skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I suggest that curious individuals try a hallucinogen at least once*. It really makes the fragility of our perception, and how it’s held up mostly by itself, very apparent.

* in a safe setting with support, of course.
> Can anyone explain the deep nostalgia and longing for old DOS era software, and in particular VGA text mode interfaces?

I can only speak for me, but perhaps others feel the same way. It is nostalgia for me because this is the first way I experienced a computer, when everything was new to me and anything was possible. Until we got a computer, the only window outside of the world of my city was a TV, but a computer ran software of all sorts, and games, and others knew how it worked and could teach me stuff. Then the Internet came and I could talk to people anywhere in the world! What a thing this was.

Now, I spend all day looking at screens. I get paid to make them work, and that's cool, but the wonder and magic of it all is gone, and I miss it. DOS and text apps just happened to be my first interface, and everyone longs for their first love.

On a slightly more tactical angle, I really like typing and my keyboard, and terminal apps make it so I don't have to move my hands to a mouse and change contexts. A small thing, but it adds up. Yes, some stuff is easier with a mouse, but it's always fun to not have to change between input devices for long stretches of time.
Hunting Russian Intelligence “Snake” Malware
More info here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-takes-down-20-year-old-russ...
Besides, both China and Russia give zero shit about Western patents.
> Just to make it extra clear that the pixel data exceeding overexposure threshold is not mistaken for valid data?

Saturated pixels are not necessarily "invalid" the way cosmic ray bit flips and stuck pixels are, but setting them to zero does make the other bright but not saturated pixels much easier to identify.
In practice you will show up and wait outside while your kid dies and the police prevent you from helping.
If you try to put a link to Telegram or Snapchat in your Instagram profile, Instagram will tell you that it's "not supported".

It's very simple; Instagram doesn't support using their network to grow another network, and it's tiring when people pretend like this is something new.
97% of users have no idea what is happening.

2.9% of users have a momentary unsettling feeling. then it passes. they are saved.

0.1% of users are livid and in a permanent state of disbelief that this dystopia happened in like less than 10 - 15 years. they will age prematurely and stop being a nuisance.
Great work! I've been playing a little with an older version of this (from ~ March 29th, when it was called `llama-rs`) just to get a taste of the LLM world, and it's super convenient. (I haven't tried llama.cpp to compare.)

Since it's a bit slow on my hardware (being CPU-only at the moment + me not having any fancy graphics cards, anyway), when toying around I sometimes get impatient and fire up jobs on multiple servers via the CLI. I keep toying with the idea of whipping up a webapp that would provide a ChatGPT-like interface and dispatch to any number of connected backend servers.
Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive?
That's not how the body works. And it's just caramel color.
Sed can do Towers of Hanoi (1984)
DISCLAIMER: I think Yudkowsky is a serious thinker and his ideas should be taken seriously, regardless of whether not they are correct.

Your comment triggered a random thought: A perfect name for Yudkowsky et al and the AGI doomers is... wait for it... the Yuddites :)
Information Infrastructure: tension b/w Standardization and Flexibility (1996)
> I too am confused about what both authors think the definition of "ur-" is in both of their contexts.

I'm confused why you're confused. The original author (of "The seven programming ur-languages") stated what they meant by an ur-language:

> I am aware of seven ur-languages in software today. I’ll name them for a type specimen, the way a species in paleontology is named for a particular fossil that defines it and then other fossils are compared to the type specimen to determine their identity. [emphasis in original]

They didn't hide their meaning, they laid it out right before listing the languages and then explaining why they selected them.
There is a longer-term problem of trusting the explainer system, but in the near-term that isn't really a concern.

The bigger value here in the near-term is _explicability_ rather than alignment per-se. Potentially having good explicability might provide insights into the design and architecture of LLMs in general, and that in-turn may enable better design of alignment-schemes.
Sell books on permaculture...
I've been poor. I've been in situations where the only lunch option was McDonalds. Didn't get fat. Didn't get diabetes. How come? Ordered a cheeseburger, small fries, water, while all of my co-workers "super-sized" their orders. My bill and my BMI were always far lower than theirs. People here can blame corporations, "red staters", "food deserts", and whatever other divisive new york times nonsense they want. Ultimately, you've only got one pancreas, and instead of pointing fingers, you should take care of it.

I didn't get pre-diabetic until I was wealthy--eating out, non-stop sushi and Thai. Unfortunately for me, rice has a very high glycemic index. It is not suited to the genetics of my people.
Every estimate I've seen points to a minimum requirement of ~1 hectare of arable land to feed one human for one year (on a minimal vegetarian diet) and that estimate assumes highly productive soils and minimal crop loss due to insects, drought, or flood.

The idea with permaculture is that you minimize (ideally eliminate) the need for fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide imports using effective composting and crop rotation (biological nitrogen fixation) and integrated pest management (raising insects that eat crop pests etc.) and water recycling systems and so on.

Scaling this approach to tens of thousands of acres for reliably feeding even a medium-sized city seems challenging, but there appear to be some 1000-acre permaculture farms out there. However, yields are likely to be lower per acre with this approach as practices like using high fertilizer imports to allow double-cropping don't fit the permaculture model.
One of the nice things about SPAs is that they allow navigation without the latency needed to re-load all assets.

You can get there the old-fashioned way if all your assets are cached in the browser with long timeouts; but that implies that you're doing something like putting hashes in the asset URL and hashing them as part of your build process. (This, is why loading JavaScript and CSS from CDNs helps with performance.)

Otherwise, every time you navigate to a new page on a non-SPA, the browser still needs to send an IF-CHANGED-SINCE request to the server.

As a developer, though, the BIG drawback of SPAs is that they require building much stricter APIs for everything. In a traditional server-side HTML page, you can quickly prototype something where the code that's putting together the HTML has access to privileged data that you can't expose through an API. (IE, if you just need to prototype something, server-side HTML rendering code can directly talk to the database.)
Purchased a Pristine Hydro https://pristinehydro.com/ system a few years back and absolutely love it. Pays for itself in convenience alone as we were accustomed to filling up containers at a local aquifer or grocery store (RO filtered).
A friend of mine was afraid of the sea. Swimming in any water deeper than 1m, basicaly. Probably some thing from childhood... No amount ot prodding or laughing would make him do it. But anyway. One day he was told that scuba diving may help overcome the fear. And he got interested. And he tried in some club.

And it worked.

Now the gear collects dust, but we go swimming together..
I'd love to hear more about this! I'm a photographer but look on jealously at Davinci. Black Magic got so much right with the design (and business model) of their software. How does it work for images?
Unlike vitamin D, it’s not that hard to get plenty of vitamin K from diet alone.

People will say that it’s not “the right kind” k1 instead of k2, but your body can make the conversion even though it’s fairly inefficient.
This is Java applets all over again, hence OP's reference to "gray boxes".
https://www.neelnanda.io/mechanistic-interpretability/gettin...
Pynchon doesn't pretend to be anything. His material mostly consists of low culture, obscenity, and engineering nerd stuff he finds interesting. He lived through the beat and hippie countercultures and draws from them for his characters and settings.

I think people get hung up on the difficulty of his writing. He writes word puzzles and he's having as much fun with it as he can.

People like his work because they have fun untangling the obscure mess he puts on the page.
FDA doesn't have defined safe levels for some of these toxins in food, hence the reliance by the paper's authors on EPA's defined safe levels in water.

It's not an accident, and it's not like it never occurred to anyone that we might want to pay attention to heavy metal levels in food. Who do you think has more money to spend on lobbyists and campaign contributions, the people who want FDA to pay attention to this or the people who don't?

https://www.theonion.com/american-people-hire-high-powered-l...
The study included no mention of specific brands.
I'll be more excited when they finally can bring over xcode and I can use an ipad to write au plugins.
When I worked in Seaport i'd just walk from south station
> I read the whole article and I don't see anywhere the author mixed up weather and climate.

The article was about climate change but the examples were all about short term (few years) change in prevailing weather: "One of the key factors in the fall of Cleopatra, for example, appears to have been the massive eruption of the Okmok volcano", "Eruptions help explain other major changes", "Global weather systems such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, a cycle of warm and cold periods in the Pacific Ocean, have had huge and unpredictable consequences for human civilisation". After these examples, the article goes on to say "Shifting climate patterns in the distant past are responsible for..." which certainly seems to be true, but none of the examples were about shifting climate patterns.

I think the author didn't know what they were talking about, and that's a shame when good examples exist.

> You underestimated how important modern technology and scienctific advancement is to historical discoveries.

Quite the opposite; the first words of my comment were "This is a good article about historiography".
This adds to the body of evidence around the subject, especially if it reproduces, fails to reproduce, or builds on previous findings -- an important part of science.
I visited Boise and i realized that about myself too. I prefer all the amenities and infrastructure of a walkable city that is not too crowded.
I'm not understanding the connection between your paragraphs here even after reading the first article.

Even if you accept classic theory (e.g. hemispheric localization and the homunculus) which most experts don't all this suggests is that the brain tries to make sense of the information it has and in sparse environments it fills in.

How does this make our behavior "mostly lies, fabrications, hallucinations, faulty re-memorization, post hoc reasoning" as most humans don't have a severed corpus callosum.

The discussion starts with:

"In a healthy human brain, these divergent hemispheric tendencies complement each other and create a balanced and flexible reasoning system. Working in unison, the left and right hemispheres can create inferences that have explanatory power and both internal and external consistency."
I downsized vehicles from a new one with Carplay to one with no touch screen and once your hands+fingers learn locations of buttons it is blissful to drive.

I can adjust nearly anything without taking my eyes off the road. I miss Carplay for the maps functionality but a properly placed phone holder can accomplish the same. I don't need 14" display of maps and entertainment options.

I would also suggest that EV's that require a large screen to explain charging options, rates, usages, etc. are doing it wrong. If the EV and its charging systems (internal and external) are that complex to monitor and manage then you have larger problems about UX.
The Wikipedia pages for various national intelligence organizations are hilarious concise.

Good retirement hobby: summarizing everything from dead tree niche books to the web.
What if you do? LLMs don't have reflexive output or internal streams of thought, they are simply (complex) processes that produce streams of tokens based on an inputted stream of tokens. They don't have a special response to tokens that indicate higher-level thinking to humans.
20,000 is way too high even though you are doing only once/week. 2000 or less daily is more appropriate.

Doses that are too high can also cause blood calcium to spike and can pull it out of bones and deposit into soft tissue.
My man… you are arguing FOR drinking a 2L of soda a day. Take a step back, your reasons for why studies aren’t conclusive might be good, and I may not be able to refute them… but look at the ridiculousness of your position.
tl;dr:

It's exercise, or physical activity. That's why these tribe members' brains are aging more slowly.
$1,762 per sqft.

No, I'm at the beach.
Chaos Communication Camp 2023 – Call for Participation
> but food safety and standards in the US are much lower than certain places.

It is arrogant. You make a claim then do not show any evidence or data. You do not name those _certain places_.

Which places and what data do you have to back up the claim?
These items in the medical records: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02332-5/figures/5
Ya my kids wont be using any of it until they are adults.
I'm curious -- are these just the levels of metals that are generally present in any natural soil? That has been in all of food through all of mankind, but are elevated in juices because plants concentrate it?

Or is this all a relatively new problem, whether from industrial pollution or fertilizer contamination or farm equipment or whatnot?
Typically, the TUIs are also really good at consistently handling input, so even when they do get behind in processing the input, you can keep typing, and it will buffer inputs and catch up. There's often an attention key which is not buffered, and will dump the input buffer and stop any operations in progress, in case something is stuck.

Even if a GUI does buffer input, it's unusual for users to be comfortable clicking where the buttons will show up, before they do. More frequently, click processing is separate from whatever else, and early clicks (or taps) are ignored or directed elsewhere.
I think a serious, difficult real analysis I course (sometimes they have I and II) or an equally difficult elementary number theory course will expose you to enough mathematical proofs.
Interesting, I grow Oyster mushrooms from used coffee beans. I really like giving an extra purpose to so many beans consumed.
Not supported by neuroimaging. Promoted without evidence or sufficient causal inference.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/right-brainleft-brain-ri... :

> But, the evidence discounting the left/right brain concept is accumulating. According to a 2013 study from the University of Utah, brain scans demonstrate that activity is similar on both sides of the brain regardless of one's personality.

> They looked at the brain scans of more than 1,000 young people between the ages of 7 and 29 and divided different areas of the brain into 7,000 regions to determine whether one side of the brain was more active or connected than the other side. No evidence of "sidedness" was found. The authors concluded that the notion of some people being more left-brained or right-brained is more a figure of speech than an anatomically accurate description.

Here's wikipedia on the topic: "Lateralization of brain function" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_functi...

Furthermore, "Neuropsychoanalysis" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychoanalysis

Neuropsychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychology

Personality psychology > ~Biophysiological: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_psychology

MBTI > Criticism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

Connectome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome
I live in the United Kingdom, summers are quite warm with most days above 20C, winters ~10C or so, rarely you get frost.
Sometimes scientists cover the same stuff as other scientists in the interest of checking reproducibility or finding new data. Sometimes new stuff is discovered, sometimes not.
Did you see the video of the teacher getting pepper sprayed by a student for doing that? Seems like In some places rules a simply unenforceable
I stand corrected. I thought the applet SM policy had forbidden JNI completely but forgot that code signing could turn it off.
The list of targets Micrometer posts to is a good starting point for options:

https://micrometer.io/docs
Neurology is full of very uncomfortable facts. Here's one for you: there are patients who believe their arm is gone even though it's still there. When the doctor asks whose arm that is, they reply it must be someone else's. The brain can simply refuse to know something, and will adopt whatever delusions and contortions are necessary. Which of course leads to the realization that there could be things we're all incapable of knowing. There could be things right in front of our faces we simply refuse to perceive and we'd never know it.
‘A Random Walk Down Wall Street’ is relevant 50 years later
Try SwiftKey... Not the same but I can do it without looking that much - and one-handed.
I'm not arguing for or against that. It's more the implications of sentience and selfhood implicit in the language many use around LLMs.
It's so much worse than you think. Almost ALL doctors want to help. It's system (in this case, the reimbursement system) that makes it impossible to help, even though they want to. The doctors themselves have far less agency than you think.
I have a whole 70 litre dust bin that contains spawn and waste organic matter, and it's all turned white and fluffy as the mycelium has colonized everything. And once it's full I can then use the mycelium to start even more colonies on collected tree leaves and branches. It kind of grows exponentially in size. I just keep producing more and more of it....

When you grow large quantities of mycelium this way, it generates its own internal heat, I've found it to be warm inside. So that makes it grow faster than it would if it were at ambient temperature.

Also the large amount of spawn easily overruns any other fungi that might contaminate the bin, such as green mold, before it has time to spread. The oyster mushroom fungus is a very aggressive colonizer which will eventually outrun green mold with time, but this can take a while.
I upvoted, because the discussion underneath has been illuminating and I think more people need to see it.
He posts on the forum. I'm not sure what more evidence is needed that he's part of it.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/eliezeryudkowsky
https://archive.ph/2gz91
I've considered doing this, considering I can't get either PPO or HMO insurance to pay for an MRI here.
I did! A couple years ago.
People making a living:

https://www.youtube.com/@gregjudyregenerativerancher

https://www.youtube.com/@savvydirtfarmer

https://www.youtube.com/@JustaFewAcresFarm

https://www.youtube.com/@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL

https://www.youtube.com/@MikesBackyardNursery

https://www.youtube.com/@FraserValleyRoseFarm

https://www.youtube.com/@edibleacres

https://www.youtube.com/@regenerativeagriculture

Hobbyists, but doing it right:

https://www.youtube.com/@Selfsufficientme

https://www.youtube.com/@simplifygardening

https://www.youtube.com/@GardenerScott

https://www.youtube.com/@RedToolHouse

https://www.youtube.com/@MySelfReliance

Some of these folks do sponsored content, usually widgets or toys or something, but they're pretty up front about it. A few of them I follow religiously, others I choose which videos I'd prefer to watch.
You're absolutely right. We're working on an official macOS port now.
Its getting down voted because if people want that sort of thing they can generate it themselves.
2013 Google tooling was pretty decent. Does WebObjects still haunt Apple's cloud services?
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-and-vitamin-k...
You can register an LLC with firstbase[0] and then use that to get a mercury account.

[0]:https://www.firstbase.io
There are actual people working to curate the content, manage the community, etc. And as such, they charge an amount for the work they're doing. If you think the price does not meet the value, then you can... just not pay it.
Google Docs Proved the Power of Less
> You are supremely out of tough if you think red states preclude you from being vocally proud of your kids.

Of course you can be vocally proud of said kid. But are you able to "in good faith tell my lgbt child that I support them". Supporting someone is not just words. But perhaps living in a place where they are not handicapped by laws.

> Dont give voice to the extremeists of either party as if they are the norm.

Sure. What about the extremists who are writing the law in those red states? Can I be concerned about those?
Diet soda, not sugary soda.

It's not what I do personally but I also don't judge, because scientifically, it's basically just water.

Do you have a problem with somebody drinking 2 cans' worth of LaCroix in the morning, 1 at lunch, 2 in the afternoon, and 1 at dinner? Why should that suddenly become "ridiculous" because an eyedropper amount of caramel color, caffeine, and artificial sweetener get added?
The difficulty with that is that trying to define "true understanding" crosses deeply into the philosophical realm. Moreover, a lack of ability to define a term does not invalidate my position. That being said, I'll instead present you with a question intended to display what I believe is the difference between the two. If I write an example of an integral, it clearly shows that I know what an integral is, but does that mean that I understand integrals? Even if I could concisely answer any question you asked about integrals (i.e. an all-knowing AI), that is not the same as my definition of "truly understanding" integrals. To pose another philosophical question which highlights what I believe it is to "truly understand" something: Does the library of babel understand? I would say that despite it having the answer to any question you ask, it does not "truly understand" anything. I wish that I could put the difference between these two into concise wording, but alas I've been unable to quite put my finger on it despite having spent some good part of the day giving thought to it.

Some of these concepts are explained/explored much better than I could do on the wikipedia[0] page for understanding, particularly the "Assessment" section.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding
Minor nit, but you really don't want to trust companies to send a sample. You would need to ensure samples are acquired through the consumer supply chain by the FDA.
Indeed, this is one of the major topics I focused on in the referenced article.

"AI brings into question who is really the creator. Am I the creator if I simply role the dice until I win the lottery? When I regenerate a new response over and over until finally getting the image or output I most desire? When the output is the final product, is AI still just a tool? Or are we simply observers foolishly convincing ourselves of the value of our contribution?"