skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something I struggle with profoundly daily. Yes, my "individual" action as a 1 in 8 billion people, or 1 in 300 million Americans isn't going to move the needle. Large scale governmental and corporate action is needed. But how do you expect that to happen if not enough people want it and show they want it?

I see people near me casually flying to Europe for a ski, raving about A5 Wagyu or Uni from Japan or some shit, etc. All of these are undoubtedly adding to the demand, so why would the companies stop? (Of course its because they fail to factor in the long-term cost of there will be less customers if humans can't live on this planet anymore)
> It will happily execute this algorithm. For large numbers, it is slightly off on the arithmetic. When I asked it to double check, it did so using Python code. After that, it kept using Python code to perform the math. It was also able to reason intelligently about different outcomes if always picking a (or b) given different starting points.

Notice that you had to notice the error and had to prompt it to double check. Lots of complicated things going on here. Many (most?) humans will fail somewhere along this trajectory.

Did it double check the Python code to make sure it is correct (not just in the sense that it is valid, executable code, but that it is the correct check in the first place)? Or did you double check that its modified algorithm is correct? Fool me once and all that…

Upon reflection it appears as if you have a heuristic (algorithm? that leverages logic, awareness, critical thinking, experience, a goal in mind, intuition, etc. to push towards better results.

“It was able to reason intelligently” imbues qualities that I am skeptical is reasonable to attribute to this very narrow domain - what’s an example where it showed intelligent reasoning capabilities?
Path of the Solar Eclipse 8 April 2024
Be there, or be square.
Bottled water is expensive, and filtration will not remove all chemicals. You could drink distilled water but that has other problems because it has zero minerals.
it would seems that striking is detrimental to the goal of attracting more Big Tech?

it makes sense that a lot. of people are hired by It service companies, as these are not easily moved out.

usually it is easier to get talent to move to another country, than to setup a subsidiary.
My journey as a Christian software developer
Genuine question: Assuming that humanity would cooperate perfectly, what would the lifestyle we can afford actually look like?

Can we afford food and heat for everyone? Electricity?

Where is the line?
GPT-4’s tendencies to write these long winded but mostly empty responses is so frustrating.
The US is pretty good for a bunch of stuff. I'm hoping to one day also be a rent extractor. Like, all I have to be is a local organization somewhere and I can pull out some fictional required environmental review studies (waivable if you use our existing studies for $1.5 m) or required local community input (also waivable if you've used our org for outreach) or required hiring from my labour union. The US Gov supplies from a large pool of money. You just need a tiny fraction of that and you can parasitize to great personal wealth.

Lots of sucker W-2 employees working while you can be a millionaire off other people's wealth. A startup that industrializes this process could do it to every project in the US and easily become a few billion. The hard part is concealing the relationship between the diverse entities, and watching out for the existing guys pulling this scam.
https://www.infoq.com/articles/helidon-4-adopts-virtual-thre...
You might want to go with Occam’s razor here and admit that there’s probably no conspiracy going on with incapable executives running companies, and instead the right hiring choices are being made.
Here’s some docs and some code that give an overview of how feeds work:

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

https://github.com/bluesky-social/feed-generator
You’re right, but I don’t want to solder 2k wires to things. Last time I “professionally” reverse engineered a board we sent it out to get a CT scan of it, and got delivered a self executing program which contained a point cloud of data and an interface to extract surfaces, adjust the histogram (to make features visible) etc.

I’d take a handful of automated probes in a 3D printer chassis, and some vision/registration/classical computer vision algorithms.

This type of thing already exists but I’d rather have an open source one.
Security is hard because it has to be right all the time, like everything else
It's not about credit; this thread shows that I submitted it. It's about saying I did something at a time when I was asleep.
I still think, if you are in a position to run or join a company that promotes this culture--wouldn't you?
I was without a phone for a month last year and it made me realize that there aren't clocks anywhere anymore. And if they are, they're not working.
I have never heard of the Seaborn graphing library; I was curious as to how a marine virus or bacterium could cause a "finding of declining disruptiveness". maybe a similar mechanism to Toxoplasma gondii?
Until they no longer choose to cut employee costs, or what would be the end goal here?
Certainly had hasn't hurt Japan's stock market. The Nikkei is at an all time high, back to the lofty heights of the 80s.

Retirement in Japan is also wonderful. You should check it out.
alternatively seaborn as in where this insect was born. but an even weirder statement
The article goes into Egypt's motivations. Also: this is a lot less land than either of those deals.
Yup. This is absolutely, mind-bogglingly, stupid.

Start with his firs real argument: "More Geniuses" and the resultant more good inventions, etc.

Then consider the corollary is more stupidity, adn the quote attrib to Einstein:

>> "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe!"

The damage wreaked by more stupid people can, and historically has repeatedly overcome the good done by geniuses.

The author also overlooks the ability of current and emerging technology to magnify the effect of genius, starting with Steve Jobs' 'computers are bicycles for the mind' analogy.

No need to continue with the rest of this shallow drivel arguing to create a disaster. Wow.
That's a bandage on a wound, when we could be treating the cause- too many of us use too many resources.

I'm writing from a friend's massive house heated to 21C/70F, and built to last what, thirty years at best? Of a lot of plastic materials, and stuffed with extra electronics and vehicles that also cost a considerable amount to make and dispose of. Most of this stuff is unnecessary junk.

Geoengineering, if we opt for it, absolutely must be coupled with toothy regulations governing resource harvesting and use. Don't pick the first berry you see, and don't pick the last.

We've kicked this can so far down the road that effecive reform on our habits will be worse than pulling teeth. It won't be easy, and will involve things like respecting a woman's right to govern her own body (I'm in the USA where this is increasingly a concern), respecting other animals' right to exist, treating meat as a rare luxury and maybe going so far as to stop farming meat and return to hunting, and getting our entertainment closer to the local seasonal patterns of life on Earth. Get my drift?

Another example: Electric cars are not a solution; using cars less is the way to go. It won't be an easy life, lesss reliant on technology, but it will be more meaningful.
Two choices… keep typing on the internet while further cornering oneself into a purely contextual analysis bucket of doom or stop typing and watch the house of cards fall silently. The boundaries between public, private, and secret lives are dissolving. One day we may have a population of truly authentic people. Until then we have a parlay of persona and signals.
I don't think this is true in Japan?

https://cheaphousesjapan.com/house-prices-in-japan/
Money,societal status, denial, just don’t give a shit are all reasons why nothing gets done. Pretty sad. It will only change when something like India or some other hot country has a wet bulb massive human and animal die off.
>uncomfortably close to both North Korea and Russia

North Korea has a main beef with South Korea and is full of starving people equipped with WW2 tech has no airforce and some nukes with questionable functionality, while Russia can't even move past Eastern Ukraine with all its power let alone venture into other areas.

How are they a threat to other nations?
>On the one hand, your friend could just be experiencing a streak of bad luck or a series of bad organizations.

I've seen the same play out in several organizations, including the public sector. You don't even need to be cynical to know this is the case...

>when I hear a (first or second hand) account that takes the form “of course I was the reasonable one in every case and these N organizations were clearly behaving like idiots”, I’ve learned to consider the possibility that the speaker is just unusually difficult.

Probably based on different experiences, with different context.

Because in the context described (e.g. the educational example) this is par for the course - and any number of teachers and professors can attest that if you do your work too well and apply rigid standards, you're out of there in no time, or at least make enemies very fast.

>the speaker is just unusually difficult.

Of course, if the baseline is complacency, profiteering, and lack of standards, anybody who stirs those waters is "unusually difficult.".
The US stopped minting pennies last year.
It appears that my previous comment lacked clarity. I assumed the inherent absurdity and illogicality of the statement would be self-evident. Dismissing François's opinion, a seasoned professional with extensive expertise in model development and the creator of ARC, solely because he asserts that LLMs are far from achieving AGI and using publication count as the metric for evaluating him is not a well-reasoned argument. While LLMs and transformers are indeed remarkable achievements and will undoubtedly reveal more properties, they have yet to exhibit any true signs of "intelligence."
It's a mall, not a supermarket. Huge difference. Just look at these shoppers, and you'll understand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgD0DkS7l6A
In case you haven't already, try several different kinds of paper and see if there is any difference. Not necessarily "better" paper; the smoothest writing I felt recently was on the back of a receipt of all things.

The steeper your angle the more the nib rotation matters so you can try adjusting that while holding the position which is still comfortable. Someone recently tried mine and had a similar issue because they held it almost vertical; pressure on the page helps spread the tines and allow ink to flow but not if it's stabbing. Holding the pen at a different rotation to suit their writing motion worked and made it more comfortable to use less pressure but it did take some trial and error.
Technically involvement in political issues is part of doing one's best.
> They have meaningful names... where? In React (or whatever). They don't in the web inspector (so just use the React dev tools! Yes, more complexity).

They have meaningful names in the locations where people actually need to care about meaningful names: in the template language or the component model used to generate the final markup. If you're suggesting that class names should be meaningful for people who want to read the generated markup and they can only make sense of it because of class names, you're penalizing all front-end development for an absurdly small niche.

If you need identifiable names for testing purposes, that's what other queryable HTML attributes are for (id and name in particular). In your template language you already have the component name available, so just assign a queryable attribute using that where necessary. Nothing wrong with that.
> Wasn't the entire point of the CHIPS Act to

America has a huge number of interests. CHIPS is well announced but it's separate and apart from most of those interests.

CHIPS is what we say we want.
the GP I assume means science as a monolithic institution, as opposed to the pure idea of the scientific process in isolation

kind of like the difference between "trusting science" and "trusting THE science" if I had to hazard a guess

presumably he doesn't mean as opposed to "traditional ways of knowing"
Sometimes countries need cash, and maintaining the land is not worth it, and someone is willing to buy. Should Denmark have sold the Virgin Islands in 1917? It was put to a referendum, and the people said yes. Napoleon also needed cash, so he sold a lot of useless land in North America to a willing buyer.
It could be you’ve been in the wrong all those ten years.
It does reply with no results, but only for very long queries. E.g. If you search for two concatenated GUIDs, you can easily see a no results page.
How the luxury beliefs of an educated elite erode society
Driving used to be the primary way you facilitated face to face interaction which was the primary way you facilitated sex.

It’s not like anything significant has happened transportation-wise to replace driving. If kids don’t want to drive it means they care a lot less about meeting up with other kids.

The point is those face to face interactions don’t seem to be happening the way they used to.

Sex isn’t going to happen if people don’t interact with each other. It’s all symptoms of the same “disease” (which seems to be or be strongly associated to anxiety).
Observations on Ritual
It's Ronald Reagan though. Should be clear to most with a very elementary understanding of US politics what he's saying.
I saw this headline and my first thought was that someone was claiming that a mind impacting virus that evolved in the ocean was causing scientists to do research with less ambition. Which is of course ridiculous lol. But a bug in a visualization library impacting science is also ridiculous.
> Another, Ryan Sanchez, who was previously part of the Nazi “Rise Above Movement,” took photos and videos of himself at the conference

And yet NBC posts no proof of these pictures. Curious.
Wonder how many of them are Hacker News commenters
If you can’t defend it, getting some gold now vs losing it for nothing later is not that tough a sell. There was no way for France to defend the westward lands so it was either take the deal, or have them grab it.

This doesn’t look like a straight purchase either. They’re selling the development rights and it would still be Egypt jurisdiction.
It’s hard to expect systemic reform with no individual actions.
Or perhaps our brains sometimes come up with excuses to look away from another human being’s suffering so that we feel less guilty?!

I can see how this conclusion would be appealing from that perspective but I’d encourage anyone with this line of thinking, to think twice before posting something to cause doubt and potentially causing someone else to receive less help/attention that they would have otherwise received.

Even if you think it’s plausible for someone to lie about something like a few years of open source contribution (which is very easy to verify for anyone who reaches out for them to help) please contemplate about the possibility of harm that this kind of comment might cause (a fellow human being suffering longer) vs the help you think you are providing by just casting doubt and uncertainty (potentially preventing someone more fortunate to send some money to someone else that didn’t actually need it?! Or they might be offered a job they might not have been offered otherwise?!).

O.P. I’m really sorry for what you’re going through, and I admire your courage and honesty. I hope life becomes more stable very soon!
Here’s one more thing: if I changed your slippers for a pair of rabid badgers, you’d feel fine. For a while.

God, I wonder what kind of people are out there typing these messages.
TRT worries me. Won’t I need to be on it for life?
Don't look at it as a "you" thing.

What I'm saying between lines is that almost nobody with a high standard of life would be willing to give up on whatever luxuries they enjoy to give a chance to "some other people in a remote place" which is a very abstract concept and quite detached from one's own reality.

You like drones and robots, right? That's good, not an issue with that on itself. Now give 8 billion people drones and robots, that's where your logic comes down. If we only had drones and robots for 0.1% of the total population, who should get to enjoy them? Then this whole thing gets hairy. And bringing more people into the equation will not alleviate that problem, it would only make it worse.
I'm just making a joke. It may be less toxic that other states' but in California we have to label it because the Prop 65 threshold is 1/1000th of the “no observable effect level."
Show HN: This website is hosted on DNS
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This is also the first TWA (triweb application) on the triweb platform (https://triweb.com) we are working on. Triweb currently has limited functionality, and this app is mostly just a showcase of how TWAs and triweb containers work. We have an exciting lineup of upcoming features and a unique, simple vision of the decentralized web without the overhyped web3 technologies. We hope that one day triweb will become a standard platform for local-first, browser-based decentralized web applications.
> Charts killed the Challenger crew.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8oG7ym6/

This is one of my favorite TikToks of all time, and you’ll see why. It goes into detail about how charts killed the Challenger crew. But the storytelling is second to none.
The existence of such a saying means little: it is uncontroversially true that humans often do know what they don't know.

For example, I know for sure that I don't know how long I will live. This disproves the saying.
> Point-free means you have all that wiring in your head, without assistance from the notation.

I completely agree. It fatigues me to read unnecessarily point-free programming. I have to translate it into a point-ful style in my head to understand it.

For example, you could take this piece of Haskell code and make it more point-free. I think it's readable at first, if redundant (you could remove the last parameter xs, for example).

-- map: apply the function f to each element of the list xs
map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
map f xs = foldr (\x xs -> f x : xs) [] xs

Some people would prefer to write it like this:

map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
map f = foldr ((:) . f) []

That lambda takes more effort to parse and think about, though, at least for me. The first version was pretty readable. Now, when I read "((:) . f)" I'm thinking "okay, so the function f takes an argument, and passes the result to the (:) function, which normally takes two parameters; with one argument, it returns another function that takes one list parameter and returns it with the result of "f x" prepended to it." And to do this, I have to know implicitly how many arguments the function (:) takes in order to parse and understand it correctly (though in this case, it's obvious, because (:) is ubiquitous).

Pointfree.io would take what I wrote and transform it into

map = flip foldr ([]) . ((:) .)

But I'm pretty sure no one would write that. It takes even more effort to correctly parse this.

That said, I don't write any Haskell. I just used to try to, but found I didn't like it.
https://archive.is/tNJfv
On my Xiaomi, 1s show up as dots and are nearly invisible. Makes it almost impossible to play.
In an exploding industry sector First Solar has shrinking revenues. What is the actual market share of thin films?
Yes, I think you're right. I think one way to phrase the authors' argument is:

* There is a class of problems which are harder than polynomial time complexity to solve, but are not np-complete

* LLMs will generate an "answer" in formal language to this class of problems posed to it

* LLMs can at most solve problems with polynomial time complexity due to their fundamental design and principles

* Therefore, LLMs cannot solve > polynomial problems and not np-complete problems either

All of which I buy completely. But I think what people are more interested in is, why is it that the LLM gives an answer when we can prove that it cannot answer this problem correctly? And perhaps that is more related to the commonsense notion of hallucination than I first gave it credit for. Maybe the reason that an LLM gives a formal language answer is the same reason it gives a hallucinatory answer in natural language. But I don't think the paper sheds light on that question
> the coarsening of Americans has been quite apparent to me over the last 30 years

sorry, the what of Americans?
This is a FUD article

Remember last year: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/how-h...

There is no "quietly", China is proud of it, they are building a domestic industry

Also remember of this retaliation WRT trade sanctions:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3249253/why-...
Well, none of that depends on your functions being point-free or you writing their parameters down.

The Haskell culture in particular has a very strong idea of naming all the things that can have a good name, and none of the ones that can't. Point-free functions are about that last part, but you only touched the first part. (Personally, I think the culture is too radical, but you can't really argue against a principle like this.)
> It can just parrot the collective understanding humans already have and teach it.

The problem with calling an LLM a parrot is that anyone who has actually interacted with an LLM knows that it produces completely novel responses to questions it has never seen before. These answers are usually logical and reasonable, based on both the information you gave the LLM and its previous knowledge of the world. Doing that requires understanding.

> They never make new connections that aren't in training data.

This is just categorically untrue. They make all sorts of logical connections that are not explicitly contained in the training data. Making logical inferences about subjects one has never heard about - based on the things one does know - is an expression of understanding. LLMs do that.
I doubt even an event like that will honestly change much.

It will only change once people lose money and freedom. Once climate change impacts the economy negatively enough.
Maybe they should mint them in China
Trash comment.
1st. Splashy often comes from the media, not the scientists

2nd. One of the ways we discover problems with data is by plotting. When the plot library has a bug that hides a problem, well shit.

3rd. They did check their own findings multiple ways. Mistakes happen. The biggest critics of scientific mistakes are often those that have never done science themselves. Its easy, and its a cheap play.
Ministry for the Future? I found that book to be scarily plausible.
It is hard to avoid JavaScript
You can go to N=1000 schools and see the same attitude.

It's an "unspoken understanding" that a big chunk of the students shall graduate even if most know shit, else there will be trouble from parents, the state, management, and so on.