skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the Pakistani population is growing. The Bangladeshi population is growing.

Pakistani was hit by a big flood that affected lots of people -- not merely because the flood was so big (it really was!), but because there are so many people in Pakistan that many of them have to live in risky places. Bangladesh is regularly hit by floods, which largely affect areas where people didn't use to live, simply because there are so many people in Bangladesh that many of them have to live in risky places.

Bangladesh is also flood prone due to misfortunes of geography (nothing at all to do with climate change or population explosion).

And then there are the local effects of large populations: felling of mangrove forests in Bangladesh, deforestation in general (Pakistan), people living on former meadows, people putting in barriers that prevent minor local "floods" (really just temporary widening of rivers) which lead to major floods, ...

And, yes, there is also climate change => deglaciation, more rainfall, and more extreme weather.

But anybody who tries to downplay the role of population growth in the recent disasters in Pakistan and Bangladesh is lying to you and probably trying to sell you something.
the brain is the ultimate quantum memcomputer with an antenna lightyears beyond wifi.
I suspect the CSA’s new ‘rip-off tip-off’ campaign would be interested in this!

https://ripoff-tipoff.campaign.gov.uk/
When .com became a common top level domain, search tools did not commingle the file:// and http:// protocols.

This was probably for two reasons. Bandwidth was precious. Searching file systems was slow.

Maybe business ethics played a role as well.

Maybe not.
And to complete the thought:

The ‘You are an AI chatbot’ form is actually grammatically ‘predicative’, not ‘imperative’ (ie it describes what is not what must be done)
Fractals Everywhere, Michael F. Barnsley.

I love the way it starts:

>Fractal geometry will make you see everything differently. There is a danger in reading further. You risk the loss of your childhood vision of clouds, forests, flowers, galaxies, leaves, feathers, rocks, mountains, torrents of water, carpet, bricks, and much else besides. Never again will your interpretation of these things be quite the same.
I'm not sure what this says about my turn of mind - probably too devious. But I wonder if one tack that fraudsters could follow would be to publish a paper with the named author(s) being legitimate scientists, and then include some citations inside the paper to the fraudster's other papers.

You'd need to use some obfuscated correspondence email to complete the loop.
The books that taught me computer science

- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces ( https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/)

- Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (https://dataintensive.net)

- Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom (http://craftinginterpreters.com)
Can you elaborate on the supposed “wonky physics” that goes on when things get small? I’ve seen it thrown around that 3nm is “almost” the smallest size that can be made before different classes of physical errors are introduced due to the extremely small distance between gates.
We know AI chatbots aren't conscious most of the time because no program is running. There's nothing to do any thinking. [1]

We also know that they immediately forget anything they didn't write down. A chatbot has no memory of any internal calculations. If you ask it why it wrote something, it's guessing. [2]

People sometimes believe that an AI-generated character is conscious because the writing is convincing, along with some wishful thinking. But writers and characters aren't the same thing, and there's no writer waiting for your reply when you read the character's dialog. This essentially the same thing that happens when reading fiction. [3]

[1] https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chats-are-turn-based-game...

[2] https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chatbots-dont-know-why-th...

[3] https://skybrian.substack.com/p/the-ai-author-illusion
Probably not what anybody here is looking for, but Steven Seidman -- Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today
Planted lupine on our farm two years ago and it's finally flowering. So the first blue butterflies!
Boomers might mostly be dead in 30 yrs, but yeah a concern in 10.
It obviously wouldn't work in the US on a national level, since both freedom of speech and freedom of association allow for it. At its core, "cancel culture" is simply a form of political activism and protest.

I wouldn't be surprised if certain states like Texas tried it, given the current environment.
You might be a Jew or a Gypsy.
Isn’t this Kleene’s theorem at work? There always exists some input that will cause a compiler to dump itself.
Right. If one can develop a sixth sense about bullshit papers then so too can an LLM. If you have a bullshit paper you will need to pipe it through an LLM to debullshittify it so that reviewers cannot tell. The reviewers themselves may need LLM to fight the rising tide of passable bullshit papers. None of that seems productive to me, just throwing gasoline on the dumpster fire of phacking, credential inflation, publish or perish, etc..
I can find no evidence for this claim. Care to enlighten me?
While those decisions are completely meaningless as far as performance or correctness of your program goes, they do have value for readability. One way to deal with them is of course to install something like standardrb and never think about it. The other way is to read the code you just wrote, and see what reads clearer/better in a specific case.
The market will determine the winner: a few high profile cases where AI enhanced arguments dominate people who are tying their hands behind their back will turn the tide.
Where would the origin of the Celts be according to current archeological finds if you approached it from this linguistic point of view? Atlantic or central Europe?
Those who goes all the way through that ambition ends up with a potato sensor, those who don't make that compromise either end up with a halfway destroyed camera, or find upside in the reward points on the $5k purchase made after impulsive considerations.
Despite the headline, they get it right:

> Some suspect that the new power-plant regulation proposed by the Biden administration is really designed to shut down coal-fired plants.

Carbon capture might have some uses in industry, but keeping coal plants open would be very costly and dumb when there's cheaper, better alternatives.
We use Elixir. Everyone we’ve hired, from junior to principal, has had no previous Elixir experience. They’ve mostly come from Ruby/Rails or JavaScript backgrounds. They’ve become productive in Elixir quickly and once they’ve understood some of the unique patterns and concepts, all thoroughly enjoyed working in it.

Of course, those with more experience tend to have heard of Elixir and be keen to work in it.

People with less experience are more concerned about whether investing in this language is a good career move, so we emphasise how learning something like Elixir will ultimately make you a more valuable developer.

If you’re considering adopting Elixir for your new project/startup and worried about finding talented developers, I don’t think Elixir will make it harder and might even make it easier.
I will never understand 4 spaces vs 2 spaces as a code formatting standard.

I’m looking at you Python Black!

4 spaces and a default 80 char line length!

It’s wasted space!
It's also hard to get a job as an elixir junior or senior. There is a disconnect and companies are trying to hire by cargo culting things that other startups/faang are doing, and repeatedly turning down perfectly good candidates. Also recruiters don't know how to find/screen elixir devs, etc.
> the real world doesn't have schemas

In the same sense that the real world doesn't have numbers, types, or functions. Platonist might disagree, but in any case it is beside the point. What matters is if these concepts are useful.

There is no such thing as a schema-less database, the question is if the schema is formalized and stored and enforced in the database itself, or if it only exists implicitly in code or in the minds of the people using the database.
Neither of those check types. It’s easy to be fast when all you’re doing is filtering out type-bytes (and perhaps some transpiling). That’s nothing compared to actually type checking, which requires solving complex satisfiability problems across the entire codebase.
Not as a species.

Nobody ever said: let's ask what the cat think about it

It doesn't matter if a cat thinks he's a duck and raise some ducklings, it's a cat, it will kill many other animals for fun, they don't have anything like we have as a species.

Anyway, dogs exists only because we humans created the he way they are

We selected them to be agreeable and loyal and human loving

they did not exist before we literally invented them

> Is it just that you feel you are smarter than me?

that could only be true if you think you're dumber than me, because I never said anything that can remotely resemble a comparison of our personal intelligences. Which doesn't even matter much, I could be the dumbest and kindest person in the World.
Imagine if you had a pair of jeans that lived and died with you
We of course don't know how to engineer agency, but if we want black box top-down persuasion, how we train a dog without knowing how each neuron in the dog's brain works, some independent will may be required: you don't want to tell the robot how to fight each fire specifically (or train it on petabytes of fires just to have it stop in front of a shop called STOP [1]), you want to prove some general guidelines, and let it handle the actual cases itself.

[1] Don't name your Store "Stop", https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/k56za3/don...
> I found many vulnerabilities in one of their recent acquisitions and although I was paid, they indicated that they won't fix any of them.

That’s interesting to hear they don’t plan to fix them. I wonder if the bug bounty exists as some sort of insurance discount for having a program at all, even if they fix nothing?
I am amazed at how well Alexandra Elbakyan has created and promoted sci-hub to fight these journal cash cows, and appalled at the way these journals have tried to block her. They now digitally watermark every journal downloaded at colleges etc, so they can ID the provenance of the journals = she must obfuscate this as best she can. The journals try to punish universities that leak papers to sci-hub
Give her a wave....
https://sci-hub.se/alexandra
> need incredible amounts of tests to compensate for the lack of compile-time type checking

can you explain this a bit more? it seems to me that test coverage and typing solve different problems.
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Your post boils down to “This is the next iPhone moment”.

The tech existed but was clunky and unavailable. Now it’s good and accessible enough to be used by most people. This is how technological revolutions happen!

Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb. But he made it useful and invented power distribution. That’s the important part. Consumers don’t care about technology that exists in a lab that they cannot even begin to fathom how to use.

Mind you last year even experts didn’t think LLMs would be able to do what they’re doing right now for at least another 5 to 6 years. This also is in part a side-effect of the hype and extra attention. All this attention causes an acceleration.
> We can't know for certain whether something is or isn't conscious, but we have to try to make a best guess.

We now have AI which is trained on data generated by humans who are (probably?) conscious and feel pain etc. So it can generate output which implies that it's conscious and can feel pain etc., even when that isn't the case.

What do you do with something that can pass the Turing test but still isn't human?
> To those who believe that new jobs will emerge at meaningful rates to absorb the losses and shocks, what exactly are those new jobs?

Prompt Engineering. The highest paid will be the ones who are able to extract the most value out of LLMs with the least effort.
You know what's funny? Even if the numbers are hot garbage, they proved the point about how easy it is to publish fake science papers, since it got published.

Kinda similar to those researchers years back who proved how easy it was to go into certain social science journals as long as you copied their ideology.
It means that it's not causing a service outage.
Caffeine Addiction
Actually, this is a really good point. Asking a question means that you have an internal model or the world and you realize that there are some data that is way off. Is it even possible at all to train an LLM to ask a question? This also gives me an idea for the future where most online text is generated by AI: we will play the game of responding questions with questions and then we know we are human!
SLRs are a magnitude bigger.

The only thing that leicas have is that they are small range finders. Almost everything else is hype or just expense. Even compared to other film cameras at the end of the film era (90s)

Granted there are some specialist 1f< lenses that are interesting, but not at that price.

A recent fujifilm X digital rangefinder will probably beat the pants off a leica.

But.

The point of a hobby is not saving money, the point of a hobby is to enjoy doing what you are doing, even if to all the world it's patent nonsense.
Or there’s a complex interaction between Earth’s natural climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.
Planet isn't going to be destroyed. Some areas might become uninhabitable (like Sahara desert or Arabian peninsula), but some other areas might end up better suited for human life or more desirable.
I have been out of the hardware loop for quite a while now. The referenced Beta BIOS in the GN video (the first link) is from May 2nd, and Steve claims that the voltage is still too high, as it is the boards task to set the correct VSOC setpoint, as the EXPO profile doesn’t have one per definition.

(Only half valid knowledge, just reiterating what I saw)
I mean I maybe understand why a CEO would want to blame bad numbers on something external, but it's surely the worst possible call to blame it on 'this new thing that's changing everything'. It's almost an admission that you're being swept away.
I like Discord, but I now have a new problem, it crashes every time my computer goes to sleep. This has caused me to miss important messages, and catching up and use the app less and less overall. I basically only get messages when I reboot my laptop (rare), before the first sleep.
Love that! I never understood why so many of us would use their affiliation's email address in print if they know that they would only be there for another 2--3 years.
I changed my mind on this one. As long as the text editor is not introducing its own transformations (as wysiwig editors do), then it's alright with me for programmers to use as many unicode characters as they want. In other words, as long as I'm confident that the function I'm reading is exactly what was committed and what will be compiled, it's fine with me that programmers expand the charset.
Zip isn't a file transfer protocol, it's a file compression format and popular file extension. Still, I don't understand a scenario in which this is going to be abused for exploitation.
You just made a sale of copy. Holy shit that is a cool start!
The author has some strong opinions on the appearance of text and doesn't want anything displayed until all fonts and styles are loaded.
Sure, it might, but considering recent improvements and zero evidence of those improvements slowing, it's a rather bizarre article of faith.
For me, probably What Is This Thing Called Science?. It was the first time I really thought about some basic questions in epistemology.
Absolutely. Nuclear is one of the cleanest sources of energy, if we are talking lots and lots of energy.
To the entity and to the shareholders. Sometimes to the creditors.
Ask HN: Why does OCR still suck with handwriting?
I wanted to digitize the notes that my classmate gave me yesterday. I used Google Lens to scan them and convert them into text. However, it did not work well. It could not recognize many words and letters in the handwriting. I was disappointed because I heard that OCR technology is very accurate and reliable. But it seems that it only works well with screenshots and books. Handwritten notes are still a challenge for it. Why? Why does OCR still suck with handwriting? Is there something I am missing?
The era of free money ending is going to be interesting I think.

Uber‘a model basically revolves around people not being able to do the calculus of driving for ride share. And Lyft is just a smaller player.

I don’t see how they survive if they need to make dollars and not just valuation numbers.
This terrifies me. I read an article a few weeks ago how with the heat waves we had in the last years, the forests here stopped sequestering carbon in summer, turning them into net CO2 emitters.

Meanwhile our politicians still don't dare taking unpopular measures and focus on symbol politics.
Mathematics Made Difficult, Carl E Linderholm
Because the priority is selling shares
Yes, same.

It's weird in a way, because there isn't all that much alignment going on in my code[1]. There's indentation, but that still works with a proportional font. And yet, it still looks wrong and hard to read. I can't really figure out why.

[1] I know some people align assignments in multiple lines, or comments at the end of the line, or similar things. I've been working under code style directives that prohibited those because lines changed more often because of whitespace than because of content. Since my work requires me not to do that, I don't have the habit at home either.
One definition or property of consciousness I find interesting is that it encompasses “what it is like to be <entity>”. If there is something that it is like to be <animal>, it is conscious. Intelligence and awareness are separate from consciousness in this framing. And there is arguably a point where we can speculate that extremely simplistic organisms could not be conscious, given the lack of sense organs that seems to predicate experience.

From a human point of view, the things you describe are the contents of consciousness. I have Aphantasia, while my brother describes his mind’s eye as CAD software and he can construct and manipulate visualizations at will.

The overarching awareness we both have that allows us to compare and contrast these things and make any sense out of those comparisons points to a more fundamental layer.

What you describe sounds closer to levels of awareness and one’s ability to recognize the workings of their own mind, e.g. some people remain lost in and identified with thoughts, while some are able to both experience and observe thought as just more contents of conscious experience, but not the actual center of one’s consciousness.

And there’s evidence that this can be learned (through mindfulness), which to me points to something like: we’re all conscious whether we realize it or not, and not realizing it doesn’t make it not so.
You can't solve prompt injection, because it's not a bug - it's a feature. You want AIs with capabilities approximating reasoning? Then don't be surprised they can be talked out of whatever it is you ordered them.

Just like humans.

Evil bits and magic delimiters won't stop a problem that boils down to making the model reinterpret its hidden prompt in context of the whole conversation.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780833 for a larger discussion, including specifically https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35781172.
Defamation means lying. You can buy negative reviews of your competition where nobody lies.

There are certainly a lot of interesting subtleties and implications here though.
TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges
https://archive.is/ap3on
Zorki cameras are Leica II/III(aka D2/D3) clones with LSM/L39 mounts, which don't take later M-mount lenses, though M series bodies(M3-M7) takes LSM via an adapter. Also they're not real Leica in case you care.
i sold quite a few gmail invites for 99c each on ebay. it was fun.
Is the author sure they want to embed this lecture/blog post into a proprietary serivce’s UI?
Or just type a space in the query (example zip). Search engines know what you mean by that.
I always wonder when I see this, do people learn to lay comments out like a reverse psychology bait from these books, or are people who are already predisposed to that just drawn to owning them. Any chance the book goes over that?

Not disparaging, I appreciate you sharing a recommendation. I just found the observation funny.
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach takes a subject I didn’t think I’d like and presents it in a way that made me want to read every chapter. It’s a master class on how to make technical content enjoyable, and a great intro/refresher to networking. Can’t recommend it enough.
it's probably loaded with heuristics as a pre-filter that modifies the prompt by decoding the base64
But most steel is already being recycled, at least in the US, according to the US Geological Surveys [1]

> Recycling rates, which fluctuate annually, were estimated to be 98% for structural steel from construction, 88% for appliances, 71% for rebar and reinforcement steel, and 70% for steel packaging. The recycling rates for appliance, can, and construction steel are expected to increase in the United States and in emerging industrial countries at an even greater rate. Public interest in recycling continues, and recycling is becoming more profitable and convenient as environmental regulations for primary production increase.

[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021-iron-steel...
Would love to hear this line of thinking continued
4090 and 3090 on personal desktop; 4 x 2080Ti in data center
Lorient in Brittany hosts an Interceltique festival; it's a cross-cultural festival that celebrates art, food, language, but it's centered around music and features the best bands from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, The Isle of Man, Cornwall, Brittany, Galicia, Cape Breton, PEI, and New Brunswick.

I've gone several times as an accompanist attached to Irish bands, and it's remarkable to me how I can sit in with other musicians from any of those regions and the idioms, base tunes, time signatures, and ornamentation are so similar. I grew up speaking Irish, and while I can understand Scottish Gaelic, I can't follow anything but a word or two of other other Celtic languages. But with music and dance, things seem much much closer. I have to listen and learn much much more to play with other regional folk music, like Eastern European or even French Canadian (which is sort of close to Celtic and shares many tunes), but with the Celtic countries, I've literally sat in on main stages with no rehearsal and we just all know what to do. It does feel like there is quite a deep shared history there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal%C4%ABla_wa-Dimna
Font size is useless; let’s fix it (2021)
Cormen, Introduction to algorithms
Gp said "state of being" so I don't think the either of us can know for sure what was meant by that.
Except the chinese room creates a model that can create uniqe answers.
The negations have multiple roles. An important one is that they add “color saturation” to the words. “It is bad”, “It is good”, “It is not bad”, “I can’t say it’s good”, “I can’t say it’s not bad”, are all different statements. So negations are difficult, maybe even for humans…
Nobody disputes that but AI can give a false impression of being less biased than it's creators when in fact it has just codified their biases.