skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> And why exactly would evolution hardcode this choose your own grammar into the brain anyway?

Shouldn't the question rather be phrased as "why exactly would evolution not get rid of grammar in the brain"? To my understanding, language ability developed randomly and was retained because of its benefits. I'm not an expert, but I have a feeling that's how evolution works: instead of developing the traits that an organism needs, traits are developed at random and the ones that turn out to be be useful are kept.

>> But big dumb machine learning models trained on nothing but prediction worked out syntax just fine!

Well, yes and no. Unlike human children, language models are trained specifically on text. Not just text, but text, carefully tokenised to maximise the ability of a neural net to learn to model it. What's more, Transformer neural net architectures trained to model text are specifically created to handle text and they're given an objective function specially designed for the text modelling task, to boot.

None of that is true for humans. As children, we have to distinguish language (not text!) from every other thing in our environment and we certainly don't have any magickal tokenisers, or Oracles selecting labelled examples and objective functions for us to optimise. We have to figure all of language, even the fact that such a thing exists at all, entirely on our own. So far, we haven't managed to do anything like that with any sort of machine (in the abstract sense) and certainly not with language models.
It's curious to make this connection between lack of innovation in the financial system and bitcoin. Maybe there's no innovation in the financial system because that system lacks competitors? Or because there's no way to try things out? Bitcoin should help either way. There's some movement towards Fed bank accounts, and I expect Bitcoin to help there — if there's a serious threat of Bitcoin replacing the US dollar, then maybe the interests of banks will seem less important.
How is no one talking about the sanctions war? Either here or in the article. Part of the sanctions war has made it extremely hard for insurers to know whether or not they are violating sanctions by insuring vessels. Navigating the current legal landscape is a nightmare for shipping companies, which leads a lot of companies to not not accept cargo if they can't be certain about the legal situation.
man are utilitarian, they choose things with goals in mind

get a good degree, have a good career, be set for life

but now... you could take 3 month training for a blue collar job and make the same money or you could do your own business which is easier than ever (

1. we're wealthier/more developed, you could put together a business plan and get money

2. the internet = low barrier to entry

why woman go to university?
Looking forward to 3D crypto NFT AI meta life...
drumhead in particular. I'm kidding. But you know denizens of HN are all we got here...
Not owning the land would that lead to a tragedy of the commons with people building houses not building to last.
Bitcoin functions perfectly without Binance or any centralized exchange. Centralized exchanges are necessary as interface between the centralized world of traditional finance and the decentralized world of Bitcoin.
This is essentially he default when using most CI services, however.
Imagine explaining to your boss "sorry for taking down prod but really it's all chatgpts fault!". I bet that would go over real real well...
It was mentioned in the comments/notes after the article.
Or, historically, you defaulted to whatever the stereotypical gender role was with a preference for saying he in general (unless you were talking about a secretary or nurse).
If we're talking about transportation, well then. The efficient transfer to Mercury is via Venus transfer, so it is farther by such reckoning. In terms of delta-v budget, Venus is actually closer than Mars, unless you wanted to, say, visit the surface.

See https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Solar_sy..., essential information to plan your next interplanetary holiday
Here's some info on how the absorbing cones in these chambers are constructed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation-absorbent_material

"To be sufficiently lossy, RAM can be neither a good electrical conductor nor a good electrical insulator as neither type actually absorbs any power. Typically pyramidal RAM will comprise a rubberized foam material impregnated with controlled mixtures of carbon and iron. The length from base to tip of the pyramid structure is chosen based on the lowest expected frequency and the amount of absorption required."
Just for reference, copied this snippet in GPT-4, it generated this answer in 1,5 seconds:

> The issue in this code is related to memory access. The line data[n] = '\0'; should be (data)[n] = '\0';.

And then went on to generate corrected code and this explanation:

> The original expression, data[n], first applies the array subscript operation, which is equivalent to (data + n), and then tries to dereference the resulting pointer, which is not the intention here. This will likely lead to a segmentation fault because data is a pointer to pointer, and data[n] will try to access memory that has not been allocated.

> The corrected expression, (*data)[n], first dereferences data to get the allocated char array, and then applies the array subscript operation to set the null terminator at the correct location.
Also, the idea that Anglo countries, especially the US, aren’t interventionist is beyond hilarious.

Take the housing market, for example. The entire thing is nothing but a massive U.S. subsidy towards homeownership. Subsidies by the govt insuring 30 year fixed mortgages, while lots of carve outs in the tax code to promote housing, actual, literal intervention in the market over the past century to bail out homeowners, and companies whose failures would wreck the homeownership market, subsidized funding for infrastructure to keep those homes livable, etc.
Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
I’ve come to realize that I often take constructive criticisms personally. Everything from an unintentionally snarky comment in a PR I’ve made to someone highlight a mistake I’ve made that I probably couldn’t have known about.

I see this as one of my major flaws and try hard to mask how I feel. But I just hope to learn to stop feeling bad for honest mistakes.
Greham's law only applies where people are forced to treat good and bad money as equivalent. For example, if people are forced to treat coins of the same denomination as equivalent, regardless of how much gold the contain, you'll spend those that contain less gold and keep those that contain more gold.
> The US has been an imperfect superpower but objectively the most benevolent.

I'm sure the south americans that get a golpe every time they try to have a democratic elections disagree.

Possibly also the afghan women that had equal rights during communism might feel that USA wasn't very benevolent.

I've also met refugees who had to leave their country because of USA bombing them (for made up chemical weapons). They also don't see the USA as benevolent.

I think it's better to frame it in a advantageous/disadvantageous for me situation.

Clearly USA is advantageous for you (and me!) but I wouldn't presume it is for the majority of people.
Nobody is going to manage to buy every piece of land that Joshua Trees grow on.

If someone tried that, the last few trees they did not own would get more valuable, and there would be massive efforts to save them to make money.

The invisible hand fixes things. Laissez Faire.
This can be deduced from the mere fact that reproduction and raising is extremely asymmetric between male and female.
> How do you achieve infinite growth on a planet with a finite population and resources?

For the sake of the argument below, consider that there are two types of growth: 1) "evolutionary" - as you correctly observe it is limited by the availability of the known resources, and 2) "revolutionary" - which discovers entirely new growth potentials.

History teaches us that so far the growth was not limited, but innovation was always a prerequisite for the growth and often unlocks new resources.

Now, it is true that in the past couple of centuries humanity was gifted, through a lot of human effort, with a series of innovations that were accelerating the growth ever since. Truly, we don't know if this will continue as such, or slow down, or accelerate even more, or if we are going to hit a wall before the next scientific revolution.

Finally, indeed it appears that resources are limited at some point (importantly: according to our current understanding of physics). But I trust that for all observable future there is still a seemingly unlimited potential for the growth, as long as we continue to innovate and don't destroy the resources. Sustainability (between the scientific revolutions?) appears to be a new part of the equation and we must take it seriously.
Sounds like agile (small a) as opposed to waterfall.
> "It's a rather horrifying fact that every day in hen hatcheries around the world, all male chicks are tossed alive into a grinder. A new system could keep those chicks from ever existing, by analyzing the scent of eggs to ascertain the sex of the embryo inside."

It's a heartwarming story of one scientist's journey to invent egg sniffing robots to keep male chicks out of the chick-grinding machine.
That assumes the landlords are competing with each other. Currently, an increasing number of landlords are pricing based on each other’s private pricing data [0]. To me, I can only describe this as price-fixing-as-a-service.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/company-that-mak...
Lol, all I want is to play CoD and eat my chicken tenders!
Yes, émail is French for enamel.
I think you can replace the whole analysis with a single diagram. You don't actually need to find the closed-form solution in terms of elliptic integrals; the only part we use is whether the integrals have a certain monotonicity property (smaller radius => smaller mean distance). And you can rearrange the "mean distance" integrals in way that the rearranged integrands are pointwise monotonic; and the proof that they're monotonic is an elementary geometric one.
> homomorphic and secure way

A lot of the sandboxing and security focus in Wasm makes sense. But the "capability-based security" mentioned at WASI spec [0] confuses me. For instance, when looking to what Cosmonic (an early adopter in Wasm fields) documents as capabilities [1] (e.g. 'messaging', 'http client', 'key-value store') it seems wholly different to concepts from the E programming language [2] by Mark S. Miller, that are finding their way in Cap'n Proto [3] and early work on the OCapN [4] unification effort. Is there any relationship to these, or are we looking at totally different approaches? Or is Cosmonic overloading the terminology of "capability"?

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI#capability-based-securit...

[1] https://cosmonic.com/docs/category/capabilities

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(programming_language)

[3] https://capnproto.org

[4] https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn
Yeah, also doesn't mention the super low 3.4% unemployment rate the US still has. Most of the people being laid off are being re-hired within a very short timeframe. The Fed has wanted unemployment back up to ~6% for over a year and can't get it.
Yes, absolutely, but the advantage is far more social than technical. There exists a common knowledge and experience to computer science education that is completely absent from being self-taught. That results in superior compatibility for candidate hiring, especially for junior developers. That education establishes a common baseline of accepted practice.

Many self-taught developers tend to have a stronger technical understanding of the work and problem solving in general compared to formally educated developers but it’s hard to tell as an outside observer. The reason why self-taught developers may have a technical advantage comes down to theory of practice as opposed to theory in general, which means understanding of how things actually work as opposed to how they should work. That difference tends to frame perspectives in accordance to anchoring bias.

Note: I am a self-taught developer.
It's totally unintuitive, but makes perfect sense once you know the answer.
It can do that if constrained. There was a show HN of an app generation tool that was quite impressive: perhaps because it only created web apps and didn’t worry about stylistic design.
"They don't usually go after every decision they disagree with."

There's also a possibility that they don't disagree with this. My understanding is the current test is if there was a reasonable expectation of privacy. In this case, a neighbor could film your house from across the street, so there is no expectation of privacy since anyone can do what the ATF did here.

So they would only take this case if they are interested in changing the standard test. Maybe they will in a future case, or maybe they are fine with the current test.
Just give it a try and let us know what you think. It's especially interesting for podcasters within companies but also in general, as we learned that the biggest effort often is to get started, do the research and plan your show. This is what we want to make really easy.
The teens behind the Mirai botnet
They were really cool yes. The Sun Rays. Just stick your smart card in any terminal and all your stuff was there instantly.
Spreadsheets in Space
I discovered the game recently and am really enjoying the slow, methodical pace.
Spend 5 minutes once or twice a day and watch your space empire grow.

The title is a reference to their Honest Game Trailer (https://youtu.be/ODecu2voAh8)
China's Chip War: US Tech in Peril
Everyone's closest neighbor is Mercury by this methodology (or Sun if you count it).
Better data with possible bias than definitively bias with no data.
So you postulate that the installation of every home appliance will have instructions for how to do so with 100% accuracy in Chatgpt? I don't know about you, but having read many installation instructions... I wouldn't trust most humans to get them right, and definitely not an LLM. Half of them refer to screws that don't exist...
> In the West you can actually go out on the street and protest against the acts of your government.

You can protest. But you get arrested.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/just-stop-oi...
The initial stage of the thinking process
Scientifically, yes, but it is exempt from almost all regulation as a VOC.

Since the definition here is the regulatory one, it is not a VOC as we're talking about.

It is the main carrier in almost all solvent borne VOC compliant formulations of coatings

As a result, for example, roughly all solvent borne wood coatings that are VOC compliant use acetone these days.
This has fun effects.
They used to use, mostly (but it varies a bit), n-butyl acetate.

Of course, acetone flashes off way too quickly, making it almost impossible to get coatings to level and flow properly. So the real result is that the coatings are made higher solids and then get reduced by the user with a significant amount of VOC (toluene, NBA) so they are usable again.

So sold VOC compliant but not really in practice, and everyone looks the other way because they don't really generate enough pollution to be worth cracking down[1].

[1] Moving to water borne is expensive and tricky. For example:
They mostly spray conversion varnish which is cheap and easy, and resistant to almost all chemicals. Consumers want cabinets/etc that don't get stained when you get ketchup or wine on them.
In water borne, they'd have to spray 2k urethane to get the same resistance, but doing so safely requires supplied air setups that are quite expensive, at least until iso-free formulations get better.

So changeover is quite slow.
I'd also say it's the compensation. I love Python, I love being a software architect helping smart engineers build good software, but I also love mainframes and, if the money is good, why not?

Last time I checked, the money wasn't good.
I think this is a motte-bailey, "true and trivial vs incredible and false" type of thing. Given a sufficiently flexible interpretation of "sample from multiple cases and merge", humans do the same thing. Given a very literal interpretation, this is obviously not what networks do - aside one paper to the contrary that relied on a very tortured interpretation of "linear", neural networks specifically do not output a linear combination of input samples.

And frankly, any interaction with even GPT 3.5 should demonstrate this. It's not hard to make the network produce output that was never in the training set at all, in any form. Even just the fact that its skills generalize across languages should already disprove this claim.
If it requires more EMI shielding that's a good thing. EM interference isn't just a problem for the car itself. But whatever is around it too.
Dismiss Petitioner :)
It seems I have hit a nerve! :D

AI in general, and LLMs in particular, will change Society to a scale only comparable to what the Word Wide Web has done since the 90s - hopefully for far more good than bad.

Crypto is basically penny stocks - or actually, in good truth - a glorified pyramid scheme.

It is sad that Hacker News allows and normalizes this self-interested promotion of it, disguised as "opinion".

Indeed: tell us that you don't stand to personally gain monetarily if crypto rizes, user "rvz" ;)

(some goes for the author of the bloomberg piece)
Where do you keep up to date on what will be included in future releases?
> but answer my question, is the war lasting longer due to US/EU actions, or is it shorter?

Western aid is letting Ukraine finish the war faster so its making it shorter.

> it seems ukraine cannot defeat russia even with all the aid we give them, might the war simply be prolonged by giving a false sense of hope?.

I don't know why you think Ukraine cannot beat Russia, Russia just admitted they had to take ~100k causalities trying to Bakhmut in 9 months. Those statistics are entirely impossible to sustain.

> how many more are we making die?

We are making as many Russians die as we need to until they finally go home.
I recently flew between Oahu and Molokai. My return flight was delayed seven hours. I literally could have paddled a canoe home faster. Mokulele deserves all the negative press it gets.
The Rise of AWS
Those aren't FAANG wages but they aren't awful wages for most of the country either.

It also used to pay better, although at this point I'm pretty sure operating COBOL is just a sign that you're unwilling or unable to invest in upgrading your <1990s IT. The remaining companies operating COBOL systems likely aren't even able to pay top dollar.
yep, I also have a 2020 Civic and the software actually is alright, though perhaps my expectations were set really low by the amount of hate I read about the software online. But hey, it supports CarPlay just fine (although does have some weird graphical artifacts sometimes) and the screen is responsive enough which is all that I really want.
But in this case the house itself is moving.

If Mercury and Venus had people, which of those people is our closest neighbour?
at least in computer science, this document is from CMU and tended to get circulated pretty widely, although probably not widely enough. every field ought to have something like it.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf
E-bike incentives starting soon in Boulder – Boulder Beat
"You expect when you walk out of the house a neighbor might see what you’re doing. Hard to call it invasive if that happens a few times a week."

I mean, maybe that's the expectation/argument from the 19th century. Cameras have been around a long time and are increasing in popularity among the general population (Ring etc). It might feel invasive, but there's no reasonable expectation of privacy legally.
Passenger load. They do use prop planes on routes with less passengers.
the one thing worse than big mosquitoes: small mosquitoes
This isn't true for two different objects in the same orbit with a small phase difference.

To be fair that arrangement is rather unstable, especially with planet-sized objects.
I have some sympathy for contrarians, not because of their accuracy but because they are the canary in the mine for freedom of speech. Wrong statements also give the opportunity for argument and thus replacement of dogma with reasoning.

I upvoted you above, and I believe your opinion on the proxy war is valid. Victimizing yourself though means that you are unable to stand by your arguments and are just poisoning the well for others who can. Having a different opinion requires effort and often disparagement.

> More propaganda, listen to the other side... oh well it's banned everywhere.
This is just low effort.
Cool, so we're at AGI, we just need ASI, maybe something a bit smarter, and we can shut the fuck up about it and get back to blwing billions on real living creatures problems? ;)
Minor nit: hundreds of thousands?! Maybe let's just take this back to the beginning of recorded history in 2600BC? And ancient Egypt was apparently OK for women (or at least not worse than for men), to pick a random example.

No disagreement with the rest though.
Advanced Fastify: Hooks, Middleware, and Decorators
Why Token-Based Pagination Performs Better Than Offset Based?
So your current stance is, LLMs can't do everything yet, but don't bother thinking about extending it's capabilities just ask it it can do everything? Fascinating...
Tooling for React is miles ahead of anything C++ UI related while being “free” and free.
Intellectualization: the reliable, enduring shield for our subtle sexist biases.
"It's okay" isn't what I mean by a "rule": I'm talking about the kind of "rule" that tells me (or any other speaker) when to use "they".

There certainly are people using "they" when they know the gender, but they don't use "they" in every case, as far as I can tell, so presumably they are following some kind of rule with conditions in it (because people don't, in practice, choose pronouns at random).
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

Other way around is a better choice IMO.
There are two views about that:

- no, there was no time to mess around, every living second was dedicated to subsistence activities essential to the community, or

- yeah, they had so much more free time that we do, inevitably people would make shit just for the hell of it. That's probably how we got the wheel, after all.

This said, you'd expect the "for the lulz" stuff not to end up buried with someone, which is how this was found; nor you'd expect them to travel to nearby settlements, as this one supposedly did (two more were found in England).
It is in fact part of the latest standard: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/popover.html#the-popo...

Safari and Edge preview builds are supporting popover as well. Mozilla has indicated they’re “positive” on it. Still might be a long time before it’s generally usable but it is in the standard.
Rust is 90% arguing with the compiler and 10% debugging. And yesterday GPT-4 solved a WTF lifetime issue for me pulling a trick I wouldn't have thought about.
Dell and Nvidia Introduce Project Helix for Secure, On-Premises Generative AI
Not sure what you meant by your first sentence, but if I understand correctly - you’re just proving my point.
KSM has some security implications, possibility for side channel attacks.
TikTok will share source code and other data with Oracle for security review
Honestly ChatGPT-4 sucks at writing code (if similar code isn't in its corpus of knowledge).

I asked it to write a YAML parser in pure Rust. The first thing it did was write this:

pub enum YamlNode {
Scalar(String),
Sequence(Vec<YamlNode>),
Map(HashMap<String, YamlNode>),
}

This is what I expect a freshman in college to write as their first Yaml parser.

Literally unusable as a starting point.

I did try to correct it but it tripped up and somehow managed to fuck that up to.