skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, true. I’ve met them too. Problem is you don’t know which side of the coin you’ll land on and often times these drugs are initiated at a young age where with that first pill you go from zero to 100 in 30 minutes and suddenly everything is easy , and you writing is pristine, you mow straight lines, you excel at things, you don’t get in as much trouble etc etc.

But we have to remember not everyone has a legit prescription for these and that’s a big number of people too. There are absolutely pill mills for these drugs and they are very easy to find. Now I wonder about cardiac damage, or social damage from having the wrong type of people revved up to the max socially interacting. Look at some of the jarring/angry tik tok culture .

Look at Alex Jones, he’s had some interesting things to say in the past but at his worst he looks like he’s hopped up on adderall and booze and just spewing crazy poop. It’s just an example, please don’t get caught up on the specific example of what adderall can drive you to.

So at the end of the day, it’s a double edge sword. I’ve met many people who also were able to use narcotics responsibly and it helped them. It helps some, neutral for others, disaster for the rest.

My only real point is, it can help but please future reader treat them as serious drugs because they are serious. Yeah we give them to kids but they are not “kid safe.”
Ask HN: Do you open your PDFs with Chrome or a bona- fide PDF viewer/editor
Database tables are stored as an "array of structures". If a row has someone's ID, name, and age, then on disk it'll be laid out like so:

[#001][John Smith][25];[#002][Jane Doe][32];[#003][Kane Citizen][62];[...

Columnar databases store the data as a "structure of arrays", keeping each type of value together:

[#001][#002][#003][...;[John Smith][Jane Doe][Kane Citizen][...;[25][32][62][...

With row-based storage, the database can look up everything it needs to show a form to the user with a single disk I/O operation: just read a block of data starting at the location where the record row is.

With column-based storage, the database has to do an I/O per column, which seems worse... but these days on SSD storage the overhead is negligible when displaying one form at a time.

Where columnar wins massively is reporting workloads. If you want to know the average age of employees, then with row storage you pretty much have to read everything in, including their names and ID numbers, even though you don't need that data. This is because all disk storage comes as "block devices" that read a minimum of 512 bytes, but typically more like 64KB at a time. You get more than you want, and then you have to throw it away. With column storage, you can read just the age data to compute the average age.

With column storage there are also compression techniques that work a lot better than with row storage. Run-length encoding, lookup tables, etc... provide higher compression ratios because the data is much more uniform for much larger chunks.

The typical end-result is 100x less I/O to run the same query.
DC arcs are much harder to extinguish. Switching 10A of 240v AC is trivial. Switching 10A of 240V DC is much more complicated in terms of switchgear. Sustained arcs are dangerous.
Stealing from Dollar Tree is $#!tying where you eat.
That's because most languages allow arbitrary IO in all functions. You can achieve this in Haskell too if you want, by just using IO as your monad everywhere.

But most people don't do that because then it becomes really hard to reason about your code, so spending the extra time propagating a MonadLog constraint up your stack is actually worth it.
Wouldn't the height of the swingset be a factor? I imagine if the swing is suspended from 50m you can continue winding up for a long time and jump from a height of 15+m which would give you a lot more horizontal movement before you hit the ground.

I mean the article doesn't say anything about calculating the farthest survivable jump from a swingset
Everyone has tunnel vision on LLM's like they are the only thing just because they are the latest big shiny thing.

"oh, they are at their limit". People were saying they were at their limit 5 years ago too.

There are a lot of AI techniques, some more advanced than LLM, just with other limitations so they don't look 'amazing'.

Seems like engineering at this point to tie them together for the next 'big thing'.
Doesn't matter. The only thing copyright regulates is the duplication and spreading of copyrighted material. If you acquire "unlicensed" copies and learn from them, you have not violated copyright, you are not violating the author's copyright.
This doesn't follow. Both Self and Smalltalk allow you to do those things. (You still need to specialise code for plain small ints vs oops either way for the subclassing one, and stack inspection can be done on a slow path, see the dynamic deoptimization stuff)
Totally agree with conradfr
Grounding mat? To sleep on?
Thank you! Will wait...
And yet they charge you to send scores to colleges.
Lets see if we can go a couple of decades without any rocket explosions at all before we risk burning up radioactive waste in the upper atmosphere. I don't want to trust this on mere claims of safety, I want to trust statistics on large, non-cherry-picked numbers of launches.
> an additional 10.5 million metric tons remain undiscovered

If it's "undiscovered", presumably that 0.5 metric tons amounts to spurious precision. Call it ten million, and it becomes clear that it's a wild guesstimate.

Also: the location of these Uranium deposits is not evenly distributed. I understand that substantially all of France's Uranium, for example, comes from Niger, a politically-unstable country where much of the mining is controlled by the Wagner Group.
> Its a phone for christ sake, they only last a few years, where have you seen this issue even come up
On this point I don't agree. My iPhone is about to be 5 years old, it's fully functioning and I'm about to pass it to my daughter. The only repair I did was changing the battery at an Apple Store, which cost around 100$ and took a couple of hours.

For me this is a decent service and a decent device lifetime (provided it will stay in my kid's hands for a few years more).

In the past I had to deal with non original repairs (in specific batteries for HP laptop) and my experience was truly truly bad. True, it was 15 years ago, so battery technology might have changed.

I don't really care for self repairing. I understand that there are people that care for that and I respect that; for them Apple probably is not the right brand. For me, personally, a phone or a laptop must work as expected, have a decade of lifetime, and might require servicing a couple of time during its lifetime max, for a reasonable price.

So far, my experience with Apple tic these boxes.
Lots of examples of stretched food labels.

"Carbon free" sugar.

"Organic" bottled water, or better yet "Natural Spring water" that has nothing alive in it.

During the pandemic the regulations were relaxed to allow ingredients lists to vary from the actual contents; i wonder if thats still in force?
Maybe as there's more evidence it's harder to convict innocent people to pad the metrics? I have no idea, but there's a lot of possible causes for correlations like this.
>This has my complete support.

Disclosure is nice.

But what reason would cause an after-market component to fail after a software update? We don't want these companies building software "genuine" checks to brick phones that use other parts.
These wells are a few inches across. There's no risk of falling in.
From what I’ve seen with friends who work at Discord: yes they do.
It's interesting to read articles like this. I was there when this happened (worked on Return to Zork for the Mac while MW2 got finished, and i76 was starting) and knew Zach and Sean. There's nothing hugely inaccurate that I can tell, but it does simplify a much messier and rougher process. There's nothing outright wrong, but aha moments in the article actually played out over months. It's interesting to read articles about things I was there for, makes me feel old tbh, but also nice to know that the memories live on as stories.
> Orville and Dot Synoground of Pine Mountain, Georgia, drilled through 35 feet of solid granite with a Hydra-Drill and a diamond coring bit. They hit the rock layer at 18 feet and kept drilling — cutting about six inches of granite an hour — until they broke through. After three solid weeks of work, Orville and Dot struck water at 165 feet.

I honestly don’t think I’d have that level of determination unless I was truly desperate.
Copilot currently keeps in context the file you are editing. Cross file support is coming but not here.(https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-view/). But it would be very very useful.

One logical concept that's also been noodling in my brain was to construct a DFA(Deterministic finite automata) from the code seen in all the files and then offer the n-1 tokens to the language model and constrain the nth token's selection from the valid ones. I recall someone did this for things that produce DFAs that are fairly small in size(like JSON) and that essentially produced 100% valid JSON without hallucinations(It could be garbage JSON).

So for example if I had a `class ABC` then typing `abc.` could produce:
1. all the methods on it that were valid and
2. had arguments from the surrounding code informed by the LLM.
There's a second assumption: That "worker displacement" remains an unsolved problem. That assumes a society that chooses to do nothing to in the face of reducing the need for labour, turning something that could be substantial boon into a downside.

In other words: It assumes Marx was right about the central failure-mode of capitalism (an inability or unwillingness to find ways to distribute work and proceeds of work in ways that prevents productivity gains from eventually causing social upheaval).

There's no reason what they describe as "so-so" tech can not also be a significant societal advantage, but it requires structural change to ensure it does not deprive a significant number of people of a livelihood.
At least in the US, smoking rates were almost cut in half before any of that stuff even happened (48% to 30%).

https://news.gallup.com/poll/237908/smoking-rate-hits-new-lo...

Hell, when I was in high school, you could still smoke at 16.

I'd argue the health risks have become way more know, which drove most of the reduction.
I’ve gone once through vanilla. I’ve launched a rocket the one time. I feel like the majority of players and blog readers are modded up the wazoo, but this expansion is not really for them.

It’s for players like me who did not go beyond the base game.
Why LinkedIn is “cool” now
Much like a spotter won't kill you but their close associate the sniper very readily might.
Mooring ships to bridge supports (any ship, any bridge) is generally frowned upon for a whole slew of good reasons. If not outright forbidden (again, for good reasons).
If you think it's fine that you can log from all functions in other languages, then what's the problem with adding that constraint to all your Haskell functions to allow this?
we're going in this direction for code models with Refact https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact/ - right now you self-host code models, fine-tune them on local files, get the model running locally inside your IDE
> Second is "repair providers disclose the use on non-genuine or used parts" which indicates they may try to continue the serialisation of parts to force the repairer to buy replacement new parts, rather than being able to swap in known-working used or non-oem bits.

If you can't use other units for parts, it means that people don't have any reason to steal it.
Good points, but when you say it is less practical, how do you figure? More people than ever are using social media and AI to self-diagnose. So much that the surgeon general issued an advisory on mental health and scholars like Jonathan Haidt have been sounding off the alarms in the last few years.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/23/surgeon-general-is...
Real wages have risen over the last 50 years.
That might explain it!
Weight-loss drug can reverse heart failure symptoms
What a great way to make things that aren’t mobile responsive.

Maybe this one is better, but I’ve worked with a large enterprise web app that uses a similar approach and it’s horrible. Everything opens in a “window” and there is weird state being passed around windows (ie drag a item from list window to the form window to view details). Not fun on a desktop and zero chance of it working on a tablet or phone.
It might have been slightly out of spec in a way that the old software didn't care about, but a recent software improvement needed it to be in-spec after all.
It's entirely due to SWIFT availability and the cost of financial sanctions, not because of some grand moral crusade.
Well but it's not. Also, your reasoning would imply e.g. Qanon is true based on the number of people repeating the same thing, so that's pretty weak.
For those who do not want to DIY, there are Pinephone and Librem 5, based mostly on free software.
Anyone interested in this kind of thing might find Freeman Dyson's paper A Model for the Origin of Life [1] interesting. It's a purely statistical model, dealing with the most abstract properties of the component molecules. The summary from the paper:

Summary. A simple statistical model is constructed, describing the transition from disorder to order in a population of mutually catalytic molecules undergoing random mutations. The consequences of the model are calculated, and its possible relevance to the problem of the origin of life is discussed. The main conclusion of the analysis is that the model allows populations of several thousand molecular units to make the transition from disorder to order with reasonable probability.

I got on to this from the bit of his Web of Stories interview talking about it [2]. I listened to the whole interview recently, and highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.icts.res.in/sites/default/files/LivingMatter2018...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxlYsAzM_8I
All hail the new EU law that lets social media users quiet quit the algorithm
With Apple, the reason is usually security. For a third-party screen, it could take pictures of the display to steal information. With the iPhone being the target of state sponsored brigands, it is not theoretical. It is probably happening.

With the camera modules and batteries it’s a question of calibration and Apple clearly never thought anyone but them needed to calibrate the part.
Can't help but think that the static was included in post-editing to give the effect of 'raw' footage (like the visual static).
And...Such data on the open market is also available to the government, without an sort of court approval. Your phone meta data, your SAT scores, your honesty about those scores, etc. etc.

As long as Big Gov is buying this abuse will continue. Sure there will be staged events by Congress, etc. but it's not going to change.
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I would love it if AI is raised like that but so far it seems to be not the case. :|
As it should be! An official expansion should be playable for a casual human.

Despite that, as a modded wazooer, I am excited for this. Keep up the good job, wube!
>Apple obviously doesn’t want it because even under the best of circumstances it’s difficult to ensure consistency from repair to repair, much less between different technicians or locations.

We all understand why Apple wants these things: they are advantageous to Apple. But what I do with my phone after I bought it should not be Apple's concern.

>If anything it makes them look sketchy when that doesn’t need to be the outcome.

You yourself said that the local store is beloved, didn't you? Maybe most customers understand that the store is working within the confines of Apple's rules?

You should just use the Genius Bar. What's your problem with it?
That mostly depends on your previous diet.
we try to eliminate this problem by using code models trained only on permissevely licensed code, then you can run them locally without sending code anywhere
Perfectly reasonable, isn't it?

But in a sense when YOU learned language YOU also learned a world model. For instance when your teacher explains to you the difference between the tenses (had, have, will have) you realize that time is a thing that you need to think about. Even if you already had some sense of this, you now have it made explicit.

Why should we say the LLM hasn't learned a world model when it's done what a kid has done, and everyone agrees the kid understands things?

From what I see, there are some things it hasn't learned correctly. Notably with limbs, it doesn't know how fingers and elbows work, for some reason. But it does know something about what they should look like, and so we get these hilarious images. But I also don't see why it shouldn't overcome this eventually, since it's come pretty far as it is.
The same author also has some great references for SDF primitives to learn from:
https://iquilezles.org/articles/distfunctions/

An example of how different thinking in SDF is: in classic modeling, you define a 3D sphere mesh using a bunch of 3D coordinates (vertices), grouped into triangles for the surface. Therefore you need more vertices to make the sphere appear smoother.

On the other hand with SDF, you have a function that takes an arbitrary 3D coordinate and returns whether the coordinate is inside the sphere or not (easily done by comparing the distance from the center), meaning the smoothness of the sphere is already the maximum it can be.
mashed potatoes with kale isn't too bad. Especially if you add very small chunks of salted meat. It's definitely not as amazing and versatile as popular culture makes it out to be though.
Sounds like they are violating the United States Constitution through Congresses' illegal bulk data collection program and should be arrested and prosecuted for sedition.
having more plugin support is in our plans for sure. We're also open for contributions.
Also interesting are HERVs - human endogenous retroviruses which integrated into the human or our ancestor species’ genomes. They have degraded over time so none of the human hervs seem to be capable of activating but there are some in other mammals that can fully reactivate.

In humans even though hervs don’t reactivate into infectious viruses they have been implicated in both harmful (senescence during aging[0]) and beneficial (protection from modern retroviruses)[1] activities in the body.

They might be up to 8% of the human genome.

0: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(22)01530-6.pdf

1:https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-956/
My family of 4 uses

500 gallons of water here in Himalayan foothills.
Minimum wage raises encourage two things in business:

- automation, ie order at a kiosk at McDonald's
- not hiring for the job because it is not profitable to do.

This is what happens to low skill workers when we make low skill jobs too expensive.
This is probably the leading modern example of EEE: systemd.

It started from a faulty premise of blacklisting privilege for processes and resources.

Ideally, a process should be obtaining whitelist privileges.

At any rate, systemd is no longer a partitionable component where a sysadmin can pick and choose from the many components … in a true UNIX spirit: take it all or leave it.
Human is not the most efficient learner for walking. See other animals, e.g. deer or elephant, that walk straight after being born. Relevant since the discussion is not about human learning but animal learning in nature.
Using an IR camera for (more) accurate data is a very smart strategy. Bravo.

My insomnia-related anecdata: Spine surgery fixed my sleep hygiene.

Most of my feelings of anxiety were being triggered by impingement of nerves in my spine. That physical sensation brought on my mental state. Which may explain why none of the pharmacological treatments worked for me.

When I (finally) got surgery, most of my anxiousness was just gone.

I share this because a) resolving insomnia is hard b) having a difficult to diagnose and treat dis-ease doesn't mean you're crazy and c) exactly no one any where suggested anything like what I experienced.

I had all sorts of tests. I tried all sorts of drugs. I actually got the spine surgery to resolve a totally different problem.

So. Whatever you're experiencing, never accept "no" or "i don't know". Someone, somewhere has the answer(s) you need. Keep looking.
> There is a persistent structural imbalance in the U.S. workforce: too few people for all the jobs

Lies. If the minimum wage increased proportional to inflation, none of these "jobs" would exist.

The McDonalds sign-on bonus is nothing but a loan, just like all sign-on bonuses with a retention requirement. Such arrangements merely require that minimum wage is low enough to partition that compensation out of the base wage, a modern American financial industry to efficiently enforce the contracts, and a society with no remaining semblance of dignity in sight.
Gulags are good?
I don’t get the ‘OpenAI is a company not a person’ argument. Would those arguments go away if the GPT model had been published by a single individual, Satoshi style? The question of whether it’s okay for OpenAI to train an LLM on copyrighted material and sell the results would also go to whether you or I can train an LLM (or finetune one, or do any other kind of ML training), on copyrighted material and make commercial use of the result.

It seems to me OpenAI have done the equivalent of distilling a bunch of knowledge down into a book. And they’ve given that book a really good index.

They’re essentially an encyclopedia vendor. Just an exceedingly sophisticated one.

Back in the olden times publishers used to pay people to write encyclopedia entries based on summarizing stuff they had read in other books. Nowadays we still do the same thing only with volunteer time (Wikipedia requires everything it contains to be externally sourced, after all. You can’t write anything into a Wikipedia article without reading it somewhere copyrighted first).

OpenAI’s model isn’t so different. Source material, indexed and summarized to make it easier to search and use.
> Visiting the US I don't remember ever seeing anyone smoking

That’s probably because the places where people do smoke are less likely to be visited by tourists.
we were "back to the land" hippies (and had the monthly newspaper targeted toward people like us)... "self reliance" was a goal for many, as well as "can't afford to pay professionals to do it."