skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty trivial to fabricate a thought experiment where the genetic record looks one way and the historical record another.

Let's imagine we've got a thousand islands a million years ago, each with a thousand proto-humans living on them.

These islands live in peace and tranquility, with people occasionally swimming from one island to another to trade or visit or start a new life.

Then one year, one island decides it's had enough of peace and tranquility. It cuts off contact with all the other islands. From this point on, everyone born on that island is a descendant of only the thousand people living on that island, instead of intermingling with the neighboring islands over time, but there's still a million people.

Then, one generation, they go to war. They swim to a neighboring island, kill everyone there, and take it over, and then divide themselves between the two islands. The population drops from 1 million to 999,000. Over time, they expand to fill the two islands, and the population rises back to 1 million.

A hundred years later, they decide they need another island, so they swim to a third island, kill everyone there, and repeat.

Bit by bit, over the course of a hundred thousand years, the descendants of the original xenophobic island swim to each of the other thousand islands, kill everyone there, and repopulate.

In the genetic record, you have a bottleneck -- everyone descends from this small starting population. In the historic record, you just have a gradual pattern of migration and genocide. At no point does the population drop much below the original million; at no point does the population of pre-humans "almost go extinct".
Second page is even worse. Ends in repeated \cdots and doesn’t finish parsing page. Also it read number 73 as 3 I guess because the previous section number was 2.
I'm getting north of 90% success with GPT4, and while a dedicated tutor or a group instructor would definitely be better, none of the other non-human alternatives come close. Searching the internet and youtube tutorials can also lead to wrong information and false understanding - all self-directed methods have this pitfall. ChatGPT, however, is the only one where you can probe deeper once you find problems.

If I had to place it somewhere, it would be between a study buddy and a tutor, closer to a study buddy.

Still - a well designed study will give us a much better picture of where we actually are. I think that would be extremely valuable.
Normal math also concisely cites pre-existing theorems
If I may be pedantic in return

> The history of coffee is less than 600 years old.

The history of coffee being traded internationally is around 600 years old. Coffee began being "domesticated" (more in the Graeber "play-farming" sense of the word) at least 7k years ago

Likely even longer before that given the dominance of the plant in parts of Ethiopia. Today the few "coffee forests" remaining are protected ecosystems by UNESCO
I just had a look at the map to see what they say about a few well-known VPN providers like Mullvad and Express VPN. In the description for the latter the mapmakers claim that people like Ben Shapiro and Candace Ownens (two conservative commentators, one an orthodox Jew, the other a black woman of Nigerian/Caribbean descent) are "far-right misinformation specialists" which means I have to take the rest of their claims with a sizeable amount of salt as being biased and ideologically tainted. Stupid really since it certainly makes sense to expose the snake-oil salesmen peddling VPNs.
AI beats champion human pilots in head-to-head drone races
Like Cobol?

Coqobol?
my score was 5/20, every question in this quiz is uncanny :D
Is this a better source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
I Blame the W3C's HTML Standard for Ordered Lists: The Downfall of Civilization
I just switch over to using the API, which sucks because then I’m paying for the subscription and the API usage, but I don’t really have a choice. OpenAI uptime isn’t great for ChatGPT.
The issue is, what do you mean?

This time description in the indicated timezone, at the instant it is correct? (Ignore updates, I mean the time I said. E.G. The doors open at 8am every day.)

An indicated end of a duration, such as the period of time a mass of decaying radio-isotopes are valid for the sensor during? (Offhand, no consumer equipment comes to mind, but for an extremely sensitive calibrated sample it could matter and this is a contrived example.) Exact moment in monotonic time. (What about stretchy leap seconds too?)

Something between the two extremes?

Most humans probably want a default of something like...

"Looser more common use time unless I get more specific." So if a TZ is included, it isn't a fixed moment, but whatever specifier is the valid moment as that moment passes. Convert it to an absolute monotonic value at that time to record the event and not just the specification of when to capture the event's passing.

E.G.
Unix time Epoch was 1970-01-01 00:00:00~Z with an absolute reference value of 0s
DATE RoundedHour~US.EST => Actually is EDT but most people don't use that notation, and congress changed when DST happens yet again without abolishing it too, and this happened last year before the change but the event did run from Noon to 9PM with these event moment second values...
> How did we end up like this?

Shareholders, product managers, business people. Unlimited growth.

That's how these companies become shells of their former selfs.
Then let me reiterate my original comment, because I don't understand your argument against it:

>Humans have a limited amount of willpower. The average person can handle addressing a couple of these issues, but some people (especially the poor and the ill) have so many simultaneous issues that their willpower is too divided for them to make meaningful headway.

I also want to mention (again) that immigrating long distances or across closed borders is not free. It's actually very expensive, and often more expensive when done illegally (since those helping you are assuming a personal risk). It is not something that poor people can do. Someone might make themselves poor doing it, but that doesn't mean that they started with nothing.
Okay. That's a valid hypothesis. Genetic information from only 1280 identified alive during this particular time seems evidentiary of a low population during a specific time more than something that "just happened". For instance, if the 8 billion alive today only propagated through 1280 alive sometime in the future you would expect a near extinction event to be the cause (we know near extinction and extinction aren't particularly rare). Is there evidence that it just happened to be 1280 from a thriving population of hundreds of thousands or millions?

Edit: otherwise I'm not sure you can claim the hypothesis that a near extinction bottleneck is somehow more "misleading" than it was something that "just happened" to appear as a common event among species. Note -- near extinction does not have to be cataclysmic.
Now I really regret not encountering MOOs back in the day. It looks like it captures the fun parts even better than the LPMUD I knew. You're right that restarts of the server wiped out some objects (some were persisted, of course, but it wasn't a full-blown object database). You're also right about LP being more game-oriented - though I personally couldn't care less, there were normal players running around killing stuff, leveling, role-playing, and all that.

Unfortunately, I didn't know English back then, and the only choice I had was between Diku and LP. Well, it's not too late, this thread got me intrigued enough to take a closer look at MOOs (and MOOR), I think :)
You mind sharing the instruction guide to how you installed FreeBSD within UTM on Apple Silicon.

OpenBSD won’t even initialize on UTM/AppleSilicon for me.
Underresourced languages also are underresourced in terms of training data for LLMs, and so for smaller languages LLMs do have significantly more problems with sometimes generating something that's completely weird and wrong not only in terms of facts but also in terms of language, word choice or grammar.
They still make high quality ones, you just have to specifically get the "handblown series" (at 2-3x the price of the regular).

e.g. https://www.chemexcoffeemaker.com/eight-cup-handblown-series...
How would they sign up with an address that they couldn't verify?
Healthcare Policy Trend Maps
Moka pot rubber gaskets are replaceable.
So, basically:
performance accessing files on the host from the VM over NFS is not great, and this is bad.
performance accessing files in the VM from the host over NFS is not great, and this is ok .
Kind of self-contradictory
The video is running at 15x, though...
Half the voltage = 2x the amperage draw, not half, if I’m not mistaken.
I was thinking about a similar idea while reading the HN discussion on NASA's Deep Space Network issues. For the Artemis moon mission, instead of wasting precious DSN bandwidth, wouldn't it be better to simply store video on a hard drive and send it back to earth? That would even allow recording in full 4k. Same for things like the James Webb telescope. The latency is certainly much higher (a few days for hard drives to return to Earth and get sent back on rockets), but it seems the orders of magnitude higher bandwidth would be worth it
The leaders of these organizations are producing oil. That’s not illegal or bad in itself and on the whole petroleum products have made the world a better place by lifting hundreds of millions of people’s living standards and saving/extending lives.
Yes. There was a time in the early 1980s when a software-only company seemed unlikely to become big.

Two examples I was close to:

Interleaf. Interleaf was the first good commercial document processor.[1] Released in 1981. Ran on Sun workstations, quite well. Years ahead of Microsoft Word. The business model was that they would sell you four workstations, a server, and a laser printer for about $60,000. In my days at the aerospace company, we managed, with great difficulty, to get Interleaf to sell us the software alone, since we already had Sun workstations, a laser printer, and a phototypesetter. (Aerospace generates a lot of documents with diagrams.)

As a software-only company, they could not have obtained funding, or, probably, generated enough revenue to operate.

AutoCAD. The story of AutoCAD is well documented in The Autodesk File.[2] Autodesk was founded in 1982. A software-only company was not fundable back then. Autodesk started off with about $62,000 put in by the founders. (Market cap today, $47 billion.) The term sheets for some VC deals that didn't happen are in there.[3] "The overall flavour of the deal seemed to us totally inappropriate for a company which was, at the time of these negotiations, generating sales equal to the size of the deal every month and generating after-tax profits close to the size of the deal every quarter." Autodesk couldn't get funded on reasonable terms even after becoming wildly profitable.

It was an interesting time. There was so much that obviously needed doing and hadn't been done well yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaf

[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/

[3] https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_32.html
Not this again. Check the n-values on this study, aka the number of observed subjects. To "throwawayfear", cherry-picking studies doesn't make it so.
There may be 99% chance of failing the great filter in the 500M years before an industrial evolution and 99.99999999% chance of failing it in the 10K years past. Humankind invented nuclear weapons and had a lot of luck that they are hard to make and so far only 2 were used in anger. There's a good chance that with the progress of AI, nanotech, CRISPR very powerful weapons will become available to groups like ISIS - greatly decreasing humankind's chances of survival.
Yep. Even the boring, topology-agnostic 'macro' variables can be good proxies for difficulty: obstacles count, empty squares count, counts per piece type, etc. I don't have a direct source for this but the original echo chess post has a good EDA section (+ feature importance plots) covering the impact of such variables on solvability. At scale, average solvability of random levels might be a half-decent proxy for how the difficulty of individual ones would fluctuate.
"I’m decent at figuring things out ad-hoc, but that counts for nothing."

That counts for a lot. You shouldn't discount it. Some of the best programmers I every worked with didn't have a degree. However, having said that you need the passion for it. I'm assuming you still like tech, since you are posting on HN?

If you do want to give software a try again, maybe try working on an open source project. Most projects need all kinds of things besides programming. Writing tutorials for example or other developer advocate type things can lead to a different career.
> Well they keep threatening to nuke Ukraine

Well that's not nice.

> and like a dozen more countries, generally over things that happen in Ukraine.

Good? Like a dozen more countries overthrew a democratically elected government in ukraine. Good for russia for protecting democracy in ukraine.

> What war is Russia fighting against an existential threat that is trying to invade them again?.

Either this is the dumbest comment I've read or the most confused comment I've read. Who was japan an existential threat against? Who did japan invade 'again'?

> Why? even if they didn't work we probably wouldn't nuke them, we don't nuke people just because.

Ask the japanese about hiroshima and nagasaki...

> I have serious doubts about all of Russias nuke working given just how hollowed out and non-existent much cheaper parts of their military appear to be.

Then what are you crying about?
Released a small fix for this today.
The ABC conjecture "proof" is rejected because it uses definitions and arguments no one understands.

It would not necessarily be hard to program in those incoherent definitions and get them to prove a result. That wouldn't mean much.

This is different from just programming in the conjecture and letting Lean find a complete proof.
You can't control the vocabulary of others. Don't push the river.
Most of these are really funny, but I feel like they should have just left out the reasonable ones. There's enough of them that it kind of kills the humor after a certain amount of "actually this one is fine" imo.
Use HeidiSQL, It's free and easy to use.
> Search sucks primarily because there’s nothing worth searching for anymore.

I thought the same until recently. Google doesn't appear to be indexing/prioritizing anything that's old, infrequently updated, or noncompliant with AMP, even if it's an authoritative source.

People blame SEO gaming but I'd sooner accuse them of alignment tweaking (all old/outdated beliefs are purged; my queries were religious and controversial in nature). For some topics, there is still an entire other internet out there they pretend doesn't exist...that starts on page 1 of fucking Yandex.

Not advocating for Yandex specifically (I don't trust them) but...try other options (Kagi, Bing, etc.).
I don’t understand why they’ve made it US only during the beta period, seems like a weird decision.
Stop spreading misinformation
When computers write proofs, what's the point of mathematicians?
Most MicroSD cards can't sustain gigabit (125MB/s) write speeds, so gigabit fiber internet is faster than micro SD cards even with a teleporter.

The SanDisk Extreme Pro lists "Up to 200MB/s Read and 140 MB/s Write." This means the total speed (1 read + 1 write) is about 82MB/s which is slower than gigabit.
I think programmers should re-evaluate the stakes that they're playing with. Even seemingly inconsequential things can have pretty large impacts at the scale that programmers operate. For example, if a form that you write doesn't properly support unicode characters then you might have just locked out millions of people from non western countries from using your software.

And even worse, if you're building a "tiny low stakes" piece of a much larger software then you might end up accepting money from those paying customers who can no longer use your software because your form doesn't work for them. (I've had this happen to me personally). And then people don't bother fixing it because it's only 0.01% of the userbase.
The point is to talk to your coworker first. You can’t know their relationship with their manager so you could do harm even if you intend to help.
> Three years ago I'd say we were 50 years away. Now it feels more like 10.

I think those agents could actually reason though. LLMs do not do any reasoning. They produce plausibly reasonable text.
I'm not suggesting you couldn't do this directly via credit card payment via terminal. I think they should allow that. In fact, some systems DO allow this. My point is that if you make it a "dumb outlet" like the author suggest, it's literally identical to what we have today except you now have to bring your own charging cord (which, is inconvenient. Like bringing a gas pump handle and line with you to the gas station).
Small scale hydro is pretty old. 15-20 years ago I stayed in a small inn/hotel in China in a national park on a huge mountain that got its power via a water wheel on a stream fed by melting glaciers. It was fragile, so occasionally it get pushed off, causing power to go out while the hotel staff repositioned it.
that's dog years
What an absolute bizarre hill to die on.

As another commenter said: "...use UL, unordered list, and insert the numbers into the text."
Whether a task is meaningful or meaningless depends on how we think about meaning. I tend to think about it in terms of correspondences between structures. Such structures are usually what we think of as information, so this comment has meaning when interpreted using the corresponding knowledge of English in your brain. A computer simulation of the weather has meaning to the extent that it corresponds to actual weather, and its behaviour. The environmental mapping data structures in a Roomba’s memory has meaning to the extent it corresponds to the environment it is navigating.

So meaning is about correspondences, but also about achieving goals. We communicate for many reasons, maybe in this case to help us understand problems better. The weather simulation helps us plan activities. The Roomba’s map helps it clean the room. So there’s also an element of intentionality.

What is the intention behind these mathematical proofs? What are their correspondences to other information and goals?
As always in these cases, Use. A. Lawyer. Going through customer service is useless. Filing a complaint with their legal department is much more likely to get it resolved quickly.
> No, I don’t think China was right to crush democracy.

History has shown it to be right. All you have to do is look at the soviet union/russia.

> It doesn’t flow that their economic success was tied exclusively to authoritarianism.

No. But it is tied to the crushing of the 'democracy' rebellion.

> One might argue they would have a stronger domestic consumer economy if they hadn’t.

You can argue anything but you can't deny reality. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Wouldn't the CIA be more easily able to manipulate a small pool of representatives than an entire population? Like, WAY easier? (You can't blackmail millions of people.)

Also, how is a minoritarian rule of the rich (plutocracy) a more just system than democracy? Yeah, they have skin in the game, and the game is protecting their wealth instead of contributing to the commonwealth. There's a happy balance to be found in there, of course, but you don't want to arrive at it via pitchfork.
This also what philosophical discussion/debate is.
You are referring to the Paramount Decree, which is not longer in force:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic...
I disagree too. He asks “If it is truly exponential, why is it not just 28^2× (aka 784×) harder than hydrogen?”. The answer is that he misunderstood exponential growth, and thus it is at least 19342813113834066795298816× harder than hydrogen.
Which is why humans are very sensitive to interbreeding
Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format
I'm not saying it's an issue with the research. It's very likely the researchers thought of this.

It IS an issue with the article linked here, since it does not explain the research and causes readers to walk away believing there were only 1280 people.
We need a P2P model hosting solution. Napster for ML models. Could just be a thin layer on top of bittorrent.
> Everything in the solar system is extrasolar if you go back far enough

That is not true the composition and material of our solar system are the result of a Supernova remnants. The element composition of each nebula is unique since no star is exactly the same(although it could be quite similar), but outside of the other stars that formed alongside our sun 4.5 billion years ago, other solar systems have different element and isotope ratios.
We have similar experiences and have learned similar lessons.

The point here is that you don’t know where other people are right now. Treat them like adults, talk to them, and don’t put them in compromising positions. Unsolicited feedback to management has the potential to do harm so don’t do it. Just ask first, it’s not difficult.
You might want to watch this video for a different perspective:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3g5HkfUrna0
The use of a spam filter suggests that some moderation is widely acceptable. Another problem is how disinformation spreads, which can cause significant harm when it influences people's perspectives to not get the whooping cough vaccine, for a fairly controversial example.

People are monkeys. Monkey see, monkey do.
Did you read the article you posted?

-ChatGPT initially gives the same diagnosis the vets did, Babesiosis

-It notes that Babesiosis may have either been a misdiagnosis or there may be a secondary condition/infection causing the remaining symptoms after the Babesiosis treatment didn't resolve all of them

-It suggests such a hypothetical secondary condition could be IMHA, which the article notes is an extremely common complication of Babesiosis with this specific dog breed

-A quick Google search brings up a fair amount of literature about the association between Babesiosis and IMHA

So in fact this is the opposite of a never before seen situation, ChatGPT was just regurgitating common comorbidities of Babesiosis and the vets in question are terrible at their job.
Wouldn't be the first time that a one-person-show ends when lead developer leaves the stage.

More interesting question: would it have survived (longer) had it not been named after the guy?
One small step for man, one giant leap for Gorn combat.
> Binary classification into deterministic query building.

I have no clue what this means.
> It doesn't really handle complex problems, at least like the ones you'd find in a college level math or physics course

Those complex problems are taught and asked in college level classes because of Wolfram Alpha. Like the parent commenter mentioned, classes had to adapt to new technology and since Wolfram Alpha could solve the straightforward questions, college classes started asking more complex ones with multiple steps and where the problem needs to be reframed in order to actually solve it.
Unconditional cash transfers reduce the incentives to work and develop, as they create the feeling of being covered by the State for life
It's not efficacy data exactly but there was a news article a while back with some interesting perspectives on implementation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/technology/newark-schools...
Quite the opposite. The majority of people I will believe some random bogus psych or nutrition study the news, while denying quantum mechanics results.
They just bring up the unsympathetic ones as a defense for what they are doing.

A lot of their targets are more sympathetic. For instance, the moderators have said they are ok with doxxing children: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/DSt5K