skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solzhenitsyn is a good example of how a regime creates a consensus among its enemies where they begin to think they share a common philosophy.

Countries like Russia and Iran can (and at least in Putin's case do ¹) claim philosophical connection with him because they use God as tool against others, in a way similar to the gulags he describes.

[¹] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879622
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Yes, it's pressure groups with political agendas at work there, trying to stoke the moral panic as much as they can. Known that for a long time indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_entrepreneur
Surely that's a fundamental by-product of experience?

Otherwise, you wouldn't have the ability to recall that experience. ^-^
Medicare pays based on how many tests are performed. Hence, medicare patients get lots and lots and lots of tests done.
Sometimes you're willing to take a risk to help effect change. If everyone keeps their heads down and never fights back then things don't improve.
Many soils have contamination for various historical reasons. For example some cotton (and some tobacco?) fields in southern states formerly used arsenic as a pesticide, then later switched to rice production, and this rice has significantly more arsenic in it than rice grown in California, which had no such history.

I assume some of the arsenic in these juice samples is from a similar pattern of usage.
its not wise to mock vegans when they are tryin' something.
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> Freshly squeezed fruit juice is already not amazing,

Which fruit juice are you finding not amazing? To me orange, grapefruit juices are pretty amazing and quite a different experience from eating the raw fruit (which I like too).
That part about meteorites was ironic.
Relevant threads:

Feb 23, 2020 (https://grep.app) Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396824

Dec 8, 2021 Improving GitHub Code Search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29487237
>...People should freely be able to have opinions on Twitter, Youtube, TikTok, CBS News, etc. and those opinions should not get them fired from their jobs just because some exec or some vocal group disagrees... as long as they're not representing the company.

That is an unrealistic take. Especially when the opinion is critical of the company. Much less when it's something as simple as the company not wanting to be associated with such viewpoints.
Are you American? Macs were much less common in Europe and particularly in England. In fact England had its own educational computer in the 80s as a venture between then BBC and Acorn, the company that invented the original ARM CPUs.
Riffing on this, I think an interesting and fundamental phenomenon of societies is exactly their frequent inability to imagine their successors, or even the possibility of a successor. Each seeing themselves as a logical peak of the progressive arrow history, especially post-enlightenment (cf. Fukuyama's (in)famous The End of History[0]).

It seems to boil down to the sort of societal consensus definition of "us" that serves as a foundation for the individual definitions of "me" that comprise a society. It's why societies seem to tend to see their peers and predecessors as lesser as well; they are all their own "us"es, in some ways inaccessible to our "us". They may say the same words, but mean different things. They have the same human equipment for reasoning and synthesis, but a different set of priors from which this calculus manipulates and concludes. They seem dumb because they don't come to the same obvious conclusions we do.

And it seems to motivate conservative behavior, by way of fear. At least we can grapple and argue with our contemporaries, and scorn our predecessors. We know what they think, or at least we think we know what they think, filtered through the lens of what we think. But as a societal consensus starts to shift, and we start seeing new priors appearing, things start to get uncomfortable. We see a glimpse of a future we don't understand; we used to be with "it" but "it" changed[1]. We don't know anymore what the next ones will think. What they will be like.

They will still be humans, but they will be a different us, completely inaccessible to our us.

---

[0] I know his philosophy is more a bit more nuanced, but it's such a perfect and unfortunate phrasing, accepted so implicitly and literally.

[1] To quote Grampa Simpson
There is a definitely an element of pure nostalgia from growing up with those programs, but I think there is a bit more to it. For me it evokes memories and feelings of focus. Just look at all of today's IDEs and note application that offer "distraction free" or "typewriter" modes that are echoing simpler interfaces of old. And as another commenter mentioned, these apps were extremely capable and polished. So when I'd sit down to write my papers in high school, I'd open up WordPerfect and it alone would do everything I needed, and there was literally nothing else running so I just sat down and wrote. I don't achieve that sort of single-task work style very often these days.
Someone did some digging on various non-Bitcoin crypto coins and found that a huge percentage of the whatever it is they run were just running on AWS.
I’m fascinated by the new generation. Some of them seem like creatures rather than humans. They just screech and twitch and swipe around their phone. A lot of them don’t even have any form of language.

I have no idea what’s going to happen when they start reaching their teens and above. How are they going to have a job or sit an exam?
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I'm fairly sure this isn't quite possible. It has to do with the physical properties of the space. Not that I'm an actual audio engineer. Not to mention that the iPad speakers are probably mostly designed to be compact and this probably places some limitations on what they can do.
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Wasn't this already known, or at least suspected? I thought the bigger unknown was how to activate the T-cells, since tumor cells are very good at masking like normal tissue. The article lightly touches on that (when talking about the process of T-cell self-activation), but it still doesn't specify on how to control that targeting.

So I'm not sure how the research matches the headline. What's the link that I'm missing? Yes, T-cells can activate themselves, which has implications both for tumors and for auto-immune diseases (which was the first thought that came to me while reading), but this research does not actually bring us closer to weaponizing them?
Yes! I was going to comment the same, it's a very reasonable model from a developer who makes great software. I recently within the last year switched from the Blink shell to his app "Shellfish" as it's become a daily part of my workflow when using my iOS devices. I highly recommend it if you like workingcopy.
One item I believe that hasn't been mentioned are the effects of carbonated water/soda on ones oral health.
I highly suspect Apple considered the market for one-time purchases too small to bother with, right or wrong. People think and behave different around purchases when it's on an ipad, even if they by now are powerful devices.
> in order to understand GPT4 then we need GPT5?

I also found this amusing. But you are loosely correct, AFAIK. GPT-4 cannot reliably explain itself in any context: say the total number of possible distinct states of GPT-4 is N; then the total number of possible distinct states of GPT-4 PLUS any context in which GPT-4 is active must be at least N + 1. So there are at least two distinct states in this scenario that GPT-4 can encounter that will necessarily appear indistinguishable to GPT-4. It doesn't matter how big the network is; it'll still encounter this limit.

And it's actually much worse than that limit because a network that's actually useful for anything has to be trained on things besides predicting itself. Notably, this is GPT-4 trying to predict GPT-2 and struggling:

> We found over 1,000 neurons with explanations that scored at least 0.8, meaning that according to GPT-4 they account for most of the neuron’s top-activating behavior. Most of these well-explained neurons are not very interesting. However, we also found many interesting neurons that GPT-4 didn't understand. We hope as explanations improve we may be able to rapidly uncover interesting qualitative understanding of model computations.

1,000 neurons out of 307,200--and even for the highest-scoring neurons, these are still partial explanations.
People joke about the fact that you're not really saving any money doing this vs buying the produce at the store, and they might be right, but it's not about the price of food, it's about learning the knowledge needed to grow your own. It kind of freaks me out that 98% of the US population would starve if our ag system seriously broke down. We could seriously use some resiliency there.
So you admit the standard grip is "better" than the scissor grip.
The study's infographic is here:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S08891575230010...
> Which is to say, we still have no clue as to what's going on inside GPT-4 or even GPT-3, which I think is the question many want an answer to.

Exactly. Especially:

> ...the technique is already very computationally intensive, and the focus on individual neurons as a function of input means that they can't "reverse engineer" larger structures composed of multiple neurons nor a neuron that has multiple roles;

This paper just brings us no closer to explainability in black box neural networks and is just another excuse piece by OpenAI to try to please the explainability situation that has been missing for decades in neural networks.

It is also the reason why they cannot be trusted in the most serious of applications which such decision making requires lots of transparency rather than a model regurgitating nonsense confidently.
People won't care until an actually scary AI exists. Will be easy to stop at that point. Or you can just stop research here and hope another country doesn't get one first. Im personally skeptical it will exist. Honestly might be making it worse with the scaremongering coming from uncharismatic AI alignment people.
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Rob Walling says (paraphrasing): "the goal of validation is not to get to 100%. That's not really possible. The point is to reduce uncertainty/risk. You can maybe get to 50-60% at most. The more you do to validate, the better your position is" << this is from one of his recent podcasts but can't remember which.

So I think they are saying the same thing but Jason Fried has a more controversy provoking style
There is also IJava (https://github.com/SpencerPark/IJava) -- a nice Jupyter Java kernel. Perfect for a lot of small Java programs for learning and teaching.
Believe it or not, some countries and cultures are able to enforce such policies. Dismissing it as 'absolutely no way' without any shred of evidence is absurd.
Protest is not a veto. Even if your definition of democracy is unchecked majority rule.
Those radar charts looked like spiderwebs to me. Trippy.
Given how often I see the argument that “blue states subsidize red states” I can see why folks who want to maintain their dignity wouldn’t want to expand their reliance on blue state largesse. That money comes with no strings attached.

Also, even if it’s true that blue states may bear the brunt of taxes, inflation hits everyone equally.
The usual rule in Norway is to take vitamin D in months that end in R. That is, all the time except the summer. Nothing specifically to do with SAD, just that in the winter you don't get enough sunshine.
Cute that your response to endless collusion is that it's "decent" but “needs some refinement”. Have fun advocating for that with your vote at the polling station.
Part of

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For a longer-form treatment, Patrick Wyman's podcast, Tides of History, has been going through an extended series about prehistory, including the bronze age collapse. It's a lot, and mostly through a particular thinker's lens, but still worthy I think.
Private networks are one part of the solution. Syncthing synchronizes, and for anyone who has ever tried it, it's not just two rsync's back and forth, whether ports are open or not
Sure rest is important but for most people, a healthier lifestyle including high intensity workouts and better diet will accomplish much more.

Source: am 40 year old man who does 3 hr of high intensity exercise a week and eats vegetables
Thanks, that's the clearest explanation I've seen.
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But the system is configurable to deny, allow when app is in use, or allow at all times (even when the app is in the background).

I wonder what the Twitterer's setting was...
Oliver Sacks' A Leg To Stand On is a lengthy discussion of that, including his own experiences after breaking a leg---IIRC, at one point after surgery but before he starts physical therapy, he wakes up convinced that a medical student has played a prank by removing his leg and attaching one from a cadaver, or at least sticking a cadaver's leg under his blanket. (ISTR he tries to throw it out of bed and ends up on the floor.)
There's a sort of circular logic there: the alchemist one is fine because people wanted it, the other ones aren't fine because people don't want it. I prefer an HN that ends up skipping "explain [ARTICLE] as $X" altogether unless $X is on-topic
I've been trying to do 5 miles a day, and only seem to average about 3.5.
Famously, our nose is literally right in front of our faces and the brain simply "post-processes" it out of the view.

After breaking my arm, split in two, pinching the nerve and making me unable to move it for about a year, I still feel as if the arm is "someone else's", as if I am moving an object in VR, not something which is "me" or "mine".
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The large drink size at a major gas station chain around here is about 1.8 liters. It's a popular size. Some people may drink one over multiple days, but that's not the norm. And that's not the largest size any gas stations around here have.

Some "medium" sodas at fast food joints are over a liter, these days.

People who drink a lot of soda, in the US, really DRINK A LOT OF SODA.

Consider also that it's been the norm for years, in the US, to have free refills on soda at restaurants (with waiters eagerly topping them off constantly) and that many fast food places have self-serve soda that's either explicitly or de facto unlimited refill, if you go inside to eat rather than using the drive-through.
Although if you want to get get technical, even evolutionary relationships are only trees if you throw out some of the information that doesn't fit the tree. It's truer to speak of phylogenetic networks that can take into account things such as horizontal transfer of genes and recombination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_network
Yeah --- Fry's used to be all real terminals, but I guess they ran out of equipment, so they ran a terminal emulator in Windows instead (almost always full screen, but modal popups from the printer? would break it out so you could see it was Windows). And the sales and returns terminals were usually setup so you could see them work. Cash registers were under the same system, but you usually couldn't see those. Word on the street was one of the Fry brothers had written that system, I think the server was a PC in the store somewhere (they did have some ability to check other store inventory, but I don't know how realtime that was)

Airline service desks and vehicle/driver licensing are also popular places to have a well developed TUI along with experienced operators that will queue up a large buffer of inputs.
The root problem is the mismatch between the resolution and physical size of your monitor.

Try a smaller 4k monitor, no bigger than 24". Then, it's not "too big."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876743
The guns are there to make sure the public servants don't become the master.

At least, that was the idea.
> Laughably transparent.

Yet there will always be some people who buy into it. I've found that a distinction between independent- and conventional-minded is useful for navigating this sort of thing. It helps immensely to ask oneself, "Why do I think this?" If my answer happens to be some version of, "Because someone told me," then it's worth more independent thought.
Tautologically, every concept that anything (LLM, or human, or alien) develops can be inferred from the input data(e.g. training set), because it was.
If everyone stayed externally silent on internal issues the world would be a much worse place.
Not sure how widespread it is, but TapBots and 1Password both released separate apps for their major version updates. The 1Password subscription carried across to the new app, the TapBots one was a new purchase for each app, so there's 2 ways that model has been working on iOS.
Clearly, that is not True.
As a reminder, Louisiana is a lot wealthier than you think it is: https://fee.org/articles/most-of-europe-is-a-lot-poorer-than...
The RC51 was the successor to the RVF750R (RC45) which was the successor to the VFR750R (RC30) and was built to beat Ducati at their own game in the superbike world championship. In the US the RC51 was called the RVT1000R, in the UK and Australia it was called the VTR1000 SP1 or SP2. The VTR1000 Firestorm (SuperHawk in the US) is a different bike, not intended for racing homologation but designed for the street. The VFR800 was a sport touring bike, very different from the RC30. The NC30 and NC35 VFR400s were sold legitimately in the UK after several years of grey import but were unreasonably expensive. My 1991 VFR400 was originally sold in Japan (1991 was JP-only), was imported to the UK (grey) and made it to the US as soon as it was 25.

These bikes were the end of an era. After the RC51 Honda went to the inline-four CBR1000RR Fireblade and never looked back.
that sounds interesting! I'm in eastern Canada and would more likely be helping out on my parents' permaculture homestead or planting extra berries in my own suburban yard than helping yourself, but if you're documenting the process I'd like to see it!
> Why hire a famous DM to write the next D&D campaign book(s) if you can get AI to do it?

This is what I mean by make up your mind. Either the AI is producing the same quality content as writers or it's bad and produces worse content. Articles like these seems to be implying both things and it's confusing.
Is this satire? The EU is Big Brother.
this is useful. i can see using this for what im working on
Yeah. You can get very large cooking tweezers which can perform the same job, but easier for those of us who haven't been using chopsticks all our lives.

(I can use chopsticks okay but I can't just pick them up and immediately grab stuff, I need to adjust my hand position usually. Tweezers it's just grab and go.)
anyone remember dhtml, which allowed adding powerpoint-like transitions to hyperlinks?
People thousands of years ago were not dumb. They had probably roughly the same pattern recognition skills as you or I. Just because they didn't have "physics" (mechanistic explanations of the effects they observed) doesn't mean they didn't have some understanding of good vs bad stuff.

Take the entirety of Chinese medicine, for example: there is a reason it's still popular, in that it works. It may not work how we think it "should" per Western standards in terms of direct methods of action of known compounds in the substances being ingested, but it still works: probably some combination of actual "healthy" compounds as well as a good dose of placebo.

Diets were likely similar for those of old: that guy over there only eats berries and rabbits and somehow he's been fine this whole time! He is strong like a bear, because he eats the things bears eat. This guy over here eats only foraged greens and is suffering from something we can't discern so we just say the forest spirits are mad at him.

Observational learning is present in many animals of much lower intelligence than humans even tens of thousands of years ago. Patronizing speculations of historical people only serves to obscure the notion of civilization's progress over these long time spans so what, we can pretend time began when writing started?
> my impression of the article is that by "weird", the author doesn't mean "risky" or "impulsive" like you're inferring.

I agree. I think the author was pretty forthcoming about what he meant: he meant that we often write off possible things we want to do on the basis that they're "weird" -- in the sense that we think others will reject those things.

But doing that is a trap and we shouldn't avoid options purely based on what we think others will think about them.
I love the idea, and I'm going to try it out!
I would say they are the least caring group of society followed by nurses. Not their fault. When everyone around you is sick all of the time you have to turn off that part that cares or you will burn yourself out.

Yourself, family, friends, favourite waitress cares about you more than your doctor.
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> No subgroup is inappropriate unless you know all of the values of all of the parameters

I don't know how to put it less bluntly: you're incorrect.

> But sure, the intent they tried to demonstrate (take all sub-group analyses with a grain of salt)

That's not what they intended to demonstrate. They intended to demonstrate that you need a _reason_ to want to split, and that reason needs to be given _ahead_ of the analysis. If you see the results _and then choose_ a new data analysis (that includes new subgroup analyses), your procedure is no longer statistically sound.

This is a specifically bad statistical practice called HARKing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARKing
Syncthing is excellent. I’ve used it for years to keep my development folders synced between mac, linux and windows, and except for some initial figuring out of ignore patterns and the occasional hiccup with filenames that windows can’t handle it has been great at doing what it needs to and getting out of my way.

(I of course also use git, but syncthing lets me choose when I push while still having all my work on all my machines.)
I know it’s not as easy as it looks to convert office space into residential but I wonder if there’s an opportunity for better schools.

The UC system is at its limits for admissions and UCSF doesn’t have an undergraduate program. I wonder what it would take to covert some large section of downtown into a UC. Could revitalize the businesses that support the office buildings. Housing would be a problem but with BART and light rail access it seems like that could be addressed (dorms in West Oakland could be one stop on Bart away)
Red Hat is also making a move here, not at the UI layer but supporting RHEL in an automotive environment. It could be interesting to make these systems accessible to more software developers and appear a bit closer to cloud/web service/AI software stacks.
The link to the map is broken, but you can find one here: https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/bell/ricci
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