skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you're getting downvoted because people think you mean HN by "here", but you meant amongst gamblers. And you're right, it is the most apt term gp was looking for.
Baconmaco – GM soybean with pork protein
I don't think the fact that communities like this still exist is a point against them. They state in the article that they are also involved in communities they would consider "old internet" using modern tools.

I think their thesis was that as a whole the internet has become a more shit experience for the people using it. If you sampled 1000 random internet users decades ago they would have an experience closer to yours, if you did the same today I think it would be a lot "shittier"(to a lot of internet ysers, Facebook/twitter is "the internet")
For the past 1000 years, Jews have fled antisemitic Europe for the relative safety of Muslim countries. The British turning Palestine over to Europe's Jewish refugees and its subsequent transformation into an ethnostate eventually changed this, but ideological antisemitism in the Muslim world is almost entirely imported from Europe and translated European/American writings.

Europe may not have a deeper shared value than its antisemitism, extended from late Rome. Even with the Reformation, one of the main things Protestants were protesting (other than indulgences) was the Catholic church allowing Jews who refused to convert to remain alive. Whereas Islamic countries just imposed a tax on Jews and Christians alike.

Even during the run-up to WWII, America and Britain minimized and ridiculed the complaints of European Jews, and refused people running for their lives entry into their countries. It's psychologically obvious why Europeans and Americans collectively want to locate the source of antisemitism in the Middle East, rather than the continent Jews were forced to flee from.
I am fairly confident LLMs are plateauing or will do so soon. I am also fairly confident that there are other kinds of models, either already invented or yet to be conceived, that will go further than LLMs.

I don't think this is controversial at all.
Self-reply to add quotes, 'cuz Pratchett is worth quoting.

_________

> The little god's hands twitched. 'I don't know, I do try to diversify, but sometimes it's so difficult...'

> Suddenly he ran across the crowded cave towards a huge pair of doors at the far end, and flung them open. 'I'm sorry, but I just have to do one,' said the god. 'They calm me down, you know.' Ponder caught up. The cave beyond the doors was bigger than this one, and brilliantly lit. The air was full of small, bright things, hovering in their millions like beads on invisible strings.

> 'Beetles?' said Ponder.

> There's nothing like a beetle when you're feeling depressed!' said the god. He'd stopped by a large metal desk and was feverishly opening drawers and pulling out boxes. 'Can you pass me that box of antennae? It's just on the shelf there. Oh yes, you can't beat a beetle when you're feeling down. Sometimes I think it's what it's all about, you know.'

> 'What all?' said Ponder.

> The god swept an arm in an expansive gesture. 'Everything,' he said cheerfully. 'The whole thing. Trees, grass, flowers... What did you think it was all for?'

> 'Well, I didn't think it was for beetles,' said Ponder. 'What about, well, what about the elephant, for a start?'

> The god already had a half-finished beetle in one hand. It was green. 'Dung,' he said triumphantly.

_________

> 'Apes? Oh, very amusing, certainly, and obviously the beetles have to have something to entertain them, but . . .' The god looked at him, and a celestial penny seemed to drop. 'Oh dear, you don't think they're the purpose of the whole business, do you?'

> 'I'd rather assumed—'

> 'Dear me, the purpose of the whole business, you see, is in fact to be the whole business. Although,' he sniffed, 'if we can do it all with beetles I shan't complain.'

> 'But surely the purpose of— I mean, wouldn't it be nice if you ended up with some creature that started to think about the universe—?'

> 'Good gravy, I don't want anything poking around!' said the god testily. 'There's enough patches and stitches in it as it is without some clever devil trying to find more, I can assure you. No, the gods on the mainland have got that right at least. Intelligence is like legs – too many and you trip yourself up. Six is about the right number, in my view.'
It was recently enabled in the Home Assistant ‘HAOS’ kernel.
https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/pull/3248
Providing x to china will be the same with hindsight.
Actually he does respond to emails and he is responsive to constructive feedback from my experience.
ImageBind: A new way to link AI across the senses
I realized this a couple years ago when I moved and started getting my blood tests done at a new lab that was nearby.

My entire life I’ve had perfect blood pressure, but suddenly this lab thinks I have hypertension. After 3-4 visits and checking my own BP during the day, I realized that my blood pressure is just higher in the morning - I never set appointments in the morning previously because I lived too far from a lab to make morning appointments convenient.
Llama3 on Groq
I think the problem with cargo culting isn't usually the stuff the cargo cult preaches

It's the constant churn of dropping the current thing for the new cargo cult whenever it comes along. Cargo culting destroys consistency by constantly seeking the next new hotness
In 2012 yes, but these days having grammars that lots of tools can parse and output easily is a boon for tooling.
Just a small bug report:

On the custom fonts demo, select one of the paragraphs and change its font. Then select that paragraph and another paragraph (which has the original font).

The font selection dropdown shows one of the paragraphs' fonts, and selecting it (to set both paragraphs to have that font) is not possible.
I can imagine new security holes being opened up by allowing multiple IP's to talk over the same TCP connection...

Imagine you have an application which checks the clients IP (eg. against a whitelist) at the time of connection and then assumes it doesn't change...
They might care too, but think it's something they have no control over so don't try and change.
Sometimes there are conflicting things you need to do in the same main thread.
While it is the case, by design and typically by regulation, that brakes have more braking force on paper than the engine and drivetrain can produce, in the real world it is not so straightforward.

ICE engines have active heat rejection and conventional brakes don't. So ultimately in any prolonged fight between an engine and brakes the engine will win.

Hot brakes have a lower coefficient of friction. This is the brake "fade" experienced on long downhill runs or heavy use, such as while towing heavy loads. In extreme cases brake pad outgassing, brake pad glazing and boiling brake fluid, all a consequence of heat, will degrade brake power.

Traditionally vacuum assist is used to amplify brake force in passenger cars. The vacuum reserve is, however, finite and little vacuum is available from an engine with a stuck open throttle. When the throttle is even partially open and the engine RPM is kept low (such as when fighting it with the brakes) the vacuum drops severely. When boost runs out brake force is greatly reduced. This all changes in heavier vehicles where more robust systems are employed, such as compressed air brakes with large pressure reserves.

Some vehicles have enough power to overcome the brakes on driven wheels. Some vehicles have "low range" gearing that can also easily overcome the brakes.

The situation described by helsinkiandrew was probably a combination of brake fade that emerged while fighting the engine and lack of brake boost due to low vacuum because the throttle was somehow stuck. But there isn't enough information to say for certain.
They're also creating GMO beef peas for the Kosher and Halal folks.

Edit: This raises additional questions:

0. They claim "organoleptic properties" in their press kit. Did they add animal-like cells or just a few animal proteins in plant cells with cell walls?

1. Would it still be considered vegan or vegetarian?

2. How do you cook these?

3. Has anyone reported tasting it?

4. Is this just for human consumption or to also add protein to animal feed? (Insert bovine cannibalism memes here.)

5. I'm pretty sure this would be banned quickly in the EU for being GMO but which markets would allow it?
One potential hiccup with your one-photino-bird-universe theory (which is quite fun!): I believe I remember a scene in which the ‘birth’ of a photino bird was described. If I remember correctly, it was indeed described as a clone of its parent.
I believe proton decay is still considered hypothetical, and the electron is pretty confidently believed to be stable; https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph... is a good overview.
Yes, blood pressure measurement is a real mess. Besides the factors you listed, I have found that temperature has a surprisingly large impact. If your hands are cold, then that causes peripheral vasoconstriction and raises BP.
> When lamenting the "old Internet", a lot of people forget that the vast majority of the people creating content on it were gainfully employed with strong career security.

Hasn't this been the case for most of history? "The Arts" were historically disproportionately populated by aristocrats, their families, the idle wealthy, and people who could afford to dabble and create and not worry about their art bringing in money. Only very recently has this idea taken hold that it should be possible for any old person to create art and have that somehow finance his or her life. Not saying one is better than the other, but I think making a real living from art is a relatively recent invention.
Many people tried to come up with an ethical calculus through history, and while themselves believed their systems were rational and common sense, other people invariably rejected those.
This app uses objc_msgSend, which feels a lot like cheating, but if you simply want to avoid using nibs (while still using Objective-C or Swift), check out my NiblessMenu project and my "Working without a nib" blog series.

https://github.com/lapcat/NiblessMenu

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/working-without-a-nib-pa...
> Are you looking for community support, large corporate users etc..?

Lots of documentation and demonstrations. And honestly, probably a bit better SEO or maybe searching on my part. For some reason GStreamer's webrtcbin totally flew under my radar.

Also not trying to be snarky/negative about WebRTC. I think it's fantastic at what it does. But as a tinkerer, I want something with more tinkering surface area. Not to detract from the great work on WebRTC and how accessible it's made low-latency streaming.
It wasn't until 2020, that's a recent change.
I tend towards agreeing with you. Many of the problems, like impersonation, are already illegal.

And replacing a person which spreads lies, as can be seen in most TV or glossy cover ads, shouldn't trigger some new legal action. The only difference is that now the actor is also a lie.

And countries which use actors or news anchors for spreading propaganda surely won't see an issue with replacing them with AI characters.

People who then get to read that their most favorite, stunningly beautiful Instagram or TikTok influencer is nothing but a fat, chips-eating ugly person using AI, may try to raise some legal issues to soothe their disappointment. They then might raise a point which sounds reasonable, but which would then force politicians to also tackle the lies which are spread in TV/Magazines ads.

Maybe clearly labeling any use of this tech, maybe even with a QR code linking to who is the owner of the AI, similar to QR codes on meat packaging which allow you to track the origin of the meat, would be something what laws could be helpful with, in the spirit of transparency.
I've seen codebases using Either and other monad constructions that worked fine on the happy path but had nowhere near adequate error handling, I think they thought because they used Either they didn't need to think about error handling.
Not only too sensitive, but it also seems to have a mind of its own. I gave up after trying to move around for a few seconds. I was already disappointed that it wouldn’t load without having to disable all tracker/analytics blocking.
This is where government sanctions come in. While some companies may behave morally, we can't expect that they all will when there is money to be made.

If we the people as represented by our government decide that a particular foreign regime is off-limits, then companies are compelled to not do business with them. We don't leave it to choice.
Relevant part of the quote which started this discussion:

>“[a]n unapproved change [...]

Unapproved, to me, implies that it was not reviewed or signed-off.

>Part of the sign off was almost certainly "does not need retesting" for implementation

If you are not assuring your quality, you have a QA failure. Regardless, I initially said "serious policy and procedure failure". Which, if you change a safety-critical component in your product and don't do testing on it, that is a serious policy failure.
In some ways, Tesla gets too much credit for innovation. Their cars aren't the cheapest, their charging curves aren't the fastest, and their range isn't the highest.

But the balance of all three attributes often makes them the best choice within their segment.

CT is an exception at the moment. It'd be really hard to pick it over the Silverado EV.
> depletion of natural materials older houses were made of, massive increases in population,

So you're saying depopulation is the answer. How interesting. :^)
Sounds good in theory but awful in practice. Nobody will connect with you if you ask an open question in public. Like what are the chances a doctor will respond back to a question you post on LinkedIn or even Reddit?
This is such a crazy retelling of history that it's hard to take seriously. Open Source was not some brainchild of megacorps but very much so a mission of the wider software industry to band together to have an alternative to hugely expensive proprietary software vendors -- namely Microsoft and Oracle, and to prevent people from imposing their will on users via software in a manner that users had no possible redress from.

OSI was founded by Perens and Raymond and very much represents the interests of the wider software industry. You're free to argue that at some point they have stopped in recent but Open Source has meant the same thing for going on 30 years.
How would they game them? As I understood it, this leaderboard is one where you vote on which output is best without knowing which LLM prepared it.
Am I crazy for having an obnoxiously strong opinion about how return should be handled by text editors?

Plain text return = new line.

Rich text return = new paragraph (shift + return = new line if you want).

This was a big problem for me with earlier versions, unsure how customizable this behaviour is now.

I do appreciate that I probably care too much about this, but I found TipTap worked well.
Reports from YouTubers who own the Cybertruck is that (at this stage) owning one makes you feel like a celebrity. People come to you constantly to take ask questions and take pictures with the CT. So, people seem to disagree with you.

If that's not enough, there's a long list of celebrities that now own cybertrucks, including Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Jay Z, Steve Aoki, Pharrell, and more. Might not fit your definition of "cool", but clearly, it does for a lot of people.
> the people with kids are barely able to rent small apartments, while the 4 bedroom homes are mostly occupied by 1-2 retirees

Not to get all Georgist, but: is Prop 13 still a thing?
We are flexible depending on timezone
The whom?
> In the OOP world I would have expected to see a Loan class with methods like create, get_offers, and make_payment.

Rookie mistake! I'm usually very critical of OO, but this ain't it. Good OO is about delegation of behaviour. The Loan is not the payer, so no make_payment() method please. Same with create and get_offers (unless we're just talking about constructors/getters here, but I don't think that was the intent). If a Loan did have a make_payment, and get_offers: why stop there? It's also going to need calculate_interest(), persist_in_db(), renegotiate(), compare(), calculate_amortisation(), get_currency(), get_minimum_repayment(), forgive(), calculate_late_fee(), alert_late_customer(), and a hundred others to be figured out along the way. So it's good OO for a Loan to just be struct-ish (There's even a dumb word for it - "POJO"). Or, even better, just a UUID!

You can apply some SOLID cargo-culting to the above. If you put so much behaviour into Loan, you'll be forever changing it, updating it, and risking unrelated breakages, violating the Single-responsibility principle ("one reason for a class to change"). I'm not a huge fan of that particular principle (it's vague and doesn't tell you how to fix it!) but I am a fan of Dependency Inversion (which does!).

A Loan is abstract, we both know what we're describing - even though we have completely different tech stacks. If a Loan has get_offers(), those offers will need to come from somewhere, whether you're talking about other classes (OfferService? DiscountService?) or over http or via a database or something. And those are concrete (Java! JSON! Rest Calls! DB Tables!) DI says to flip the design around so that the concrete things instead know about the abstract Loan, and the Loan becomes sufficiently dumb. Then when it comes time to change interest calculations, you change only the InterestService, likewise with CurrencyConversionService, OfferService, etc. You're back to single responsibilites!

> It turns out the command structure checks all of these boxes. It's dead simple to understand. There's no layer of indirection trying to piece together OOP hierarchies. It encapsulates the business logic developers actually want to run in a single place, you don't have to figure out how to wire together a bunch of objects on your own. And testing is dead simple, it's just a function with easy to understand inputs and outputs.

If you skip the indirection and just test all your logic in a single place, you're bound to be tripped up by your dependencies. You can probably test 80% of `calculate_interest.rb` with just inputs, functions and outputs, but `make_loan_payment.rb`? There's going to be dependencies that you shouldn't invoke in a test scenario. The indirection & wiring is how you organise the code so that you can put test-doubles in the right places, and control exactly what you want to test for.
If you have written something like this somewhere, or know someone that has, please share!
>the white peoples

There it is! The punchline I was waiting for. The name of the villains in your creation myth, a glaring example of doublethink, and the point that you were oh-so eager to make from the very beginning.

>Race is an ideological tenet created by colonialists

A truth independently discovered by every people group. And now of course the medical community and the field of genetics.

>Sure, they're not close to the other two.

Which I explained twice and did it first. Nothing new or interesting.
This needs to be the official pronounciation.
I think it comes down to this:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

1. Providers of online platforms accessible to minors shall put in place appropriate and proportionate measures to ensure a high level of privacy, safety, and security of minors, on their service.
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Journalists know better than to get involved in something like that. They would be asked to leave immediately (it's super easy to notice people standing around filming what's going on who aren't wearing employee badges), and then they would of course leave immediately as they aren't willing to catch a trespass charge just for one page 17 news article.
My guess: Dennett took it to mean that his exposition wasn't clear enough to the layman first time round and was disappointed by this.

C.f. the famous quote attributed to Einstein "If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.". (Does anyone know if he actually said anything like that?)
> Tesla could have owned the entire EV truck market currently, if they didn't choose to make a truck that required a big amount of R&D and is hard to build. Why Tesla chose such a path completely baffles me.

I often think this, but then I think about how it would have actually happened. Right now, Tesla doesn't have enough domestically produced 2170s to supply both 3 and Y production. The 4680 ramp has been so slow that it is barely ahead of CT production anyway.

I think some of their failures on the battery supply chain side are bleeding over into product failures at this point.
Toyota had a recall just a couple of days ago. That story wasn't even submitted to HN, while the Cybertruck already made the front page a couple of times and will probably continue to do so. That's a perfect example of disproportionate coverage leading to several commenters on this story automatically assuming Tesla is worse than other manufacturers. And somehow you didn't ask them for data saying you were curious but immediately jumped on my comment. That's typically not the behavior of someone that's starting with no data and neutral.
Have you ever worked a 12 hour shift? Ever worked 4 10s?

You know how you’re mentally checked out of a job after 4 to 6 hours? That doesn’t get better after 8.

A 12 hour shift means you’re in a bit of a mental fog half the day.
What do you mean by "cog.sci winter of the last 20 years"?

The research of Dr. Bruce Perry, Bessel van der Kolk and others into the effects of trauma on brain development, behavior and social functioning has had a profound impact on the understanding of cognition, the mind-body continuum, and the treatment of human suffering in this time frame.

https://earlylearningnation.com/2023/02/author-bruce-perry-a...
"Rise up sheeple, you have been lied to!". Reverse Flynn effect in all its glory.
> I always find it curious that people still tout Mac as this kind of "Super Polished Desktop/Workstation Unix" and often cite the Unix certification

I've always understood people to mean that it's a polished desktop operating system (though that's becoming increasingly questionable these days) that also happens to run the same CLI stuff they're used to using on Linux servers.

Pre-WSL just that was a pretty nice selling point by itself.
Beautifully said, honestly brought me some solace. Echoing your endorsement of Brainstorms — I expect/hope this will be his enduring legacy!

Death touches us all, but I totally agree, it especially hurts me to see these AI pioneers passing away right when so many groundbreaking cognitive science discoveries are being made. Especially in the cases of Dennett’s “opposition” like Lenat (and soon Chomsky…) where they die appearing “disproven” or “outmoded” by LLMs in the eyes of Silicon Valley celebrities like Hinton and Friedman. Oh well, I’m sure their time on their earth has prepared them for a little bit of criticism and uncertainty, a-la Schopenhauer’s “Only with time, however, will the period of my real influence begin, and I trust that it will be a long one.”

Luckily, Dennett is under no such cloud, and he died more or less a hero in my eyes; certainly among the most influential Connectionist philosophers (+ Dreyfus & Clark?), who seemed very helpful in re-legitimizing ML. I, for one, don’t think it would be odd to see philosophers like Dennett and Hofstadter in a Turing Award announcement someday…