skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's fix this title: Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein in cell cultures

Unless you actually have a port in your head to pour coffee into, this is not going to help you with preventing dementia. Also, it's an open question if Tau related are indeed the cause of AZ related dementia.

This is a very irresponsible title for this research.
[self-promotion] The article author appears to be using Windows, but on Mac and iOS there's StopTheMadness: https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/
The problem is that today's state of the art is far too good for low hanging fruit. There isn't a testable definition of GI that GPT-4 fails that a significant chunk of humans wouldn't also fail so you're often left with weird ad-hominins ("Forget what it can do and results you see. It's "just" predicting the next token so it means nothing") or imaginary distinctions built on vague and ill defined assertions ( "It sure looks like reasoning but i swear it isn't real reasoning. What does "real reasoning" even mean ? Well idk but just trust me bro")
This is a terrible article. The supporting evidence for their claim is 1 study of 2400 participants that hasn't been peer reviewed and an outdated poll from Feb 2022 conducted during the epidemic and economic downturn. The rest are just quotes from biased Silicon Valley CEOs. And the author of the article is also a tech CEO so I'm sure there's no conflict of interests here.
This is what gaming companies are doing for their collectors editions. They charge people hundreds of dollars for a cheap plastic figure and a game case with a 4x5 sheet of paper with a code on the back. It’s all shameful.
What is vitalism?
Beavers are terraforming Alaska, actually I guess technically whatever the opposite of terraforming is?

https://www.businessinsider.com/beavers-invade-alaska-arctic...
It’s a very bad analogy because we have no know working solution. We simply have never achieved zero carbon emissions given a modern world of 8 billion people.
AMD Hip SDK: Making CUDA Applications Run Across Consumer, Pro GPUs and APUs
The benefit of a coop structure like this is for the workers. Worker owned coops tend to have flatter pay scales, retain employees longer, and are internally democratic.
Pulling the App Store would be an enormous economic and social disruption. iPhones are basically flip phones without it.

And its a huge lever I'm sure the US govt loves to have, even with Apple's privacy policies.

I dunno how it works, but I can see all involved parties looking the other way.
As well as mentors, we should consider the environment in which genius arose, their cultural context and influences, the zeitgeist, intellectual atmosphere, schools, parents, friends, colleagues, the books they read.

I think we overvalue the uniqueness of the individual in this hero worship of the lonely genius, as if a flower is independent of the earth from which it grows.

But then again, it's true that there are exceptional stars, singular phenomena that cannot be explained by the sum of its parts. I suppose that leap, the surprising distance between what was given and what the individual made of it, is what we call genius, talent, luck or hard work.
Someone needs to pay for roads and ongoing maintenance and yet there always seems to be money for new roads.
Children of Time/Ruin handles the "what are the living things for?" decently well, although does skate towards the "maybe nothing?" conclusion over time. Haven't gotten the third book so will see.
The Strange Death of Warren G. Harding
I don't think you can call FTL a "fantasy". It is simply a plot device necessitated by the interstellar setting.
You're switching the definition of public from publicly observable to publicly owned. Those are not the same thing.
But you haven't explained how it looks like that. It could be that, but it looks like it's floating. What is it about the appearance of this thing which has you believing there is a string?
As I responded elsewhere: Someone needs to pay for roads and ongoing maintenance and yet there always seems to be money for new roads.
Random failures, not planned maintenance. There are other ways to stay cool. How about a metal canopy?
I am 100% with you on this, but I don't think that is feasible at the moment; making them walkable is a great start though. Reduced dependence will enable trees at the street level which will make them even more walkable.
I guess I am mostly a brown language kind of guy.
DrugScience or Drug Science (originally called the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD)) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrugScience

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Monitoring_Centre_for...

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Council_on_the_Misuse...
To be considered a rumor

> He posted on his personal social media, According to public information, he is an assistant engineer in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, and is also a doctoral candidate at the school.

https://nitter.net/songwenxuan6/status/1687850304803426306
Restoration?
Right, so for his nondeterministic path:

r(t) = 0 ; t <= T
r(t) = (1/144)(t-T)^4 ; t >= T

We can see that r''''(T) is either 0 or 1/6, depending on if we go with the top or bottom equation. That does look like some sort of hidden state change, there.

Interestingly, the spherical dome he mentioned (which doesn't yield to this non-determinism) forces all derivatives of r(t) to be continuous ...
> The easiest way to see this is described at the end: imagine the ball is initially in motion and the initial conditions are precisely those that bring it precisely to rest at the apex of the dome at some time T.

This is a red herring. It sounds plausible, but there is no trajectory that does this. This is the weakest paragraph in the original post, and I am not sure whether this is intentional (because the demonstration sounds truthy if you don’t go too deep in the details) or whether it was not entirely thought out. There is some discussion about the time-reversal thing here: https://blog.gruffdavies.com/2017/12/24/newtonian-physics-is... . There isn’t much to discuss however, because ultimately it is just a distraction.
I think it would be handy to show what sloc is (spire lines of code). I had to look it up since I'm used to just loc and I could not get my brain to figure out the s this morning.
Air resistance seems like a reasonable explanation for the dampening. Furthermore if it's not pure and only partially superconducting, the dampening could be due to magnetic fields forming eddy currents in the sample.

> (Of course, “we have no idea” is an acceptable answer if that turns out to be the case.)

Of course.
This isn't right. 10 miles is a fine distance. I met up with friends 13 miles away today. As long as there's good public transport it's not a big deal.
That's global market share. Also, I don't think if it's a wild guess to say that HN folks have more disposable income than a random world citizen.
This blog doesn’t touch on the actual issue at hand: businesses make business decisions, not engineering decisions. It’s easy to enumerate a bunch of technical asks and then blame their absence on technical reasons, because it doesn’t require any exploration of the business details. It stays in a nice, safe realm.

To be clear, I personally agree with, and want every single item listed in this blog. I’m a big nerd. But I also recognize that I’m nowhere near anything resembling a typical user. What I want is probably not even on the radar of 99% of users of these websites.

It’s easy to say, “I want X and having X would make me a happier user.” The real question is, “is implementing X an appropriate expenditure of resources if the goal is to build a profitable business?” Usually not. Most users don’t know or don’t care about X. Be careful with the nerd echo chamber we live in that makes us think these things matter to the common person.

For all of this, one could argue, “yeah but they’re being foolish. Long term this is going to bite them.” You might be right! I think you’re right, too. But that’s a business position, not a technical one.
This is a (quite clever) comment on a physics theory that we know to be incomplete. Not a comment on reality.

And the math does check out. There really are many solutions to this system, i.e. it is nondeterministic under the theory.
Apple’s hiring reveals what it wants to do with generative AI
Modern games now have programmers deal with drawing a frame a pixel at a time when writing shaders. The GPUs themselves render a tile at a time and not the whole buffer.
That distinction is so pedantic I don’t think it’s worth mentioning. LLM architecture can be extended to other contexts besides language.
Title should be something like "Some Believe Controlling Grizzly Attacks Is A Matter Of Killing Them"
Show HN: Howbigg – compare your TV or monitor size
Hi HN!

My application is not as groundbreaking as the others posted here, but perhaps it will prove useful to some of you.

I would appreciate any feedback, thank you!
"Therefore, the outputs of a LLM, at best, reflect our current understanding of the universe and nothing more." Others have reflected on the problems with this statement, and I agree, LLMs can be prompted to navigate the training corpus and create novel output, countering this claim. However, these criticisms neglect to credit the external intelligence inherent to the prompts themselves. AutoGPT and its ilk have yet to create convincing agency: for the time being the current state of AI is a mere extension of human intelligence and will not be making lofty discoveries without direct human interaction. LLMs are a form of human co-intelligence.
Yep, and they pay lots of taxes. Actually a staggeringly close percentage When You See It side by side
No, but I like the hustle. You're hired!
A city is a techno-socio-economic +(ecological) system
That was not an assumption, it was literally what you said underneath your spin while not directly answering the question. I’m glad it changed. The fact that it did change does not change the fact that you did not contribute when you wrote your original response, which was what I was addressing.

I don’t appreciate your attempt to paint me as a liar to make your company look better.
Meanwhile, I encountered an adult the other day who only drinks from plastic disposable cups so that they don't have to wash dishes.
But nobody is writing self-driving software. They are jail breaking the existing software.
Yeah, we should fix that
As far as I know, I didn't get any sort of update of terms and services once Musk took over. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a the username that you've had for 16 years on a platform to keep being yours?

I mean, it's not that this is something that will hurt the people too much. Though at least for this particular user it seems like he was able to get some money out of having that account, so at the very least there is a potential loss of revenue given this takeover.

I do think it's annoying to keep seeing these news pop up, but what can be expected? There's a sort of zeitgeist that's being constructed that points to Musk being incompetent at running a social media platform; which I kind of agree with. So these sort of news build on that and build it up further; eventually we might see a collapse, a resolution and when looking back at what happened this is the kind of stuff that will help explain it.
> If there was a paper that very thoroughly proved that caffeine was detrimental, it would rocket up into a high tier journal.

I find this assertion to be farcical. Follow the money - coffee is multibillion dollar market in the US alone. Also it serves the government. Many people in positions of power drink coffee and enjoy it.

Money has power and influences what gets researched.
How is Apple still able to conduct business in Russia with the sanctions that are in place?
There's not much natural in a city. Just decoration, really.
Is the answer you're expecting that journalists are doing something that is immoral? Because that's not it.
Should be, the 6502 has a RDY signal, to insert wait states in case accesses aren't ready yet. You'll need some way to configure the cache for address ranges and access types, but that would presumably just be more mmio.
Love this.

The way I think about it is that you assume a level of responsibility whenever you tinker with default affordances. Your "feature" isn't restricted to whatever narrow conception or intention you had when you designed it. It consists in the totality of a visitor's actual experience.

If I change the logic of the the back button, I'm changing what the back button affords on this particular website and become responsible for whatever happens as a result.

That includes confused and frustrated users saying "Screw you and your broken website."

Or take, e.g., the way scrollbars work, which can be very browser-and-OS-specific. Are you sure you want to assume responsibility for that? How sensitive are you to the downside, really?

Essentially, you're making your website speak a kind of creole. You've forgone any right to be upset if your visitors don't speak it and shouldn't be surprised if they persist in "misinterpreting" it.

Forget about avoiding such "features" because you want to be nice to your visitors. It always seemed to me they offer limited upside and unlimited downside.
The article explicitly discusses this without demonstrating anything. On it’s face this argument has the weight of these demonstrations.
As I see it, the problem with that is that "a sufficiently unrecognizable AGI does not exist" is the unprovable null hypothesis: anything in the past or present could contain an unrecognizable AGI, since by definition we wouldn't have recognized its influence. For instance, how would one go about proving that there's no unrecognizable AGI in the otherwise-banal GPT-2, that would make itself apparent if only we found the right prompts? In the absence of any hard negative answers, we're left to try to empirically glean the answer to the not-AGI vs. AGI question for each model by poring over the text outputs as we understand them, arguing endlessly over how much is "regurgitation" or "pattern-matching" and how much is "original thought".
bears cannot be built safer
> while putting a substantial portion of GDP into building nuclear reactors and removing carbon from the atmosphere.

So, the first one taking decades and the second one being a meme """solution""" for the science illiterate?
Not necessarily. For example Anthropic's ConstitutionalAI (CAI) leverages the model to substitute human judgments in RLHF, effectuating essentially RLAIF. CAI information is used to fine-tune the Claude model.

Broadly speaking, you require statistics at echelon N+1 when you are at rung N. We can amplify models by providing them additional time, self-reflexion, demand step by step planning, allow external tools, tune it on human preferences, or give it feedback from executing a code, or from a robot.
Yes, this seems to be a common concern. We're trying to see how best to crisply address it. But yes, Khoj can be used even with your internet turned off
Doesn't this just prove that Newton's First Law is not, in fact, equivalent to the claim that "in the absence of a net external force, a body is unaccelerated"?

(There's also the question of whether r(t) in (3) is differentiable at t=T, right?)
Python has been popular for 20 years, starting with Zope around 2000.

In 2003, CERN was already doing trainings for Python in scientific computing, and Grid jobs automation (what predated the cloud), I was one of the engineers that took part of the 2nd Python training, and Grid Computing Summer School 2003.

CERN build system for ATLAS/TDAQ used on those days, CMT, was written in Python.
LLMs are trained on human-written texts, therefore their output can only reflect our current understanding - am I reading this right? Hopefully not as that would be insultingly wrong.
or like "are bears unbearable"
The same climate models that predict a "missing" volcanic eruption?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1808_mystery_eruption
This is literally a perfect definition.
Weather stations aren't all observing the same temperature, so that response doesn't make sense.
Imprecise language, but the article is specifically referring to questions like “why do you think I asked you that?” Or “how are you answering these questions?”. LLM’s can’t engage with these types of questions, the best they can do is to regurgitate a canned response peppered with some prompt history.
Wait, instant coffee extract? That is...not espresso

edit: ok, they pulled espresso shots and freeze dried them in the lab (lol) -
"The espresso coffee extract was obtained from 15 g of powder using a two-cups coffee machine (Gaggia espresso machine, Gaggia Milano, Italy) for a final volume of 80 mL of beverage. The extraction lasted for 30 s at 80 °C in mQ H2O. The final product was distributed in 15 mL Falcon tubes, freeze-dried, and stored at +4 °C."
neither can humans be built safer either
> people who want to write beautiful code, spend lots of time on it, and don’t care if it actually does what it was intended to do

There was a funny React framework a while back that has all kinds of cool state management and this and that, but it renders nothing. For the developers who spend more time theorizing, migrating, refactoring, than shipping.

It's funny when people go back and forth about the time complexity of a click handler (that is debounced anyway), and they arrive at the optimal solution, but when you use the app the entire thing is super clunky lol where is the concern for time complexity of me using the product xD
Intel and nVidia/ATI came from very different situations though.

The fear of nVidia and ATI was always that their "tricks" would be adopted by the $other_party. Imagine your driver has 5 tricks to make the performance 5% better in total: this is a huge competitive advantage. Now the other company reads those tricks in your source and can (legally) adopt them for their own drivers (adopting a programming construct or some trick isn't a copyright violation).

While this fear isn't completely realistic because most of the time performance isn't really determined by these sort of factors, it's also not completely UNrealistic because it certainly could be, at least in some cases! In a world where everyone is closed source and you're locked in a bitter rivalry with performance differences often being fairly small, it just makes complete sense to keep stuff closed.

Contrast this with Intel which just made integrated graphics: for much of its history performance wasn't a huge concern, and there wasn't really much direct competition either. There was never any reason to not open things.
discussion of verge coverage 15 hours prior
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006705
Yeah, they misquoted the original phrase.

It's supposed to be monopoly on _legitimate_ violence.

Which is why organized crime and vigilantism are generally so much higher up on a government's priority list than single acts of violence. They represent legitimate threats to the government.
Not an expert, but my understanding is that magnet configuration could not create a stable levitation for pyrolytic graphite - you need an array of magnets, e.g. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1010/1010.5761.pdf

Doing a quick sanity check on youtube videos, every example I can find of it levitating involves use of magnet arrays as well.
The only way to make cars hitting pedestrians safer for pedestrians is making cars slower, which is a non-starter.
Also from the article:

> What makes human intelligence different from today's AI is the ability to ask why, reason from first principles, and create experiments and models for testing hypotheses.

This is quite unfair. The AI doesn't have I/O other than what we force-feed it through an API. Who knows what will happen if we plug it into a body with senses, limbs, and reproductive capabilities? No doubt somebody is already building an MMORPG with human and AI characters to explore exactly this while we wait for cyborg part manufacturing to catch up.
Subset does not generalize. I hate Bob and Bob is a human therefore I hate all humans.

I'm not sure what definition you're using for hate. What year is it describing sounds more like a lack of compassion or disinterest.
That's a pipe dream, it's just not going to happen. Pushing for copyright change is a distraction for making actual change.

We need change now.
This is one of my major gripes living in NYC - I see less and less plant life and open dirt patches. People buy homes and pave over every square inch. Trees are cut down and never replaced, you're lucky if the dirt patch it once occupied isn't paved over. Thankfully the city went around ripping up the sidewalks to put in rain gardens bringing life back to dead streets. Of course most of the schmucks with rain gardens just let them turn into trash basins.

During the recent heat wave in NYC I was in my yard under an 80ft oak enjoying the shade in my yard. Neighbors were hiding in the AC as they have concrete gardens. My yard is filled with wildlife like bumble bees, birds, squirrels and possums live under my shed. The neighborhood cats also congregate in my yard. I love it. Then I walked down to the store and went past some homes who cut down their trees and paved everything and its a sweltering nightmare.

Just have a look around 1940s.nyc and compare to google maps. You'll notice much greener yards and dirt around property.
I think you meant it has been shown to raise blood LDL cholesterol. But coffee itself doesn’t have cholesterol.
GPT4:

> What is 5*7?

> 5 multiplied by 7 equals 35.

> Why?

> Multiplication is a process of adding a number to itself a certain number of times. When you multiply 5 by 7, it's the same as saying "add 5 to itself 7 times." If you add up seven 5s (5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5), you get 35. That's why 5 multiplied by 7 equals 35.

> (7 “why?”s later…)

> The ultimate "why" behind many fundamental rules and concepts, including those in mathematics, can often circle back to human needs and the desire to understand and interact effectively with our world.

> As humans, we've developed systems and structures, such as mathematics, to organize, interpret, and predict our surroundings. These systems help us in practical tasks like trading goods, constructing buildings, and planning time, but also in abstract reasoning and problem solving. The rules within these systems, such as the operation of multiplication in mathematics, exist because they are useful, they work consistently, and they can be universally understood and applied.

> So, why does 5 multiplied by 7 equal 35, and why does multiplication work the way it does? Because humans, over many generations, found that this system was a powerful and reliable tool for interacting with the world and with each other.
> General rule of thumb

What is this rule based on?
You can consider all of humanity's knowledge in the aggregate to be our biological version of AGI. Sure someone's invented LK-99 in South Korea, but that's now been added to our collective human knowledge within hours of sharing. For AGI to compete with that it would have to have the equivalent compute power of 8 billion independent agents who can collaborate with each other to achieve a certain goal. It's not going to be easy to beat that with a singular system.
That contrarianism is a powerful drug.
Question: why are torrent sites not generally run as a Tor hidden-site backend (that can therefore be accessed through any existing Tor public-web gateway, rather than needing to set up its own proxies) plus an IPFS-hosted SPA frontend (that can therefore rely on any IPFS web gateway, and can then point as many arbitrary human-readable DNSLink names at that IPFS CID as it wishes)?

Is it just because the web piracy community predates these technologies?
How is this related to the article at all? It's about the grizzlies not car crashes