skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dinosaurs were dominant 250 million years ago.

If humans had come first instead of dinosaurs and built von Neumann probes at that time, our probes could be saturating scores other galaxies--not stars, galaxies by now. That's with only a 250 million year differential in technology emergence. It isn't hard to imagine the emergence of technology varying by even more than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_galaxies
Definition: https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The Cuckoo's Egg was a fantastic read to me back in the mid-90s as my worldview was shaping up. (among other, like Soul of a New Machine, Hackers by Steven Levy, Masters of Deception, etc)
> between the stars in large spinning hubcaps

Although it is quite a coincidence that the spinning hub cap ufo sightings seem to be much more common during time periods when things like the avrocar were being tested.
Doesn't really matter. Google's infra is all the client you need to continue pouring tens of billions into a project like this, bonus if others start using it more in the cloud, but they have so much use for accelerators across their own projects they aren't going to stop
Agreed. It's a very unfortunate development, but it's still better than in Apple land, where it's just fully proprietary.
That's heavily context dependent and it's a perspective that assumes that adversarial relationships emerge because both sides did something wrong. This naive appeasement mindset in the 1930s did more harm than good, for example. If you have a rival that's revisionist and aggressive, sometimes you need less cooperation and negotiation, and more war, in order to accelerate their demise. Of course, you usually don't want that, but as I said, it's context dependent.
Speech-to-Text Library in C
You can't understand it unless you already know most of the stuff.

I've watched it many times to understand well most of it.

And obviously you must already know pytorch really well, including the matrix multiplication, backpropagation etc. He speaks very fast too...
Thank you for the added context about his beliefs, as I am not too familiar with his works and was going off of what I read in the article.

I do not share his disdain though for the "dour, guilt-ridden, or militantly proselytizing" aspects of Christianity. This isn't really as much of an argument as it is a personal outlook: those attributes are what makes Christianity compelling to me, and why some eastern or agnostic forms of spiritualism feel hollow.
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What won? There are different scenarios that work best for different people and organizations. Maybe remote work won as an option on the table, but it’s like saying “hamburgers won.” They’re a dinner option, one of a variety of solutions to the problem.

The notable change is simply the expanding set of options available to employers and workers depending on their jobs, personal needs, costs, etc. Which is great!
Ok there, slow down..

You're barely a step away from Godwin's Law here..
Most human mythology is human-scale and not very alien. Pretty much all "gods" act like people, just with extra magical power.
Yes, it is amazing when the driver says, "I just didn't see him!" and that is accepted as a reasonable explanation.

I think it is because the overwhelming number of drivers (in the US) haven't ridden a bike since they were children. A judge and most of the jurors fall into that category, and they empathize with the driver, as they could imagine themselves doing the exact same thing that the driver did.
Whenever Comcast raised my rates, I would call and ask for a lower price or lower tier. In recent years, they always tried to get me to sign up for this. One rep claimed that I qualified because a student (my elementary aged child) lives in the home. Another claimed that I qualified because my child receives free lunch at school (as do all students at California public schools). He said that it was common in his experience for people to sign up under such pretenses.

I don’t know to what extent this program is being abused, but it’s surely happening. The government is basically enabling the cable companies to keep upping their base price, knowing that any customer who is desperate enough for a discount will just find a way to qualify themselves for this program.

I think being able to have internet at home is important. But there should have been limits put in place to ensure that this program was only being used for its intended purpose. Some lobbyist got rich off this thing, for sure.
Thank you for posting this! I recently started using my Apple Watch for sleep tracking and have been dismayed at my quality and quantity (vs. "bed time") of sleep. Searching the channel for "sleep" I instantly found 3 videos for my "to watch" list.
This is pushed by some scholars but outright rejected by most and we do not have a good understanding of where YHWH worship came from. The scholars that do push this rely on etymological arguments that mix up some of the many, many names Canaanites/Hebrews/semites used for gods.
fyi probably qualifies as an "Show HN:"
What?
Didn't Apple just go over Samsung. Not to mention M series laptops...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-overtakes-samsung-t...
Any developer who was already developing for the Apple platform doesn't care about being bent over a barrel by Apple.
Bitcoin mining fixes this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNrrpbtHtpg
The Fandom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEY

Even the best-intended looks at the furry fandom from the outside tend to be surface level with a focus on dispelling stereotypes. The Fandom comes from deep inside and covers the fandom I know, not just the fursuits, which are a good and valid but tiny part of it.
Probably on some fixed date every month, rather than the the day with the lowest price every month.
Act local, think global: https://effectiveactivist.com/
“woke” is right-wing dogwhistle-speak for black.
Or perhaps it can be solved the same way as going from teleporting-only nonsense to normal joystick movement was - people just got used to it. We can adapt to just about anything if we do it for long enough.
Indeed. For example the word Elohim used to convey the meaning of 'Gods' to Jews in antiquity but evolved to mean 'God', referring to YHWH alone.

My understanding of the book of Isaiah is that it is about how the people of Israel came to abandon worship of lesser gods such as Ba'al and came to see YHWH as their God and saviour who delivered them from Babylonian captivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism
On the second part, as Inunderstand it the Netherlands expects an 18 year old to spend the next five years in some combination of three years education, a years volunteering and a years travelling.

The goal is well rounded citizens not corporate trained drones.

Is it expensive - of course. Is it necessary to educate all your citizens like this? No of course not - just stick the the rich ones, or the ones with certain racial traits or no disabilities … oh sorry sarcasm was turned on

Yes it’s expensive and yes the state should pay. The elite have been attending universities for ever and have worked out a deal till the 1990s where the elite could keep going as long as they paid for the brightest to attend and accepted the less smelly brightest into the elite levels.

However this is falling apart - the actress paying for her daughter to go to IVy league colleges knew, Donald Trump admits it, the whole thing is rigged and you need money to buy the contacts. Honestly I don’t know where I am going with that except to say you cannot fix university without fixing what comes after - business investment shoukd be based not on who your banker knows but …

As for the first part, yeah we could have amazing teachers and amazing researchers and amazing administrators rolled into the same person but, bear with me, it might be viable to have different people do many of those roles.

Look, groking calculus is rarely an issue of how clever the person who explains it is. It’s mostly how hard you bang your head on the desk doing the problems.

Most teaching is making sure you keep banging your head.

Making it entertaining is just tricking kids that the next level will also be fun. It’s only fun if you enjoy not knowing and the process of problem solving.
That’s not actually true - we know for example the USS Nimitz TicTac incident happened and exists (not really a debate).

We have evidence of it happening from FLIR Camera of an F/18, an E2 Hawkeye Radar Plane, the SPY-1 Radar from the USS Princeton, the Ballistic Missile Defense system from when they were above 80,000ft

All of this data is corroborated and doesn’t appear to be up for debate - at the first UAP hearing Scott Bray the Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence said:

[Congressional staffer]: Can you provide us a specific
example of an object that can’t be explained as having
been human made or natural?

[Scott Bray]: I mean the example that I would say is
still unresolved, that I think everyone understands
quite well is the 2004 incident from [the USS] Nimitz
[aircraft carrier]. We have data on that, and it simply
remains unresolved…

At what point does sufficiently advanced technology become not human? I’d argue the TicTac displays that.

Otherwise you have to accept that there is a human organization with the capability of generating 10x the total sum of all Nuclear power generated in the United States in something the size of a 40ft TicTac 20 years ago

I mean - I guess it’s possible it’s human, it’s just that it’d make me incredibly sad if so considering whoever has it is letting the world burn.

Source on the power requirements:

Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514271/

I just can’t imagine this being weather personally as whatever it was, starts actively Jamming the F18 (technically an act of war). If you watch the TicTac video you’ll see it when it pops to 99.9 RNG on the display

I should note - a list of everyone that has said we have this data:

* Former President Obama

* House Intel Committee Member Adam Schiff

* Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

* Senate Armed Services Committee Member Kirsten Gillibrand

* Former DNI John Ratcliff

* Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray

* Senator Mitt Romney

* Senator Marco Rubio

* Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley

* Former Senate Majority Member Harry Reid

And a bunch of other house members - is someone faking a bunch of data and showing it to them?
This is why I hate when I go to a new gig and someone just assigns me a bunch of rights, "because it's easier". No, don't do that. Not only are you exposing your company to breaches, you're giving me responsibilities I don't want. I could make a mistake and screw something important up, or something could get hacked and people might think it was me, because I have privileges to do it.
I tend to agree that the word "memory" makes me think of a higher level (more abstract) type of action than a simple reactive switch, I'm not sure where the line is or if there really needs to be one or not.

Having said that, are you familiar with the purkinje cell from a rabbit that they trained to respond to timed patterns of input in isolation?

Timed pattern=input 1, delay X, input 2, delay Y, then input 3.

Definitely more than a simple on/off switch type training, but does that rise to the level of "memory"?
Even accepting what I think are very inaccurate perceptions of US and world international relations needs, what would we replace it with?

Also, back to our topic, how do you handle secrecy? Again, obviously some things must be secret, some things public.

Absolute answers are too easy - nothing, everything, destroy the entire foreign policy establishment, etc. We need real ideas and answers.
Don't be so quick to dismiss claims. In this case, it's very real, and you're doing yourself a disservice by asserting otherwise without searching.

I know for a fact that it's real. I spent about a year outside in Colorado, and saw several objects beyond explanation. Most are small and hard to see unless you know to look in the darkness of the sky between the stars. A couple put the fear of God into me - so big that they were the size of my two outstretched hands against the sky. Spheres cloaked against clouds in the night sky. Incomprehensibly large Y-shaped craft studded with what look like stars. Military-looking craft silently soaring directly above.

Who knows if they're alien or manmade.. but whether you believe it or not, they're in the sky every night.
By the time I got my learner's permit I had been operating tractors of various shapes and sizes for the better part of decade. I think that gave me a visceral appreciation for the danger of operating heavy equipment, and the damage you can do with a tiny, momentary mistake. I remember being shocked when I realized my peers didn't understand that.
Good points. My comment about the mobility of the truck camper applies only if we can in fact, find passable surfaces. The point for us is to be prepared to the best of our ability and I think we have done a good job in the regard. We will have a potential survival advantage.

My biggest worry are other, extremely desperate people whom I would be very inclined to help. But this would have limits and things might get gnarly leading into an area I hate to think about - using lethal force to protect my family. Hopefully, simply being visibly armed would be a deterrent, but its hard to game out how bad it might get.

My larger point is really about how ill-prepared most of my neighbors are. The recent storm simply highlighted this problem. We were all very comfortable because we had a generator and alternate, heated shelter. I spent a lot of time helping neighbors. I also had the only vehicle (Outback with all wheel drive with blizzak tires - just amazing on ice) on my sloped street that could successfully navigate ice so I was out buying cat food for my elderly neighbor, and buying groceries for our other neighbors with a new baby.
The "only" there does a lot of work. :-)

And it has to survive for millions of years until it reaches a new solar system without something to "feed" on. In many ways it seems easier to make a Neuman probe which can survive within a solar system than something which can travel to another.
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“Designed to be bought” is enharmonic to “designed to be sold.”

For most people an empty belly, not cake, is bread’s alternative.

And so, right now most people in the US can have a brand new tub that will fit where the old one is. Today. For a few hundred bucks (installation not included). Because Home Depot will have the cheap one’s in stock.

if you’re hiring someone to build for you

You are not most people even if that’s what most people you know can do.
They compile the “C++” (which isn’t C++ but some implementation of C++, likely Apple clang 15.0.0) without any optimizations.

g++ -std=c++14 1bn.cpp
time ./a.out
1000000000

When I run this on a Macbook Air M2 without optimizations versus with “-O3”, wall clock running time decreases from about 700ms to 6 ms (sometimes less than that)

(Also, with “-O3”, changing the loop limit doesn’t affect running time, so clang optimizes away that loop)
It’s such a depressing product that has become an industry standard. Shame on all of us.
After doing some internet sleuthing, I'm about 95% sure I know what he's doing today, and if it who I suspect, he has had a decent career in IT. Would rather not post my findings to respect the man's privacy.
I think that analysis captures why people drive very well actually. Let's assume trains are 32x safer in US as well:

Car: 2 hour 32 minutes driving door to door + 37 minutes of death = 3 hour 9 minutes

Train: 2 hour 37 minutes on train + 1 minute of death + 30 minute early arrive buffer + 30 minutes public transport to departure + 30 minutes public transport to destination = 4 hours 8 minutes

Trains already lose, unless both your source and destination are right next to the train stations. And once you factor possibility of other things, like having multiple stops or how you have to adjust the schedule around the trains, the car gets even better.
esim allows me to provision my phone with a new phone number wherever I am.

I don't even need to go to any location, I just need someone to send me a QR code.

It is extremely helpful and a huge time saver.
If all self-signed certs are allowed by default, then the crypto means nothing at all -- that's not good.
Somewhere sometime a dinosaur cranes its neck and thinks to itself, "I would most certainly love to see that beautiful comet from a closer vantage point."
Why can’t a manufacturer just decide that they don’t want people jailbreaking their devices? It’s a black hole of a use case to support, especially when there are plenty of open Linux-based platforms for power-users to hack away on
ill double this. 27 year old fluke meter that works as new with a fresh battery

technically a hand me down but still!
Barn door, meet escaped horse.
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There's nothing else like it in terms of quality. Most CRPGs don't have full voice overs and animations for EVERY conversation option. Many don't allow you to just kill every single key character and still maintain narrative flow.

The writing is excellent. The plot is generic. A generic plot isn't necessarily a bad thing either. Some of the best movies follow a generic arc, Star wars the MCU are all good because of the genericness. A lot of people are just snobbish. Not you, but I feel that's where a lot of the judgement comes from.
Hahaha, fair point. No of course I wouldn't have.

Let me 'append' my previous claim then. I don't know anything I would have done differently than I'd expect to have significantly have changed the outcome. Obviously juking the numbers, or trying to at least, is stupid (that goes for lowering and increasing). On the other hand, I don't expect that played a meaningful role in what played out, well excepting some sort of butterfly effect argument - but with such, one can argue literally anything.
I would call it malicious compliance at this point. The flippant contempt for anti-trust measures that large companies have openly demonstrated without repercussions for decades is a major reason America may enter into economic decline and doesn’t truly have a free market.
Context is set to 32768, I didn't change it I guess that's the model's default.

Thanks for making me feel better about investing in tht motherboard + CPU + RAM upgrade and deferring the GPU upgrade.
Price caps could make sense, but in my experience the more important missing piece is a requirement that a lower tier be offered. Comcast keeps upping their lowest tier, and raising the price concomitantly. I started out at 12Mbps and am now at 80. I don’t remotely need 80, and would love to pay half of my current rate for half of my current speed. I’d even pay 2/3 of my cost for 1/3 of my speed. But Comcast does not offer a tier below 80/10 in my area.
import torch

From the first code sample, not quite from scratch :-)
This article and comment chain scope was on speeding risks to the speeders or personal vehicle occupants in general. The changes needed to reduce pedestrian and cyclist fatalities are fairly different.
Also, with Wine you can you Windows applications on Windows. Sounds insane, but there are use cases, for old programs for which Windows itself offers no compatibility.
Perhaps they think they're paying a ransom?
postmarketOS. It installs pretty much the same as any Android ROM. Once your bootloader is unlocked, you just flash it with fastboot.
I don't know, humans are pretty adaptable. I'm imagining spending a day "running" around in VR and then running in IRL and having all of this unexpected momentum causing me to fall over whenever I want to stop.
I assume the government always has a certain level of spending on UFOs just because it might be a foreign vessel. But this spending should definitely not increase because of LGM hysteria.
Haven't fully watched this but from a brief skimming, here are some differences that the book has:

- it implements a real word-level LLM instead of a character-level LLM

- after pretraining also shows how to load pretrained weights

- instruction-finetune that LLM after pretraining

- code the alignment process for the instruction-finetuned LLM

- also show how to finetune the LLM for classification tasks

- the book it overall has a lots of figures. For Chapter 3, there are 26 figures alone :)

The video looks awesome though. I think it's probably a great complementary resource to get a good solid intro because it's just 2 hours. I think reading the book will probably be more like 10 times that time investment.
Additional note: I forgot that synapses are also maintained by local RNA (local=at/near the synapse), so removing the RNA would definitely cause the synapse to revert back to a different state and not retained it's "learned" state.
Your legs are moving but your head / vestibular system isn’t experiencing acceleration that it expects with those leg movements. Think of it this way, if you are holding a pendulum and take a normal step forward, the pendulum will start to swing. If you take a step forward on the magic floor tiles, your legs move normally but since your body stays in the same place, the pendulum is motionless.
Never mind death, a collision (even a minor one, where you simply exchange insurance information) or a ticket will kill your "productivity" gained.

I used to be the crazy driver (and occasionally that personality comes out to play), but these days I usually just set my cruise to whatever is practical (in large cities, it's not the speed limit, but a bit higher to match others), and let adaptive cruise do most of the work.
I should have written "might encounter". What I'm getting at is that if someone sees your probe, you have now let on that you exist.
>I don't think there's any extra-terrestrial activity going on, period.

given that the universe is so large there's not a number that can accurately measure its true size or age, you mean to tell me you think that humans are the only intelligent lifeforms to exist currently, have existed, or will exist?

Come on now.
The majority of homeless people are at work or in school during the daytime. The people you see on the street are the tip of an enormous iceberg.
I have seen slightly weird things in the sky. But to assume that they are an advanced technological species is not an assumption that I can jump to.

I always found a much more plausible explanation.

For 15 years, I lived near a NOAA station which launched balloons, but I didn't know that at first. They launch one right at sunset, every day. When it hits the sun at 1000 feet, it looks pretty darn crazy! Sometimes there were shadows from low clouds blocking the sunset, and the balloon would only get lit up at >10,000 feet, and it would "jump" in different directions due to high altitude wind sheers. I was very disappointed when I learned that truth.
I've been sleep tracking with my Garmin Fenix 7 for about 18 months, and to me it seems bang on. The HRV stat is particularly good - a decline over about a week predicted the onset of flu symptoms a couple months ago, for example. Body battery is also a really useful feedback measurement. Sleep onset and wake times are right; REM seems right; and deep/shallow measurement at least correlates with how I feel.
The avrocar never made it more than 5 feet from the ground though. I doubt it barely even left the base. I wonder if the project was inspired by UFO sightings though...
Ok...?

I'm seeing a lot of emotional comments that are not following the comment chains on this post. Are you meaningfully engaging in the conversation or trying to hijack them?