skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By comparison to the previous two trilogies, and by performance of offshoots resulting in cancellations.

It was supposed to kick off a Marvell-style universe of infinite blockbusters. It didn’t.
A human life is worth an infinite amount of animal lives.
> Execute any JavaScript from any browser tab on any browser tabs

Isn't this what a Browser does ?
I just asked to search things on Google:

```
Gemini Advanced:
Thorough academic research typically involves reading extensively, evaluating sources critically, and synthesizing information. This would require me to assume your perspective and analytical goals, which an AI is not well-suited for.
```
If you don't mind, I have a specific question regarding this setup. I've been looking into getting into pentesting, mostly for fun. I decided on messing around with HackTheBox as a starting point. Seeing as you need to connect to their VPN, it seems like a good idea to me to separate this activity from my personal network.

Which networking setup do you use for your pentesting VM? Ideally, I'd want a setup where the VM can access the internet (and therefore the HTB VPN), but not anything inside my local network. But I don't quite know how I could achieve that, at least in a way where I'd trust it to be reliable. Maybe the whole idea's a bit too paranoid to be practical in general, I don't know, so I'd love an expert opinion on this :)

Usually, I'd be using QEMU, but I'd be fine with using VirtualBox for this case if it includes something that makes this easier.
What do you mean by disciplined intellectual? Do you mean someone in academia or something else?
Yes, but assuming much incompressible state is already assuming to know a lot about the nature of the simulation, ranging from size, longevity, to the extent which the structure of our perceived universe is the way it is to enable an outside simulator to take shortcuts we don't know about.
You mean like Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical Bad Cinderella?
"The whole simulation hypothesis seems like a new way to introduce theological concepts with modern tech. Cannot be disproved, cannot be verified."

I have bad news for you. There is no proof in Science. :-(

The problem is, that if it is possible to simulate us, then the likelihood that we are simulated is much higher, than that we are not. This is a problem!

And yes, can be tested. "Stacking Problem". The simulation may be not bound to some physical principles or some physical principles may be changed (e.g. real time vs. simulated time). But some physical laws exits in the real world for sure and the simulation if bound to it. E.g. exponential mathematics and limited ressources. The the simulation would have to avoid, that the simulation runs it own simulation that runs it own simulation... Even the biggest super quantum computer would go belly up at some point. So if we are living in a simulation, there should be an interest to avoid that we are running our own simulations.
SIM CB – Central Bank Simulator
So this is the way you're supposed to use it? Is this accessible?

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> The internet isn’t more important than the climate emergency, gender justice, racial justice, genocide or inequality. But the internet is the terrain we’ll fight those fights on. Without a free, fair and open internet, the fight is lost before it’s joined.

This is really well said.
> Zizek says that with quantum physics, we've caught God with His pants down.

am i the only one who finds zizek insufferable. he is so self absorbed.

you ask him a yes/no question and he spends 30 minutes giving an anecodte about himself.
Yes. Do hidden variables and processes exist? The universe could be perfectly deterministic from outside but appear very random here.

It's an open question. No one knows the answer.

That's why I think it's an interesting question.

Personally I find the references to god or theology offensive and distracting. These are perfectly valid questions to ask. They don't imply any kind of biblical god. They don't even imply a creator.

We only fall back to creators because we can't imagine that something, or some set of rules, or some arbitrary process, or whatever might Just Exist.

It's quite possible this is a simulation - in the sense that it's a secondary not a primary reality - that appeared spontaneously, and no one/nothing created it deliberately.
Wait till you see what the original gameboy games sell for these days. If they are sealed you can buy a car for less.
many algorithms allow trading space for time
The service refuses to accept even anime images because it thinks there are humans in it, kinda funny.
That's why I said in the next decade... you seem to be much more optimistic than me about them catching up.
Gen Z: Men More Conservative, Women More Liberal
What else would it be but computation? Coming up with something that isn't computation in some form or other is exceedingly hard. I'm not even sure it's meaningfully possible.
Yeah, in the head issue, the last work issue i9 MacBook I ever had was absolutely horrible... Would stutter and freeze up constantly under load and just become unusable as a platform.

It was nice in paper, but really needed to be undervolted and under locked... Not an easy task in a mbp. I couldn't get IT approval to buy a software to do it and didn't have local permission to load a self signed driver to do it either.

It was unusable for such a beast of a machine on paper.
Apologies for posting a completely off-topic comment, but as an ESL person this interests me.

I would have thought that both were different, but grammatically correct, with almost identical meaning.

"A properly written sentence" is a sentence that is properly written, and "a proper written sentence" is a written sentence that is proper.

But now I have achieved semantic saturation, and am not sure anymore.
Ooops. Will fix. :) Thanks!
The OG Nick Bostrom argument [1] makes an argument for simulation theory with some reasonably simple math you can see in the paper with only a few variables:

- `f_p` - Fraction of all human-level technological civilizations that survive to reach a posthuman stage

- `f_I` - Fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations

- `N_I` - Average number of ancestor-simulations run by a posthuman civilization

- `H` - Average number of individuals that have lived in a civilization before it reaches a posthuman stage

And then the formula for the fraction of observers with human-type experiences (after simplifying) is just: f_sim = (f_p * f_I * N_I) / (f_p * f_I * N_I + 1).

By first arguing that `N_I` is likely to be very large (because, pretty much, why not) -- you can thus conclude that one of these three conditions are met:

1. `f_p ~= 0` -- or the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;

2. `f_I ~= 0` -- or any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);

3. `f_sim ~= 1` -- or we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

It's all feels pretty similar to the Fermi paradox to me -- which I'm also suspicious of for reasons I can't justify properly. Something about point estimates for variables like `f_I` is... weird? Idk. I'm honestly not good enough at math to disagree - but it also feels like folks who are too good at math might be using `f_I` in equations in a way that isn't legitimate.

Like, assuming the "existence" of `f_I` as a concept to reason with -- doesn't it feel like more might be sneaking in with this assumption?

[1] https://simulation-argument.com
Little toes significantly widen your base. Yours probably don't because you've forced them into shoes your whole life and they are crushed against the others.
Unfortunately politics comes in sausage format only and each sausage contains something nasty. I'd like to have strong environmental policy while also not having wokeness shoved down my throat and my kids' throats. I'd like to support neither redneck ute drivers nor woke 'progressives'.
As someone who dislikes the sausage format the right-wing user-pays argument is appealing to me. It takes all the spicy bits out of the sausage and let's people add their own sauces as they see fit. That all works great until you find out that right-wing's daddy owns a bunch of sauce companies that spill sauce everywhere. You're stuck with the same few awful sausages because the supermarket won't sell any new sausages unless they get 5% market share. Good chat.
There are also just too many entries in dense areas. It's impossible to go through all of them for something that might be interesting for the reader specifically.

It would be nice if they could be categorized/color-coded by some type (nature/monument/establishment/etc...) on the map so people can sift through them more easily.
Most of the IP that TSMC make comes from US-based companies anyway. There's no "technology transfer".
I'm a postdoc in theoretical quantum physics and most of my colleagues believe in MWI which is deterministic
The only thing that could escape is information, or not?

If we „are“ a simulation, we could not leave it anyway. We could just maybe communicate with the outside, but not go there.
If I dare reply your hot take with my hot take, It was engineers who implemented those dark patterns. I think that still “lots of people” see excel formulas as stuff that geniuses do, so I think it comes down to us. Will I write that privacy invading, psychologically manipulating code, or would I say no.

Sure, if I don’t do it “somebody else would”, but I wonder if that mentality has taken us here
Here is another such list:

https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css
Looking forward to someone writing a review. So far Gemini has shown capabilities all over the place. Image generation quality feels a bit worse than what I've seen from DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. Does Ultra provide superior image generation capabilities?

Something I've noticed about Gemini is that usually it'll respond to my query correctly, but it's never the default draft. If I look through each draft one of the options will usually contain the correct answer though.

I'm pleased to find that capabilities have been improving. When Gemini was initially released, asking for something like "How many views have the last 5 mrbeast videos gotten?" wouldn't generate a useful reply. But now it lists the latest 5 videos and one of the drafts even includes the total added up.

Asking Gemini to generate video summaries seems to work really well on some videos, but for others it just gives an error... Are YouTube creators allowed to opt-out of Gemini interactions?
>If you can drive in 12 minutes surely the walk itself isn't that long.

I just checked this with google maps. In 12 minutes i can get 10 km from my house. That's a 2 hour walk.
Usually you would want to have weighted n-grams with 1-grams having lowest weights. In many cases it's better to have zeros. For English, 4-grams react on generic phrases/idioms, 5+ are way too selective and just keywords usually reduce relevance too much. 2+3 are the best.
I fall back on Arthur C Clarke's, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

If computers are arcane magical machines then let's project onto them our fantasies. This particular fantasy of God playing puppet master, or reality being a simulation, is really old. It's an old fantasy and we have found a new medium to project it onto.
Proof of Gemini cheating: https://i.imgur.com/eYJDFjS.png

Answer about cherries falling from the sky...

(there is no question or context beforehand, this is the first question of the chat)
Live action remakes are the new “safe sequel”.

I think they should be compared to how well a literal rerelease of the original would do.

I think part of the evidence is just how absolutely long lived Frozen 1 has been. Nothing has been able to even come close to unseating that, not even its sequel (they were very smart to keep everything similar enough so that Frozen 2 merchandise can substitute for Frozen 1 in a kid’s eye).

It’s very indicative that people jump to movies that have been out for a decade or more, and probably can’t even name most of the more recent releases.
This is fairly stupid pop philosophy. It's really a question about the nature of reality mixed with the fantasy that it's possible to to somehow step outside of reality, or that there is an entity creating and controlling reality, that becomes a fantasy about god existing.

Our reality exists entirely in our own minds, in that sense we live in a simulation we create in our brains. Using science to determine the details of our environment is useful, but speculating that there is something beyond what we can possibly study (by definition) is pointless.
> various aggressive moves by NATO since 1991 in violation of the gentleman's agreement.

gentleman's agreement, which was never acknowledge by the US and was with the previous regime, unlike the written agreement _Russia_ signed recognizing Ukraine's independence and sovereignty, with their 1994 borders. And NATO wouldn't have expanded East if the countries in Eastern Europe didn't feel a need to join a defensive alliance.
winglang is a lot more interesting.
I will say I love the touchpad experience in macOS... Nothing else compares.

I have an mà air for my personal laptop, still running macOS though.
That’s an interesting idea, but pressurizing air needs a lot of energy, and it needs to be pressurized more the deeper you’re going (because of well.. pressure). Not to mention the air volume at depth is much smaller, so you need a lot of air to start lifting, and once it’s buoyant and starts rising, you have a bunch of extra air volume that’s “wasted”.
I would not be so quick to jump to conclusions. GPT-4 beats it easily in this simple logic puzzle: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1altttv/bard_a...

We need more data.
Windows XP probably?
From my experience on a fun project, it's fine for running your website, but if you need to edit data as values update, pulling down the db, making changes then uploading the DB will obviously not do. You'll need some sort of web interface like phpliteadmin; and if you're not running php well now you are. Unless you want to use a docker image, and now you're using docker.

I wish there was a real simple way to connect to a remote db like you do with postgres.
Earthquake and tsunami caught on dashcam [video]
Translation of video description by GPT-4, edited and amended: “This video captures the shaking and tsunami from the Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan on January 1, 2024. Recorded by a dashcam in a vehicle used to transport elderly daycare patients, it shows buildings collapsing and a muddy torrent pushing cars. The excerpts were taken from 8 minutes and 37 seconds of footage recorded before, during, and after the earthquake and 15 seconds of footage when the car was caught in the tsunami 37 minutes later and the dascham switched back on automatically. The images were recorded from a minivan parked less than 200 meters from the coast in the Kasugano area of Hōritsu Town, Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, capturing views ahead, behind, and inside the vehicle. The shaking started when the displayed time was 4:10:14 PM. The cameras showing the outside of the vehicle recorded a person falling, unable to withstand the shaking, as well as houses and shops collapsing with gray dust rising and the ground rippling. The shaking lasted for at least a minute and a half.”

The onscreen caption at 1:02 says “After the shaking stopped, the passengers got out of the car and evacuated to the Chōjuen nursing home at a higher elevation.”
Both avatar movies are somehow insanely high grossing and apparently nobody remembers them at all. It’s a skill set to be sure.
Show HN: Velty App –> Organize your YouTube subscriptions and videos
hi everyone,

I've been working on a web app (https://velty.app) that lets you organize your YouTube subscriptions and videos into folders and sub-folders. It helps you find what you want to watch more easily.

The idea came up when I found it hard to organize my growing list of YouTube subscriptions and finding videos easily. The YouTube playlists system is limited — it lacks hierarchy and search functionality.
I wanted an app to organizing everything into folders and sub-folders to easily find videos by their duration or the channel they're from. Also, provide the same functionality on mobile and destkop.

I tried different methods like RSS readers, browser extensions, and bookmarks, but they all had drawbacks:

- Browser extensions don't work on mobile.

- With bookmarks, filtering and sorting are challenging.

- RSS readers have limitations in organizing folders and sub-folders and lack filtering and sorting options such as duration, published date, and channel names.

So, I decided to build my own solution to deal with these issues.

I'm keen to hear your thoughts on the idea!
Wasn’t the lynchpin of For all Mankind was that there was some type of material on the moon we could mine for energy like oil and that funded future endeavours
Tried a few of my normal benchmarks, besides the tiny context window, it made mistakes I've never seen GPT-4 make.

Update: I see others had the same experience.
I would have never guessed the answer. With such little data available, one can invent any arbitrary rules to fit their favorite answer.

It would be more impressive to practical use cases, if a LLM simply said that it's impossible to guess without inventing their own reasoning or looking up the answer online.
JavaScript-based Style Sheets (1996)
Also, forgot to add, for this approach you better use sketches (bloom filter/hyperminhash). Same results with lightning performance.
> And all those TVs and fridges. And even the peacemakers could one day deliver malware. /s

It's not the pacemaker malware you want to worry about, it's the pacemaker ransomware!
I will work for free on your Ruby project
The cast format is effectively line-oriented JSON, which adapts well to being streamed directly to CloudWatch, with each line being a single entry in the CW log stream. It's then fairly easy to pull back out and replay as needed.

It's published up at https://github.com/rmccue/cinemastream if you're interested in trying it - it works, but still very early days, as it was just a holiday side-project. That said, likely to become a production tool for work, so will be cleaning it up a bit soon and squashing some bugs.

Worth noting that asciinema is not directly usable as a crate currently, so I did need to fork it to add a lib.rs, but the code was so well-structured that there's not much to do there: https://github.com/rmccue/asciinema/blob/rust-lib/src/lib.rs - Marcin did say he's open to it once 3.0 stabilised though.
I guess I learned that syllables count very different in English than I assumed.
However, a very similar story has been proven true (or so Wikipedia claims): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre
I think Andy is referring to the fact that Zizek stopped writing works that were cutting edge in philosophical academia a few decades ago
I strongly dislike marketing material that tries to normalize gross incompetency around complexity problems that don't actually exist.
That's silly.

There are whole regions of space with no actual observer. Those can be swapped to disk, or DB backend until needed. They exist, they are part of the simulation, just not actively rendered.

Or they can be as sparse files in linux, null until used.

I think the big concern would then be, too many active NPCs would mean too much active universe, and then an OOM issue.

But of course people die, so once all the people who lived, and have memories of a thing die, then that global memory can be wiped.

There are lots of methods to save space! And to have bits not rendered, or taking active ram.

So over-committed sim space is a thing. Heck, maybe the project had plans for adding RAM and DB storage space, before active sim space got too big... but you know, budgets change.
Is Mesopotamia typically considered the “west?”
Now upgrade to 32 or 64gb of ram...
>I wonder why one needs to use as much as 296 bytes per empty file.

File systems like ext4/NTFS/APFS/etc require extra disk space for "housekeeping" of data blocks and allocations and metadata (lastwritetime, permission flags, etc) . This reserved space for each file has a minimum fixed amount even if the file's size is zero.

E.g. ">By default, ext4 inode records are 256 bytes," -- from
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout#:~:t...

(Scroll up on that page to see all the fields of metadata in each inode record.)
Walking mode sounds kewl—reverse.
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I dont think your reversed question makes sense. In the OP example, one item was always smaller/younger then the other item. In your example, I cannot, even as a human, identify the differences
He's self absorbed but that's why I find him sufferable. The people I find very insufferable are the considerate ones who don't like to talk about themselves very much. That puts me on edge somehow.
I play music from local storage every day and the UI just works. We'll all know from the front page of this site the moment it stops working.
Los Angeles's Floods Show Why Sewers Matter
He said peacemaker, I assume hes talking about colt single action revolver.
fake it till you make it ;-) The company I suspect is "faking it" is https://www.lawgeex.com/ ... as an outsourced legal contract review company their "valuation" and trajectory is significantly lower than that of the same AI contract review company
If I already have a headless debian hypervisor using KVM / QEMU in place running multiple debian VMs, can I now use Virtual Box to manage / tweaks the config on those? And if so is there anyway to do it without having to install a window manager, etc. on the hypervisor?
You could replace [Russia] there with the countless other countries we invade/occupy, for far lesser rewards than Russia would offer. So, yes I'm 100% certain we would.
It seems to come with Google One (2TB), so with that factored in its actually quite competitive.
This past weekend I noticed I've been logging my weight daily on his site (it does a 10 day weighted running average) since 2006. I was thinking of sending him an email thanking him for the help he provided me. So, a strange coincidence. RIP.
World High-Speed Rail Atlas 2023 is now published
Only if you want a hyperlink that looks like a button. It's the only way I was able to do it in a classless way, but I'm open to other ideas.
>How does this work in licensing terms? If VB foss enough?

It's as FOSS as the VirtualBox open source edition.

> Do you expect Oracle to merge this?

That would be nice, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Oracle gonna Oracle.

> If oracle doesn’t merge this, will you keep on maintaining it, potentially forking VirtualBox?

We don't intend to fork VirtualBox. VBox has a somewhat modular architecture where you can plug-in different hypervisor backends. That's what we did. It's not as modular, but our changes to core VirtualBox code is very small.

As far as our plans go, we are pretty open at this point. We are very interested to get to know people that find this useful!
Was Encanto the one they dumped on Disney+ real quick? It might have strongly affected popularity of the song (which is catchy as all hell, and can stand with Let It Go) since that was perhaps the peak.

None of the recent Disney animated movies have been “direct to DVD” terrible but they haven’t been exceptionally better than everything else.

It used to be that everyone basically considered Disney (and upstart Pixar) to be at the top of the class, and even extremely successful movies like Despicable Me to be a tier or two below.
Quite a bit, as I’m generally using it for highly-specific text extraction and conversion tasks.