skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We fund Eleuther AI too as it says there (but made sure it can run independent when 501(c)3 set up) and provided compute for RWKV.

Conjecture was meant to be alignment so can't really support, stability scaled resource provision.
Yes, antitrust is probably not the best conceptual framework to think about the problems arising from having several very similar vertically integrated platforms.

The EU's upcoming Digital Markets Act seems to more explicitly target that problem – I'm very curious how that will go.
> What you have just described is being a generalist vs a specialist.

Sorry, no. Those concepts are unrelated to what we're describing.

> Also, all concepts are “made up”. By definition.

I was trying to be polite. Made up by you and nonsensical, is the more accurate phrasing. Respectfully. But I'll be stopping here. Enjoy the day!
Wasnt it that IE was being pushed by the monopoly desktop operating system.

afaik, thats still the case.
Is there not a group policy for disabling all that stuff, for security reasons?
The same that have helped to push Chrome almost everywhere.
Ugh. Terrible tactics. Good thing I removed my email/phone from CV upon uploading it to them.
Datura being anticholinergic degrades the effect of acetylcholine, which is one of the components of (regular) attention. So no wonder it seems scary. But would you have the same experience after, for example, 10 days of continuous mindfulness/focusing meditation? Or after 30 days?
I wonder what happens at microsoft. What do they do all day? I've tried to use microsoft products and follow the happy path that they designed and be a good boy and even then nothing seems to work. Like I remember the other day I changed the configuration on a domain but the changes didn't take effect for over an hour because I was supposed to reboot the client I was working on, even though there were no instructions telling me to do that. Why? Who is this stuff for? Would this stuff make sense to me if I was microsoft certified?
Ask HN: Computing Side Project Ideas?
This year, I have been striving toward one of my long-term goals: to build a programming language. This has been a great way to exercise my technical muscles.

I wonder what other "computing"-type side project ideas are out there in which one would refine their programming skills (as opposed to interest-based projects like an app to do X or projects with monetization potential).

Examples off the top of my head:

- Make a programming language
- Build a database or query language
- Build a kernel module
- Implement a protocol (TCP, HTTP, UDP)
- Write code in a functional language
- Implement Git

What other ideas fall into this category?
Invest in bikes and nuclear and trains
How many employees does your company have? Less than 50, ok maybe push the limit but honestly if it’s more than 25 people across the company your ability to get recognized is hamstrung by bureaucracy. Anything more than 25 people should honestly be met by “just good enough to be better than the other guys” and the realization that tenure and political pull, not talent, is rewarded.

If you want to stand out then you need to go somewhere that you can.
Feed forward Neural Networks, like LLMs using attention are effectively Directed acyclic graphs, so it has little it can do to 'evaluate from the outside'

Even if you can move to second-order logic logically-valid formulas in second-order logic is not recursively enumerable. AS RE problems are those which a Turing machine can answer "YES" in a finite amount of time, but a "NO" answer might never come, moving out of RE spaces like DAGs is not computationally feasible.

The problem with 'pattern finding' is that it can learn some even HoL problems if it is in the corpus, but will fail on even simpler problems that weren't.

Here is one paper that explains this. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09723

"A persistent problem in corpus-based ML, in all its applications, is that the patterns that the AI finds do not actually reflect the fundamental characteristic of the problem, but rather superficial regularities in the training data, known as “artifacts”.

LLMs aren't doing the 'logic' of the math problems, they are finding patterns in their training data that are hopefully close enough to work for the presented problem.

This is why you can use AI to say learn about intervals on the real line, as those are of finite VC dimensionality, but algebra questions that are outside of it's corpus tend to be very difficult for LLMs to be correct on.

And obviously issues like the Entscheidungsproblem don't magically go away because we have a tool like ML that is far more computationally efficient than brute force, but still insufficient.

As LLM's will confidently present wrong answers as correct, how is that helpful for students?
Carper is technically a Stability AI lab and community https://twitter.com/carperai

Core are full time Stability AI
desirable models of Porsche cars will appreciate
> The Union has stepped in and implemented a workaround

The USPS is, itself, an issuer of money orders. I assumed that's what they were referring to. I'm not sure at all how the union "implemented" anything here.
I meant Kotlin, i totally whiffed. (can you tell i don't write Swift or Kotlin?) :)

(Swift for currying, based on your example, isn't terrible actually!)
1) This is never explained to visitors in way that'd get their attention - for example, getting a paper from immigration explaining that's available. Too complicated for now. Maybe once this is available outside the airport it's more viable. Strongly recommend visitors to just take out cash, and carry the amount they need per day + 50% on them. Personally I got by living in India for several years primarily using my American Express card which was accepted at more places than I expected.

2) I wouldn't advise visiting foreigners to get a sim as it requires passing your passport scans to untrustworthy low-level staff at the cell companies. It worries me how they take the passport to a backroom to scan it. I worry they're selling/distributing copies. I realize hotel staff also scan passports but they have reputations to protect and are less likely to. Google Fi/T-mobile roaming or an e-sim via Airolo are much more appropriate and wise choices for short term travelers. If you know somebody in India however, asking for a SIM is totally fine. You can pay to add funds via an international service like Xoom or an American Express card in the Airtel app (which worked for me occasionally)

Protip about American Express cards in India, and the reason I mention it several times. I lost mine last time I was visiting and they sent a new one to my hotel in under 48 hours.
a partition of Euclidean space into two convex sets ;)
worldview3 and pléiades neo have about 30cm per pixel (the images are sold by third-party vendors such as maxar, airbus)
They collect that data for a reason - if you only look back to 1850 then it's hard to know if you understand the cyclical aspects of the system.

Also bear in mind that data from ~1850 to 1950 is extremely sparse for most of the Earth's surface. Other than the USA very few places had widespread thermometer readings recorded during that era. For example the southern hemisphere outside of coastal Australia has almost no data. The error bars are also very wide, climatologists make big adjustments to the older data because they think the thermometers weren't being read correctly.
That's how it is supposed to work in theory, in reality emergency vehicles will use whatever lane has open space. If that happens to be the middle lane or right lane, or sometimes even the shoulder, they will go there.

Eg. Let's say you have a three lane highway with a block of cars cruising in the middle lane and one car slowly passing in the left lane, with the right lane clear. An emergency vehicle rapidly approaching sees this and moves to the clear right lane. Technically you are supposed to move right to allow them to pass on the left, but they are already passing on the right, so moving over would impede them.
I had thought that the argument was that bundling was more using Windows (near monopoly) to prop up IE usage, rather than vice-versa. If in 2001 (with no smartphones), IE only runs on Windows, it's kind of hard to have IE have a _higher_ share of the market than Windows.
Not just U.S. Just ask the German green party whether to invest money in a new highway or in a new train track. The result may surprise you. I wouldn't know why anyone votes for these clowns if not for that the other parties don't even claim they'll do something good for climate if elected

But at least they succeeded in getting rid of nuclear ¯\_(:))_/¯
Put that energy in side hustles / side projects, my friend.

Or threaten to leave and get a real raise
Haha I asked my wife. She said Manacled is what you want to search for.
I have a few ghost mine stories I would like to dig deeper on, but the people who worked on the tunnels, are dead. I would like to connect and see if I can't learn more. Anywho, this is inspirational and good shooting, tex.
Don't take xanax before the trip; and if you are really so inclined, just have the proper dosage ready nearby. The trick is /knowing/ that you can stop it. But treat it as a last resort.

If you let go, the fear will melt away on its own. If it does, you'll find a level of peace and clarity. If it doesn't, even a bad trip can teach you something, if you step outside your mind and observe it like a scientist of yourself. This is part of gaining experience. This is part of the point of taking a psychedelic in the first place. If you chemically alter the fear away, you will never learn this. Start with a small dose, in a peaceful setting, with someone you trust who has done it before, do not re-dose during your first trip.

Take shrooms or acid if you want to. They are serious drugs but akin to a lucid dream, if you believe in the adverse effects then they will hold more weight on your psyche. In this sense OP's comments are doing a massive disservice.

Go to erowid and study up from there, instead of taking OP's obviously projected advice.

(Also, in another comment, OP writes that it is impossible to OD on benzos alone, which is false. Judge the quality of the information for yourself.)
For the record, I did recognize the name. That's why I believed talking to them was useful.
In a similar way that a scalpel helps execute a surgery that's inoperable without a scalpel. There's a lot of difference between a scalpel and a 'robot' but its a tool nonetheless.

In other words, I agree with what you are saying.
Who the hell wouldn't like automatically renewing BJs?! smirk
If I'm reading the literature correctly, there are plenty of industrial processes producing streams of CO2, such as concrete manufacturer, that wouldn't even require separating the CO2 from "raw" air per se. At least the initial success of any electrolysis will probably be as a bolt on to these processes, to reduce their CO2 output IMHO.
If you were a child in the 1960s or 1970s then this is surely the case. However, if you'd been a child in the 1930s and then were talking about climate in the 1960s or 1970s it'd have been the other way around, you'd be talking about how it'd got colder.

You can't extrapolate from a feeling about a single lifetime to hundreds of years into the future, that's just nowhere near enough data points. Speaking personally, I've seen no difference in number of snowy winters over my lifetime.
Respiration is based on metabolism and the overwhelmingly prominent elements in human exhalation (exclusive of preexisting atmospheric components) are carbon (as CO2) and hydrogen (as H2O), neither of which are likely radioisotopic components of contaminated food.

Cesium would be excreted as solid waste, winding up in water treatment plant sludge.

For combusted carcasses, absent particulates (which could be largely trapped via scubbers), that would likely wind up principally as ash.
> but that is not surprising, profound or interesting

This is your opinion based on your knowledge (or possibly lack thereof) of the world, and these are fundamentally subjective states. Used here, they instruct the brain to limit itself and humorously illustrate the broader point nicely I think. Plenty of people find these things interesting, which is again a subjective state. It's unclear what point you're trying to make here.

> Anything we think or feel about the world is a flawed and limited interpretation, including awe and wonder.

This misses the point. There are many concepts/ideas/labels that actively oversimplify the world and create misconceptions about it. Even just calling a tree a tree limits the perspective of the observer.

The point is not that we can ever fully experience or comprehend existence. The point is that there are many ways that we actively limit our experience of it, and that we can broaden our experience when we stop doing so.

This is not a claim that doing so allows us to experience all of existence in some perfect/pristine way. That's beside the point. Language filters experience when our understanding of the language used leads us to draw conclusions about experience that are less complete than they could be. Removing the filter can increase what we experience, but we're still fundamentally limited by our sense organs, brains, etc.

> Anything we think or feel about the world is a flawed and limited interpretation, including awe and wonder.

This is also beside the point. From a purely utilitarian perspective, awe and wonder are useful and enjoyable to experience, and inspire people to do things. More awe and wonder can be a good thing if it leads to outcomes that benefit the person experiencing them. If changing the way we engage with the world by removing the conceptual and linguistic filters we apply by default leads to more awe and wonder, that's a net benefit.

I'm not sure what it means for awe and wonder to be "flawed", unless you expect those feelings/emotions to somehow be a perfect reflection of reality, and I don't think anyone is saying that is the case. They're a tiny subset of a larger spectrum of emotional states we experience, but it seems like a non-sequitur to say they're flawed. As far as I can tell, humans can only experience a subset of reality, and I think this is what you're getting at, but by arguing against a point that was never made.

Simply put: less interpretation can lead to more awe and wonder. More awe and wonder feels good, and we like feeling good. Perfection is unrelated to the point.

And of course it's worth mentioning that "awe and wonder" are words tied to concepts that map to emotional states. Yet another linguistic filter on top of a much broader set of experiences/emotions/feelings. So in that sense, a description of awe and wonder is insufficient to communicate the phenomena. But this has no bearing on the actual experience itself, and again, they're just feelings, not some grand theory that explains existence.
Ticking is achieved with stepper motors. Whatever motor is required to smoothly rotate uses more power.
> LSD will fry your brain. Mushrooms will make you so open, your brain falls out.

And DMT doesn't have that risk? Press X to doubt. I've done a tremendous amount of research on harm reduction, and all sources list a pretty similar risk profile for all classical psychedelics. Perhaps DMT administration is more self-limiting than other 5-HT2a class drugs, but it still very much can cause lasting negative psychological effects.
> so let's make autonomous killing robots.

I think that this is not ethics or something that stops us from doing that, but rather the poor state of robotics.

The second we can, we will have autonomous killing robots à la Terminator (but better because they are not really optimal by looking like us)
I'm trying to figure out why I instinctively hate this.

I think it's probably because the purpose of computer languages is different from human language. It's certainly valuable to have a linter to make sure the code works, and there's probably value in "style" as well for readability.

But when you get to human language, I don't know, feels like you have the potential to suck out soul/creativity etc. As in, I imagine you throw a great poem or something in here and of course it will tear it apart.
“Manacled Harry Potter” will get you where you want to be. Warning, we ate cold sandwiches for a few days until she was done reading it!
I wonder if changing the region settings to Europe provides an improvement.
also nicely covered in the Secret Life of Radio in context of the development of radio communication.

https://youtu.be/LMxate9gegg?si=Z5pANQTsQGIosIcU
Electric airplanes are becoming a real thing, at least for regional travel.
Except that the previous day, August 31st, TSLA was up to 257.96

So... that's a tumble.
Hmm, interesting study. I wonder if the same goes for humans...
I’m not advocating that users ignore the possibility of spying. All software has the potential to spy on you. But that does not mean you can publicly accuse a developer who wants to add telemetry of spying.

> Users should be able to trust that their software won't be blabbing over the network about what you're doing.

Says who? That’s just your opinion. My opinion is that if an exception happens in my software that makes it harder for me to use, the developer should be aware of the issue and fix it so that the software works correctly in the future. There isn’t anything wrong with your opinion, but there is something wrong of accusing the developer of some type of impropriety just because they want to use telemetry.
Interesting, then you just use a smartphone for everything? I would never be able to do any serious stuff on a phone, like shopping and comparing prices, doing any sensitive banking related stuff, etc. I mainly use my phone for Reddit, HN, YouTube and music/podcasts/audiobooks. I do have banking apps and Amazon on there but I don't use them for any serious shopping. I use my laptop for everything mainly.
For home use, I haven't had too many problems with mainstream Linux distros in a while. I'm tech literate, but not a technology professional.
> I think there's a world of difference between "someone misunderstood something and published an incorrect article" and "someone deliberately wrote misleading headline".

There's a difference, but I don't really see the "world" of difference. They both seem like fundamentally irresponsible journalism. Case (a) should never happen because there's an assumption of due diligence, and case (b) should never happen because there's an assumption of truth-seeking. Not doing due diligence is pretty close to ignoring (or at the very least not caring about) the truth.
The technology is not at all questionable thermodynamically, because it has been working for billions of years in the form used by plants.

We are already able to do the conversion from solar light to electrical energy at better efficiency than the plants and sooner or later we should be able to reach similar efficiency with the plants at carbon dioxide reduction into hydrocarbons.

If someone will succeed to solve the difficulties of the direct electrolysis of CO2 or of carbonates, we may exceed the efficiency of the plants, which reduce CO2 indirectly, with hydrogen obtained by the photolysis of water.

The conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons is precisely the only solution to the CO2 problem that cannot be questioned in any way, because it is the only solution about which it is known with certainty that it works, as anyone can see by just opening a window and looking outside.

Using energy from fossil fuels for carbon capture is so obviously absurd that nobody could do such a silly thing.

Normally any carbon capture installation must be powered by solar or wind energy, simultaneously solving the problem of the energy storage.
Having been in a situation where I've asked for one of these accounts, the bank asks for FRRO registration paperwork. If you've ever been to a FRRO, you know they won't actually grant those :)
I love the gall to title the popup as "Suggested." As if this was somehow based upon a careful examination of my habits and profile and some matching algorithm managed to reveal this new and wonderful opportunity that I was _sure_ to want to receive.

Redmond product managers all appear to add pure negative value to me. All of their products do this routine of triumphantly blasting things that I would never want right on top of my experience under the guide of somehow helping or benefiting me.
>> One of the big Windows 10 S problems is back in Windows 11, though.
>> 1. You buy a device with Windows 11

I realize i'm techy an have techy friends, but I dont know anyone who has purchased a Windows machine in a decade. No one in my household, none of my friends, no office i've been at since 2017.

The only interaction I have with windows is an old laptop used for MS Visio, which immediately dual-boots to Ubuntu when visio use is over.

I rarely see anyone at conferences with anything but a macbook.

My assumption was that the 30% market share windows has (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share) is from old-school corporations, government, city hall, etc. Am I missing something?
Oh god, don't get me started. Had to help my 80 year old dad get his new windows 11 laptop setup recently. All he wants in his golden years is to click an icon and play solitaire from time to time.

Now it's all in one Microsoft store app with a collection of classic games, fine. But when you click minesweeper it doesn't start minesweeper, it opens the microsoft store, even after it's installed.

And he accidentally clicks a banner ad instead of the Spider freecell icon because they're identical and placed over each other. And instead of just changing the number of decks he has to answer questions about settings, coins to collect or something... it's insane.
The real issue that I see with GMO is the reason for it, namely creating crops immune to poison. I am all for GMOs that produce a better plant but the practical result of GMO is a plant that can tolerate poison.
Seems like you forgot the URL in your post
Thank you. I will be more thoughtful next time.
This is for when three different people on your marketing team decide to come up with “opensource”, “open source”, and “open-source” respectively when writing whitepapers.
Cocaine is anesthetic in one context and stimulant in another. Meth can be sedative in specific contexts (according to dr. Andrew Weil). The classification above may be partially useful, but obviously not effective.
Doesn’t your employer provide Windows Enterprise? It should be possible to turn off that stuff, at least that’s my experience at work.
> I asked you if they could express their feelings.

And I asked how we can test whether someone has actual feelings or any other kind of conscious internal experience. If it's "obvious" then why is there no consensus on the whole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie thing?

> There's no point in us conversing

I gave this conversation to an LLM to respond to.
Ok, but I know people who invest poorly and never rebalance. It's not a priority for them. Professional help would be a win-win for both, even after fees.
Upwork can work for very niche things as a extra channel. I've seen it work for people selling packages of "I'll fork bitcoin for you for 2k".
For normal contracts it's terrible.

I started on freelancer websites when I was 15 and it was nice to bag 20$ per hour plus extra if I happened to be faster.

But the more experienced you get the more you can charge and use your network instead of cheap jobs on Upwork.
No regular brand of charcoal contains coal.

Please link just one brand that does and I’ll withdraw my complaint but I’ve worked in the industry and very much doubt this.
It still blows my mind that so many people are okay with beta testing software that controls a several-tonne metal box on wheels moving at 100km/h+ on shared roadways.
No regular brand of charcoal contains coal.
Please link just one brand that does and I’ll withdraw my complaint but I’ve worked in the industry and very much doubt this.