skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all extremely realistic and I have working prototypes of this already. You can literally do all of this with the OpenAI API and a vector database. (My prototype uses a nearest neighbor descent graph instead - but basically the same thing).

Split the text into paragraphs, vector encode the paragraphs, store with the vector as a key. On a new prompt encode paragraphs of the input and find nearest neighbors to the input. Add them to the derivative prompt.

If you think it's not realistic - let's make a bet. I'll post a GitHub repo with this working as I described it within 24 hours of acknowledging you accepted the bet (i.e. you say "okay, bet" and I say "okay"). I'll include a video walking through how to run the repo and showing how it works. A thousand dollars?
Your arguments are invalid because Musk himself bashed Twitter for similar behavior before he bought it, and all hell would have broken loose if they had banned him for it.

He proclaimed himself to be free speech absolutist and now fails miserably on multiple occasions.

It only shows that it is not about freedom of speech, but about being able to say whatever he wants.
That's not freedom, it's tyranny. Fear him if your tweets don't get his favor.
Eh, you should never let computers (including AI) make decisions or manage. You can't blame it or hold it accountable. You can't appeal to it or ask it why it did what it did.
Really you'd need advanced technology to detect aliens if Roswell was indeed an crash landing?

You've got to be kidding!
My comment was mostly about the current trend. In just 4 years we went from GPT-2 to GPT-4, and the pace seems accelerating. Only a fool points to the limits of current technology to make claims about future technology, the less foolish look at trend lines. The even less foolish have causal models, but even in this case, ChatGPT’s user trendline is faster growing than Reddit’s. Though this tells you little about whether they’re substitutes.
Your 6700XT won't work anyway, since its not supported by ROCm
Debris Field Confirmed as Titan
The original article is wrong to use the term "samples". That only applies when making a digital representation of an analog signal by "sampling" the amplitude thousands of times a second. These are recordings.

The Mellotron is still alive and well, both as a mechanical instrument still supported and made by Streetly Electronics, and in digital form by the official plug-in versions from GForce Software like https://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/m-tron-pro/ . I suppose with the plug-in virtual Mellotron the sounds really are samples.
The LLM true believers demonstrate a kind of inversion of the trajectory of science: instead of looking at history and seeing how things are never quite what they seem at the surface level, the believers look at the surface of humanity and proclaim that there is in fact less to things than what is commonly believed. And then they claim that LLM/AI will be able to easily surpass these primates because why not?

It’s not God of the gaps (these fantastic things you cannot explain are because God); it’s AI of the mundane.
>Everyone is using Discord; from adult professionals to clueless kids who barely know how to connect to Wifi.

>you need to reconsider your conceptions of what makes a great UX

Just because people are using a app without any real competitors doesn't mean that the UX is great. There is a lot of software that does its job well enough that people deal with the bad UI/UX.

Discord's UX is basically a slot machine from Vegas. Its obnoxious.
So the people who pulled off the DAO heist can redeem their ETH for cash somewhere?
I also had trouble with Lemmy's UI and made a different frontend for myself. Here's some screenshots.

1. https://postimg.cc/PPRMGw7k

2. https://postimg.cc/mcNMrzmk

3. https://postimg.cc/7CVG4vLT

I was thinking of making it more widely available but didn't know if there'd be enough users to make it worthwhile and if interest in Lemmy would last.
Users. Users produce the value, not Reddit. They create or share the content and submit comments to invoke discussion. This is what draws more users to the platform.

Reddit is a grumpy office landlord that thinks that because it's glued some shitty plastic panels to the wall to "modernize" that it can rock up to the whiteboard and pretend it's one of the creatives. They are terrible at understanding the product because the real product was built around their mediocre foundations.
Vulfpeck's Woody Goss has a short but excellent video about vintage keyboard instruments, one of them being the Mellotron.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rK8FhHt0iO4
>> would they reach the 30% YoY growth in perpetuity we consider mandatory in the modern economy

> Straw man. If you tell investors you'll grow at 30% YoY for the foreseeable future, and raise money on that premise, you can't turn around after failing to deliver and blame "the modern economy." Plenty of businesses–most of our economy–run on low-growth or steady-state business models.

Not exactly. The rest of the economy may run on "low-growth or steady-state business models," but the VC investors that control funding for technology businesses demand "30% YoY growth in perpetuity." It's a cultural problem.
>where I live if you have the need to carry a large load you just go to a nearby gas station and rent out a small box truck to transport it

Sure, you can rent anything. I responded to somebody who does not understand why would anybody need a truck. Many people post on HN regularly how they don't own a car and rent one if they need it. I don't see how this proves that you cannot possibly need a truck though, why you rent one if you don't need it?

>How many families that own a truck in the USA have the need to transport ATVs, boats, and so on?

All that have ATVs, boats, and so on? It's pretty pointless to have one without means of transportation since you cannot really drive an ATV on the street, much less so a boat.

>Where I live houses are also made of wood, I really need some data instead of just an opinion

I cannot help you with that other than giving you dimensions of common lumber items: plywood and drywall comes in 8'x4' sheets, dimensional lumber can be anywhere from 8' to 20', you can check it out at any supplier.
The irony of a cookie popup showing up on the author’s blog..
> I don't have an AC

This sort of degrowth stuff doesn't work. In the tropics, day time temperatures will be above what humans can _survive_ in, and air conditioning is the only way to keep billions of people alive in places like India.

We already have the technical solutions to have enough energy for everybody to have an AC while emitting minimal carbon (and perhaps generating enough electricity to actively take out carbon) - solar, wind, geothermal and nuclear.

The actual fixes western countries need to do is to actually make it easier to _build_ new things instead of trying to become poorer. Interconnect transmission lines (so we can carry power long distances), permitting for nuclear and geothermal (for various reasons requiring a much higher burden of proof and safety regulations than fossil fuel extraction and burning that kills way more people), _BUILDING MORE FUCKING HOUSING_ so people don't need to drive farther and farther, and they can walk and bike to get groceries and meet friends. These are all things that require policy decisions from people who are trapped in a bad incentive structure of both NIMBY local voters, and an attention oriented media that rewards both polarization and extreme cover-your-ass behavior that makes building expensive. Trying to put (and take) personal responsibility and giving up random things that don't move the needle isn't the way to do it.
OceanGate Employee Warned of Major Safety Issues in 2018 and Was Soon Fired
There were apparently timed-release (bags of lead shot on dissolvable links) and manual-release (rock the sub to tip lengths of steel pipe off their racks on the sides) ways of jettisoning ballast as well.
I had a 21" Sony Trinitron for a computer monitor through the 2000s. 100hz at 1600x1200, it bested everything I bought after it for years. Until something in it popped, anyway.

CRTs didn't have a native resolution, but colour ones did have either masks or grills with individual RGB subpixels just like a flat panel. There was still interpolation in a sense, it was just done physically instead of transforming a framebuffer. If you made a CRT photon gun accurate enough that it could reliably address those subpixels it would then have a "native" resolution.

e: Also, a heads up that VR headsets strobe by default, it's part of what makes them work at all. Even LCD models, where they strobe the backlight.
Not sure why the writer of this article is concerned about paywalling. That's already a thing. If you support someone on Patreon, it can come with the benefit of being able to join a subscriber-only Discord server. And you can have roles assigned based on the selected tier of support, which allows the creators to set up channels so only people above a certain tier can access them.
WASM isn't a new idea. I will say, the one thing that WASM has "right" over say, the JVM, Roslyn, or other portable runtimes is the fact you can share WASM modules across language boundaries.

I can't drop in use a Rust module in my Go code, at minimum, I'd need to dip into some kind of FFI.

With WASM, you can just import the WASM module for usage into your language, as long as it supports WASM, regardless of original source. Its a portable format and runtime. That is the key difference than VMs of the past to me at least.

It also makes sharing code that was written in say, C or C++ easier and safer too.

I agree that WASM replacing Docker is something I can't "see" right now, because its just very different, but I do think the highlights above are pretty great.

EDIT: Actually, I think I understand the point of WASM replacing Docker potentially which is, if WASM runtimes support the underlying operating systems sufficiently (like virtualization has to) then you could just compile what would be a container into a WASM module. IE, I could compile Postgres, Redis etc. to WASM (or more importantly, the projects could) and simply use their WASM binaries to support my application. Thats what I think they're going for here. Its hard to "see" it because there are so many unknowns (WASI doesn't have all the features currently needed for this to happen I don't think, for instance)
It’s like the opposite of a meditation app, an anxiety inducing app. Love it!
Survey validation results from DESI excite scientists studying dark energy
This is gone over in the github threads about such a feature - basically, as two different projects semantically, the best thing is to create two different projects physically, in a monorepo. All the code-sharing with none of the additional complexity.
The situation is more similar to Googling "nearest emergency room" and getting results for Christian Science Churches, where they don't believe that physical maladies are real.

The point is that Google is effectively denying medical care.
What can we learn from this? Don't go in pressure vessels; don't go in confined spaces.
That point is very early. Math finally really took off for me when I realized that, no, it's not enough to understand an equation, or a set of requirements, etc., when I'm introduced to it. I have to actually memorize it. Literally with a flashcard app that I open every day.

By rote memorization, it is available in my head immediately, and I can use it to reason through things, without having to derive anything. It helps tremendously.

Then, at some point, it will become so familiar and understood through working with it, that the rote memorization becomes superfluous. For example, I've worked with the Laplace Transforms and the various Fourier Transforms (FS, FT, DFT, DTFT) so intensely by now, that I can absolutely just recite them by concept and understanding of why they are what they are.

But until then, rote memorization is basically a necessary tool to work with math.

The moment that made me realize that was when I saw a math genius at university, one who clearly understood the topics extremely well, going through his flashcards.
It really is a much better base model aesthetically than 1.5, 2.1 etc

Comps here - https://imgur.com/a/FfECIMP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittle_strength
If it imploded, maybe its wreckage is banging against itself and that's the sound we're hearing.
> Containers feel like a clever hack to get existing apps packaged up and reduce the overhead of VMs

That's because that's exactly what they are, and that's why this claim is weird. Containers do not solve the same problem as WASM. No one is going to be taking Postgres and compiling it to WASM. They're not going to do that for redis or memcached or any of the other innumerable services that live happily inside of a container and need low-level access to a Unix system.

We may very well find that WASM replaces containers as to go to for bundling a typical web app, especially one built with a compiled language rather than one that already has a runtime. But we will still use containers for the things that containers are good at.
I understand the article to say start with these things... that does not mean you have to stop there. Build an empire but start small.
Because you still have the rights. You just aren't in a position to get future source code / binaries.

Think of it this way: The GPL doesn't obligate Red Hat to accept all customers in the first place, right? If you stop paying for your RHEL subscription, the GPL doesn't oblige Red Hat to continue it and continue distributing future releases of RHEL to you.

But even if you stop paying, you still have your GPL rights for the versions you received.

The only difference here is Red Hat saying "yeah, we're not taking your money anymore. Enjoy the source code and binaries you've received so far, but you're not getting new ones from us."
Morale of the story : What is useless today might be useful tomorrow.
I had completely misunderstood your point and agree with you.
Acoustic data/voice connections are solved COTS hardware bits - https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/acoustic-general-p...
I wish it would actually work on Linux. I had to give up and just install OBS to share my gameplay with my friends.
Tell HN: HN had a temporary service issue/outage
HN had a brief outage (perhaps 1-2 minutes) a few minutes ago (around 9.05pm CEST). Did anyone else notice it?

A message said "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!"
Cloud Wars Top
I could see this greatly benefitting python in particular. Compile cpython and all the dependencies against WASM/WASI, bundle WASM wheels, and wrap the whole thing up in a single .wasm binary. Python portability woes are basically solved, provided your environment has the appropriate WASI runtime.
The Titan wreck was found 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, it was found on a smooth bottom of the sea floor, per the ongoing Coast Guard press release.
> it's a weird habit on HN to refer to random rumours that have discouraged you from trying something, and then explicitly not link to even the source of the random thing you're thinking of.

I don't know about you, but I don't keep a map of "random thought" to "url" anywhere. It seems totally fine/normal in a discussion forum to say "Hey i heard this thing, any substantiation to it?" without needing a source.
Unless I am missing something, it would seem AI is available in both locations. I do not see how anything changed.
> LLMs are incredible tools, but they're just that - tools. They're not a replacement for human judgment.

There is an adage—and there are many variations—that says something like: a falsehood can travel half-way across the world before the truth has time to put on its boots.
Just call it frisbee golf once and you’ll get the correct answer
I doubt the US Army has many options for locating DSVs.
Maybe. When the two day was actually still working, I would mostly get them via UPS, but sometimes FedEx. That's still the case now (mostly UPS), they just come after more delay.
When communication has been lost, what kind of telemetry would you expect?
My pet theory is that this is closely related to the "two cultures" in mathematics with "problem solvers" vs "theory builders": is it easier for you to put more strain on your working memory to solve a problem, or would you rather put in more up-front conceptual effort to reduce that strain?

I'm not a mathematician, but I've seen a similar bifurcation in programming styles and preferences: something like "debuggers" vs "abstraction builders". Would you rather have less to learn up front at the expense of needing to track more details as you're working, or would you rather spend time learning or developing a conceptual foundation to reduce ongoing pressure on your working memory?

I figure this is why discussions about keeping programming "simple" are so unproductive: people end up talking past each other because one camp values reducing up-front complexity, the other reducing ongoing complexity, but everybody talks about it as if there's only one simple–complex dimension.
> But most helicopter passengers probably assume that the trip will be safe and uneventful, 999 out of 1000 times.

Even helicopters have a fatal accident rate that's at most 1 per 100,000 flight hours (in the US at least).

This sub seems to have a fatal accident rate of 1 per 1,000 hours at best
It seems like right now the testable hypothesis "LLMs generate text that is fundamentally different from human beings." That's effectively the Turing test. Current LLMs do a better job of passing the Turing test than things in the past, but it doesn't take a lot of effort to distinguish.

It's difficult to generalize because it can be tuned to do any one thing. It's the whole process of doing anything that requires the full apparatus of a human being, and there is no sign that LLMs are approaching that any time soon.

Which is the other problem. We're talking about what LLM's might one day do, rather than what they currently do. It's entirely possible that one day LLMs will be as flexible as human beings, training themselves for every new scenario. I have reason to doubt it, but the basis of that doubt is only noticing the mechanical difference between brains and LLMs. I cannot prove that the limit cases will remain different.
Note that there are thresholds involved in defining the events. There is a third state of neutral temperature deviation as part of the cycle in between events. So, you don't just divide the cycle time in half and call it either La Nina or El Nino.

Another aspect made clear from the presentation is the different global measurement zones that contribute to the analysis. The actual events aren't as simple as one scalar number, but distribute energy differently around the ocean, and have different localized impacts from this distribution. I suspect that this colors the narrative around particular events depending on who is reporting.

But, I agree the chart in that presentation doesn't make the duration of the most recent La Nina seem that unusual in this limited time period. It would be interesting to see the same chart extended back to 1900 or so, but I imagine they may not have a comparable enough dataset.
How big are app downloads going to get!?
Yeah, I basically have no choice but to deeply, truly understand something. If I don't "completely get it", I will struggle endlessly to employ the "knowledge" I have. It's been a lifelong challenge (indeed I barely finished high school because I was actually failing classes because it was impossible to keep up -- yet I am a senior software engineer today), while some people forge ahead seemingly effortlessly, I am still solidifying the fundamentals. To be fair though, my deep understanding of stuff results in pretty comprehensive/effective solutions that consider edge-cases/gotchas/etc. and I think that's pretty valuable. Once I have those "fundamentals", I have mastered that shizzle and it's completely solid in my repertoire basically forever. The decay is VERY slow once I learn something, and I can remember deep details about things for years.

The discussions on this post have been the first time I've really hard people describe this phenomenon in such clarity. It's really nice to know there are other people who are similar to me in this way, as I very very often feel like the "odd one out" in this regard...
> While all of it is valid advice, I think taken to the extreme it's basically saying – be an employee, not an entrepreneur.

A lot of people get into this stuff because they can't hack it as hum drum employees.
I'd say they compete in a similar space of smart plugin-friendly code editor, not IDE.

What are you thinking of, in terms of differences? I use both quite a bit (some of VSCode's plugins are better) and have always viewed them as very close to one another, in terms of features.
Codeium for Enterprises: On-Prem GitHub Copilot
"yes"

That's today's episode of EZ answers to EZ questions.
Reddit won't open any source because that would make apparent how badly made their products are.

The site is really just a bunch of kluges barely held together with duct tape....
Would be extremely heavy and very brittle
HN has brief outages all the time.
Other than they are privy to government secrets they aren't anymore "the military" in this context than say, airlines or aircraft manufacturers are the Federal Aviation Administration.

Also not sure how U.S. defense contractors are so different from any other country.
I mean I think the bigger take away is to not cut corners when operating with such a small margin of error as DSVs. Safe deep-sea exploration is possible, and has been for a long time, in manners such as the DSV Alvin, DSV Limiting Factor, etc., etc. The manner in which the Titan was made and tested indicated a severe lack of safety oversight from OceanGate. As unfortunate as this is, there's the saying that rules are written in blood, and this is yet another case. I doubt there will be many such cavalier attempts at deep sea exploration and tourism in the future as a result, for the better.
the ocean is three dimensional
At least he died doing it and not someone he employed.
Related: Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. According to Wikipedia [1]:
"The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical."

Intelligent people might rely more on System 2 than ordinary people, which pushes latency up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Might explain why they denied offers from the British rescue sub (IIRC the only available one that could go to such depth) that wanted to come out to try to rescue the crew.
The sole reason I have the android app installed is for the QR sign in for my desktop.
The console devkits are _absolutely_ not free, apart from maybe first party studios.
Finding a Needle in the Ocean-Avi Loeb
You get a legible stack trace that actually points to something looking very much like your code.

There's also stuff like generally fewer LoC, more incentive to use native APIs and rebuild times measured in hundreds of milliseconds, but that first thing is what got me sold on Svelte.