skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say this is as if it's settled and obvious that it it's an illusion and it's only the delusional that believe the opposite.

But if it were so settled and obvious there would be a clear line of reasoning to make that plain. And there is not. Instead, there is a very vibrant debate on the topic with tons of nuance and good faith (and bad) on each side, if we want to talk about sides.

And, of course, one of the implications of this very real and significant inquiry that needs to be made and that requires real contributions from informed individuals, is that whenever anyone is dismissive or reductive regarding the unresolved difficulties, you can be sure they have absolutely no clue what they are talking about.
This reminds me of the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch, with 4 rich dudes bragging about who had the poorest childhood[1].

One could just as easily compare your poverty with that of people in the poorest places in the world.

Oh, your kids get to go to school? Our kids spend their days digging through rubbish heaps. Oh your kid was taken away by CPS? Our kid died from inhaling toxic fumes from melting down the old computer parts they found digging through the rubbish heaps. Oh, you have a debit card fee? We're don't even have ATMs, or banks.

Poverty is a spectrum. Just because X is poorer than Y doesn't mean Y isn't also poor.

1: https://youtu.be/26ZDB9h7BLY?si=hyxK8ZvzLPhbQ8JI
No, we don't. Or at least you don't.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/low-dose-atrop...

So far our best guess is to make sure kids get enough sunlight every day and spend time outside, because looking at things in the distance is what regulates eye lengthening during growth. Since things are typically further away outdoors, it helps normal eye development and slows down nearsightedness.
I will be very surprised if Apple's RCS support includes end-to-end encryption. Apple has said...

"Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association. We believe RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared to SMS or MMS. This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users."

This doesn't include encryption, that's a Google extension and is not part of the GSMA standard. Indeed, I suspect we'll see only the bare minimum implemented by Apple.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/apple-announces-rcs-...
Boric acid works, too. In fact it works well against any insects with a shell exoskeleton, like cockroaches, ants, or termites. The boric crystal punctures their exoskeleton causing them to lose body fluid.

It also works against the colony as it’s a slow acting agent that the insects can bring it back to the colony. The insects communicate by touching so the powder is spread from one to the other when they rub each other’s antenna during meeting.

Boric is really cheap. A large bottle in Home Depot is about $4 to $5.

Edit: story time. My parents used to live in a mixed use condo building where the commercial ground floor had a number of restaurants. They had a bad cockroach problem. I got him a bottle of boric acid and sprayed around the pipes and corners. He never saw another cockroach again.

We had a swarming of termites outside around the house after a raining season. Called the termite guys. They came out and said it’s the subterranean termites under the ground outside and the water disturbed them. They drilled holes around the house and injected liquid solution into them. They sprayed the crawl space underneath. I asked them what the solution was. They said it’s basically boric. Oof. Their service charged $2800 and the material was boric.
How is a market with many participants not ideal? It seems to me the messaging "fragmentation" is just the free market actually working and people being willing and able to choose something other than the defaults and it working out.

There's stuff like Beeper that allows for consolidation of multiple services, if you don't like having to use multiple apps for different people.
> Presumably, if a passage of any significant length is cited verbatim (or almost verbatim), there would have been a way to track that source through the weights.

Figure this out and you get to choose which AI lab you want to make seven figures at. It's a really difficult problem.
You can also buy the wasps you release to kill the pantry moths, haha
Yes -- the distinction with "function calling" is that you have to play a game of telephone where you describe your target schema in JSON Schema (only, apparently, for OpenAI to turn into a typescript interface internally) vs describing it more directly and succinctly (and with opportunities to include inline comments, order fields ordered however you want, and use advanced TS features... or even use an adhoc schema "language").
This seems like it can be proven or nullified by long at geographic data. Do people living closer to the north pole where it's colder, at the very least for winter where people would be inside more, have a greater occurrence of myopia than those living around the equator where it's a comfortable temperature all year round and people are more likely to be outside more often?
Given that:

1. Exposure to the sun prevents myopia

2. Short intense exposure delivers the same results as long, weak exposure *

Then logically, looking at the sun or other bright object with eyes closed for a few seconds would provide the optimal therapeutic benefits by triggering dopamine production in the least time necessary.

* https://www.aao.org/education/editors-choice/sunlight-exposu....
If you'd like to see Bruce Perens' presentation from 2021 about post-open source licensing, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRl-it1-ruI&t=470s . The title is misleading; the latter half of the video discusses licensing.

The video was discussed on HN at the time at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27961940.
I'm wanting to put serious effort into getting better at illustration, specifically figure illustration. I'm also planning to continue getting better at piano.

For your second goal, if you're referring to implementing your own ray tracer I highly recommend the Ray Tracing in One Weekend series: https://raytracing.github.io/
I was on the fence sending the last comment. But if the user is instead going to try and make it all about me.
, I wanted to send one last comment to try and emphasize the community aspect of how the rules work. I'm a bit neurodivergent, so I do want to assume good faith whenever someone feels like they can't understand the rules and needs an explicit pointing to what and why something is there.

But yes, we're doing the very thing the rules were meant to prevent, my apologies.
> It makes your blood poisonous?

It makes the blood poisonous to the central nervous system of the ticks.

Here is an article about them
if you prefer reading: https://www.petmd.com/how-do-common-tick-medications-work-pe...

Or this video about them if you would rather watch and listen: https://youtu.be/4QDDHjRZIZM
I get that. I've done a lot of digital video work for going on 3 decades now. I notice every little flaw and inconsistency. Every video looks like a Godzilla movie to me if I look close enough. I've had to train myself to let it go and just enjoy the artistry in it all. That works most of the time.
I mean maybe not the single most important development, but definitely a very important technological development with the potential to revolutionize multiple industries
My first answer was a bit hasty, let me try again;

We are clearly a product of our past experience (in LLMs this is called our datasets). If you go back to the beginning of our experiences, there is little identity, consciousness, or ability to reason. These things are learned indirectly, (in LLMs this is called an emergent property). We don't learn indiscriminately, evolved instinct, social pressure and culture guide and bias our data consumption (in LLMs this is called our weights).

I can't think of any other way our minds could work, on some level they must function like a LLM, Language perhaps supplemented with general Data, but the principle being the same. Every new idea has been an abstraction or supposition of someones current dataset, which is why technological and general societal advancement has not been linear but closer to exponential.
Thanks for the example! This does seem a lot more flexible.
Its less clear than you think, and comes down more on how OpenAI is commercially benefiting and competiting with NYT than what they actually did. (See four factors of fair use)
They're not something altogether different, but they can indicate different things, including retinal detachment.

https://youtu.be/jj6C7CP2czc?si=nD6I6vLlFLFhntkH
> I also don't understand the claims that it doesn't generalize. I currently use it to solve problems that I can absolutely guarantee were not in its training set, and it generalizes well enough. I also think that one of the easiest ways to get it to generalize better would simply be through giving it synthetic data which demonstrates the process of generalizing.

I don't think what LLMs are currently doing is really generalizing, but rather:

1) Multiple occurrences of something in the dataset are mutually statistically reinforcing. This isn't generalization (abstraction) but rather reinforcement through repetition.

2) Multiple different statistical patterns are being recalled/combined in novel ways such that it seems able to "correctly" respond to things out of dataset, but really this only due to these novel combinations, not due to it having abstracted it's knowledge and applying a more general (or analogical) rule than present in it's individual training points.
Discovered in some random dirt from Maine.
> Also, as far as I can recall, astigmatism is present at birth and not developed over time like some other eye conditions.

No, it's definitely not present at birth (at least to the same degree) and can be acquired during child development and even early adulthood.
That is the case. It's just that the fair price is fairly low and is often covered by the government in the name of the greater good.

When for-profit companies seek access to library material they pay a much much higher price.
Well, you are always supposed to cycle through insecticides.

And, of course, you won't ever be able to contain an species that occupies an otherwise unfilled niche. Make sure to preserve the predators and clean any artificial niche or populate it with some alternative species.

I believe people already knew that in the turn to the 20th century, but somehow almost no big project anywhere does the full set of actions.
The exciting thing here is that this runs on Squeak in JavaScript. Squeak is a modern Smalltalk, and now it can obviously be run on top of JavaScript. That's dynamic languages all the way down!
You'd be surprised how much ML is like gardening and unlike engineering. It's a lot of fiddling with parameters, a lot of waiting, and a lot of surprising outcomes.
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So does everyone else. Plenty of people do not willingly self-report their drug use.
What I really need is this + monitor input switching. I want to use both my monitors with both computers and just be able to hit a single button to swap everything.
There are some functional issues as well, my understanding is that group chats in particular are inconsistent for Android members of the group.
> And it worked for a long while until the only survivors are ones that aren’t attracted to the taste of the poison.

I used that product in a vacation house in Spain and it really worked wonders. And that was around 2017/2018. So not all cockroaches have evolved yet!
Omg I wanted to build exact this. Thank you!
I understand what you mean, but if you subscribe to the Atlantic it’s because you actually want long form writing from some of the best essayists of our time.

It’s not for everyone. Especially when our attention spans are shorter than ever.
Oh, that's a good point! I do hate how they merged iMessage alongside SMS in the same client. It's hecka confusing for everyone.
Why do you say it's not a scripting language? You can write .fsx files and run them as scripts, and there's a nice REPL. Using Polyglot Notebooks, you can even combine several languages, including F# and PowerShell, and documentation and run the notebooks as scripts.

Were you running F# with modern .NET, i.e., .NET5+?
> If this is indeed 'going in circles chasing your tail', then why do your opinions in this comment chain matter at all?
People often get buried in the weeds about the purpose of copyright. Let us not forget that the only reason copyright laws exist is

> To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries

If copyright is starting to impede rather than promote progress, then it needs to change to remain constitutional.
Doesn't work reliably against Argentine ants; they form supercolonies so even if you take out one or two queens, it may not be enough.

[edit]

AFAIK, it's still the best way, but it's not the near 100% knockout it can be against other ant species.
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The point is you do not have a valid counterexample since you are using a different workflow than what's described in the article.

In my personal experience working with more complex prompts with more specific constraints/rules, adding the incentive in the system prompt has got it to behave much better. I am not cargo-culting: it's all qualitative in the end.
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And every single verification framework for C code is way more challenging to work with than systems for a more modern language because in C as soon as you smell an aliasing relationship you are largely fucked for soundness.
In the context of monopoly, it does not, at least yet.

1. Apple does not have monopoly position in phone market. People can still choose good alternative products. Current users have chosen the iPhone.

2. Since Apple does not intentionally make deals or hinder competition among other companies, no monopoly problem for that reason either.
I don't know about you, but where I spent my childhood, most things indoors were much closer than 20 feet away.

That's a fairly large room, and we typically don't focus on the furthest point while indoors anyway. So with the 20ft requirement, it's a lot easier to fulfill while being outdoors.
This is a major problem that will plague EVs during the second half of their lifecycle. They are cheaper to maintain up until they need a battery replacement, then they are essentially e-waste. Will that happen before or after their bodies rust into dust?
Is it such a travesty that someone decided to include a personal anecdote as a throughline? Does every article published need to be hard-hitting "journalism"?

Sometimes it's nice to listen to something with some personality, something that isn't so plain. I'm not in a rush today.
I accepted that particular answer because it was balanced and comprehensive; I still think there’s a way to do this right that provides lots of benefits, namely something similar to what TFA is describing, that is: a wrapper layer that speaks SQL and applies ACLs and other limiters before passing the query to the database, potentially even translating between a virtual, exposed schema, and the actual database.

The key advantage here being the ability to package this into a library, instead of everyone and their mother rolling their own.
Precisely what I don’t care to read. Especially when they start the article giving background, tease that there’s an important thing coming, and then instead of getting to the point, it starts an interview which resets the conversation back to talking about the background again. I absolutely hated everything about the way this article was written.
My m32u monitor has a built in kvm switch and I switch between my Mac and pc with a button push. Monitor/keyboard/mouse and usb speakers
Go to a restaurant, start munching down on a salad, and your eyes glaze over. Actually, having been to a lot of buffets, I think some people really do go into torpor.
I worked as a field engineer on Honeywell mainframes in the late 1970s and later moved into programming so I'm always keen on hearing about the good old days when computers looked impressive. I'd be interested in hearing about their most challenging debugging problems. I'd also like to hear about how your grandfather serviced core memories back in the day. Honeywell core memories had spare bits built in which made is easy to bypass a failing sense amp.
I mean, I have some understanding of CSS but at some point the time I spend learning it is not worth it. I don't mean to have zero knowledge of it though, I can build a website with grid and flex and whatnot.
Hang on, you think this guy's being paid by the makers of Gentrol to make this comment?

They seem to be to just enjoy talking about the products they've used in the past, I don't think that makes them a paid shill. I scrolled their comments too - if someone's actually paying them to promote this stuff I don't think it's money well spent.
> Am I missing something?

Nope, you've nailed it. Can't let those damn sex-having neurotyps in marketing get the leg up on us!
Right :-) I prefer to say a Turing machine’s tape is “unbounded” rather than “infinite” because it supports calculations of arbitrarily large but finite size. So in the analogue case, I would say unbounded precision and unbounded waiting time.
I may somewhat agree with your point but method of getting there makes me doubt yourself and myself :-)

1. "Social science isn't science" is a claim, but there's no proof or detail or evidence or logic put forward to back thay claim.

2. Social science doesn't build computers or bridges,sure. But that's not definition of science (maybe engineering?). If for example social science could reliably predict social group dynamics and behaviours that would make it a science. Or if it could help a group of construction workers reliably work better together to build that bridge that also counts.

3. All sciences sadly have at times both real whopsie and repeatability crisis.

If we want to make a (fairly worn out) claim that social science is lacking, we really need to out forward a considered claim.
Except it doesn’t memorize text. It generates text that is statistically likely. Generating a citation that is statistically likely wouldn’t really help the problem.
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On an Amstrad,

10 level=1
20 GOSUB 40
30 END
40 PRINT"Current level: ",level
50 level=level+1
60 GOSUB 40

Prints a "Memory full in 50" after printing level 84. At first I thought it dedicated about 168 bytes for GOSUB stack, but the "memory full" happens on the level assignment.

You can erase this stack explicitly by calling `CLEAR` (will also close open files and clear ALL variables).
Go slowly. I started stretching my hamstrings a few weeks ago to work on flexibility, ramped it up too fast, and now I have lower back pain :(
Circumventing computer security to copy items en masse to distribute wholesale without transformation is a far cry from reading data on public facing web pages.
Yes, computers are good at storing data. But there's a big difference between information stored in a database and information stored in a neural network. The former is well defined, the latter is a giant list of numbers - literally a black box. So in this case, the analogy to a human brain is fairly on-point because just as you can't perfectly cite every source that comes out of your (black box) brain, other black boxes have similar challenges.
1. Non-profit != "not making a profit." A non-profit can still earn monetary profit, and many do.

2. The non-profit OpenAI, Inc. company is not to be confused with the for-profit OpenAI GP, LLC [0] that it controls. OpenAI was solely a non-profit from 2015-2019, and, in 2019, the for-profit arm was created, prior to the launch of ChatGPT. Microsoft has a significant investment in the for-profit company, which is why they're included in this lawsuit.

[0] https://openai.com/our-structure
This might interest you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169859/

"The interests of people in the thyroid gland have always been immense because of the widespread prevalence of its diseases. Therefore the earliest references to the gland date back to 1st century AD. The Chinese, Egyptian, Indian, Greek and Byzantine medicines are especially rich in their knowledge on the subject."
Only through an escape hatch (a big red flag one at that). You aren't supposed to.
After reading your comment, I checked their history. The account has 7k+ karma, and if they're professional marketer they are promoting:

* DALLE
* Stable Diffusion
* Tabletop RPGs
* Sega CD
* Nice suburban housing
* Neuralink
* Cliffnotes

etc etc. It just sounds like a normal person talking about things they like or interests.
I agree about the writing, and I gave up on the article.

How do you know it's accurate? How do you know which details are accurate? For example, was it called Combat, or was that another product in the article (maybe a failed one)? What important information was omitted?

Issues like that make the summary useless, IMHO. (Not a criticism, but a point about the value of information with unknown accuracy.)
I think in the long run, it is in the interest of AI companies to incentivize creators to create high quality data! Not paying them their fair share will likely decrease the volume of high quality data available (or make it much less accessible). Unless these companies already have developed another architecture that can learn much more from the same dataset, the lack of new high quality data will be a problem for future larger models!
You've probably seen Seth Godin's Really Bad Powerpoint from 20+ years ago, but just in case:

https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Really%20Bad%20PPTs.pdf
We may well look back on these lawsuits and laugh.

AI will likely steamroll current copyright considerations. If we live in a world where anything can be generated at whim, copyright considerations will seem less and less relevant or even possible.

Wishful thinking, but maybe we'll all turn away from obsession with ownership, and instead turn to feeding the poor, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and afflicted.
To be fair, this one is a transcription of a podcast. It's not really the kind of long form writing Atlantic is famous for, so I can understand the GP wanting a shorter version.
Kind of sounds like Smalltalk?
One example I think of is that ChatGPT can mimick styles derived on its training and based on live input information (news) it could mimick the style of any publication the offer that at discount. That could prove as the last nail in the coffin for non AI publications.
In my opinion RCS isn't really comparable to iMessage; it still needs support from the network provider and needs the cell phone data network to function. We really need some kind of standards based internet messaging solution in order to fill the space of iMessage on Android devices... Perhaps something like Google Chat or Allo or Hangouts, LOL!
I am always flabbergasted when people question incredibly effective public health initiatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodized_salt#In_public_health_...

> Worldwide, iodine deficiency affects two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual and developmental disabilities.[1][2] According to public health experts, iodisation of salt may be the world's simplest and most cost-effective measure available to improve health, only costing US$0.05 per person per year
Your ability to cleanly believe you’ve got a clear read on the challenges, solutions and outcomes from AI for the social/civil/corporate mess that is media, across small to large markets, and chalk it up to “silly IP battles,” is the daily reminder I need on why it was so wrong to give tech the driver’s seat from ~2010 onward.