sfcta.org/projects/i-80-east-side-ramps-project
The article seems really wrong on this.

E.g. there’s a big trend of congratulating companies for allowing users to opt out of Mother’s Day / Father’s Day ads, which requires companies to keep list of sensitive data about user’s relationship to parents. Similarly, FB has the “interested in” field on profiles… maybe some platforms don’t expose this to advertisers, but they all collect that data.
Boomers eventually die, or forget their pssword.
> If it currently has a use case then it has value

The use case is not due to the technology having any benefit but due to current underregulation. The reason people declare it a scam is that the technology does not solve any practical problems better than centralized ledgers.
"Ignore" is a pretty strong word here. This is an analysis of demand. Of course Amazon controls supply, but allowing compute to sit idle at these price points is not profitable so we can assume that they are selling available compute. The question then is whether aggregate instance demand is increasing with respect to available supply and pushing prices up.

You'll have to explain what you mean by "intentional" given raising prices above market equilibrium would leave compute idle (again, very unlikely). In that way amazon is just a market actor (albeit a large one) just like customers.
Not this ‘research’, but this thread really makes me hope the AIs is the next step of evolution.
Fortran Discourse: Large Language Models and the End of Programming
This is IMHO one of big fails of web, that navigation is not out-of-band browser feature (like it is for example in PDF browsers), but it is in-band part of a web page.
Their problem is they went with the 'forever' word instead of the much more common 'lifetime' word. That way they can tell you that even though you might have thought it was your lifetime they were talking about; in reality they were talking about the lifetime of something completely different.
No, I'm just taking your argument to its logical conclusion. If you manufacture enough criteria, you can steer any discussion so that your choice is the only possible choice left. That's not how things work in reality, there are many competing factors that go into technological choices.
not really, he’s extolling the virtues of a home server—the author is just most comfortable with a mac. this would be a nearly identical blog if it were linux or windows.