skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well after seeing the second video I'm pretty convinced it's superconductive or a good scam. The effect was probably just not strong enough in the first video.
This is the opposite of specialization, so there are reasons to not do this.

Examples: are you likely to write unit tests for your GetFirstChar? A specialized open source library that built this function is far more likely to have unit tests and documentation. Those unit tests and documentation come in handy during edge cases and when your coworker decides to extend the function with an `options` parameter.

Also, general developers rarely understand the full breadth of character sets, for example. So if your function just grabs the 1st byte from a string and expects it to be a character, your end user might be angry when only the first byte of a multi byte character is returned. Similarly the difference between a character and a glyph and a rune, etc. are important and lesser understood.
> For example, you’d just have labs doing extremely expensive replications of extremely simple or well-established experiments. Why not?

You're making grants sound like a cost-plus contract. I don't think grants currently work like that. Why would they be changed?

As to why that wouldn't happen under the current system. Because that lab would go under and before they published the replications (these things do get reviewed).

And after a certain number of replications, you would (presumably) stop funding those replications. Maybe re-visit it once every decade or so in the softer sciences. You never know what's a product of the current moment in something like sociology or psychology.

> IMO maybe an alternative solution: a government-run journal

I'd worry about inertia in a government run program. You can just point funding at a different institution when you're only talking about government funding, but when something is government run, it tends to be harder to kill than just re-directing funding.

I think you'd have to set up an entire ecosystem of government run journals, but that still makes it harder to pivot if one of the non-government run journals starts doing way better work.
I think most of their users are just happy with the way things are and don’t want any changes that might screw things up.

Overall they trust Apple to take care of things - that’s why they bought Apple stuff in the first place - and feel that anything that takes control from Apple and could prevent Apple from doing its job, would be bad for them.
>That's why it was listed under "other direction".

That's why I quoted the Wikipedia link that you quoted - after reading the initial part of it,
it, although I had also read about chickens and junglefowl years before, being interested in such topics, and being an Indian who has also roamed about in such jungles in Central India
as a teenager:

I had said, above:

>>as it says in the above Wikipedia article.
I've read several articles on this today. It must have been another one.
Pyrolytic graphite looks exactly like this and behaves in exactly this way (without being superconducting) as long as one side is anchored. With a careful array of magnetic poles, graphite will levitate at room temperatures.
Actually September 2016, but does it matter?
I thought the same thing, if these "sister" papers being posted are real these are not convincing results.
70B at f16 needs about 120-160GB (4 A100 40GB or 2 A100 80GB).

Quantization still seems to have some issues for the 70B model.
A Few Notes on the Transformer
Are people really able to replace most of what they'd find on SO with chatGPT queries? I find most of the stuff I need help with comes in the form of modern libraries (eg next.js) and finicky configs.
Unless you deserialize into a type whose properties are interface types, in which case you're definitely checking...
Spoiler alert - The free speech crowd never actually cared about free speech.
I think we're talking about the same thing, but I explained it absolutely terribly.

If we "dump the other output" back into the power source, such as the battery, does that solve the problem of not implicitly dumping it into the environment? Or is it still destroying information?
That is profoundly unconvincing.
So hoverboard?
As _jal notes, Xanadu affords this. (I've read about and watched demonstrations of the project, I've not used it.)

This is also a feature of many wiki systems, and in particular Mediawiki (the engine behind Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.). Here, both the linking and linked pages are aware of the link, at least so long as they occur within the same underlying Wiki. External links, including links to other Wikis (both within and outside the Wikipedia Foundation's remit) aren't treated like this, however.

Where it exists, though, it's a powerful model.

This is still only a subset of the features you're referring to, though again Mediawiki has some more complex relationships as well, through tools such as infoboxes, categories (which collect numerous other related pages), and more. Within Wikipedia inclusion in a category page is achieved not by editing the category page, but by editing the included page to indicate that it's a part of that category, which is quite powerful.

You might also want to look at various notions of the semantic web which have been floated. Limited adoption seems to be largely a combination of coordination problem and general complexity. Basic HTML is reasonably simple, especially where relationships between pages (and pages on multiple sites) are concerned.
Lol. I love HN -- the reaction is because this is either straight-faced or tongue-in-cheek, if it's straight-faced, this is stylistically a parody of the infamous "well Dropbox is rsync, it's moat is basically a SWE-weekend" comment
It's kinda funny how the big studios just said "oh streaming, that doesn't count" and they're mostly getting away with it.
Brave works just fine on phones...
Apparently, my comment was completely lost on you.

Here's an example that might make it more clear: Stagecoach drivers are mad that cars have been created, so they go on strike demanding more money. People interested in transportation spend more money on cars because the price for stagecoach drivers is going up.

The strike is likely just accelerating investment in not being dependent on workers
According to Stack Overflow, the answer is No. https://stackoverflow.com/q/5233556
At some point, this isn't sufficient, and pilots need to start the auxiliary power unit (APU) and go through the full restart procedure as though on the ground.

But this is a moot point, given there was no fuel left...
On some level, sure.

But there's a difference between trusting two rival institutions that come to the same conclusion, and trusting a single research team that stands to advance quite significantly from a particular publishing.
In-progress applications is the most important thing to monitor. While some applications will need to take time, most should be fast. That is the review should be a clerk checking that it is allowed by current code (takes only a few minutes) and approving. There will always be a few requests to change the zone or a special variance to the code, but even then many at one time suggests you have a problem of it being too hard to build.

The purpose of a city is to collect a lot of human activities in a relatively small space. Most of those occure indoors so if people can't build what they want/need your city is failing.
It's impossible to use phone records if it wasn't SMS e.g. WhatApp, Signal, iMsg.
Two phones would work as well.
This is a business model problem, not a technical problem.

Software can keep running without being actively maintained.

What are you talking about?

What a strange devil's advocate.
Gwern?

<https://gwern.net/>

They discuss the site in this thread here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36870640>
> There have already been intelligence explosions... reading and writing... iodine supplementation...

It's dubious to refer to these individual events as "explosions". They're just single significant changes. Any event in humans or AI you could respectably call an explosion would be a cascade (note: causally interconnected) of a large number of these individual intelligence-increasing changes.

If anything, I'd argue that the buildup of communal knowledge in human civilizations over the last several thousand years, especially the last few centuries, has been an explosion of sorts. It's been a huge increase in capability for one species, and would look like a step change on a timescale that includes all Earth life. But if that's an explosion, writing was just one of the chemical reactions.
The default style people cites about ChatGPT is also nothing intrinsic about AI, it is just this paticular AI is trained and prompted to output information in this way. The output style can change drastically with just a little prompt change even on the user side.
Fuel cells are just another transformer like the dynamo, or any kind of motor. They turn one kind of energy into another and in the context of hydrogen (which you could produce out of water using electricity as a means of storing energy) it serves to reverse the storage step. This is nice to have but just like nuclear power it's a variation on stuff that we already have, it is at best a quantitative change (and hopefully an improvement).

Room temperature / ambient pressure super conductivity is something we do not currently have. The difference between having that and not having that is a qualitative difference and hence it will enable a whole raft of applications for which we currently do not have a solution.
As always Doctorow has hit the nail on the head.

Luckily I'm not dependent on a car, I haven't owned one for 6 years. But this horror will come to all sorts of products, yes.
You don't need bash or WSL to build on windows; windows runs it perfectly fine with CUDA as well
Have completions been implemented at all? The language looks like it is designed to take that into account, but I don't see that after a cursory search
PyPi did indeed, but it's a fairly interesting case. It was removed because the implementation was ineffective

More information on that here:
https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/05/21/PGP-signatures-on-PyPI...

There was a lot of talk about why this didn't go the other way; keeping signing, but making the practice meaningful. I forget the details about that.
It sounds like it was a mixed bag for AA County:

> In March 2017, the Anne Arundel County prosecutor handling Kazzelbach’s case asked for Kazzelbach’s consent to download the contents of his iPhone, but Kazzelbach refused. The prosecutor told Kazzelbach that if he did not permit a full search of his phone, the Anne Arundel charges against the victim would be dismissed. In response, Kazzelbach began making false reports to Baltimore County instead. In May 2017, the Anne Arundel charges against the victim were dismissed.

To be fair to your claim, that was after significant mishandling, at least with the benefit of hindsight.
There are web sites for doing this.
An equally important question to ask is, who is ultimately allowed to control their living environment, i.e. their land, house, and property?

Why should the group of neighbors who speak loudly and have the time to attend planning meetings on a Tuesday afternoon get to decide what I can build on my own property? Why does the municipal bureaucratic tangle have the right to prevent a landowner from getting the full market value of their property if they decide to sell? Why is it ok to use a terrible permitting process to stop people from modifying their own houses?

There certainly are things that a person can build or do on their property that harm the neighbors. But at the moment, most American municipalities are privileging the loud group of neighbors who oppose any change over the rights of the landowner and over the social benefits of actually building stuff.
Chuck Norris was bitten by a snake of the set of Walker, Texas Ranger. After two days of excruciating pain, the snake died.

Death once had a near-Chuck experience.
I'm surprised the author didn't talk about error handling in Go.

That is, by far, my biggest pet peeve with the language.

Most languages have try/catch patterns, but Go opted for multivariate returns and a discrete error type...without pattern matching!

At least 20% of Golang code I look at is the if err != nil pattern, which is a crazy amount of repetitive boilerplate. I don't think the must pattern is a good alternative either in many cases.
As I understand, Arc doesn’t use the UI framework that’s baked into Chromium and instead uses SwiftUI. To facilitate a Windows port, they’re building on existing community work to write a SwiftUI implementation for Windows.

Following this if they were to port to Linux they’d probably write a GTK-based SwiftUI implementation, or if they wait for Swift C++ interop perhaps a Qt-based implementation.
I hope Louis Rossman will talk about this.

Makes me want to build a rpi laptop.
To clarify #1, using your terminology.

Bespoke language for preflight, ok

Bespoke language for inflight, no thanks, we do not want to develop our applications in a bespoke language and ecosystem. The trade off is too big and risky. It would also be a nightmare to hire and retain talent

Wing, wasp, and darklang all suffer from these issues.
Yeah, that and the videos people are posting are really underwhelming.
>Other pertinent new world crops that drastically altered staple cuisines in Asia: potato, tomato, corn. Then of course there's tobacco / nicotine, and from more of an ornamental standpoint, the frangipani appears critically entwined with temples across numerous Asian countries and religious and philosophical traditions however is also a new-world Johnny come lately.

It is known as the Columbian exchange:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
Interesting - looks like the auto industry has really improved SUV safety for rollovers in the past 2 decades. I wonder how much is sway-bars and how much is simply lowering the height (ie, most crossovers are still SUVs).

Part of this may also align with the fact that SUVs are so varied a category that now there are 5+ size categories of SUV [1] as opposed to maybe two from the 90s - dilution of the brand in a marketable way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_(automobile)#Size_ca...
The logic reminds me of finding the truth somewhere between the extremes of "the Earth is flat" and "the Earth is an oblate spheroid." We'll just say the Earth is a cube and if both sides are unhappy, we know it's a job well done.
I like writing tools and make all my money doing that. It's a niche market, but it's mine and worked out amazingly well.
Maybe? A Gemini link just came across my feed the other day. It seems to be an underground scene, and its quirky protocol and format suggests it's going to remain an underground scene for quite some time.

Back to basics is already available, in a sense, if you want it.
https://archive.is/nHQrP
It was my favourite social network, and I had multiple accounts. I used it slightly professionally, but wouldn't say my job depended on it. Months ago, I deleted as many tweets as I could without paying to deal with more, and stopped using it. I don't feel like I've missed it all that much. The engagement when active never felt that great, so that probably helped. I've never used Facebook either.

I do feel a bit like "what's the alternative"; I like being an active contributor rather than a passive consumer, so falling back to just reading scraps on the net makes me uneasy.
On Linux it's at least explicit that file paths can be any string of bytes (any or "no" encoding)
> Moderators began auto banning AI posts

How was this achieved?
The claim you responded to was "both sides had bargaining power", not "relatively equal bargaining power".
This looks like an awesome toolchain to try to use for developing qualitative data sets in disciplines where the norm is to cut corners (e.g. https://datacolada.org/98).

Could you sell a version of this product where you promise to keep the buyers anonymous and confidential (and destroy the prompt and outputs after delivery)?
There's a value and a cost to hyperlinks. Amongst other issues, they are distracting, and given linkrot often perform far more poorly than more traditional citations. Note that, say, Wikipedia, strongly prefers citations to naked URLs. (Though of course citations may link to sources.)

That said, I've occasionally written (or adapted) materials to include heavy hyperlinking. One example would be a bibliographic note (itself already a reference document), which I extended by linking names to Wikipedia entries and texts to their Worldcat entries:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20230607050023/https://old.reddi...>

One thing that made this easier is Wikipedia's convention for article links. I could auto-generate these when composing the document, then (reasonably quickly) verify the actual links were as expected. I think I'd used some shell functions to confirm Worldcat entries, which was possible at the time. A subsequent site degredation means that Worldcat is no longer usable at all without a JS-enabled browser, which w3m (my go-to terminal-mode browser) is unfortunately not.
Every generation is.

Note that liberal and conservative are not actually opposites. While are media often pretends they are, you can be both in different areas. People love to claim to be whatever makes them fit in.
I wrote electronic computers: a bunch of technologies like transistor and integrated circuits.
Ask HN: What email, calendar, cloud providers do you use/recommend
I have been struggling a long time to get out of the google grip and am using my own domain currently on proton, together with their mail plus package which is quite nice. But I want to know what other people use, recommend and so on.
It is carbon neutral by definition. You don't add carbon to the biosphere by raising cows, slaughtering, and eating them, that's what "carbon neutral" is. The total amount of carbon in the cycle stays the same.

It doesn't really matter, truffles are expensive, yet are still widely consumed. No one argues for complete abandonment of truffle consumption purely because they're expensive.

Spices are even more unnecessary than meat as they provide zero caloric value. If you accept the need for food to be a pleasure and not just pure calories, and the resulting environmental impact (there is no free lunch, spice plantations could be reforested instead), you have to do the same for meat. "You can replace meat" is not true, there's no replacement for a steak taste wise. If you mean "you don't really need a steak" (regardless of its price), what's different about chilli peppers or vanilla beans? Surely you don't need them either, we can stop growing them and rewild the plantations instead?
He was sentenced to four years in prison. This is infuriating. Someone who does this should spend a significant portion of the rest of their life behind bars. Not as a punishment but to ensure that he doesn't do this to someone else. It's time to take crimes like this much more seriously. Perpetrators who do this ruin people's lives and cause a tremendous amount of emotional distress. Lock them up and throw away the key.
I apologize for coming off scornful, the last thing I read before replying was “WTF kind of logic is this” and I kinda said, ok, that’s the tone on this sub-thread. I’ll watch my snark but I’ll also admonish you to only take the vibe places you want to go.

My whole premise is that it doesn’t have better than human intelligence. Everyone glosses over how we go from ChatGPT 4 failing its own unit tests to geometrically self-improving hyper-intelligence.

The burden is not on skeptics of paperclip optimizers in the near term to prove it can’t happen. That which is not prohibited by the laws of physics is admitted by the laws of physics. Of course it’s possible in the abstract.

The burden on anyone advocating positions being taken seriously by the public, by government, by industry, etc. to show that these arguments are in the public welfare, and I contend that they are not.
See also perhaps the git commit murder Series by Michael Warren Lucas:

* https://www.goodreads.com/series/321508-git-commit-murder

* https://mwl.io/fiction/crime#gcm

* https://mwl.io/fiction
China is leading UHV transmission line construction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-voltage_electricity...), because most power sources (hydro, solar, coal, wind) sit west while population sits east.

This seems to be a tech analysis. Hmm, technically feasible.
Relevant to this is an indie movie called Artifice Girl, the premise of the movie is a genius 3D artist and software developer creates an AI to catch online predators, part of the tool involves generating realistic images to use as lure and using an LLM to chat with the predators and get enough information to get them to jail.

Highly recommend watching the movie, it also touches on some more metaphysical topics regarding consciousness and soul but I don't wanna spoil too much.
FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon
Won't work because Sub-Saharan Africans hate each other with a passion. Plus it's Nigeria proposing it, which means everybody will see it as just another effort of Nigeria to boss around. Plus it's Africa, so corruption is the law.
Companies like Google talk a good game (progressive (lower case) environmentalism, etc.) but like ESG it’s all a ruse.

They sell disposable devices with built-in obsolescence. They like to pretend they care —they only care about their market position and profits. The rest is just a way to get there.

And to just not throw Google under their bus, look at Apple (and Google too) if you think they care... look at the labor practices they condone --just like Nike. If it's overseas, I guess it's not happening. Sure, they treat Engs very well stateside because (for various reasons, including market) they must --not because they want. But then again, "we" condone it and encourage it by buying their goods and services knowing full well the reality on the ground.
Because of the availability of the source code under a permissive licence that UNIX has been distributed under for a long time. Other operating systems source code still remains unavailable, sometimes decades after the hardware they used to run on had disappeared.

The second reason is the simplicity of abstractions and the ease of their implementation. In the original DEC documentation on RSX-11M (the predecessor of VAX VMS), for example, there is a whole chapter describing how to create and fill in a file descriptor block (a complex record data structure) required just to open a file where the user has to decide beforehand where to locate the file, whether they want to access the data [blocks] randomly or sequentially, whether the file is being opened merely for updating the data but not extending the file size or for updating the data and extending the file, whether allow or not other processes to access the same file whilst it is open, the number of in-memory buffers for the kernel to allocate for file access etc etc. Many complex decisions have to be made before a file can be opened. In UNIX, on the other hand, it is a mere «int fd = open ("myfile", O_RDONLY);», the end.

Granted, not every OS has had such complexities (the opposite is also true, tho). Yet, the simplified (one can argue that it has been oversimplified) UNIX abstractions have been influential for a reason.
With Firefox on macOS and to a lesser extent Windows there’s some jank at play, for example when hiding/showing the sidebar you sometimes see a white flash as it redraws. It feels a bit duct taped together.
Hook up the model's output to a shell. Remember it doesn't have to be engineered to modern SRE standards, it just needs to not crash. Dirty hacks are on the table. The comparison to diaper-changing is fairly illuminating, actually: even human children, let alone adults, figure out how to take care of that kind of thing, and it fades into the background of their activities. I agree that plausible mechanism is lacking in these AI risk conversations, but ops is not the hard part IMO.