skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, an AI that in some sense ‘understands’ its own structure, which is to us almost entirely a black box, might be able to do much better.

True... but is this a plausible capability? I don't mean in practice. I mean theoretically.

I feel we often forget about the free lunch theorem when it comes to intelligence. To us it is this magical, omnipotent thing, such that a sufficiently advanced intelligence can understand anything. But mathematically, there is no such thing as an algorithm that is better than another at everything: whatever intelligence is, it has to be intrinsically bad at certain things.

Which brings me to this thought: I think it is highly plausible that understanding one's own internal structure intimately enough to reorganize and optimize it is in fact one of these things Intelligence (with a big I: all levels of intelligence) is intrinsically bad at, both directly and indirectly. What makes me think it is plausible is that intelligence is mainly about manipulating abstractions, but reality is far too messy to be abstracted... unless you simplify it. And so it seems to me that what makes humanity incredibly powerful is the one-two punch of morseling reality into simple pieces that match our abstractions, and building with these pieces. In other words, intelligence is only effective over an ablated version of reality, and we happen to be very good at ablating... reality itself. But if the thing you are trying to understand is truly complex, you can't really ablate it to a point where it is simple enough to be understood, and basically every single level of intelligence will fail at understanding it.

There has to be some kind of tradeoff to intelligence's uncanny ability to manipulate and understand systems, and I think this is where it is. I very well could be wrong, of course.
I’ve worked on projects that logged locally and only transmitted every ~60 days when they detected the right network (eg public wifi). So unless you monitor it continuously and permanently this isn’t true.
AI is the new blockchain, it can solve every problem ever! Just don't ask how.
It’s basically “I caught a fish this big” story where each telling increases the size
Seconded. Very interesting movie.
so think of LoRAs as "extensions" for ML models.

sometimes you need to generate content that's outside of the base model's training set (ex: paintings of your face).

generally speaking there are two options here: to finetune the entire model (very costly in terms of both compute and monetary cost) or to use a LoRA.

usually the process of making a LoRA would include uploading your training images to some directory, executing some python code via either google colabs or running github scripts.

this process can generally be very error-prone and time consuming (even for a programmer like myself) so i built this app to try to make it easier.

so far, 100s of people have used the app and 9 users are monthly subscribers.
When there are seven opinions on what the length is, you cannot miscount it, unless you somehow come up with some vastly unpopular eighth answer.
I'm not saying that there's anything more effective (for the conditions for which CBT is commonly studied and recommended; much like any other "school" one might name, a handful of true believers are out there suggesting that it would cure conditions such as obesity and ADHD if only we could raise sufficient awareness and belief), I'm saying that:

1) The margin of CBT's superiority in robust studies (AFAICT, most published psychotherapy studies are of sufficiently poor quality that if you cited a similar one for a medical intervention, you'd be accused of being an industry shill) is likely sufficiently small as to be of little practical importance [1], and there are credible reasons to suspect that even that small apparent superiority might be an illusion caused by biases among both individual researchers and institutions [2].

2) Even if we did have robust evidence that CBT works substantially better than other modalities as a treatment, that wouldn't represent a validation of its underlying theoretical model per se; it would just suggest that any model telling us to take blatantly opposite material actions is unlikely to be valid. Consider the scenario of an isolated, highly religious society encountering leprosy. Probably the most effective intervention would be for a religious leader to tell the people that it's a punishment from the gods and sufferers must be shunned. That would work, but it would work because leprosy is caused by a pathogen spread through close contact, and the intervention provides a strong incentive to avoid close contact, not because that society's gods actually exist and care who people hang out with. That's arguably an extreme example, and my point is not to suggest that belief in CBT is akin to religion (indeed, one could reasonably argue that CBT is the flavor of psychotherapy least guilty of stumbling into a religious mode of thought), only that just-so stories are all too easy to spin.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36640411/

[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.0015...
Friend, I honesty was not trolling. Look at the posts to which I responded. All of them appear emotionally unstable and outraged that I would dare ask a question that mentioned some of the advertised negatives about their city and then asked what positives are clearly out weighing these negatives as the city is growing.

By the same token, you seem upset that your witty trick question about murder rates is upended by the fact that through sheer weight of numbers, Chicago dominates. No matter how you choose to look at it.

I am responding very forcefully to banal and mindless attacks from people that just don't want to answer my question in the spirit it was intended.

Look through the replies. So far out of a dozen, only one answered unemotionally and logically.

edit: 2 now
It's getting to be parody at this point. Also, he's apparently offering steep discounts to get advertisers back, which is definitely enough to get them to look past the thoroughgoing instability of the company and its owner.
This anecdote is a little mangled; Danger was a small startup but the Sidekick wasn't written by one person.
Inside the brain of a suspected CTE patient
not ugly but unfriendly for mobile.
May Encounter Data Falsification
I suspect that the data on this website (https://pitchwall.co/) is fake, why do I say that?
I am an independent developer. I developed a software called ChatTab for ChatGPT. I want to promote it on this website. Therefore, I spent $119 to make it Featured. The number of likes has reached 45. Normally, if The number of likes reaches 45, so it should be no problem to bring at least hundreds of views to my website, but I checked the website statistics and found that the traffic from this website is only 9, does anyone encounter the same problem? What should I do?
> "Sometimes, I even highlight the bottom line in yellow so that my point is abundantly clear."

Be careful with this. I was having a hard time communicating with a coworker who put all her most important points in a unique purple sized-up font because it turns out decades of www-exposure has trained my brain to filter out and ignore information presented like this. (Being flashy and trying to hijack my attention are hallmarks of embedded advertisement.)
> People think that big lefty cities are dangerous without having ever been there.

> If I asked you which of the following cities has a higher murder rate than Chicago which would you select: Cleveland, Las Vegas or Kansas City.

For what it's worth, you've listed four "big lefty cities", with all four cities having voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in all of the last six elections, most with big margins. (Though to be fair, it's hard to find any big cities that haven't, considering that the largest political divide in the country is on urban vs. rural lines.)

Chicago should be considered a peer city to NYC and LA, and it does suffer quite a bit in its murder rate compared to those two[0], even though they were all once comparable.

Of the ten most dangerous (highest rates of violent crime) cities in the US[1] of any size, only one, Springfield, IL, voted for the Republican presidential candidate more than half the times of the last six elections. All but two of the remainder were solidly Democratic for all six cycles. So while there may be some truth to your idea that people unfairly believe "big lefty cities" are dangerous, there is also some truth to those people's idea, as well.

[0]: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-safer-chicago/c...

[1]: https://www.populationu.com/gen/most-dangerous-cities-in-the...
Because it works better like this.
Nope, I’m pretty ambivalent about my OS… Used Linux professionally for several years, Mac OS for several and only recently switched back to Windows with the advent of WSL 2.

Having spent multiple years on all three I promise you that my experience does not bear out your assertion. And to point it out: I am more than capable of making Linux do most of the things I want it to (tar flags be damned) I just prefer the UX on MacOS or windows
Modernize Your Mail Server
Going from 23K to 35K is useful but not a game-changer. Going to 127C will be, if it works.
This isn't the IP you want. The IP you are looking for is the process that can take this discovery and turn into miles a superconducting wire a day.
> I find it amusing how programs from the 90s can have much better usability, more features and better reliability than something released today in many cases.

Those programs were new then.

Then 10 project managers were added, and each wanted something new (or in case of google, a new program altogether), new features, new design, new something, and instead of a good (and later maintained) program, we have software with pretty much the same features as in 1997, but suddenly uses 3 gigs of ram.
> To facilitate a Windows port, they’re building on existing community work to write a SwiftUI implementation for Windows.

Can you expand on this? I haven't the foggiest idea how this would work in practice.
This is a high value comment - it's got a hook that I sort of mostly get, but follows that up with jargon laden things I don't understand well, and your references gave me a half hour of rabbit-hole learning. I appreciate the casual knowledge you've passed along. Thanks!
Every substance is one of

* ferromagnetic - attracted to one pole of a magnet but not the other (in a given orientation), this is what everybody thinks of when they think of "magnets"

* paramagnetic - attracted to both poles, i.e. stuff that sticks to magnets

* diamagnetic - repelled by both poles, except in superconductors, this effect is very weak compared to the forces experienced involving ferro-ferro or fero-paramagnetic materials.

There isn't another category, everything fits in to one of those buckets.

Saying

>Just so everyone is on the same page, static passive diamagnetic levitation is possible with materials like pyrolytic graphite.

is a bit deceptive, as what people know as "magnetic" materials are ferromagnetic.
The correct response to this is always, “I told you to use a burner! The feds know about this number!”
> They just have better things to do with their time than deal with inconsequential IT issues.

I understand a nurse shouldn't need to be a computer expert, but where to draw the line? I'm not a car guy, but I am expected to maintain a working vehicle and obey the rules of the road. I'm not a nurse, but am expected to comply with their instructions and understand to some degree what they're doing while under their care.
sigspec was one of the first responses and left the single word as a joke. As in have a stiff drink, because you're fucked. Because my answer was that the OP was probably performing an optimal strategy given their constraints. Sure, they could do better by becoming a climate researcher, but that's not really a reasonable ask.

Side note: I often say that you know when the physics undergrads start quantum mechanics because they all become alcoholics. The joke here (which has a lot of truth to it btw) is that your intuitive framework breaks down and stops helping you, so you suck it up, drink, and just trust the math. Truthfully, for any study, once you hit a sufficient level, this kinda ends up being true. You get introduced to concepts at a simple and abstracted level, which seems sufficient for modeling the world (often this is what you learn in undergrad domains, not just physics). But once you get to enough expertise you find that what seemed simple before simply gets dominated by the nuances and complexities of the system. Truth is that if anyone is trying to convince you that something is simple (especially yourself), then they are trying to deceive you -- intentionally or unintentionally (often fooled themselves). There's a reason you'll find huge books on how to pick the best screw, o-ring, or whatever seemingly simple thing.

I guess it wouldn't be a clique if it wasn't well known but people fail to internalize it: The devil is in the details.
No, we don't have the technology.

Running a SaaS reliably involves a lot more than just the open source app.

Who's going to handle DevOps and Security, product road map, paying for hosting, transactional emails, etc.

A SaaS is a business, has expenses, needs revenue.
I'll be installing and trying this soon.
Most likely you know that Functional Programming (FP) is a Programming paradigm, that is, an approach to write the programs you have in mind. You have already mentioned some features of such paradigm, I am revisiting JavaScript myself (Since it was a long time since I use it) these days. And I am glad to find famous functions associated with FP, like flatMap, already available in JS. Since you already mentioned lots of these features, the only one that comes to my mind is Lazy Evaluation, which gives you the ability to work with "Infinite structures".

Perhaps you are already aware of these resources, but I will never get tired of recommending the following:
* FP101x by Mr. Erik Meijer (The course is archived on edx.org but you can work your way through it).
* The above is based on the outstanding book by Graham Hutton, Programming in Haskell.
* And, if you can afford it in terms of time, a book from Mr. Peter Van Roy, Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. (There is a section devoted to FP).

Last but not least, I do love JavaScript.

Hope that helps.
> By that logic a super conductor is just a variation of a conductor.

No it is not. The difference between 0.1 and 0.0 can't be expressed in orders of magnitude.

> Nuclear power is more distinct from burning coal than any superconductor is distinct from copper wire.

Nuclear power is an incredible invention. Unfortunately it has some problems that won't go away by wishing it to be so, and there are many similarities with coal (as well as some obviously differences).

But this thread isn't about coal vs nuclear.

Frankly, if you don't actually see the difference between the relative importance of superconductors vs copper wire and nuclear vs coal then I really don't think I have anything to say that will interest you. Suffice to say that nuclear didn't change the world all that much (except in a weapons sense) but superconductors at room temperature and ambient pressure have the potential to change the world in ways that would be hard to even imagine. Even if true I still don't think it would be in time to help us address some of the more urgent problems we are facing. Neither does nuclear. And come to think of it: if this tech is real (big if) then it will actually probably cause a revolution in nuclear as well because it would allow for nuclear power to be transmitted the world over without the non-proliferation headaches associated with shipping reactors to various countries. It wouldn't solve the waste problem (though there are some interesting reactor designs now) and it won't happen overnight but it would make a difference.
May I ask how you went about fine tuning in a cost effective manner?
Running a SSD attached via USB3 is really not a bad option. My daily driver for almost two years was a Celeron Chromebox similar to the one in this write-up, via USB, and it was kind of ok. I had 16 GB ram.

The thing mounted nicely behind my monitor, which was fun. But eventually I realized that even for web browsing and video playing it really was slowing me down too much, was unnecessary self-torture.
It depends. How are they manipulating people? If the information is true or an option based on true facts then I blame the person.

If they are lying or stating opinions based on false facts then I blame the person.

However the internet exists and information is accessible to anyone.

You're right though, I'm making it too simple. People are to blame and so is the media. Different levels depending on the person or media source.
Sometimes the secret is in the open, but seeing it takes a series of long slog steps which most people just can't get themselves to do(for many reasons).

If you see the most fitness and nutrition advice, and you go through it, most of it sounds like pseudo science that would never work. Yet if you go running in the morning, most parks around your home will have these people who are very fit, eating the right things and doing the right stuff.

Its just doing all of this is hard, painful and demands some serious discipline on the very long run. This process in essence now acts as a filter to 99% people out there. Among the 1% degree of success again varies based on other parameters(timing, luck, overall effort in continuous improvements etc). By the time you arrive at 0.1%, the process basically acts as ruthless filter to eliminate people who just can't measure up.

So many times the what works, can be easily learned and known. Doing it, is just a whole different beast altogether.
And if you look at the PR's and contributors you can see that even the constructive ones have been ignored, there have been zero outside contributions and you then realize, that the entire point of the repo is a PR stunt by Musk, to deflect from the fact that the juicy bits of the algorithm are still closed source.

So yeah after a while these kind of things attract humor.
I think educators got away for too long of handling the problem of umotivated students and uninteresting classes subjects...

Not the educators fault tough, more like the system is bad.

My point is that given knowledge is mostly free and available, the system should teach the students to think rather than using tools or remembering facts
> It's a graph whose scale doesn't start at 0 on the Y-axis.

Bit ridiculous and entirely irrelevant to demand the graph start at absolute zero Kelvin.

It's a graph that shows the full cycle range of 40 years of annual tempreture.

It's a graph that shows the median tempreture of a > 30 year base reference range.

It's a graph that shows recent years are all veering upwards more than a significant number of standard deviations from the mean.

It's a graph that shows an early outlier from 20 years ago was just that, there are known reasons why AGW changes aren't a monotonic increase, that they rachet upwards in stages with small plateaus and brief backslides.

Thanks to ENSO the world is in for a few years of "things will get worse" followed (hopefully) by a brief spell of "look, it's stopped getting worse".
Right? In the cool indy web who actually cares about mass adoption. There is no way of saying it without being elitist but sometimes you just don’t want everyone in your space.
You're overthinking it. It's almost always a foot in the door tactic to begin a conversation. The "mystery" of wondering why someone would text "who is this" to a random phone number is more disarming than "hey" or launching directly into the scam. Sure, it's not a very good strategy but since these messages are sent automatically at massive scale, it only has to be marginally better to be a worthwhile strategy.
Discussed at the time (of the invention):

"Telegraph, Perfection of the, in Franch" <https://www.google.com/books/edition/Encyclopaedia_Perthensi...> (1816)

"M. Chappe Laine's History of the Telegraph" <https://www.google.com/books/edition/Articles_and_correspond...> (1826)
I was not trolling, I actually dislike MongoDB aggregation syntax and it seems like PRQL is something that could potentially replace it or go on top. Admittedly I only took a quick glance at PRQL though, so perhaps I misunderstood something or it's not applicable to this case.

There are examples on Mongo's page, eg https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/aggregation-pipelin...

eg:

db.orders.aggregate( [
// Stage 1: Filter pizza order documents by pizza size
{
$match: { size: "medium" }
},
// Stage 2: Group remaining documents by pizza name and calculate total quantity
{
$group: { _id: "$name", totalQuantity: { $sum: "$quantity" } }
}
] )
Why would it be a part of the discussion?
That's not what I mean. At Google you can be 50% on one project and 50% on another.
>I still believe that VMS was the superior operating system.

It would have been interesting if someone had built an open-source VMS-like OS instead of Linux.
There will be winners and losers. Bubble sounds like everything just pops, but in this case, some groups will deliver additional value using this new technology. Obviously transformer model technology has future value. What is this relative to the bubble size?

For instance, the dot com crash may have happened, but it was just expecting too much too soon. The actual technical developments are worth much more now than they were at the time of that crash. You could say, people got cold feet and invested in the wrong companies (and sold valuable companies).

The problem is investment in random AI things, but we know the technology is valuable.

Concentration in large companies feels much less risky than investment in small companies that don't have established business models.
Especially true when working on an unknown code base.

I frame up small projects that replicate the key parts of the software I need to interact with.

So often you find yourself trying to integrate with outdated code vases full of unknown dependencies and customisations that look nothing like the docs or sample code.

Even the smartest people can feel overwhelmed!

Gives your confidence when you can get a feature working from a fresh project!
You did not accurately quote the OP by editing "how many" down to "many".
As a Seattle resident, I'm all for bad news discouraging growth. Unfortunately, I can't convince out-of-towners that it rains 400 days a year here and that all the sidewalks are filled with fentanyl tents.

Seriously though, Seattle has its problems. We really should fully staff the police department, throw more people into jail (before they kill someone), and just enforce laws on shoplifting and such. That being said, it is still a very nice place to live, and in spite of its problems is still a top tier city compared to other cities in the USA (but you never heard that from me, read the first paragraph).
How easy are psychos to spot (in real time, not hindsight)?