skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image.p...

These are pictures of exoplanets made in 2022.

I doubt we really know what is going there.

The best we can do is to guess the chemistry of the atmosphere and assume that all forms of lives require the same setup as on Earth.
Probably, Netflix does/did similar.

I can't anticipate what shenanigans may follow - ie: stream this for free with your Mega Deluxe Cable plan

The internet exchanges will see the value proposition for Disney, everyone will get squeezed.
The problem is that new knowledge comes not only from combination but discovery, and discovery fundamentally requires access to and interaction with the actual world. And as of yet we have not created a way that computers can directly access the world, all I/O is mediated, etc. The more pedantic argument would be that what an LLM can write about the world is fundamentally limited to what has thus far been captured in human writing, and any structural properties thereof.

To your point, prediction may not be bound by what the data explicitly shows, but it is necessarily bound by the data and its implicit and explicit structure. But to argue that the LLM can make any discovery a person can, or interact fluidly with the world as it exists, would require one to believe that every property of the world is either explicitly captured in human-written text or in the structure of that text, which I think would be pretty difficult to argue.
That's not an LLM, though. We haven't seen evidence yet that an LLM can combine existing language in novel ways. In fact, we've seen over and over that LLMs are quite generic.

Compared to text-to-image, which is seemingly impossible to use without getting something weird
> He allowed the show to explore some of the ramifications of a universe that clearly still has scarce resources that need to be allocated.

I always thought it was interesting that the scarce resources you could get at Quark's were non-material (companionship, holodeck experiences, games, etc). The only defining characteristic of the substance the Ferengi use as currency is that it can't be produced by a replicator, which implies that everything else (including all the expensive bottles behind Quark's bar) could be.
Agreed. I went all-in on paying for streaming years back and cut back on my pirating. Now that things are getting significantly more user-hostile, I'm finding myself pirating a lot more often. Oh well.
The influence consisted of money, arms, and troops, for the most part. They learned some rhetoric from the French, but I don't think that the cultural influence was at all deep.
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You may be interested to know that this exact objection has been made in the philosophical literature. See "Causal Fundamentalism in Physics" by Zinkernagel (2010). Available here: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4690/1/CausalFundam.pdf

At the end, the author notes (as you do) that if you consider a finite difference equation with small time steps, there are no pathological solutions. He also mentions that Newton takes this difference equation approach when solving problems in his Principia.

See also "The Norton Dome and the Nineteenth Century Foundations of Determinism" by van Strien:

>> Abstract. The recent discovery of an indeterministic system in classical mechanics, the Norton dome, has shown that answering the question whether classical mechanics is deterministic can be a complicated matter. In this paper I show that indeterministic systems similar to the Norton dome were already known in the nineteenth century: I discuss four nineteenth century authors who wrote about such systems, namely Poisson, Duhamel, Boussinesq and Bertrand. However, I argue that their discussion of such systems was very different from the contemporary discussion about the Norton dome, because physicists in the nineteenth century conceived of determinism in essentially different ways: whereas in the contemporary literature on determinism in classical physics, determinism is usually taken to be a property of the equations of physics, in the nineteenth century determinism was primarily taken to be a presupposition of theories in physics, and as such it was not necessarily affected by the possible existence of systems such as the Norton dome.
RIP Bram, thanks for all the shortcuts!

:wq!
Have you ever been to the php subreddit... toxic since day one.
I'm happy with my audio CD and DVD/BR movies and TV series collection.

I OWN these discs and no licensing agreements between corporations can deprive me of watching or listening to what I paid for.

Under local law, I can also make how many copies I like, to ensure that I'll be able to use these purchased (in opposition to: rented) products even after physical media degrades.
I’d like to know what team will replicate this.
We can start by moving the things we can to services that respect our privacy. Over time you can pry back some of your autonomy.
Aromas while sleeping produce cognitive increase
If I'm not mistaken, I think attendance at conferences is sometimes required as hours to keep up to date in medical practice. Not sure though.
They're called essential oils because they are the extracted essence of something with an odor, not because they are essential to us.

Although I have no doubt that the industry enjoys this misconception.
Yes, IP address swapping would be the killer.
Yes not all centralization is bad - roads, electricity and emergency services.
Cities have economies of scale.
Maybe I'm just stupid but I found it very surprising that such a shape exists (i.e. stopping a ball at the top in finite time) even in a platonic ideal.
I have no research to back this up, but I'd expect that the more unknown and unpredictable your problem and search space are, the bigger the benefit of an evolutionary approach.

But it's never going to be efficient; it's inherently incredibly inefficient. It only really makes sense when no other method will work.
Intel is dumping overstocked inventory.
I had not but once I read your comment I went and looked! They're beautiful, thank you for mentioning!
Whats to like about

Merged master into master

commits
I genuinely believe that Disney are going to kill themselves through raw optimisation of their business practises
I'd be surprised if any of these pick up on "@name" specifically, rather than just "name".
Because, if you're Comcast/Universal, those trees (publicly-owned, by the way) might provide shade to picketers who are fighting for their jobs: https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-wga-files-federa...
Remote work has been very lonely and isolating.
I think the simplest thing would be painting as many surfaces white as possible. Not entirely fun in full sun though. (Though maybe there’s room for a combination of white surfaces under a light thick canopy of solar panels?)
Because trees need time to grow and take roots. It's possible to plant big trees but it requires heavy machinery as root are large.

Usually there is not room in the soil (pipes etc), and asphalt/concrete prevent a tree to get water.

Also trees evolved to live in an ecosystem. A city is not an ecosystem.

And there also are roofs and walls and roads, so tree will just mitigate the problem.

It's feasible, but the cost is high, and it also implies giving up car space.
approximately 1000 individuals are required for a genetically stable population.

[bottlenecking] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck

[lotka volterra] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio...
I assume you're trying to imply there isn't, but there does seem to be quite a contrast to me.
> Future LLMs, regardless of model architecture, are fundamentally constrained in this way, by virtue of the fact that they are trained on human-written texts. Therefore, the outputs of a LLM, at best, reflect our current understanding of the universe and nothing more.

That constraint holds only for pure LLMs. There is a secondary source of learning - external feedback to the model. When a LLM is part of a larger system, it can integrate feedback to improve itself, like AlphaGo Zero. A LLM+compiler could self-optimize by observing compilation errors and program outputs. A LLM+game could self-improve by conditioning actions on the score. Humans could create a preference dataset and model for RLHF to refine the LLM based on human feedback. A LLM+robot could learn from past experiences to improve its planning.

Similarly, humans need tools to conduct research. We can't do pure research without labs and experiments. LLMs need external confirmation the same way we do. The outputs of a pure LLM merely reflect our current understanding of the universe. But coupled with real-world feedback, LLMs have the potential to learn and discover new knowledge.
I think GP means "enclosed".
In the graphic of the article the heat pocket is a consequence of a convex structure. Light bounces off the sides and reaches the bottom. A concave structure or at least a non convex one wouldn’t cause something like that.
Is there something about the nature of language and linguistic meaning that would make it difficult to combine language in novel ways?
First, falsifiability does not a theory make (that's Popper's view, and the ability to test doesn't always include the possibility of falsification). Second, science fiction stories aren't theories, and aren't actually science. They don't have to pose a testable theory.
However, any such information must be already contained in the semantic field that is provided to the LLM. Either explicitly, or as "nascent" relations in the data that may align with the structure of concepts in that data, since what we may regard as concepts in the LLM is either a matter of embedding or a matter of gradient descent (and related combinatory productions) – and thus again limited by the structure of the semantic field.
I have one edition of Chauser illustrated by Rockwell Kent. But considering his usual standards, it is rather subdued.
> A contribution towards your pension is not a tax. It's a deferred payment. You will get that money later, with interest.

That's quite a naive take. European public pension systems don't work like that. The money is not invested, it is spent immediately to pay pensions to those who have already reached retirement age. What you get is a promise that some day you'll also get paid pension. But there's no guarantee that this will happen, since, as I said, this money is not invested, or set aside in a vault, it's spent immediately. And given current demographic trends you have very slim chance of ever seeing that money again.
Intel GPUs are entry level. IMO 8 GB is fair for $250 or less.
Why do you perform this “well, they have a reason to be upset” ritualistic apologia before you condemn racist murder and the rhetoric that provokes it?
Even if you're just narrowly looking at prices, a community run ISP will be cheaper even if it has a monopoly. Therefore the claim there is "nothing special" about them is untrue. The difference is one is run to maximize profit and the other isnt.

The existence of non profits or coops is irrelevant to the original claim. Although I'm fully in support of those also.
> As a result I think we'll see detectable pressure for only risk taking narcissists to run for public office. Even beyond what is usual for politics.

I love the word "detectable" thrown in here for good scientistic measure.

What exactly do you claim you'll be measuring here?
Are there no local taxes which can cover this? I'm definately paying for "green" maintenance by my local taxes and not via income or other nation wide ones (but not in UK).
They don't say they can't, they say they don't. You either believe them or you don't.
This is just what determinism means: that for a given intial condition there is only a single solution obeying the rules.

The article demonstrates that newtonian mechanics is not deterministic, which is surprising at least to me.
I wrote on twitter that vim is a masterpiece. It's the gleaming precise machine tool on which so much of modernity was crafted. It's so hard to quantify Bram's impact, because he did so much through so powerful a force multiplier.

I started as a Unix sysadmin 25 years ago and kept gravitating towards vim. One practical reason is because it paid off to be familiar with vi, which is nearly always still available on just-installed or bare-bones systems. But another is how welcoming and leveling the Vim community was. It was so easy to get great macros and tips, and everyone was just super friendly about it. I remember someone in #vim irc teaching me "gqap" to wrap a paragraph, and they very naturally took the time to explain how it all worked. There was no sneering on from the community. I think Bram's empathy and leadership was a huge part of that attitude in the community.

I'm a regular annual donor on Vim's behalf, and this morning donated another €250 in Bram's memory. People should only donate what they can afford, we all have different means, but I'd encourage folks to work out what a great commercial editor or IDE would have cost them in licensing over their use time, and to consider donating in proportion.

:wq Bram
I've involved myself in local effort to achieve this.
2 main problems we always encounter.

1. This requires planning and change. Tearing up pathways and streets is expensive, takes planning on administrative side and execution on the physical one. Cities and towns have limited money and don't want go through the effort and cost of it. You'll also encounter NIMBYs who are against any change whatsoever.

2. Tree roots in cities generally grow more horizontal and close to the surface. Reason for this is water and air access. If the surrounding area is paved over with concrete or other solid materials and doesn't allow for drainage and airflow, like some light cobbled pathways would, trees will come up and crack the concrete. Since a lot of the underlying structure is compacted soil to allow stable roads and buildings, water won't drain into it and provide less water for soil.

We wanted to revitalize an open empty market space in our small district. Think 200sqm. Total cost for replacing the old concrete tiles with less compacted cobbles and some wildflower beds and trees was 10m Euros.
Nobody hates poor people. Some people hate criminals, which are disproportionately poor, but that is not the same thing.

Nobody gets hate crimed for being an honest person making 20K a year and supporting their family.
agreed.

and millions are probably just learning about it this morning

esp folks who were too busy last few days, or have a policy of not looking at social media during work/week days
Some I can't see the words until I squint a bit, then it really pops out.

They all seem to be lighter lettering on dark backgrounds. It would be more subtle if it could do dark lettering on lighter backgrounds.
Yeah, this exactly. I've moved away from describing things as "too busy" and say something like "out of capacity." I don't love the term capacity, but it's the best I have. It's some combo of time, energy, and if I feel like adding more to my plate. That feels closer to accurate for what I'm trying to explain.

There are plenty of times where I have actual free minutes, like writing this post, but that doesn't really mean I've got capacity to learn something new or do some new adventure.

Maybe some can fill every minute of their day with the next thing, but it's not for me. Seems like a losing strategy long term!

Note that my comment doesn't really seem to relate to the article itself. I'm not really sure what the article is talking about lol. Corporate/executive speak stuff I guess?
One of the three manifold books (Baxter), I forget which one, has a very beginning with your exact conclusion (no meat bags at all), and later a subsection/ending that at least doesnt have human fleshy meat bags.
Cassini lasted 20 years (1997-2017) and was functioning fine all along. It was intentionally ended, but there had been talk of sending it on another 20 year cruise to Uranus.

New Horizons is similar, now at 18 years since launch and still counting.

They're not quite 50 yet, but there's no reason to think either couldn't make it that long.
I think discovery for llm is possible both through its knowledge of the world from training data and also from some fields which are theoretical enough that interaction is not needed for discover--e.g pure mathematics but also many applied science
> The "ball rolling to the top of the sphere" requires infinite time.

No it doesn't, because it's not a sphere. The dome is specifically designed so that it takes finite time. There's zero involvement of infinity, or mixing infinity, here.
For yourself.

Regarding the trend I am tired of incessantly churned out articles castigating remote work or puting it in a bad light. There are different experiences out there, different outcomes for different companies and so on. Blanket statements like that against one position or another have a an acrid smell of paid influence.
https://archive.is/J9kSt
With remote work, every interaction with others get mediated by technology and thus can be stored, replayed, used against you.
We run a hybrid model at work and it's absolutely wonderful. Go to the office when it feels like to be social and connect with your coworkers, the real work mostly gets done at home. No obligations to show up at certain days or a certain amount of days, just whenever we want.

Different people with different social energy levels and so also different presence intervals, still see each other from time to time. Sprinkle in some nice fun non-obligatory team building activities.. everybody happy and productive.
I understand trees require maintenance to upkeep, but at the same time I actively avoid going to places and spending money there when it is hot (or cold and windy and exposed) and there are no trees. I get anxiety when everything is just large featureless concrete and asphalt expanses with zero shade or green color. I am sure I am not alone in this, so in a sense the presence of trees tends to bring in more shoppers to an area.

Personally I think it is kind of sociopathic when we build large population centers and plant zero trees or worse cut down old trees in an older town/city and never bother to plant new trees so that tree cover is maintained.
This is feels like the Barbara Streisand Effect in action.

I had never heard about this Canna Power piracy website before. Probably a lot of other people haven’t either. But now, when Sony and their friends made this DNS block happen, media coverage has made more of us hear about the Canna Power piracy website.
While I am a big fan of canopies and they are extensively used where I come from to reduce the heat that reaches the street, they are also not permanent structures and deployed on single or two lane streets.

I am thinking that such deployments are harder in 4+ lane streets, so something more permanent needs to be done, and a permanent deployment means obscuring the sun in the winter.
NAT66 exists, it just isn't a necessity in IPv6. There are also private IPv6 networks.

They are called Unique Local Addresses (ULA) and are in the range fd00::/8.

Which itself is so much better than RFC 1918 addresses. If you need private, non-Internet routable addresses, then you generate a random one. In the event two private networks need to communicate over VPN, for example, there is no clash.
Acc to his biography, he left to escape the mandatory conscription by the Apartheid, so take it as you will.

South Africa doesn't know what to do with the flipped around situation; first they were oppressed by the minority... then the tables turned and the oppressor became the oppressed (or whatever the applicable term is), and they are now at a cross roads.
That's correct yes, if AMD is bought then the cross-licensing deals terminate in both directions - i.e. Intel also lose access to the AMD patents.

It's a poison pill which means Intel themselves would be the only serious buyer.
>Despite our self-proclaimed intelligence, humans are apt to believe remarkable fallacies based on a paucity of correlated information rather than rigorously seek to determine causal foundations.

Hey! I thought we're not supposed to get political on HN!
https://archive.is/9jaXX
Wrongthink is dangerous.
To my knowledge, there are very few concrete proposals for what a discrete universe would actually look like. Most physicists believe that the universe should be symmetric under lorentz transforms, which rules out all the obvious ways like splitting the universe into little cubes.
One interesting read from a purely software side is the JPL C standards, which are an extension of software standards for things like Mars rovers that cannot not work. There’s a summary on page 4 if you don’t want to read the whole thing https://yurichev.com/mirrors/C/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf

Here’s a good article specific to Voyager https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-annive...

I can’t find it but there was a slide deck online for Curiosity with an explanation of all the stuff I was talking about above
I'm not a hardcore gamer, nor do I follow these things too closely so I may be off here, but if I compare the specs of a 5600XT and the PS4's GPU, the former seems quite a bit faster. On the other hand, the PS4 has unified memory, whereas my PC is running PCIe 3 and DDR3 (quad channel, but still).

> My impression generally is that, especially for the PS5 generation, there is a negligible difference unless you want those 180 fps and 8k and 16x fake frames or whatever DLSS is.

As someone not particularly interested in the field (I own a PC because I need to do actual PC stuff, the "gaming" GPU I bought to kill time during covid lockdowns), my impression is that when a new generation console comes out, it's quite competitive with non-absurd PC builds. But PC GPUs tend to get noticeably better during the lifetime of the console. The PS4 came out 6 - 7 years before AMD released my GPU.
This is exactly why I want to live in a rural area again, in a city of less than 50k people.

Once you hit 75k people or beyond, heat accumulate OVER DAYS AND NIGHTS, so you end up with "tropical nights" where temperatures do not below 20C, so your sleep quality worsen.

I live in france, so I'm lucky that it's possible to pay rent on welfare, so I just have to move to a small city that cheap and cold.
This is me. I started going back into the office a few days a week recently and love it. My office’s culture is definitely different now than pre-COVID, and better. We’re like better at respecting each others’ focus time while also making good use of lunch and impromptu white boarding.
Probably the same thing that prompted this very comment.