skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Competition is a defining property of ‘sport’.

This requires a reference though. For example:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sport

does not exclude non-competition based physical activities from the definition of sport, to quote: "a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job: ". Definitions might differ from dictionary to dictionary and language to language

Your definition of games assumes an opponent (ex: Rubik's Cube would not fit), so I think it is not ideal.

Overall I think we could just stick to existing definitions and just accept that some competitions are "subjective" (ex: gymnastics, etc.)
Indeed, and would not an illusion be contingent on an observer?
Meta Prompting by OpenAI and Mirac Suzgun Stanford
The difference is that Musk can, and has [1], banned people from Twitter for apparently personal reasons. On mastodon, each instance would block you individually. If everyone blocks you on mastodon, you're probably not worth listening to.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/14/23509817/twitter-elonjet...
You can’t log people out or switch users with HTTP auth. Once the browser knows you have valid credentials, it sends them with every request and the site can’t stop it from doing so.
> Echopraxia (a good book, but inferior to Blindsight

It's been half-read on my nightstand for months now because it just didn't interest me very much halfway through. Yet I read the first one twice.
The year is 1996. Microsoft's homepage has a menu bar that expands when you move your mouse over it. I am determined to figure out how this works.

At the time, IE has a "view source" button, but it's not very platform aware. You get a Notepad doc. The server is running Unix with files where lines break on "\n" and I'm on Windows, which needs "\r", so the source is one single long line of html.

I look through the source thoroughly: what is in their html that I don't know about that lets them make things move around? All the html tags are ones I know. All the content is text I can see on the page.

The only mysterious bit is these "&nbsp;"s. I've never seen those before and don't know what they are. They appear on sites with moving menus. They must be related.

(For six months, I believed the effect of dhtml was achieved through magic incantations of what turned out to be html entities. A bit later I found WebMonkey tutorials and this turned into a whole career.)
Password managers serve another purpose, which is remembering, filling and storing passwords, possibly in a collaborative way. Exchanging secrets are, to me, secondary in functionality.

> and I'm not sure everyone is comfortable with E2E encrypted comms as a way to share secrets.

I'd live to know what would make people uncomfortable with this, because your system is, in practice, exactly that :)

> What makes this unique is that it's minimal work to do this with a big level of security that you can run on your own.

I love that this can be used over any channel, secure or not, but I would prefer if we all just switched to proper secure communications everywhere. In 2024 there is no good reason not to anymore.

And if I take your point and consider self hosting this, then it's much easier and better to install proper secure communication with my peers.

Again, I'm not against the idea of allowing secure exchange of secrets in an insecure environment, but as engineers if we really want to solve problems we should look at the real one: why are communications not secure, and how to fix this. This is not a technical problem, it's a societal one, and the solution might be societal. Unfortunately as engineers we tend to suck on the social level so we don't want to see it, but it's height time we take the plunge.
""Consciousness is unique in being a phenomenon that is totally singular and unique""

I think the problem with the argument is that you are giving way too much credit to consciousness. You are giving an opinion on its uniqueness from the point of view of a Conscious entity that itself hasn't grasped it's own Consciousness.

The really exciting part of all the latest AI tech, you can prove 'state of a neural net' is the 'state of experiencing the phenomena'.

For Brains. They can now do an MRI on a brain, and re-construct what image it is thinking about.

So, State of Neurons = Phenomenal Experiences.

The Phenomena you are saying is not physical, is really the physical state of the brains neurons.
Not only was it full stack, but user/community management, strategy, perhaps sales, all rolled into one.
So many clever solutions to the problem of HTML being too easy.
I am a little confused how anyone thinks AI will do better than humans at not weighting the score based on those exact factors, given what we've seen so far.
Perhaps it isn't well-defined, but I initially thought of it as something atomic and immutable (even in the face of brain damage), and now I no longer do.
Agree. Spinning out the FSD and Optimus teams wouldn't accelerate progress on the new models. Also, they will make more money from humanoids than car robots.
Unit Testing with Dbt
> If time traveller is here now, then it was here forever, because to be here at time T, it must be here at time T-1 too

If you believe in non-random deterministic universe then at T-1 (and always since big bang) traveler was already here in the shape of ancestors, just like at some point you existed in your mom and dad and before that in whatever big bang elements etc.

No energy is being added or removed in the system
I submitted this paper before, but it did not get any eyeballs; I am submitting it again because I am genuinely amused by that classic debate between Koblitz and the applied cryptographers. Personally, I think both sides have their merits, but Koblitz tends to overstate his case by far.

The paper is a really good (and fun) read, though.
not rly, it is an American study, so it should target Americans, However it is a valid concern/hypothesis that women which give birth younger tend to be of lower health overall due to various socioeconomic conditions.
Respectfully, I disagree. Not OP, but this “installer” isn’t a standard macOS installer. With a standard installer I can pick the “show files” menu option and see what’s being installed and where. This is home rolled and does what arguably could be considered shady dark patterns. When Zoom and Dropbox did similar things, they were rightly called out, as should this.
https://pypi.org/project/languagemodels/ can load some small models but forming JSON-reliably seems to require a larger-ish model (or fine tuning)

Aside: I expect Apple will do exactly what you're proposing and that's why they're exposing more APIs for system apps
I don't think it is so clear cut.

One hypothetical scenario:

1. Thieves stop a train somehow, spill containers for distraction, run away with valuables.

2. Idiots see stuff lying on the ground and go pick it up causing chaos and confusion.

3. Police arrest some of the idiots. Win win. Thieves go away free and police can claim they arrested some people. This also pads their numbers. Politicians can pretend they were not asleep at the wheel with organized crime under their nose because look only 5% of arrests were organized crime. All we needed to do is arrest more homeless people.
> This suggests that prior to the widespread availability of surgical deliveries, men who mated with women in the nubile age group would have reaped the benefit of having a reproductive partner more likely to have a successful first pregnancy.

What exactly is a "Nubile age group"?
I think you are looking for the "Dunning-Kruger Effect"
It’s fascinating to explore George Orwell’s complex journey from his time as a colonial policeman to his later works as a writer and critic. His introspection and ability to evolve his views over time are a testament to the power of self-reflection and the importance of questioning one’s beliefs. Orwell’s writings continue to provoke meaningful discussions about society, politics, and human nature, reminding us of the value of critical thinking and empathy in shaping a better future.
This is interesting now as it's a hot topic in the UK. The government claims this technology will finally be in use next year [1]. Apparently, it can detect concealed knives (even under heavy clothing) from 6 metres away using ordinary cameras combined with "electromagnetic infrared waves and a unique computer algorithm" [2]. I imagine this could be used to detect other types of metal weapons used more prominently in other countries.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68085532

[2] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/knives-crackdown-zo...
LLMs don't even come close to the complexity of the human mind though. They're a pastiche of human language, a fuzzy jpeg of the Internet.

The human mind is _so much more_ than a prediction machine, and incredibly complex... All that's before you get into the way the endocrine system interacts with your mind.

A single neuron has an average of 250000 connections in some parts of the brain. The speed at which neuronal signals travel varies neuron to neuron from 2.5m/s to 200m/s.

Human minds are more than just prediction. The anterior lateral prefrontal cortex has the sole responsibility of prediction (not that nothing else does, just that the ALPC seems solely dedicated to that task) and is extremely good at it. Prediction can influence all sorts of mental processes such as most all forms of perception... But it is _not_ the same as _being_ all forms of perception. If something unpredictable enough happens in front of you: you'll still see it.

Sure there are limits to that: when focused on a task the predictive parts of sight tend to filter out visual data that doesn't match the signal you're looking for (see: basketball players passing the ball and a moon walking man in an ape suit) but if every basketball player turned into Spaghetti-os and started screaming you'd still hear the sounds and see the O's.

So sure: LLMs do a good job at basic prediction but they're nowhere near the complexity of the human mind, of which prediction is only a small piece.

(And let's not even get into efficiency... A brain runs on 20W of power)
<blink>Never forget what they took from us.</blink>
If it's known, can you not adjust for it?
They're from 1 to 2.5 cm in size, at least the ones in the article are - Portia.
Sloot may not work, but the following compression algorithm has been quite effective for fitting entire movies in a few kB.

- Pick a bunch of demosceners

- Show them a movie

- Lock them down for some time in a room with computers. Works best if the room has a big screen, loud sound system, beer, and some junk food

- Get the resulting executable
The data seems to be "only from the first four months of 2023", and Tesla seems to only fare best in the luxury segment.
Dreamweaver 3. It was downhill from 4.
Except it’s not a single rare phenomenon, and Tesla has proven itself capable of serious innovation before.
> Is there a reason there isn't a default signing key generated for each cloned/created repo, or an easy option to toggle to do the same?
>
> Knowing a commit came from one specific clone of a repo would be useful, [...]

Would it?
> Open source: 1 team member spends an hour a week fixing it

> SaaS: 0 team members spend 0 hours a week fixing it

OP’s management must have great taste in SaaS, wow
I agree that alternative is good, but if you want to try ollama without the user experience drawbacks, install via homebrew.
Religion has existed far longer and caused more harm than a handful of unaffiliated dictators. In fact it's quite a popular tool for dictators and strong men to manipulate people.
Testing a sub-path is not supported for the time being, but will be in the near future. I had to limit the scope of this MVP to ship in time.
> A nubile woman is a nulligravida who has recently completed physical growth, puberty, and sexual development (Symons, 1979). This is usually accomplished 3–4 years after menarche in the mid to late teens when female reproductive value is maximal (Bowles & Posel, 2005; Fisher, 1930; Keyfitz & Flieger, 1971).
I read it as tribalism. Internet commentator with investments in Amazon (either via stock or just by choosing to use their products) decides to spend their time unquestioningly promoting a trillion dollar company for free. It's a tale as old as time, unfortunately HN is far from immune to it.

I dislike Amazon and Tesla pretty equally, but then Bezos didn't royally screw up Twitter, so there's that.
The Event Loop Simplified
> Amazon built AWS to serve the book store and then rented it out to others.

Except they didn’t. It was always meant to be its own line of business with external customers.
You can "use RAG" with Ollama, in the sense that you can put RAG chunks into a completion prompt.

To index documents for RAG, Ollama also offers an embedding endpoint where you can use LLM models to generate embeddings, however AFAIK that is very inefficient. You'd usually want to use a much smaller embedding model like JINA v2[0], which are currently not supported by Ollama[1].

[0]: https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en

[1]: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/327
> Yeah not far removed from the fungible soul concept

I am with you on this. Today's scientific debate about consciousness sounds a lot like the scientific debate about the human soul from a century ago.

We just want to be special so badly, meanwhile evidence keeps piling up indicating that we are not.
There are a couple traps to be aware of with this article.

1. "Bioelectricity"

This is a generic term which doesn't capture the nuance of charge gradients and chemical gradients in cells. While you can directly apply charges to interact with gradient based biological systems, this is a brute force method. Cells have chemically selective walls. So while applying an external electrical voltage can act in a similar manner as causing a neuron to fire, it is far less precise than the calcium and sodium channel mediated depolarization which implements normal firing. Said another way 'bioelectricity' is not simple.

2. Replacement

This one is a bit more subtle. If you find that you can affect a system by one means that is not the same thing as saying the means is the cause. Take the example of using RNA to transfer memory from one Aplysia to another. Immediately after transfer the recipient does not have the memory. It takes time for the introduced RNA to affect sensory cells so that they become more sensitive to stimulation. This is in contrast to a trained animal that has already undergone synaptic remodeling. If you have the appropriate synapses but were somehow able to remove all the relevant RNA in an instant, the animal would continue to 'remember' its training. Synapses are sufficient.

In reality there are multiple systems that work together over multiple timescales to produce the behaviors we observe. Some of those systems can have their contributions mimicked by other interventions. Because of this complexity you can never say 'it's really about X', the best you can say is 'X plays a major role' or 'X contributes Y percent to this observed phenomenon'.
This only means the browser, and the javascript code, are part of the chain. Both of them can also be compromised, have bugs, and leak the secret.
Yes, why wouldn't it work like that?

If a package falls off a truck in front of your house you can pick it up and inform the authorities, who'll in turn inform the owner.

If the police or owner care enough to pick it up they can have it, but presumably there's cases where they can't be bothered, then it becomes abandoned property and you can keep it.

Just because you find abandoned property you don't need to go out of your way to mail it to the owner, just inform them and they can come to you.

The "why not just leave it?" aspect of this is easily defended, if the package e.g. contains electronics they'd be damaged by exposure to the elements.
To say it is irrelevant is a bit harsh: despite how dystopic US healthcare stories can be, a lot of people actually live with that system. Those real people can get good use from this study, even if its results can't be easily applied in other parts of the world.
Accurate eng estimations: predicting and negotiating the future
I don't see copyright violations. You could make an exact clone of Monopoly and as long as you don't use their assets or the text in their rules you are good to go.
The tweet you linked says the scaling they applied was uniform, which means this IS a direct 1:1 comparison. There's no absolute reference for size in 3D, so this is necessary no matter what.
I can't quite see how this can be a spec bug...

I mean, why would client A be able to change the key used for communicating with client B?

Does this rely on some kind of confusion between clients? ie. force a client to disconnect, then the attacker connects using its mac address, and receives all the queued frames?
This title is very misleading; the article is about Rust being used for some new high performance Python packages.
DHTML was long before XHR; the term was more or less already out of fashion by the time XHR came along.

DHTML was used for situations like when you had hierarchical selects where the contents of the second select depended upon what you picked for the first select. All the code and data was delivered up front with the page load; you didn’t go back to the server for it with XHR.
Too bad Musk on several occasions explicitly said that Tesla is worth absolutely nothing if they don't nail AI/robotics, so the precedent is already set.
The HoloTile Floor: Disney Invents Omnidirectional Treadmill Surface
Same question here. Ollama is fantastic as it makes it very easy to run models locally, But if you already have a lot of code that processes OpenAI API responses (with retry, streaming, async, caching etc), it would be nice to be able to simply switch the API client to Ollama, without having to have a whole other branch of code that handles Ollama API responses. One way to do an easy switch is using the litellm library as a go-between but it’s not ideal.

For an OpenAI compatible API my current favorite method is to spin up models using oobabooga TGW. Your OpenAI API code then works seamlessly by simply switching out the api_base to the ooba endpoint. Regarding chat formatting, even ooba’s Mistral formatting has issues[1] so I am doing my own in Langroid using HuggingFace tokenizer.apply_chat_template [2]

[1] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/53...

[2] https://github.com/langroid/langroid/blob/main/langroid/lang...

Related question - I assume ollama auto detects and applies the right chat formatting template for a model?
There are two problems. The first is while testosterone reduces fertility, it does not reduce it sufficiently without another steroid like progestin. The second is that testosterone must be injected or reliable birth control and self-injection is a problem for many men.
Just have your country of choice run their own studies.
It doesn't fundamentally change the fact that we date things based on Jesus Christ. It doesn't make it inclusive, since its still rooted in Christianity. Papering over it doesn't change that fact. It's just stupid.
> Crusty is the result of two years of pure hell inflicted upon a poor, hapless Macintosh SE that has begged for death at every stage and yet has consistently been deprived of it. Crusty has been dragged, kicked, buried, submerged in creek water, dunked in alcohol, battery bombed, washed with dish soap, hand soap, body wash, conditioner, Old Bay Vodka, and multiple types of solvents

This is sad and disturbing. I'd be a bit concerned and wary of the mental health/behaviour of the man who did this.
Overconfidence. Misunderstood in their time. Temporarily embarrassed millionaire. It's probably impossible to tell which without hindsight.
There is also zero "evidence", by this extremely restrictive standard of "evidence", for existence of any consciousness aside one's own. This rhetorical strategy thus has a weakness: who or what exactly are you trying to convince?
Peterson's book Maps of Meaning is actually a really interesting read and based on an incredible amount of research.

That book is as old as a stash of Y2K water though, and the Peterson I've heard interviewed or on his own podcast in recent years sounds like a very different person. He's gone through some shit so I do get it, but he doesn't seem able to analyze topics these days without being heavily influenced by his own ideas and opinions. I guess the same can be said for Sam Harris as well.
Thanks, this is great news!

I have the same unit, except an older one, which doesn't really cause problems (it just displays the 0% for a few seconds when turning on). But the newer models do have this issue.

I basically replace mine once per year even though Xiaomi considers it to have a service life of about 6 months when running 24/7 as it does here. I run it at a pretty low speed because it's too noisy otherwise but they don't seem to take this into account when calculating the lifespan. When the hayfever season starts, I put in a fresh one to get maximum benefit. But it's nice to be able to reset this.

PS: I didn't "see" the tag on my last filter with my phone, I thought it was a different type with a different frequency. Guess I'm wrong.
Centrifugal flows drive reverse rotation of Feynman's sprinkler
Thank you.

You are right and the advise you gave is still applicable today as nothing has changed except AI.
Guess the question is, is it harmful?

A lot of people listen to Peterson and read his books.

He's kind of just riding a wave of popularity on warmed over ideas, but is it harmless? Are the warmed over ideas hurting anybody?

I'm not sure.

Which is why sometimes, I'd give him a pass. If I see someone reading him, its like "well at least they are reading and not scrolling reddit".

Maybe it can be a gateway to reading something that does matter?
From the abstract:

> Using data for 1.7 million first births from 1990 U.S. natality and mortality records, we compared outcomes for women with first births (primiparas) aged 16–20 years (when first births typically occur in forager and subsistence groups) with those aged 21–25 years. The younger primiparas had a much lower risk of potentially life-threatening complications of labor and delivery

So a reasonable assumption is that they mean 16-20 years.
Repeatable, Reboot Resilient Windows Environment Installations Made Easy
At this point they are just asking to get much larger fines, I don't see any other way to put it.

Any other company would have realized that they have to at least make a good faith story believable at that point but not Apple, they always double down.
Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters
however, these small amounts are sufficient for fish in rivers to have fewer offspring. most of the residues of the pill from the urine enter the rivers unfiltered from the sewage treatment plants. this cannot be good, especially since we also eat the fish. we have been observing this here in bavaria for a long time. since a large proportion of our municipal drinking water comes from river filtration, this is a serious problem.
True, the Xiaomi purifiers are actually not all that cheap.

I have to say though, mine doesn't obey the DRM. It warns you if there is no sticker, but it works fine.
Great alternative for those who can't afford Emacs.
Prompt 3. Now on all of your devices
Not really. It depends on the quality of the measure and any underlying assumptions. If the target is knowing who is the fastest then a simple stopwatch (measure) is 100% aligned with the target. So the measure becoming the target is completely fine.

The problem comes when one (or multiple) measure(s) are an approximation of some ideal measure for the target. For example the famous example [1] of the measuring rat tails to determine killed rats (target). The faulty assumption here was that the only way to hand in a rat's tail is by killing them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre