skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s really unfortunate how every few years “influencers” (today’s term, but celebrities and hucksters of all stripes have been doing this for decades) will come around and promote a new extreme diet that will revolutionize your weight loss and fitness “journey”. The anti carb version is particularly popular because you do see genuine short to medium term benefits thanks first to reducing water retention and the fact that these diets are essentially elimination diets so eliminating certain processed foods has an immediate benefit.

Throw in some nice cherry-picking results, human psychology where the diet didn’t fail you, you failed the diet so people aren’t willing to speak up when it doesn’t work for them, and in todays day and age paid commenters that will bombard YT videos with fake comments both pro on your videos and anti on videos by actual scientists who have studied this stuff and have seen remarkably similar results for decades.

After all, there’s not much money to be made in “eat foods. Mostly plants. Not too much”. Especially when on the other side it’s not just processed foods but even the meat and dairy industries that are massive operations making a lot of money (with some hefty tax breaks and subsidies thrown in to boot).
Not that I don't believe what you're saying, but how is this a thing they could possibly expect to hold up as a trademark infringement? They literally own a single recently invented neologism of which neither the prefix nor the root is original. It seems to me that Instacart or Insta360 would be much more open to claims... honestly if it were me, I wouldn't hire a lawyer, just let them know to send me a letter what courthouse I should show up at with a dictionary.
I am a dog owner, my gf is a dog owner. My dog does this very particular thing when he wants attention and my gfs dog have started doing the same after some time.

Humans may be good at learning from others and pick up stuff fast but that don't automatically mean we're unique in our ability to do so. This idea that humans are so special feels very odd to me.
It also depends on what your personal requirements for forward secrecy are. As a major platform operator Google should aim somewhere towards the top of that distribution.
I think at that point you probably have to worry about the effect such a strong magnet will have on the brain and nervous system, so probably not the best fit for personal protection.
great product guys, congrats on the launch
space expanding means what it literally says: there is more space everywhere at once. there was less a moment ago and now there's more. the longer the distance, the more space gets added in between, thus the effect is extreme on universe scale and undetectable on planetary scales.
The research breakthroughs will come from self-motivated, highly competent people. Figure out who they are, give them resources/help and get out of their way. Let them do nothing for 48 hours because it isn't nothing, they're thinking about what should be done. You're asking them to navigate a tremendous search space, and that will require unconventional modes of working. If you hired the right people, they should know better than you about how to best navigate that space. Keep them accountable over a 3-6 month time horizon, not a 1 week horizon. If they're juniors, they will need daily or weekly guidance, but not dictates or deadlines. Deadlines for artificial milestones do not make for better results, they degrade results because they force time-consuming proof of work. Researchers sometimes need active prodding if they are stuck in a local optima, but that's a different beast to predetermining specific tasks a week in advance. I'm assuming the talent bar is kept high so they can autonomously work in the above fashion, and I am assuming they are intrinsically motivated to produce results.

When it comes to less intrinsically motivated team members, I don't have useful advice. Maybe they can contribute to research output, but that would require more traditional management styles which I can't comment on.

When it comes to satisfying constraints imposed by other parts of the org, I can't usefully comment on this either.
> Proper bounds checks vs C++'s "do everything wrong by default" is a big deal!

I don't remember how it is in Delphi, but in FreePascal, the bounds-checks are usually turned off: "By default, the compiler doesn’t generate code to check the ranges of array indices, enumeration types, subrange types, etc." (https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu65.html).

> Object Pascal and C++ are about the same safety wise

Because in C++ constructors and destructors are guaranteed by standard and compiler, even in case of an exception and with value type, it's easier to make the code safe. Also the wide-ranging operator overloading and template features support safe coding style. Object Pascal only has a fraction of this. So C++ offerst both ways, careless low-level pointer fiddling and adding and assuring safety nets for every data structure and method.
Yes, true. But on the grand scheme of things, it is still a limited part of the world. :-) And, if for some reason OP does not want to live there, than he would be out of luck..
The party line is that energy is not conserved at cosmological scales. However, it's more of a semantic question: We can tell you exactly by how much it gets violated (that's basically the first Friedmann equation), and if you prefer, you can attribute the missing energy to the gravitational field. A lot of physicists don't like that approach as it isn't possible to write down a corresponding stress-energy tensor, ie gravitational energy cannot be properly localized.
> Maybe he wanted to cast suspicion on Boeing

What he already disclosed has done far more harm than that.

And what he could have said would certainly cause even more harm than his silence.
Estimating Software Projects: So you messed up. Now what? (2021)
The root cause is the failure of the ambient authority model of computer software. This is the hill I'm willing to die upon.

Requiring that the user of software absolutely trust it to do exactly what it says on the tin, is insane. All manner of ill follow from that in a most predictable manner. Enshittification is a consequence of people not being able to host their own shit on machines connected to the internet.
Couldn’t they have just used netcat ?
'Larger than Everest' comet could become visible to naked eye this month
> That’s entirely beside the point. Copyright still applies to photographs, and training has been occurring on copyright-protected photographs.

No, you missed the point. I was making a distinction between artist styles, like "in the style of Picasso", versus generic styles, like "photography". Furthermore, I was making the point that the generic styles, such as "photography", are way more popular in the Stable Diffusion community, compared to artist specific styles, like "in the style of Picasso".

Just to spell it out as clearly as possible: the majority of Stable Diffusion usage is not trying to imitate the style of a specific artist.

Whether or not training on copyright-protected photographs is legal is tangential to the point.

> It seems like maybe you didn’t fully parse what I said there, which wasn’t about reproducing works closely enough to violate copyright, it was about the broad goal of AI, which absolutely is to train on fixations (in Copyright parlance) and be able to produce mashup results that mimic the inputs as closely as possible without breaking the law.

I fully understood your point and expressed my disagreement of it. Specifically, what you described is typically not the intended outcome, it is a failure mode. I have repeated this many times now and you keep ignoring me, as if the problem goes away by ignoring it.
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Those are increasingly rare. Nowadays you have all these apps requiring subscriptions and expecting users to login and what not.

But I agree it depends heavily on exactly what application are we talking about. Is it running on server? Definitely needs to be security conscious. Is it a library that might at some point be used by an application running on a server? Needs to be more hardened than a nuclear bunker.
Gods of he internets: tell me how I'm reading a text that declares it's was hidden. I don't even English.
yeah i would call estimating it as 20x when it is actually 400x firmly within “not having a clue”.

He didn’t say nobody had a clue about heliocentrism.
I may be wrong, but I think the real solution is to increase supply, not constrain demand.

Indeed, constraining demand acts to constrain a factor which acts to encourage supply.
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True story from me. I almost bought a house that was eaten severely by white ants.

The problem wasn’t the ants, it was the way the slab was formed which caused the slab to crack and the house was also built into the mud of a road side embankment. Due to this crap design the ants could access the wood and had access to water from the mud.

I assessed all of this and figured it wasn’t the ants fault, they were doing what they do, building nests and chomping wet wood.

Did I go and poison all the ants ? Nope. I just planned to fix the design move the wood they lived in off to the forrest nearby.

This was a conscious choice I made to not destroy the ants and benefit from a more robust design with less moisture problems in the house.

I just bought a house which the floor has been demolished by termites and I’ll do the same thing.

Imo with a bit of consideration, I think most of these coexistence problems can be worked out fairly simply.
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Well, most teachers in uni old me this.

The best way to study is to write the main ideas in your own words without peeking at the material. To grasp the material you have to spend a lot of time solving problems, which is you producing a logical sequence of justified steps related to what you consumed (theory).

Feynman method is also a creative process where you produce a simplified explanation of what you want to learn relating it with common knowledge.

We need space to understand things. Al this remembers me of the concept of FOCUS-DIFFUSE found in the book "A Mind for Numbers".
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Poor title. This has nothing to do with the internet but everything to do with the culture a lot of people has adapted to. You don't have to use Google or Reddit. Or ChatGPT. It's a choice. It's up to the individual to make that choice by applying some thinking. So the title could be "Thinking is slipping out of our reach".
I think that’s right. It’s hard to know from a distance “they are definitely doing the right thing” so the appearance of doing the right thing is valued. Then, as a politician, appearing to do the right thing is sufficient and then pretending to do the right thing is often cheaper/higher output per unit of input, so pretending is rewarded.
Maybe we ought to just be heading to Venus ("and still we stand tall"), as in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants ?
I'd rather eat Surstrømming daily than get involved in anything from Oracle.
Strongly doubt this
Which cites as one of its sources “Sparta and Lakonia” by Paul Cartledge, author of the review. Cartledge also wrote a book on Sparta and one just about the Battle of Thermopylae. Strangely, History Today only mentions his book on Thebes. I can recommend both his Sparta book and his Thebes book. I also enjoyed “The Bronze Lie” by Myke Cole, one of the authors reviewed. The style of these books are very different, so I can guess what Cartledge means about the two he reviews here. Cole’s other book is engaging and thought provoking but maybe not “serious” history. But I read a lot of serious history and still liked it.
Another victim of LLM-'enhanced' search results is serendipity. Many times I've found random, fun and unrelated websites from mistyping a query.

Now the AI tries to guess what I meant and adjusts the search results, meaning such gems are lost.
> Just imagine what it would look like if everyone on HN posted more than they read.

Imagine that every active user on HN wrote 100 comments everyday and only submitted the 5 best.

create != share
With a block device copy approach like in TFA you don't need to worry about that because those filesystems do not exist on the block device.

When copying files (e.g. with rsync) you need to watch out for those, yes. The best way to deal with other mounts is not to copy directly from / but instead non-recursively bind-mount / to another directory and then copy from that.
Played with it for a couple of minutes, amazing work!

one bug, after pressing alt+space, it causes the alt key to be always pressed, which makes everything you move to get copied (as if the user is pressing alt)
> We don't even know if AGI is possible.

Sure we do: we're made of atoms.

To reject that this necessarily shows that AGI is possible, you would have to demonstrate human intelligence is tied to an immaterial soul granted by a supernatural being.

Some people do in fact believe this. I think that if we can't build AGI even with a perfect copy of a brain, that would instead be a surprising proof the existence of souls.

> This is not intelligence of any sort, period, paragraph.

Let's run with that. Just using your definition of intelligence: given AI can already beat us in Chess, in Go, in Mathematical Olympiad puzzles, in protein folding predictions, in poker, at real world stock market analysis, in the game of Diplomacy, … — does it matter that they're not what you call intelligent?

Do submarines swim?

> bring forth artificial life (or at least, consciousness) forward

Why does it matter if it's "life" or "consciousness"?

“Deep Blue was intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.” ― Garry Kasparov
> There is no way Boeing, the company, would do it in my opinion. That would be nuts.

What does it mean for Boeing, the company, to have done it or not?

Boeing is a large corporation comprised of individuals and assets. If foul play was involved, how many of these individuals would it take to be considered that Boeing carried out the murder? Would they need to have used company assets? Would it need to have come down the chain of command?
Is there a flight search service that allows filtering out Boeing planes?
Yes there was once a hype about these graphs and standards so called Resource Description Framework (RDF). It never took off. The knowledge itself requires hefty curation though, if it's in a field that requires low false positive rate such as pharmacology.
This would be so obvious I have trouble seeing how you might believe it. The bed wouldn't be made, the dishes wouldn't be cleaned, the items of the house wouldn't be put back.

It is also trivial to look at a bed and see if the sheets have been cleaned even if the bed was made -- hair shows up easily if not other stains.
I agree about the disk and networking access limitations, was mainly concerned about the 32/64 bit limitations and the memory
What is the chance that an independently developed model would answer like this?

I was using a Free account.
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I haven't read the linked paper, but both CPU speed and RAM available have increased about 100x since 1990, and nobody then had uttered the words "threat model". Some approaches that are sensible now were reasonable to overlook in 1990 for being too heavy.
From the introduction to the paper:

> Discrete entities are often embedded via a learned mapping to dense real-valued vectors in a variety of domains.

Already from that point, it is clear that a comparison based on the similarity of the textual version of the sentences is irrelevant to the evaluation in the paper. The paper consistently talk in terms of "learned embeddings" rather than simplistic direct mappings of words.
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They do if you dare to use your laptop in a brightly lit room or ... shudder ... on a balcony/porch outside. Even if it's shaded.

The problem is you have to run Windows, and while Apple is starting to go nuts with their OS, Microsoft is still outdoing them in the insanity department.

I'm just setting up a new win 10 install for development... takes longer to disable the spam and upsells than to set up the actual project.
ESR to Torvalds: "You suffer the curse of the gifted programmer" (2000)
If you search for “dd gzip” or “dd lz4” you can find several ways to do this. In general, interpose a gzip compression command between the sending dd and netcat, and a corresponding decompression command between the receiving netcat and dd.

For example: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/632267
Everyone else can ignore every coding guideline your team sets up, that’s why code reviews and managers exist.
While developing a game, which is also foss, there was a need for to develop a toolkit for that game. Here's how it and many other toolkits work under the hood.
> In fact I think rendering merely thousands of widgets in a second

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying rerendering and updating the state of thousands widgets PER second.
There is a typo in font style section: Blod italic (should be Bold).
It would still be worthwhile to greatly reduce the number of vulnerabilities coming out of new C and C++ code, which are likely to be with us for a long time still. At the very least as updates/fixes to existing codebases.
Thanks. It is the "satisfying other parts of the org" part I'm struggling with, but it's helpful to see the reasoning laid out as you do in your first paragraph.

I guess the essential problem I'm trying to solve is how to respond when the MD or a product owner comes to me and says "The client wants our core algorithms to be adapted in XYZ novel ways. When can you deliver this?".
The Hubble constant is not necessarily derived from the cosmological constant. To be clear, it's not even a constant either, it's a proportionality factor between the recessional velocity of distant objects and their distance from us. Though in some usages it refers to the value of this factor at the current time, which would in fact make it a constant. Regardless, even without a cosmological constant, after the Big Bang you'd still have an expanding universe, possibly collapsing or endlessly expanding, and I like to think of the Hubble constant/parameter in this case as representing the "momentum" the matter in the universe has left from the Big Bang.

The cosmological constant does in fact have to be constant within the constraints of general relativity. The mathematical machinery of GR only allows two parameters: Newton's constant G, representing the coupling of matter to gravity, and the cosmological constant. Both have to be true constants, numbers with a unit.

However, this is only true of the most basic theory of dark energy, where you directly add a constant to the general relativistic lagrangian. More complicated theories, like, for example, quintessence, involve adding new dynamical fields to the theory. The "effective cosmological constant" associated to such theories, quantifying the effect these fields are having on the expansion of the universe, can dynamically change over time, and some of these theories are proposed to solve the Hubble tension. To be clear, although none of these theories are fringe or pseudoscience, they haven't been accepted as a final explanation either, resolving these issues is still a work in progress, at this point they're all simply interesting hypotheses.
Yes but the same story kept repeating over the years. C89 had a good excuse. C99 was iffy with the VLA stuff instead of proper slices. What excuse did C11 have?
Google (and library indexes) can solve exactly and only the questions in their databases.

All AI, even narrow ones, necessarily have the ability to interpret novel questions in some fashion — how novel and how well they interpret being the "G" and the "I" in AGI.
Crypto Gets Blamed for a Real-Life Currency Crisis
> Then the Dutch-led team of researchers trained two demonstrator chimpanzees to show the others how it was done.

> After two months, 14 "naive" chimps had mastered it.

I am not sure the study is showing human like “cumulative culture”. It is showing that if humans train them, they can show others, which is different from humans learning a thing on their own, showing it to others, and then someone else using that as a foundation to discover something new building on that.

Basically, the study is showing that a chimp can teach other chimps something humans trained it to do.

I don’t think that is a novel or controversial finding. If you grow up around dogs, you know that one trained dog will help the other dogs learn.
That source doesn't match your claim at all. In fact it completely explains the observed behaviour?

> Most tech related submissions with a hint of political partisanship will quickly be flagged to death by users (or die a slow death due to the inevitable flame war).
Types are a contract, that both parties can understand. This notion is not captured by operational semantics.

Parties that do not read the database contract will get caught by runtime validation.
However, any code that targets the database contract could make use of that contract, e.g. with scaffolding. This might enable tighter integration with type checking in the client program.

What you propose is not a contract, your code doesn't understand it, so now you introduce a new problem. (I think that is why the sqlite author doesn't seem to be too enthusiastic about bolting on strictness checks, as its potential is really limited and it contradicts its design).
Automation will make it possible for continued economic growth even with our population plateauing or even declining until a lower steady-state. I think income for many manual labor positions will increase for jobs that aren't easily automated. The rich will get richer and the poor will get richer but not as fast, so the complaints of inequality will continue as they always have. Talk about basic income will continue but it won't be adopted for a long time.
> In my experience Airbnb isn’t even cheaper, just has more “interesting” housing available.

For me it has absolutely nothing to do with being cheaper, but simply hotels generally don't cater for families. I have an under 10, and either I go to bed by 9 because that's when they want to go to bed, or I make the stay up and we all have a really shitty time as they are too exhausted to enjoy it.

Two rooms with an adjoining door would work, but most hotels don't have this. AirBNB is simply the only option.
Why is the HBO model suddenly not profitable anymore ?
Just to add insight: to me, inspiration is important, and beauty inspires me. When I coded a lot back in the day, I changed the coding font from time to time, for example.

A fun representation of the need for such beauty is in the game of Rimworld. In this world, the characters you manage react to the beauty of their surroundings, they need it to be beautiful to a degree, similar to how they need comfort, and recreation. Mood is central to the game, and an easy way to improve it generally is to create a beautiful environment, even if the characters are going to do mundane work like butchering.
> what was the way to do it previously?

SystemTap, and it still is. BPF can only do so much.