skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are in the form of simulations. You can measure many effects like light absorption directly and put it in a simulation.

Discrepancies to reality can be investigated and used to make the model better.

You can then use the model to see how things would be with more or less CO2-emissions.
wow 33%, I haven’t heard that specific statistic before. Any source for that where I can learn more?
I can't speak for veracity of this article. I will comment on Microsoft part. My understanding is the MSFT does not get to see/modify any GPT-4 internals. OpenAI is treating them at the arms length, just as any other customer. I can not imagine Microsoft internal teams being happy about it. I (seriously) can not fathom that internal team are not building the replacement as we speak. So, yes, MSFT will buy them and ChatGPT itself is not in danger. But it could be possible that OpenAI is, in fact, close to bankruptcy and MSFT is not going to "bail" them out.
Probably distinguished faculty at some second-rate tertiary institution mired in paper milling, taking out frustration as a volunteer taxonomist at iNaturalist.
USA is using cheques a lot. I believe it is some kind of combination of regulatory capture which resulted in ancient and inflexible banking system.
1. I've never once mentioned gender, I don't think that's a very good-faith interpretation of my response.

2. If you're actually confused on this subject, and are asking in good faith, I would recommend starting your research with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

It will provide you with a rough frame of taking this argument to an extreme, by demonstrating that various groups of people need to set some kind of non-zero, practical limits for behaviours they permit.

This particular group of people sets very particular, practical limits for those behaviours, enforced by the moderation team.
I think the governance page for rust will answer some of your questions:

https://www.rust-lang.org/governance

Ferrous Systems is building a qualified rust (ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 qualified version of the existing open-source compiler)

https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/
This article shines a light on exactly why LLMs /arent/ just autocomplete with context. There’s real computation going on in there.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explan...
Can you name a few successful research mathematicians who solved an important open problem by just being "lucky"?
I don't get the argument that there's legal ambiguity. It was Mozilla licensed through some version; as long as you use that version it will be fine, right?

Obviously, there's the argument that Hashicorp might sue you even for that, but it feels like the reductio ad absurdum that any company can sue you for anything, and not remotely plausible.
> It was presented by the media as a "photo", but it seems to me like it's more similar to the "image" we get from reconstruction of wifi signals

Are you suggesting that emitting or reflecting visible radiation is required before we can prove something exists in objective reality? Your own point about Wifi signals proves you wrong - we can detect wifi in other wavelengths and thus learn a great deal about it. Just like we can with black holes.

There is no distinction between "images" and "photos" - they're both electromagnetic radiation converted to a visual medium. There's nothing unique about radiation in the 380 to 700 nanometers wavelength range that makes it somehow more scientifically valid for remote sensing.
> The “harm” is caused when people realize it is not moral for people to use violence against each other in the name of authority, and as a consequence cease to follow the commands of authority figures.

I don't see how half of your bullet points lead to that, but in particular here I don't see how conspiracy theories lead to that. Especially with the wording of "Anything deemed a “conspiracy theory”", which would mean all conspiracy theories do this plus or minus rounding error.
I cared for my community so you have 100 people against you. Even if you were in a SWAT police uniform because of internet trolls, while in current system I would be probably get legally murdered by such entity.
China would kill for actual 4.5% growth too. You don't have 21.3% youth unemployment with 4.5% growth.
In the social sciences, higher-ranked journals publish higher-impact (that is, more highly cited) papers. This is not causal but those journals tend to publish palpably better motivated, better explained, and better executed studies.

When you go up for tenure, your publications are still fresh, so your impact is hard to know. So the rough rank of the journals in which you publish is a proxy for it. This is why universities reward publishing in some journals rather than in others.

Why do higher-ranked journals publish better studies? This may be for a number of reasons. Better studies are more likely to be submitted to higher-ranked journals first rather than to lower-ranked journals. Researchers who write better referee reports are more likely to accept requests to referee papers at those journals. And the editors may shepherd papers at such journals better too.

Notably, predatory journals do none of the above. It is no surprise that publishing in predatory journals will not get you tenure nor promotion at such universities.
This is actually one of the major features of Knuth's tangle/weave: you write the code as a book or article and give information to a compiler that puts everything in the right place for the program.
> China is very aware that America's huge industrial mobilization for WWII is what pulled it out of the Great Depression.

I don't think this is particularly relevant, national economies functioned very differently back in the 30s. Also the US incurred a massive public debt, with a debt-to-GDP ratio that hadn't been reached until COVID and the late 40s were a bit shake economically until the post-war boom started in the 1950s.

The main reason the war was "good" for the economy is because of the massive debt funded stimulus which probably would've been utterly unfeasible politically during peacetime (but in general making things just to blow them up is not very productive).

Considering how globalized and interlinked modern economies are I don't see how any possible benefit from industrial mobilization could outweigh the loss of international trade with most Western Countries.

Also it's not like you can just take a random car factory and retool it to produce modern tanks/etc. in a few months like they could in the 40s. IMHO any "war economy" type industrial mobilization would be closer to the great leap forward than WW2 just because of that.
It sounds like interesting technology for someone, but I wonder more about scaling down. What does a developer instance running on a laptop look like?
I Got Rickrolled by a Terraform Module
I was browsing the alb module by Terraform and found a sneaky Rickroll hidden in the example on Line 352 :D

Kudos to the maintainers for the laugh! Easter eggs like this make open source so much fun.

What are some lesser known easter eggs you've found in the wild?
In about four seconds, a teacher will begin to speak
Anyone knowledgeable with an opinion on whether China has a mismatch between relatively high college attainment while remaining manufacturing oriented economy?

In reference to this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/01/china-graduate...
The short answer is write-through cache.

You write the update directly to the cache closest to the user and into the eventually consistent queue.

We did this at reddit. When you make a comment the HTML is rendered and put straight into the cache, and the raw text is put into the queue to go into the database. Same with votes. I suspect they do this client side now, which is now the closest cache to the user, but back then it was the server cache.
It is sad that Googling didn't find the answer by ChatGPT did.

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Here's an excerpt from the book "Java Threads" by Scott Oaks and Henry Wong, published by O'Reilly Media, which discusses green threads:

"Green threads provide a thread abstraction to the application, allowing the programmer to write multithreaded programs without worrying about the underlying OS support. However, because they're implemented at the user level, they are not subject to preemptive multitasking by the underlying OS. Instead, they must voluntarily yield control to other threads. If a green thread fails to do this, it can effectively freeze all other green threads in the system."

This excerpt supports the fact that green threads were not preemptive and relied on voluntary cooperation to switch control between threads.
Yeah I wrote one when I was in high school (on a PDP-10 running ITS in fact).

Don't get me wrong: I doubt it was enough enough to run a BASIC implementation but the 8080 instruction set is so simple that I was able to write a few simple bit-manipulation programs and believe they worked. I'm sure Allen's was much more capable, but it would not have needed to do any of the things expected of a modern emulator (timing, cache, complex addressing modes, interrupts...)
Segmentation is solved...
https://github.com/RockeyCoss/Prompt-Segment-Anything
not at all. most listeners have no idea who he is. nor is he relevant in contemporary hiphop
Understood. I've skimmed over the thread and I admit I was wrong. For what it's worth, thank you for convincing me to take a second look and remove the flag.

I do see that other(s) have flagged it though.
Not exactly:

> Our implementation is built on top of a new platform called Rama that we at Red Planet Labs have developed over the past 10 years.
The fact we still called them SSRIs is the part that gets me. But I suppose until we know how they actually work we can’t just call them “thingy”.
Elizabeth Warren wrote a book in 2003 (The Two-Income Trap) on this topic. I will admit that I haven’t read it, but I assume that has some solid references.
This is usually what I do. Don't even want to wait for an HTTP roundtrip for some of these, e.g. "liking" a post should fill in the heart icon or whatever instantly.

One famous example of this going to far: Mac Mail app used to play a whoosh sound when your email is actually sent. They changed it to whoosh instantly no matter what. Given how often an email might fail to send or get delayed, this meant an actually useful indication of "great, your thing was sent, you can close your laptop now" was rendered useless.
Something I'm immediately thinking about with this is change management and inertia at the early stages of a new, underdefined project. Less code is great, the big question is how such a system compares to the usual hack-and-slash method of getting a v1 up and running as you search for PMF from the perspectives of ops, cost, data migrations, rapid deployments, and so on. Presumably, the idea here is to start from the beginning with Rama, skipping over the usual "monolith fetches from RDBMS" happy paths, even for your basic prototype, this way you don't slip into a situation like Twitter did where that grew slowly into an unscalable monstrosity requiring a rewrite. So an article focused on the "easy" part that's required in the beginning of rapid change, as much as it's not as important as the "simple" part that shines later at scale, seems useful.
Employees in Asia are spending most time looking busy at work, says Slack report
It might be tough to make more efficient, but $15k seems exactly about the price of "stick 6 4090s in a decent box and throw in a couple grand for my troubles", versus any revolutionary hardware configuration. The way it advertises running fp16 Llama 70B feels a bit contrived too, given the prevelance of quantizing to 8 bit at minimum.
Artificial intelligence supported humanoid robot GR-1 is introduced
I maintain that the distraction of their obviously impressive abilities towards Mono was a blow to desktop Linux that curtailed its rising popularity. IMO, Mono -- without support WinForms -- has been nothing more than a curiosity for the Linux world until the advent of .NET proper, and I say that as someone who has used it more than once to compile bespoke Windows programs for both Mac and Linux.
"We recreated a service from 2007 and it's so much faster!"
The way it works in Germany is that the fine will go to the owner. The owner can then accept the fine or identify who was actually driving when the offence was committed. In case this ends in the dispute the owner can be made to keep a record of all rides - with hefty fines should they not be accurate when a later offence occurs.
I have a theory. Antipsychotic medications just need to make the person more "manageable" to be considered effective. It doesn't need to eliminate the psychosis directly, it could just make the person more sedated, and it would appear to be "working" properly.
The goal is to maximize the life outcomes and quality of life of people with schizophrenia. I think in the conversation here there are two questions: What should the public conversation on schizophrenia be like? And, how should the medical system use antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia?

I think, on the first question, the public conversation about schizophrenia is not ideal for improving outcomes. In particular, people in their 20s who have a first psychotic episode need to be pushed by their friends and family to get medical care immediately. Schizophrenia treated early is associated with much better outcomes later in life, and long periods of untreated psychosis are associated with much worse outcomes. I think that poor quality articles like this one sustain that section of the population who distrust psychiatrists, which leads some schizophrenics to seek treatment too late or not at all.

On the second question, I think that doctors are doing about as well as they can with antipsychotics with the current state of knowledge. Though it sounds like your concern about overprescription is from experience, and my feelings about the right level of long-term antipsychotic use are much weaker than my feelings about the public conversation.

I agree that it would be better for antipsychotics to be better targeted. Measuring individual neurotransmitter levels sounds like a very interesting way to better target treatment, though I don't think it is straightforward to measure neurotransmitters in a living brain.

I agree that many patients are on antipsychotics for longer than is necessary. The challenge is distinguishing between patients who should discontinue antipsychotics and the patients who will immediately relapse into psychosis without meds.

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Other thoughts:

> It's perfectly normal to wonder how can one administrate something when one doesn't understand it.

This is a mischaracterization of the state of the science. Antipsychotics are well understood, though not fully understood. We at this point have decades of data on the efficacy of antipsychotics, the prevalence and severity of side effects. We know most of the interactions between the drug and the body. What is not well understood is the exact mechanism by which these interactions moderate psychosis.

> there is no attempt at finding the base neuro-transmitter levels in and out of psychotic phases for each patient before deciding on the posology of a treatment

To my non-expert ears this sounds like an interesting approach to make treatment more targeted. I am not aware of a technology that could currently be used to measure neurotransmitters in a living brain, and I worry that measurement would be invasive.

> Some people even only have a few episodes every few years and are still put on life-long treatment with all the side-effects that can then be seen.
LLM App Ecosystem: What's New and How Cloud Native Is Adapting
Perhaps a dumb question but why isn't mining highly robotized? As a layperson, it seems like it would lend itself well to remotely controlled heavy machinery.
Plaque with Mouse Signed by Douglas Engelbart and Andy Hertzfeld
Comments over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137110
pg posted an early version of the list back in March 2009 when it include only 2096 sites:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910>

That grew fairly rapidly, it was at 38,719 by 30 Dec 2012:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984095> (a random 50 are listed).

I suspect that overwhelmingly the list continues to reflect the characteristics of its early incarnations.
really? the docs seem to promise something like that "can work with any model"
Price, Taste, Convenience Competitive Plant-Based Meat Won't Currently End Meat
Original Title: Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat

Plant-based meats, like the Beyond Sausage or Impossible Burger, and cultivated meats have become a source of optimism for reducing animal-based meat usage. Public health, environmental, and animal welfare advocates aim to mitigate the myriad harms of meat usage. The price, taste, and convenience (PTC) hypothesis posits that if plant-based meat is competitive with animal-based meat on these three criteria, the large majority of current consumers would replace animal-based meat with plant-based meat. The PTC hypothesis rests on the premise that PTC primarily drive food choice. The PTC hypothesis and premise are both likely false. A majority of current consumers would continue eating primarily animal-based meat even if plant-based meats were PTC-competitive. PTC do not mainly determine food choices of current consumers; social and psychological factors also play important roles. Although not examined here, there may exist other viable approaches to drive the replacement of animal-based meats with plant-based meats. There is insufficient empirical evidence to more precisely estimate or optimize the current (or future) impacts of plant-based meat. To rectify this, consider funding: research measuring the effects of plant-based meat sales on displacement of animal-based meat; research comparing the effects of plant-based meats with other interventions to reduce animal-based meat usage; and informed (non-blinded) taste tests to benchmark current plant-based meats and enable measurements of taste improvement over time.
There was a game for the DSi that used the camera for head tracking 3D. It was really charming but the quality of the DSi camera made it hard to get working right. I’d love to see play it with a nicer camera, but I don’t think that’ll ever happen, unless DS emulators have camera support.
> I mention all this to point out how intrigued I am by what looks like the emphasis that was placed back then on clarity from the human’s perspective, be it programmer, user or anyone else involved in the software’s development and use.

I'm not yet born in the 1970s, but I think the fact that "code is written for people to read" is something that people in the earlier decades knew intimately, and that we have "forgotten" in recent years.

It hinges on a very simple fact - we know that machine code is for machines to execute, and they had machine code for as long as machines existed. And yet in subsequent decades, people spent so much resources in designing/inventing programming languages, so much resources in writing interpreters and compilers -- it's got to be for a good reason, right?

Once you think of it that way, the reason is obvious. Code written in programming languages are for people to read (and write), otherwise we'd just work on the binary executable.

I guess these days in the stacks of abstraction, we don't even know what's running on the bare metal any more, and for novices it might feel like "abstractions all the way down", and the point that the abstractions were originally for human consumption might have been lost or forgotten.
That’s an excellent observation.

I struggled with this too and because I am fond of defective analogies this made me think of the meaning of a personal note to, say, a lover.

Does it matter by whom or indeed what it was written? The experience of reading occurs solely in the recipient’s mind.

Surely it does not affect him/her differently if said note was produced by a romantic slot machine.

Before I meander towards my confused and shaky conclusion, let me clear one thing out of the way: I did not mean to imply that mechanically generated sequences are meaningless.

They absolutely carry meaning, because meaning is ultimately created by us. We are meaning-creation machines. We can find meaning in tea-leaves. Surely tea-leaves carry meaning, but sadly not the will-of-the-gods-kind. Although that doesn’t stop us from thinking they do.

What I am tentatively suggesting is that the meaning of the lover’s note is as much found in the experience of the relationship they share as it is found in the symbols on the paper. The symbols reference that experience.

Because it is ultimately a human that reads and interprets I think failure to take into account the origin of the material will be the source of a subtle and highly impactful, but inexorable error not dissimilar to that of the tasseographer: what you see doesn’t mean what you think it does.

Language used to be a domain dominated by humans only. We are wired for it and biased by it. If it sounds intelligent, it is intelligent, right? This bias could make us defer to the machine quicker than we should.

What’s the difference between GPT4 generating a good piece of code and a human?

Maybe I should shut up now. I am open to interesting reading suggestions by the way.
Do you have any direct experience with the Chinese education system? Aside from the gaokao, which seems unnecessarily brutal to me, I have a fairly good impression of it.
> In economics, a public good (also referred to as a social good or collective good)[1] is a good that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous. For such goods, users cannot be barred from accessing or using them for failing to pay for them. Also, use by one person neither prevents access of other people nor does it reduce availability to others.

Any free open source product qualifies as a public good. It is free for all to use, and one person using it does not exclude anyone else from using.
Alright, sounds reasonable. I think the problem here is that the author specifically says (in a sibling comment) that the point is not Mastodon and now it's in the title. Maybe they're fine with it though.
> happen until troop buildups were on satellite imagery

Taiwan is an island though. Which makes it significantly harder and costlier to invade. Even without direct US involvement occupying it militarily would be never tricky (as long as Taiwan doesn't surrender in the early stages) especially if they don't want to raze every building/factory/etc. to the ground.
"We spent nine person-months building our scalable Mastodon instance. "

Nono, you can't say that when later on you say it's built on top of Rama. You literally spent 10 years building the framework to even make this.

And yes, you built this in 10k lines of code but how many lines of code is Rama? This seems disingenuous.
My favorite band, Vulfpeck, do a similar thing. Their videos (edited by band leader Jack Stratton) usually have a heavy film-grain filter applied. Though that doesn't stop him from doing absurdly tight zooms in editing, occasionally turning the screen into a mess of barely-discernible pixels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le0BLAEO93g
Same for me, and I'm not using a VPN.
It's only in the interests of health insurance companies to make costs lower if they do it in a way that doesn't make costs lower for other insurance companies. As long as costs are high for everyone they can charge more knowing the competitors cannot undercut them.

In fact it's often in the insurance companies interests to make premiums generally go up, because they make more actual money for taking the same percentage.