skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s nice and all. Would like to see the article expand more on the part about frameworks for the pasta and vanilla CSS for the sauce.
Optimising for profit happens to be more effective than what the EU does. Apple can convince bystanders to spend days working hard to trade for a phone. They do that entirely with good design, strong QAQC and persuasive advertising.

The EU gets convinces people to do things with fines and, ultimately, threats of jail time.

Now if one design people want to own and the other design only takes hold because of threats and fines, we ought conclude that the mandatory design is the weaker one. People aren't paying for replaceable batteries. They're paying for tough, cleanly built & waterproof phones. That is why there are sometimes actual queues outside Apple stored as people try to buy iPhones - people really think Apple designs great phones. For the EU to manage that they'd need a man with a truncheon standing off to the side forcing people to line up when they don't want to.

And they're doing this while Europe is being hit by crisis after crisis. This is a terrible time to be trying to reduce the quality of phones in the EU. It is bad enough in a good year. It is a terrible time to be drawing attention away from the actual problems that Europeans are facing. They should be working on making things cheaper and better for EU citizens.
But couldn't it also go the other way, where small local companies who don't need a legion of lawyers would have a competitive advantage over larger companies trying to operate across many jurisdictions? I assume this depends on the regulations being imposed.

We already have large companies with legions of lawyers who have the resources to manipulate federal and state politicians in their favor, using regulatory capture and other means to avoid competition. There's a cost associated with that, too.
Maybe I didn't grok this article but all the examples made me think "fancyql" (as it calls it) looks a lot better than SQL.

If I could compile back and forth between SQL and "fancyql" then using fancyql feels like an absolute no brainer to me?

I'm a lot less sympathetic to the "everyone already knows it" argument after dealing with SQL queries that are many hundred lines long.
The key insight for me with sociocracy was consent based decision making instead of consensus based. Then it clicked for me how to scale this. Now I’m starting to build a worker coop.
I was digging in and found the source for a real-time UDP networking library in pascal. Its about a megabyte:

https://github.com/BeRo1985/rnl/blob/master/src/RNL.pas
The "social stack" is what actually makes finance's "application layer" happen, because it turns out that blockchains can't actually enforce delivery of barrels of oil or sue ICO recipient for spending their proceeds on coke and hookers, and things like hiring and receiving goods and valuing insurance losses all involve counterparties.

Much as you would like to personalise this debate, it's not about my level of agreement with straw gatekeepers. It's about the simple fact the "application layer" doesn't exist. You're not getting your mortgage or pension from a blockchain.
How would you propose, in this specific study, they verify what you want? Please be specific regarding what questions you want asked, when they should be asked, and how these questions can't be discarded by saying "well, they could be faking it".
This is 1:1 components copy pasted from https://tailwindui.com (nothing wrong with that, that's what it's for) but you don't have to feel bad for your UI skills.
SQL is infinitely composable. Each SELECT returns a relation that another SELECT can query (or combine with another relation using set operators like UNION etc).
Can't say anything about the France part but as for the

difficult by reinventing a lot of technical computer-oriented words, but this is the same in German.

This isn't actually the case in German. One reason why it was so easy to run away from Germany was that all the work related stuff was basically in English already anyway. You just had to learn the "regular sentence parts between the work related words" and that you learn in high-school English well enough.

Sure there was the odd professor that would call a stack a "Stapel", but nobody but him would call it that. Now of course the parts of CS that are pure maths, you are correct that they all have German words. But they're had that for hundreds of years. Actual computer-oriented run-of-the-ill words like you describe? Lots of Denglish!

I actually find that I can talk and converse perfectly at work because of it. Never lost for words. But in regular conversation outside of work I do search for words sometimes still.
"Connector innovation" is a solved problem. We really only needed symmetric connectors so we didn't have to insert a cable twice each time.
Less about the data itself and more about the specific operations you want to do on it.

Large aggregations, massive datasets, large joins, and workloads that are ready heavy and eschew row-level mutations.

They get used for data analysis frequently, time series data and associated analysis meshes quite nicely too. ClickHouse itself was originally built to support arbitrary analytical queries on clickstream data at pretty massive scale. Cloudflare uses it for live analytics, Uber uses it for logs.
> The researchers identified a total of 60 students who had not been involved in any of the crimes designated as false memory targets in the study and who otherwise met the study criteria. These students were brought to the lab for three 40-minute interviews that took place about a week apart.

Psychology is the study of 18-25 year old undergrads.
It might sound trivial, and I understand the history behind it, but I wonder if it is wise to put the word "cache" in the name of what is meant to be a durable, persistent storage component.
Pretty conclusive evidence that human creativity is the source of current "AI" power, no? Many people claim the plagiarism inherent in this product is no different from you paraphrasing & remixing material you've read elsewhere, published by other people. But no, humans don't degenerate when reading material produced by other humans. They improve upon it and use it to create things that are genuinely new.

Maybe this won't always be so for AI. But it's pretty hard to square an account of LLMs as more than fancy data compression when they exhibit the exact same tendencies as all compression protocols when run on their own outputs.
> Which costs very little CPU in 2023.

That's a very bad argument for an RDBMS, since you want to make it scale vertically as much as you can (unlike your application server, horizontally scaling your database is a completely different matter, and isn't straightforward at all).
The issue is because of the current nature of LLM. Basically an LLM is attempting to model its inputs but it tries to auto regularize/generalize, which means information loss. And then if you use that LLM to generate more content to train another LLM, once it is regularized/generalized it will have further information loss.

This isn't that different than re-compressing images over and over again. They are disconnected from reality and are just simulations of reality and with each iteration they become less rich and faithful.

AIs need to learn from the world or at least as close as possible to it, rather than from their own reduced representations of the world.
Indeed. Probably the dirtiest open secret of the US criminal justice system is that it is structurally incapable of giving a truly fair trial to the vast majority of the accused. The system would grind to a halt without the vast majority of cases ending in plea bargains, and we have pretty good reasons to suspect that common police interrogation tactics (often functionally indistinguishable from psychological abuse) tend to produce false confessions [1] [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/false-confessions...
I’ll just leave this here ;)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/466300/Planescape_Torment...

BTW: 4K resolution support.
“Spontaneous” responses to terrorist attacks are coordinated by the UK Gov
I have had two meaningful responses to the form on the Notion site! Thank you very much!

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There's a decent chunk of reddit activity that was bots even just a few years go. I doubt AI has made that problem any better
Does anyone remember Facebook M? I believe that was their first big foray into creating an intelligent chatbot/personal assistant. Although that may not have anything to do with LLaMA directly - it’s still pretty cool to see that a crazy vision like that is so close to becoming reality.

I am genuinely excited about the positive impacts LLMs and their future derivatives can have in computing. We can now, for the first time, truly “program” a computer in natural language. It’s even intelligent enough to “fill in the gaps” using general intelligence. Just don’t rely on it for any niche topics without teaching it a thing or two, or you’ll get bull crap back.
This is a good and necessary step in the right direction, but if I understand correctly interpreters can't share memory directly. So this will unblock some uses cases for embedding Python and for replacing process-level parallelism, but it doesn't yet improve their existing threading model.

Nice to know anyway, I'll keep an eye on how they progress.
Malaysia asks Interpol to track down NY comedian who made a joke
This has to be repeated again and again. Civilian nuclear waste isn't really a good great target for sabotage. There are 1000 places to attack that are far cheaper and have higher effect.

> Reprocessing is hilariously expensive, and they don't even have a facility.

So you know about every form of re-procession that will ever be invented and already know the associated costs.

> No country in the Western World will ever build one again

Canada is planning one right now to reprocess spend CANDU fuel.

> The end product is more expensive than new fuel.

This equation changes if you add the cost of storage facility the new fuel as well.

> Especially taxpayer money.

Finnland even with its very expensive new reactor now produces stable green energy and this reactor captial investment will pay off 80-100 years.

> Finland had to shut down

Funny how Finalnd with lots of nuclear has far greener energy with less money investment then Germany. Finland didn't make a 20 year propaganda campaign to claim they are so great and green, they just build a reactor and are fine now.

If you shit on a nuclear reactor for being turned off, boy I have news for you about wind and solar.

Lets actually look at data rather then what lives in your imagination:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

Mhh look at that Finland has green energy thanks to nuclear power.

You can do the math. Had Germany started building nuclear reactors, even with conservative cost estimate. Nuclear would have been a far better deal then the 'Energiewende' they actually did. Starting in 2000 building nuclear reactors at rates like France did in the 70/80s would have lead to a far, far greener grid then they have now.

My calculation result in about 4-5% of debt to GDP increase for a full build-out to 100% nuclear energy starting in 2020. And those reactors would last 60-100 years. Unlike the investments they actually did, lots of wind turbines and solar that have to be replaced 2 times over until then.

Nuclear for France has been on of the best public investments ever done. Minimal impact on taxes and cheap long term stable fuel prices for literally half a century.
This is definitely something that makes tooling harder. But I think it is because tooling is though up wrongly.

Consider `SELECT 0 AS some_num`. This does not have a FROM clause.

While this example seems contrived, there are several examples of queries where the FROM clause is not just a listing of tables. Especially when moving into larger projects in SQL.
Good point, i'll write that next time :)
I think this whole experimental paradigm is inherently unfixable.
I'm not clear on why one needs to be hyper-productive. If you've been in the industry for long enough, you start to realize that everything functions in a cycle and they're just slapping a new fancy name and methodology on a problem that's existed for decades. My approach is to slowly shift my career into a direction that aligns with my interests. My latest KPIs, for example, include "Practical AI use-cases in the developer space". Gotta love getting paid to mess around with LLMs and see if I can get consistent real world applications out of it.

My point is, do what you love and pressure your boss to pay for training that aligns with your interests. Also, if you really want to be hyper-productive then start contributing to open source projects. Corporates don't reward working yourself to the bone. Corporates only reward assertive behavior. That's why you get idiots in managerial positions, because they're assertive and they take the lead. I can't tell you how many times I've been made recommendations as an SME and been over-ridden by a manager that doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.
> That’s an extremely contrived scenario

Sure. But people do occasionally ignite gasoline by accident. It's uncommon, but the consequences can be very severe.
Possibly, but I struggle to reason about Bayesian nets at that scale. I think the level at which a Bayesian net could “know what it doesn’t know” would be regarding uncertainty in what text to generate in a given context, not whether or not the generated text is saying something true. One example could be a prompt in a language not seen in the training data. It could be that some plausible sounding made up thing is likely in a given context. Also, at the end of the day, what you’ll get out of a Bayesian LLM is a sample of several generated texts which would hopefully have more variation than multiple samples from the same standard LLM. I can see it being helpful to see if the different outputs agree or not, but I can’t tell at a glance how well it would work in practice.
When I was very young, I remember AE being used in various printed materials (school books).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86

But by the time I was in High School it seemed to have disappeared.
:-D great response!

I think what is nuanced here is the Saas teams need to setup a product, where this is completely needs based from a paying customer immediately.
80% value, 10% time. 100% done by one engineer, assisted by GPT to get the scope + spec ready.
They’re incentivized to tell the experimenters what they want to hear so they can get paid and go home faster.
Show HN: Mock – Language-agnostic API mocking and testing utility
They should. But look up "accidentally igniting gasoline" on YouTube some time.
I was hoping for a Datalog shoutout.

I like SQL, but it has a few disadvantages compared to Datalog.

- In Datalog, queries and the data itself are homoiconic; the structure for both is exactly the same. Uses first-class variables to represent unknowns.

- Easy to compose queries (just tack on another predicate)

Of course it has the disadvantages that it's not widely supported (outside of Datomic/Clojure/Prolog ecosystem?), and not as popular, and maybe even more difficult to optimize [citation needed].

I would love to see a new Datalog-based DB. SQL-but-slightly-different-syntax is "lipstick on a pig" as they say, not very compelling IMO (and not really novel either, you can see it reinvented in every ORM).
Some universities now have a Lean proof assistant logic course that teaches natural deduction http://leanprover.github.io/logic_and_proof/

Whenever I have asked professors in the past how they first learned proofs the answer was always from doing Euclid in highschool which is no longer taught
A and I used to sometimes get 'per se' to clarify that people were referring to the letter, not the one-letter word
I imagine that a good chunk of people that can't stand Android are those that did what you're saying: they used a $200 Android phone to replace their flagship iPhone.
> Will this still happen when humans are in the loop?

Yes it will. Unless the humans are generating new high fidelity content.
For anyone without an LWN sub (though it's a good idea!) the post is just digging into the details of how bcachefs is now in a position to be merged into the Linux kernel if Linus allows it, as well as some of the concerns about long term support given its complexity.

bcachefs was discussed recently on HN – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35899527 – and is a file system with COW, a GPL compatible license (licensing is an area where ZFS can be tricky, to put it lightly), and ext4 levels of performance.
There were card sorting machines that were doing exactly that
I suspect one of Randall Munroe's goal is to cover every STEM theme and quirk in comic form.
It's not Valves style to do that. They normally do "one thing" that pushes the envelope forward and then wait for the 3rd parties to take over.

The steam box (or whatever their prebuilt pcs were called) made proton, so now Linux gaming is viable. The steam controller paved the way for their controller framework, now you can play any steam game with any controller. The steam link paved the way for their streaming tech, now you can do it with any android device.

This might be another case where they just let 3rd parties take over after showing them how it's done.
Is there a game where the player must battle against the BOFHs? Maybe a DooM variant?

Also, does it work with v3.5? Or what happens if one tries each game in the same chat session?
Unnecessary. In my view, the immediate answer to this is to let AI train in the real world, for instance surveillance footage, microphones in public locations that will be able to hear and transcribe entire conversations with humans in the “wild”, environmental/satellite sensor data, AI controlled drones with cameras that the AI can “explore” with etc. Additionally, humans interfacing with the AI is also going to be a source of data especially if an AI can “interview” people.

If anything, I can see a future with a push to further erode privacy laws with the ultimate aim of getting more access to human data in the real world to train AI. I’m sure the smartphones in everyone’s pocket is a rich source of sensors and data…

If we can get to a point where AI can reliable seek out, filter/normalize and incorporate data from the real world into its model, that’s when it will probably start approaching the singularity.
I prefer the more-fake meat substitutes, like bean burgers or tofu.

Beyond and Impossible are expensive, even among the already-expensive category of "plant meats trying to pass for animal meats".
Yes, you could discard any study under that rationale among others. And the interesting thing is you'd likely be far more 'informed' for doing so. Social psychology has the lowest replication rate of any field. You're looking at top journals with replication rates in the twenties. [1]

What this means is that if you were to take any give study in social psychology, and simply assume it was 'wrong' (either saying the opposite of the truth, or claiming a statistically significant effect when there really is none), then you'd, on average, be dramatically more 'informed' than somebody taking the studies at face value. [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#In_psycholo...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience
You're asking those whose object problem model is a FOR loop not finding set based operations intuitive, efficient or ever necessary?
Why is the parent comment being downvotted? US has indeed been a huge problem for many countries around the world
If you want to see what rushed looks like, compare Revenant[1] before and after the major underground section.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenant_(video_game)
Whoops, thanks for catching that typo!
Not mentioned: "over 800,000 words of dialogue, our game will be remembered as the best eight D&D visual novels ever written". It's interesting how much of this pitch focusses on the gameplay when it's the extensive writing that ends up being memorable.
No link to code. There's multiple projects that offer something like this. One I know is https://mcaptcha.org
I remember when the news broke a few days ago people were going "this is only the consumer product, Google Cloud won't be affected, Google is very serious about it".

Any bets on how long until Google Cloud is fully deprecated? If I was a customer I'd be very nervous right about now.
A specified hardware platform with set performance does wonders for optimization, but I agree it could use a better display. I've essentially concluded I'm never going to buy another LCD. The response times and complete lack of ghosting and light bleed on OLED make gaming on anything else seem like a compromise.
This seems to happen a lot here lately, particularly on earth and space science related topics. After you read the comments on a paper in your field, it becomes depressingly obvious that a lot of the most upvoted commentary is armchair skeptics doing back of the napkin math that sounds good but falls apart upon closer inspection. Gell-mann amnesia effect, etc.
You are missing what I said.

I know that from the interpreter's standpoint, it doesn't matter which one is written first.

What I meant is that as a human, if you have to think first of the columns you want to bring in, it will guide you towards the joins that you need and only those, rather than thinking "let me join all those tables because I need _some_ data from the entities inside".

My point about "autocompletion is still position" was not connected to the first part of my comment.
I have seen this explanation printed so many times, and unattributed, that I wonder if students of that era actually said "and per se and".
You need to use Obsidian Sync if you have an iPhone. IIRC it’s because the third-party storage APIs are limited on iOS in such a way that makes it non-feasible for Obsidian. Something about bulk editing/access.
"Taken over" implies operating outside the expected behavior of the system. Accepting keypress data from a USB keyboard is the expected operation.
Black Rhinos, Horns Cut Off, Lose Some of Their Gusto
And 3rd parties aren't going to be using steamOS.
Possibly! That definitely wasn't the model I expected them to have based on their ads.
Part of the english alphabet, but in which region, all english speaking places? I'm curious where it comes from.
And here I thought ampersand had something to do with Ampere, the unit of electric current…
You can save space by searching for longer matching sequences.
> Moreover, mathematicians rarely prove anything from axioms, they start from other statements which are considered more trivial.

Not more trivial but from the ones already proved and those closer to the thing you are proving. There is no need to go back to the axioms if you know, and can reference, proof of step N-1, just go from there.

There is also this 'misconception' that mathematical theorems follow from the axioms. They do, of course, but the axioms were choosen just right to make things that were working to still work, with some weird consequences like axiom of choice
For a while, I had an Automator script that would set my desktop to the APoD even night. I need to go resurrect that. It was so much better than just accepting the default all the time.
Exactly. Leonardo Dicaprio did it
I want all these turned off by default and not need to stumble through trying to figure out how to disable them. Windows now feels like using Android where you need to google first to figure out how to modify something. In terms of virtual desktops, having independent control per monitor is so elementary that it makes the feature pretty useless otherwise.