skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I see the problem. It's implied that in order to be prohibited, a negative externality should be a net harm. For example, you need to prohibit someone from taking a $1 gain by causing $10 in harm to someone else, causing a net loss of $9 to society.

Compare: You are prohibited from manufacturing electric cars by dumping heavy metals in the river, because that poisons people which causes more harm than disposing of them properly, vs. you are prohibited from manufacturing electric cars because it would reduce the profits of Exxon, ICE automakers and mechanics through increased competition and efficiency, which is not a net harm at all because it creates a countervailing benefit to consumers in a similar amount.

"It makes housing more affordable" is not a net harm.
That says 2023. I don’t see Toyota mentioned in there at all. Maybe I’m missing something.
Can we just be a bit more honest and describe these products appropriately? How about "state-of-the-art in Generative Artificial Bollocks".
hashin pins Python dependencies to checksums in requirements.txt for security
https://grampasweeder.com/

Not necessarily tiny, but awesome single-purpose gardening tool for removing weeds without overworking your back.
This is quite an old book. I wish I had an access to or even knew about this book during my school days 40 years ago. When I discovered this book, I was already a middle-aged engineer and was just looking for books for my kids. The first two pages blew my mind. If only I had this book back then...
However, I remember now the several sleepless days and nights in sequence when I tried to make sense of finite fields at university. I could not sleep; I could not rest... And then I understood that you can create your own algebra whenever you want; you just need to follow the rules. This was so mind-blowing, and at the same time, no single teacher even tried to point out this wondrous fact that actually changed my mind in such a significant way. It could literally have saved a couple of years of my life if I had read this book back in high school. I'm not a mathematician; math exists for me only when it is applicable to what I have at hand. But you realize that you missed a HUGE AMOUNT OF TOOLS, too late in your life.
Meh, flood the market with housing and watch speculation end. Build a low-rise on top of every commercial lot. Every year commit to building even more housing than the last. Paint over parking lots and 6-lane roads with apartment complexes. Even Airbnb will stutter under the surplus of cheap housing.

But nah, instead we get everything but that.
And not just this stuff but a lot of health metrics probably have this occult dependence on the time of day. For example MRIs [1].

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42588-6
8-bit CPUs like the 6502 and Z80 are much better for teaching assembly language than something monstrous like the x86. ARM and MIPS are probably okay too.
The Hidden Life of Embeddings [video]
Haha it's really a marketing tool for bespoke medicine. Not really that useful in that field but people like it.
It's truly wild to me that people will pay upwards of $100k to be beta-testers for a several thousand pound machine easily capable of killing them or others
What is "8-bit Sonic 2" ?
I see only a link to an infographic about recalls in 2023.
No need to justify everything. Just take the L and move on.
First impressions of early-access GPT-4 fine-tuning
Let's take a trip back in time to a period just before the Texas Revolution. Perhaps we can find some basis for claims that a leading cause of the revolution was Anglo settler's desire to increase the number of slaves in Texas to help them build the economy and Mexico's reluctance to allow more slaves.

For this trip we will briefly reflect on the writings of a man who traveled to Texas in 1828 to gather information about Texas - plants, geology, business and industry, the political climate, etc for a report back to leaders in Mexico City so that they could use the intelligence to shape their own policies relating to the province. We will use the book *Texas by Teran*. [0] [1]

[0] https://archive.org/details/texasbyterandiar0000mier

[1] https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292752351/

He touches on the subject of slavery several times since it is becoming, at the time, a point of friction between the Mexican government and the Anglo settlers. A couple of diary entries that support the fact that slavery was a keystone issue in Anglo settler's decisions to separate from Mexico follow.

pp38 - He is making recommendations in a letter to President Guadalupe Victoria and his second recommendation notes - "If the North Americans are allowed to introduce slaves, the Mexicans of Tejas should also be permitted to do so, but if slavery is denied to some it should be denied to all."

In 1824 Mexico adopted a new constitution that abolished slavery. By 1829 they elected their first president who had partial African ancestry (Guerrero). Slavery was not allowed in Mexico at the time of Teran's journey.

pp 56 - The most persistent goal for this colony is to obtain permission for the introduction of slaves. Without them they say that their settlement cannot prosper, nor can much of the land be cultivated, because there are forests so thick that only with negro labor can they be cleared. They petition the state government for permission to have slaves and make the following proposals: that the slave will be such only temporarily until he repays through his labor the cost of owning him, and that his descendants will be emancipated.

There is more in that entry that I encourage people to read but the gist is that anglo settlers wanted slaves and were willing to get them into the territory whether the Mexicans permitted it or not.
Today, there is no reason to use Windows specifically when developing back-end or GUI (unless you're stuck with WPF and co) applications in .NET.

Though the argument makes for a convenient straw-man since it used to be true until 2016.
I also feel this way. We are not inherently different to LLMs, we are just better at some things, worse at others. At the end of the day we both are just atoms and electricity as ruled by the laws of physics.
The context here is "fat vs sugar". To which reaction was "they were eating fruits not sugar".

The context here is that major food group that was pretty significant source of calories - complex carbohydrates was skipped creating dichotomy between sugar and fat.
> The idea of using Rust for scripting is bizaar.

Not at all, I do the same.
Man, I really should revisit whether or not TinyMCE is still the best open source option
> change is scary

This is all that matters at the end of the day. Most people are not self-aware enough, and/or willing enough to experience their own emotions, to handle ugly truths. It's more emotionally comfortable to find reasons to deny them.
I talked to 8 SaaS founders, these are the most common SaaS tools they use
I'd heard about this being a thing in Massachusetts but I didn't realize it went so far south as New Jersey!
This seems like a really weird statement to me.

Most of the philosophy I'm familiar with is concerned with abstract notions and concepts like morality. I'm really having a hard time seeing how biology or physics would inform it one direction or another.

Like, what sort of biology would have made Kant's notions of morality different?
I think agents (not the gimmicky ones) will do a lot of interesting stuff in the future, particularly where research is concerned.

At the moment, the big limitation is context, memory and compute.

But I do think there’s a lot of temptation in having a black box AI that bangs its head against a wall until it finally brute forces a solution.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." -- Joshua, W.O.P.R., "War Games"
> I am not sure how the US was complicit in this exactly.

We were allied with the Soviet Union and explicitly agreed to the program of forced relocations. I agree with you that the vast majority of the blame should be placed on the communists, but in my opinion the United States was still too naive and conciliatory towards Stalin during the war. If there was some way that the Nazis and communists could have both lost World War II without killing everyone else in Eastern Europe along the way, that would have been ideal. Unfortunately, that’s not how things work. I think the US ultimately took one of the better possible courses of action, but I still have my criticisms.

> You skipped the part where ethnic cleansing was also done to the Poles in Eastern Poland, and they were moved at gun-point to where I currently am writing from.. Lower Silesia. The understanding here was that the USSR moved Poland to the East, so that Russia moved further to the East.

Yes, thanks for bringing this up. Aside from the Kaliningrad Oblast, I think it was mostly Belarus and Ukraine that moved west, though the distinction between Russia and Ukraine is much more salient today than it was at the time.

Thanks for sharing your family history. I absolutely agree that the truth is extremely complicated and defies any simplistic and tendentious narrative that anyone tries to apply to it.
Pastor says that the four fundamental forces are necessary and sufficient to create life.
> But the combinations of amino acid sequences they would have to search through in order to find the correct shape is so large

Evolution isn't looking for that sequence.

It is looking for any change in sequence with a positive payoff, and in the meantime constantly diversifying sequences with similar outcomes, creating more opportunities for serendipity.

Every large animal is born with mutations. So we are also quite robust to spreading the search, running multiple experiments at a time, taking small risks with genes not quite as good, which will get weeded out quickly when combined with other weaker genes, but in the meantime cast a wider net for meshing with another gene that complements it.

So yes, in any given species with a nontrivial population, millions or billions of genetic variations are being explored at any point in time. We are nothing like carbon copies of each other, differing by just a couple checkmarks.

This is a radical speed up. Just as sexual recombinatory reproduction is. Evolution today operates with vastly more efficient genetic environment, structures and systems than what early life did.

Tractable statistics do no justice to how biology works and all the paths it searches. I am not knocking formal statistics at all, just noting that past one or two step events, the layered statistics of chemistry, genes, gene clusters, epigenetics, populatoin dynamics of complex creatures in their complex environments, etc. are not going to be tractably modelled.

Measurable sometimes for sure, but not symbolically characterizable or calculatable.
Pretraining is "off the internet" but task training/rlhf is not.
> Not really that useful in that field

Source? Because I know people working on it as a target measure at a national lab in India as well as at Pfizer (in America) and Novartis (in Switzerland).
Only when torturing them...
what’s your experience level? what kind of python code do you work with (web dev? Data analysis? Algorithms?)
Yep, although I do like not having clashing names.

But I mean... somehow every other language solved this.
It also seems possible that a friction fit part isn't the best match for an accelerator pedal.
STEM often overlooks the fundamental work that was done in philosophy that led to breakthroughs within STEM. For example, Claude Shannon's undergraduate philosophy course is what taught him boolean algebra, which ultimately led him to design digital circuits.
https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/magazine/the-elegant-p...
>I would love to see a "globally illuminated" UI someday, even if it's impractical

Apple patented a ton of stuff for this probably a decade ago. It seemed at some point they were going to start procedurally rendering aqua materials and the like using recipes for lighting that could all be dynamic.

Presuming some of it made it into VisionOS
Please, what is an MoE model?
I love this project (from 2014?) and perhaps my favorite part other than the f-u of the whole thing is the commit message "complete refactoring".
> purported strength and capabilities

I've just demonstrated that your understanding of Taiwan's purported strength and capabilities is inaccurate. Demonstrate to me why my understanding of China's purported strength and capabilities is inaccurate with an actually intelligent comment, please.

Our own US DOD is saying it would get ugly, and that China has serious advantages in the region.

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/35...

Our own strategy, as the Department of Defense indicates, is to avoid war in the first place. If that should fail, victory is not necessarily even a reasonable expectation.
> I guess by training time they meant with respect to downtime of the hardware, not utilisation of the hardware potential.

That was my understanding as well, those are two different levels of efficiency.
But we talk about Musk, who is absolutely clear how he views workers and at this point we know how he treats them too (and himself, which is a textbook example of unhealthy obsessive behavior among other unhealthy stuff coming from high performing broken mind). He makes it trivial to have a love/hate 'relationship' with him, for better or worse.

Fun to watch from the distance, just not grokking all those early adopters. I have small kids, there are risks I take also with them but they are always calculated and control is on our side. This is just blindly trusting some startup mentality scales well into giga factories level.
>Weird to think that a kid born today could easily live to 2100.

Indeed! It's also quite possible that some of the humans that will live forever (or until they choose not to) may already be around us.
No. Cold call.
Expect financial fallout when the fossil fuel bubble bursts
> It helps to remember that the philosophical tradition predates the scientific tradition significantly, and that it does not take logical positivism or reductionism as givens.

That's an interesting point.

I think there's also a cost to that-- philosophy lugs around a lot of pre-scientific baggage that is poorly specified but historically important. Free will comes to mind, especially within the Christian history of resolving the apparent contradiction of horrific natural/manmade evils existing in the face of an omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent god.

There are of course other historical contexts to notions of free will. But when philosophers talk about any of these in places where laypeople here them, it seems like those historical contexts are gone and they end up strongly implying a general purpose free will that is neither well-specified or in some cases even coherent.

It would be like a bunch of programmers debating "functions," with one meaning functional programming, another meaning any programming language where functions are a first-class citizen, and yet another meaning the set of all keywords "function" or "FUNCTION" in any programming language in history. That's not going to be a fruitful discussion.

So I'd speculate people in STEM can smell the lack of systematic thinking in some of these discussions and unfortunately throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Edit: clarification
A big problem here is that AI can be responsible for "anchoring", so even if its characterization is known to be false and corrected, the residue of that false impression colors how everything is interpreted thereafter. The "yeah, but still" effect, you might say.
> I'm not sure how much you know about Wittgenstein.

Not much. But I don't have to know much to make my case here. All I have to do is point to the Tractatus, which really is manifest nonsense, and point out that publishing this bit of manifest nonsense didn't seem to hurt Wittgenstein's career much. Tractatus is not the only example of this sort of thing, just the one that sticks out in my mind as the most blatant.

And this is not to say that Wittgenstein, or philosophy in general, never produced anything of value. But the problem is that to find the value you have to wade through all this horse shit, so it's so much more effort than it needs to be. A stopped clock is right twice a day. That doesn't mean there is any value in consulting it to find out what time it is.
> Worse than an encyclopedia

That's a gross understatement. I'd prefer something like "misinformation presented as truth"
.NET has it as well:

Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData)
comments on the X post point out that 8B models is pretty good.

What type of VRAM would you need to run 8B locally?
SFML is a graphical library but not a GUI framework/toolkit that Qt/FLTK are.
https://archive.is/6rMsQ

(Site didn’t load but this link works)
My air fryer.
Car manufacturers have quite a few recalls like this. Some of Tesla's are even OTA fixes but require a "recall" to be announced. I think given the small volume of Cybertrucks in circulation AND the low volume being produced this has negligible effect on their bottom line of deliveries and revenues.
No I mean, I gave the maximum number of nines that you could possibly be justified in listing.
The maximum number of nines, would be in the case that I described: in which you meet every other person on earth, but only one of them will you ever meet again.
And, based on the current total population of the earth, that would be less than 10 nines.

I'm saying, if you came across 8 billion people, and would only see one of them ever again, as long as you live, then that would be less than 10 nines.
Sources would be much more important IMHO. Give me a list of source links which the output is a remix of. Not possible? Well, then back to the drawing board and figure out a solution you AI experts!
I immediately found two books I'd not come across before, that I am going to start today. This is a great site, thank you
Some real australiana here.

To paint the picture for those who aren't familiar, the industry is enormous and, in NSW in particular, extremely powerful.

For a while (still? Not sure) in Brisbane, for example, you couldn't enter a bar after 1:30am unless it was a casino.

In NSW the sports clubs, of which there is one in every midsized town, have busses which circulate the retirement communities and bring the elderly to the poker machines for the day then drop them home again, broke. The busiest day is pension day.

Most small pubs have a larger and busier poker machine area than bar/beer garden area. Large "sports clubs" dedicate entire floors.

Australians lose the most money per capita to gambling by a significant margin.[1]

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/552821/gambling-losses-p...
OMG!!! Why isn't that wheel covered with a guard at the top?
don’t have any off the top of my head sorry, I could be making it up but I’m pretty sure I remember reading that from several sources. Iirc it has to do with the fact that there isn’t really single message acknowledging?
It’s everywhere. The entire USA has been devolving into New Puritan nonsense in many ways since the sexual revolution… which is bizarre.
Red state coal towns still power the West Coast. We can't just let them die
Man this article is sad. Being addicted to gambling really does suck the life out you.
> My temp will be 98.4 while seated but if I stand up and check it, it drops down to 97.9

Body temperature measurements from outside the body are impacted by changes in blood flow, which will happen when you stand up.

Your core body temperature isn't fluctuating, the temperature at the measurement point is changing slightly because you've changed your blood flow.

We're constantly losing heat from our bodies to the environment. You could probably get similar measurements if you heavily insulated the entire area around the thermometer and let measurements stabilized.

In other words: Don't read too much into this experiment.
I can warm water up slowly or quickly and get the same result. So maybe the substance you're heating plays a role here?

I'm not denying that the rate is significant in this specific conversation, but maybe that wasn't the best example?
edit: nevermind! I had my threads mixed up. This is entirely a fair question for this thread.

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It is substantially less often correct, yes. That's why we're talking about it.

Whether it's showing human-like cognition or not is irrelevant for its utility, or fitness for basically any non-cognition-research use.
This is a good example of why upvotes and downvotes don't always work well when you have class imbalances (more young people than old people or vice versa). We upvote or downvote mostly based on intuition, but wisdom is not always intuitive--we don't always recognize it when we see it.
> You can't expect workers on 12hr shifts to have consistent high quality of throughput.

Nor should we. We should expect the company to prioritize safety and hire more people to avoid such mistakes.

Or even if you want to keep that awful 12h shift practice, at the very least have good procedures and quality control to ensure failures from those "lazy" workers don't leave the factory.
Adoptoposs Find new (co-)maintainers for your open source software project
ChatGPT-4 seems to do better.

"what does tim bray think of google?"

> Tim Bray has expressed mixed feelings about Google. He has reminisced about his initial excitement to work at Google, considering it the coolest place in the world back in 2010. However, he has also noted the company's trajectory that reminded him of AOL's decline, indicating a change in his perception over time. Additionally, Bray has expressed concerns about large tech companies like Google, suggesting a need to possibly break them up due to their significant influence and power (Tbray) .

"when did he work at google"

Tim Bray worked at Google from 2010 until 2014. He initially joined Google with enthusiasm, drawn by the innovative and forward-thinking environment the company was known for at that time.

"is he a computer scientist?"

Yes, Tim Bray is a computer scientist. He is known for his contributions to the development of web technologies such as XML and Atom, and he has had a significant impact in the field of software development. His expertise extends to areas like search engines, web architecture, and internet standards.

"what was his title"

During his tenure at Google, Tim Bray held the title of "Developer Advocate." His role primarily involved advocating for and supporting the developer community in using Google's technologies and platforms effectively.
YC startup founders work longer than 12 hour shifts all the time...
Have you tried it? How would you know that Rust is the wrong tool.

I'm indifferent when it comes to Python vs Rust for scripting, but I'd take Rust over a shell script (of any variety) any day.
Simply respond to all queries with "as a hallucination-free language model, I am unable to provide a response to that input".
Other discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083409

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084667
By far their most useful and reliable feature is asking them for stuff I already know, but can't be bothered to look up the details for or write out myself. It saves me from dealing with thick layers of SEO crap, cookie banners and many of the incorrect answers.

Sure, it would be nice if we had an LLM that could help us with the more unusual questions. But for that we would either need much better training data, full of all those unknown answers (which does not exist), or a totally different system that can actually think for itself instead of just mimicking existing human output.
This seems like it could morph into some weird William Gibson / George Orwell type fantasy where AI rewrites who you are.