skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> LLMs won't get intelligent. That's a fact based on their MO.

I kind of agree. However, I see a real possibility that in the near future LLM behaviour would be practically indistinguishable from intelligent/sentient behavior. And at that point we (or at least I) are facing some really interesting/difficult questions, namely how do you know an intelligent looking thing actually is intelligent (or sentient). How do you prove me you/LLM are/aren't a philosophical zombie?

How we are supposed to treat very much intelligent/sentient looking things when we are not sure if they are sentient/intelligent or not? Let's face it, lots of people are dumb as rock (too often very much me included). Why we should be able to treat something badly just because we think we know they can't be intelligent, even if they walk , look and quack like intelligent duck?

I personally have started to think that the behavior of humans should be judged by the behaviour, not the target. If you want to behave like an asshole towards a teddy bear, then you most likely are an asshole.
I believe you’re talking about different things.

Apple still honors warranty if you have third party components.

Even outside of warranty, they’ll repair it. A family member of mine cheaped out and got a mall screen replacement on their phone. Turned out to be terrible but Apple still honored a repair claim on it.

Your quote doesn’t really pertain to the serialization imho. They can still notify you of illegitimate parts as long as they don’t deny you service based on that.
All Python release notes have a "something completely different" section.
> You do realize that sometimes rich right wingers advocate cannibalism too -- just not eating the rich

This book looks like satire. I have never met or heard of anyone who discusses "political cannibalism" literally. I think it's vanishingly rare.

> You're the one who introduced the brilliant idea of eating the rich into this conversation

I will not relitigate this. See above.

> You're the one who replied even after you said you wouldn't

Tend to your own knitting.

I'm a little confused why you took the time to respond to an old thread during the course of what looks like digging up receipts on a troll (which I have no complaint with, I agree with what you said about them). This is ancient history in my book.

Is there something specific you'd like me to take away from this? Did you just not like the cut off my jib? I honestly can't tell, I'm getting a chaotic neutral vibe.

ETA: I see, you feel that I am a troll, and you want to call me out for trolling. Well, noted. I disagree but it's not my proudest set of comments, I can't fault you for thinking ill of me because of them.
And throw in some spelling.
> No special tool needed, a shovel, a bucket, some rope, patience and certainly a permit.
"if we transfer the DNA to an advanced alien civilization - would they be able to make a human."

I'm really surprised that in all these responses to your question no one's mentioned the womb or the mother, who (at least with current technology) is still necessary for making a human.

That's not to mention the necessity of the egg.

We're not just DNA.
> Is anyone truly needy enough to shoplift?

Please tell me this is a troll. Please....

* Eating it anyway when you learn how to cook.

* Buying anything on sale, because you can't buy anything else, and anything is better than nothing.

* Mom/dad don't bother saying "we'll buy it next paycheck"

* Clothing is something we only buy for the oldest.

If these things are foreign to you, I am very glad. No one should have to deal with these choices.

I will accept the idea that many (most? almost all? i don't care) shoplifters could have paid for the product. That still means the idea that "being poor enough to need to steal" is incomprehensible tells me that you either never experienced poverty, or forgot.

I've been lucky enough to not need to steal to provide for my family. If I was hungry, I'd might steal some food.

If my wife was hungry, I'd do a hell of a lot more than stealing food.
Perhaps there would be less demand for chop shops if Apple didn't try their hardest to prevent repair shops from buying their slightly customized chips new and genuine from the manufacturers.
“ Shimmer was born from my personal frustration when I was diagnosed last year & wasn’t able to find an affordable, quality ADHD coach. True hyperfocus mode,”

Having a diagnosis that you have a recognized mental health disorder and then being able to, in less than a year, have a full platform launched and ready to go should make anyone who struggles with ADHD pause and ask how and question everything.

I’ve had ADHD my whole life and was diagnosed 10ish years ago. I couldn’t, medicated or not, accomplish anything of this magnitude in that amount of time if my life depended on it.

Nor anyone I know who has ADHD.

I can’t even think how your first thought would be to find a “coach” and then the idea you have is a coach platform and decided to run with it and attempt to build a whole ass platform instead of adapting to your new diagnosis.

Also why look for a coach? Not a therapist? Coach’s are known to be a morally grey area.

Further more, hyperfocus doesn’t work like this and putting it in the cheeky “true hyperfocus mode” sounds disingenuous and unempathetic to your intended clients struggles.

Finishing stuff is HARD for ADHD people. How is this already done?

This reeks of trying to profit off the ADHD boom of the last couple years.

I hope I’m wrong about my suspicions and I hate that this is my first comment on this site, but seriously this is concerning.

I normally want to lift people up and commend them on their accomplishments yet I can’t for the life of me understand the thought process here. It’s the most neurotypical/grifty answer to a diagnosis I’ve ever heard.
The quality of the water depends on the location.

This particular method of drilling a well works in sandy soil or clay where the water table isn't very deep. If you're in mountains or on any topology with bedrock you'll need better equipment, particularly a carbide or diamond tipped bit. And you'll be drilling potentially hundreds of feet. Something like this would most certainly not work in Colorado, it would probably work in Florida or Louisiana.
I'll assume you're being serious with your comment. Shariah has conditions for when Hudud penalties are to be applied. Just because someone stole does not mean the harshest punishment automatically applies. There are factors such as adulthood, not being in a famine, the value stolen being over a certain amount (approx 1gm of gold), and so on. An investigation is conducted and the judge rules.

This is not to say that other punishments cannot apply for those other cases - there's something called Ta'zeer that can be applied. Of course we're not making small of the matter, theft is a very very serious crime, and we'd have a lot less of it if Hudud were applied ;)

Other than that I agree that Shariah would set today's world straight back in place.
"Use <insert language> and optimize for runtime."

<pastes question and constraints from leetcode>

"solution begins with <insert default solution template from leetcode>".

Copy solution from gpt, paste in leetcode, run, submit.

"faster"

Repeat.

Repeat.

Next question.
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>You would like a home from 1969

The average floor area per person (in the US) has roughly doubled since 1969. Not the most reliable source, but from skimming census data it seems to correlate: https://supplychenmanagement.com/2018/07/15/average-house-si.... I'm personally not much a fan of large houses, but most people are.
Someone submit this to smbc comics !
I remember that, at least the Apple Silicon Macs are repairable.

With the "small" detail that the repair guide for the Pros is ~600 pages long, because you need to replace the whole board+bottom assembly for most things. You need to take the whole thing apart, and then put it back together. The Airs are saner, surprisingly.
gpt4 gets thing wrong as well, especially as soon as you are out of a well beaten path. I tried writing code with brain off and gpt4 on, and the terraform code was mostly right but didn't work, python code for imports of recent libraries (llama-cpp-smth) were a complete fabrication, even if I gave the ai a documentation before hand, and we went in cycles around a problem for which it kept giving me the same solution and resulted in the same error (around python multiprocess, which is very picky aroud nested parallelism and method import)
Look at the scaling laws.

We found that extrapolating the performance given a few data points with smaller models is actually very accurate. That's how they determined hyper parameters, by tuning them on multiple smaller scale models and then extrapolating. So far, all those predictions were quite good.

Together with a bigger model, we also need more data to get better performance. If we add video and audio to the text data, we have still a lot more data we can use, so this is also not really a problem.

It would be very unexpected that those scaling laws are suddenly not true anymore for the next order of magnitude in model and data size.
> Many folks think they have to dig or drill their well into an aquifer.

My concern here is ground water will have septic contamination, don't know if that's stupid or not.

Hand dug wells are fun to watch on TikTok, most on the tag are old ones, but a few are people digging them - https://www.tiktok.com/tag/handdug%20well

This one scared the shit out of me - https://www.tiktok.com/@smithalayamrajeev/video/723999758509...

I was looking at this Polish Company selling augers, but I checked local bore records and they were 80m for the aquifer and they were hitting rock pretty quickly in their samples even if I went for ground water - https://www.ebay.com/str/drillpartnerofficialstore
>LLMs won't get intelligent. That's a fact based on their MO. They are sequence completion engines. They can be fine tuned to specific tasks, but at their core, they remain stochastic parrots.

This is absolutely wrong. There is nothing about their MO that stops them from being intelligent. Suppose I build a human LLM as follows:
A random human expert is picked and he is shown the current context window. He is given 1 week to deliberate and then may choose the next word/token/character.
Then you hook this human LLM into an auto-GPT style loop.
There is no reason it couldn't operate with high intelligence on text data.

Not also that LLMs are not really about language at all anymore, the architectures can be used on any sequence data.

Right now we are compute limited. If compute was 100x cheaper we could have GPT-6, bring 100x bigger, we could have really large and complex agents using GPT-4 power models, or we could train on tupled text-video data of subtitles videos. Given the world model LLMs manage to learn out of text data, I am 100% certain that a sufficiently large transformer can learn a decent world model from text-video data. Then our agents could also have a good physical understanding.
Nope. Thoughts, yes, but you don't by any means need to think in words or audio all the time.
They relied mainly on PacBio HiFi reads (which I think is a truly understated revolutionary technology in genomics), then used Nanopore sequencing to link together the HiFi contigs to cover the truly gnarly regions of the chromosome.

And yeah, you're right: All modern large-scale sequencing is shotgun sequencing where the DNA is randomly broken up, each fragment is sequenced, and then the individual segments (reads) are assembled using a genome assembler.
> But it just feels ethically wrong to promote your services to people who are "undiagnosed" or "think they have" ADHD.

You don't have to 'actually have' ADHD (whatever that means!) to benefit from advice, habits, or practices typically leveraged by ADHDers. You just have to have a similar enough struggle that works in a similar enough way that those techniques help you somewhat. Whether you have ADHD matters way less than whether those things help you.

That said, idk how to really evaluate for-profit companies orienting themselves around the ADHD label to provide services along those lines as opposed to freely associating online communities or whatever.

But the truth is that just like with an actual therapist (or medication) you actually have to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment for yourself. There actually isn't a formula for treating ADHD, and it's not something you can just hand off to someone else. In that respect, services like this are no different from their more authoritative counterparts in psychiatry or psychology.

> This is exactly what social media is doing today in the sense of trying to convince you have something because you happen to engage in said content.

Not quite, imo. The TikTok phenomenon is decidedly less practical (that is, less about doing anything) and more identitarian. It's about asserting membership in an informal group and differentiating yourself from others. It's 'finding yourself' like teens and young adults have always done laden so heavily with (sloppy use of) medicalizing language and a tendency to essentialize, run a bit amok. It's also innocent stuff, like in-jokes about the catharsis of finding a suitable label, of discovering that your struggles aren't totally idiosyncratic but 'a thing'.

But 'if you think you might have ADHD, check this thing out' isn't at all the same thing as 'if you laughed at this meme, you have ADHD'.
People who are really motivated to start a company are also really motivated to move to the best place to do it.
AFAIK console companies control the SDKs and Devkits pretty strictly.

If you start to complain in public, you'll get neither and that's it for your company.
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To the best of my knowledge, most real estate agencies don't deal in cash transactions (as in "bags of"). Money is transferred from bank to bank. The banks have the responsibility to uphold KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti-money laundering) rules. By the time a real-estate agent and vendor get it, the money has already been washed.
Add the cost of this kind of storage facilities to the cost of nuclear energy.

Of course oil, coal, solar, idro, etc have their own costs for cleaning up the places.
I really hope this doesn't come across as an attack against you or your environment because I don't mean it that way: My fairly recent understanding is that "shaming and criticizing" is something that can hurt or even traumatize you only when your caregivers didn't show you how to maintain healthy boundaries and regulate your own emotions (mostly by living it) - a.k.a. "self worth". I have learned this the hard way, and it sounds like you too.
Would be cool to see how a SOTA summary from an LLM of this looks like.
> It stopped working with an OTA update.

So the display was ok but was disabled by SW.
As a species, we are still arrogant that we know how the future will pan out.

In a few decades after filling that place in, people may determine that it's valuable, send in robots to get everything back out for re-use, and make the area safe again.

Maybe a few hundreds of years, or thousands, but we just don't know what inventions the future will bring
I meant unironically that the solution based on those factors basically amounts to "be healthy and happy".

Geez, thanks! Why didn't we think of this?! Getting right on that...
ChatGPT (3.5) is not state of the art
I think it plays especially well because the parodic exagerations of one era are indistinguishable from the dystopian elements of the future...
Wasn't there news of some kind of simulation showing there could be a self replicating dust pattern in space or something like that?
Chinese state-owned company copied VS Code, claimed its developed by themselves
> The vast, vast majority of aquifer depletion is for impractical crops.

And collection at spring source from water bottling companies let's please not forget that environmental abuse.

Not all aquifers start underground.
If you bought the books and screenplays, you acquired them in a way that doesn't infringe on copyright. If you borrowed them from the library, you acquired them in a way that doesn't infringe on copyright. You don't need a license because you aren't republishing.

ML training doesn't work without having a copy of the data (books and screenplays). That data can either be copied in a non-infringing way (buy the books; acquire a license) or in an infringing way (download the books from a corpus without explicit permission like these AI companies are accused of doing). LLM services need a license just like Facebook, Instagram, etc. need a license to republish the stuff you post. The copyright holder maintains their copyright and the service that republishes their work (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) or publishes derivative works (AI) needs a license.
I mean, this is the car company that decided to skip rain sensors for cost reasons.

I own a Tesla but I also acknowledge that Elon will claw every last dollar he can to increase margins even by a few cents.
It's kind of true because the WASM GC proposal still isn't finished, so Rust and C++ are the only reasonable options, and also there's no native support for calling web platform APIs yet, so there's a lot of overhead for doing web stuff and you have to use a ton of JavaScript glue code (there are tools to help, but still...).

JavaScript / Typescript will probably always have a size advantage over WASM anyway because they don't have to ship any runtimes or standard library code. E.g. formatting a string or running a regex in JS is just a few bytes but in Rust you have to ship a whole string formatting/regex library.
> 1879 and an average of 565 sqft each. I don't think what those apartments were is what we want today.

That's ~50 m^2, pretty decent for young people (can have separate living room/bedroom/bathroom/kitchen if split properly)

So, instead of housing 17-34 young people that could contribute a lot to the area it now houses a single family.
Thank you for posting, this was my major question when reading. A surprisingly poignant article
I once worked in England with a guy called Thane. A cool Anglo-Saxon title meaning warrior lord. Any fame it might have probably comes from Macbeth. Now it is very rare, only 3/yr in UK and 43/yr in US.
Every deep learning tech had an exponential growth phase, followed by a slowdown followed by a platou the nothing could break until a fundamentally new architecture came along. People get excited about the first part, project it into the second and start companies by the time we're well into the third.
"RAM and hard drive" - those two are not the same.

RAM being soldered has legitimate arguments - it reduces latency and power use, as well as costs, and RAM isn't a wear part. I'm not endorsing it, but RAM can be justified by argument.

In contrast, hard drives don't gain any real latency advantage, and will die before most of the rest of the computer. Soldering in hard-drives is just insane.
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why do you care about privacy? i have nothing to hide

why do you care about free speech? i have nothing to say
>Like putting a field of artists out of a job,

To be frank, between stock art and photos, pre-AI template based tools, and the massive oversupply of graphic design and photography work, the field was already massively redudant and kind of out of a job to begin with...
It might depend on how individuals learn but I have a different suggestion: I'd consider a slightly different approach now, instead of looking at sets of premade examples (of which several will not feel relevant at all). Ask an LLM (ChatGPT, Claude) for how it would generate an app of a certain type in so-and-so language. Try to run it, fail, and then fix bits as you go. This should force you to look into various aspects and learn from those.
Nice!

Xc is another doing a similar job

https://xcfile.dev/
Why not just connect the LED to the same rail that powers the camera?
No, this is not technically possible. Cells are simply to complex to just build using humanity's current level of technology.
The closest thing we have done is to fully synthesize a bacterium's genome, remove the genome from a bacterial cell, then transplant the synthetic genome into the cell and have the cell survive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium

That's insanely cool, but very far from what you are asking. An analogy: We have re-installed the operating system of an existing computer, when you are asking whether we can manufacture a computer.
Hardware controlled could just as well be a LED which turns on when the entire (or relevant part of) camera module is powered on. Power-saving wise it would also make sense to have the whole thing on always.
Apple learned something from SUN. Don't sell the mouse (iPhone) without the mousepad (glasses). /s
Also, if you build everything in canvas, good luck making your UI accessible and screen-reader friendly
I've tried Poetry, the CLI is nice and user friendly to be sure, but it has many flaws that made me ultimately avoid it.

In my opinion, it tries to be far too "magic", hiding everything about the virtual environment and dependency management within it. This means that if anything breaks (and it does break!), I find it basically impossible to fix it without wiping everything and rebuilding the environment from scratch.

I find the documentation nice and clean to look at but somewhat clunky to navigate and very incomplete or not explicit enough — especially for beginners. For a tool that seems to want to be a "one-stop shop", you need to know a good deal already about Python packaging already to navigate it. The lack of explicitness also makes it hard to troubleshoot (as evoked above).

These are by far my biggest complaints, with the below bring mostly minor gripes.

Additionally, it seems to be targeted at library developers rather than applications (a distinction which to be fair none of the Python ecosystem makes, to the detriment of DX). This doesn't usually end up being a big issue as it's reasonably easy to "librarify" applications, but it's something else to learn. (Not every project wants wheelification as its end goal.)

The usage of pyproject.toml is nice, but the semantics of the file isn't quite as standardised as one might hope, especially when it comes to reflecting the package you're writing in the virtual environment. And the documentation around pyproject.toml is scattered and sparse. (A PEP is not documentation!)

I've complained a lot, so I should round off by saying that Poetry is a commendable project and I have high hopes for it; but as it exists now it's just too rickety for me to recommend it. But others may disagree, and by all means I'd give it a try for your next project.

My personal recommendation remains pyenv + virtualenv (or venv) + pip-tools, with simple projects just using a requirements.in files and then moving to pyproject.toml once it reaches a modest degree of maturity.
>We are bumping against many of its >limits

He keeps saying that as a fact with absolutely no proof and based his whole argument on it.
Until AI figures out debugging
A nice notebook
A pen
For example what Microsoft is doing at firmware level for Azure.
A 7B model at 8-bit quantization takes up 7 GB of RAM. Less if you use a 6-bit quantization, which is nearly as good. Otherwise it's just a question of having enough system RAM and CPU cores, plus maybe a small discrete GPU.
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If it wasn't an usable and/or interesting thing, you wouldn't use it...
This is neat, well done.
The problem is if that leads to water contamination, all it takes some of these homemade drillers to contaminate it “by mistake” with gasoline, oil, or even chemicals, with all what it means to environment and people using the same water.