skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"no surgery unless absolutely necessary" is becoming the default around here, because the number of hospital-acquired infections is skyrocketing in the last years. While there were absolutely no anecdotes before 2017, the number of people infected in the hospital in my circles has exploded since then. People are talking about it, and realising that going to the hospital has a real risk of making things even worse.
48VDC is specified, but in my experience, it varies. The bottom of the article says the same:

On-hook voltage: 40-50 V DC
Microbes discovered that can digest plastics at low temperatures
I can't access the wired article but in one interview he had an angle that I thought was interesting. It was new to me, which was weird because I saw so many doomer angles.

His bold angle was that the automatic differentiability makes artificial optimization (training) so much more effective than any algorithm that biological neural systems might be using. According to wikipedia neural systems can do some backpropagation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_backpropagation) but Hinton was suggesting that the artificial optimization methods can be so much more powerful.

This was funny to me because usually people allow biology the benefit of the doubt for the sake of argument, meekly begging to assume that artificial training might approach the biological abilities to within some order of magnitude, and submissively suggesting that one artificial neural parameter might be worth like 1/100 of a synapse or so if it would please the biologists. Then the AI researchers would say something like even if Moore's law diminishes we will still reach human power by 2050 or whatever. But not Hinton. He's like yeah the artificial training uses math power that goes beyond what our squishy neurotransmitters can muster, and if I were allowed to say AGI already exists then I'd say it, but I'm not allowed so instead I'll say AGI within five years.
Well done, keep it up!
I don't think we invent new words just for AI to explain its thought process to us better. AI may explain more elaborately in our language instead.
For everybody curious, here is a comparison of the pixel densities:

Framework 13": 200dpi

MacBook Pro 13": 227dpi

MacBook Pro 14": 254dpi
This joke's getting tired. Jersey Shore did just fine, and that was a decade after The Real World showed MTV they should downplay the music. They just didn't have the next big thing, and now kids are into TikTok dances.

Next you're going to tell me "why's it called Coca Cola when there's no cocaine in it."
> The mostly unpredictable and extremely low duty cycle modes of non-line of sight VHF/UHF propagation like tropospheric ducting are not a realistic option for communications networks. Alternately the more reliable tropospheric scatter is a brute force solution requiring high output power of a kilowatt or more with big horn antennas.

A friend and myself are currently prototyping a solution where we transmit data using the near vertical incidence skywave (NVIS). Possibly the only option, when you want to avoid infrastructure at all costs. Of course you have the disadvantage of huge HF-antennas. To make this setup usable at all, we are trying with 20m long copper cables close to the ground. If this does not work we will try magnetic loop antennas.
'stelae' is plural
Idk how cloudflare rate limiting can impact this unless the webflow site is behind cloudflare? Can it be removed?

It may also be that webflow rate limits bot traffic? Try spoofing the user agent with a popular browser's[1].

But why scrape? Webflow allows to export the code[2]. But it may still require premium subscription, I haven't looked thoroughly.

[1] https://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/01/03/most-common-user-...

[2] https://university.webflow.com/lesson/code-export
There are a lot of different ways to interpret the word intelligent, so let me rephrase:

When you say "intelligent", what do you mean exactly?

What might help is describing what specific interactions give you the impression that GPT-4 is intelligent?
Same here, being hold hostage by resilio just waiting for it to either die or kill my files. I really need that selective sync.
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It's not clear whether or not LLMs have internal thoughts -- each token generation could absolutely have a ton of thought-like modelling in the hidden layers of the network.

What is known is that these internal thoughts get erased each time a new token is generated. That is, it's starting from scratch from the contents of the text each time it generates a word. But you could postulate that similar prompt text leads to similar "thoughts" and/or navigation of the concept web, and therefore the thoughts are continuous in a sense.
Yes, it's true that in China, parents often teach their children proper chopstick etiquette and techniques from a young age. This is because chopsticks are a fundamental part of Chinese culture and are used in almost every meal. Parents believe that learning to use chopsticks correctly not only shows respect for the food, but also reflects good manners and discipline.
I have every post made on BlueSky up to a certain point last weekend and it's only 3 GB.

I have every email I've ever received or sent (and not deleted) and it's only 4GB.

Should something require I download all that every time I login? No. But having a local copy is amazing, and a truly federated system should have and even be able to depend on those.

The Mastodon Server Covenant is a joke; the only enforcement is to remove the server from the list of signup servers; which if it just fell over dead because the admin died/doesn't care/got arrested/got a job will not matter.
No matter what it is probably easier to inspect a language model while it works, than the language module of a human while he speaks.
What about the AP-Calc student that has "merely" practiced hundreds of integrals and is therefore equipped, not just to pass the examination, but to use integrals as part of more complex theories down the line?

If they know only enough to apply the concept successfully without knowing its fundamentals, have they "understood" it?
Nothing to do with being sentient.

I think it has to do with being able to teach itself arbitrary information, including how to learn better, and importantly recognize what it does and doesn't know.

LLMs feel like a massive step towards that. It feels similar to a single "thought process".

A "good / useful AGI" might have aspects such as:
- Ability to coherently communicate with humans (hard to prove it's working without this) and other agents.
- Ability to make use of arbitrary tools

This sounds very similar to AutoGPT (what people poke fun of as an llm in a while loop)- and if the brain was AGI- I think it'd work very well.

I think there's a critical difference between LLMs and AGI, which is metacognition.

If an LLM had proper metacognition maybe it would hallucinate, but then it would realize and say "actually I'm not sure and I just started hallucinating that answer- I think I need to learn more about xyz." And then (ideally) could go ahead and do that (or ask if it should).

Another piece I've thought about is subjective experience.

Inserting experiences into a vector store recalling them in triggering situations.
Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris met with leaders from some of the top players in AI – Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic – this week to discuss AI safety risks as the government steps up efforts to regulate the technology.-The White House was criticized for excluding academic institutions and other non-profit organizations from the meeting.
Do you have any example of how it cannot reason?
what’s this persons background to comment on this btw?
People might be imagining it as something tightly coupled with the application rather than a data file you can just backup anywhere. Could be worth chucking a "store your profile on your own device, Apple iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, or your preferred file storage solution" somewhere.
The young don't want to farm. My neighbour is 84, his children in their 40s and 50s. They moved to a small regional town to work in factories. Same story for the several other farmers in this area.

He has offered to let me use the land for free. I moved here for the scenic views. I don't want to farm. There's over 10,000 square metres of farm land right outside my window growing weeds as I sit here in climate controlled comfort in a HM chair, typing away.

edit: math is hard
Did the 350 california sale go through? I thought it was just an offer?

Just googled it, and shit, it did: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/350-california-sf-offic... Holy hell. Now to find out if they land bank it or blow it up.
There is no such thing then.

A decentral global reserve currency is not a global reserve currency, that is a global price index with local bank specific currencies denominated in that price index.
1password, weird that I typo'd an i.
I implemented TLS without any external deps by supporting only mandatory stuff from the RFC specifications.

DER parsing here: https://github.com/mateuszb/tls1.3/blob/master/der.lisp

Elliptic curves here: https://github.com/mateuszb/tls1.3/blob/master/elliptic-curv...

Protocol records: https://github.com/mateuszb/tls1.3/blob/master/record.lisp

At the time I implemented TLS1.3 there was very little support for it and it seemed like a fun project. The parsing wasn’t the difficult part
How does it compare to Chocolatey? https://chocolatey.org/
1) compare it with httrack website copier

2) maybe your scraping is synchronous, without perhaps any level of parallelism at the same depth

3) use your code or a sitemap to get all the URLs into a txt, then loop through with bash/curl maybe
It's on the 4th line where it says

00000030: 9126 9384 ....

Instead of 9284 ....
As of my last Twitter export, I had 54425 tweets and the tweet data comes to 110M. But there's also 2G of media files that goes with it.
Or to write the press releases published along side SEC filings.

Notbsure why that actually helps, the SEC filongs are public... Justvanother case of the public and media not giving a damn about primary sources anymore.

Edit: From the article:

>> “We find it surprising this behavior is so effective,” Watkins said. “Investors should not assume press releases cover all events happening at a company at a given time.”

Apparently I am not the only one who is puzzled by thale fact the press releases actually seem to work...
And foreign debt in dollars.
That's what I said - ask them to put it away, pull them out of the class, but don't touch the phone.
Ha! Was it Thailand? Thailand is weird because you eat food deemed Chinese with chopsticks, and food deemed Thai with a fork and spoon, and displaying some Chinese heritage is a prestige thing
The discussion here was about archiving each user's tweets on their own client device - this is where the 55k was brought up as a problem. I still think it's a low number, even if it includes plenty of images.
The ones who "printed" less money.
I can confirm lucid dreaming does the same.
You know, the guys who believe whatever BS the farthest right wing influencers peddle well before any evidence actually turns up. Like, I’m willing to say, it’s possible that some of those theories could possibly turn out to be true, but the people who believe them before any actual evidence are just idiots.

It was the same thing with the lab leak theory- they massively damaged that theory by being loudly racist and jumping to the conclusion before there was evidence.
Thank you, appreciate the compliment.

And yeah, are definitely a lot of open questions related to all of this. Love how its brought so many deep questions into focus.
Whether on Twitter or Mastodon, people deep into that type of social network love TO SHOUT LIKE THIS to get likes or boosts.

It is why passersby like me can't get into either Twitter or Mastodon when it is a culture of getting outraged and shouting at each other, to collect a choir of people nodding and agreeing in the replies: "well done for saying it like it is."

These people forgot how humans talk and have arguments outside of their Internet echo chambers.

Anger, insults and hate sells more (creates more engagement) than reasoned arguments. No one would have posted this on HN if is was otherwise. So don't worry, they are not hurting their chances, the next topic that can be summarised with an angry title like "xxx is the most obtuse crock of shit" will get great traction on HN.
> The likelihood of a server just randomly disappearing is incredibly low.

It happens all the time. mastodon.social, the oldest and biggest Mastodon instance, has filled up with cached ghost profiles of users on dead instances. Last I checked, I could still find my old server in there, which hasn't existed for several years.
I don't understand what will happen if I add that link to my bio?
DMs are not a planned feature of this protocol
Is This Dynamic_cast Needed?
Bubbles and Evilbrags
Where's that 10000 iu data point from?

And what colour is "your skin"?
If so that will be revealed by the ongoing investigation. I'm going to wait a bit before speculating.

In general I'm skeptical of the value proposition. You can't record too much without tanking the battery life. They already have so much to target advertisements. What does a random snippet that probably doesn't even have any talking add?
I kept putting off making a blog because I thought the market must be saturated by now, who will even care?

It turns out the only one who needs to care is yourself!

I recently bought a random domain and my very first post went up towards the end of April. I kinda knew I wanted to write about gaming, and I feel it’s slowly developing and a core concept is forming every day that goes by.

I don’t really care about up to date gaming news and reviews, it turned out I’m interested looking back on my own history of gaming and talking about anything gaming adjacent I love so I write about those things, and hope other people can relate! I have dabbled in an attempt at an SEO post as well but it was for a game I am actively playing so doesn’t seem too disingenuous!

People shouldn’t get bogged down about what to write, you’ll eventually discover what you want to do the more you actually do it. It’s like a muscle!

And a link if anyone is interested: https://chronodrift.com
Same here! I remember carrying a VB6 book with me in the beach as a teen!
Julia 1.9
Rebasing is how the AT protocol handles deleting posts
Can conscious experience ever arise from matter? Even if the said matter is neural networks? This seems utterly nonsensical to me.
I’m seeing in-line x86 assembly encoded as floating-point constants, implementing what looks like indirect function calls (function pointers?). Is this…normal for advanced VB code? Does VB6 not have any other mechanism for function pointers?
I'll see what I can do, but I haven't touched the template for that blog in a very long time. (Maybe that's part of the problem.)
I suppose there are exceptions, but through my career (and life), I've found that negative blustering hyperbole like that is a pretty good indicator that I should not take the criticism (and usually the criticizer) very seriously.
China has around 330 million acres of farmland and, until relatively recently, they were a net food exporter with a population of 1.4 billion. That's around 4 people fed per acre, and that's not especially remarkable. Even urban homesteads are also able to match this. Here's [1] a heavily commercialized one that is/was operating on a fifth of an acre for a family of four.

And meat also provides an excellent nutrient:calorie ratio with extremely low upkeep. You can sustain around 50 free range chickens per acre, and they're ready for harvest in 6 weeks. That's more than a whole chicken per day, on a single acre. If you want to get real crazy you can also get into things like vertical farming/aquaponics [2] and more, where the densities are limited really only by cost. Though on the still very reasonable end, you can do things like potato boxes where you can get hundreds of pounds of potatoes in tens of square feet.

[1] - https://www.urbanhomestead.org/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming
Actually, those SEC filings are not that jard to read. I had a collegue who used ChatGPT to summarize those for him. Since even SEC filings contain letters to shareholders, all they got was a ChatGPT version of that, missing all the relevant and important stuff about risks and such. Also, what is not written in those filings is at at least as important as what is written, ChatGPT utterly fails here.
Yeah, I don't know what my intuition was.

But the problem is symmetric, and even if pick a red, you end up with two reds and one blue, so not so much imbalanced.

And even if the mix becomes really imbalanced, say 7 red and one blue, picking the rarest color will have more effect than picking the most common one. So you could consider that the system tries to balance itself naturally, hence avoiding huge swings in some direction or the other.
I saw this today. It looks at mass transit funding in big metros. Mass transit is interesting because it's a proxy for downtown health.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-09/us-public...

The outlook isn't good, and the shortfalls mean there will likely be service cuts, driving people away from city centers even more. SF will probably be worse off because of how poorly it's handled homelessness, theft, and drug use.
My reaction whenever I see such headline is always "there must be an engineer out there who worked on this, I wonder how they feel about this". I had the same reaction today, opened comments and you were at the top. I love HN sometimes.
Using chopsticks is completely human created, just like bowling. Eating is a basic thing, yes, but cavemen didn't use chopsticks or other utensils (as far as we know), they used their bare hands and had little concept of hygiene which humans later created to try to minimize diseases.

The skill ceiling for chopsticks isn't that low. Try picking up individual grains of rice with them. Skilled users can do this easily; beginners, not so much. It's far more difficult than using your fingers to grab things and shove them into your mouth, which is something any toddler can do.

As for "gatekeeping", I find that one difficult to believe, since it's absolutely the norm for everyone, regardless of class, in Asian nations (namely CJK plus a few others) to use chopsticks for eating. Whereas in western nations, only certain upper-class (or aspiring) people really give a shit about which forks to use. In most Asian restaurants (in Asia), you'll have a really hard time eating if you can't use chopsticks, because it's assumed that everyone can and they don't usually provide western utensils unless it's a western-food restaurant.
> "That's probably better, but I've been doing this since the 70s and I'm going to retire soon, I don't want to learn more new things that I don't care about instead of getting jobs done as fast as possible."

My maternal grandfather-in-law recounts that he said the same thing when he was close to retirement, but regrets it badly today. The skills someone was trying to teach him, it turns out, would have been very valuable skills also in retirement.
Good project for a comparator chip! Just set the trigger threshold slightly below the off-hook voltage for your extension and it shows when another local phone is also off-hook. Only works locally though, and will not let you know if your phone is tapped, or if a nosy operator or phone company technician is listening.

A long time ago, I helped a co-worker tap his own phone because he suspected his wife of cheating. I gave him a device that would connect to a phone line, activate a cassette recorder when any phone went off-hook, and record the audio. He ended up getting evidence for a divorce shortly afterward.

The "butt set" phones that telco field techs have will let you connect to a line and monitor a call without affecting the voltage, so the comparitor/LED doesn't ensure privacy beyond your family extensions. I still have an old one (with a dial). It's also useful to find the right pair with a flicker test set. I still have a few of those too.

Sometimes a field tech needs to access the CO and will find an unused line on a nearby demark. Long after my phreaking days had passed, a friend of mine had connected a DTMF decoder to his phone line (AC coupled, so it was undetectable). One day he looked at his logs and found that he had recorded a session between a field tech and the CO. The phone number and access codes were his for the taking! Fortunately for the phone company, my friend is mostly a trustworthy law-abiding guy.
I’m in Seattle. The shop I bought it from had two. They specialize in importing “classic” foreign vehicles that were never sold here. Mostly kei cars from Japan.

When I did the valve adjustment I asked for parts for some other Honda that was sold in the US. There’s only two diameters of shim so once you find a compatible model you just order parts for that. Same for oil filters and non-exotic parts. Other than that you’re calling Rick.

My carbs work perfectly and I refuse to ask or answer any further questions on the topic ;)

Thanks for the tip on thevisorshop.com.

I'm intrigued by the EFI conversion. That seems like a big project. If you want to chat more send an email to my username at the domain in my profile.
Great stuff! Like many here, my blog/website seems to have been started at that magic ~20 year-old point. I also went back through the Internet Archive and revisited the different phases in my site's "life" at https://www.markround.com/about

It started off as static HTML - built in a tool called "AOL Press" I think I got on a CD from a magazine -and uploaded to the shared FTP space we got with our family's dial-up internet package. Under construction gifs and rainbow spacer bars galore...

Since then, it's moved to the various platforms of the day (Remember PHP Nuke ? Serenity ?), become virtualised, moved into the cloud, and now exists amongst various other things deployed to my public k8s cluster.

Having your own slice of the internet is a great experience, and I can't recommend it enough. Apart from the nostalgia trip of looking back through the various cheesy site designs and "fads" of the day, it's also fun to revisit the various tech stacks that have come and gone that I wrote about. There's still one of my earliest articles (a review of Solaris 9 - https://www.markround.com/blog/2002/07/02/Solaris-9-initial-...) online and I've tried hard through various migrations - eventually coming full-circle and back to static HTML with Jekyll - to keep the content presentable and avoiding link-rot.

It's an investment of time and money (domains, SSL before we had LetsEncrypt, hosting etc.) for sure but well worth it. I also take a certain amount of pride in stubbornly avoiding the trendy centralised blogging/content platforms that have come and gone over the last few decades - I miss the "old" Internet a great deal and I love that there's still a bunch of us preserving that spirit by running our own websites and tending to them over the years.

Here's to the next 20 years! Maybe we should start a HN webring :D

-Mark
Can you elaborate on this or do you have a link to more info?