skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28735-5

> ...we examine the associations between alcohol intake and brain structure using multimodal imaging data from 36,678 generally healthy middle-aged and older adults from the UK Biobank...

They were not able to control for previous alcohol consumption. The data only goes back 1 year. And it's self-reported.

I highly suspect many heavy drinkers would under report their drinking but they wouldn't report not drinking.
Obligatory mention for Mortimer Adler's book "How to read a Book".

It's been extremely helpful in clarifying how I think about consuming the written work. (Yes, full ack, I procrastinated for years on it because my brain kept screaming "cyclical dependency!". Get over that, it's worth it)

Bonus points: It's not tied to any tooling.
What does the computer do that you can't describe mathematically?

The flesh and character are just emergent properties of enormously complicated mathematical structures.
I observed this phenomena not too long ago while training an RL agent to play pokemon using an intrinsic novelty reward based on the number of unique screens the agent had seen. The goal was to get it to explore the map, but instead it became fixated watching animated water, flowers, and npcs in the starting town. I made an extensive video analyzing the experiments, you can find it by searching "ai plays pokemon" :)
Yes, the more baseline boilerplates we have to show more golang the better.
The leaderboard is easy to hack as well.
It’s very likely protected by EU copyright.
You can buy this one, save for a few years and get a better one, then have children.

Once you get this rolling you can improve your situation every few years.

The problem with "the projects" is that undesirable people get to live there practically for free. But that is not the case in Russia or China. Everybody lives in some sort of high-rises and has a middle class life.

But, you can also absolutely have a kid there as well.

Otherwise, people would love to be able to afford a house or at least a townhouse, but modern economy gets in the way of that wish, especially from scratch.
Directed energy: The focus on laser weapons intensifies
I find it ironic that you assume the person who owned 9 shares brought the suit actually felt harmed by the inappropriate use of the word independent and doesn't have some other undisclosed interest in regards to filing suit.
Normal: it is very close to 50/50. It does still lean, but only just. It's close enough that in practice any guess is fine.

Binomial: it is 50/50.

The reason these change the situation dramatically is that under normal or binomial, you are waaaay more likely to be in a situation that is close to 50/50 to begin with because they are way more likely to occur. The quirk of this question is that a 0 green 100 red urn is just as likely as a 50-50 red/green urn using a uniform distribution - hence if you get red on the first draw you are much more likely to be in a heavily tilted red urn.
Dall-E 3 has GPT-4 in front of it, expanding prompts, as the image generation works better given more constraints than users usually provide.

Whisper, fair enough. So they do not just LLMs well, but ML models more generally. It doesn't change stavros's point though.
I answered your first question in my original comment. People can build reputations with good science. I’ll answer the other one now.

I think humans operate on faith in others’ testimonies way more than actual science. As a follower of Jesus Christ, this doesn’t bother me since I believe we learn the truth in multiple ways. However, science is rooted in empiricism which says any belief must be proven, independently reviewed by skeptics, and we keep using it while it seems correct. Dissent is always allowed in real science since our models (beliefs) might be useful but incorrect on some level. Whatever survives the most review with the most utility is what we should keep using.

What happens is often different. People believe something just because it was reported somewhere or had a name on it. That’s pure faith (or argument from authority). Many works aren’t just unreplicated: they can’t be replicated. Many institutions have political biases affecting their work. Many don’t allow dissent on some topics. People good at one thing often fail at another. I also see big jumps in extrapolating a small success to future, larger successes.

While common (even on HN), none of that is the scientific method in action. It’s more like a mix of science, unproven dogma, speculation, political maneuvering, and a popularity contest. The ratios of these vary by field and institution. Don’t call anything science or “proof” unless it fully follows the scientific method. And builds on premises that did, too.
> open source is about software freedom, see debian free software guidelines from which the "open source definition"

The Open Software Foundation ironically screwed the pooch on this one. Open source commonly means source available, more of less. Free software, as in “'free speech,' not as in 'free beer',” is the cumbersome construction for what open source aspired to mean [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
This is my experience too. I hadn't been rejected from a job since starting work in the late 90s. Significant experience from coding (which I still do) to startup exec level. Multiple "it came down to you and one other" situations.

Jobs are in short supply, applicants are numerous. Most interviews are also with managers 10 years younger than I am which may be a compounding factor. That's not an issue for me, but I think it's easier for them to hire someone of a similar age.
I've seen people use chrome extensions like leetbuddy.
Please don't fall for this crap...
I didn't follow all of the links, but did not see one that obviously linked to the source code. I'd like to take a look at it. Anyone else find it?
> None of these changes are necessarily authenticated - I don't know that it specifically was the user agent that shared the token with the service or added the read-only restriction, at least with the core tech.

Macaroons are very much grounded in capability thinking, where it is a “feature” that principals such as the user agent in your case don’t need to have representable identities. So there’s nobody to authenticate, except the fact that it was a holder of the previous macaroons tag, which means they had the authority it represented.

In other words, not needing something like a PKI is somewhat the point of it all.

If you have the need to authenticate the intermediate principals, eg because they have pre-existing identities already, then the capability model in general may just be a distraction. They could just sign their desired attentuations with their own identity key.
Very cool. I combined 'double rainbow' and 'ocean'; thought I broke it as it loaded for like 20 seconds; then got Atlantis. Eventually I got to 'mermaid', combined it with 'fire', and got 'siren'. But the emoji was a police siren, not the mythical creature. I can see how the LLM would be confused, though.
> If it doesn’t answer a specific question you’re currently asking, cover philosophical knowledge, or entertain you, then don’t read it.

That's a BIG loophole. He could have stopped after "If it doesn’t answer a specific question you’re currently asking".
>However, his BMW X5 then needed a new transmission.

New-age German cars are very accurate and precise, as in only designed to last as long as the lease. Any day longer than that means lost revenue for services and dealerships. A far cray from the German cars of the 80's.

Buying a new German car today means you're either minted or masochistic with your finances.
#5 here for sure

before Google gave results relative to the region you were in, google search results were amazing.
you could search generically and get loads of websites with lots of rich content; it was not always about getting the exact 1 "absolute" answer - it was about finding MORE websites with lots of content...

it's evolved though, several times over, for their profit...
It's called an "AI" computer. Prolog was AI in 1986. I don't see that as a gimmick. I also don't see why one would assume the concept was really about games except for the fact that we know Sega as a games company today.
The base cost of an electric car is very high, so customers (at least, according to manufacturers), demand features aligned with the price. A $25-$30,000 ICE work truck or $20,000 basic economy car looks good compared to the feature laden $40,000 upgrade model. A $40,000 electric car with zero features, on the other hand, looks bad compared to the $40,000 fully loaded gas car.

This theory has mostly panned out I think - the Leaf was probably the most barebones electric car you could get and wasn’t a very strong seller.
But that doesn't still explain the original statement

> waiting time should be reduced by a factor of 10 or more, because starting a VM consumes significantly fewer resources than having a VM idle for 10 minutes

To me its not obvious why you would want to have time-based eviction of VMs ever. Surely it would be more efficient to evict VMs only as response to some resource pressure? Basically I'm imagining keeping VMs in some LRU style structure where they could get kicked out when needed instead of just having 1min timer.

But that is on abstract level, on concrete level its also not obvious at all what are the constraining resources that VMs consume? Especially in a sense that would be comparable to the resource consumption of starting a new VM.

I realize that they are probably implying that they have some sort of static resource allocation for VMs meaning that idle VM consumes as much "resources" as active VM. But its not stated anywhere in the paper and it is weird to make claims(/recommendations) that hinge on such silent assumptions, especially if they are in no way universal. I feel this thing of improving utilization be reducing idleness is somewhat central part of the paper, so that's why I latched on this thing.

I also realize that managing resources efficiently with VMs is bit more involved than traditional processes (=containers), but at the same time this is where Meta, running private cloud and practically owning the whole stack, could really do much more than public cloud ever could. They could rely on more VMs and host cooperating on resource allocation, and even have the possible language runtime (HHVM etc) cooperate here somehow.

Indeed now that I think about it, sounds like interesting question how would you design FaaS-optimized combined VMM, VM, and language runtime stack. They touch on that with their JIT caches, but that seems one fairly narrow optimization, I'd imagine there is lot you could do here. The end-game might look something like unikernels, or maybe something completely different.

(and I'm sorry if my comments have come off as combative, but this did stick out to me and I am just curious)
> The world is asking car companies to become tech companies,

Uh, we are? I must have missed a memo. This is absolutely not anything I want, nor need. This sounds like a pundit trying to make excuses while evangelizing looking for new converts
too bad :-)
> Maybe it is the case for ENS

Oh yeah, I was referring strictly to IPFS+ENS websites. I have been working with it for several years so my mind goes for this use-case automatically.
Interfaces are meant to have friction, that’s what guides the user more than the “happy path”. This radial menu is all happy path. Having a list in a menu, with the most used selections higher up in the list, give the user context like “this is higher so it is more likely to be what I next” meaning they usually don't traverse the whole list to get to the lower and less used options.
Thanks for the heads up. I got excited that there might be something new to see. But I'll read the article with less expectation now, as a review and update, rather than anticipating some big innovation.
So your 80% of reading actually was a waste of time. :)
If your Windows username isn't English, it may cause FPS drops in CS2
What's wild to me is that this "leak" won't matter in a couple of months. The official model will come out, then an even better model will come out. It's fun to get hyped but just like every other leak, it'll be surpassed by the real thing and its successor in a little bit. The fast pace of things is what has me excited, not any particular model.
Maybe, but you seem to be suggesting instead that this is an apples : suspension bridges scenario...
> Model weights aren't software so there's not an automatic correspondence between the freedoms, but the essential one you might think you need the training data for is freedom to modify and inspect the source.

Models aren't just the weights, but also the list of operations to perform using those weights. I haven't heard a good definition that allows for neural network models to not be software, but allows any other table lookup heavy signal processing algorithm to be software.

> Modification is fine tuning which you're free to do if you have the weights. And the model weights + code fully define a system that can be interrogated to give a practitioner relevant info about how the model works (within our understanding) that the training data isn't needed or relevant for. I don't see that any freedom on use or inspection is violated by not having the data.

Mistral wouldn't constrain themselves to fine tuning if they have a big enough change, they would go back to their build pipeline. This argument sounds a lot like 'there's nothing stopping you from patching the binary, so that's basically as good as source'.
May be wasabi is fire?
> Seriously is there any real technical hurdle why we didn't do it this way?

Yes, because designing and implementing a protocol like USB is nothing like designing and implementing an internetworking protocol.

> not sure why the protocol couldn't be upgraded so that xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx are all accepted

You can't just add address bits to a fixed-size protocol header that wasn't intended to be extended in that manner. IP addresses don't actually look like those dotted strings you're talking about. Those representations are for convenience and ease of reading for humans. For computers, it's a 4-byte quantity that's sent over the wire in binary, not a string of base-10 numbers separated by dots. When these things were designed, CPUs, custom processing units, and RAM were incredibly expensive. When you designed a protocol, you designed it for efficiency in size and parsing speed. Otherwise no one would implement your protocol, because it wouldn't be cost-effective to do so. Today we throw around JSON payloads in our HTTP responses without a care for the bandwidth needed or processing power used to parse. If you tried to do something like that back in 1981 when IPv4 was introduced, you'd be laughed out of the room and fired.

Your middle suggestion ("xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx") makes no sense: each part of the dotted-quad notation we're familiar with represents an 8 bit quantity (base-10 numbers 0 through 255). Adding another base-10 digit is nonsensical. The last example, a dotted-...er...quint? is certainly one option, which would increase the address field in the header from 4 to 5 bytes, giving us 256 times the current number of addresses (more or less). IPv6, instead of going from 4 to 5 address bytes, goes to 8 address bytes. That allows us to give every grain of sand on all the Earth's beaches an IPv6 address, several times over. Overkill? Maybe. Probably. But consider how long it's taken to adopt this new protocol. If we were to only add 1 more address byte, and then run out of addresses again, we'd likely have to wait even longer than this time for a future IPv7 to become adopted.

Now, going back to the fairly modest 1-byte increase in the address fields (and presumably no other protocol changes). For some devices a fairly simple software update would suffice, but for many router-type hardware of the time (25+ years ago), it wouldn't have been feasible to solely upgrade the software or firmware. Consider that things like routing tables would now require 25% more memory per address, and memory was something routers of the time didn't have in abundance. And some of these older pieces of hardware actually had parts of the protocol "parsing" done in hardware, which you can't change after the fact; you need to scrap the entire thing and build something new.

I do agree that it was foolish to design a whole new protocol. If they'd just released a new protocol where the only change was more address bits, I'm sure it'd be fully adopted by now and IPv4 would be a thing of the past.
Law enforcement and war come to mind readily.
I stopped at leviathan.
>I'd accept software that helped with efficiency and battery longevity.

The embedded software doing that quietly in the background is not the problem. It's the user facing software that thinks it can replace the hardware UX that has already worked for decades that's the problem.
No idea, I have a similar thought. But I'm not from America, where people are free to say whatever stupid thing they want, no matter how high stakes their job is.
>As an aside, the game is technically interesting, being a really simple example of using llm generation for game mechanics. But it is not engaging at all and feels nonsensical to me

You just gotta make a game out of it.

For example challenge yourself to try to craft "pizza".

Can even try to do it in as least number of crafts as possible.

Point is, just crafting random things to see what it spits out is OK, but trying to use your own logic to combine things to get to an arbitrary solution you come up with is much more engaging, at least to me.

Challenge your friends to craft some specific "thing". Think of something you might think could be hard to craft to, and ask them to do the same and see who can get there first, or in the fewest steps.
You might be. There is a fun podcast called “If books could kill” that shreds this genre. Give their episode list a look.
Right on, I just skimmed over it and got the main points: if you don’t need it dont read it. I use titles and first lines as a guide
I'm not sure if you read the post, but with some of the new cheating tools that exist, they overlay the GPT responses in front of your screen with concise bullet points. You wouldn't even need to look away from your screen or interviewer to cheat. The bullet points are also small enough to where it is incredibly difficult to tell that someone is reading anything - even if they have a webcam enabled and are looking right at you. This, coupled with some interviewers that don't care a lot about the process, it is getting easier for cheaters to slip into places for sure!
Well, it's a good thing the software in an EV is restricted to the UI. /s

Tesla's software for FSD (whatever that name means) doesn't work, and is one of the worst places for buggy beta software that I can think of
Boosting empathy is always a great goal. Much enjoyed it.

Thanks for the ref too "The luxury of simplicity" is quite a turn of
phrase. I'll see if it goes back further.

Reminds me of a writer (probably Lewis Mumford) who said
approximately;

The machinery of Modernity offers all the riches of eternity, except
for one thing. It can serve all our needs, well. It can meet all
our desires, well. It offers companionship, entertainment, health,
wealth and prosperity. Except for one forbidden fruit... that we
turn it off. Our desire for simplicity, to stand on our own feet and
*not* have the machine serve us... that is what it cannot supply.
Can you change jobs? Maybe finding a less demanding one that frees some time
The core problem with interviews is that it's basically impossible to tell how well someone's going to perform on the job. It's always possible to grind leetcode or whatever and make it look like you know what you're talking about, by using the model people can just skip that part entirely.

Not to mention the fact that some interviewers feel obliged to ask useless cliche questions like "why do you think you are a good fit for this position" yada yada.

Not going to be surprised if picking people based on random chance (if they meet basic requirements) is going to actually be better statistically than bombarding them with questions trying to determine if they are good enough. Really feels like we are trying to find a pattern in randomness at that point.

Bottom line is that if ChatGPT is actually a problem for the interview process, then the process is just broken.
off topic, but slack doesn't really work great in firefox either, they don't support huddles, so if that's something your team uses, one has to poke them to use something else.
>The main thing the speed of light prevents is a single civilization staying together as a galaxy sized empire.

It seems to me that, in principle, a ruling class could set itself apart from humanity and conduct the business of a galactic government -- ahem, a galactic enlightened dictatorship, with its own timing.

For example, Alice and Bob live on Trantor, and are employees of the Galactic Federation. They constantly travel [at the same fractions of the speed of light] to clusters located in different galactic hemispheres, and, thanks to almost identical rates of time dilation in their [perhaps carefully chosen] travels, they meet every weekend of their proper time. They live happily as a family in the headquarters of the government, to the rhythm of the passing of countless generations on the myriad planets of the federation.
The LLM was not confused. It just fed "siren" into the image generator and that's an ambiguous term.
I think it worked its way into the official vocabulary!
Sega absolutely nailed it with graphic design in those days. My goodness.
Yeah, the format really needs an update. For starters, WARC only officially supports HTTP/1.1. Webrecorder has started faking HTTP/1.1 data in WARC files in order to save other versions, but I don't think faking data is great for an archival format, especially if it isn't standardized.
I host all the static files of my Netlify and Vercel servers on IPFS

it is simple enough and free even on hosted solutions, and it keeps my Netlify and Vercel free during spikes in traffic

but the availability issue is perplexing, just like OP encountered

some people just randomly wont be able to resolve some assets on your site, sometimes! the gateways go up and down, their cache of your file comes and goes. browsers dont natively resolve ipfs:// uris. its very weird.
Think of it as a load balancer. A link will redirect to whatever instance is someone deems to be up (and to exist, in the first place).
Does mistral not have any guardrails?
This essay shows the extent of intellectual rot in this country, to the point where if you make a few bucks in Silicon Valley, suddenly your 8th grade history class level understanding of the world is supposed to be seen as serious discourse. We used to have actual intellectuals in this country who put out think pieces about the future of our society. That’s all gone - the Futurists are all dead, and George Hotz makes an ass of himself.
I've learned to really cherish those "bathroom break" epiphanies. I used to consider it to be better to put some educational poster on that wall, but now I think that a completely featureless door is actually better.
I'll confess my ignorance here, but would your saliva cells also show it (assuming it's not a mouth or throat cancer)? And it is is, wouldn't you have noticed something before your regular "checkup" from 23andme?