skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a class of propositions we could call "effect-indistinguishable" which can have no possible effects which distinguish between their truth and falsehood (eg., that a god exists with no spatiotemporal location and no causal effects, etc.).

If these are true, they do have genuine implications (eg., a world with such a god is different than one without). However, I shortcut all this with a simple meta-epistemic principle: I will never believe one of those propositions on the basis that it could never be rational to do so.

I take it is the most rational belief in this case is simply to presume they're all false, since there are an infinite number and i think some argument can be made that theyre certainly largely false since most are contradictory (etc.)

So, no the universe is not a simulation; nor a dream of a demon; nor one of any of these propositions. If you think it is, then why not draw randomly from a similar set? Why not the wish of an alien honoured by a angel?

These kinds of propositions are "failure modes" of rational thinking that cannot be addressed in their own framing (consider, by analogy, "is the king of the US bald?"). The response has to be about what it means to think at all, to believe something is true, and so on.

This is also how to address conspiracy theories. The issue with them is their belief in classes of propositions of this kind (eg., that all "official" claims are false).
Drug companies pay pretty well for clinical trials, so why would anyone pay 23andme for their own data, so that 23andme can turn around and sell it to drug companies?
> The extreme all meat diet have only started gaining wide mainstream traction (as far as I can tell) only over the last 6-8 years

The extreme all meat diet was called "The Atkins Diet" 20 years ago, you might have seen it mentioned on a retro rerun of a tv show.

As with most things, and certainly everything to do with diet, excercise and fashion - there is nothing actually new.
Show HN: conversational AI search with <500 lines of code
A reboot did not fix the VMs for her. A Google search revealed that she had to install some additional dev package.

I didn't think that Canonical was sabotaging her computer. What I do think is that Canonical is using security updates as an upselling opportunity.

In my opinion this is a bad idea, especially if the language used is vague enough to mislead people.
>reading is still science. :)

Umm, no.

Reading is still research.

Time spent reading may lead directly to more science, but it's not always the most prominent path, plus you have to put down the books occasionally and get into action or the research will stagnate because of a thing called no progress whatsoever.

Science is the part that may lead to future publications. Maybe, maybe not.

Often best conducted with the hands, eyes and mind not overly bound or preoccupied with materials previously published.

Remember the default, especially in hard science, is no progress whatsoever, with gradual loss of technology developed during previous lifetimes.

So reading can be most essential to keep previous progress from being forgotten or lost completely.

I say don't stop reading altogether but get into action as much as possible.

-note not my downvote, corrective upvote actually
SEO and CO (citation optimization) maybe rhyme for a reason.
> - Memoir, a personal pet project for memoir writing

Nice, I wrote something very similar using local models. Instead of 15 questions, I opted for a dynamic interview loop.
>I was deeply involved in prompt engineering and writing custom prompts because they yielded significantly better results.

No, no you weren't. Prompt engineering never was, is not currently, and never will be, a thing.
Trust me, it's not. I've seen start-ups worth 100x than a smaller successful business due to speculation, despite the smaller business employing more people and actually turning profit for many years.
We used the book "the design of approximation algorithms"

https://www.designofapproxalgs.com/book.pdf
EdgeQL
Show HN: Lone Arena – Self-hosted LLM human evaluation, you be the judge
You need to evaluate a few fine-tuned LLM checkpoints.
None of the existing benchmark suite fits your domain task,
and your content can't be reviewed by a 3rd party (e.g. GPT-4).
Human evaluation seems to be the most viable option...
Well, maybe let’s start from this question:
Which of the two responses is better?
It's the Valuation That Kills You
And the one from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179929
At a frame rate of 0.014 fps.
Their kit is 99 dollars, but how expensive is the actual DNA testing nowadays ? It's my understanding from this [0] video that it is approximately 1000 dollars for the whole genome, but 23&Me sequence only a tiny portion of the genome (above video mentions 500 000 bases out of 6 billion total bases of human genome), and that sequencer processes thousands of samples in parallel, so there is some economy of scale factors. It is sometimes very confusing how all these tech/techish companies have such bad financials.

[0] https://youtu.be/C3T_IaIGQxo?t=141
> I'd rather avoid a future where everyone is walking around with a headset or smart goggles strapped to their face all the time. And I certaintly don't want to wear one all the time.

I pressume people had similar reaction when mobile phones first entered the market. They were big and heavy they came with a strap to carry over shoulder. No chance people would mass-buy it and walk with it everywhere. But look today, when its thinnier than a finger, and everyone wants it.

Once glasses loose its placenta, we will live in different world.
Maybe they didn't know there was a product called 'Mac Studio'? I didn't.

(Seems to be a cross between the Mac Mini & Pro? Pretty sure used to be just the high-end Mini, not differently named. Or low-end Pro, I seem to remember they suddenly made the Pro a lot more expensive a few years ago.)
Why put so much emphasis on FaceTime and other video calls? Seems like that’s a great opportunity to take the thing off and have a conversation. EyeSight too could be marketed more like glances than a full on experience.
Problem is as always greed for fame, power and money.

Labs and researchers are given funds based on "impact".

As we all know, when a metric becomes the goal, the metric gets gamified.

This is very hard to fix.

Gonna give you an example. As soon as you move in any direction in science you're entering a niche. Pretty much everything is its own niche where there's a limited number of people really able to review your paper.

No, there's not thousands of experts dedicating their life to helicoidal peptides interactions with metal layers. It's an extremely small number of people. They all know each other and are gonna review each other's papers regularly.

Solar-powered water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen? Again, extremely small club.

Perovskite? Graetzel solar cells? Bigger club, but still, at the end of the day the relevant luminaries are a handful again.

You think it's much different for quaternions or advanced complex numbers analysis?

And those small clubs set the rules and standards, and there is really not much way to have oversight on those small clubs.

Plenty of terrible science is published every day, I can confidently say 90 to 95% of experiments in Physics or Chemistry are impossible to reproduce (numbers people get by taking outlier results or even more often by tweaking the data).

When it comes to softer sciences like psychology it's even worse. It's crap.

It's sad, but I think the world desperately needs a *free* alternative to the biggest publishers out there like Nature or ACM or all these things. That free alternative has to be funded by universities and governments globally. This entity should only allow papers that present clear experiments that are reproduced elsewhere or under supervision.

This would greatly enhance the quality and reliability of papers.
Has this even happened anywhere in the EEA yet though? I get the impression that MS will hold off on many of these changes across europe.
I really hope this product fails. Our lives are already being ruined by screens, having one strapped to your eyes is a retrograde step
A bad day for tech: 31k jobs slashed (2001)
It's not clear to me that this was in any way a money-making business. The test only needs to be taken once. Selling this data to 3rd parties by way of a sneaky EULA may be part of SV culture, but it's probably not something that would get you repeat business in healthcare.
Oh they've already sold it to those folks.
> The prof I was working with told me that this anonymous reviewer was probably the writer of those papers and asking for citation.

I think this is mostly just a kind of fun way of complaining about reviewers. Having been a reviewer for many computer science conference, I've often had the names of other reviewers visible to me. Most requests for citations are not for the reviewer's own work, and truly irrelevant citation requests seem to be pretty rare.

I do perceive journal/lab-centric fields to be worse about this, though.
No, but I would prefer greater transparency about the accuracy of the analysis and also greater transparency about the reliability (or unreliability) of any health recommendations based on research.

I'm not looking for a single source of authority and I will not be disappointed if an updated "chip" or study reverses a previous recommendation/insight.

23andme had a blog post about the MTHFR gene and why they don't include it. I'm not there to read the blog I want to know interesting things about my own genetics, even if what is interesting is that they don't think it matters! This is just bad content strategy even if it's justifiable from a "healthcare" perspective.

Why so much worry about a customer getting the wrong impression from one of the health reports? Seems a bit absurd. How much money did it cost to put in place all the warnings about the potentially upsetting impact of various mutations.

I wish that 23andme had focused on being an entertaining way for people to discover more interesting stuff about themselves, rather than a rarefied place where only the most well-vetted research is acknowledged to exist.
> Not necessarily. `.internal` exists for that purpose …

.internal is being considered for that purpose:

> IANA has performed an evaluation to determine a suitable string to be reserved for the purpose of a top-level domain that may be used for internal or private use applications. The string “INTERNAL” has been identified as appropriate for this purpose.

> In accordance with the process described by ICANN, this assessment will be put for a public comment proceeding, followed by review and potential adoption by ICANN.

* https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/root-system/identificatio...

* https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/icann_internal_tld/

There is now not (yet?), nor has there ever been, any label officially set aside for that purpose.

> … and people have historically used `.lan` for similar purposes.

People have also used .dev for their development environment, and we all saw how well that worked out:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dev

> There's no particular reason internal names need to have resolvable DNS names of any kind […]

Sure there are: for putting into a certificate which can be linked to a public certificate authority (CA) so that users don't have to install a custom/private CA just to use internal services. I'm at a place where the dumbass team before me used an internal-only TLD (lan/local/internal), and now we (the new team) can't issue certs for things internally.
https://archive.ph/osPFP
If it's like VT-x then building another simulation in a simulation which is already in another simulation should break it down - or at least run really slow. :)
So... people who do intellectual work and only need a desk, chair and a computer?

I mean... it would be pretty hard for a plumber, electrician, construction worker, etc. to work from home.
I would dedicate my life to trying to find how to open the console
Nice! It has a succinct overview of the Relational Model before discussing ISBL.

There was a earlier thread today which is an interview with Chris Date where he mentions that QBE and ISBL are more "Relational" than SQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39189015
An argument against simulation is that our universe seems gratuitously large. Why have billions of whole other galaxies in it? Given a finite computing budget, you'd expect whoever's running the simulation to want to simulate more planets with civilization and fewer giant dust clouds.

If it is a simulation, it must be doing some very clever lazy evaluation to avoid thinking about every quark in every atom in every star in every galaxy, while still producing results that astronomers can't distinguish from physics on earth.
You’re getting it wrong. Him getting the options was contingent on making the shareholders a lot more money. The stock options were contingent upon dramatically increasing the value of the shares (despite the total number of shares increasing). There was no scenario in which the shareholders could lose money from the comp package. Even in the case where the company didn’t grow, they wouldn’t since he’d have gotten no compensation at all.
What’s your aversion to string ids?

Personally I love them and prefer them in all cases. They aren’t enumerable, never get confused for “is this an array or a map by ID” in PHP, can be used safely as keys without some languages (looking at you PHP) returning an array instead of an object (assoc. array) when converting to JSON, don’t need to be converted back to a number after passing through something like a URL/get param, are less likely to have overlap with keys from other types (even more so if you prefix the key with a type identifier), no need to know that last ID used in the DB so you can build your key in app code instead of the DB, and I’m sure I have more things I like about them.

I understand auto-inc can have some performance gains in the DB but I’ve never needed the gains more than I wanted sane (in my mind) ids.

For the longest time I used UUID (v4) and I still do sometimes but lately I’ve liked KSUID since they are sortable by create date (great for things like DynamoDB IMHO).
How about the "Russian-born billionnaire" neighbour? Seems like he put in a pretty penny as well.
This was a complaint during the pandemic too, so I am not sure much has changed.

Only knowledge jobs generally can work remotely. Robotic avatars are a long ways away for the other jobs.
Just adding the link to the Toms Hardware article on the Sberbank tests: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/russias-biggest-bank-tests...
A classic textbook example of perverse incentives and unintended negative consequences.

Someone could write a paper on this.
Have you tried telling it that you have no hands so it needs to finish the code for you?
It always was the goal

My comment from yesterday's news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190974

It's always by/for the military: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3440/1
Ah okay, I haven't done the process myself so mixed it up! Good to know though !
Release 6.0 of my pet project - a highly accessible retirement and financial independence tool for uk residents, outlining kpis for each stage in a persons financial journey.

First version of the solution was terrible and barely usable on mobile. With constant feedback iterations from users and reddit subs its evolved massively and the tool now has a feature roadmap found at https://blackandwhitefire.com/roadmap
I agree with you, but not about the Vision Pro. I could see the potential and use cases for the iPhone, iPad, AirPods, Apple Watch, Apple TV. This headset though? It's a gimmick. I can see some niche use cases for it in very specific industries and in gaming. But I don't see that "normal" people would want to spend significant money on this. Not even if the price dropped to $999.
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What about a special reduced uplink power mode, with only 128Kb of bandwidth for example? Additionally, you can conceal the dish from terrestrial detectors, by putting it in a forest clearing for example. Those two things combined might make it a lot more difficult for the Iranian government to find a Starlink dish.
This! Many, many times I have talked to artists or read their statements, and seen that they are totally out of touch with how to actually communicate with their art. If you tell me your intentions for a piece, what you are trying to communicate, and coming at the piece without that information I see nothing to do with your intentions, you have failed. And the saddest part is when they have expectations that the audience will understand (or care) that all of the "meaning" they are trying to convey falls flat without the words.

I tend to go around the galleries without reading titles or statements. I get more out of it making my own meaning from your work, while being able to pay closer attention to formal qualities.
I think your making the assumption that business user means someone sitting st a desk with a PC writing letters in word or doing calculations in excel and not someone with a shovel doing gardening or driving a van around.

For the average small business the only thing they cant do on their smartphone is file their taxes or interact with whatever bookkeeping/banking system their accountant ashed them to use. And the only applications they have is whatever came preinstalled on the acer laptop they bought from the local big box store.

For MS and their partners the goal is to actually sign them up with an business account through an MSP, which might not be the rational thing for any small service sector business to do as there is nothing in the o365 that will aid them in performing the services they sell to their customers.
Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks for HPC and Desktop
> An advantage to a law which is widely flauted is that it gives arbitrary pretext to apprehend or detain any given person.

A prime example: On a highway leading from Chechnya to Dagestan there is a traffic light. It is always red. https://en.rattibha.com/thread/1595456040677556226
IBM tells managers to come to the office or leave their jobs – CNN Business
Agreed, I can look at any ID and know what type it is. Even with well named fields it helps a ton in the docs “oh, they pass an account in or a payment ID”. Even in my own DB if I reference the stripe ID I know what it is without even having to look at the column name.
> The truth is that almost all papers published across almost all fields cannot be replicated, full stop.

This is not true for Mathematics.
No company that had to go public via SPAC is going to bother with all that. The whole point is to pump and dump. This company will be folded into some drug company for its "IP".
Yes. Texas the State is executing its statehood right to secure its borders which contradicts the Federal policy. Federal Administration through the SC has issued a reversal of Texas' securitization of its border by issuing National Guard order to remove barbwire. Texas in turn has reversed course and continue to put up barbwire fencing to protect its property and citizens from unauthorized access. Federal Administration now seeking to revoke rights of Texas to use its designated National Guard.
I used AltaVista.
So the current implementation has some non prioritised bugs laying around.
There are several proposals, like looking for anisotropy in physics as evidence of a grid coordinate system. Perhaps some day a more precise measurement will find something, but not yet.
> you'd expect whoever's running the simulation to want to simulate more planets with civilization and fewer giant dust clouds.

How so? What if the goal of whoever is running said simulation is something else besides simulating life and civilizations or whatnot, and we are here because an unexpected result?
Running OKR Workshops for Dummies
The H1B program makes little sense in this moment. The major issues facing America are cost of living related. Importing high-pay workers just makes it that much harder for the regular Joe Schmo.
No it does not. This is another hit piece from the elites worried about office space and buildings.
Silicon Valley's time is coming soon, it is going to go the same way as Hard Rock/Heavy Metal music scene on the Sunset Strip, LA in the 90s.

I give it 10 years time before it turns into a town just living on its old glory, with tourist attractions like:

- "This used to be a bar where Google's exec team drank"

or

- "This was the hotel Mark Zuckerberg threw an Oculus Rift into the pool"

or

- "Oracle datacentre re-enactment theme park, with real old beard Oracle DBA you can interact with"

Reference: https://youtu.be/AUrHVWa3s2Y
> they clicked "install" when prompted

I just checked it, it opens a small Microsoft Store window with button "Get". In other languages they also used shady terminology to replace word "Install".
> Just a few years after most knowledge workers shifted to remote work, it’s now mostly wealthy, college-educated employees who are still being allowed to work from home

What job does a poor, uneducated knowledge worker do?
I am old enough to experience that I have done something I whole-heartedly believed to be the right thing only to be re-interpreted to be malicious.

I do not believe that some people mean mal intend, and so my original question was in which framework this would no be mal intend.

(My heart are with the anti nuclear protestors who's work is being reinterpreted to have ruined the earth these years, despite them doing what they believe was right)
When Intel proposed the CPUID in the Pentium III, everyone panicked. I felt confident that, if there were nefarious things happening at that level, people would have figured it out. After many months of hand-wringing in the tech spaces of the time (/., et. al.), people started waking up to the fact that Intel had, in fact, already buried the CPUID in the Pentium II all along, and "we" had already been "had." Moral of the story: do not ever trust that "it would have been news already," for anything.
Yeah the quantity and complexity of what you need to know now is daunting. But even so I dont think Einstein for example had to know the entirety of physics and math in order to produce a groundbreaking revolution in physics.
Goodhart's law:
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Remote work is ... a bargaining tool for people who prefer to work remotely, and it doesn't matter what socioeconomic class you're in.

CRE funds are so determined to get employees back into the office (while their asset class implodes) that they'll sponsor any piece of journalism that will help toe the line. Since last year it's been a steady drumbeat of articles claiming remote work is over or is "bad" for morale. And the data doesn't seem to line up.
Your mistake is here:

> The possible values of N are evenly distributed [1...100] (we discount the N=0 case because we drew a red ball)

These probabilities over N are not actually even anymore; the fact that you drew a red ball means that higher values of N are more likely.
There are a few discussions around this issue on https://community.openai.com/

The commonly recommended approach is to use an OAuth procedure:
https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/authentication

I haven't yet done this myself, but maybe the links from above will help you solving the issue.

Also, have you tried asking ChatGPT itself?
Science without Validation in a World without Meaning (2020)
Citations are simply a flawed metric for anything useful.

A prominent paper with a false hypothesis can get many citations because people reference it when they refute it.
This sounds interesting. Are your schematics available ?
Remote work always was a luxury for those with enough status in the workplace to feel confident not being seen at the office.