skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some tech experts would even go as far as to say that Altman is having a Frankenstein moment–one, where he is somewhat regretful of the monster that he has created, although it seems that would be a farfetched reading of the situation

Please fire those experts for not recognizing an obvious attempt of regulatory capture
Pollution is real, AGI isn’t.
Even in your toy example the existence of cars has been a net good for humanity, this isn’t even a debate.
What happens when you don’t have these captains of industry to set up large enterprises to leverage labor?

Does labor self-organize and endeavor in creating its own wealth-creating machine?

Who would be a better distributor? The government, those with a self interest, or idealists like Bill Gates or Buffett, etc? I personally don’t know.
I'd argue that's more a characteristic of the publishing and peer review process in academia, not actual science.
from what i know on this subject only “national libraries” have a special carve-out for copyrighted works. and even then the rules are very strict.
Show HN: Get Even³ – Number and Memory Game
Return of the GHBED[1] having a go at a web-based games using html/css/js.

This one is based on the earlier "Get Even" where you had to find one "2" in a 7x7 grid. Now the game is turn based, and there are three hidden "2"s.

There's a bit of memory needed, like "Old Maid". Some (very) basic knowledge of prime numbers will help as the non-"2"s are all primes, with "3"s being adjacent to "2"s and "19s" far away.

[1]: Grey-haired back-end dev.
The question is if it is true that retail investors can't guard against stockmarket downturns or if that is the point of the article to make them believe this because the hedge strategies wouldn't work without enough sheep.
Lake Mead and Lake Powell are already drying out because there's not enough water coming down the Colorado river, I'm not sure how another reservoir between the two would help
America adds between 600k-1.2M immigrants per year, and that's the officially counted ones. That's a surefire way to add strain to a limited supply. This is occurring in Aus, Canada, and the UK as well.
> I've produced a video showing how AI scripting works in the PlayStation classic, Final Fantasy VII.

Could you share a link?
Very interesting research out of Black Hat '23! Actually observing 100 honeypots. If you build software there is no substitute for real Live Tests ;)
Why would devcontainers give you anything better over just a plain old Dockerfile, for your usage?
Damn it, I am using FF. But had no idea about this feature, I hope it gets implemented soon!

I wanted to refer to the "Full speed" section and ask why Nuxt has such a low score?

I hope this works anyway.

https://astro.build/#:~:text=Full%20speed
> worlds best security teams
> the most systemically important workloads

Big claims require big evidence. How did you end up with these superlatives?
The secret high-tech ways supermarkets are watching you
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Techfolk is a small project of mine showcasing some of the most prominent figures in the developer community. If you want more from your social feeds check them out!
How are controls unified when on a device you have a mouse and 400cm² of space and on another you have a finger and 60cm² of space?
Ask HN: Success stories for Multi-Agent GPT frameworks like MetaGPT, GPTEngineer
The projects mentioned in the title have garnedered an impressive amount of "stars" in Github. The concept is really compelling, but whenever I tried them on a real problem I ended up with a heap of very verbose information and a codebase that usually did not work out of the box. It usually felt easier to work on the problem step by step.

Are there some inspiring descriptions of success stories? How to best use these tools?
This is a terrible article.

To understand why, I refer everyone to the amazing Youtube channel of Isaac Moreno Gallo.

https://www.youtube.com/@IsaacMorenoGallo

There are several videos with English audio if you do not understand Spanish.

Here's a representative sample:

"The most ancient engineering told to the most modern engineers"
https://youtu.be/pk4xa6Tzwvk

"How the Romans screwed up and how those who interpret them screw up."
https://youtu.be/uwZbHPmcO7M

"Roman Engineering 1 of 4"
https://youtu.be/SdU6FSjdFag

Isaac also created a TV programme about Roman Engineering for RTVE that you can find on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX9K6BsUtIfJaMieISPGbsNLs...

It's Spanish only AFAIK, but worth watching for the commissioned 3d renders of the different devices and techniques.

TL;DR We need more engineer archeologists to avoid misinterpreting archeological evidence

Isaac is a civil engineer for the Spanish government, and an amateur historian that focuses on Roman technology and civil engineering, particularly roads and hydraulics.

There are a number of tropes and myths about Roman technology that stem from the fact that archeologists are very unlikely to have an engineering background and thus lack the knowledge to correctly interpret some of what they uncover.

As Isaac explains and shows in his videos, Romans supplied their cities with fresh water from springs only, never from rivers, rain or any other still water. They possessed the topographical and geodesic knowledge required to map terrain precisely and route both roads and aqueducts for hundreds of miles with the necessary and adequate slope.

Furthermore, they understood pressure and routinely siphoned water across significant elevation differences and their pipe engineering was able to handle several atmospheres.

They always captured the entire stream and dumped the excess flow directly into the sewers which were kept clean with running water. There is evidence of several of these distribution points in different cities.

With all of this in mind, I'm skeptical of the dating precision of the sites. I find it suspicious that there is absolutely no difference between health in the Imperial heyday and health in late-empire times when maintenance was deficient and water supply irregular and thus no permanent running water in the sewers, thus rats, thus diseases.

I would guess the samples are actually of the same times or at least from places with deficient sanitation for whatever reason.

Some other article tropes he specifically addresses are:

- lack of toilet privacy: they likely built stalls in wood like we do now; they just did not last

- the shared sponges: these were likely for dislodging stuck material and cleaning the toilet, not the body; again, just like we do nowadays

Isaac also created/maintains two websites:

http://www.traianvs.net/index.php - the scholar version of his channel with articles and papers

https://www.viasromanas.net - a GIS-based site to map, identify and promote Roman roads in the Spanish region of Castilla y León
I wonder if a low quality debt collection system is a uniquely American phenomenon. In Canada I had never heard of this happening.
The federal government owns land that nobody wants to build housing on. It's not enough just to have a house; housing is only viable in places where there is an economy to support the people who will live in the house.
Judith Curry is interesting case-in-point; most science should not be conducted in such a manner as to associate it with a particular science; the cult of personality should by virtue of a preference for rationale treatment of evidence be avoided in favour of the facts. This includes a systematic treatment and discussion around uncertainty, something that she is criticised for abusing. It should be noted that she is a
> prominent climatologist

precisely because she is a contrarian, i.e. it is not the case that she represents dissent from a prominent researcher. It is to be expected that she is prominent given that it is hard to find many scientists who agree with her thinking. Politically, she is one of the few people available to provide credibility to climate-denialism (even if "credible" does not apply within her own field).

I really want to engage with you on this, because there is an alarming trend in the alt-media to try and depict scientific communities as a cabal of politically minded sell-outs. But the reality is pretty far from this. It's not perfect; peer review needs to be more accessible, journals should be open-accessm, etc., but to depict it as a cult is deeply misrepresentative.

The source you referred to (https://reason.com/2023/08/09/this-scientist-used-to-spread-...) has all the hallmarks of this. It writes as though "establishment science" (which I would be interested in having the authors define) is a person you can speak to, and receive a single opinion. I've seen a number of these kind of "free speech" publications pop up recently, but from what I can see, they are really just contrarian outlets; they seem more interested in being "other" than actually pursuing a particular theme with any kind of rigour.

Part of the problem is of course science communication. The media is problematic in the UK (at least) because of its poor treatment of complex issues like Brexit, climate change, economics, etc). In general, the media tend to fail in communicating how science is conducted, what risk looks like, and how uncertainty is described. You can see this in cinema; science is portrayed as esoteric experts who defy the establishment in some good-wins-out triumph (see Oppenheimer). But, that's really, that's just good entertainment.

We know that computer models aren't perfect. No-one would take you seriously if you gave a modelling result without a description of the uncertainty and how it was derived. But they're also the best thing that we have besides "wait and see", where we walk without agency into whatever future awaits us.

Observational data can disagree with models without invalidating their conclusions; it depends upon the questions that you ask. A specific example; the nucleus is often modelled as a bunch of protons and neutrons moving around independently. We can answer some really interesting questions about why some atoms have very long half-lives using this model. But, if you want to know why a particular nucleus shows vibrational behaviour, the shell model can't help you. Despite this, the shell model is considered one of the most successful theories in physics.
We don't require it from pears, so we shouldn't require it from apples?
Why is this a popular topic all of a sudden? I've seen multiple submissions this past week about wanting to run webservers on phones.

Vultr had a $5/month VPS option that would work much better than trying any method on a phone.
Soviet Russia isn’t the example to follow.
These articles should really just come out and say the obvious: these could be used to augment sexual experiences.

Is our future AI generated visuals and audio via VR goggles while under “3D touch” blankets?

UnderCover: “Bringing the Digital to the Digital”
Because then we will have even more economic growth based upon providing people things they don't need, and we will have even more advanced AI that will make human interaction even more unnatural.
The phone network has no problem with me uploading 25MB videos to social media.

'Personal website' doesn't have to mean running Google in your pocket.
i don’t really understand the connection between “publicly accessible” and “preservation of knowledge and culture”. these are usually distinct subjects.
But supply is artificially constrained in most jurisdictions. Assuredly we can produce a cost effective good in 2023 which has been built for thousands of years.
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I highly doubt your research was so perfect, since it seems it wasn't even peer reviewed and published, so that conveniently nobody can point out methodology flaws.
Sounds like increasing supply is a good idea then?
The link is in the post, but if you need a plaintext URL it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-8PVydb9CM
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I've used it to hit on women in dating apps. It works really well in being ultra smooth.

I've used it to craft custom cover letters for jobs I got offers for. I used it to respond to emails, I used it to create stories, I used it to snazz up things that I wrote.

I used it to help me code.

I could use it to respond to you and you'd be none the wiser.

I do agree that you need to review the work. But that does not mean it's useless as the writing it produces can be continuously modified via further queries and often the writing is much more superior than anything I would otherwise produce just with a few flaws here and there.
Zoning is the issue. My wife is from Houston; I have certainly been there. I don't like Houston. What major lesson am I missing? Nothing about Houston redeems single-family zoning for me.
> How is it persevered if its not distributed?

easy. national library.
Do you know about Hetch Hetchy? It's a valley near Yosemite that John Muir described as being equally beautiful. They flooded it to create a water supply for San Francisco.
I am not in any way qualified to assess the quality of his research as this is completely outside my scope of practice, but I am failing to detect any marketing in what is an interesting open source (and possibly forfeiting or foregoing the rules of the prize) disclosure of something that he believes is a progression of the subject under discussion, and will ultimately lead to further progression; or alternatively lead to dismissal if the methods disclosed turn up nothing of further benefit.

Seems like someone who is pretty into the scientific method, and, more importantly, spirit, to me?

Disclosure: I went to high school with Casey
This is such a bizarre comment to me. I've found LLMs to be incredibly useful at helping me play around and explore certain topics. It makes brainstorming ideas and variants way more effective.

Maybe you remember every terminal commands and their flags from the top of your head. I just ask an LLM and get a working set of terminal commands with a single prompt. Usually I remember enough flags to be able to validate that it looks how I'd expect, and it hasn't let me down yet. Even if I have to check some flags, it still seems like a net positive in utility.

Most recently I wanted to solve a type of programming problem and didn't know what the category of tools was called. (It was GIS.) So with a bit of prompting I found a few key tools, libraries, and Wikipedia pages to read up on related to the kind of problem domain I had in mind.

Ultimately it's just a tool and there's definitely a learning curve to using it effectively. But when it works out, it really feels a bit magical. And consider that this is still very early within the evolutionary cycle, it's only going to get better.
@bootsmann (since I can't reply further) - I absolutely disagree that cars have been a net benefit to humanity.
This is just a bad article, bordering on blogspam. How could that possibly make them go bankrupt when they've secured $10 billion in funding just this year.
Also, noone forces them to provide chatgpt for free. If that was actually going to bankrupt them, they would just stop doing that.

They are eating the cost because it provides them with the largest dataset of human feedback in existence. Is that worth 700k a day? I don't know, but they seem to think so, otherwise they'd stop doing it.
The specific post I'm thinking of is A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking - https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/N6WM6hs7RQMKDhYjB/a-mec...

I originally thought the PAIR article was another presentation by the same authors, but upon closer reading, I think they just independently discovered similar results. Though the PAIR article quotes Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability, the Arxiv paper by the authors of the alignmentforum article.

(In researching this I found another paper about grokking finding similar results a few months earlier; again, I suspect these are all parallel discoveries.)

You could say that all of these avenues of research are all re-statements of well-known properties, eg deep double-descent, but I think that's a stretch. Double descent feels related, but I don't think a 2018 AI researcher who knew about double descent would spontaneously predict "if you train your model past the point it starts overfitting, it will start generalizing again if you train it for long enough with weight decay".

But anyway, in retrospect, I agree that saying "the LessWrong community is where this line of analysis comes from" is false; it's more like they were among the people working on it and reaching similar conclusions.
That’s an extraordinarily broad assertion.
The problem isn’t lack of space for housing, the problem is lack of housing in places people actually want to live.
Kinda, a bit, it's hard. So podman will need virtualisation and networking permissions to do its job. Also the directory mapping seems to work without extra confirmation. At that point, who needs root? You control the main user`s files, networking, and can effectively hide any process from easy inspection by using virtualisation.
We can argue about what "nearly" and "some" mean in this context ;)
The feature is pretty awesome - I just learned about it myself last week.

And the link totally works! (I have no clue on Nuxt though.)
Its complexity. Elisp is both a blessing and a curse. It's great to be able to make deep, fundamental changes to Emacs via Elisp, but sometimes, you end up wading though very difficult-to-read code trying to figure out how it works. IME, vim is less flexible, but simpler when I just want to edit code and not think about Emacsisms.
Success in the NBA and most Olympic sports is probably ruled out before you are born. For those for which it is not ruled out, they are a vanishingly small subset: good genes, born in stable country, family wealthy enough to afford training from a young age, parents who support/force the training. (I met an Olympic windsurfing candidate; he was tall, fit, relatively financially independent, born to a community near big lakes with friends enjoying the sport, and obsessed with the sport.)

Success financially (depending on what threshold you use) is largely ruled out by birth for most everyone ever born. Exceptions occur, and some places and time periods may have afforded the opportunity to more people, yet always a sliver.

So technically success isn't entirely determined before you're born. But for most it is at least off the table, unless the threshold is very low or they are exceptionally lucky and driven.
But if traffic originators (e.g. Google) have a bonsai section that comprises the front half of their results... you can't fault a lot of non-bonsai trees for considering how they might qualify.

At the end of the day, this is Google's mess.

The article summarizes the situation well (clarification added by me):

>> I think CNET is making a mistake, but they’ve also identified a serious problem for the digital news ecosystem: Old content is a burden to carry [because it lacks a viable economic model], and intentionally or not, Google isn’t making that lift any easier.
Versus Texas with its 95% total private ownership of its lands ?

No, I prefer National Forests that are open to my recreation than barbed wire and no trespass signs.
New homes, apartments, etc need to be built where people need the, not wherever there is open space. Building a giant apartment building in the middle of nowhere serves no purpose if there are no jobs there.

And the reason we can't build where people need them is mostly zoning.
I used this years ago, last I looked it was very similar to Codeblocks. So much so that they share use of WXWidgets and Scintilla.

I’ve since gone to Visual Studio and VSCode and never looked back. I never saw the appeal to these outside of beginner use. Plus I have yet to find a debugger that beats visual studio’s.
How would you do DI abstractions using just functions? (Honest question)

I am so much used to the idea of swapping out functionality (set of functions and a state). For example, just recently I had to swap out an Excel spreadsheet reader/writer library in Go for performance reasons, and would have bled a lot (due to refactoring) had it not been encapsulated as an interface.
Avoid crashing into or avoid clipping? ;-)
Also in our music, Dies Irae means day of wrath. Sung during Lent and funerals (pre 1962 funerals at least, now more often to hear stairway to heaven and on eagles wings).

I think without even understanding the chant reflecting on the music helps to better understand the intent of these reminders. The music is somber and melancholic yet wishful, it’s conflicted. It presents the intersection of two hard wired things. On the one hand, we profess in an afterlife which, for those in heaven, there is perfect everything and forever and on the other hand the cruelty of death. No one wants to die yet if we truly believe that death is just the beginning of forever and that forever is perfect why would one not desire death in this world of unknowing and misery.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBB5-bP6qs
If you only take the system programming languages, Rust seems to do pretty well.
care to give me some examples for how you use it ? I'm curious how I can benefit from it.

I tried using it on some personal personal projects after giving in to all the hype, but results were so disappointing chatgpt ended up hallucinating imaginary packages to do what I asked it to do and even when asked 10 different ways to correct it mistake all it did is imagine new wrong way ways to do it.

It was somewhat useful in giving giving basic example of using rdf/turtle, but in this case too when I started going past basic stuff the results we're disappointing.

My final conclusion from all the tinkering was that It was untrustworthy enough that I has to double check all it did, also there was a need to breakdown down tasks way beyond the micromanaging level for the response to be useful to me in every day life.

maybe I just don't have the required to write the proper prompts to unlock this magic all the hype is on about. does any one have some links how to unlock this prompt-fu ?
This site loves dumping on NOLA because in their minds it's poor and there's no tech scene as far as they know, just Bourbon St
I think you'll find that even if you cap lifetime earnings and max inheritance at one billion dollars (and were able to rigorously enforce that), you'd still have a healthy population willing to start large enterprises.

If someone needs more motivation than earning billion dollars to start large industrial enterprises, I guarantee there's someone who'd be willing to try it for a billion or less.
That’s a fair point. New Amsterdam is a good example of a place that has long been a “city of immigrants.” But I’d submit that it’s not representative of America, and is in fact the opposite of the America Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about.
Yeah, I would love to have api layer pass through as well as pcie layer pass through. API pass through would work well for things like containers or sandbox environments.
Something even more rarely mentioned is that urban and built up areas are just 1% of habitable earth, forests (37%), urban crops 10% (providing 82% of calories) and animal agriculture 35% (for those remaining 18% of calories).

If we'd switch to plant based diets, we would globally free an area the space of both Americas. If this area were reforested/rewilded, we'd store enough carbon to stop climate change, stop biodiversity loss, droughts, soil erosion, eutrophication and anthropogenic oceanic dead zones, and we'd still have plenty of space to build housing for everybody.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/
it could be the tribals were critiquing how american military conducts itself in tropical lands.