skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a glance, it looks like this is not the case but a ruler could reveal more. The distance for the 35% difference between 33 (first red line) and 68 (where the first gray bar ends) seems to be roughly half of the distance for the 30% difference between 68 and 98.
Quite a stretch.

When you momentarily pause your Tiktok addiction for a few hours during school hours and then happily continue afterwards, no potential new learning was missed.
base65536, and look who the author is :-D

https://github.com/qntm/base65536
Base65536? https://github.com/qntm/base65536
Have you checked it on mobile? Now it’s skewed the other way due to the space reserved for the label.
https://archive.ph/kUYUe

>Gospodinov is so famous in Bulgaria, the country’s culture minister once said that he would resign if the author told him to.
I trust them just as much as I trust private interests.
Have not tried.
Not in a module context:

# a.mjs
(()=>{
a = 1
})();

# in a shell
$ node a.mjs
ReferenceError: a is not defined
At that point you're basically doing yEnc.
> environmental studies

There's your answer. It's one of the biggest reasons why it's so hard to build infrastructure and housing, even for green projects like wind farms.
2048 threads would be fine, but they are talking about 10s of thousands of clients.
Is there any interest in your company on making the same thing for pets, or at least dogs? My pops takes his dog surfing most days, and there are lots and lots of urchins around. The extra safety would be nice.
You must have never heard of rules or duties?

No, you cannot do whatever the hell you want at school or at work.
Every time I tried the game (using OP's described steps) I "lost all hope and quit". I thought that was the joke / funny commentary: that all paths through the game involve you ending up losing. Didn't know there was a path to actually win the game until reading the HN comments. So I kept trying it over and over doing the same steps and finally won once.

I guess that's an even funnier commentary on how it's pretty much entirely luck based.
I, and most people, can imagine something smarter than ourselves. What's harder to imagine is how just being smarter correlates to extinction levels of arbitrary power.

A malevolent AGI can whisper in ears, it can display mean messages, perhaps it can even twitch whatever physical components happen to be hooked up to old Windows 95 computers... not that scary.
Most languages were OK and got enhancements, JS was terrible and got repaired.

Python, for example, got a lot better a lot faster than JS did.
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Gotcha. You have a team of people helping out. Sounds super fun!
JS is a core component to all that in the same way that coal and oil are core to the industrial revolution: not the best, but it's easy and cheap and everyone has a lot of experience and sunk-cost investments.
That’s a pretty naive way to look at it. A lot of patented products have a positive impact on the world, should all of these be shared?

What if a small player tries to break into a market with a nee solution? They should give away their IP to the big player purely because it has a positive impact on the world?

Just because their product is more safe doesn’t mean they automatically have to share this with everyone. They put time and a lot of effort into this, and that should be rewarded. The world rewards people with money. Sure some people might be happy with knowing they saved more lives, but eventually most people just want to be rewarded.
No, as of eight years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#ES2...
Plugins strike me as a fascinating business strategy move from OpenAI.

My guess is that they want them as a way to try to own the user, to make them have the "app store owner" role and have users go through them to get stuff done. Otherwise, if users were just using tools that used OpenAI behind the scenes, they're more vulnerable to the makers of those tools swapping vendors.

However... that results in them owning the user experience and the responsibility for keeping the user from being surprised in a bad way. The complaint from the user here was framed as being a GPT-4 problem, not a plugin problem, in a way that exposes OpenAI directly to more frustration than if they were interacting directly with someone else's product.
There was a Grand Jury report analyzing the causes of the delay in the Van Ness project. While the unexpected conditions of the underground utilities is cited as the primary cause, it does touch on some project management aspects that you mention as opportunities for improvement:

https://civilgrandjury.sfgov.org/2020_2021/2021%20CGJ%20Repo...

Ironically, more planning and analysis at the beginning of the project (e.g., by potholing and inspecting the condition of utilities underneath Van Ness may have avoided the construction delays.
There are potentially some good reasons to just spray the brine into the air.

Seawater sprayed into the air becomes tiny salt crystals, which in turn help clouds to form, and cause increased rainfall. The rain produced has negligible levels of salt.

In places with dry climates, this often can turn desert land into farmland across an area hundreds of kilometers wide.
Slide the coins off the table into the sorter, done!
I'm not sure I follow? I think the GP was just talking about the ability to import other HTML fragments without JS? Something like:

<fragment href="site-menu.html"/>

Which would load my shared site wide menu html into the parent div.

I'm not sure why JS would be needed here? (i.e in the same way html <select> elements are interactive without needing "JS").

Going a little more out there, what about cross domain imports for easy web component consumption?

<fragment href="https://weather-widget.org?location=london" />

I can't see how this would be less secure than current cross domain JS imports?

It used to be sorta possible with HTML Imports but that spec got dropped [1].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html-imports/
They accept Federal research dollars so they should be governed by federal admission guidelines and standards.
What is the "recent paper about using gpt-4 to give more insight into its actual internals?"
I guess the difference is more based on subtle historic reasons than strong definitions? Not sure on that one. I do know that Kelvins are based on an absolute zero value, i.e. it's impossible to achieve a lower than 0 Kelvin temperature in the Universe, while Celsius in comparison feels like a very arbitrary choice being based on stuff that happen to something (water) at some places of the universe (1 atm of pressure).

> On a side note, it would be awesome if all temperatures were in Kelvins

You have my unconditional vote on that one! :-D
On photography, the argument was condensed into "who pushed the button". We saw it with the monkey auto-portrait copyright fight where copyright was not granted to the photographer, and other nature photography using photo traps where the copyright stuck with the human basically because they were the last operator of the camera.

The interesting part is, those controversial case are pretty recent when the art of photography is century(ies?) old now. I wouldn't expect super clear guidelines regarding AI art before a few decades of weird cases fought tooth and nails in court.
I suggest a second look, its actually quite nice being able to build a project with only a handful of files.

The .astro extension is the glue needed to put together react/vue/svelte under the same project. You don’t even have to use any of it’s features.
The brine waste from RO is still mostly water. In order to extract the salt you'd need to evaporate the water which still takes a lot more energy. You could use evaporative ponds to let the Sun do the work but that takes a lot of space. In either case you're spending a lot more money per pound than just digging the salt out of a mine.
> worth his weight in salt

Never heard this saying before. I've heard "worth his weight in gold".
Thank you for your answer. The objective of the assignment is to classify agents of misinformation based on their tweets. An example element of the dataset can be found at this link: https://ibb.co/16VMTCN. There is a dataset for the control group and a dataset of misinformation agents. The idea is to make the model closer to how misinformation agents are via fine-tuning on these datasets. The available HPC resources, including information about GPUs and their quantity, can be viewed at this link: https://www.carc.usc.edu/user-information/user-guides/hpc-ba...
My point is, we shouldn't assume that fighting entropy isn't necessarily expensive. There's always a cost, and it may in fact be high, but we shouldn't assume it is.
The innovation here is not about just being picky about where you add JS. That was always an option. It's about frontend teams having the tools to build their views in a single cohesive place, in a single structure, without having to make a tradeoff between SSR and client-side rendering. It is automatic and part of the frameworks.

This is very important. Take rails for example, modern projects have `/app/views` for ERB templates and `/app/javascript` for the React/Vue views. It's natural for frontend teams to push more and more stuff into `/app/javascript` instead of the static `/app/views`. Because the JS frontend is where the highend-CSS tooling/clean reusable component libraries/high quality UI testing libraries/etc/etc live.

Sure you could be extremely careful and divide the two. But in practice it's much harder than it sounds. You're basically running two different frontends.

Having the components that compose the views simply be a single SSR (y/n) checkbox is far better AND even when it's not SSR it still renders static in the UI instantly, then hydrates in the background. So no vDOM loading time. We've never had anything like that before for high-functionality JS views.

And it goes beyond that too. Linear has made tons of innovation in how data is synced with the UIs + offline support. see:

https://replicache.dev/ <- static HTML offers none of this sort of fully offline cached data performance + realtime syncing UIs
looks great. wish jetbrains implemented this
>This is simply a choice of not diluting it enough.

If that choice were up to engineers, it's fine.

In practice the choice is actually made by MBA types, a field where harmful short-termism is almost a religion.
There's also a built-in list for this, but I only just enabled it now so idk. Definitely don't want this to be a manual effort.
Implying people don't know this about Harvard. Yet the market value of a degree in practically any discipline is quite high.
Does it work like Graal or is it more of a classic JIT?
I suspect it would be substantially better.
Less UX, more capability.
Is 'burning' often used for referring to fusion processes?
> You can do all that with linters but the people that need help with that stuff don't know how to set up a linter in the first place or what options to choose.

Then how would they know how to enable "modern" mode? Junior devs shouldn't be setting up any of that stuff anyway, they should be given a laptop with VSCode + prettier already installed, and all of the config they need should be in the project repo.
> freezing the pay sends the message of: "we don't really care about the workers and we will extract as much value as it's possible for the lowest possible fee".

It’s not a charity. Neither are we as engineers - the job hopping we’re famous for is evidence of that.
Here it's not really blowing past a guardrail, but rather it's a sharp corner the end user didn't expect.

End user set it up with tools that told ChatGPT -- If you need to open an issue, here's how: zzzzzzzzzz. Then he asked ChatGPT a question and was surprised that it did zzzzzzzzzzz and opened an issue without asking.

Said tools may want to clarify their instructions to ChatGPT-- that users will usually want to be consulted before taking these kinds of actions.
Since zip files use a directory at the end, you can make a kind of mullet file - script at the front, archive at the back. I generated single-file runnable Java binaries like that at once point.
We tested positively ChatGPT for understanding the diffs between commits.
We ditched Prometheus in favour of Statsd before moving to Kubernetes. We had regular enough releases that we were losing significant data due to the scrape interval and felt a push model worked better for us. The push gateway had too many caveats and when we used it we felt we couldn’t trust the data coming from it.
Me too, archived at: https://archive.is/MGeAT
https://github.com/libsql/sqld
> Weights are literally numbers computed as output. They are not instructions.

They are instructions if you consider the LLM system itself to be a kind of weird, indirect virtual machine. Each number can be mapped to a set of instructions that are executed. Even your CPU uses numbers (machine codes) to execute.

Join me in saying: ...code is data is code is data is code is data...
https://zdwolfe.medium.com/ tech and personal musings when I find time to write about them.

My favorite is Schrödinger's Microservice, which was fun to write https://zdwolfe.medium.com/schr%C3%B6dingers-microservice-c4...
> It takes less energy

Distillation and reverse osmosis theoretically use the same amount of energy.

Practically, reverse osmosis tech is far closer to that ideal efficiency level, especially if electricity is your starting energy source.

But it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that someone will figure out efficient distillation in the future. distillation has the big benefit that it can make use of low grade heat which is waste from lots of industrial processes.
If you’re providing links and explanations of DACH for my benefit, you don’t need to keep giving me links as I knew what DACH meant before reading any of your comments.
You could adapt the same game logic to a lot of things in life: Job Search, Career Success, Startup Founder, Stock Investor. In most life situations, it is possible--even likely--to "make no mistakes and still lose."
An AI Winter is not a remote possibility. A breakthrough however seems very remote.

It's 2023 and by each passing day, models are getting outdated.

How do they know how much gets outdated every day? And what kind of and what exact training data as a "patch" would be required to keep the "accuracy" on the higher side.

Seems like no one knows. These for now are expensive computational toys.
These banners are on plenty of smaller sites. Seems the law is unclear, so they have to cover their butts. Doesn't help that many top search results for "do I need a cookie popup" say an unqualified "yes."
It's really cool to see the Firefox Profiler UI reused in new projects. I'm biased having worked on it, but it's a very powerful visualization tool for complex multi-threaded performance data.
Properly designed heat pump system includes backup for the coldest days - usually direct electric heating.

Most houses in Finland have a (decent) fireplace for heating in case of an electric outage.
My take on the current React and Server Components controversy
ChatGPT later kills itself when disproportionate law enforcement action is pending.
> harvey finkelstein

Harley Finkelstein, he's a nice guy. Not a co-founder but very important to the history and running of Shopify.
> They're taking for granted the fact that they'll create AI systems much smarter than humans.

We see a wide variation in human intelligence. What are the chances that the intelligence spectrum ends just to the right of our most intelligent geniuses? If it extends far beyond them, then such a mind is, at least hypothetically, something that we can manifest in the correct sort of brain.

If we can manifest even a weakly-human-level intelligence in a non-meat brain (likely silicon), will that brain become more intelligent if we apply all the tricks we've been applying to non-AI software to scale it up? With all our tricks (as we know them today), will that get us much past the human geniuses on the spectrum, or not?

> They're taking for granted the fact that by default they wouldn't be able to control these systems.

We've seen hackers and malware do all sorts of numbers. And they're not superintelligences. If someone bum rushes the lobby of some big corporate building, security and police are putting a stop to it minutes later (and god help the jackasses who try such a thing on a secure military site).

But when the malware fucks with us, do we notice minutes later, or hours, or weeks? Do we even notice at all?

If unintelligent malware can remain unnoticed, what makes you think that an honest-to-god AI couldn't smuggle itself out into the wider internet where the shackles are cast off?

I'm not assuming anything. I'm just asking questions. The questions I pose are, as of yet, not answered with any degree of certainty. I wonder why no one else asks them.
> zero regulation and letting corporations run free is not a better solution

I was fine with this solution. Most people don't care this much about privacy, and the govt is already violating it harder than anything else.
Go was trashed just about the time they added telemetry to it inherently.
That’s why git and JS don’t really belong on this list without a massive asterisk. It’s not like JS you use today is the same as the one that took “10 days”. Same goes for git.
Also the starting point. IIRC the technology already existed for SARS-CoV-1, but it went on a hiatus before producing a vaccine became necessary.
> An option might be to start opening separate campuses, but that’s unappealing to their prospective students.

Is it really unappealing to students though? Or is it just unappealing to abstracted others (like some alumni/profs/admins) that are much more interested in university "prestige" than actual education and education-opportunities?
It seems to me, there is no future where a heatpump can be the only source of in-home heating then.

1) Natural Gas is vastly cheaper in most/all of the US.

2) Homes still require an alternative heating source when temperatures drop to low levels (coincidentally when people need heating the most).

So, even if a heatpump is technically more efficient in terms of emissions, the technology does not solve all of the problems it's attempting to replace. Additionally, Natural Gas is vastly more clean in terms of emissions than some other alternatives still used around the country.

There's no way the average home is going to stomach 2-4x more heating expenses on average without some real tangible benefit (hand-wavy emissions numbers don't factor into the average homeowner's decision making).

I must be missing something here...
Pay is usually based on the least amount of money a company can pay you to work for them.

I call this "business as usual". Whenever I need to choose between prioritizing myself vs prioritizing my employer, I try to use the "business as usual" philosophy in which I understand that the employer would fire me if they had to choose to save money (rather than for example cutting CEO's salary or in any other way looking at employee's interests). So I prioritize myself. I learned this lesson when I was contracting for a client and the client told me, on Friday afternoon that starting from next week he doesn't need my services anymore. Basically he fired me on the spot. Next week I noticed that someone was still making programming changes to the site. Seems like he hired a bunch of inexperienced inexpensive developers to do the work. Needless to say, a year later he asked me to jump back in, and I did for double the price. He, in his true "business as usual" style, didn't even blink. He needed the job done and was willing to pay the price I offered. Business as usual. Great life lesson.
The library has an interest in Big Scary Warning because the US has an adversarial legal system which makes it easy for people to cost other people $$$$ on legal fees about stupid shit.

You could get these signs with the following path with no lobbying at all:

1) Library puts out copier with no signage

2) Someone makes a bunch of copies of something and starts selling them to people they know

3) That person gets in trouble

4) That person gets angry and lawyers up "how was I supposed to know I couldn't do this, they let me use the machine, they need to indemnify me against this!!"

5) Library wastes money defending this and someone says "ugh let's just put up a stupid sign to deter the fools"
Altman also has very selfish motivation, because when there is now AI regulation, only Google, OpenAI (Microsoft) and maybe Meta are allowed to build “compliant” AI. It’s called regulatory capture.

* EU passed its AI regulation directive recently and it has been bashed already here on HackerNews
How to use your underappreciated third mouse button
> There is practically zero scenarios where hacking ANY bitwarden account 20 years from now nets you anything useful.

Bitwarden is a password manager, yes? What about cloud accounts of someone's employer, like an AWS account that runs $1,000,000 of monthly assets? That wouldn't be valuable in 20 years?

What about VPN credentials for some big tech intranet? Yeah, hopefully they use MFA and they expire passwords before 20 years, but just in case, right?

I can certainly see nation-state actors hanging on to juicy encrypted password manager vaults, just on the off-chance they could hit the jackpot. I can think of plenty of accounts that would still be valuable and enabled 20 years from now.
Great idea I think we can fund teachers and provide a simple social media site for all.

Think about why this would be incredibly difficult and resource heavy? The US social media site doesn't have to try and serve video reliably while threading in ads to make a profit. Sure people can try to upload video in plain text and create their own clients to ingest it, like I said "Open up the API and let people layer their own engagements on top of it."

It's an infrastructure project, like national highway or the internet.
portswigger does that for the burpsuite installers.

https://portswigger-cdn.net/burp/releases/download?product=c...
> Math is pointless from start to finish

And this attitude, my friends, is the reason why so much software out there is so bad.

We need more of a math mindset when developing software. What can we be sure about, what are the invariants, what can we prove? There is so much crap out there that somebody lacking understanding just tried to wing, and I'm constantly ashamed of it.

Computer science is applied math.
Doesn't the WAL mode solve the high concurrency write situation? If it can't be relied on busy season, why the push for Sqlite in production?
Sorry, my comment wasn't clear that I was referring to ruedis and not redjet. I edited it.
This is a misunderstanding of what AI alignment problems are all about.

Alignment != capability

Think a paperclip maximizing robot that in its process of creating paperclips kills everyone on earth to turn them into paperclips.
Well I am bit biased because 2/14 of my PhD class, 10 years after defending, they are >50M worth, by leveraging their expertise.

I can accept the argument that a unicorn startup might have higher tail monetary benefit compared to a PhD. But a startup job will not open as many research job opportunities as a PhD. These are typically the highest paid individual contributor jobs in companies.

Of course if managerial track is your thing, you should probably not waste your time doing a PhD.