skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't get the significance of the Curry-Howard Isomorphism.

* Every type system is a system of logic (and vice-versa.)
* So, if you have a System F, you can build a Haskell.
* If you have affine logic, you can make Rust.

Have a look at this parser combinator library[1]. In particular look at how many functions are marked "Totality: total". These are functions which accept all (well-typed) inputs and terminate in finite time.

> What would a non-trivial proof (say, on the order of the Pons Asinorum) look like as a program?

It would just be a program - that you write every day. If Pons Asinorum is expressed in twenty lines, then pick a twenty-line program. If you want something bigger, check out CakeML or seL4.

> But then it also talks about how CHI has applications in verifiable programs, which, I'm told, can reason about side effects.

Not every effect is a side-effect. A suitable definition of "side-effect" might be "an effect which is able to punch a hole through whatever type system decided it was valid." If your programming language represents effects as types, then it can reason-about/type-check them just as well as pure functions.

[1] https://www.idris-lang.org/docs/idris2/current/contrib_docs/...
I wonder how long until we see some adult movies with this.
SpaceX already works with Google, where Google allows Starlink to use its datacenters' network connectivity for downlink, while Google gets to use Starlink for data transfer.
The serverless framework makes lambda for side projects a breeze.

CDK for everything else.
For Iridium (which also uses LEO satellites and spot beams), the typical cell size is tens of thousands of square miles, though!

Even if Starlink manages to provide much smaller cells (which is not trivial, especially with omnidirectional mobile devices as clients instead of phased-array dishes), we're talking several orders of magnitudes compared to a regular terrestrial cell.
There are still pockets of the old web out there. As ever, they're promoted more through personal recommendations and click-through discovery.

Mastodon has it, COM in SDF has it. Heck, LambdaMOO still exists.

It takes effort to find that stuff, but it's so much more fun than doom scrolling, knowing your attention is being purchased and you're working for <social company>'s profit.

I've been collecting 'small web' blogs in a feed and it's a really pleasant way to do interneting. Most folks in that world really enjoy getting an email from a reader and will actually strike up a conversation. That long distance human interaction is still unique and just as fun as it was in the 00s.
Jordan actually annexed west bank. And Egypt get Gaza fenced off
Infra and Cloud Spanner are the same stack. Having those services run on infra is more about the legacy of tooling to shift it rather than anything around performance or ability to handle it.
True, but it was split into pages so at most 20 items :)
He founded a startup https://ggml.ai/
Ohh, looks extremely promising, I've been after something with a bit more flexibility than Dex while not being Keycloak/Java etc, an LDAP backend would be awesome as well though (another thing thats lacking is a simple ldap server, perhaps with sql as db, openldap is excessive and glauth isn't there)
Infra and Cloud Spanner are the same stack. Having those services run on infra is more about the legacy of tooling to shift it rather than anything around performance or ability to handle it
These are valid remarks, we'll see about including them in the landing page.

Before going to the answers, just to note: if you are interested, we are looking to work closely with more researchers, to make sure it saves time for you in particular on a daily basis.

What does it do?

In very simple terms: It is ChatGPT (GPT-4) with awareness of our database of papers, patents, grants... It comes with many "tools" to use various information retrieval styles and sources, some more focused on question answering and some on wider reviews. There are also tools to gather "metadata" of science: researcher profiles, institutes, scientific companies...

What is the cost?

There's a free version if you register with an institutional email (university or company email). We generally want to make it open to professional researchers (academic or private). The full version is pay-what-you-want with a $5/$10 minimum.

How does literature search happen?

It depends on the "tool" you are using, but it generally involves retrieving a set of candidate relevant documents (papers, patents, websites...) and either read through full documents or select relevant snippets from them so it can do a wider review.

What are the sources?

Primarily papers (~100M right now), including ArXiv, PubMed, IEEE, the Elsevier suite and many more individual journals. As well as grants from most national and international funding organizations. And US patents, with ongoing expansion to other countries. Updated daily whenever possible.

We also have the option to complement scientific literature with web research, it can be good for example to review public documentation from scientific instrumentation and consumable providers on experimental protocols.

How sub-niche can it actually get?

It's hard to convey, it would be easiest if you just try it, it really can get as niche as you want it to, it can adapt to the level of expertise you operate at. If you are a researcher with a university email you can use most of the relevant functionality for free.

You are right, the examples are not very representative. The intent was to make them understandable to a wide array of researchers with different backgrounds, but still, yeah they could be better.
The Parnia study is the most systematic effort to date to establish highly rigorous evidence for this phenomenon.
Free and Open-source Speech2Text SaaS – interviews and fine-tuning models
A simple service intended for transcribing interviews and allowing for easy export to word. Turns out it works quite well for fine-tuning speech to text models. Hosted on AWS using founder credits. Uses whisper and Pyannote.

Code for fine-tuning can be found here https://github.com/Voxtir/whisper-fine-tuning-voxtir

and general source code found here https://github.com/Voxtir/voxtir/issues

Rolling it out to students and journalists. Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss it, contribute, or something else.
"It's like a labyrinth you can't see, innit? And by the time - heeheehee, by the time, heehee - by the time - you can see it, it's too late. There's no way out"[1]

The phrase "invisible labyrinth" describes perfectly the relationship of the self inside the complexity of the human brain. When the body tries, in drips and drops, to save the organism, parts of the resource-hungry labyrinth are taken apart like a travelling circus, to put those hands to more important work. But the circus is our mind, its sense of self is rendered by this disassembly, and then it senses no more.

Sometimes, though, returning to full consciousness, the mind is forced to fill in those existential gaps. We experience an extremely tiny simulacra of this phenomenon upon waking from deep sleep. What's really remarkable is that people tend to fill in the gaps[2] in extraordinarily similar ways. This is powerful but informal evidence that the mechanisms of consciousness might be paradoxically quite simple, perhaps nothing more than a consistent framework for the internal simulation of environments. Layer enough sims, you get an emergent evolutionary impulse to maintain internal narrative.

I'm no scientist - not even particularly clever by HN standards - but figuring this particular widget out will be the bridge to AGI. Multimodal corpus are steps in this direction, but corpus needs to be responsive for this to work.

It would be humorous, but not at all surprising, if human AGI requires both simulated sex and death. No free lunches, I suppose - you want the behavior, you have to pay these weird taxes. I believe that was Oscar Isaac's rationale for giving Eve sex stuff in Ex Machina, although it was hard to believe anything he said given that everything about his character made my skin try to crawl off my body.

[1] Apologies to "In the Walls", Book 5 of Providence by Alan Moore. Do you like H.P. Lovecraft? Do you like comic books? What are you doing reading the internet? Go read this. It's Moore's career best - I'll die on that hill - and Jacen Burrows is knocking it way way way out of the park, as well. The last book feels a little meh, an effort to tie together the other Mythos Trilogy books, which are inferior in every way. It could have done without it. But it's finding a streak of white in a perfect chocolate mousse.

[2] Barring damage, upon which the brain does REALLY crazy things to fill in the gaps. GPT4, on its best days, reminds me of talking with patients that have had some hippocampal-adjacent cerebral damage. But the human brain - and body! - has far, FAR more tricks than a text-trained 'net . .
tabs are evil and emacs with defaults..., who would do such a thing?
I always appreciated "This is the procedure." Great syntax to signify the endpoint of the algo... :)

Also see: https://www.artsy.net/article/ruse-laboratories-this-is-the-...
This might be what causes him to sell out and make it someone else's problem. Just Starlink, not SpaceX obviously.
If I understood the code and the GitHub actions well, it also appears that they run each benchmark once. If, as you said GitHub actions runners show that much variability between runs, one should at least run the action multiple times and report the aggregate running time along with other statistics (standard deviation)...
At my wife’s clinic they have shelters that pay for the procedure on condition of taking the animal.

Like there is a shelter in the city that will pay for medical bill and take the dog.

I do sort of see the logic. Part of responsible pet ownership is being able to keep your animal alive and healthy, if you don’t have the resources to do that then you maybe aren’t ready to be a pet owner. They make insurance to cover this exact thing, called pet insurance. If you can’t afford to have pet insurance and you can’t afford to pay for the medical bills then you can’t afford to have a pet. There are other people who will provide the care that the animal needs, but at that point they will become the owner.

I understand that this sounds heartless WRT the owner, I didn’t make these rules this is just how it works at my wife’s clinic and that’s the justification I have heard from the shelter and the company that owns the clinic.
Shouldn’t we as a society front the cost for the services ? I guess, socializing pet care is going to be a far step behind socializing human medicine and that is still a hot topic.

There is enough wealth created in our economy to cover these costs, and more, but heaven forbid a company not make more profit this year than last.
When I looked into do exactly this a while ago I quickly realized that it would be a lot of work to do properly. There is no such thing as a static ActivityPub service by design.

However, there are premade services that will take an RSS feed and do all the work to allow subscriptions, etc.
> At Amazon, practically every service is built on top of AWS

is that true finally? It sure wasn't in the 2020-2021 timeframe.
How are you in Japan and not aware of Umami? You are in Umami heaven!

Go find some Kombu (https://www.justonecookbook.com/kombu/), soak it in water and then take a sip. Literally pure Glutamate aka Umami.
Feel free to add spaces, I’m just glad I don’t see them. I don’t even have to try to police anything to get the aesthetics I prefer, that was my point.
I have the same conclusions as you, but don't have the confidence to state them so matter-of-factly. There seems a rather large amount of room for "we don't know." And, given that it may not be a testable hypothesis and thus outside the realm of science, there's even room for "we may never know."

And before people get in a huff, the same generally goes for the hard problem of consciousness, yet we generally don't go around doubting that others have subjective experience.
You know what they say, there's two types of languages. The ones that people complain about all the time, and the ones that nobody uses.
Is the GP misunderstanding copyright, or is GP describing a common basic misunderstanding?

If the former, could you please elaborate? I also frequently cite this article in discussions.
Same as with lambda. I have a side project that costs $0.42/mo to run.
> You're gonna have a problem when you're on a trip abroad and lose your phone.

There's also the possibility of bringing my netbook with me, which also could have a Nextcloud client setup (or Syncthing, or some cloud based option), same as every other device that I own, which would have the last offline backup of the file even if the server itself would blink out of existence.

Honestly a bigger problem without my phone would be the fact that I basically couldn't pay for things all that well when using a card, because of a redirect to my bank when making a purchase online (to confirm it), which then makes me use https://www.smart-id.com/ with a code to confirm it. That's kind of a problem because it's not TOTP but rather it's bound to the device.

I can work around the password safe issue with an SD card that has the database on it, or a USB stick as well, but that wouldn't work for the app, so in the modern day I'd basically need to have two phones, the same way someone might have two sets of keys to their apartment or something. Kind of crazy when you think about it. And I'd also need a smart card reader to even register a new account in most cases, in combination with my government issued ID card.
Personal experience corroborates. The last embers of self fade away in a place far too narrow to fit anything but that overwhelming peace.

It's a difficult subject though, the fear of death underpins a significant portion of life (see terror management theory for that idea taken to the extreme). I don't know the value of trying to undermine it at scale.
You need good bread for that. Store-bought bread in the US is quite bad.
Chances are you're not the audience and some exec is
The twitverse was NEVER a source of trusted informaiton.

With millions of users posting billions of posts, how could it be...
I'm Here to Tell the Truth
According to another replier it's been moved to dedicated VMs in Azure, so it's not as bad, but still subject to noisy neighbors. I agree with your assessment - if I were fixing it I would do something similar.
Unlikely. This isn’t a problem of education. The primary benefit of hybrids is fuel efficiency. People who buy large SUVs have already decided that fuel efficiency is not a high priority.
There was another story where the SOS feature kicked in automatically and Apple was able to dispatch emergency services:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/iphone-14-emergency-sos-fac...
I honestly think veterinarians should just be a luxury for richer people who want to spend extravagant amounts on healthcare for their pets.

If you’re a common person, and your pet gets some illness, then that’s it: you need to expect your pet’s death if they aren’t able to recover naturally or cheap treatments and pills don’t work.

Pet surgeries should not be some routine thing that should be expected to be affordable for everyone.

I know someone who spent close to $10k on her dogs cancer treatment, on top of being broke and in debt already. End result was as expected, the dog died anyway and she is now poorer. Worse, she ended up getting a new dog anyway to keep digging into a financial hole.

Pets man, they are worse than kids. Like toddlers that never grow up.
Nah. Copyright law isn't compatible with small startups and independent developers being able to compete with megacorps in AI. It's unironically better to just ignore it.
And the cost of everything of the surgery - IVs, antibiotics, catheters, testing reagents, syringes, needles, are usually the same items used in human medicine. Vets don't get a discount on this.

You just don't see that a bag of saline solution is $100 if you go into surgery because your insurance pays it. Meanwhile, the vet has to pass the $100 to you.
The IP, port and sequence numbers (which is basically a starting random number + number of bytes sent/received) of both sides of the connection, and this is maintained by both sides.
I try to imagine life before I was born, and that doesn't seem so bad, so i assume worst case that's what death will be like.

The moments before, yeah who knows...
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Letby

> The numbers of unexplained collapses were particularly abnormal: there had previously been only two or three deaths a year in the neonatal unit.

She was convicted for cases between June 2015 and June 2016, so I'd expect to see like 2 or 3 cases of natural deaths. Assuming she works there for 40 hours of the 168 hours of the week, it's like 1 coincidence and 1 or 2 when she was not there. Been there when 7 babies died is a LOT of bad luck.

Assuming a Poisson distribution with lamba=2.5/4, P(7)=7E-13 ...
When I was at AWS, towards later part of my tenure, DynamoDB was mandated for control plane. To be fair, it worked, and worked well, but there were times when I wished I could use something else instead.
Average performance seems to be very similar.

>Zephyr alpha is a Mistral fine-tune that achieves results similar to Chat Llama 70B in multiple benchmarks and above results in MT bench (image below). The average perf across ARC, HellaSwag, MMLU and TruthfulQA is 66.08, compared to Chat Llama 70B's 66.8, Mistral Open Orca 66.08, Chat Llama 13B 56.9, and Mistral 7B 60.45. This makes Zephyr a very good model for its size.

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/174t0n0/hugging...
I generally like GCP, however their sales and customer support just aren't any good. And some services like Vertex AI are extremely buggy while it's hard to actually report these bugs.

I think Google Cloud needs someone like Jeff Bezos as their head: Look what your customers actually want and need and understand their requirements. And they usually want good customer support and want a competent key account manager as well.

When we were looking to migrate our analytics database from on-premise to a cloud alternative we were looking at BigQuery and Snowflake. BigQuery is a great product and we were already deeply invested in GCP as well. However the GCP sales team just couldn't sell BigQuery - they just don't know what old corporations want to hear in a sales pitch. So we went with Snowflake in the end. Not because it's the better product but because their sales team is better.

I'm not sure if the cloud business is actually a priority at Google. If it is then I think they don't understand the mistrust Google is facing when it comes to stable long term support of their products.
Here’s prior discussion of VC firms buying up veterinary practices, and installing new management to squeeze out more value: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313967
Most satellite-y things don’t and Starlink’s direct to cell won’t either.

Hence why the spectrum should be pretty cheap (along with its incredible susceptibility to obstructions… which is less of an issue when you’re going roughly “up” without pesky considerations like curvature of the earth)

And you do get a ton of gain with a small antenna at those high frequencies.
Sounds like hell...
I'm in OT and deal with train and airplane tech. Would definitely be interested.
The full post is sent to the Fediverse.

For example, if you follow @blog@shkspr.mobi you'll see my blog's posts in your social feed. They appear just like any other message.

I've written a bit about it at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/this-blog-is-now-on-the-fed...
That's very true.

Importantly, with most current PLBs you don't actually see if your emergency call has been received at all, which can make an important difference for survival (i.e. it informs the decision whether it's best to stay put and try to hold out, or whether getting to higher ground with clearer sky is essential).

Fortunately, at least that part is changing: Cospas-Sarsat (the service listening for PLB emergency calls) can now use Galileo satellites as a return channel to send an acknowledgement to the newest PLBs in some regions [1].

It doesn't address the "type of emergency" concern, though – not everything requires a helicopter.

[1] https://www.euspa.europa.eu/newsroom/news/first-galileo-retu...
True, but one would hope that both sides in this case would be putting their best foot forward. Getting peak performance out of right sizing your DB is part of that discussion. I can't imagine AWS would put down "126 million QPS" if they COULD have provided a larger instance that could deliver "200 million QPS", right? We have to assume at some point that both sides are putting their best foot forward given the service.
> You should really stop calling someone's father dishonest or trying to tell someone they misunderstanding something to which you don't have a single connection. That's going to get you into trouble someday

Freedom of speech.
There was a Reddit thread not long ago where commenters spoke about their near death experiences.

All coincided in that it was a pleasant experience
Since the whole premise here is that formally verifying the properties of programs is equivalent to constructive mathematics, I think you might be asking for too much, modulo your definition of hero.
Norvig and Russell's textbook (one of the current go-to AI books) calls the big "if-else AI" a "simple reflex agent". It observes the environment in a rudimentary way and then goes through the if-then chain. One of the first things students (should) learn is how inefficient this is for more challenging problems.

My students were just given an assignment where they build AI to play Connect 4. Some will try to make a simple reflex solution because they want to avoid recursion, then come to office hours asking how to make it work better. It... can't. There really is an observable upper-bound on if-then performance.
I do trail-running, backpacking and skiing in the Colorado backcountry. I'd never trust my safety to a cell phone due to the fragility, temperature sensitivity and poor battery life. I carry an inReach and have used the SOS feature. That thing is bullet proof and can tether to my cell phone anyway if I want the convenience of the phone for typing messages etc.
The real question, I think, is autobot or decepticon?
Somehow I thought you were at Amazon/AWS because of how much you push it in your book. Cool to see you’re at GCP.
The video said that you'd be able to pull cables along, but I'm struggling to see how you'd do that given that the actual walls of the "robot" are static once deployed. Is the idea that you somehow turn the cables inside out too?
Rethinking Open Source Licenses
I would think it's one of the most basic rules of benchmarking (or so I was thought during my earlier days as a student) that one should repeat the benchmark several time to smooth over the "randomness" inherent in the system
>If e-ink was x100 cheaper, we could use it in x1000 more use-cases

For example? What untapped use cases would be if e-ink displays which can only show B/W images and refresh at 1HZ, unable to show full motion video, and suffer from terrible ghosting, would be cheaper?

I think you're deluding yourself here. Cheaper prices won't magically fix the major limitation of this technology that hinder its expansion outside of its existing niches: e-readers and price tags. All the other display markets have been conquered by LCD, MIP and OLED already because those technologies work better in those cases and e-ink works better where it already is.
"All curl man pages got their references updated and they are now verified and checked in tests to remain accurate and well formatted."
This is one of the reasons I enjoy using curl so much: the documentation is really good.
Yes, it's the same Spanner that's used internally. But obviously it's progressed hugely since 2013.
Coin Tosses Are Not 50/50: Scientists Toss 350,757 Coins and Prove Old Theory