skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I don't like about "hard mode" is that it removes one level of strategy. If I for instance realize the word could be CRATE, CRAVE, CRANE, CRAZE, it feels "harder" to figure out a word with T,V,N,Z to guarantee a guess in two, instead of just trying all four since I need to use the already found letters.
When is it updated?
So to relate to the original story here.

If you don't get promoted, there is a risk that you become the guy that is just there to solve everyone else's problem.
Only python is supported for code execution.
That is, we eliminate the mosquitoes, in this way those that feed on mosquitoes are eliminated, the next to fall will be those that feed on these mosquito eaters, and thus we end the trophic pyramid and the evolution of life on this planet, until Let's eat each other.
Wrong way, the right way would be to investigate manipulating people's DNA so that malaria does not infect them.
Some suggestions for better handling CDN spam:

1. Instead of saying "We're not a CDN", provide a guide where people can copy-paste a CDN link that isn't yours. People don't care that you don't host it, they just want a quick solution, so nudge them.

2. When hosting the minified, etc. files "not for CDN purposes", do so on a changing subdomain so that you can periodically invalidate spam from people who mistook the free download link from the CDN link, simply by removing the DNS record. If you're not opposed to CDNs (I am), just make the download link a CDN link.
I also thought it was just British at first, but apparently the same sound is used in other languages for a similar purpose.
Aussie!
I’m asking, why is it 4.5-turbo when 4.5 isn’t released yet?
The north-american building tradition is certainly peculiar, but it has substantial benefits [1] [2]. Its fire safety is also not that bad as one would assume.

For the specific conditions and large availability of lumber in North America, it seems like a good choice, and I say that as an European who built his own reinforced concrete house and that is working on concrete 3d printing.

The drywall over balloon framing technique is a high productivity method that is adapted to the relatively high cost of labour. You wouldn't be able to produce the square footages Americans expect using traditional wet plaster methods.

[1] https://www.construction-physics.com/p/balloon-framing-is-wo...

[2] https://www.construction-physics.com/p/stronger-faster-cheap...
Can you write a Python clas for a max-pooling layer of a convolutional neural network?
The point being made was that worrying about going to jail for a tweet in Europe, or being pocketed, is dumb.
If you have a UV light and look at the bulb or LED, you don't see any light coming from it at all? The bulb just looks to you like it isn't on?

UV bulbs look bright purple to me. They are so intense, I can barely even look at them directly. I always thought they were called black lights because they do not appear to light up a room (excepting materials that fluoresce under UV light); the UV light itself is very bright, but everything else stays almost as black as if there were no light at all.

I don't think I can see UV light, though. I don't see UV patterns on flowers that have them, for example. I think I am just seeing some violet light that UV bulbs also release, and maybe it feels so bright because the invisible UV stings my eyes.
Can you write a Python class for forward and backward propagation for a max pooling layer of a convolutional neural network?
The Grimm Brothers didn't write the stories, they collected and published folktales. In any case they would have been been out of copyright since Jacob Grimm died in 1863.

Disney didn't mind paying for the rights if they wanted to use material still under copyright, like they did for Bambi or Dumbo or many others.
forget about the vocabulary for a second. french, unlike italian, spanish, portuguese, has germanic syntax structure too.
This is a good explaination of why I like certain live performances better. It feels more alive with the crowd and it's less sterile.
I'm impressed by the staying power of Wordle. I guess someone remembering it each day in the family group chat means that you get constantly reminded. Without the social aspect I would've never remembered to play. So the sharing is genius.

What I don't like though is other games trying to replicate it to the detriment of the game. For instance their game "Connections" feels like doesn't need to limit the number of guesses, but it does in order to make a tweetable result in the end.
Also check out my hobby project: https://relatedhow.kodare.com/

It's not as fancy looking, but it's a lot more complete.
Most comments in this thread ignore the most relevant point in the post, which is that the government has prioritized employment (and eliminating poverty - which isn't mentioned in the post), and world-wide there's a strong correlation between poverty and property (and violent) crime.

Also not mentioned in the post is the anti-social forces efforts (eliminating the yakuza), which is primarily implemented by disallowing financial transactions with organized crime, or businesses even associated with organized crime. It's hard to fence things if there's no one around to fence it. It's hard to re-sell fenced items if no one will buy from you. I really do wonder if mercari has made this problem a bit worse.

Sure, the police don't arrest people they can't convict (which is why their prosecution rate is so high), but that doesn't change the reported crimes, which this data related to, so it's not a data issue. Japan is less safe than they report (murders are often shown as accidental death in numbers, for example), but in general property crime seems to be mostly non-existent.
From a geological perspective, several types of rock will last more than long enough. Maybe you're thinking too long-term, heh.

During the last 2.6M years - and man's been around -at least- that long - there've been a dozen or two ice-ages. Between them were interglacials, some of which lasted 2 or 3 times longer than our 10,000-year holocene. More than enough time and resources for an earlier (even wiser or saner) humanity. Or three.
Used bricks is very sexy solution. However it’s getting harder and harder to find old buildings to be demolished. And I wouldn’t use these bricks for critical infrastructure.
This is also the percept and possibly fallacy that underlies the fast takeoff AI singularity thinking.
> Why is it so incredible that a foreign country can behave differently and have low crime?

It's not. However, the Japanese are notorious for underreporting negative things like suicide and crime statistics.

> Property isn't worth taking anymore.

Given that the US had an almost identical order of magnitude drop in burglary (which started dropping before Japan's did) and didn't particularly do anything new, that's probably a much better explanation.

People not transacting cash is probably the biggest cause. People just don't have cash in their wallets or purses anymore.

After that is gone, what can you steal out of my house that's actually valuable?
Anyone aware of a search engine for DEM and LIDAR?

Australia has ELVIS which makes it fantastically easy for the whole country

Every other country seems to have a very fragmented approach to elevation data though

I’m aware of OpenTopography but they are extremely coarse compared to the precision of point cloud LIDAR
> I guess I knew birds were closely related to dinosaurs but I didn't think of it quite that way.

Birds ARE dinosaurs. Just like humans ARE mammals.
The idea is that keeping a superhuman AI aligned would require superhuman prompting. This is the whole premise of OpenAI's SuperAlignment research and recent publication.
I think you like it,
like it,
to be told,
what to do,
ain’t that true?
https://youtu.be/XbLKWm12yx0
Sure, whatever. I see those things too, but I see a whole lot more.

I used to think George W. Bush was stupid, but after watching this I don't think he is. I think that he played stupid because it lulled people into allowing him to get away with those terrible things that he did.

You should see that too. It's important because otherwise you'll be tricked by somebody like him again.
I play to use less guesses on weird days. So I start with letters that probably aren't very optimal, but when the wird itself uses rare letters, suddenly I'm the genius of the day.
> ultimately dlss/frame gen is a hack that no one on a high end card would ever use.

This is completely false.
Google and many people will tell you the same thing. So you must have a lot of lol moments in a day.

Gpt4 is quite good (better than most humans I ever met) at php, but bad at facts; don’t ask it facts, ask it to write code. That’s what you would ask a human (outside interviews).

Disclaimer; I am formally trained with proofs and proof assistants and I hate the current timeline where we ask ai to drivel up code, but I cannot say it’s bad at doing it; it just is not necessarily sound or even working code sure, but that’s the same as with most human first tries. Then you iterate and make better. My days of ‘I have proven it correct, now I just have to type it in’ are long gone, at least for things that pay for my bread.
The real reason is that banks are destroying liquidity to make netting/clearing possible. The longer you wait, the less liquid reserves you need in case of large outgoing transfers, because they were offset by incoming transfers.
A responsive HTML5 Fibonacci clock
> What else could anyone call them 10x for?

Developing truly innovative solutions to hard problems? Doing the hard stuff like documenting code and writing automated tests? Fixing bugs that no one else could? Proactively identifying and resolving software reliability and performance issues?
History will not remember us fondly (2021)
Mark Russinovich finally meets Linus Torvalds
Video Game Yule Logs [video]
Yeah for something you're gonna see, bricks are fantastic. If you're just making an anchor for a post or similar, rubble-infill concrete is a great cost saver.
Indeed, I'd expect more capable models to be less amenable to prompt engineering, but even if it is true it's quite possible out best models are not past "prompt engineering efficiency peak" yet.
It is also fairly hard to quantify (I was thinking about some naive approaches to do that during our work on BIG-Bench [1] but I couldn't think of something robust enough), so I don't think we will even be able to say we are past this peak until much later.

[1] https://github.com/google/BIG-bench/issues/801
Ok, but for people with normal vision: when you look directly at a UV bulb, are you “supposed” to see an intense (brighter than any object fluorescing under the bulb) purply color that is hard to bring into sharp focus, or does it just look like a bulb that is switched off / totally dark?
The images are AI generated.

In total there's 500 other prompts you might find interesting.

Also, I used AI to fix my grammar as I am not a native english speaker.
Show HN: Sentence Embedding for Vector Search
what makes a language isn’t the core vocabulary but, crucially, the syntax structure. when you say ‘je suis malade’ instead of ‘suis malade’ that’s the germanic roots of french mandating the structure. latin loan words don’t make a language romantic.
Still, that kind of language is extremely divisive, and will only lead to bad.
It All Started with a Mouse
it's interesting to study a balance neural network by evolving a few and going "so how would this AI withstand choppy seas"

if it checks up with the map of how our brains learn to keep us upright, then we learn other side effects of how brains grow and learn

if it doesn't... then it's even more interesting because there's another confounding variable.
Im am anti car zealot. I'm labelling so my self auto-ironically (no pun intended), as i own a car, but i prefer cities with less cars. I'm angry how often we externalise damage generated by cars to someone else. We are technically capable to produce silent cars, yet we somehow try to workaround this by building houses of different materials? How backwards that is instead of just legally limiting the sound levels for newly produced cars. And eventually cars will have only rolling noice.

But then someone would say oh but then cars are dangerous when they are silent, let's install speakers in them so pedestrians can hear approaching car and move out of the way. See what's happening here? Instead of jus making a car unable (auto breaks) to hit a pedestrian, we are doing some silly workarounds (ok, no silly but cost saving) to emit noise and shift the burden of moving out of the way to the pedestrian. Again polluting city with noice.

Done ranting. Have not touched pollution, wight, speed limits and general car infrastructure :) Time to get my morning coffee.

P.S yes, i'm very much influenced by "Not Just Bikes". Youtube channel about European city planning (human/bike oriented) https://www.youtube.com/c/notjustbikes
Consistency was never a part of 10x developer definition as I understood it. That label is more often than not applied to "talent", however nebulous it is defined. Consistency is very underrated and hard to develop a habit for.
A 10x dev can realize you're solving the wrong problem.
Actually, Steve Jobs couldn't code. Source from Steve Woz's archived site
https://archive.is/YsF8a
PDF is a really popular attack vector.

Best will be for someone to submit a copy of the print book the the internet archive.
Druggie will consent to all things money? Everyone has a price, and the consent can thus be bought.
GPU languages shouldn't be proprietary. At one point this was a shared understanding and lots of companies were behind initiatives like OpenCL. Meanwhile progress in higher level non C++ GPU languages has stayed in niches without big industry backing, and we're stuck with CUDA which is bad in both language design sense and market-wise.
> Does that sound so bad, if it's by design?

Not at all. Just important to keep in mind when setting those goals.
It isn't useless. The parent is 100% hyperbolic, at best. The fact is just that some people living in France can't speak french properly for various reasons, but it's not a generality. The french you've learn is the official one, and if you go into a restaurant, speak "academic french" and the waiter doesn't understand you, then that person isn't a french native.

The parent is basically saying "English is useless in USA, because people in some places speak broken English". Of course it's completely absurd in both cases.

The french you've learn, everybody who went to school in France learns that exact same language.
In the future If you want a radio it will be $8.00 monthly subscription fee, If you want radio buttons that will be $18.00 monthly fee.
Turns out, the first line of the Wikipedia article isn’t overly helpful. Populism refers to providing simple solutions for complex problems; throwing all nuance over board, in favour of just faulting „them“; using big, powerful words that pick out and vastly exaggerate a single aspect of a situation to sway readers into your own perspective; or put simply, populism means convincing simple minds by giving them an easy explanation that something is wrong because someone else did something bad.

Claiming Israel is an Apartheid state does a giant disservice to those that actually suffered during the Apartheid in South Africa, the Palestinians living in Israel, everyone in Israel that supports intercultural relations, and everyone else that might be interested in achieving piece. All you do is sow hate.
My guess is that the low property crime is due to nothing worth taking in the home, and Japanese property crimes don't happen face to face. If nice cars and their parts still being stolen it looks very plausible it's not higher mortality.
If the author reads this: would highly recommend reading and thinking for a bit about safety :). Great project!

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality...
It's totally perceivable, though.
It's not a daring conjecture that the slang word for toilet has an etymology related to shit.
We do something similar with Magic Loops[0], but within the context of generating a single "loop" (automation).

We've found that LLMs are pretty bad at prompting other LLMs, unless the problem at hand is very limited in scope. It's too easy to get incorrect/expensive behavior otherwise (e.g. starts building a framework against an imaginary API, instead of using an existing tool).

Our approach looks more like a state machine under the hood, mostly code with LLM-based "magic" sprinkled throughout.

The tool can both edit code and LLM "blocks" as it sees fit, allowing it to change it's functionality and prompting dynamically.

Interestingly, we first set the validate->fix threshold to N=3, but the "agent" often gets stuck in a pattern of retries based on low quality user input.

[0] Feel free to give our tool a try, it's very much in an alpha state: https://magicloops.dev/
Double Apollo. It's so common in the tech world. It also feels like purgatory if you find yourself in one (a project, a team, a company).
What are some apps with basic functionality where you could not find a free alternative on macOS? In my experience there is always a free alternative.
People all had a podcast app that worked fine. It was classic embrace/extend/extinguish. It has made many perfectly good paid programs just flat out shut down.
What do you mean "who has time"? It doesn't take more time to e.g. say "meuf" than to say "femme".
Hating someone for manipulating minors into sex isn't a strange reason, weirdo
Yes, if your made up numbers are 1 year apart, you won't see much difference

The "careful sub-range" is what affects the likely 5 number ("careful" in that it doesn't allow the lawyer to call bs on the charge and say that the likely sentence is now lower since there is a higher likelihood of not being convicted), not the not very relevant maximum of 10
They announced availability last week.
ProxySQL is a complex jet engine requiring manual tuning. 99% of MySQL users will be satisfied with the simple configuration and automatic query parsing of MySQL Router.
The (racist) stereotype is that Asians have yellow skin, not Arabs...?!
Or you shift the cockpit back
how did the normand invasion change the language? is there a study you could reference? did they influence the structure of the language itself or their language became a source of loan words? or what really happened?
Eh regardless of all that the answer is just “yes” imo: self-improvement is a necessary step to meaningful superintelligence. Perhaps not AGI but it obviously seems like a massive help if not absolutely strictly necessary.

In a way, that’s what modern multi-stage-trained foundational models already do: improve their weights intelligently. Having the same results in human readable code (what this is a first step towards) would be a lot more powerful…
> My days of ‘I have proven it correct, now I just have to type it in’ are long gone, at least for things that pay for my bread.

Kind of having the same feeling as well the more I use ChatGPT and similar systems/models.

I wonder if this will result in a general decline in code quality. Or if it's going to help people become better IT professionals overall.

I mean, in order to iterate and make things better after first try/implementation, also requires understanding what you typed and it can be improved.

Exciting times nonetheless
I see the resemblance, but for perpetual motion machines, we have an actual physical law, the 2nd law of thermodynamics, that makes it impossible.

As far as I know, we can't yet disprove that a self-improving AI will become more intelligent than it starts as.

I'm not trying to say that it is likely or that I believe it will happen. Just that we can't disprove it yet, unlike perpetual motion devices.

EDIT: corrected from 3rd to 2nd law of thermodynamics.
Funnily enough, both provincial and federal government doesn't mind contracts and applications with title "software engineer" for immigration related services. As long as work experience fulfils the NOC 2173 definition. Licensing in the NOC is only mentioned as required for Professional Engineer work.

https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3VD.pl?Function=getVD&TVD=...
I don't see any support for Vorbis or Opus here, what about support by Rockbox?
I guess he just lacks the time. Maintaining a distro means a long term commitment to maintenance. Although, I guess just building a prototype, or maybe a reference implementation of the thing he writes about, that would be interesting too.
lol posted the same thing above. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that was an extremely powerful read! As someone currently trying to imbue silicon with an eternal soul, it’s very sobering.
> This is nonsense. The French Academy is adding new words to the dictionary every year.

It's not nonsense. They are still working on the same edition, just progressively adding words. There is some debate today, though, because they're mostly working A to Z, so words close to the start of the alphabet have definitions that were written down long ago. The definition for "femme", for example, is controversial. You can read up on this here: https://www.academie-francaise.fr/le-dictionnaire/la-9e-edit...

It's okay not to know something, but maybe inform yourself before calling what other people write "nonsense".
> Engineers don't want to talk to the customer, so who will do so to know what to build?

Product Managers as they have become today (from my experience over the last decade+ in 7 companies) are far too involved in technical decisions (on which they most often have no clue about) and far too little involved in talking to real customers.

In the olden days (the 90s for me) we had people whose job was to track the pulse of customers to see what they needed and provide that feedback in an organized form to engineering leadership. At least in the companies I was in, their title was not PM (can't remember their exact title).

That was very useful, it gave engineering leadership a clear view on what customers like and what they hate and what they want in the next release. And it was not interference, as these people had zero say in engineering decisions.

Today the average PM is just meddling in technical decisions they are not qualified to have an opinion on and most of them don't really spend enough time with customers, their product direction is all based on their personal (largely uninformed) opinion.

Maybe there are still companies that do the PM role right, but I haven't met any.
Git Automated Way of Adding and Pushing Important Dot Files to Remote Repository
I quite like the radial timeline on the visualisation shared by OP. A while back I was looking for exactly this kind of visualization and stumbled upon https://lifemap.univ-lyon1.fr
Let's see more evidence as it comes out. The group's description reads like pulp fiction.
Maybe this is splitting hairs but those just seem like classic non-violent protests instead of terrorism. Ecoterrorism is something like spiking trees so that loggers will get blasted with chainsaw shrapnel when they try to cut through a 1000 year old tree. Terrorism is of course a loose term but it generally requires some element of violent coercion. Throwing soup at a painting is obnoxious but children will not have nightmares over it.
the rare forms/orders are allowed for the purposes of literature and other forms of art. the grammar of the modern english language and its gradual adoption through intellectual training was intentionally done. it was necessary in order to (1) elevate english to the level of latin and french, and hence (2) be a suitable tool for both art and intellectual writings. that was the only way it could unseat french and become the dominant language fit for all purposes.
There is no "pure logic" in energy and climate policy, there's tradeoffs and value jugements. You can build coal or use fossil fuels like natural gas if you are willing to do climate harm, but it's obviously not the only solution.
Excellent resource, thanks a lot!