skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Strong Sapir-Whorf (linguistic determinism - language constrains thought) became pretty much seen as a joke by the 1980s

Was there any substantial empirical reason it was "seen as a joke", or just changing philosophical fashion?
Sounds like “I chopped my arm off to reduce my weight so I could run faster.” Without realization that the arm weight is there for a reason. Businesses love to self sabotage.
Adding before:2020 to the end a query is a fairly good approximation.

Note that this will become less useful over time, however, as Google prunes old results from its index.
We Built an Orb: The Making of the Steam Deck OLED Launch Trailer
They have a lot of dark patterns. They suck
Yes, follow the next article to see how to use those embeddings to query the model and generate a human friendly answer.
No. Ariane 5 is retired, and 6 is still in development.

Other launchers are not currently available.
I'm biased because I did some work on Colossus for a few years, but it's my opinion that Google's main advantage in its ability to build complex distributed systems is Colossus (and GFS). The Colossus layer is the point where a lot of systems actually take care of the CAP theorem, and because Colossus does it so well they almost don't have to worry about it at all.

Ceph, Hadoop, scale-out ZFS, and others that came afterward got the idea of distributing a filesystem but sort of missed the point that GFS/Colossus's great advantage was that it's so damn good at being a distributed system, and has been tried and tested through a lot of different kinds of failure modes.
Unpowered cargo gliders on tow ropes promise 65% cheaper air freight
Remember the Milk is still around and one of the best pieces of software I've ever used! Plus - it's not Mac-exclusive.
Fasting seems like a solution because in the fasted state your body doesn't need to produce insulin. Your body needs insulin to push fat into cells. Your pancreas gets a break, and perhaps sensitivity improves when you go on an extended insulin-free holiday.
"I worked out how to monetize it"

is very different to

"I invented it"
If you haven’t read Madame Bovary it’s worth trying a few chapters at least, for the “wait when was this written” feeling.
>So thoughts occur independent of language

Independent of language as the conscious surface level mechanism, maybe - as in, they don't have to be in English, say. But independent of language altogether, including symbolic language encoded into brain structures, I wouldn't be so sure.

Language doesn't have to mean conscious internal monologue.
The hate and humiliation campaigns are so interesting. I've seen and read hours and hours of Loeb's commentary and he's never once made any hard claims. He proposes interesting hypotheses that could explain data, and then goes out and collects data to figure out what's actually going on. That's science. That's the scientific process. You propose the set of hypotheses that fit the available data, both the mundane and unlikely, collect more data, and rule out hypotheses that don't fit the new data, and whiddle it down.

Anybody that thinks he's made hard claims are mostly just suckered in by trash pop sci articles that spins what he says into ridiculous headlines/articles like "Loeb says there's UFOs on the ocean floor!" to get clicks.

Ironically, the very article that was linked here makes unscientific hard claims: "The seismology data used to locate this meteorite wasn’t due to an impact, but merely a truck passing near the seismic station". That's a hard claim. There's no "we think the most likely explanation is X" or "the data is better explained by X theory". The paper the article links to as "proof" also makes no hard claims but merely says that they think the data "suggests" a traffic based origin better explains the data. The article itself is the definition of unscientific and everything they're trying to pin on Loeb.

[Edit] The paper which claims the traffic-based origin also has a grammar mistake in the very first paragraph, so I'm not very enthused about reading further and seeing how methodical their methods were, when they couldn't even manage to write a one paragraph summary without error.
Imo “10x engineer” is generally is referring a tenacious individual being adept at all skills, including soft-skills, relevant to shipping a product. Just like ConcernedApe.
Install little snitch and put it into alert mode and watch as you are overwhelmed with the tens of dozens of outbound connections going out to Apple or iCloud (despite not being signed into iServices) from dozens of system processes.

Why does my MacBook which isn’t enrolled in an mdm ping Apple for mdm config and policies? Why is accountsd phoning home when I’m not signed into an Apple account? Why does the Mac generate absurd amounts of app analytics which you can view in the console app yet can’t delete despite the fact that you turned off all analytics when setting up the machine? Why regardless of if I have WiFi logging enabled or disabled is it still spitting out WiFi velocity reports.

The OS used to be damn near perfect and it’s gone down hill since the first version to introduce iCloud signin. Every new feature they add is something I’ll never be interested in using. Disabling services you don’t want running so they stop phoning home or consuming resources is almost impossible anymore, requiring a dance of booting into recovery mode, disabling every single system protection mechanism, and then booting completely vulnerable into normal mode to then pray that the launchagent gods actually let you turn off mediaanalysisd or if nothing else that sudo has permission (sudo!!) to delete the plist file, and often you get permission denied errors or the process comes back after a reboot. It’s a shit show. The frustrating part is sip and all those things that prevent us from tuning our machines don’t even stop rootkits or the numerous zero days in the wild since it came out
They seem to be re-organizing the website structure [1] as well as updating the submitting system [2], and lately they were making some progress [3], but still need a lot of formatting work.

[1] https://github.com/ioccc-src/temp-test-ioccc
[2] https://github.com/ioccc-src/mkiocccentry
[3] https://fosstodon.org/@ioccc/112023138011006567

There are currently only two active maintainers. I guess any help is welcome.
"Aim for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

This is an area where I think this quote applies.

Don't reach Google status and build the next $1T company? Okay, maybe you'll make a unicorn. Don't make a unicorn? Maybe you'll start a $100M company. Or a $10M company. Or a $1M company. Or hell, a $100k company is a hell of an achievement.

And if you fail to do that? Well congratulations, you're eminently employable. Because on your way to "failure," you likely taught yourself a lot about code/tech, work either, managing people, raising money, marketing, and business, to say nothing of the professional contacts you made along the way.

I haven't met founders who feel that by starting and failing companies they have "screwed their chance" at something, at least not in a professional capacity.

One caveat (and it's a big one) is people going all in* on startups in their 20s, neglecting their health and relationships.
> Most statutes here in the US do, just for clarity.

Not a lawyer, so i can’t say if you are right or not but there is a very famous US Supreme Court ruling which basically said “I know it when I see it” about obscenity. That suggest to me that perhaps the definition is not as clear cut in all cases as one would imagine (or were not as clear cut back in 1964).

Quiting from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

The phrase was used in 1964 by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to describe his threshold test for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio. In explaining why the material at issue in the case was not obscene under the Roth test, and therefore was protected speech that could not be censored, Stewart wrote:

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.
This looks amazing, but oh do I miss the days where small productivity apps cost $9.99 for a perpetual license. Maybe $29 tops for something more feature-packed.
Regarding the start of the topic, just note the world is not homogeneous. For example the US economy/job market is in a better state than the uk one; there are seasonal fluctuations in demand for work that keep statistics always changing; some jobs may be more in demand than others (eg low-skill wages were going up in the US while big tech companies did layoffs). And the news story is so often on the complaining side (eg that there are no jobs or that there are no workers) where I think it can be easy to not notice that the direction changed.
The thinking language doesn't have to be the same thing as the expression language.

It can still have a language form (manipulation of groups of symbolic structures, terms, and associations), but doesn't have to be English, or even at the conscious "internal monologue" level.
Google's Woke AI Wasn't a Mistake. We Know. We Were There
I could tell you, but then I’d be giving my edge away for free. There were 2 main catalysts. These catalysts repeat themselves though this time they both happened at the same time.

My investment buy signals have been on point but my favorite hold duration for any investment is /forever/ if possible. I also invest in almost every asset class because diversification helps you protect your principal. That’s just my view and everyone has their own view.
I figured out which industry I wanted to work in (data analytics at first) and just took action. Studied what I needed to for the jobs I wanted, and took classes to advance my skills. The confidence I gained from this was great. I also prioritize outside time and going in long walks when it’s nice out. That’s huge for me.
For macOS, native historically (OS X onwards) means Cocoa and Objective-C. Swift and Swift UI are the new kids on the block. I haven't dabbled with them much, but my two cents is Swift is a lot more complicated than Obj-C and Swift UI is less mature than Cocoa. But as I said, that's just my two cents. Your mileage may very.

For Windows, Microsoft has a history of releasing a new UI technology and then deprecating it. Their latest toolkit is WinUI 3. Given Microsofts dedication to backwards compatibility I think you could pick any of their toolkits, even the WinAPI. I should mention that WinUI 3 is an oddball because Microsoft is not shipping it with the OS, but rather vendors (you) must ship the toolkit with your app.

For Linux, the two most popular UI toolkits are GTK and Qt. But in truth Linux is just a kernel and it is the distro that decides what toolkit is "native". Maybe consider which distro(s) you'll target rather than treating Linux as a monolith.
Wrote about that 7 years ago over here
https://kristopolous.medium.com/stop-guessing-languages-base...
Just go for it and let the compiler tell you where you're wrong and guide you to something that compiles. If you can already program you'll pick up the other concepts in no time.

For example instead of taking a high level language view of a var containing a piece of data, you'll begin to visualize a variable points to a place in memory with data associated to it, and can work from there whether you want to move, borrow, or drop it. Lifetimes lets the compiler know how long should that point in memory last within the program before being dropped. But most of the time you don't have to worry about it thanks to lifetime elision.

"The Book" is the best place to start, then there's Rust by Example that shows code snippets. The Reference goes into the why. Rust for Rustaceans helped me understand how to put projects together, but if you like reading source code of different crates you'll see a pattern that they follow. Blessed.rs is a website for the most popular go-to crates in the ecosystem. Reading the std lib is also good to see what already exists instead of reinventing the wheel.

I came from an Elixir background so things like immutability and pattern matching already made sense. What great about rust IMO is the type system, programming with structs and traits, and knowing that if it compiles it should for the most part work if there's no logic bugs.
I wonder what you'd get if you did something similar on the latent space in a diffusion model, before decoding to an image.
This is a deep cut. And c’mon, you can’t blame people for thinking Paul’s the good guy. He’s badass. It’s a great story.

It’s when fiction becomes non-fiction that it’s a problem.
>But there are things that happen in our brains which we struggle to connect to language too, and we might call those ‘feelings’ or ‘emotions’ or ‘instincts’ instead

Yes, and we could argue that those are not thoughts, while there still being a distinction between thought language (which could very well be subconscious) and inner monologue/spoken language.
Why cant the EU use ISRO rockets?
For extra fun, use the "Listen to article" feature on that paragraph...
Child porn is illegal. Hate speech, however disgusting, is not. And FWIW, most of the platforms do their best to filter out both.
Plausible. I think this was also addressed in the work of Christopher Palmer.

https://brainenergy.com/

“Mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain”
Unless you're talking about save scumming, I don't see how the save mechanism changes anything. If anything, it makes the game easier that it only saves at night so that you can undo the whole day if you don't like the outcome.

I don't think 99% of people care when it saves, and they probably treat the game as if it's constantly saving anyways.
How many people enjoy their jobs?
Every set I have bought for my kids comes with extra pieces. And we have bought enough over 100 sets over the past 5 or so years.
Cosmic dust fertilization of glacial prebiotic chemistry on early Earth
I have already explained the logic behind the claim.

The things you quote there do not justify a claim that reduction in habitability would cause migration. They do justify a claim that an increase in habitability of nearby areas could cause migration to those areas. The hominids cannot diffuse into an area in which they cannot survive as a population (or rather, they can, but they just die out, so the spread stops), but if the area became sufficiently more habitable then those diffusing in could then sustain a population there and act as a base for further diffusion.
I envy that you have never experienced missing "key" pieces.
What the US needs is to fix its rail system. eminent domain the whole thing, pay off the robber barons and just run it like it matters to get shit from here to there.
After simplifying and reducing the code as far as possible, it is rewritten in a compressed format using macros and without whitespace. Look at the #define statements.
It's a footgun if your cluster is providing data/compute to other systems, absolutely, the case you mentioned is a risk worth extra network traffic to avoid.

But theoretically, if we're trying to beat a benchmark or something, the "move compute to data" idea has something to it. Nobody transfers the LLM weights off of card memory, let alone to other machines for compute.
How are you making money
It's a very unfortunate situation. I don't understand why they didn't keep Ariane 5 going until 6 was ready - I've worked in the space industry (in the US) and customers would pay us ungodly amounts of money to not change something even when costs started rising because of old instrumentation, lack of knowledgeable and alive personnel, or our own suppliers going out of business/getting bought out and killing the product line we needed. They'd pay 2-3x the cost of a redesigned product (which would be subject to the same level of testing as the original) just to keep the old one, with the mindset that "it hasn't failed in 50 years so it won't fail now". I mean we're talking about measurements being made with pen plotters because they'd get angry that "something changed" if we sent them a digital plot taken on the same equipment.
>To paraphrase Ted Chiang: a learning thermostat has a goal, but it has no preferences or subjective experience. You’re training it to maintain the temperature of your house, but you’re still interacting with a thermostat. The way we’re approaching AI currently supposes that if you just cobble enough thermostats together, you get a person.

Imagine a person whose duty is to maintain the desired temperature of your house by adjusting a thermostat. With training and experience, he does a pretty good job of this. A learning thermostat, after training, does as good a job of maintaining the temperature if not better. Isn't this ASI (S standing for specific, not superior) for that particular role?

Your and most people's answer is of course not; nothing so simple is AI. But why not? It replicates a job that previously required human intelligence and judgment. It performs a task that the amount of raw energy Star Trek's warp cores are capable of generating cannot.

Now, if one device can be programmed to generalize such training for all such tasks, starting with other household duties, then outside the home ... At some point, when does it not become AGI?

>Another possibility is that, in fact, vincent-manis and everyone else did not miss the point, and the folks who believe we can achieve “true AI” if we just give Eliza more CPU power and disk space are barking up the wrong tree.

I don't know the answer to this; no one does. But I know of no reason to not think that AGI can be achieved via LLMs with enough CPU power and disk space, either. Speaking of Trek, elsewhere I compare Data to LLMs. <https://np.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1bibwz6/data_on...> I point you to my conversation with ninjasaid13.

I also point you to my attempt to annotate a meme about LLMs. <https://np.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1bhk4ju/its_magic/k...> Circling back to Chiang, he has a background in software development, which puts him among the midwits (In this very specific situation!). That said, I wonder if Chiang truly does not believe in the possibility of emergence, a sum greater than the parts; he is, after all, the author of "Exhalation".
There was some book I read--thought it was We Swam the Grand Canyon but can't find the scene--when the author was camped over by Lake Mead somewhere and was awoken by the flash and sound of an atomic test. There's a pretty neat Atomic Test Museum in Vegas.
https://brainenergy.com/

Highly recommend. I think is what you are looking for.
Paul Saladino has been saying that APOE4/4 is linked to damaging lipid droplets in Alzheimer’s disease microglia?
I think because they would replace nurse lines that are currently staffed by nurses.

Or at least be a level1 support or something.

$9/hour seems kind of high for this though.
Colossus retains a lot of the ideas of GFS, so I wouldn't say that this paper is completely outdated. I would recommend the Tectonic paper from Facebook for a more modern distributed filesystem example:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast21/presentation/pan
> I think it depends where you set the limit between “self made” and “inherited”. I don’t think it’s black or white

That’s a fair point to make in the abstract, but it’s absolutely, breath-takingly extraordinary to turn moderately well-off parents into a top-twenty global wealth position. I went to high school and university with many people considerably more privileged than either of those, and the challenge is generally in not mismanaging the assets too poorly so there’s enough to pass on to the next generation.
Don't forget luck!

I don't mean that in a dismissive sense — hard work is obviously very important.

But more in the sense that if you're talented and hard working and aren't successful, it's not necessarily because you did something "wrong" or didn't work hard enough. Sometimes there's just no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
You can fool yourself with money too. Often it is more profitable to do the unethical thing.
> LEGO tends to get hoarded, resold or donated, not thrown away.

I doubt this. Outside Lego enthusiasts, most people see it as a children's toy which is probably disgustingly covered in saliva and in no fit state for anyone else to touch. It's one of the first things to go into the trash when more space is needed in the attic.
The only thing I regret is that I can’t play it for the first time twice.
In some cultures, recipients of such pictures would probably just laugh and be at most confused. In others, the population is conditioned to be offended to the point of making it highly illegal. It doesn't even sound like this case is about mutilated or otherwise abnormally disturbing imagery; merely normal human anatomy.
Sacré Bleu Cheese enthusiasts are mourning the possible extinction of brie
>> if you just cobble enough thermostats together, you get a person

Is that so different from how natural selection produced the human mind?
Ask HN: What has changed for you after transitioning from IC to a manager role?
In a couple weeks I will be transitioning from an individual contributor role to a manager role. The team I will be managing consists of 5 people currently and will probably grow to around a dozen.

I’d be interested in the things that will change dramatically. What kind of changes did you appreciate? Which ones did you not?
§230 is one of the most misunderstood laws in the US, in large part because of intentional efforts to misconstrue it. What it actually says is that websites are not to be considered the speaker of any user-generated content, and there is explicitly and very intentionally no precondition along the lines of "publisher-platform" or "algorithmic content" or "moderation" or the like.

Now, it's also the case that moderation and content recommendations themselves are speech on the part of the website--crucially so, for that means they also have First Amendment rights to choose those policies without government coercion. There is an interesting question as to whether it is possible for such speech to create liability independent of the underlying user content (for which §230 absolutely immunizes them); indeed SCOTUS heard a case not long ago to answer this question, only to toss it out because the plaintiffs were uninterested in discussing that question.
If you read the patent it's clear it's not even that. He filed a patent for an idea, where you would build a database based on geo information provided by the user.

And even before the existence of data privacy laws, this simply would not have worked.

Instead companies like Maxmind implemented the much better idea of sourcing location data from Whois databases and ISPs server-side.

That's what everybody understands when you use the term "IP Geolocation".
> * Filter candidates who put objective statements in their resume
> * Filter candidates who don't put objective statements in their resume
> * Filter candidates who don't have a link to some online portfolio (Github, personal blog, etc.)
> * Filter candidates who don't contribute to open source

I can't tell if this post is supposed to be sarcastic or not. I'm assuming so? Because these criteria are horrible compared to what's currently done now. "* Filter candidates who put objective statements in their resume". What in the world is that?

If it is just sarcastic then why even post it? Why not post an actual proposal for a better way to interview?
Fun fact: integrated circuit packages put stress on the die. It’s called “package stress”, and when I worked in flash memory testing we would see measurable shifts in analog circuit behavior after packaging.
hand washing won't protect you from neither measles nor polio. a vaccine will