skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sci-fi often mentions silicon based life and I recall asking about it in a biology class ages ago. Never diving deeply, I just assumed it was a possibility somewhere. This video goes over some basics in physics and chemistry, which disadvantage non-carbon-based life, Carl Sagan's "carbon chauvinism. The main parts are:

- difference in bond angles, where silicon prefers to bond with oxygen than itself, so you don't get long complex chains like with hydrocarbons

- difference in energy to bond, which carbon does with less energy

- difference in solubility, where carbon doesn't dissolve immediately in water (the universal solvent) but silica (sand, 1 silicon and 2 oxygen) does instantly, requiring a different solvent for silicon based life
Our teeth suggest "no."
I’m a much bigger fan of the magazine article title “Red Shift”. I’m sure the New Yorker changes it’s online titles to optimize for clicks, but I usually find them much worse.
Which is obviously irrational, so maybe we shouldn't care about such individuals, at least in long term.
Unfortunately you never know how you'll react until you are in that situation yourself. Nicotine and caffeine aren't really addictive for me, but on a whim I tried some kratom capsules for back pain. After taking them daily for a week or so, I started feeling really drained after work. As a test, I took another capsule to see what would happen, and I started feeling better again.

Threw away the rest of the capsules. If my physiology reacts in such a way, it means I was beginning to develop a physical addiction to it. To Kratom, of all things.

It kind of opened my eyes to how quickly it can happen to people as well as how the desire to feel better and reduce suffering can easily lead us to ruin if we aren't careful and attentive.
Headline ending in question mark = answer is no.
I love reading articles from established, prestigious media outlets that are less considered and less informative than years old youtube videos on the same topic made by some 20 something for nothing.
Mine doesn't have a date at the bottom, just a macOS version number.
My keyboard journey led me to a committed ltr with a topre realforce rgb, with the dampeners added under the keys. My mouse is a left handed steelseries sensei 10.
IIRC collect2 is only required on a few weird platforms such as AIX.
The thing is, the tuber never fights back. The energy expended on a fruit/mushroom/tuber/plant hunt is predictable, manageable, and can be expended by a large group. Only fit, trained hunters can reliably bring down an animal capable of feeding 100 people, and even then some of them are going to be injured or killed at some point. There's a reason that a lot of hunting and trapping involves fairly small animals, rather than megafauna; when you're netting birds for example the worst thing that happens is you miss.

Fishing is great, if you live near bodies of water with lots of fish in them. Coastal communities probably did eat a LOT of fish for much of human history, but only so many fish come up to the coast. Fishing gear is also a bitch to build and maintain by hand, in cultures that still do it making new nets and repairing old ones is a full time job for at least one member of each family.

Animal protein also requires prompt preservation or eating, whereas a bunch of yams, cassava and so on can be reliably kept for a very long time.
> humanity has been functionally removed from natural selection for hundreds of years.

Evolution of humans is still happening. It's determined by how many of your children survive long enough to reproduce. If you don't have children, for whatever reason, your DNA is edited out of the future.

The factors that drive this have certainly changed over the centuries, but they're always going to be in play (until people are able to customize DNA).

See the movie "Idiocracy" for one take on this.
> I could kind of see things either way. Is this like not providing the source code, or is it like not providing the IDE, debugger, compiler, and linter that was used to write the source code?

Do the engineers that made this hand edit this file? Or did they have other source that they used and this is the build product?

> (Also, it feels a bit "looking a gift horse in the mouth" to criticize people who are giving away a cutting-edge model that can be used freely.)

Windows was free for a year. Did that make it open source?
You must have skimmed the article because it said over and over that it was basically impossible to definitively identify that a baby was shaken. It's a diagnosis they use when they're not sure.
chef kiss at the analogy of Facebook with dog shit.
Many people experiment with diets like this in an attempt to improve auto-immune and chronic conditions which are not well understood by science. I have no idea how efficacious this is, but it seems like a common refrain.
Yes, this (and that I don't trust the bots) is why I've removed my websites from being publicly accessible. It's the only way I can think of to be sure I'm not contributing to these models in any meaningful way.
The built-in macOS functionality for remapping modifier keys so that 'PC' keyboards behave as expected in macOS is relatively new, so maybe longstanding macOS users are less aware of it. But third party apps did have the capability to retrofit that into macOS before Apple added that feature, as well.
no if so we would only be able to properly digest meat

also nature doesn't intend

it just does do

and the chaos of reality will discard

mostly what doesn't work

but sometimes what works too
It explains the broad joke, but gets the labels wrong.

Says that the small buns are labeled "GPU and VRAM" and the massive fried chicken is labeled "NVIDIA BURGER"

Should say that the small bun is labeled "VRAM" and the massive fried chicken is labeled "GPU"
You know, that's fair. Didn't think of that.
My favorite crazy quote from one of these influencers mentioned in the article is this one:

“plants are poison—they don’t want to be eaten, and have, as a result, evolved defensive chemicals designed to disrupt your digestion”

As if animals do want to be eaten. I’d argue that animals don’t want to be eaten even more than plants.
I tried to spin up a free plan and run the whisper demo on a new worker and it immediately just gives me an:

Error 1102
Worker exceeded resource limits

Did I mess up the config or is it just not intended to be tried out without being on a paid plan already?
Get ready with the latest beta releases
Nathan Shelley: "Well, that she laughs in my face and says no. And that I scurry away, humiliated, never to be allowed in my favorite restaurant ever again. So that the next time we have some kind of family celebration, I'll just have to... you know... sit on the pavement outside eating take away fish and chips watching you through the window like some Dickensian street urchin."
My friend got scurvy doing this diet, which I cannot help laughing about because I only think of pirates getting scurvy, but now when I hear the word, I picture my friend.

Come to think of it, he does look scruffy and a bit malnourished like I imagine pirates of old looking, but he is thinner than he's been in years.
Please make at least a vague reference, I haven't read him.
Eh, I probably wouldn't bat an eye, unless if you had a reputation of being culturally insensitive. If you wanna play it safe, you can postmark "... and yes, I agree, it is a bit gimmicky."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_diet

> A fad diet is a diet that is popular, generally only for a short time, similar to fads in fashion, without being a standard dietary recommendation, and often making pseudoscientific or unreasonable claims for fast weight loss or health improvements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_diet

> The carnivore diet (also called a zero carb diet) is a fad diet

> There is no clinical evidence that the carnivore diet provides any health benefits.[2][12][13] Dietitians dismiss the carnivore diet as an extreme fad diet
> I said "constructed algorithmically". Ie. I expect source to be at the level the engineers who built it generally worked at.

I could either point out that JPEG is an algorithm, or ask if you can recreate a sunset.

> All of that just sounds like reasons why it's not practical to open source it

No, they're reasons why the stuff you want doesn't matter.

If you can actually afford to create a model of your own, you don't need to ask: the entire internet is right there. Some of it even has explicitly friendly licensing terms.

An LLM with a friendly license is something you can freely integrate into other things which need friendly licensing. That's valuable all by itself.
We've evolved to rely on cooked food. Our teeth and short digestive tract betray this.
Sure, but we need some way of talking about it. How would you say something like "Nature intended humans to live on land, not underwater"
Gaming is a huge market, and if you go in to any free to play game it's absolutely inundated with kids/preteens.

You can also roam using apps that let you do Google street view stuff in VR, create art, watch movies in a theater like experience alone or by yourself, and of course a lot of people use it for porn.

Even usual non-gamers love stuff like Walkabout Mini Golf or Star Wars Pinball.
That depends heavily on the abundance of edible in your area, which by necessity were usually the places people were, and the techniques available for you to hunt. In the pre paleolithic era hunts were often long and multi person affairs to trap and exhaust an animal. Even after the invention of stone tools you needed large parties to really even get close to ensuring you were just hunting all day for nothing.
Hm IDK. Many cultures did and even still revolve atound hunting large game. Thre are tribes in Siberia that follow around Caribou and dont exactly have a lot of vegetation to forage.

It might be more intensive to harvest but it has a lot more calories and precious fat.
It's a wicked and pervasive problem in academia. Put otherwise capable people in a pathological incentive matrix and this is what happens.
As a math major, I would say that editing a textbook or even adding a few theorems or corrections would not make you a first-rate mathematician.

The ceiling in math is very very high. If we're calling Theon first-rate then what do we say about Gauss?
The home birth obsession makes me so angry. My wife had a really bad postpartum hemorrhage when our daughter was born. Thankfully, we were in the hospital, so the obstetrics team was able to stop the bleeding and get her stabilized. She'd have likely died if it was a home birth.

What's even crazier is that in most of the US, midwives only need a high school diploma and a midwifery certificate - or in many states, no education is required at all as the title "midwife" is not protected. The vast majority of the rest of the developed world requires midwives to either be professional nurses with additional training in midwifery, or to have a special four year midwifery degree (eg: here in Canada, midwifery is a bachelor's degree). Many parents in the US who opt for a home birth are likely unaware of how underqualified many American midwives are compared to their international counterparts to respond to an obstetric emergency.
If you add value and management threatens you it's both wrong and a mistake on their part - in that it goes against managements interest.

If the Union does the same thing it's wrong - because threatening people is wrong - but not actually against their interests because as you say a Union isn't interested in the company doing well. All the company does is exploit them and the customers. The Union just wants to make sure they get a pound of flesh out of the company (and presumably the customers too).
But the source to train your own LLM equivalent is also released though (minus the data). Hence why there are so many variants of LLaMa. You also can’t fine tune it without the original model structure. The weights give the community a starting point so they don’t need literally millions of dollar worth of compute power to get to the same step.
Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer
>lions? Tigers?

And it's super energy intensive! Those guys spend up to 20 hours a day sleeping.
That seems pretty reasonable. That's for the app-server cluster to generate uncached results, and propogate them. In general the app server will do this upon the change occurring, before a user actually asks for the page/information.

Users should only really see this when performing "mutable" operations (submitting edits, adding new pages or content) or when searching uncommon queries.

I doubt it's anywhere close to the critical path for the average guest, casual user, or even contributor. I'd suspect the only type of user who would find themselves hitting those appserver requests frequently would be moderators and admins.
You can think that all you want. It's still wrong. It isn't working. At all.
> Is "Doom" open source?

> The source code to the engine is available and open, but if you want to do anything useful or recreate the original game, you have to provide your own data.

The Doom executable is open source. The data is not. Explicitly, the data is under a different license than the GPL and makes no claims about being open source. There are total conversion mods that replace the closed source levels with open source ones however.

> This model is open source, much in a similar way that the Doom engine is open source.

Here's the source the engineers that created doom used to build the doom engine: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM

Where is the source used to build this model?
You can flip the ordering: live somewhere sufficiently dense and walkable, then make friends there. I’m not sure if this works for especially transient cities (SF, DC), but it’s my story in Denver, and I gather works well in a lot of mid-tier cities (or anywhere you could conceivably buy housing where it’s dense instead of rent forever, always moving).

(Caveat: this is in retrospect and certainly wasn’t my original intention. I thought I’d be here two or three years tops and then leave the states again.)
Most you know might well have started young - many do -, but in terms of getting books published, as per the subject here, the overall numbers are quite clear.

> That just means they married someone with a real job.

Yes, that was exactly the point - to a large extent writing is subsidized by other jobs, and so there is a significant element of privilege involved.
In practice it depends a lot on the environment you live in. As a general rule, the colder/drier the climate, the harder to live from plants alone.

In some places the only vegetation is mostly useless for humans, consisting almost only of cellulose, but this can sustain ruminants that can then be hunted or domesticated by humans.

On the other hand, hunting in a tropical jungle is pretty difficult, but then you have an abundance of fruits and roots and so, your diet will have far less meat and a lot more plants.
I don't think it's unachievable by others, but it's probably not achievable exclusively from following a template or immitating a play book. This in turn means that articles, books, seminars that provide a template or a play book inadvertently pray on people desperately hoping to replicate financial success themselves.

Also, I believe, mathematically, since money is a finite resource, having an outsize amount of it, compared to the average, implies that not everyone can be in that situation. Which would mean most people cannot achieve it. This assumes financial success is defined as having above average money.
Bears are sure but there are loads of obligate carnivores that don't have appreciable plant based calories in their diets.
This gets to what I was saying earlier in the week regarding visibility in this trial: What is made visible as a three-way conversation between the judge, the defendant, and the plaintiff, and the balance of fairness to both plaintiff and defendant versus public interest in visibility is decided on a case-by-case basis.

Here, it looks like the DOJ pushed and some information was disclosed. That's working as intended.
https://archive.ph/AZEFN
There are great works of literature from those times that we only know about because someone else wrote about them and those accounts survived.

Copying is backups, on the scale of millennia.
I’d been off Windows since the early XP days, first Mac then Gentoo then running a hackintosh for several years, and got fed up with the maintenance. Since in the end I was mostly using it for gaming I just thought, WTH, I’ll use Windows 10, how bad can it be!? I lasted a month and then in a figure of pique and frustration I downloaded and installed Linux Mint 20.3. What a breath of fresh air! And the silver lining is Steam Play which makes it as good a gaming machine as ever and far better than it was as a hackintosh
The audio and usb is pretty irrelevant.

You need something like this:

Computer1 + Special software -> high speed data transfer -> Computer 2 + special software -> Audio out.

Im pretty sure you can do this with ethernet switch/router just network streaming. There is probably a way to setup VLC to just playback network stream music on computer 2, and then set up OBS on computer 1 do the stream.
I think you're preaching to a chorister - OP clearly knows that's right and wants to make it happen, they're just concerned about their potential liability if the ex-co-founder tries to make life difficult for them in that way too, after already doing other similar things.

It's not totally spelled out, but doesn't sound like they have limited liability company or partnership or whatever (not my jurisdiction) set up, so even if completely unfounded the other party could perhaps try to sue OP personally.

Even though it's clearly morally correct to pay them, I can completely understand trying to ensure one's own livelihood etc. not harmed unduly in the process.
> That hasn't been proven

It was decided by the maintainer, the only person who can make the decision.

> we need to see the patches.

... they are linked in the post.
Watch the series "Alone". It's pretty clear that the contestants cannot survive by foraging for plants alone.
such LED can be covered with tape, paint or damaged on purpose.
The issue I have is that apps I want to use currently are forced to adopt user positive features like how Apple handles subscriptions for apps (cancel any time, keep access until the existing subscription ends, cancel with a button click, etc…). If those apps all migrate away from the App Store so they can be more profit focused rather than user focused that could negatively effect me.
For me it's sim racing - for other people it's exercise apps, for educational users it's immersing students in ancient Greece.

Sim racing is amazing in VR - I got instantly faster, able to judge distances better, and the immersion is top notch.
I think, based on that logic, bisexual people could not be friends with people attracted to the bisexual person's gender.
I just found out that the latent heat of evaporation itself decreases with increasing temperature and disappears at the critical temperature [1].

With regard to the energy expenditure for reaching that temperature: if we were merely raising the temperature of the water and then cooling it down again, I think it would be correct to say that with a completely efficient contra-flow heat exchanger, perfect insulation, and no pumping losses, the steady-state heat input could be arbitrarily low.

If we now modify this system to evaporate and then condense some of the water at the point of highest temperature, we would have to supply, and then extract, the latent heat at whatever temperature the evaporation is performed at. Once that has been performed, the outflow would comprise of the same amount of water as before (and at the same temperature), and it would be equally available to warm up the incoming stream as in the initial scenario (though now we would need two heat exchangers in order to keep the fresh water separate.)

Of course, both the heat exchanger and the insulation will have losses, but we are rejecting quite a bit of heat in the condenser, and it is at the highest temperature in the system. Would that, in principle, be available to make up for any losses elsewhere? This makes me wonder if, counter-intuitively, it could be more efficient to do the distillation at higher temperatures, at least up to the point where the diminishing latent heat can no longer compensate for the losses of running at a higher temperature?

I'm leaving out some considerations that I don't know how to handle (and probably others that have not occurred to me.) For one thing, there's the question of what happens if the evaporation occurs into a chamber containing some air, rather than just steam (my guess is that the relevant temperature is determined by the water vapor partial pressure.) For another, what difference does having salt dissolved in the water make? And this may all be moot, as this system has no moving parts, so the pressure is probably atmospheric (or somewhat below, if the condensation can be exploited to create a partial vacuum.)

I have no idea if any of this makes the slightest bit of sense, and it's probably wrong - as you say, most systems run at reduced pressure.

[1] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water-properties-d_1573.h...
> Why did you block GPTBot?

I block AI scrapers because I don't think that these systems are good for society and I don't want to help make them better.

> Are you aware that your content is scraped, directly copied and otherwise repurposed by other website that don't block GPTBot?

Yes, which is why I've removed my sites from being publicly accessible.

> What are your plans if in future iterations of the GPT model

None. There's nothing I can do about it after it's been ingested, so the only realistic thing to do is to let it go and do my best to prevent it from happening with new stuff.
It takes only a one token error to have code that doesn't compile, execute, throws exceptions, or to be wrong in some serious way. These use cases are amazing nonetheless.

Can the same be said for facts? Hard to generalize. Like lets say I asked GPTV the year a painted was painted. Way back when, I was right, I will never need to know the exact year of a painting - whatever that means - after I finished my modern art history exam. Does GPTV? No. I am happy with ranges in my answers about general knowledge, because at the end of the day, there isn't some error-intolerant process using those outputs anyway. Even order of magnitude errors may be fine, getting the zero wrong in the token sometimes just doesn't matter. It always matters when programming though.

Writers increasingly have the same opinion. As more people use GPT4 and learn how stilted and uncreative it is, and that a one token error can make a plot stop making sense, it isn't clear how it's going to deliver on bulk writing. Spam and content farming sure, but even short prose is not in the realm of reality for actual, real breathing human consumption.

How do you categorize this? I don't know, I'm not in the field. There's some huge difference between one token error means 0% correct, versus one token error means 99% correct. Maybe transformers can solve this. Maybe they never will.
The author's proposed patch had issues raised in review that were never addressed. I disagree with the characterization that the differences between the two authors' patches were purely cosmetic.
The new register size!