skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like one problem is that you didn’t set it up automatically and expected them to do it on their own. Regular folks aren’t going to do that kind of thing without pressing need.

Harder when it’s primarily a web app, but customers can be convinced to try mobile/desktop apps at times. Maybe give a discount?
The "event" I was trying to describe in #1 is that DNA and cellular mechanics are decoded to the point where one could do these things (repair, customization, Etc). I was not trying to specify all of the threshold requirements for reaching that point. Hopefully describing it that way makes more sense?
"gender ideology" is a cult
Being coerced and pressured into prostitution. Most women aren’t prostitution, but any woman can be the victim of efforts to coerce her into prostitution, often as a result of earlier sexual abuse: https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11907/
Maybe they have, but Onlyfans would not be able to complain if Stripe decided to kick them out for that. It would be at their discretion. I think what you want is consistency, but companies, and even governments have shown us we cannot expect policies/laws to be applied the same for every one. A cop will stop only one of 3 speeding cars.
Setting aside the pros or cons of fluoride from a dental perspective, it sure is incredibly convenient that a highly toxic industrial byproduct that was expensive to dispose of can now just be diluted down and dumped into municipal water systems and mouthwash.
Stateless applications are far cheaper than stateful applications to host on AWS. Computing is cheap, object storage is where AWS make unreasonable profit and lock you in their platform.
Actually, I know you don't. The complexity involved exceeds the intellectual ability of a single person, no matter how arrogant they are.

Because you, single person, do not have the ability to ingest all the data, do not have access to the necessary supercomputers, do not have the decades of time to write and adapt the simulation software, do not have the PhDs.

You are simply one brain. Who very most certainly does not have the accuracy of the current models (yours is FAR less reliable, because it is your lone opinion), you think you have everything nailed down to brazenly assert "it won't be that bad", and well, you are just one dumb internet person, so I KNOW you don't know enough to back up your opinion.

If you followed the simulations alone, you'd see that they have had a surprisingly good track, even the late-1990s models are doing disturbingly well (which were more pessimistic than what the climate scientists wanted to say back then).

Ocean acidification and the potential collapse of oceanic phytoplankton should scare the living shit out of you. Fishery health aren't really the concern if oxygen production from phytoplankton drops. The inability to eat sushi is far down the list from "inability to breathe". Hint: phytoplankton produce 70% of the oxygen we breathe, and our society is actively participating in Russian Roulette on a global scale to see if we kill ourselves with that, among other "fun games" that "you aren't concerned about".
> since you now have two providers that could potentially ban you

But less chances that they both ban you roughly at the same time. So if A bans you, you move to B and start integrating C. Once you have integration with C ready, you then support B&C in production.

If in the future B or C ban you, then do same as above with D.

BTW, what would be your first choice for a $StripeAlternative nowadays?
Because there’s people working on all sorts of different problems and solving a problem in one area can apply better to some problems than others. Not to mention that solution approaches can often cross pollinate.

Research is additive not a zero sum thing.
Even the README of this project is lacking in details. They cover sizes of system RAM, but not of VRAM. Are they running the models on CPU exclusively? How does that compare to running them on GPUs? What are the corresponding numbers for GPUs?

Not to mention more meta-topics, like which is preferred for inferencing - CPU or GPU? What are the corresponding numbers for fine-tuning or training for various model sizes? and so on.
I continue to be astonished at the people who have not left. What isn't off-putting to you? The literal Nazis back on the platform? The racism? The misinformation elevated to the top level?

I quit when the moron made his offer to buy it. I briefly regretted it when he withdrew his offer and it seemed like he might not get it, but in the end he did buy it and I was vindicated.
How does it feel to rent your games from Valve?
> The original not teaching sexuality and gender law was only supposed to apply to grade 3 and under.

No, it was never limited to grade 3 and under. Certain sections of it were. You were bamboozled by right-wing propaganda if you believed the bill only affected grade 3 and under.
Jerry Pournelle was black listed for life from Apple events because he called the original Mac 'a toy' because it didn't have enough RAM to do serious work.

There was that very brief period in the late 90's where Job's vaguely gave it a little try with things like a Demo of Quake 3 on stage but they then moved on from that almost immediately.

The closest thing Apple has done for gaming technology wise is the Metal API, if they really wanted to make an impact on gaming, they would have adopted Vulkan.
L-Eval: Instituting Standardized Evaluation for Long Context Language Models
im not understanding..... how does "his" culture war "obsession" make him look foolish? we literally have people running around as females calling themselves men and vice versa. is that not the crux of foolery

this is akin to teaching 5 + 5 = 12 and being upset a governor is stepping in to fix the issue
The last podcast on the left has a great two part story. They do a great job going through the materials related to the story. Highly recommend the podcast.

Episode 427 and 428
The boring company could pay Las Vegas billions to install this thing and it would still be a bad deal. They are putting in awful tunnels to ruin (perhaps forever) the prospects of mass transit in what is likely the single lowest-hanging fruit currently available in the US.

The tiny tunnels can't support any real sustained people movement, so even if this system does see adoption the capacity limits are so low it won't make any real difference in Las Vegas traffic patterns. Re-constructing or modifying the tunnels into something useful will almost certainly be cost prohibitive or too dangerous to attempt (likely both). Boring company will take the most ideal route a proper system could have used, making a proper metro use either sub-optimal routing or make it so cost prohibitive the project is never approved.

If the project goes perfectly to plan Las Vegas gets a weird gadget bahn that can't ever grow beyond a weird curiosity, something they already have in their monorail. If it were in the middle of the desert in no one way then it's fine it doesn't cost the city anything. The fact it will permanently steal incredibly prime routing for a real metro is bordering on theft of a public good.
By "European" you mean it doesn't support American credit cards?
If people want to sign away their likeness, fine, but they need to be the ones agreeing to that.

not until we have laws that make sure that those rights can not be signed away exclusively. no contract should be able to prevent someone using their own likeness to make a living.

it's the same problem as with non-compete clauses.
Homepods are great to pair with Apple TVs for stereo sound.
See https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...
hit a wall

Is there somewhere you'd recommend where I can read about the unsolved challenges of Genesis/Megadrive emulation?
One reason I prefer Apple Maps. shrug Let’s see if it stays ad-free.
GPT4 is simultaneously smarter than and stupider than anyone you've ever met.
Hopefully this is the AlexNet of the superconductors :fingers-crossed:
> makes more economic sense to have fewer, central owners that can maximize usage

What you have described is effectively a China-style ICP license[1]. Unless you are willing to give a big name cloud provider $x per month, you shouldn't be able to put a service on the internet?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
Zero reason for Apple to get into a flailing business like Disney. It earns peanuts at low profit margins compared to Apple’s existing business, and has extremely high liability exposure due to all the theme parks and whatnot.
Bonus points if the ET life is broadcasting useful information.
I'm sympathetic, but it's far too easy to say "the FDA should move faster". The FDA moves at the speed of all of the other Western regulators.

What happens when you're seriously hurt by a treatment because the FDA moved too fast? Aren't you going to sue everyone involved? Aren't people going to be outraged and demand that everyone at the FDA gets fired. Do the people at the FDA want to be dragged in front of Congress?

How is your doctor going to feel when your experimental treatment kills you?

When someone dies while taking one of the drugs, even if it's unrelated to the drug, how far behind will development of that drug be? If the drug is suspected of causing serious harm they might never get to run trials, all because they gave it to people without any controls and any ability to tell if the drug is harmful or not. This can seriously set help for everyone behind.

One of the cornerstones of modern scientific ethics is that you cannot take advantage of people in a power imbalance. If a company can put something out there, and try to convince people who are desperate to take it, now you're just experimenting on people in a massive power imbalance. And of course the companies that will convince people to do this are those with the most amount of money, not with the most helpful product.

This isn't about risk tolerance. This is about building a long-term system that advances treatment for everyone.

Almost certainly nothing that we have would help the person in these desperate conditions. The FDA moving faster won't help.

If you really want to help, advocate for funding NSF and NIH. We barely spend anything on cancer research. That's what will make the difference.
There seems to be a few live efforts underway on Twitter:

* https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1687288889717989376

* https://twitter.com/CondMatfyz/status/1687051547337781248

I imagine over the next few weeks there'll be an explosion of efforts to replicate if it's truly that straightforward to produce for reasonably-equipped labs.
> We hope to better define what sustainable open source models can look like, including semi-restrictive licenses like the BUSL

The BUSL, by the author's own admission, is not open source. Therefore, its inclusion is mutually exclusive with a "sustainable open source model".

If you don't want to use an open source license, then don't use an open source license. Stop trying to convince the rest of us that your not-open-source license has any place in open source software; such gaslighting reeks of deception and bad faith, and nullifies whatever sort of "apology" this post ostensibly contains.

Transparency is a dependency of trust. I usually say that (like a broken record) as it pertains to code, but it applies just as much to business practices and conduct. If you can't be honest about whether or not your software is open source, how am I supposed to trust any other aspect of it?
See also:

Laravel Livewire (https://livewire.laravel.com)

HTMX (https://htmx.org)

Hotwire (https://hotwired.dev/)

Phoenix LiveView (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view)
Trying to understand the impact of this. What will high school students not learn about gender from an AP psychology course that they wouldn't also learn from TikTok, Twitter, Tumblr, any left-of-center media outlet, or any college campus?
I like the idea of the list as well. Anyone know of resources that are on a similar theme? Only rethinkx “rethinking humanity” report comes to mind.
That sounds a lot like (American) progressive proposals too?
It’s all religious fundamentalism.
Yep. 5 years for me. Not sure what will get me first: the protein deficiency, or some kind of stroke from reading rake kickflip justifications for maintaining the animal ag status quo.
I will third that and add that I use pint regularly and currently work in non-renewable energy.
We use some simple ranking heuristics detailed here: https://docs.sweep.dev/blogs/building-code-search

One thing we also do is match any files mentioned in the issue. So if you mention sweepai/api.py, we'll find that and add it to the fetched files. There's still more work to be done here, so look out for those!

Likely file name based scoring, and other rules + finetuned retrieval models (opt-in of course)
“Manually” - you’re using docker wrong.
How is the average Jewish Mean Nationwide SAT score n/a? I would have liked to see that...
You'll win more hearts and minds if you just present misinformed people with the facts. Telling people that they were "bamboozled" makes them feel embarrassed (and probably less receptive to the important part of your message).
Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human
Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Only a very small portion of people who bought at the peak would be “trapped” - i.e. underwater on their loans such that they would have to pay to sell the house.

The vast, vast majority would be more mobile since homes are cheaper, and the cheaper something is, the less money you need to buy it.

The government gave a gift to many people in the last 20 years of keeping interest rates near zero and pulling forward all that price appreciation. Unfortunately, the future generation might not want to expect the same treatment.
When I was tutoring people in college for their computer science classes I was struck with how some people could do reasonably well on programming assignments and then when presented with anything even slightly novel would be completely unable to reason their way to a solution.

A classic tell of this is people handling out of bounds errors in loops by trying to randomly add or subtract 1 from their for-loop parameters.

I realized that they didn't have a mental model for what a loop did, they had simply memorized the syntax for a loop and were doing advanced pattern matching. Code repeats = write the for-loop syntax I've memorized. And then after seeing that fail with out of bounds exceptions, they learned a new rule: modify the loop parameters and see if that fixes the problem.

When I think about how I write code, or I compare their approach to the other cohort of students I saw, it's a different process. I see in my mind's eye a type of 'machine' that performs the actions that I want to take place. I simulate running that machine in my mind and tweak its design until it works the way I want it to. Only then do I think about syntax and try to translate what's already happening in my mind into source code.

I've seen people get shockingly far into software engineering careers using the pattern matching / guess and check approach. I've wondered if a lot of the handwringing you see on programming forums about the 'leetcode grind' is coming from people who do this pattern matching approach. To them it must seems like the only way to solve these problems is to simply train their internal pattern matching neural networks on huge amounts of examples.

The code that I see GPT generate looks eerily similar to what I saw from those programmers. And that makes sense because I think that functionally they're doing the same thing. Only GPT does it at a superhuman level.

That seems to me to indicate that there's something that at least some humans do with a mental model that our current LLMs lack. If someone figures out how to simulate those mental processes in a computer program I think we'll see a huge inflection point and that's what the original comment (as I read it) is referring to.
If Trump can delay his prosecution long enough he could make it into office.
Touché, but will you eat your hat if it turns out to be true?
I am worried about VC money specifically, not money in general. There are other ways to fund OSS projects that don't lead to perverse incentives. Plenty of projects make money through sponsors, partnerships, or additional products without VC incentives.
Had AWS not gone around offering to beat any offered price for IPs things might be a lot more reasonable right now. You can't complain that you had to pay a ton for a scare resource when you were the ones throwing gasoline on the scarcity problem.

They even did backroom deals to steal large blocks of IP space, most notably from the HAM radio community.
Yes this was my initial reaction: what if a tesla battery comes in contact with water? What degree of "more dangerous" are we talking about?
These studies help enthuse people though. I welcome them. Not for science but potential. Tells me that something is there, rest is on experts as you said.
"Honey, I'm home"
This is a silly argument. It presupposes that meaningful knowledge about neurons is structured similarly to knowledge about microprocessors, which does not have to be the case since neurons aren’t structured like microprocessors.
Pretty good, considering they fund my piracy avenue (DXVK/WINE) either way.
It is neither my responsibility nor my desire to care for the feelings of people who would -- either through malice or ignorance -- relegate me to being a second class citizen.
This is why I AGPL my projects even if i feel like it isn't likely to be used as a network backend.
It's not a rental.
Yeah, that’s a pretty genius idea. I’d be totally supportive of anyone who wanted to pursue something like that. I just don’t think that seeking treatment like that overlaps very much with the FDA’s role and mandate.

Not to say FDA doesn’t need to be reformed; it probably does. But I don’t think mindless sclerosis is what’s taking time to evaluate new drugs.
That was misguided and rude. Please follow the comment guidelines.
https://youtu.be/nK9ZUZvr70Y
Anything that uses an electric motor can use a smaller more efficient motor, id expect big changes in e.g. electric cars, but also probably things like robotic actuators getting smaller and more efficient.

Also there are superconductor based batteries that are very efficient, would would become a thing, likely revolutionising batteries.
my number one problem is motivation and number two problem is forgetfullness. The forgetfullness part is something I have been working on recently, using stuff like Alexa. I don't see any app ever solving that. I could use a pen and paper for this stuff and I am also seeking a therapist to talk to (had one before but had a negative experience)
> Adam can mow a field in 1 hour, in the same time Bob can mow 2 fields, if they work together how long does it take them to mow a field?

Fred Brooks version: Amy can bear a child in 9 months. Bella also can bear a child in 9 months. If you assign both of them to bear a child, how long will it be before a child is born?
If feasible and indeed not as expensive to produce these materials, high potential for:

- higher efficiency turbines and solar panels - more clean energy for the same investment

- fusion?

- low-energy computing at higher performance, as we learned recently LLMs so far can't take advantage of hitherto zero marginal cost of software anymore

- democratization of advanced quantum computing?

It's all very exciting and in a truly replicable and industrially-feasible scenario I'm starting to feel this could be another 1960s kind of rate of change. One can dream, no? Maybe we can finally get rid of all the doom & gloom stories we tell ourselves and actually do something with these unexpected presents of our times? Think smartness instead of ignorance, (old) Star Trek instead of the latest Fallout fantasy on the horizon? Why not?

These and many more consequential innovations might develop just in time, as climate change is coming at us much faster than we are willing to admit (don't look up).

That said, even with all of that (including fusion) we will still need to cut our co2 emissions; drastically change our lifestyles / minimize consumption and deal with already locked in impacts hitting us sooner than later.

Enthusiastic midnight edit:

Also what's up with graphene based ICs and optical computing advancements? Competition of new old ideas finally come to be realized? What's next? I want a new breed of superconductor enabled Lisp Machines by 2030! Why not home brew "3D print" the whole thing? That should be the ultimate target here! The handling of "open source" lead would probably suck though %D.

I guess Alan Kay wouldn't be enthused by such a Lisp Machine renaissance in principle yet still stand with his "the best way to predict the future is to invent it" credo.

Let's predict a future for a planet that shifts back into balance!
Yeah, I also buy direct from developers or from DRM-free digital distribution before I buy from Steam, and I’ve had similarly good experiences.
We would first need to build a superconducting track for the hover scooters (containing magnets) to ride on. Assuming we ever figure out how to mass produce the superconductor inexpensively.

Perhaps if the track were arranged in a grid-like pattern, the scooter could use superconducting electromagnets to accelerate and steer.
I rate this as a daft waste of time PR project for a slew of reasons, many that appear elsewhere in this thread.

That said, flash floods aren't one. Done properly you can even have a tunnel with a permanent flood above it and heavy rains at both ends:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel

etc.
I am very interested in improving approval times, approval costs, and accelerating as much as possible and improving the current situation.

But having done one filing and read tons of filings and talking to others, I don't have many complaints with the current setup.

The closest I have to a complaint is the attitude of a single person who served on an approval committee who wrote advice to those making applications, and that person seemed to have little acceptance of their own role in the process, specifically the high cost of saying "no" unnecessarily.

As with any approval body, their decisions have huge penalty for incorrectly saying "yes" but zero penalty for incorrectly saying "no". But the FDA, of all the approval bodies I have dealt with, such as IRBs, has managed the best in my experience.

My experience may not be representative though.

Edit: thinking again, I do have one request, pandemic related. I think the FDA should rely more heavily on artificial standards for evaluating diagnostic tests for infectious agents. A key bottleneck in Covid19 diagnostics was obtaining clinical samples to validate new tests, and allowing more validation is synthetic samples would have greatly expanded testing capacity more quickly.
I think the comments you are receiving are missing the simplest explanation: Chinese labs are better at synthesis, and there’s a lot of them.
This is a study into late untreated borreliosis (a real thing), which is very different from 'chronic lyme'.
There was a big dip during the pandemic, but it looks like it mostly recovered? See: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPM
Right. Maybe buy a stake in ESPN and get them to run 3D livestreams of games, but even that probably doesn't go forward until the MLS deal is a success.
The law contains a loophole large enough to drive a truck through: “or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students”

Who gets to decide what is age-appropriate? The Florida Dept of Education, naturally.

I distinctly recall that folks engaging in discussion on this fine site were not amenable to discussion of this loophole, or of it’s obvious conclusion; and instead were more apt to ask commenters why they wanted kindergarteners to learn about gay sex.

We got here precisely how a lot of people predicted it would happen.